This guy is a hidden gem love the video man

One more advantage to the Adoring Fan, that is a practical benefit, is that he does not react negatively to anything you do. He is all-in on any criminal rampages or "bad" decisions you may do. Vasco is the only other one like this. So thats one other little cool thing about the Adoring Fan.

Andreja is S+ for me. Mostly when I run into a facility to shotgun a captain in the face, she's outside rounding up the mobs. Sarah just got stuck everywhere, as well as Vasco. Having Barrett on the ship controls is actual gold, and I use Vasco for perimeter defense while landed (And yes he was actually needed in that way a couple of times). Jin and Heller are on my outposts. These 6 companions are S tier imo.

You don't get Andreja late, you CHOOSE to get her late, it's PLAYER choice, I got her as the second human companion. You can do the 3 constellation companions in any order.

I enjoy running my playthrough with Sarah Morgan, I know she's really strict when it comes to morality options but she's the closest thing for me in the game that defines the "boring on the outside, actually great on the inside" kind of character

Andreja honestly surprised me with her backstory and quests and I usually prefer her. She also is one of the few that rarely judges you like Sarah does.

Aetherionic fusion is probably one of the best early game shipcrew skills, its litterally free extra energy

Thanks for breaking this down. I like how the roleplay value was weighed against the raw gameplay value, helps me know what I want to do for my own style of play.

Omari is a must have on a ship.

Actually with Andreja, I have to disagree if she has the Cameleon suite on and she has an assassin partical weapon she is the ultimate companion! When stealthing with the Cameleon suite it makes her invisible when not moving around, and if you both have the Cameleon suites u are both hidden.

Amari is really good as a crew companion. He has 2 skills that are helpful on board. In my view he is the 4th best companion for crew, so worth picking up.

For those that want to play the game without your companion judging every little thing you do...Vasco and The Adorning fan are the only 2 that truly don't care what you do. Be good, be evil they'll stay without judgement.

That’s the most thorough detail I’ve found in a video, well done and thank you 👏 👏

Not sure if anyone has said it but if you finish the terrormorph questline, you unlock Hadrian Sanon as a companion which is another "main" companion.

VERY good explanation bro, full was so keen for this game I preordered and needed a deeper insight. Lack of content rn in the early days but this was helpful, keep going blud!

Great break down! This really helps a lot, I’m going with Vasco, love his voice and the dialogue. Hope there will be more robot companions in the game, next DLC hopefully

you can also have Hadrian as a companion, she's quite unique

Thanks for making this! Helpful video :)

Appreciate the effort!

Great job! Thanks for the honest and thorough breakdown.

You are know like a companion for me in Starfield. Thanks for the help.

Great vídeo bro! Thanks so much for the help!

❤ great video and so good that you respond to so many of the viewers messages. Kudos.

really enjoy your starfield content and sharing your knowledge. keep it up my friend :)

Betty Howser! She has a +3 to demolition. Gave her a grenade launcher and watch her work.

Well done vid! I agree almost on all of them, very accurate criticisms

Solid video man!

I haven't used many of them in combat but so far I have noticed that Vasco is extremely lacking in gun fights, but on the other hand Sarah will absolutely MELT enemies, that is if her AI is feeling generous enough to attack

Good job on the video!

Hey man thanks for the time and effort. great info! good job dude.

Thank you for the video bro

There is another companion that you can get for the mission you get from the lady store vendor in cydonia, if you save the pilot to that minor quest and let the mercs take the ship, you can recruit him, his stats are piloting 1star and payload 1star

In my experience sam, sarah and andreja are your go to followers they all have a +3 in relevant combat stats which offer really good automatic/burst fire options (rifle, laser,particle weapons respectivly) and I feel like the AI does best with rapid fire weapons, with semi-auto weapons they shoot very slowly, no matter the firerate. I also noticed that thier combat AI seems to differ a bit , Sam sticks to cover and tends to hang back a bit, Sarah tends to stick very close and (annoyingly) likes to body block for you, Andreja is very agressive, she gets in peoples faces, goes hunting down mobs and tries to flank alot. So I'd say they are very good with the right equipment (it took me WAY to long to figure out you can make them equip space suits). I like to hang back with a big sniper rifle so I like to take either Sam to give me cover with an assault rifle or Andreja with the Va'run pistol to hunt down straglers that huddle in cover. Also Barret is the nr. 1 pick for crew, he's no good in a fight but his repair skill and skill with the best ship weapon type (particle) make him extremly useful to have on bord.

