This New Starfield Mechanic Lets You Infinitely Level Your Persuasion

has seen many changes in 2024, including 's June update, which introduced a new quest line for players to enjoy. This made drastic changes to the melee system, added Creations to consoles, and fleshed out one of its minor factions, the Trackers Alliance. However, players may not realize that joining this new faction is actually the key to easily increasing their Persuasion skill.

Joining the Trackers Alliance has several benefits. Its introductory quest provides the player with a new ship and several unique pieces of equipment and even lets the player pick a callsign. One less obvious benefit is the new bounty scanning system, which lets the player find bounty targets in major settlements. These targets provide the player with credits, but less trigger-happy Spacefarers will receive another benefit.

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Previous versions of included bounty hunting with its Trackers Alliance, but the faction was incredibly basic. Most of its representatives did not even have names. That has changed with the June 2024 update, which added a short quest and an HQ for the organization. While the new friends and missions are nice, joining also comes with another benefit: bounty scanning.

Major settlements in the Settled Systems are often filled with generic NPCs who have titles like «Citizen.» The bounty upgrade to your scanner makes it so these NPCs serve a different role than set dressing. Most non-hostile characters will have a blue outline around them, but a bounty target will instead appear red. Closer examination will reveal a name, list of crimes, reward, and whether the target is wanted dead, alive, or either.

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Once the player has identified the target, it is up to them how to proceed. Taking the NPC