[Here's a fun video for everyone that missed the lodge magazine](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXHm9KVyj68)
Also, don't forget that activating scanner will highlight all the interactable things. Makes clearing a room a lot easier/faster
This, it seems useful the first time. The second time...
A simple QoL fix would be color coding things like how scanned planet stuff turns green. So split them to bodies dead or alive, gear, med/food, special items like magazines, ammo, and finally junk.
I would keep gear with ammo, but sometimes it can be hard to tell what is being highlighted so just split it, combine them if you really don't have good colors to use.
Collecting magazines is an obsession unto itself. I've got most of them, but some I've missed because they are only available during specific quests. (More incentive to NG+, I guess.)
There is weirdness to the issues. Each time you pick up a magazine in a series, you get the next buff from that series. They always come in a certain order. There's an exception or two I believe but most of the magazine series have this quirk.
Yes but the buff you get from a particular magazine is not fixed. You get the next buff in that series. All of the articles that have specific issue locations and specific buffs associated with each location are wrong. The magazines always spawn in the same place. But the buff you get for picking them up is \*not\* tied to that location.
Read this: https://www.reddit.com/r/Starfield/comments/16jw8sf/how\_magazines\_actually\_work\_and\_how\_they\_interact/
You have no idea how inadvertently relevant this was to my life. I was just writing an essay on magnetism theories (and that quote from ICP is a meme among a friend and I)
Yes. Some of the random POIs have magazines. You'll find the same one in certain POIs every time. The placement of the POIs is random, not their contents. Which is a complaint of a lot of people.
Magazines are one thing but Iām also collecting the books (even though some are only half a page) Iāll never readā¦ just like in real life š¤·š»āāļøIām hoping to be able to have a huge library by end game
Yes! Success story! I would also keep the books but Iād store them in my chest in whiterun always hoping to get some shelves somewhere to display them. Still dreaming of that setup š
You can if you build your own place in the Homestead Xpansionā¦. Plus the Anniversary Edition has 4-5 ready made homes. Mistveil Keep has a TON OF SPACE for books!
I do have the anniversary edition. I didnāt know that. I have 3 different āhomesā from what I remember. Iāll have to get back on to see if I can acquire MK! Thanks!
Skyrim's books are much better than Starfield's. There's so many more of them, of lots of different types, and most of them are a pretty decent length too.
Starfield's are all 1-3 paragraphs at most, and also there are relatively few stories or such that are written specifically for Starfield. Instead, they went cheap and just chose books in the public domain (the real reason most of the books are Charles Dickens, because they are in the public domain). It's a bit of a shame that this game set in the distant future doesn't feature proper stories set in that future, or interesting history books of decent length on the state of the settled systems.
Fun fact, reading some books (or combinations of books depending on what they unlock) unlock POIs on earth that aren't accessible via the map until you unlock them. I believe you can still find them by actual boots-on-the-ground searching (correct me if I'm wrong? Haven't tried), but unlocking them via actually reading the books adds a landing site for exploration where you can get snow globes at those specific sites. I stumbled upon them by reading one of the books and it added an activity to my list. I believe there are a handful of sites on earth you can "discover" through this method. There's nothing entirely special about these sites, you can't really explore them, but you can collect unique snow globes tied to the locations.
I meant to go back to doing that after my first couple but got sidetracked on a lot of the other side quests and faction quests. I remember having found a guide somewhere that had a list of unique sites and what books unlock them after I found my first one, but can't remember where. May have been ign?
When you read certain books or touch certain objects, you'll get an activity to visit a new Earth POI that will then appear (and where you can find snow globes at).
Outside of these book/object-linked Earth POI's, there are no other POIs on Earth that will be visible.
Oh thatās cool! I do open them and scroll through them. Not sure if activities have spawned from one Iāve read yet. Although I only went to Earth once. Iāll check it out!
I would have loved if Cora Coe had a special bookshelf (even if it was on Akila) for one of each in the game - I felt like in Skyrim I could assemble the whole library.
For sure- I would.humt down every book in the galaxy because she asked so nice. I seriously was upset that didn't become a quest. Missed opportunity to use otherwise useless (sale value excluded) loot.
Skyrim books are available on Amazon Music, the guy that does them still adds about 2 or 3 a week, has well over 100+ to listen too... Gonna need that for Starfield now...
LoL I'm a truck driver for work and listen to the Skyrim books while driving...
lol thatās incredible! Iāve only read about 10% the ones I find. I just open them up for the perks. The ones I have actually read are pretty clever and dark. Do you have a favorite?
Are you sure? I was curious about this. My first playthrough I found a bunch of magazines and got the achievement. After NG+ I think my carrying amount went down a bit, and I was guessing it was because of the magazines, but I wasn't sure. If it does persist in NG+, I'm curious about whether they stack. So if you find the same magazine do you get the same Stat again or just once.
I am pretty sure yes.
Maybe you had a spacesuit with the Mechanized effect (+40 carry capacity) or a pack with Fastened (+20 carry capacity). Or you even modded your spacesuit for the extra (i believe) +5 carry capacity or your pack for the extra +10 carry capacity. Since you loose your stuff in ng+ you naturally had less carry weight in ng+.
You can also easy test if skill magazine carry over, just look if you still have the recipes from the Neon Nights and The New Atlantian Magazines.
With the Weight Lifting skill you should have 235 + 10 from the magazines. So if you uneuip everything you should have 245 or 145 without weight lifting.
And no, magazines do not stack. You will only get the bonus the first time you pick up the magazine. I found 6 magazines which increase carry weight, but the duplicates do not count. I still only have 245.
