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During your time playingStarfield, you will notice that you’re able to do a lot of different things as you travel the universe. You’re able to take on enemies, join outlaws, gathercrew members,build Outposts, or evenbuild your perfect spaceship.
RELATED:Starfield: How To Pick LocksThere are certain moments in the game that you may wish you could change the difficulty settings and either make it more challenging for yourself or create a space that isn’t difficult at all. Here’s a guide to tell you how to do just that.
Updated by Erin Rice on June 02, 2025:This update includes information regarding the differences in difficulty levels.
How To Access Difficulty Settings
If you want to change the difficulty settings either to challenge yourself or play it safe, you can easily do so. All you need to do is navigate to the character menu. From there, navigate to the main menu. Here, you will see the option called “Settings.” In your settings, there is an option for Gameplay, which will bring up the difficulty menu.This menu has five different options to pick from. You can either select very easy, easy, normal, hard, or very hard. Depending on what kind of gameplay you want, you will need to select a certain setting.If you want everything to be a breeze and to just enjoy the storyline, pick very easy or easy. If you want a challenge, pick hard or very hard. If you want something in the middle, normal is a great alternative.
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What Is The Difference In Difficulty Settings
You may be wondering what all the changes in the different difficulty settings are. Thankfully, the menu gives a pretty decent idea of what all changes.The harder the difficulty, the harder enemies will be to kill. Each level sees an increase in enemy health, damage, and quality of items. However, the higher the difficulty you are playing on, the better items you will receive as a drop. Since enemies will have better equipment, they will be dropping better equipment.This means that the higher the difficulty you are on, the more often you will see legendary items drop from random enemies. You will also see more rare, very rare, and epic items as well.
Difficulty Setting
Damage Done
Damage Taken
Legendary Chance
Most Often
The only other difference between the difficulty modes is that the easier the level, the more damage you deal to enemies. In the same vein, the easier the difficulty, the less damage will be done to you. Thankfully, there aren’t any known achievements that are based on difficulty levels. This means you should play where you are most comfortable.
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