So are you wondering what happens when you perform that One Giant Leap during Starfield’s final main mission? Once you power up the Grav Drive of a ship with the Armillary installed, you will cross the Unity, becoming a Starborn. Here’s what happens then: You will wake up inside a Starborn Guardian with the One Small Step mission in your log. However, you must get straight to The Lodge this time, skipping the whole Vectera artifact reveal. Chronologically, this seems to be the exact moment when you grab the artifact in your first playthrough and collapse. Instead of waking up with Lin and Heller in this different universe, you are all alone.
The Option to Repeat or Skip the Main Quest
Once you get to The Lodge in New Atlantis, Sarah will tell you you look familiar and ask Vasco to scan you. Vasco will reveal you are the miner from the Argos Extractors Mining Outpost in Vectera. At this point, you can reveal that you are a Starborn and know what the artifacts are. Doing so will skip the main quest and start the Among the Stars main mission, where you must find seven artifacts before encountering the Scorpius.
This will take you straight to the Revelation mission, where you must choose a side between The Emissary and The Hunter or fight both of them again. Once you have all the artifacts, One Giant Leap is once more at your doorstep, taking you on another trip through the Unity.
Alternatively, you will have the chance to replay the main missions fully by not revealing that you are a Starborn, going through the unabridged version of the main quest.
Since going through the Unity puts in a different universe, you will notice some differences once you arrive at The Lodge, depending on the playthrough. You will find them below once I discover them all.
What You Keep in New Game Plus
Very few but important things remain the same in New Game Plus. You keep your level, every skill and skill rank acquired, your powers and their ranks, the explored systems on your Starmap, and all your Research Projects progress at the Research Lab. To be clear, even if your explored systems stay, you can scan and survey all the planets once again (and you will probably get different resources on many of them).
In summary, you keep:
- Your level
- Your skills
- Fast travel routes between systems (but everything is rescannable and resurveyable).
- Your powers
What You Lose in New Game Plus
Here is what you will lose:
- All your ships (meeeeh)
- Everything in your inventory, your followers’ inventories, your containers in outposts, your ship’s Cargo Hold… well, everything!
- All your credits.
- All your missions’ progress and faction affiliations. You can have that legacy re-forged and help the phony Pirate King once more.
Since the point of New Game Plus is to replay all the missions anyway, the only that really hurts here are the ships, as some of them are really expensive, even with a Rank 4 Commerce skill.
What You Get in New Game Plus
You only get two things in return. The Starborn Spacesuit (you can unlock an upgraded tier up to tier 10 and New Game Plus 10). You will notice that while the Starborn Armor is equipped in the Spacesuit slot and named Starborn Spacesuit XYZ, it also comes with a Boost Pack and a Helmet, so your helmet and pack slots will be left empty. This is noteworthy because while you get a great piece of armor, you will enjoy the perks of only three armor modifiers instead of nine. The Starborn armor is definitely worth it, but you must be lucky with the modifiers.
The Starborn Guardian ship is the second thing you will get (you can unlock an upgraded tier up to tier 6 and New Game Plus 6). The Starborn Guardian is super cool and a great ship, but you will still get destroyed easily on Very Hard when going against multiple enemies unless you bring your A-game in space combat and piloting.
There are better combat ships and much better cargo ships than it, and it’s not great at helping you steal ships since you can’t install EM weapons (you can’t install or upgrade anything). Regardless, it’s definitely one of the best ships in the game and pretty powerful, and since you can’t steal it, it’s long overdue at this point.
Originally posted 2023-10-11 23:13:52.
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