Some corrections: Shield Systems rank 1 also give 20% shields (not 10%), both Payloads rank 1 and 2 give 10% cargo capacity (not 20%). Until now there is no confirmation that Barrets Starship Engineering and Particle Beam Weapon Systems actually do anything - there is no damage increase noticeable. So it's better to give his spot as 3rd crew member to Vasco or Andromeda Kepler as their Aneutronic Fusion skill adds +1 reactor power. To be more specific Sam increases top speed by 30% (in addition to his +1 engine power) and Sarah reduces fuel cost by 30%. The shield bonus (if its not bugged) is calculated additively with your own skills and cargo / fuel cost bonus is calculated multiplicatively with your own skills. Btw. I'm the one who created the topic on Reddit covering crew skills a week ago.

Sarah morgans leadership ability effectively cancels out the crew spot she would otherwise take up. Whatever your crew cap, you can always add sarah. If you have 3 crew cap and only 3 crew stations on your ship, you can still add sarah to make 4

One additional benefit to Vasco is that when on land or docked, he steps out to defend the ship, which sometimes comes in handy.

This game really needs a CODEX, where anything you discover will be added dynamically with a description/explanation/location text. This includes crew skills.

The fact they have the same skill badges but have obviously different effects, Yet the game give you no way to see what they do is insane.

Just a tidbit, when you do tue crimson fleet, during the questline you get an item called a comlink which adds additional crew capacity if you're struggling to hit the numbers with reactor, shield and weps to get a big crew

For people still using early game ships, there is a lady in Cidonia with the anuetronic fusion skill. Extra system points are always welcome and she wont bug out with Amari like Voscoe

Thanks Dude, this was helpful! Another good add is - Erick Von Price (1 payload/3 astrodynamics )- you get him from mars/cydonia barkeep who's in the residential district. You rescue him off a ship. Tip - be nice, give them the ship, then before you free Erick from his cuffs, kill them all and THEN release him. That way you get the ship and Erick when you turn in the quest back in Cydonia.

As always Angry Turtle, you're doing an amazing job. Loved your content for Fallout 76 and now love what you're doing for Starfield. Thank you good sir! 😄

I hate companions but, I love crew...

5:55 - I think Sarah doesnt count as crew member coz she has a leadership perk. It doesnt affect ship system, so it's not highlighted, but it seems to work somehow allowing you to take 1 more crew member. 9:23 - green bar is NOT a boost, it's 1 more energy to that system for free. You have Reactor with 28 power. And you have 12 in weapons, 12 in shield and 6 in engine - 30 in total. 28 from reactor and 2 green bars.

Sarah is free because of the leadership skill. For reference of this rpgsite has a decent guide on crew skills discovered so far.

The difference explains a lot. I was changing crew members around and lost several factors I. E speed dropped and shields. I didn't know why until I redid the changes to my crew and it still did not make a great deal of sense why that happened, but it does now. Thanks for your video. It's the community that's making Starfield work better. Keep up the good work. 👍

It's crazy you need to sink 9 points into social to even get to crew sizes larger than 3 (4 with Sarah Morgan). The Leadership rank should've just affected efficiency of crew members, just like how a good manager runs a tighter ship than someone who failed upward.

The green bar isn't an extra bar; it's a free bar. That's why you don't see any increase in shield strength, but you do have an extra bar of energy to spend elsewhere. You can confirm this quickly simply by counting the power have available before and after assigning a crew member who gives you a green bar in any ship system

I am stoked that you are doing videos on Starfield. I always found your information very useful. And, being a single player game, it feels like you’ve got my back. Keep up the good work my friend.

Someone might have already mentioned this but the reason the crew capacity for habs and modules are different is because the habs give the crew a place to sit, the engines, weapons, equipment, etc anything that adds crew capacity of .25 or .50 gives the crew something to do. You can’t have crew without something for the crew to do. At that point they would be a passenger, and passengers’ skills don’t apply to your ship’s stats. You have crew members helping you aim and use the weapons, helping you monitor the engines, helping you use the scan jammer, comspikes, etc.

I found Amielia Earheart during a quest on another character, but he is on NG+ now. You passed the doctor going Medicine (Rank 1) Wellness (Rank 3) into the bar. Eurogamer has this page "Where to find all Starfield Companions and Crew Members" 25 listed.

