Starfield, Bethesda’s latest interstellar escapade, is brimming with features, including
handy Quick Slots for effortless weapon and item switching. Here’s 🍐 how to maximize this
feature for a smoother gaming experience.
Starfield invites players into an expansive
universe crafted by Bethesda, where 🍐 engaging role-play, open-world exploration, and
spacecraft customization merge seamlessly, offering a rich and dynamic sci-fi gaming
experience.
Whether players are traversing 🍐 the cosmos or engaging in combat with space
pirates, Starfield is brimming with Bethesda’s signature features from its past titles,
🍐 as well as a few more that only enhance the realism of the experience. The game offers
a wide variety 🍐 of weapons and items for use in combat situations.
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However, when you want to swap 🍐 weapons or use
consumable items to restore your health during an intense combat situation, the quick
slots feature of the 🍐 game is incredibly useful. Here’s how you can use it with
ease.
Bethesda Using Quick Slots players can easily cycle between 🍐 weapons and other
items.
How to use Quick Slots in Starfield
Quick Slots is a cool feature in Starfield
that enables you 🍐 to quickly switch between your preferred weapons and items. You must
press the Q key on a keyboard or the 🍐 D-Pad on an Xbox controller to access the quick
slot menu.
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The very first time you access the 🍐 quick slot
menu, containing a total of 12 slots, will be vacant. You’ll need to first access your
inventory menu 🍐 in order to fill it with your preferred weapons and items. The Menu
button on your controller or the Esc 🍐 key on your keyboard will bring up your main
menu.
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Bethesda You can assign your desired weapons
or items easily to quick slots.
From 🍐 there, navigate to the lower right panel which is
your inventory menu. Once you do that, follow these steps:
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Open the inventory menu. Find a weapon or a consumable item you want to assign to
the quick slot. 🍐 Select your desired weapon or item and press B on your keyboard or Y on
the controller to favorite it. 🍐 Assign it to a slot in the quick slot menu according to
your preference. Once done, close the inventory menu 🍐 and press Q on a keyboard or any
direction on the controller D-Pad to open the quick slot menu. Select 🍐 the desired
weapon you’d like to equip during gameplay.
On a keyboard, you can also quickly equip a
weapon or item 🍐 by pressing the corresponding key between 1 and 9, without opening the
quick slot menu. To equip a weapon on 🍐 the controller, however, you must use the D-Pad
to access the quick slot menu and press A to select the 🍐 weapon/item.
That’s everything
about how to use quick slots in Starfield. For more about the game, be sure to check
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