When you’re creating your character in Starfield, there are a few key details you need to decide upon before you can take your intrepid space explorer into the wild. This includes picking your character’s traits.
That’s right, you have to choose more than just your background before you can start the game. Or not. You can choose to have no traits if you like – it’s entirely optional.
Your chosen traits will have an effect on dialogue and interactions, as well as in combat, so you want to make the right choice for how you want to play the game.
We can see why this might prove confusing, as you don’t want to get it wrong. Luckily for you, we know what all of the traits do and which are best.
Read on for our picks of the best Starfield traits and to see the full list of traits and their perks.
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The best Starfield traits will give you an advantage in certain situations, with our pick here at RadioTimes.com being Alien DNA, which gives you increased health and oxygen at the cost of less effective healing and food items.
Dream Home is a neat trait as it gives you a fancy house right at the start of the game. It does come at a cost of 125,000 credits, though, which is a lot to be down on at the beginning of your quest. You should make those credits back and them some before too long, mind.
Hero Worshipped is definitely worth it to gain the Adoring Fan companion and add him to your crew. He is annoying and a little overeager, but this Easter egg crew member is worth adding to your team of intrepid space
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