How To Avoid Being Constantly Overencumbered

Starfield, Bethesda’s latest RPG, is, nicely…a giant sport. It’s crammed with quests to finish and aliens to shoot. It’s additionally jam-packed with objects to seize, promote, and manipulate. And it’s very simple to select up an excessive amount of junk and all of the sudden end up overencumbered, unable to fast-travel or dash as a lot as typical. That’s no enjoyable! However you’ll be able to keep away from this annoying scenario.

I’ve performed about 55 hours of Starfield up to now, and for many of that point, I’ve not been overencumbered. The truth is, I’m often carrying below 100kg of weight at any given time. What’s my secret? Nicely, after years of taking part in Bethesda video games, I’ve gotten fairly good at managing all of the weapons, well being objects, and junk you accumulate as you journey by way of the studio’s huge open-world RPGs. So let me aid you cease being overencumbered with the following tips and methods!

Cease grabbing all the things

Look, okay, I do know that is very apparent and all that, however…yeah, cease grabbing all the things! I get it. This can be a Bethesda sport and one of many joys of those RPGs is how all the things will be grabbed, manipulated, saved, and offered. Each plastic cup and dart and sandwich. However you don’t must seize all of it.

You could be considering “I’ll promote this all for credit!” Nicely, certain, however you gained’t get that a lot for that junk. And there are higher methods to make credit on this sport, like doing quests and promoting high-value objects like uncommon fits, weapons, and really light-weight objects which might be price a whole lot of credit. So yeah, cease. Put that cup down. Stroll away. Go away it. Go away it! I’m watching.

Stage up your carrying capability

Sure stats are at all times helpful in a Bethesda open-world RPG. Having additional well being and the power to lockpick something, for instance, are as helpful in Starfield as they had been in Skyrim.

Equally, leveling up the talent that allows you to carry extra stuff with out changing into overencumbered may be very helpful. I additionally suggest grabbing this early so you can begin grinding away at its necessities to unlock increased ranges. Belief me, this may prevent time in the long term.

Make a behavior out of checking for heavy objects

You’ll be able to kind your whole stock by weight and you must do that often, as you’ll usually discover some random spacesuit or different merchandise taking over a big chunk of your carrying capability. Deal with these things and don’t allow them to litter up your character. Whereas taking a look at your heaviest bits of junk, you may also discover one of the possible culprits for why you might be overencumbered: ship elements.

Don’t maintain on to ship elements

Ship elements! This stuff are very helpful, letting you restore your ship throughout fight. Nevertheless, they’re additionally very heavy, weighing 10kg every. It’s very simple to gather a stack of those and never understand it till you decide up a gun and grow to be overencumbered.

Making issues worse, these heavy objects are discovered not in your sources or misc. tab, however as an alternative buried together with your support objects, like meals and well being kits. This makes them simple to overlook when dropping off sources to your ship. I’d love a future replace to maneuver these to sources by default. Till then, double-check everytime you really feel too heavy to be sure to aren’t carrying round a bunch of those cumbersome objects. And, one last item: You’ll be able to retailer these in your ship and nonetheless use them, no want to hold them round!

Decide a number of weapons and promote the remaining

There are loads of weapons in Starfield, from laser rifles to previous Earth shotguns and extra. It’s a smorgasbord of killing choices. However whereas I like to recommend you strive all the things not less than as soon as early on in Starfield, after the opening hours you must choose three or 4 weapons and promote or retailer the remaining.

This has loads of advantages. You’ll be able to focus your expertise extra, carry much less ammo, and never must handle an armory all over the place you go. But additionally, it means you’ll not be slowed down by 12 weapons all utilizing up your valuable carrying capability! And that’s—hey, I informed you to place down that plastic cup! Cease! Simply because we’re on a brand new tip doesn’t imply I ended watching!

Use your ship’s cargo bay to retailer sources/valuables

After you’ve been out on a planet exploring, mining, or finishing quests, you must take a second to drop off extra objects in your ship’s cargo maintain. Fortunately, Bethesda added a hotkey that allows you to ship all of your sources—like minerals, metals, and many others.—proper to your ship with one button press.

However don’t simply retailer sources in your ship’s cargo containers. You’ll be able to retailer uncommon fits or weapons you wish to promote later in there too, in addition to different objects which might be taking over area. And in case your ship begins to expire of area, nicely, first, perhaps cease grabbing all the things. But additionally, spend money on including some extra storage to your ship, which you are able to do at any spaceport with an NPC starship technician. Oh, and don’t overlook: You’ll be able to improve your ship’s storage capability through the Payloads perk.

Search for spacesuits which have additional storage

Throughout my third evening of taking part in Starfield, I stumbled upon a legendary swimsuit that allow me carry 40 additional kilograms on my character. When you may not discover one nearly as good as this, preserve an eye fixed out for spacesuits that present additional storage.

Unfold the load round to companions

When you journey with a companion, don’t overlook to make use of them like a pack mule. They will carry fairly a bit, which might help out loads in large area dungeons crammed with good loot. Simply discuss to your companion and ask to commerce, then shove all of the plastic cups and crappy weapons into their stock so you’ll be able to promote all of it later.

And, if all else fails, use chems or booze to quickly increase your capability

Maybe you’ve carried out all the things above and but nonetheless end up carrying an excessive amount of junk. Nicely, that’s why I like to recommend conserving some whiskey or different chems readily available, as utilizing them can improve your carrying capability.

Understand that these are simply non permanent options and gained’t final eternally. However they’ll, in a pinch, aid you cease being overencumbered simply lengthy sufficient to fast-travel and promote all of your junk.