Best Beginner Starts Beginner
Your start scenario decides how hard the first hour is. Some are a tutorial. Some are a punishment.
For a first run pick a gentle start — a Greenlander, a couple of squadmates, and a safe region near Squin or the Hub.
What A Start Decides
Start scenarios set your initial characters, gear, money and location. A gentle start drops you safe and equipped; a hard start drops you alone, broke, or in danger.
Recommended First Starts
The Wanderer-style starts — a single capable character free to choose their path — are the standard beginner pick. Starts that begin with a second squadmate are even safer.
Starts To Avoid First
Avoid solo, enslaved or hostile-region starts for a first run. They are excellent challenges once you know the game, and miserable when you do not.
Race And Region
Pair a Greenlander with a central start near the Border Zone or Shek territory. It sidesteps the worst faction hostility while you learn.
“Skeletons ignore hunger, sleep and acid rain. They are the wasteland’s explorers.”