You're the man. You've got a like and sub from me. I've been looking for a video just like this for days so I know which companion to invest in. Thanks so much!

Excellent vid! Subbed.

Omg i love the sound of your voice i could listen to you talk all day lol. I never got past sarah but never knew there were more besides the main ones

Subscribed because of the detail you give.

I hope the dlc will add more companions with unique pov on how they see the world. The problem here is the 4 mainline companions all have the same pov on situations. They all disagree on using Aceles vs Terrormorphs, they agree on destroying the Lazarus plant & they opposes Ularu as CEO of Ryujin. We have factions which is Constellation, CF, Freestar Ranger, Vanguard, SysDef & Ryujin. Hence, we need more mainline companions (excluding temporary companions) from these factions. In Fallout 4, we have Paladin Danse (Brotherhood of Steel), X688 (Institute), Deacon (Railroad), Hancock (Goodneighbor), McReady, Piper etc..

Sarah chills out once she gets to Friend status and warms up a Lot once she gets to love. her married dialogues are great. Get past all the grinding of loot and resource mine outpost stages and you minimize her griping to those weekly runs where you craft everything for xp and then sell it off for credits. She's a sweetheart with a big front to get past.

You also didn’t note that Sam comes with Cora, another person with a unique personality and quests, it just adds another reason to put him on your ship or as your main companion! Also there are some companions missing, Mathis Castillo from the Crimson Fleet quest line as well as Hadrian from the UC quest line!

Barrett and Vasco seem like mainstays for my crew.

Love this man! You missed one! When you finish the quest with the terrormorphs through the UC, you get the option to hav Hadrian as your companion at the end.

Great video

Sarah Morgan reminds me of a girl you dated and was fun, then yall got married and she acts like your mom and micromanages everything YOU do, based on HER personal opinions.....

You, my friend, are awesome! Just found your channel and subbed immediately. Will definitely be sharing your vids on my Discord, Twitter, etc.

Nice video! I put Andreja even above "must get". Apart from her stealth, she is an explosives expert. She throws infinite grenades in a gunfight, and I like the combo of gunfighting (me) and explosions caused by her. Like ying and yang. Fits perfectly. All the others could be good as outpost crew or ship crew (or not at all), but there is only one companion....😊

Vasco is great! Also Aneutronic Fusion (on the Vasco's skills) is not useless, it's the opposite of useless - it gives you +1 to your reactor power, that you can allocate into whichever ship's system you want. He also boost your shields, so as being a crew member assigned to your ship, he's pretty usefull. Also, i don't know if it's a bug or a feature, but it seems like Vasco doesn't count towards your command limit. Or maybe it's Sarah's Leadership skill that gives +1 to crew command limit, maybe, idk.

Great crew review

One thing I like about the companions is that if there's a gun with ammo that drops that is better than their default or the one they're currently using, they'll move to loot and equip it. Normally one would have to manually replace their default weapon and give them ammo, but the AI bethesda has for them lets them check bodies and the environment for an upgrade. A couple of different times I've caught Sam Coe with a new rifle or Andreja or Barrett with a Magshear or Magpulse that dropped from an enemy.

I loved andreja's storyline, but her morality can be really frustrating sometimes. It's like looking at a broken compass that just spins around in random directions. Sometimes she will like that you're being assertive and rude, while other times she will dislike it for no reason even when the context of a conversation is very similar. This leads to frustration when you have to start quick saving before every single conversation with anyone because it becomes a reflex due to the amount of times you select a response choice thinking it will be the one Andreja will like, only to see "Andreja dislikes that". Other than that, her storyline and final mission + gift is really great and thought out well.

