I still have a week before I can share my thoughts on Starfield with you, but Bethesda executives have no such restrictions. As such, Bethesda’s Pete Hines recently went on a cascade of information about Starfield, revealing a lot of new information and answering some questions about it (via Gamescom). reddit).
Let’s get started:
- There’s the already famous quote that “the game doesn’t really start until the main quest is over”, but until you get to the next line, some see this as a bad thing (is it worth skipping??) . This is his favorite Bethesda main. quests so far.
- Hines tells a story about boarding an enemy ship and accidentally being sucked into space because the pilot left without him.
- Many POIs throughout the galaxy outside of the main settlement. He mentions a series of farms where people provide resources to other planets. Space stations, settlements, and more.
- Modders will be able to create their own planets and questlines.
- Companions get annoyed when they do bad things, even if they are “best friend” level companions.
- New Game Plus is about the story itself, so we can’t reveal much about it at the moment.
- I don’t know if you can physically drive from planet to planet within the system, as you normally just teleport using your ship’s propulsion.
- By combining weapon mods and skills, you can play a variety of ways. He said that at one point he felt like “Iron Man.” It’s probably a reference to a video where you can hover with a jetpack while shooting enemies on the ground.
- Sometimes there is a bounty on your head, but there are ways to get rid of it.
- New Atlantis has a museum that explains the lore of the game, including the colonial wars between the UC and the Free Star Collective and what happened to Earth.
- Boost packs are really fun and an important part of the game.
- There are a huge number of creatures, but he has no idea how many there are in the game. I still don’t know if these are procedurally generated like No Man’s Sky, or if Bethesda just designed… a myriad of creatures.
- He said he put 160 hours into Starfield and wasn’t even able to play the game 100%. No one seems to know how long it will take. Bethesda has previously said that no one will probably be able to find literally everything in the game.
- They’re going to put a lot of effort into mod support after launch, the same thing that’s kept games like Skyrim alive for a million years.
- There is a mission board where you can ask to build an outpost on the planet. He gave another mission board example. All he had to do was take two humans from one planet to another, but he forgot about them and five hours later they were still there. It was that I noticed him wandering around his ship.
- There are many Easter eggs in the game.
- At least he thinks there is no level cap. That is, even in the worst case, the value is very high.
- PC players say the performance there is smooth, he says.
There’s a lot of information out there and I’d like to comment further on some of it, but I won’t comment until after launch. See you soon.
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