Starfield: Best Ship Weapons & Parts

Mastering space combat in Starfield can be quite challenging, but things can become a lot easier when having the right ship weapons and components equipped. This guide highlights the best ship weapons in Stsarfield to help you win your interstellar battles.

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Best Ship Weapons In Starfield

Before we dive into the best ship weapons, it's essential to grasp each weapon type's strengths:

• Ballistic Weapons: Ideal for destroying hulls but weak against shields
• Lasers: Excellent at stripping shields but deal minimal hull damage
• Missiles: High burst damage against hulls and shields but fire and reload slowly
• Particle Weapons: Good for hull and shield damage, but may be outclassed in specific situations

The Power of Particle Weapons

Particle weapons are top-tier in ship battles. They're great because they damage both shields and hulls, and you can use them without messing with power settings.

Best Ship Weapons

With this knowledge, we present you our choices for each weapon type.

• Ballistic Weapon: KE-42 Cannon
  • Damage: 31 Hull DMG, 9 Shield DMG
  • Fire Rate: 2.5
  • Effective for destroying hulls
  • Suitable for B-class ships

• Laser: Scorch-P 60MW Pulse Laser
  • Damage: 10 Hull DMG, 32 Shield DMG
  • Fire Rate 2.5
  • Excellent at destroying shields
  • Ideal for B-class ships

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• Particle Weapon: PBO-100 Auto Neutron Beam
  • Damage: 14 Hull DMG, 14 Shield DMG
  • Fire Rate: 5
  • Rapidly destroys shields and hulls
  • Needs a powerful B-class reactor

• Missile: Atlatl 270B
  • Damage: 68 Hull DMG, 68 Shell DMG
  • Fire Rate: 1
  • Range: 4000
  • Deals great damage
  • Can be upgraded to Atlatl 270C with a C-class reactor

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Best Ship Parts In Starfield

Let's look at the important ship parts in Starfield and what they do before giving out thoughts on the best for each type.

• Reactor: Your ship's power source. It dictates component activation, efficiency, and allows power allocation to ship parts during spaceflight
• Shield Generator: Safeguards your ship from damage and defends against various damage types during space combat
• Engine: Controls your ship's movement and dictate its travel speed
• Grav Drive: Enable inter-system jumps, with upgrades extending your ship's jump range for accessing distant destinations

Best Ship Parts

For this, we will present you one EarlyGame option and one option for the late-game for each type named above.

• Reactor (early game): 360T Stellarator Reactor
  • Value: 17860
  • Power Generated: 20
  • Required Skill: None
  • Location: Ship technicians in most early game cities

• Reactor (late game): SF40 Sheared Flow Reactor
  • Value: 77615
  • Power Generated: 40
  • Required Skill: Piloting (Rank 4)
  • Location: Red Mile or The Den (at higher character levels)

• Shield Generator (early game): Deflector SG-30 Shield Generator
  • Value: 7350
  • Max Power: 5
  • Shield Max Health: 440
  • Regen Rate: 10%
  • Required Skill: None
  • Location: Ship technicians in most EarlyGame cities

• Shield Generator (late game): Assurance SG-1800 Shield Generator
  • Value: 47400
  • Max Power: 12
  • Shield Max Health: 1600
  • Regen Rate: 5%
  • Required Skill: Starship Design (Rank 4)
  • Location: Ship technicians in most cities (at a certain level)

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• Engine (early game): White Dwarf 2010 Engine
  • Value: 6032
  • Engine Thrust: 11340
  • Maneuvering Thrust: 2130
  • Required Skill: None
  • Location: Ship technicians in most EarlyGame cities
• Engine (late game): Poseidon DT230 Engine
  • Value: 40280
  • Engine Thrust: 34520
  • Maneuvering Thrust: 11600
  • Required Skill: Starship Design (Rank 4)
  • Location: Cydonia and Gagarin Landing

• Grav Drive (early game): Helios 300 Grav Drive
  • Value: 9500
  • Grav Jump Thrust: 23
  • Grav Drive Health: 68
  • Required Skill: None
  • Location: Ship technicians in most EarlyGame cities

• Grav Drive (late game): J-52 Gamma Grav Drive
  • Value: 112290
  • Grav Jump Thrust: 50
  • Grav Drive Health: 308
  • Required Skill: Starship Design (Rank 4)
  • Location: Ship technicians (at a certain level)

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Remember that space combat isn't always about brute force. Skill and strategy matter when taking on large fleets of enemies. Pick the weapons that suit your playstyle and ship configuration, and you'll dominate the cosmos.

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