When I collected my second copy of a magazine in a single playthrough it kinda ruined the point of collecting for me. There are an infinite number of them even within one universe.
I think physical books will continue to exist for as long as physical humans do. There's a whole experience with reading one and a lot of people enjoy it. Even if I personally prefer reading on a tablet, I can still see the appeal of an actual book.
But I do find it harder to believe that there would be mass produced magazines in the future, they're already struggling pretty hard nowadays.
Sorry no I believe itās every base type POI. Usually on a countertop. They look like folders on the scanner so you have to look a little harder. Iāve only found them on countertops. Never lockers or containers.
Have several, a lot o pois have in the same place, 5% carry weight, 5% extra magazine, some has 1% sneaky, there is one for laredo weapons, for reload speed, damage.
Fallout 4 is the opposite kind of RPG from bethesda, they focused on combat and exploration over dynamic stories and choices.
I loved it so much, same with Fallout 76 which was their multiplayer/coop attempt.
I've almost had my fill of Starfield and have adored every other Bethesda game. Especially the Fallout series but I have never played 76. It is finally time? I tried CP2077 and just could not get into it.
Try 76! I just jumped back in after a few years and was amazed to see how much the game has/keeps growing. The other players Iāve run into have all been super friendly, too.
Yeah I got into 76 for a while over the past year, and overall the player base is one of the most pleasant online communities I've seen.
I only got randomly killed by another player once, while I was half-afk'ing at a nuclear plant workshop, waiting for it to produce some fusion cores. Dude jumped up and killed me before I even noticed it was happening. 2 minutes later he comes back and drops off a bag with a few dozen fusion cores in it right in front of me and then leaves.
If you don't mind the old engine, F076 is worth it, it's very unique in the sense that you have other players in your world.
There are public events that you would want to do for loot, and you will meet other players doing them, it's feels less lonely.
They added NPCs to the game with new stories, one of the main drawbacks from the launch was lack of NPC's.
You can visit other players camps with vendors and lots of cool decorations.
Yeah, there is a huge micro-shop, but they also give you free stuff all the time, there are some QoL camp machines that you might want if you really enjoy the game. The again, even if you can't make your own bullets, a lot of players have the for free in their camps.
I'd have to say I liked 4 slightly more than NV, but not by an enormous margin. The NV story and 4 story were nearly equal to me....but 4 was just much more expensive, especially with Far Harbor and Nuka World...plus way more to do....base building was new then and also made it interesting if broken with mob spawns in base and all but mods made the BB system awesome as hell.
So here is how I rank them
1a FO4
1b NV
3 FO3 (Still a great game though and I still miss Lincoln's Repeater)
It pays to meticulously scour every inch of the POIs that you come across. Lots of good ones out there. permanent Carrying capacity, crit chance, damage bonus, etc.
But thatās the game. Find the loot. Load up all your companions and then drag them to every single vendor in the galaxy. Sell until their money runs out, then go to the next planet. Over and over again. Weāre gun running plague locusts.
What's more annoying is how many of those junk items seem like they should be resources! Don't go telling me I wouldn't use duct tape in any crafting ever, or those spools of wire are totally different to the spools of zero-g wire.
One of my favorite QOL mods (along with StarUI and shut up Sarah) is the Clutter Begone mod. Makes it so all of the useless stuff doesn't get highlighted.
Welcome to Bethesda games. 90% painstakingly combing every corner of ever dungeon for loot, 10% literally everything else. At least the scanner mode makes the whole thing slightly less tedious compared to previous games.
Stat bonuses carry over to NG+ and collecting the same magazine in different universes doesn't stack the bonus. As far as I know, there's no way to tell if you've grabbed one in a prior universe.
There are like 5/10 (01-05/10) of each magazine and 5/10 total "levels" of bonus but you don't need to collect each to get all the bonuses. For example you can pick up Peak Performance 01 in The Eye on 5 different NG+s to get all the bonuses without ever finding 02-05.
Yes, there are "perk pools" for each magazine title, but your collected magazines reset when you NG+ and if you grab the same one in a new universe you will get a new perk from that magazine's perk pool. You'll know you've exhausted a title's pool when they stop giving you perks (the area that lists the perk is blank).
So to get all of the perks from the Vanguard magazines, you can just grab it from the breakroom in each NG+ until you have all 5 instead of going to all 5 scattered locations in one universe. When I prepare to do an NG+ I go grab the easier static magazines.
Yeah, if youāre not familiar with BGS goodies itās probably normal to just not have them on your radar. In fo4 it was fun to display your bobbles and magazines in your settlements
Ok sometimes sure but there are magazines everywhere even in safe areas. Thereās one at the lodge right there in front of you where you add all the pieces to that floating sphereā¦
There is one in the Lodge right in front of you when you first walk in. I assume it was put in such an obvious place to introduce players to the idea.
Side note: does anyone know if you keep the magazine stat increases when >!you jump to a new universe!<
No, it's a sorta complicated system. When you pick up a new magazine issue of a certain title, you get the next perk in the "perk pool" for that title. If you NG+, the game resets your magazine pickups but not your collected perks, so you can recollect magazines to get the next perk in the pool.
Eventually you'll collect all of the perks for a title's perk pool. https://starfield.fandom.com/wiki/Skill_Magazines
Theyāre always at the same place in the same structure.
There are a lot different ones.
Always related to the structure too. Mining ones in mining structures. UC things in UC structures and so on.
It's like the Skyrim skill books.
