If the delicate dance of romance in Starfield is starting to wear thin, you may just want to cut to the chase and check companion affinity levels to take the mystery out of life. Sorry, console friends, but this one is exclusive to PC, I am afraid, so you’ll need to embrace uncertainty just like in real life.
How to check companion affinity level in Starfield
To check the companion affinity levels, you will need to use the command console. That ever-so-useful developer tool will once again come to our aid.
The first thing to understand is that our companions can have four different statuses in relation to our playable character. These are Neutral, Friendship, Affection, and Commitment. All of these are then represented by a level. Neutral is 0, Friendship is 1, Affection is 2, and Commitment is 3.
To check a specific companion’s affinity, you will need to be physically near them in the game. Ensure your cursor is over them so that their name pops up, then activate the command console and enter the below:
- GetAV COM_AffinityLevel
You will be able to see which level of affinity they are at with you. If you would prefer to see it in finer detail, using the console command GetAV COM_Affinity will instead bring back a number between 0 and 1300. You can also give a companion more affinity for you if you are tired of all the messing around by using SetAV COM_AffinityLevel and then setting the 0-3 value that you want.
How to use console commands
Console commands are pretty easy to use. You just need to open the command console. There are two ways to open the command console on PC. First, you can hit the tilde (~) key. If that doesn’t work, then the @ will do the job.
You should be careful about how you change the affinity of characters, and it is better, in my opinion, to just check their levels rather than change them. The conversations that you have with the characters and completing their personal quests are quite fun, so try to maintain some mystery and surprise there.
If you really want to make your life easier, you can use these resource IDs to spawn in a bunch of things that you might need to build outposts. Nobody is gonna judge you for that.
