Since the game’s launch, grenades and explosives have been part of Star field. By throwing shards at your enemies, you can destroy their ranks and plunge them into righteous fire. Starfield: Shattered Space redefined the grenade game by introducing five new types of grenades that challenge everything you knew about conventional grenades.
Starfield: Shattered Space there is a special type of grenade called Vortex grenades. These grenades don’t just explode, but can cause a variety of different effects depending on which variant you craft. You can only make Vortex Grenades from the materials found in the DLC, but they are worth it.
How to unlock Vortex Grenades
Promised, Broken
Vortex grenades will not be available to you right away. Starfield: Shattered Space. Instead, you’ll have to progress a bit through the main DLC story before you can craft the various Vortex Grenades. You will have to complete two story quests; “What Remains” and “Promised, Broken”. Vortex Grenades are unlocked after completing the mission “Promised, Broken.”
Connected
At the end of the quest you will be able to talk to Ekris Kaysir. Be sure to ask him “If you have anything that can help me, I would appreciate it.“ This will unlock the ability to create Vortex Grenades. You can create them at any industrial workbench in the game. The nearest workbench can be found at the Varuun’kai merchants in Star field‘s city ​​of Dazra.
How to Craft and Use Vortex Grenades
Vortex grenade variants
There are five different vortex grenades available in the game. Starfield: Shattered Space. Each crafting recipe requires one Vortex Shard. Vortex Shards drop randomly from various Vortex enemies, such as Vortex Horrors or Vortex Phantoms. Grenades also require at least one type Vortex cyst: regular vortex cyst, dark vortex cyst or luminous vortex cyst. These are also random drops.
Grenade |
Materials |
Effect |
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Vortex Grenade – Binding |
1x Dark Vortex Cyst 1x Vortex Shard |
Freezes enemies within the blast radius. |
Vortex Grenade – Charged |
1x Glowing Vortex Cyst 1x Vortex Shard |
Explodes and damages enemies within the explosion radius. |
Vortex Grenade – Decoy |
1x Dark Vortex Cyst 1x Vortex Cyst 1x Vortex Shard |
Summons a Vortex Horror |
Vortex Grenade – Phasing |
1x Glowing Vortex Cyst 1x Vortex Cyst 1x Vortex Shard |
Destroys enemies step by step |
Vortex Grenade – Unstable |
1x Vortex Cyst 1x Vortex Shard |
Random effect |
Since typical frag grenades and explosives do the same job, there isn’t much point in wasting rare resources on creating this type of whirlwind grenade. Vortex Grenade – DecoyMeanwhile, it’s great for creating chaos in combat and provides the most useful effect of all the Vortex Grenades in combat. Starfield: Shattered Space.
- Platform(s)
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PC, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S
- Released
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September 6, 2023
- ESRB
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M Mature 17+ due to blood, obscene themes, drug use, strong language, violence