How the Starfield Persuasion System Works (Explained)

Choices make role-playing games a fun experience, and while Starfield doesn’t offer many of them, it allows you to persuade your way out of a situation. While older Bethesda titles always gave you a simple skill check for speeches, Starfield brings a new persuasion system to the table. Moreover, the ability to persuade people in Starfield has new quirks added to it. So, in this guide, let’s understand the new persuasion system introduced in Starfield. While it fundamentally works similarly to past persuasion systems, it brings some elements you need to take care of. With that being said, here is how it works.

How Does Persuasion Work in Starfield

How Does Persuasion Work in Starfield

Sometimes, when you interact with a few individuals in Starfield, you’ll get an option to persuade them to sway the situation in your favor. This is the persuasion system in Starfield, which will be provided to you as a conversation option. Before you select it, we recommend you save the game. If you want to stick to your choices, then keep playing. Here’s how it works:

How to Improve Your Persuasion Chances in Starfield

How to Improve Your Persuasion Chances in Starfield

Starfield allows you to temporarily or permanently improve your Persuasion chances during the encounters. There are various ways to go about it, and exploring each sounds logical.

1. Level Up Your Persuasion Skill

As mentioned previously, you need tohave Persuasion skillsif you want to become a smooth-talker and talk your way out of certain situations. However, you can improve your persuasion by leveling up this skill in Starfield. By default, selecting the skill increases your chances to succeed by 10%. If you level up, your chances to succeed increase by 20%, 30%, and 50% with each rank, respectively.

2. Drink Alcohol in Starfield

While I cannot confirm if you become charismatic in real life after getting drunk, Starfield allows you to become persuasive if you drink alcohol. Certain alcohols likebeer and wine temporarily boost your persuasion skillchecks. So, if you have some booze in your inventory, chug it before starting an encounter.

3. Take Chems and Medicines

Just like alcohol, some medicines and chems in Starfield will boost your persuasion chances. Hence, tracking and consuming them before starting an encounter will help you pass the persuasion skill checks. These particular medicines are rare to stumble upon, but if you come across them, definitely consume them.

The persuasion mini-game in Starfield improves the old Bethesda skill-check system to include afun mini-gamethat leads to some nail-biting situations.

Sampad Banerjee

Meet Sampad, Beebom’s in-house video game enthusiast and writer. With two years of freelance experience, he has passionately crafted articles about the games he loves. You can find his writings on Sportskeeda, Gamingbolt, and GGTalks.

During work hours, he covers the latest gaming news, creates how-to guides, and occasionally shares video game reviews. In his free time, he enjoys building Gundam model kits, planning his next cosplay, and play his favorite RPG games.

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