The real Amelia Earhart died tragically on the Christmas Islands. She found herself on the island for some unknown reason and saw that her leg was broken and bleeding. They found out that the giant coconut crabs ate her so she died horribly as these crabs can smell blood more than a mile away.

Barrett also gets a buff in gunfights by unlocking his starborn power if you do his ng+ quest (and you also get a power upgrade).

Sam is always my #1. His storyline is fantastic and he is very great in combat! Love the video dude!

There’s an urgent need to have more morally ambiguous companions in Starfield, for those who want to follow a darker, less ethical path. The Constellation team are all very ethical and aligned, which isn’t unrealistic, but at the same time they’re your main companions. I feel Andreja should be made much darker and happier with you taking piracy and other routes for profit.. would also then make her the dream wife lol.

Amelia Earhart should have -2 piloting to be honest.

Andreja is #1 companion IMO. Stealth isn't useless at all, and she has chameleon when she crouches, so she is the best companion for a sneaky experience.

Awesome... gonna save me time for sure... The game is standard Bethesda material for sure... feels very fallout 4ish in terms of combat, quests, dialog, mechanics and music, but just in space lol For me its definitely a perk. Lovin it so far

Sarah Morgan is #1 because of her Leadership perk, meaning she doesn't count as a crew member so if you have a max of 4 crew member you can add her to make it 5.

Andreja goes invisible so need to leave a companion behind when doing stealth

If you join the crimsonnfleet, there's a lady at the bar called Jesamine Griffin(?)...she is amazing at sneaking and can easily hold her own. She also gives you 500 credits each time you come back from adventuring with her at your side.

nice guide. well done and i mostly agree. i would rank Andreja higher because she seems to judge shady acts less harshly. also i love when she goes chameleon. if she's got a particle weapon she is lethal Barret has an additional ability that you unlock later that makes him even more useful in battles, so i would choose him over Sam. plus "dusty, dusty, DUSTY"

I have Ezekiel on my ship. He was at one of the smaller bars in Akila.

Amelia airhart's in the game man that's wild. this is just like how she was randomly dropped in star trek voyager.

Vasco is my dogg!! That's my cradle-to-the-grave guy! His dialogue during gunbattles are super cold.

I always look for the doctor to run with. In Skyrim I downloaded a healer for a companion. That’s because I used to be a combat medic and it has never left my memory. I still miss those days so my builds in Bethesda games revolve around a combat medic build.

One of my play throughs Barrett can use star power by duping himself so when it gets thick there is another Barrett fighting along

Love it❤

I currently have Lin and Heller running my main outpost and most of the others on my ship (Ihave skilled up to allow 8 crew), but I still find myself doing a lot of the missions solo. Vasco is quite handy for enemies close to the ship as he stands in docking tubes or on the ground and will engage anything nearby. I haven't unlocked Amelia yet, might have to look into that.

Vasco the robot is the BEST. He dosent like or dislike any action you do and hes a silent companion who lets you do your thing without interuption

Great video thank you, I'll be choosing my companions based off your list. I use Vasco a lot, but he never seems to help much.

I have Rosie on my starship crew and honestly a big reason I've kept her is I like her character lol. She's useful too but also cute lmao

I hope in the future we could romance the other characters as well. If not that, maybe even a mod I actually thought of something better, a alien companion, like an animal companion like dogmeat.

You get Andreja late? Third mission in the game is late? Am I missing something?

Can’t believe you left Andromeda Kepler off the list great early companion to put in ship for her boost to energy and piloting and later on you can shift her to an outpost

asside from backstory the best companion Ive found is becky Howser, give her a grenade and bridger grenade launcher and watch her go, she even cusses her enemies as shes blowing them to hell, shes got demolitions 3 so shes a beast with a heavy weapon and a grenade.

Vasco doesn't take up a ship crew spot.. so he's forever a part of my ship... he also calls me captain boobies. So that's a win.

When the adoring fan first appeared, it scared the crap out of me, guy came out of nowhere.