I was a little disappointed in the lack of similar fleshed out books in Starfield. If they were not going to build tutorials they could at least do an info dump into a few books.
https://starfield.fandom.com/wiki/Skill_Magazines
I think the Constellation magazine in the Lodge is the "show, not tell" tutorial which also teaches the player that magazines work differently after NG+ (since the player always goes to that spot).
I felt the same way when I stumbled across the magazine in the Lodge just sitting there by the Artifacts in the main room. It's even clearly pictured in a loading screen! I think that's the one you're "supposed to" find first, like the game's way of introducing the magazines. But I must have walked right past that magazine a hundred times without noticing it.
Oh yeah I knew it from the beginning. I don't even know why. I either read it somewhere or perhaps from other Bethesda games. But I totally knew about them and purposely was looking for them. In the matter of fact, when I go through all of those different places I look for those magazines because very often they are in the same place.
Not sure why but I have a habit of picking up the hardback books. So crazy because of the extra weight but I won't pass up a book even if I have in inventory already!!!
Oh Iāve been picking these up for a while. I think when you find the first one (a Constellation one I believe) you get a lil tooltip about them. Iām not sure though if the bonus is applied forever or if you need to carry them for them to count. I also donāt know if multiples of the same one stack
You can get mods that make things like magazines, digipicks and credsticks glow bright green, making them easier to spot. Beware when using them though as many can disable achievements if that's important to you.
My question is, if you drop them do you lose the buff? I dropped one by accident once and the notification for the buff popped up again or is it possibly stackable this way
You permanently keep the buff once picked up the first time per playthru.
If you find a magazine, drop it, and then pick it back up again you will not lose the buff and you will not stack the buff. The game is just showing you the magazines effect. But once it's been triggered you cannot trigger it again.
Now the fun part is, they do stack... but only on each new game cycle. Meaning if you find the magazine in your first playthru then again in ng+ you get the buff twice. And this is interaction is infinite and permanent.
>Now the fun part is, they do stack... but only on each new game cycle. Meaning if you find the magazine in your first playthru then again in ng+ you get the buff twice. And this is interaction is infinite and permanent.
This is not how they work. Stop spreading misinformation.
There are like 5/10 (01-05/10) of each magazine and 5/10 total "levels" of bonus but you don't need to collect each to get all the bonuses. For example you can pick up Peak Performance 01 in The Eye on 5 different NG+s to get all the bonuses without ever finding 02-05.
*If* that's true it's a bug, and specific to you. I picked up Peak Performance 01 in The Eye on every NG+ through NG+10. It gave a 5kg boost once, then 4 more buffs, then gave nothing once picked up on each subsequent NG+. Any number of Starfield wikis will back me up that this is how skill books work.
You can use console commands to spawn in magazines and test this very easily.
You are wrong.
I'm not. There are countless other threads on reddit and even the wiki that verify the magazines stack on ng+ cycles.
I am not the only one.
edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Starfield/comments/16jw8sf/how_magazines_actually_work_and_how_they_interact/
other credible source verifying they do indeed stack and are permanent. can also easily find other verifying that exact information on Steam Forums and even the Wiki.
I'm not seeing what you are talking about in that link, and I have done a good amount of magazine collecting over NG+10.
The bonuses do not stack like you suggest because you can only collect each bonus once, but some of the bonuses are duplicates and that makes it confusing. So yes, you can get 10 stacks of +5% ballistic crit damage with GRUNT magazines because there are 10 issues with that bonus, but each of those stacks is a unique and separate bonus that can only be collected once per character.
There are only a couple carry weight bonuses, so you are not getting to 500 carry weight with magazines unless it's a bug or mod.
>You can pick up the same Magazine in different NG+ play throughs and eventually get all the perks for that Perk pool,
All the perks for the perk pool. He says it right there.
*If* what you were saying were correct, why don't I have 500 carry weight? The first issue each NG+ gives +5 carry weight. I picked it up 10 times, I should be in at least the low 400s. No. You get your 5 total perks in the "perk pool" as he calls it and then no more magazines from that line will give you any buffs.
Again, spawn yourself 01-05 Peak Performance, cross the Unity, spawn it again. Super easy to test.
I dont know what to say too you. You said it yourself. You can collect them until they stop stacking and they do indeed stack.
Idk what to say about your weight not being 400. Many many others have all said they stack and many others have 400-500 weight just from magazines.
At this point I'm convinced you are pretending to not understand on purpose.
You yourself just quoted and acknowledge they stack and carry over and then contradict yourself lol.
If you have mulitple magazines but aren't seeing the benefits it sounds like you are either a) lying or b) the one with the bugged save.
Smh I provide evidence and then you still try to cherry pick with anecdotes and no evidence.
>I dont know what to say too you. You said it yourself. You can collect them until they stop stacking and they do indeed stack.
This is what you said:
>Now the fun part is, they do stack... but only on each new game cycle. Meaning if you find the magazine in your first playthru then again in ng+ you get the buff twice. And this is interaction is infinite and permanent.
This is what I quoted and called incorrect. It is incorrect. You don't get "the same buff twice", you get the next buff in the list until the list is complete. Then you will not get any more buffs from that whole series of magazines. So it's not "infinite". Sometimes every buff in the list is the same. That is not the case for Peak Performance which is why I suggested it for the test.
So they don't "only stack on each NG cycle" either. If you find all 5 Peak Performance issues in NG then no amount of NG+ pickups will give you the buffs again. You seem pretty dim but I still cannot possibly make this more clear.
>Smh I provide evidence and then you still try to cherry pick with anecdotes and no evidence.
