Best Starfield Backgrounds to Start With

Starfield’s Backgrounds give you access to three Skills to start off with and they can have a meaningful impact on your early game experience. Choosing the best Backgrounds is important for the first few hours but they ultimately do not matter. With no level cap in the game, you can essentially get every single perk in the game as long as you get enough XP for new Skill Points. You can safely choose whichever Background you want from our list, but our personal recommendations would be File Not Found and Combat Medic for beginners.

Top 10 Backgrounds in Starfield

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• Wellness: Increases maximum health.

• Ballistics: Ballistic weapons deal more damage.

• Piloting: You can use ship thrusters.

Combat Medic

• Pistol certification: Deal more damage with pistols.

• Medicine: Med Packs, Trauma Packs, and Emergency Kits heal more and faster.

• Wellness: Increases maximum health.

Cyber Runner

• Stealth: Adds a Stealth Meter and makes you harder to detect while sneaking.

• Security: You can hack Advanced locks and bank more auto attempts.

• Theft: Unlock and enhance pickpocketing capabilities.

Cyberneticist

• Medicine: Med Packs, Trauma Packs, and Emergency Kits heal more and faster.

• Security: You can hack Advanced locks and bank more auto attempts.

• Lasers: Laser weapons deal more damage.

Beast Hunter

• Fitness: Increases available O2.

• Ballistics: Ballistic weapons deal more damage.

• Gastronomy: Craft special food and drink, and research additional recipes.

Bouncer

• Boxing: Unarmed attacks deal more damage and use less O2.

• Security: You can hack Advanced locks and bank more auto attempts.

• Fitness: Increases available O2.

Chef

• Gastronomy: Craft special food and drink, and research additional recipes.

• Dueling: Deal more melee damage and take less damage while wielding a melee weapon.

• Scavenging: Find extra resources when looting containers.

Professor 

• Astrodynamics: Improve your ship’s grav drive.

• Geology: Get less common inorganic resources from surface objects and more of them.

• Research Methods: Complete Research Projects and craft items using fewer resources.

Sculptor

• Medicine: Med Packs, Trauma Packs, and Emergency Kits heal more and faster.

• Geology: Get less common inorganic resources from surface objects and more of them.

• Persuasion: Increased chance of success when persuading someone.

Soldier

• Fitness: Increases available O2.

• Ballistics: Ballistic weapons deal more damage.

• Boost Pack Training: Unlocks and enhances boost packs.