Star field is a game about exploring the unknown parts of space, so assembling and assigning crew members to your starship and, ultimately, your outposts is a crucial part of the fantasy.
As you explore the hub cities and watering holes scattered throughout Star field, you’ll encounter brave pioneers that you can convince and pay to join your crew, each with their own unique abilities to consider based on the skills you can choose during the level-up process. As such, some crew members are more efficient when assigned to outposts, while others can use their skills to help you in a dogfight.
To help you build a team to rival the crew of the Planet Express, our Starfield crew guide shows you how to assign crew to your ship And how to assign crew to your outposts – that is, once you pick the perfect planet to settle in.
How to assign crew to your ship in Starfield
During the opening missions of Starfield, you pick up your ship and get crew members, such as Vasco And Sarah Morgan, as part of the main questline. You may also come across the Adoring fan if you the Hero worshiped property during character creation.
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Once you have friends on your party, you can choose how they are assigned by opening the main menu and selecting the ship submenu in the bottom left corner. Next, you need to press the Y button to open the “Crew” screen.
From here you have a list of your available crew and some tabs at the top with various designations of your current ship and outposts. Select the crew member you want to assign, then press the A button to bring up another menu where you can choose to assign him or her to your ship.
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Please note that the amount of crew you can assign to your ship depends on the rank of your ship Command ship skills and the parts of your vessel that contribute to the measure of crew capacity.
How to assign crew to an outpost in Starfield
Assign crew to an outpost in Star field, you must first settle on a habitable planet. To do this, press LB to open your scanner on the planet’s surface and a Outpost beacon with the X button. You don’t have to stick to one outpost either; you can have multiple outposts Star field and divide your crew among them accordingly.
Once you have an outpost, you must build and place an outpost crew station in giving your friends a new home. A crew station costs two iron, five aluminum, and three nickel, so make sure you’ve mined or mined those resources first.
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Once you’ve placed a crew station on your outpost, you can open the main menu, select the ship submenu in the lower left corner, then press the Y button to open the window. “Crew” screen.
From here you can select the crew member you want to assign to an outpost with the A button, which will open another submenu listing all of your available outposts.
As long as your outpost has a crew station on site, you can station your crew members there.
If you want to assign more crew members to an outpost, you will have to build more crew stations and upgrade your equipment Outpost management ability, which allows you to assign additional crew to an outpost at rank three.