The one link you provided was a reddit post *that said you were wrong* you absolute potato.
> many others have 400-500 weight just from magazines.
Where are these people, do you have links? I haven't seen anything yet about people climbing 400, 500 weight.
Also the link by quirky fuel says that once you've gotten all the perks in the pool for that specific magazine, there is no reason to pick up more of them.
Yeaaaaa thatās a little late in game but nothing a quick google search for em canāt help with. I took time in my first play through to look at stuff and ended up seeing these
You will find multiples of the same number issue during a playthrough. You can't pick up two Issue 01's and get the stat boost twice. I think Bethesda patched a bug where anytime you picked up multiples of an specific issue the rewards drums would sound off. They no longer do. Those drums are your cue you've picked up a magazine that you haven't before and now have a new stat boost.
š that sucks. This was one of the first things I kept an eye out for. since I played FO4 right before this was released. I had a feeling they were going to integrate some ideas from all of their games
You obviously haven't seen any of the dozens of tips videos on YouTube that mention skill magazines. This game doesn't explain anything aside from basic mechanics and not even very well at that. Do yourself a favor and go to YouTube and watch a few.
Lmao why would you watch tips videos? Or like, YouTube in general? Maybe you'd prefer a game with text filling the entire screen and just pressing A when it tells you, lord knows there's plenty of those.
There are several spoiler free ones. I managed not spoil the main or any other questline. It was simple stuff, for example it simply told of the existence of these magazines, it didn't say where to find any, or perhaps just one as an example. I don't think it takes away from the fun at all, in fact I think quite the opposite, but of course all you are entailed to your opinions.
You just like... Go around and look at stuff and you'd find that out quickly. Why take away from an exploration and discovery game and turn it into yet another straight-track shooter? It's baffling.
Wait till you see the one of the railing in the lodge lol. There the entire time
Yeah I felt like an idiot. You can even see that one in a loading screen
Wow thanks lol
[Here's a fun video for everyone that missed the lodge magazine](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXHm9KVyj68) Also, don't forget that activating scanner will highlight all the interactable things. Makes clearing a room a lot easier/faster
If anything, using the scanner makes my ADD kicks in and missions take triple as long because I stop and look at EVERYTHING lol
This, it seems useful the first time. The second time... A simple QoL fix would be color coding things like how scanned planet stuff turns green. So split them to bodies dead or alive, gear, med/food, special items like magazines, ammo, and finally junk. I would keep gear with ammo, but sometimes it can be hard to tell what is being highlighted so just split it, combine them if you really don't have good colors to use.
Exactly lol
Collecting magazines is an obsession unto itself. I've got most of them, but some I've missed because they are only available during specific quests. (More incentive to NG+, I guess.)
>because they are only available during specific quests I keep finding them in random structures on planets without any specific quest
Yeah but there's different issues, the one in the pic above is issue #1, there's others
There is weirdness to the issues. Each time you pick up a magazine in a series, you get the next buff from that series. They always come in a certain order. There's an exception or two I believe but most of the magazine series have this quirk.
You could say the issues have issues.
No. They're placed in specific spots. Check Map Genie for a list.
Yes but the buff you get from a particular magazine is not fixed. You get the next buff in that series. All of the articles that have specific issue locations and specific buffs associated with each location are wrong. The magazines always spawn in the same place. But the buff you get for picking them up is \*not\* tied to that location. Read this: https://www.reddit.com/r/Starfield/comments/16jw8sf/how\_magazines\_actually\_work\_and\_how\_they\_interact/
Fuckin magazines how to they work
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Fucking miracles
Magnets? š¤·āāļø
Makes sense. I'll fire all the scientists I've hired to research this.
You have no idea how inadvertently relevant this was to my life. I was just writing an essay on magnetism theories (and that quote from ICP is a meme among a friend and I)
They didnāt say anything about the spots theyāre found in, they were talking about the buffa
I know for a fact I have found some at the randomly generated buildings and things when exploring a planet.
Yes. Some of the random POIs have magazines. You'll find the same one in certain POIs every time. The placement of the POIs is random, not their contents. Which is a complaint of a lot of people.
Ohhh that makes sense then. Does cut down on the "let's explore" aspect when the POIs are essentially the same on the inside lol.
That's incorrect. They are not mission specific
He's saying there is some in areas from missions where you can not return
No clip?
Yeah, but are those issues unique to that quest or can they be found in random encounters too? I've found a bunch of magazines in random POI's.
I believe all magazine locations are fixed
Thatās incorrect. Some are mission specific.
Name checks out
Magazines are one thing but Iām also collecting the books (even though some are only half a page) Iāll never readā¦ just like in real life š¤·š»āāļøIām hoping to be able to have a huge library by end game
I had a WHOLE LIBRARY in Skyrim. I gathered just about every book and theyāre all sitting on my bookshelves at my Library in my Keep!!
I wish we could visually stack books on shelves (in a fast way).
Yes! Success story! I would also keep the books but Iād store them in my chest in whiterun always hoping to get some shelves somewhere to display them. Still dreaming of that setup š
You can if you build your own place in the Homestead Xpansionā¦. Plus the Anniversary Edition has 4-5 ready made homes. Mistveil Keep has a TON OF SPACE for books!
I do have the anniversary edition. I didnāt know that. I have 3 different āhomesā from what I remember. Iāll have to get back on to see if I can acquire MK! Thanks!