AndreJa is my ride or die chick. She reminds me of Drummer from the Expanse. I keep all those other guys with ship perks like Barret, stay on my ship.

theres actually another companion I found that was an evil Companion

Sam is great and i use him a lot and this guy with the right weapons will take out half of the enemies before you even notice what he is attacking. I tossed a legendary grenade launcher on him with his other weapons and it is really funny seeing him rapidly firing it off and destroying things way further out then the gun should even shoot.

“She’s a clone, but I don’t want to spoil anything for you”… ya thanks.

S. Morgan is good to keep in your crew early on as she allows less fuel to be used to jump I believe

Hire a random crew member. ANd dont take them on shady missions. I thought I was good on a stealth mission till my companion got shook and started spraying

Great breakdown on the video you did a really good job. Lol so when I first started playing the game I only did one main mission and had sarah Morgan up until like I was level 30 lol . I tried get rid of her earlier on and realized I had do a mission for her . But she ended up being a good partner . Lol Sarah didn’t like some of my actions because I steal a lot and I joined the crimson fleet . But personality wise I like andreaz . Sam koe is really good too .

Vasco is also nice if you land close to enemies he can defend the ship sometimes its like having 2 companions at once because you'll see him charge enemies while you and your companion are shooting at them

My guy Mathis getting no love on your list is tough.

every companion is a pain in the ass, because every one of them will jump right in front of you just before you shoot your weapon or try to loot something. even when i am sneaking into position for a sniper shot, my companion will sneak right in front of me and stop, blocking my shot. there was a fallout 4 mod called, 'i'm walking here, i'm walking here!', that helped solve that problem. we desperately need that mod for starfield. otherwise, you're better off going it alone.

The adoring fan is a Easter egg from oblivion

omari is a great crew he give you a point in shield

Good list. I like vasco, too.

One thing this list fails to account for is the moral standing of some characters. Depending on your play style some companions may dislike you and leave your company. Companions like the adoring fan will never judge you regardless of your actions. This is a considerable trait that shouldn’t be overlooked.

Ty

Firmly on Team Coe! Good tip on Amelia Earhart! I haven’t found her yet, but sounds fun!

If you are wanting to go stealth with a companion wouldn't the fact you can get her earlier than Andreja be a good reason to go for her?

I clicked this video to see which one I should recruit....... but wasn't expecting Cleveland from family guy doing this now I can't unhear it

I love the adoring fan for the comedic value. I used him as a storage container and comic relief on the ship.

21:25 Glad someone else said it. It’s weird to see so many guys drooling over Sarah when she’s so, uhh, grandma-ish.

Enjoyed your video and the presentation. I do think that Andreja should have been up one level. I play with her as primary a lot and don't have trouble with stealth in a combat situation. Don't do much in the way of stealing items. She has very strong combat skills, and charges in to engage the enemy. Has my back at all times, let's me know when she is throwing grenades, great story line and in-depth character. Her recommendation should be higher in my opinion. Thank you for taking the time to put this video together.

best part "Mickeys almost got nothing going on for him, im a be honest with you" xD poor guy

Andreja is my current companion and she is not a problem with stealth missions. I would say she is the oonly viable option to bring on stealth missions. Every other companion (that I tried) should be left behind if stealth is what you need. As for "fairly late", she can be the fourth Char you get right after Vlad, all depends on the order in which you do the mission. Perhaps that most opt for the "going back to Vectera" mission to grab Barrett and then naturally progress to Sam because he will be in the Lodge when you get back with Barrett but it is no problem going for Andreja first before going for Barrett, Heller and Lin. Funny how you put Barrett S tier while he is my go to Character for "that moment where you have to choose where to go" to not go to. Can't do Sam (for very obvious reasons if you have a hearth) and since I want to have romance options I can't do Sarah and Andreja Lin: I don't know man. Knew each other? Friends? What gave you that idea? You are literally on your first day on the job at the start of the game as far as I can tell. Sure I like her attitude as well but I think you see more connection than there really is.