Humanity has explored a lot of space, so the next frontier/left over mystery is something to do with a ring-like artefact. Starfield's main story is a bit of an enigma.

It’s just, you know, it’s a fun killer.” Starfield story We’ve found you’ll be playing the game and ‘I ran out of fuel, OK, I guess I’ll just wander these planets trying to mine for fuel so I can get back to what I was doing. Whereas we used to run out of fuel you’d jump and get stranded, which on paper is a great moment when you get stranded and you’ve got to press this beacon and you don’t know who’s going to come. “But it has a tone of there's some effort involved and we’ve dialed it back as we’ve been making the game.

“When you actually play the game, because it’s a game we don’t actually kill you when you fly out in space,” Howard told YouTuber and interviewer Lex Fridman. And that means there'll be survival elements, but thankfully Todd Howard has said they will won't be an irritating obstacle to exploration. Starfield will lean into hard sci-fi rather than the more fantasy settings of Star Trek and Star Wars. But we suspect a lot of these will be optional places to visit than making Starfield an unwieldy game. Speaking of which you'll be able to pilot it and engage in space combat just expect it to be a more sedate affair than the likes of Star Wars: Squadrons, given these will be big ship that'll be zapping each other than nimble starfighters.Īpparently there'll be more than 1,000 planets to explore, thanks to procedural generation. “It’s not approach to come in and reskin something right? So there’s going to be an awful lot of things that move forward with this game, just from my view the thing that excites me first is the visual style.”Īnd you'll be able to setup based in various location as well as customize your ship. “Having had the chance over the last year and a half or so to spend more time with Todd Howard and see how he works and see what he brings to game design, I’m confident that he’s not gonna sit still on what was built before,” said Booty. However, Starfield will be more than just Skyrim in space,' according to Microsoft's Matt Booty. Like previous Fallout and Elder Scrolls games, there'll be first-person exploration and combat, with plenty of dialogue and story interspersed between the action. Game footage from a Bethesda and Xbox showcase from Summer 2022, revealed how Starfield will be an open-world game that will see players bounce between multiple worlds with different environments. As such, expect a lot of close-up conversations with a range of characters, in that “classic Bethesda-style dialogue.' Starfield gameplay Howard noted how the game will have 252,953 different dialogue lines in Starfield, compared to the mere 60,000 lines in Skyrim. For example, ships won’t run out of fuel, avoiding the “you die in space cold' conundrum. In it he tackles how Starfield will embrace the idea of hard sci-fi without making it a pain to paly.

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