how to assign weapon group starfield

To assign weapon groups in Starfield and clear the “weapons must be assigned to a group” / “Unassigned Weapon” error, you have to do it from the ship building Flight Check screen, not in normal flight.

Quick steps (PC & Xbox)

1. Talk to a Ship Services Technician
   • You can find them at major spaceports like New Atlantis, Cydonia, Neon, etc.

2. Open the Ship Builder / Modify Ship menu
   • Choose “Ship Services,” then “I’d like to view and modify my ships,” then select Modify Ship.

3. Enter Flight Check
   • Look at the bottom‑right of the ship builder screen.
   • Press C on PC or the Menu/Start button on controller to open Flight Check.

4. Go to the Weapons tab
   • In Flight Check, switch to the Weapons tab in the top‑right using mouse or controller bumpers.

5. Assign weapons to groups
   • You’ll see several weapon group slots (usually labeled 1, 2, 3).
   • Move your cursor to each group slot and select which weapon goes in that slot.
   • Fill every required slot so there are no weapons left marked as “Unassigned.”

6. Confirm status is Nominal
   • When everything is assigned correctly, the status text at the bottom of Flight Check changes to “Nominal” with a checkmark.
   • Once you see that, you can exit and save your ship modifications.

Important quirks and limits

These are the “gotchas” that confuse most players:

• You can only have up to three weapon types on a ship
  • Example of types: lasers, ballistics/cannons, missiles, railguns.

* Two different laser models count as _two types_ , so you can’t just stack lots of different brands of the same category without hitting limits.

• Only weapons of the same type can be grouped together
  • You can’t make a group that is “laser + missile” all on one button; each group is one type.

• You can’t equip the same weapon in multiple groups
  • Each weapon instance goes into one group; you can’t duplicate it across multiple slots.

If you try to break these rules, you’ll keep seeing assignment errors until you remove extra weapon types or re‑group them properly.

Example: fixing a common error

You add a new missile launcher and suddenly get “Ship has weapons that must be assigned to a group.”

To fix it:

1. Go back to a Ship Services Technician.
2. Open Ship Builder → Flight Check → Weapons.
3. Look for the weapon highlighted with an error or listed as unassigned.
4. Click an empty group slot and select that missile launcher for it.
5. Make sure no weapon line is left blank or unassigned and check for Nominal at the bottom.

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