The best Lego Star Wars The Skywalker Saga upgrades to get

Lego Star Wars The Skywalker Saga core upgrades
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The best Lego Star Wars The Skywalker Saga upgrades will help you get all the collectibles and Studs you need to unlock extra characters, ships, and features. This can lead to some tricky choices as there's a wide range available in Lego Star Wars The Skywalker Saga. There's also Core Upgrades that affect all characters and general gameplay, alongside some class-specific improvements that only apply to certain character groups. With so much choice, it's important to know where to spend your Studs and Kyber Bricks first to get the most out everything. With that in mind, here's how to unlock Lego Star Wars The Skywalker Saga upgrades and our recommendations for the ones to first.

How to unlock Lego Star Wars The Skywalker Saga upgrades

How to unlock Lego Star Wars The Skywalker Saga upgrades

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Lego Star Wars The Skywalker Saga tips

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Lego Star Wars The Skywalker Saga features loads of upgrades, from Core Upgrades that apply to all characters all the time, to Class upgrades that apply to certain character class abilities. To unlock any upgrade you’ll need to open the Holoprojector and navigate to the ‘Upgrades’ menu. From here you can browse the Core Upgrades skill tree, or look at the specific upgrade nodes for each character class, including Jedi, Bounty Hunter, Dark Side, and more.

Each upgrade costs a combination of Studs and Lego Star Wars The Skywalker Saga Kyber Bricks to unlock, so you’ll want to make sure you’re always collecting those whenever you can. You’ll also notice that upgrades can be bought up to three times to boost their effects (except for the Extra Health Core Upgrades) but the cost of each upgrade level increases significantly. Below we have the upgrades we recommend you get first to ensure you collect as many Studs as possible.

Best Lego Star Wars The Skywalker Saga Core Upgrades

Best Lego Star Wars The Skywalker Saga Core Upgrades

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Lego Star Wars The Skywalker Saga Core Upgrades apply to all characters, all the time, and generally make the game easier and increase rewards. However, you can manually turn any off if you want to tailor your experience. For a mix of convenient boosts and enhancements to your Stud collecting, this is what we recommend unlocking, in this order:

  1. Speedy Sprint 1 – increases sprint speed by 10%
  2. Fast Build 1 – increases build speed by 25%
  3. Counter Cash 1 – Gain 250 Studs for every successful Combat Counter
  4. Extra Health 1 – Gain one additional health bar
  5. Attract Studs 3 – collect Studs from a much greater distance
  6. Collectible Detector 3 – reveals Minikits, Ships, Kyber Bricks, and Datacards in the area with an on-screen marker

Getting Attract Studs and Collectible Detector all the way up to level 3 is going to be costly, so you can save your resources in the early stages of the game by sticking with level 1 for those initial upgrades. After that, going back to upgrade Speedy Sprint is also a good idea as it will make getting around levels and open world areas much faster. Note that Collectible Detector can be deactivated/activated from the Upgrades screen if all the floating markers are getting a bit much, though using it to find more Kyber Bricks will speed up unlocking further upgrades.

Best Lego Star Wars The Skywalker Saga Class Upgrades

Best Lego Star Wars The Skywalker Saga Class Upgrades

Best Lego Star Wars The Skywalker Saga Class Upgrades

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Class Upgrades apply to specific classes of Lego Star Wars The Skywalker Saga characters. They enhance specific abilities and make their actions more rewarding - for example, the glider ability for Scavengers. Just make sure you know how to use the Lego Star Wars The Skywalker Saga Scavenger ability first! To maximize your Stud gains, we recommend that you get these class upgrades as you play:

  • Bounty Hunter: Hidden Bounties 3 - defeated enemies drop 750 studs
  • Hero: Hero Terminal Expert 3 - completed terminals reward 7500 studs
  • Villain: Villain Terminal Expert 3 - completed terminals reward 7500 studs
  • Astromech Droid: Astromech Socket Expert 3 - completed sockets reward 7,500 studs
  • Protocol Droid: Paid Translator 3 - receive 1,500 studs per new translation

All of these will give you additional studs, and their rewards are also multiplied if you’ve spent any Lego Star Wars The Skywalker Saga Datacards on the Stud multiplier extras. It’s worth pointing out that you don’t really play as any Bounty Hunters during story levels, so the Hidden Bounties upgrade is most effective during free play modes where you can choose to be someone like the Mandalorian or Boba Fett during combat.

Finally, if you’ve bought all of those upgrades and are now considering purchasing rumors to find more collectibles, then the Scoundrel: Business Opportunist upgrade will provide a significant discount on the Stud cost of rumors and hints you buy through the Holoprojector.

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Will Sawyer
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Will Sawyer is a guides writer at GamesRadar+ who works with the rest of the guides team to give readers great information and advice on the best items, how to complete a particular challenge, or where to go in some of the biggest video games. Will joined the GameRadar+ team in August 2021 and has written about service titles, including Fortnite, Destiny 2, and Warzone, as well as some of the biggest releases like Halo Infinite, Elden Ring, and God of War Ragnarok.

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