How to get the Operative Stealth Suit in Starfield

Let me be real with you for a moment: Stealth in Starfield is… not great. If you plan on running some stealth ops in the game, you’re going to need all the help you can get. Sadly, an arguably useful piece of equipment is locked deep within the Ryujin Industries questline. The Operative Stealth Suit can help you with your sneaking needs, and here’s how to get it in Starfield.

To get the Operative Stealth Suit, you need to make significant progress in the Ryujin questline in Starfield. A faction member offers it to you ahead of the game’s toughest stealth challenge yet: The ‘Sabotage’ mission. It’s honestly a cool-looking suit, more akin to something you’d see in Crysis. Regardless, if you want to sneak around and look good while doing it, this suit is where it’s at. Supposedly.

Operative Stealth Suit stats

The Operative Stealth Suit is an outfit, not armor. It doesn’t defend well against bullets, but not getting shot is the point. To use it properly in the Sabotage mission and beyond, I suggest removing any heavy armor. I noticed enemies would detect me far less often when I wasn’t clunking around in my heavy armor. Who knew? The helmet doesn’t do anything but complete the ensemble.

Its perk makes you 25% harder for enemies to detect. Pair it with Reconstim, which decreases movement noise by 30% for 10 minutes.

Does the suit work as advertised?

Stealth in Starfield is kind of a crapshoot. Even with the suit equipped, a point in Stealth, and my character huffing Reconstim, I still got caught by the game’s wonky security NPCs. Sometimes, they can hear or see you against your greatest of efforts. However, I did notice that I was caught less often. If you consider that good news, then you should work to get the Operative Stealth Suit in Starfield. It’s just too bad you acquire it so late in the questline. You can still use it for quests in the Ryujin mission board, at least.