Starfield: Difficulty Differences and How to Change Difficulty

Akib Aditya Khan
By Akib Aditya Khan
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Here are all the difficulty levels in Starfield, along with how to change difficulty.

Starfield is Bethesda’s newest and biggest game release of all time. Since the announcement of the game back in 2018, the game has certainly been one of the most anticipated games of all time. Starfield carries over the Skyrim and Fallout 4 legacy of Bethesda Studio and also added a lot of new features. Throughout the game, the players will get a very expansive RPG experience, which includes a lot of unique content.

Like every other RPG, Starfield also comes with difficulty levels. The difficulty levels certainly help the players’ progression through the game based on their skill level. While completing the game on Easy mode is actually very easy, doing it on Hard more is as hard. In this guide, we will show you all the difficulty levels of Starfield, along with how to change the difficulty settings of the game.

Starfield: Difficulty Levels

Here are all the levels of difficulty in Starfield, along with their damage input and output.

LevelDamage OutputDamage Input
Very Easy2x0.25x – 0.5x
Easy1.5x0.5x – 0.75x
Normal1x1x
Hard0.75x1.5x
Very Hard0.5x2x
Hardcore0.25x – 0.75x3x

Finishing the game in Very Easy mode will take the least amount of time as you will deal the most amount of damage on the enemies while receiving the least amount of damage from them. At the same time, the Hardcore mode will give the players the toughest time to finish the game due to the low damage output and significantly high damage input.

How to Change Difficulty

In order to change the difficulty settings of Starfield, follow the given steps:

  1. Open the Menu screen of the game.
  2. Press on System Settings.
  3. Go to the Difficulty tab.
  4. Adjust the difficulty slider to set the difficulty level.
By Akib Aditya Khan Guide Writer
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Akib Aditya Khan is a Guide writer at GameRiv. He is also a university-going student who was born and raised in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Akib is an esports enthusiast, which made him passionate about writing on his favorite topic "Esports". If he isn't spending time writing some articles, you can almost always find him watching his favorite esports titles or being a terrible mid-laner in MOBA games.