The best armor and spacesuits in Starfield – and how to get them

The best armor in Starfield comes down roughly to one factor: no matter spacesuit you’re carrying. Yes, helmets and packs grant defensive bonuses — and usually match your spacesuits in a set — however it’s your spacesuits that outline the majority of your armor score. In different phrases, if you happen to’re searching for the best armor in the sport, you’re additionally searching for the best spacesuits.

The solely drawback is Starfield is suffering from armor to loot, most of which is solely a bit naff. Who desires to don some useless Spacer’s sweaty spacesuit when you might be discovering some pristine armor with high class stats? That’s the place we come in. Without additional ado, right here best fits in Starfield and how to get them.

The Best Armor in Starfield

If you recognize the place to look, yow will discover the best armor in Starfield, and a few of it’s truly fairly simple to acquire early on in your spacefaring profession. At a look, listed below are the best spacesuits in the sport, lots of which additionally include accompanying packs and helmets:

• Mark I Spacesuit
• Gran-Gran’s Spacesuit
• Mercury Spacesuit
• Mantis Spacesuit
• Starborn Spacesuit

Unlike the best ships and the best weapons, there are far fewer expertise associated to the best armor — the one one you need to contemplate investing in is Spacesuit Design, in the second tier of Science, as it should permit you to craft higher mods if any of those selections don’t include every thing you want.

Mark I Spacesuit, Helmet, and Pack

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How to get it: Loot in the basement of The Lodge, in New Atlantis

Kicking issues off is a spacesuit, helmet, and pack you may truly get from inside The Lodge itself. The highly effective Mark I spacesuit is obtainable while not having to kill anybody or full any quests. Now you’re meant to require a Master information of digipicking to have the ability to get this armor, however on the time of writing, there’s a cheeky exploit you need to use while not having to choose any locks in any respect.

The armor is discovered in the basement of The Lodge, in the room on the far finish that additionally incorporates a framed portray and some storage packing containers. Look to the left and you’ll see a model inside a glass case. If you place your cursor in the hole between the door and the case, you’ll have the ability to loot the model from inside.

If the exploit doesn’t work, stage up your Security talent to rank three. Then, you’ll have the ability to hack the Master-level lock and get the Mark I spacesuit in the glass case. Its stats are high-of-the-line, particularly for one thing you may get so early in the sport. Since it’s classed as frequent, it doesn’t include any perks, however meaning you may add whichever mods you want through the workbench.

Gran-Gran’s Spacesuit and Space Helmet

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How to get it: Gift from dad and mom

This one is solely for the oldsters who picked the Kid Stuff trait at first of the sport, which suggests your dad and mom are alive. They reside in New Atlantis, which suggests you may go to them everytime you like. After you’ve been to go to a number of occasions, your mother will inform you a story of how your grandma was in the UC Marines.

Once you’ve entertained her fascinating story about your fictional grandma, she’ll offer you Gran-Gran’s Spacesuit and Space Helmet. This is a really cumbersome spacesuit, however it comes with the Pocketed mod, which will increase your carrying capability, and its stats are nothing to be sniffed at both, because it’s roughly on par with the Mark 1 Spacesuit. If you need to velocity up receiving Gran-Gran’s armor, simply sleep for a number of days, making certain you go to your dad and mom each 24 hours.

Mercury Spacesuit

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How to get it: Loot throughout the primary mission, “Unearthed”

If you thought Gran-Gran’s Spacesuit was unflattering, get a load of this Fifties apparel. The Mercury Spacesuit will be discovered on a model in the course of the “Unearthed” principal quest. In the room filled with museum items — together with the Spirit Rover exhibit, which might present you the place to look on Mars in order to discover its cousin, the Opportunity Rover — is the Mercury Spacesuit.

This chunky silver outfit might appear like you’ve wrapped your self up in aluminum foil, however it has very spectacular stats, and it additionally comes with the Pocketed mod, like Gran-Gran’s does. This is the closest different to Gran-Gran’s armor if you happen to didn’t choose the Kid Stuff trait, however you’ll want to get a good manner via the primary story to discover it.

Mantis Spacesuit

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How to get it: Complete the “Mantis” sidequest

The “Mantis” facet quest sends you to a secret base on a distant planet. Short model: You can primarily turn out to be a superhero vigilante with the Mantis armor. (“Mantis” additionally rewards one of many best ships in Starfield.)

The Mantis Spacesuit (and the helmet and pack that include it) is famous-tier, which suggests it comes with three perks constructed in, though these perks randomized. This means you may reload and strive the hunt once more for a recent set of perks, if you happen to don’t like those it offers you to start with. The stats on this armor are the best factor although, coming in higher than the above Mark I, however it’s not fairly as simple to purchase.

[Ed. note: Spoilers follow for the end of Starfield.]

Starborn Spacesuit

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How to get it: Enter The Unity

Finally, we’ve the Starborn Spacesuit, which you obtain mechanically upon finishing the sport and getting into The Unity, also referred to as beginning New Game Plus. The first time you turn out to be Starborn, you’ll get up aboard your new Starborn Guardian ship with the Starborn Spacesuit Astra, which instantly turns into one of many best spacesuits in the sport thanks to its excessive protection and resistance stats.

However, when you enter New Game Plus once more? The Starborn Spacesuit turns into even higher, and so on, with the ultimate go well with being the Starborn Spacesuit Venator, after the tenth time you enter The Unity. It’s a lot of effort for some higher armor, however if you would like to be the best Starborn in the galaxy, it’s value doing. And it’s additionally fairly cool-wanting, in contrast to a number of the different spacesuits on provide right here.