Star Traders: Frontiers

Star Traders: Frontiers

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[2025] Star Traders Class and Talent Guide
By eharper256
An up-to-date run down and rating of all the classes and skills in Star Traders: Frontiers. Up to date for all classes existing as of March 2025!
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Link to Google Document Guide
This guide is available at Googledocs. It uses alot of formatting that is not possible in Steam guides to be as clear as possible. This also gives you to option to copy it your own drive. Go here:

Link to Doc[docs.google.com]
^^ There should be a link directly above here. If there is not, copy the link below, deleting the two spaces (between http and s, and after .com).

http s:/docs.google.com /document/d/10tpvPpR6CdWZK8vdofhDv270j28Y6EgA/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=106489646472916166736&rtpof=true&sd=true

Steam will sometimes instantly delete full links to googledocs for no apparent reason. It may also flag it as malicious. This is kinda crazy, its a bunch of text, but what can I do about it?

Example of what it looks like:

It's a whopping 80 pages of information, and includes stuff on how to build your captain, all the talents in the game as of the most recent patch, what classes synergise well, the differences between ship parts/classes/guns, and tips on how to make money.

Thanks to the heroic work of @Ishikaro, you can also use this new Spreadsheet List[docs.google.com] of all the talents with the descriptions attached, which is sort-able, for those that like more pure data.

Keep in mind: this is JUST the talents data (not the ships stuff, or hints and tips, or captain building, or anything else), and that the descriptions are wholesale copied across, so assume context from the guide, so it's highly advised you read that first, but this is excellent reference if you just want the talents part.



The comments section (and the attached forum thread) will show the most recent updates/changelog (this steam page may not show updated; that's normal, so look below).

IF YOU LIKE IT, UPVOTE IT! I don't care about my popularity, but stars on guides and top visibility is purely down to that on Steam, so the more upvotes the more its gets recommended to people. Simple as.
78 Comments
eharper256  [author] 6 Jun @ 2:47pm 
I don't have anything specific; because in STF, you should really tailor your officers and captain around the sorts of activities you want to specialise in (as I mention in the FAQ).

Giving you captain build X is worthless if your game is all about Y, which is why I chose to focus the guide on individually what makes each specific talent great.
mon2 6 Jun @ 2:21pm 
Thanks for this! do you (or anyone else) have any reference for Captain and officer builds?
eharper256  [author] 18 Apr @ 6:00am 
@Wright1331 Glad you enjoyed it; you're precisely the target audience. :cozyspaceengineersc:
Wright1331 18 Apr @ 12:58am 
Wow this is amazing for a noob like me, thank you so much for this very well thought out document
eharper256  [author] 11 Apr @ 10:48am 
11-04-2025: Updated to add a short spiel on the new Doctor Captain type.
eharper256  [author] 22 Mar @ 4:45am 
In case people are wandering, yes the guide is still up to date. Patches to continue to happen and they're cool, but there's not much I need to pay attention to from a character/skills point of view.

I have nonetheless updated the title to reflect it's still 2025 relevant.
eharper256  [author] 22 Feb @ 5:32am 
Huh. Could've sworn I added Bodyguard capstone ages ago, but you're right. I wasn't aware of that with Doctor cap, could have sworn it was just debuffs when I tested, but again that was a while ago. Thanks for the spots, will fix when I get a moment.
matthew_rock 20 Feb @ 8:11am 
Love this, use it non-stop. Three things: 1) Missing the capstone for Bodyguard and 2) Capstone for Doctor removes debuffs AND buffs and 3) The new Vengeance MK3 at the 7k ship range is a beast, should get a mention.

Thanks for your hard work, it's truly an invaluable guide I keep open at all times.
Chisato 20 Oct, 2024 @ 4:13am 
Ah fair enough, thank you for the rundown on the Huntress. :)
eharper256  [author] 20 Oct, 2024 @ 2:16am 
Glad you're all enjoying it.

@Chisato I don't cover every component, just the key ones provided by factions you might not want to lose out on, and the Best In Slot weapons. From 349 specifically, The Vanguard from that patch is already mentioned, though the DSX Plasma is Medium-size, and so still loses out a bit to the Interceder, though it's not bad. 349 didn't add ships.

If you're talking about 358 (newest), then Alistair Huntress is in a weird spot for a 9K. Buying a carrier off Moklumnue is a bit odd, as you can't get good craft off them, its very expensive, and it doesn't offer big advantages over a Harbinger as a Supercarrier base. So I've not mentioned it.