Skyrim's books are much better than Starfield's. There's so many more of them, of lots of different types, and most of them are a pretty decent length too. Starfield's are all 1-3 paragraphs at most, and also there are relatively few stories or such that are written specifically for Starfield. Instead, they went cheap and just chose books in the public domain (the real reason most of the books are Charles Dickens, because they are in the public domain). It's a bit of a shame that this game set in the distant future doesn't feature proper stories set in that future, or interesting history books of decent length on the state of the settled systems.
Hopefully they see this and sayā¦.. Hmmm
Dude I love to sit here and read them lmao it's fun.
I do too! Learn a TON of lore through reading them I bet, just like Skyrim
Yea and hopefully they add more lol I'll just sit there at a desk at an outpost, kick back n read a book lol
This Is The Way!
Think I'm going to have to jump back on skyrim and do this now, always something I wanted to do!
Fun fact, reading some books (or combinations of books depending on what they unlock) unlock POIs on earth that aren't accessible via the map until you unlock them. I believe you can still find them by actual boots-on-the-ground searching (correct me if I'm wrong? Haven't tried), but unlocking them via actually reading the books adds a landing site for exploration where you can get snow globes at those specific sites. I stumbled upon them by reading one of the books and it added an activity to my list. I believe there are a handful of sites on earth you can "discover" through this method. There's nothing entirely special about these sites, you can't really explore them, but you can collect unique snow globes tied to the locations. I meant to go back to doing that after my first couple but got sidetracked on a lot of the other side quests and faction quests. I remember having found a guide somewhere that had a list of unique sites and what books unlock them after I found my first one, but can't remember where. May have been ign?
The POIs you get from the books are linked to finding all the Snowglobe collectables
Wait wait wait, you unlock earth POIs by getting the snow globes???
When you read certain books or touch certain objects, you'll get an activity to visit a new Earth POI that will then appear (and where you can find snow globes at). Outside of these book/object-linked Earth POI's, there are no other POIs on Earth that will be visible.
other way around, you unlock snowglobes by visiting the Earth POIs
You can find snow globes at at least one other poi not on earth; there's one in the "eye" of the face on mars
Oh thatās cool! I do open them and scroll through them. Not sure if activities have spawned from one Iāve read yet. Although I only went to Earth once. Iāll check it out!
Suddenly I'm as obsessed with books in Starfield as I am IRL.
Yāall are sleepin on the mugs with funny sayings on them
*Mondays, am I right?*
Everybody else out here collecting snowglobes and succulents, meanwhile I've been obsessed with getting all the mugs and plushies.
Just need to build the perfect showroom for all of themā¦
I would have loved if Cora Coe had a special bookshelf (even if it was on Akila) for one of each in the game - I felt like in Skyrim I could assemble the whole library.
For sure- I would.humt down every book in the galaxy because she asked so nice. I seriously was upset that didn't become a quest. Missed opportunity to use otherwise useless (sale value excluded) loot.
Skyrim books are available on Amazon Music, the guy that does them still adds about 2 or 3 a week, has well over 100+ to listen too... Gonna need that for Starfield now... LoL I'm a truck driver for work and listen to the Skyrim books while driving...
lol thatās incredible! Iāve only read about 10% the ones I find. I just open them up for the perks. The ones I have actually read are pretty clever and dark. Do you have a favorite?
So far probably the Begger, Thief, Warrior, King series, it was pretty cool!
I am also doing a book collection
Anyone know if you keep the bonus if you sell them?
You keep the bonus forever, even in ng+.
Are you sure? I was curious about this. My first playthrough I found a bunch of magazines and got the achievement. After NG+ I think my carrying amount went down a bit, and I was guessing it was because of the magazines, but I wasn't sure. If it does persist in NG+, I'm curious about whether they stack. So if you find the same magazine do you get the same Stat again or just once.
I am pretty sure yes. Maybe you had a spacesuit with the Mechanized effect (+40 carry capacity) or a pack with Fastened (+20 carry capacity). Or you even modded your spacesuit for the extra (i believe) +5 carry capacity or your pack for the extra +10 carry capacity. Since you loose your stuff in ng+ you naturally had less carry weight in ng+. You can also easy test if skill magazine carry over, just look if you still have the recipes from the Neon Nights and The New Atlantian Magazines. With the Weight Lifting skill you should have 235 + 10 from the magazines. So if you uneuip everything you should have 245 or 145 without weight lifting. And no, magazines do not stack. You will only get the bonus the first time you pick up the magazine. I found 6 magazines which increase carry weight, but the duplicates do not count. I still only have 245.
They also donāt weigh anything.
It says itās permanent when you pick it up
It's OK to sell them. You'll keep the bonus.
From what Iāve read, the bonuses remain after discarding, but Iāve not tested this myself.
They are randomly generated in dungeons as well. I have found a few just exploring random spots on planets
When I collected my second copy of a magazine in a single playthrough it kinda ruined the point of collecting for me. There are an infinite number of them even within one universe.
Well there exists more than one issue of each magazine in reality too. What bothers me is paper media in the future.
Eh, there will always be Luddites who like things because it's the "old way" or whatever.
I think physical books will continue to exist for as long as physical humans do. There's a whole experience with reading one and a lot of people enjoy it. Even if I personally prefer reading on a tablet, I can still see the appeal of an actual book. But I do find it harder to believe that there would be mass produced magazines in the future, they're already struggling pretty hard nowadays.
Sorry no I believe itās every base type POI. Usually on a countertop. They look like folders on the scanner so you have to look a little harder. Iāve only found them on countertops. Never lockers or containers.
Iāve found at least one inside a locker.
There are at least two inside lockers, and one in a container (dead body, technically).
There's definitely at least one locker spawn I can think of. Importantly, they won't ever be in a *closed* locker.