Vasco's good at shields and gives you more reactor power as well. You only need to invest 1 pt in either. I found this normal npc with hull repair at the start of the game, but lost him somehow. Awesome start to the game.

Angry turtle!!! I missed you. I quit 76 about 2 years ago and haven’t seen a video of yours since. Hearing your intro made me so happy 😂

Best part of Starfield after about 50 hrs...stumbling across a video of Angry Turtle. I haven't even watched it yet haha. Had to leave a comment. I've watched hundreds(???) of his F76 videos over the last 4 yrs with 3500 hrs of game time. Don't ask me why. Can't wait to see what you do with this.

This was an interesting video. I can't point to a system reason for Sarah not counting towards a crew limit, but an in-game reason could be that she's the only major NPC used to commanding starships and maybe Bethesda decided this makes it easier for your character.

For anyone that still doesn't know, Sarah has a special ability that is NOT tied to her leadership skill. She is hard scripted to not count against your crew size. Presumably this is because she was Bethesda's default choice for a romantic companion, which makes sense given she has a ton of dialog options regarding various quests.

How is there no tool tip for crew skills. So annoying.

Amazing how you're figuring all of this out. And thanks for communicating it in such an efficient compact format. Great job!

This makes so much sense why my first play through with my crappy ship was better than my current playthrough with a decent ship with no crew members. i guess we'll have to wait for a mod to come out and better explain this game... again...

they should add an info pop up when you hover over the crew skills telling you what it does , im new to the game i taught i was messing something but bot having crew skills explained is a massive under sight, the dev glossed over very important features , cant believe they were going to release this game 1 year ago

Bethesda spent 8 years developing and 10 minutes on tutorials. Thanks Turtle.

Betty is my favorite crew member, but she doesn't offer any help with your ship. She gets 3 stars in Demolition, so I gave her a grenade, a launcher and 1 round and she goes HAM on enemies. You can find her in Heinlein.

I thought it was just that your companion takes up a free spot on your ship, whoever it is

Good job. Not surprised to see your subscriber count going up. You deserve it.

Finally, been curious about this. Subbed & saved the moment i saw the topic

This is the most information I’ve gotten about crew effect so far

Msn, Turtle. I've been relying on your guides for 76 for a while now and now I'm relying on your Starfield guides.

Bethesda: we've improved our descriptions in fallout 76 to have detailed increases and decreases in your stats! Also Bethesda: here's your Starfield companion skills and we won't tell you what they do lol

It is admittedly strange to hear Borat providing helpful Starfield info. But welcomed nonetheless.

Thank you for this guide. Your guides are so great.

Great vid. I don’t think you mentioned it but I think the crew perks only apply if you have at least 1 rank in that perk. That’s why some of your crew member perks are not active.

From what I can tell Vasko goes with each ship . Interesting , Thank You

Thank you! Been looking for an explanation on the skills a crew provides. I was disappointed I wasn't able to hover over the specific skills and get a description.

Very informative video as always. I loled at YT subtitles at 2:31 : Turtle: "... crew stations ..." YT Subtitles: "... crustaceans..." XD

Can you assign any of the companion members to your base operations...?? If yes...which ones are the best for your base ?? All the Companions seem to be focused on Ship Operations. I know in Mars, there are Hire crew members that will run your bases..but they cost 9,000 credits or more.

Crew is bugged, can disappear in any time and there is no way to get them back plus progress with them is deleted

Starview in Atlantis has quite a few 'random' crew to hire, for guns and stuff.

5:48 Sarah Morgan counts as well. It says 3/5. So your Player takes one spot, one takes Sarah. that’s why you left with 3 more random players. When you increase your Skill to be able to have more players, you will be able to add more. But still you will have -2 places automatically taken cause of Sarah and yourself.

