The best Lego Star Wars The Skywalker Saga upgrades to get

It's important to unlock the best Lego Star Wars The Skywalker Saga upgrades as soon as you can, as they will help you hoover up the many collectibles and Studs you need to unlock additional characters, ships, and extra features. This can lead to some tricky decisions, as there's a wide range of upgrades available in Lego Star Wars The Skywalker Saga, and these include both Core Upgrades that affect all characters and general gameplay, alongside many class-specific improvements that only apply to certain groups of characters. With this much choice available, it's important to know where to spend your Studs and Kyber Bricks first to get the most out of your investment. With that in mind, here's how to unlock Lego Star Wars The Skywalker Saga upgrades and our recommendations for the ones you should get first.

• How to unlock Lego Star Wars The Skywalker Saga upgrades
• Best Lego Star Wars The Skywalker Saga Core Upgrades
• Best Lego Star Wars The Skywalker Saga Upgrades for each Class

How to unlock Lego Star Wars The Skywalker Saga upgrades

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 an upgrade of any kind, 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 currencies whenever you can. You’ll also notice that upgrades can be bought up to three times to boost their effectiveness – except for the Extra Health Core Upgrades – but the cost of each upgrade level increases significantly compared to the last. Here are 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

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

These Class Upgrades apply only to Lego Star Wars The Skywalker Saga characters within the relevant class. They enhance the specific abilities and make their actions more rewarding - for example, the glider ability for Scavengers, but 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 for completing actions you’ll already be taking during your adventures, 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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