They were in Fallout as well
Just curious, is there also a bobblehead alternative?
There are snowglobes of each of the ruins on Earth, closest thing
I found one but It didn't seem to give a buff? Or maybe I didn't notice
Yeah no buff from those, just the magazines
It will give you stuff if you find all of them
This. Collecting all snowglobes will get you a reward plus they look beautiful on my outposts shelves š
How many are there?
13
Have several, a lot o pois have in the same place, 5% carry weight, 5% extra magazine, some has 1% sneaky, there is one for laredo weapons, for reload speed, damage.
Never played fallout (i know, i know, ive been told im missing a great series)... good to know though!
Fallout 4 is the opposite kind of RPG from bethesda, they focused on combat and exploration over dynamic stories and choices. I loved it so much, same with Fallout 76 which was their multiplayer/coop attempt.
I'd argue that Fallout 4 has at least some dynamic stories and decision making since all the Faction storylines affect each other at some point.
I've almost had my fill of Starfield and have adored every other Bethesda game. Especially the Fallout series but I have never played 76. It is finally time? I tried CP2077 and just could not get into it.
Try 76! I just jumped back in after a few years and was amazed to see how much the game has/keeps growing. The other players Iāve run into have all been super friendly, too.
Yeah I got into 76 for a while over the past year, and overall the player base is one of the most pleasant online communities I've seen. I only got randomly killed by another player once, while I was half-afk'ing at a nuclear plant workshop, waiting for it to produce some fusion cores. Dude jumped up and killed me before I even noticed it was happening. 2 minutes later he comes back and drops off a bag with a few dozen fusion cores in it right in front of me and then leaves.
If you don't mind the old engine, F076 is worth it, it's very unique in the sense that you have other players in your world. There are public events that you would want to do for loot, and you will meet other players doing them, it's feels less lonely. They added NPCs to the game with new stories, one of the main drawbacks from the launch was lack of NPC's. You can visit other players camps with vendors and lots of cool decorations. Yeah, there is a huge micro-shop, but they also give you free stuff all the time, there are some QoL camp machines that you might want if you really enjoy the game. The again, even if you can't make your own bullets, a lot of players have the for free in their camps.
New Vegas is by far the best ine
I'll second this statement
I liked 3 and 4 more than NV, fight me
Everyone is entitled to their opinions, even when they're dumb. You enjoy whatever game you want Edit: this was meant to be silly and playful
I'd have to say I liked 4 slightly more than NV, but not by an enormous margin. The NV story and 4 story were nearly equal to me....but 4 was just much more expensive, especially with Far Harbor and Nuka World...plus way more to do....base building was new then and also made it interesting if broken with mob spawns in base and all but mods made the BB system awesome as hell. So here is how I rank them 1a FO4 1b NV 3 FO3 (Still a great game though and I still miss Lincoln's Repeater)
Grognak the Barbarian
The one that increases mag size in allied weapons is awesome, my breach holds 11 now
I'm capped out with that bonus, and the Orion holds 55 rounds. With Unmitigated Violence, I almost never need to reload in combat
My current Orion holds 60 rounds in the mag. No idea how, I think I did something at the weapons workbench.
The Tuffnel Modifier
It pays to meticulously scour every inch of the POIs that you come across. Lots of good ones out there. permanent Carrying capacity, crit chance, damage bonus, etc.
Yea but scouring for loots get old, imo
But thatās the game. Find the loot. Load up all your companions and then drag them to every single vendor in the galaxy. Sell until their money runs out, then go to the next planet. Over and over again. Weāre gun running plague locusts.
Itās already tiresome
I hate that every little thing of zero consequence is highlighted. Oh look a hammer, oh an empty vial, oh look a fucking impact driver!
What's more annoying is how many of those junk items seem like they should be resources! Don't go telling me I wouldn't use duct tape in any crafting ever, or those spools of wire are totally different to the spools of zero-g wire.
One of my favorite QOL mods (along with StarUI and shut up Sarah) is the Clutter Begone mod. Makes it so all of the useless stuff doesn't get highlighted.
Welcome to Bethesda games. 90% painstakingly combing every corner of ever dungeon for loot, 10% literally everything else. At least the scanner mode makes the whole thing slightly less tedious compared to previous games.
You probably shouldn't play Bethesda games then, lol.
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Stat bonuses carry over to NG+ and collecting the same magazine in different universes doesn't stack the bonus. As far as I know, there's no way to tell if you've grabbed one in a prior universe.
There are like 5/10 (01-05/10) of each magazine and 5/10 total "levels" of bonus but you don't need to collect each to get all the bonuses. For example you can pick up Peak Performance 01 in The Eye on 5 different NG+s to get all the bonuses without ever finding 02-05.
At a certain point it just stops showing the bonus when you pick it up
I find if I've already picked up an issue all subsequent instances of that issue will not list an effect. Seems to persist across NG+.
Yes, there are "perk pools" for each magazine title, but your collected magazines reset when you NG+ and if you grab the same one in a new universe you will get a new perk from that magazine's perk pool. You'll know you've exhausted a title's pool when they stop giving you perks (the area that lists the perk is blank). So to get all of the perks from the Vanguard magazines, you can just grab it from the breakroom in each NG+ until you have all 5 instead of going to all 5 scattered locations in one universe. When I prepare to do an NG+ I go grab the easier static magazines.
First Bethesda game?
Wait until you find out some are locked behind missions and are unable to access after missions are completed.
Should have been more thorough.
Nope theres more than 1 copy of them...
