Starfield – Companions Guide

Companions

Starfield allows the player to have a single active Companion but an unlimited number of Crew. Each companion offers a set of skills which benefit the player, e.g. The companion Sarah offers 3 in Astrodynamics, which means that when she is assigned to the players Starship, you will have an invisible +3 boost to your Astrodynamics skill.

The most notable companions with the best dialog and skills are all from the Constellation storyline. There are a bunch of other companions however, they offer less bonuses to less useful skills and should only be hired after all the main ones are collected.

You can only have 1 active companion, 3 on your ship and 3 per outpost with no perk points allocated to the associated skills. You can increase both the companion ship and companion outpost count via those perks.

All The Companions

Constellation Companions

Sarah

Quite early on into the Constellation storyline she will join you, assign Sarah to your starship for her Astrodynamics – 3 bonus.

Skill Bonuses:

1. Astrodynamics – 3
2. Lasers – 3
3. Leadership – 2
4. Botany – 1

Barrett

Quite early on into the Constellation storyline he will join you. Assign Barrett to your starship for the Starship Engineering – 3 bonus.

Skill Bonuses:

1. Starship Engineering – 3
2. Particle Beam Weapon Systems – 3
3. Robotics – 2
4. Gastronomy – 1

Sam Coe

Quite early on into the Constellation storyline he will join you. Assign Sam Coe to your starship for the Piloting – 4 and Payloads – 2 bonus.

NG+ Spoiler!!! 

On a NG+, you can find him at The Lodge after collecting all Artifacts after defeating the Emissary and/or Hunter

Skill Bonuses:

1. Piloting – 3
2. Rifle Certification – 3
3. Payloads – 2
4. Geology – 1

Andreja

Quite early on into the Constellation storyline she will join you. Assign Andreja anywhere, but if you like stealth gameplay definitely have her as your Active companion for the huge Stealth – 4 bonus which is brilliant.

NG+ Spoiler!!!

On a NG+, you can find her at The Lodge after collecting all Artifacts after defeating the Emissary and/or Hunter

Skill Bonuses:

1. Stealth – 4
2. Particle Beams – 3
3. Energy Weapon Systems – 2
4. Theft – 1

Companions from The Constellation Storyline

Lin

Quite early on into the Constellation storyline she will join you. Assign Lin to your outpost for that big Outpost Management – 3 boost.

Skill Bonuses:

1. Outpost Management – 3
2. Demolitions – 1

Vasco

Quite early on into the Constellation storyline he join you. Vasco is always part of your crew, quite low boosts but perhaps keep him on the ship for the shield boost

Skill Bonuses:

1. Anuetronic Fusion – 1
2. Shield System – 1
3. EM Weapon Systems – 1

Heller

Quite early on into the Constellation storyline he he join you. Heller definitely belongs on your main outpost from that huge Outpost Engineering – 3.

Skill Bonuses:

1. Outpost Engineering – 3
2. Geology – 1

All Other Companions

There are a few other companions, only some of which are notable, the rest are generic and only offer +1 in their respective skill and will cost between 5000 to 20000 credits.

They are all available across major cities typically within bars and you can identify them as when you talk to them, they will have a skill appear in the top right of the screen.