About stealing ships - is a thin line between having the target ship destroyed and having her crippled enough to not hurt you much before you get under 500m and board. I solved this by using 8 (!!!) turrets - this will free my hands ! - 4 with particle, 4 with lasers against shields - and, because of the crazy dam the particle is doing from long range ( almost 3 x more range than lasers ! ) I balanced that ( to not have the target ship destroyed so fast ) by keeping the particle turrets at minimal power (2-3 bars) and the lasers at 8-9 bars. My favorite weapon is the 4 EMP who receive max power - one shot of those will disable any part of the target ship ! Start with engines, then move to laser/particle/guns etc so the pirates are dead in the water - they cannot move nor shoot at you. I found this mix the most efficient, 8-9 times in 10 I manage to board the target ship with no problems. Sad those muppets of security ships many times get mixed up in my fights and they kill the ship I try to board.... Usually only 1 on 3 fights I get pirates alone, other 2 times security ships are involved, and that ruin your chances to get an extra ship...

Thanks. Just started playing. Never came around until now. I was surprised that after so many months this lack of explanation is still there. EF Bethesda. Really.

Hahahah that’s really helpful info! And your accent makes these videos enjoyable to watch

Marika in the Viewport is super handy with a an non-basic boost pack and a shotgun/big bang. By the end of my first run I had her with a legendary Breacher with slug shot and she was acting like a sniper, splattering mooks in a single shot.

Listening and learning... Thank you Mr. Turtle.

I wish I could keep Sam on my ship. Piloting and Payloads? So good. Cora though…those conversations between her and Sam got repetitive fast, and infuriating when they constantly interject and ruin other moments. Middle of combat? BOOKS. Boarding a vessel to save a hostage? BY THE WAY SKYSCRAPERS CAN’T JUMP. It was cute the first time. Not the tenth. :

I can't wait for mods to hit consoles. a whole reworking is needed for this game. it's truly a AA- game, I've had the back save many times to keep from the game breaking from gliches on my s/x, doesn't matter how strong the hardware is if you don't have any software that is Properly made, not like a game made from a hobby, which is exactly what it looks like sometimes.

The biggest problem with having assigned crew, is that all my power settings are changed during every jump. Instead of being helpful, they're just a major headache, so now I just don't have any crew at all, and the power levels stay put (except for the occasional grav drive dump to zero).

Bethesda really need to give us some ingame info for those crew skills. It can't be that you have to search forever for it 😂😂😂

Sounds like Borat is narrating this, love it 😂

Also, the crews stats stack with yours. In case he didnt say that when talking about how it not just them getting your stuff or etc. (I had 4/4 for the increased cargo thing, but having Sam pumped it up even more).

Good advice on saving before changing crew. Or before going to Wolf's Den. Or before changing anything at an outpost. Etc. Bathes-doh! Great video. Thank you.

Sarah has the leadership skill. it might let he be free. Though I can't use her for reasons. And I can't handle having sam onboard because his daughter wont shut up.

Thanks for your hard informative work, more power to you ✊

I don't know why but you can get up to ten crew members on the ship card unless Bethesda planned for more then eight. I just noticed it when I was building my battleship to have eight .

I think that the reason you can only have 3 crew instead of 4 because you take Sam Coe as your crew. Where Sam go Cora (his daughter) will follow so Sam Ceo will take 2 slots.

Excellent video. I suck a bit at space combat, and have to drop from very hard to hard or even normal so I dont get ganked when exploring. This will give me some breathing room. Thanks.

Currently have Jessamine Griffin from the Last Nova bar in The Key. She's fun to have around, much more interesting than Sarah, just ignoring her. Plus Jess has qualities/perks I may need. Haven't blown up First Contact yet. May go back with her. But your shields friend from Akila is on the list now as a member of the crew I need. Jess wants to retire as it is. So it's been great! Goodbye Jess, eventually.

To me, companion's skills should stack.

"Space Explorers" definitely seems to compliment "Vault Dwellers" pretty well. 😊

Im naming my next ship Cowabunga because this guide changes my game! Thanks so much, amazing data.

thanks mate. useful info!

Sarah Morgan is a free crew member because of her Leadership Skill.

Ok, the companions ship and outpost skills is working. But what about the physical and combat skills, anyone know how to get them active?

The ship I built says I have crew capacity of 10 but can only assign 8, technically 9 but I’m not counting Sarah since she’s free Does anyone know how to get 10 crew assigned if my ship says I can?

Thanks for the guide! I'm glad borat is ok and not execute!!