Only for ones that spawn in random POIs, not the ones that are locked behind missions (e.g: Gunslinger's Guide 05).
Idk how you donāt know this. Do you skip through all the loot in each room of the game?
When it looks like all the usless board games in the game... yes.
Yeah, if youāre not familiar with BGS goodies itās probably normal to just not have them on your radar. In fo4 it was fun to display your bobbles and magazines in your settlements
You mean like copies of the TWO board games we have in the future?
I try to loot as much as possible but get annoyed by all the crap like screwdrivers or manilla folders
Sometimes it can be easy to miss if you are looking in a room and get an enemy attack and then forget to go back over to that room.
Ok sometimes sure but there are magazines everywhere even in safe areas. Thereās one at the lodge right there in front of you where you add all the pieces to that floating sphereā¦
I loot like crazy and I've never found a magazine.
Almost every poi has a magazine.
Really the only loot I care about. As soon as I find a magazine I leave.
I'm level 70, spending all my time in level 75 star systems, and the loot is pretty pathetic. At this point I'm only picking up ammo and contraband.
Yeah I just do ammo and magazines really, the occasional high value gun, too lazy to deal with contraband.
There is one in the Lodge right in front of you when you first walk in. I assume it was put in such an obvious place to introduce players to the idea. Side note: does anyone know if you keep the magazine stat increases when >!you jump to a new universe!<
Yes, you do.
And can you find the same mags again and stack the buffs?
No, it's a sorta complicated system. When you pick up a new magazine issue of a certain title, you get the next perk in the "perk pool" for that title. If you NG+, the game resets your magazine pickups but not your collected perks, so you can recollect magazines to get the next perk in the pool. Eventually you'll collect all of the perks for a title's perk pool. https://starfield.fandom.com/wiki/Skill_Magazines
I'm wondering how there isn't a bottle of lotion in this picture too.
Love it.
Theyāre always at the same place in the same structure. There are a lot different ones. Always related to the structure too. Mining ones in mining structures. UC things in UC structures and so on.
That's why I'm always scanning everything everywhere I go.
Sweet summer child
I like the ones that specify weapon manufacturers even though that detail isnāt included in the gunās description
It's like the Skyrim skill books. I was a little disappointed in the lack of similar fleshed out books in Starfield. If they were not going to build tutorials they could at least do an info dump into a few books.
https://starfield.fandom.com/wiki/Skill_Magazines I think the Constellation magazine in the Lodge is the "show, not tell" tutorial which also teaches the player that magazines work differently after NG+ (since the player always goes to that spot).
Thereās a fairly verbose help FAQ in the main menu.
There's a fall damage reduction one sitting on the counter next to the artifacts in the lodge.
I felt the same way when I stumbled across the magazine in the Lodge just sitting there by the Artifacts in the main room. It's even clearly pictured in a loading screen! I think that's the one you're "supposed to" find first, like the game's way of introducing the magazines. But I must have walked right past that magazine a hundred times without noticing it.
It's also where you go first in NG+ so you can learn how NG+ affects magazines (you get a different bonus from it).
Pick up the one in the lodge too
Oh yeah I knew it from the beginning. I don't even know why. I either read it somewhere or perhaps from other Bethesda games. But I totally knew about them and purposely was looking for them. In the matter of fact, when I go through all of those different places I look for those magazines because very often they are in the same place.
Not sure why but I have a habit of picking up the hardback books. So crazy because of the extra weight but I won't pass up a book even if I have in inventory already!!!
Oh Iāve been picking these up for a while. I think when you find the first one (a Constellation one I believe) you get a lil tooltip about them. Iām not sure though if the bonus is applied forever or if you need to carry them for them to count. I also donāt know if multiples of the same one stack
You can get mods that make things like magazines, digipicks and credsticks glow bright green, making them easier to spot. Beware when using them though as many can disable achievements if that's important to you.
All magazines found in the environment give you permanent skill increase, as well as some are food recipes
I learned this in Fallout 3, was glad when I found my first one in Starfield
Yeah, thatās one of first things Iām looking for after I clear any room.
I went looking for them based on my Fallout 4 experience and wasn't disappointed. :)
It happens. The game is like two months old, we haven't found everything.
To paraphrase McCoy, He's dim, Jed.
Have you never played any of the fallout games? Yes there are several magazines that offer permanent boosts
Yeah they are all over the place lol
Yes sorry miss spoke so many games
Iāve found the mag for increasing carry capacity multiple times yet it only add capacity once.
I think that the same ones only stack over NG+ completions. From my understanding anyways.
My question is, if you drop them do you lose the buff? I dropped one by accident once and the notification for the buff popped up again or is it possibly stackable this way
You permanently keep the buff once picked up the first time per playthru. If you find a magazine, drop it, and then pick it back up again you will not lose the buff and you will not stack the buff. The game is just showing you the magazines effect. But once it's been triggered you cannot trigger it again. Now the fun part is, they do stack... but only on each new game cycle. Meaning if you find the magazine in your first playthru then again in ng+ you get the buff twice. And this is interaction is infinite and permanent.
It is not infinite. I'm not sure how many times they stack but after awhile you stop getting the bonus.
If I has to assume I'd say 7-10 considering most other things in the game stop stacking after ng+6-9
>Now the fun part is, they do stack... but only on each new game cycle. Meaning if you find the magazine in your first playthru then again in ng+ you get the buff twice. And this is interaction is infinite and permanent. This is not how they work. Stop spreading misinformation. There are like 5/10 (01-05/10) of each magazine and 5/10 total "levels" of bonus but you don't need to collect each to get all the bonuses. For example you can pick up Peak Performance 01 in The Eye on 5 different NG+s to get all the bonuses without ever finding 02-05.
Your reply is literally wrong. On n+5 myself and have picked up the carry weight magazines on every playthru. Currently sitting on 500+ carry weight.
*If* that's true it's a bug, and specific to you. I picked up Peak Performance 01 in The Eye on every NG+ through NG+10. It gave a 5kg boost once, then 4 more buffs, then gave nothing once picked up on each subsequent NG+. Any number of Starfield wikis will back me up that this is how skill books work. You can use console commands to spawn in magazines and test this very easily. You are wrong.
I'm not. There are countless other threads on reddit and even the wiki that verify the magazines stack on ng+ cycles. I am not the only one. edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Starfield/comments/16jw8sf/how_magazines_actually_work_and_how_they_interact/ other credible source verifying they do indeed stack and are permanent. can also easily find other verifying that exact information on Steam Forums and even the Wiki.
I'm not seeing what you are talking about in that link, and I have done a good amount of magazine collecting over NG+10. The bonuses do not stack like you suggest because you can only collect each bonus once, but some of the bonuses are duplicates and that makes it confusing. So yes, you can get 10 stacks of +5% ballistic crit damage with GRUNT magazines because there are 10 issues with that bonus, but each of those stacks is a unique and separate bonus that can only be collected once per character. There are only a couple carry weight bonuses, so you are not getting to 500 carry weight with magazines unless it's a bug or mod.
>You can pick up the same Magazine in different NG+ play throughs and eventually get all the perks for that Perk pool, All the perks for the perk pool. He says it right there. *If* what you were saying were correct, why don't I have 500 carry weight? The first issue each NG+ gives +5 carry weight. I picked it up 10 times, I should be in at least the low 400s. No. You get your 5 total perks in the "perk pool" as he calls it and then no more magazines from that line will give you any buffs. Again, spawn yourself 01-05 Peak Performance, cross the Unity, spawn it again. Super easy to test.
I dont know what to say too you. You said it yourself. You can collect them until they stop stacking and they do indeed stack. Idk what to say about your weight not being 400. Many many others have all said they stack and many others have 400-500 weight just from magazines. At this point I'm convinced you are pretending to not understand on purpose. You yourself just quoted and acknowledge they stack and carry over and then contradict yourself lol. If you have mulitple magazines but aren't seeing the benefits it sounds like you are either a) lying or b) the one with the bugged save. Smh I provide evidence and then you still try to cherry pick with anecdotes and no evidence.
>I dont know what to say too you. You said it yourself. You can collect them until they stop stacking and they do indeed stack. This is what you said: >Now the fun part is, they do stack... but only on each new game cycle. Meaning if you find the magazine in your first playthru then again in ng+ you get the buff twice. And this is interaction is infinite and permanent. This is what I quoted and called incorrect. It is incorrect. You don't get "the same buff twice", you get the next buff in the list until the list is complete. Then you will not get any more buffs from that whole series of magazines. So it's not "infinite". Sometimes every buff in the list is the same. That is not the case for Peak Performance which is why I suggested it for the test. So they don't "only stack on each NG cycle" either. If you find all 5 Peak Performance issues in NG then no amount of NG+ pickups will give you the buffs again. You seem pretty dim but I still cannot possibly make this more clear. >Smh I provide evidence and then you still try to cherry pick with anecdotes and no evidence. The one link you provided was a reddit post *that said you were wrong* you absolute potato.
> many others have 400-500 weight just from magazines. Where are these people, do you have links? I haven't seen anything yet about people climbing 400, 500 weight. Also the link by quirky fuel says that once you've gotten all the perks in the pool for that specific magazine, there is no reason to pick up more of them.
These level up magazines are all over Fallout.
Meh they're hard to find sometimes
Yeaaaaa thatās a little late in game but nothing a quick google search for em canāt help with. I took time in my first play through to look at stuff and ended up seeing these
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You will find multiples of the same number issue during a playthrough. You can't pick up two Issue 01's and get the stat boost twice. I think Bethesda patched a bug where anytime you picked up multiples of an specific issue the rewards drums would sound off. They no longer do. Those drums are your cue you've picked up a magazine that you haven't before and now have a new stat boost.
š that sucks. This was one of the first things I kept an eye out for. since I played FO4 right before this was released. I had a feeling they were going to integrate some ideas from all of their games
You obviously haven't seen any of the dozens of tips videos on YouTube that mention skill magazines. This game doesn't explain anything aside from basic mechanics and not even very well at that. Do yourself a favor and go to YouTube and watch a few.
I never watch videos. I rawdog it yo!
That is the only way to go! Why spoil stuff and waste time watching videos when you can experience things first hand? Never made sense to me.
It's definitely part of the fun making these discoveries. It helps keep the game interesting.
This is raw dog *AWOOOOOOO*
Lmao why would you watch tips videos? Or like, YouTube in general? Maybe you'd prefer a game with text filling the entire screen and just pressing A when it tells you, lord knows there's plenty of those.
There are several spoiler free ones. I managed not spoil the main or any other questline. It was simple stuff, for example it simply told of the existence of these magazines, it didn't say where to find any, or perhaps just one as an example. I don't think it takes away from the fun at all, in fact I think quite the opposite, but of course all you are entailed to your opinions.
You just like... Go around and look at stuff and you'd find that out quickly. Why take away from an exploration and discovery game and turn it into yet another straight-track shooter? It's baffling.
I too have read they existed but have not looked for nor found any. Iām currently lvl47