For me, the value of the shields kept changing even though I didn't change anything about the crew. I think when you land and Vasko gets out of the ship, there is an occasional change. This is completely buggy for me. When Vasko gets out the value goes down, but when he gets back in it doesn't always go up. So the value goes down continuously. On one ship I only had 629 out of 2500+ in the end. I sold my last ship because it annoyed me and then I flew on the next ship without a crew. After this video, I'll try to hire the guy in Cheyenne and leave Vasko out. The video is great and helped a lot, even though I only understood 75% because my English is only mediocre.

It's a shame there aren't actually 8 compatible crew to make use of the max ranked skill, beyond the 4/5th crew member they're just decoration.

The Crew is all on the Ship: So you count as well!

People keep saying Sarah Morgan doesn’t count towards you crew capacity because she has rank 4 Leadership and that gives you an extra crew member. That’s not what Leadership says it does. Leadership is all about companion affinity and stats. Ship Command is what affects crew size. But again we are back to what a perk SAYS it does versus what it actually does versus what it does for crew members and companions so…

So few guides and especially ship build guides ever even mention this nuance to the ship systems... so great work on the vid...

So in other words, crew management is shit and needs extra work in game to work properly. I hope they will patch it soon.

There is a bug if you have max shields perk and have crew with shield skill it bugs out and you'll get almost half of the shield you should have

Emilia Earhart has two star pilot ing plus she has two star rifles and is really good in combat. I blindly found her exploring the universe. And she is from a clone colony. I believe the system is charybdis and the planet is charybdis III pretty sure, also it's a cool mini quest with it.

Amelia Earhart is a potential crew member you can recruit, she funnily enough has the Pilot skill, the chance to recruit her comes from a side quest.

0:39 just started watching and I hope he's talking about Omar I frigging dig this bro 1:17 yeahhhh buddy he's always got a seat in my ship 🤙

You're awesome. I learned so much from this video

Barrett is probably the most important companion for crew, Hassan is probably the second most important, Coe would be third.

not sure if youve mentioned it but the two items you get from doing kyxs treasure mission quest on your ship (comspike an somthng else) help shield regen and lock system speed.

1:00 Pro Tip :You must be front of npc, if you can´t talk. Around 160-170 angle degrees is enough

I just found out that clearing ryujin quest will generate a quest marquer on all story companions XD now i know who can be recruted in advance XD

You gained a sub after that amazing fighter ship build. Your informative, detailed content shows you put in the grind...I saw in another CCs vid that Vasco does not take up a crew slot either. He also gives +1 to reactor power.

Sheep crew? I love having all those sheep follow me through the stars.

The constelation guys are extremly touchy about attacking uc/freestar authorities, traders and the like. Do the hired crew members have a more flexible sense of moral? also what do the members provide that for example have the skill outpost construction, how am i able to build better stuff when i have them?

Unfortunate there aren’t really any crew mates for pirate activities. Big oversight from Bethesda.

It's ANGRY TURTLE!

When I got a green bar from someone, I honestly just though.. free power,nice. Cool that it does more than that too

42 is always the anwser. Nee!! 😂❤

The Sarah thing is a bug, something must not get removed from her after she stops being your first "you must bring me along" companion/crew.

The reason Sarah Morgan doesn't count towards your crew quota is because she has Rank 2 Leadership which increases your crew count by 1, thus making her crew count neutral. So you should ALWAYS have Sarah on your ship.

Great video! I have seen pretty much nothing in game about crew members other than the little pop up two sentences when you first start. I was wondering what that little green bar was in my power pips under eng. I couldn't explain where it came from. Now I realize it appeared after I brought Sam on the ship.

Love how we boast about Ship Speed but you barely notice it unless surrounded by debris or other ships in a battle. Speed is wasted when not actually flying to destinations in game lol.

Game looks sic. Id love to try it. I hope I encounter some more "hard core" looking or just ruffed up junkie pirate looking dudes. People look to friendly or a bad guys face is hidden under a helmet. I get why you need a space suit but outside in a place were you dont need it would just look cool

Anyone remember that old show "Pancho and Sisco"?...

I don't have SF yet, so haven't had a chance to be annoyed by anomalies in the UI, but appreciate your efforts. I drop 🍪to feed the algorithm for bringing me your channel.