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In Starfield, the latest massive open-world RPG from Bethesda Softworks, you explore space - the final frontier - from the busy streets of the closest human colony to the wild, unclaimed worlds at the edge of the galaxy.
Starfield promises to be an entertaining space expedition to "answer humanity’s greatest mystery".' This sci-fi epic comes from the same creators as The Elder Scrolls and modern Fallout series, and is the studio's first new IP in 25 years.
Naturally, Bethesda fans are psyched. It doesn't even matter that Starfield remains mostly a mystery, because even though we've seen a decent amount of gameplay in trailers, there have been no hands-on public previews. It's apparently a "bit more hardcore of a role-playing game", which is really saying something after Skyrim. As Bethesda releases tiny tidbits of news here and there, a more cohesive picture of the story and gameplay begin to form.
Here’s everything you need to know about Starfield, including all recent news, videos and leaks.
Starfield was expected to launch on 11th November 2022 for Xbox Series X/S and PC but it was delayed to September 2023 at the start of the year. After a previous delay in March which gave a "first half of 2023" release date, Bethesda put out an official launch date trailer confirming the new September 6th release date.
Microsoft first teased Starfield at E3 2018, then kept quiet about it until it dropped a new trailer and exact release date at E3 2021. Starfield is currently set to release before The Elder Scrolls 6, but is likely to share a some key features.
However, it would be taxing the handheld console to its limits. If you could get it to run, performance would be unlikely to reach a playable standard. Furthermore, the rest of Bethesda's stable of open-world games don't play perfectly on Steam Deck. The likes of Oblivion, Fallout 4 and others are listed as "playable" with caveats like tiny text, icons not displaying properly, resolution issues and problems with the game's launcher.
The space that you experience in Starfield will be different to pretty much any other player exploring the galaxy. Rather than having completely set locations to sniff out, Starfield will fit together novel starscapes from fixed pieces.
"We generate the planet itself as procedural content," Jean-Francois Levesque, Lead Technical Producer at Bethesda Softworks explained in the deep dive.
"The hand-crafted content comes as the player explores. Our system builds the planet as the player approaches it and we stitch together a block of terrain, then after that we have the system that adds interesting locations for the player to explore, creatures to encounter or plants to pick up.
"It allows us to add that touch of environmental storytelling that Bethesda is known for. So even if your friends were to visit the same planet that you have, you would have a different story to tell."
Before you land on a planet, you will be able to scan it to discover the available resources and activies, so you know what you will be getting into rather than getting frustrated as you wander aimlessly.
The proportion of planets that will contain points of interest that you can actually explore, like bandit strongholds and the like, isn’t known. But the number of planets hosting hand-crafted story content will probably be much, much lower than the majority of unexplored planets geared more towards resource collection.
In Starfield, the latest massive open-world RPG from Bethesda Softworks, you explore space - the final frontier - from the busy streets of the closest human colony to the wild, unclaimed worlds at the edge of the galaxy.
Starfield promises to be an entertaining space expedition to "answer humanity’s greatest mystery".' This sci-fi epic comes from the same creators as The Elder Scrolls and modern Fallout series, and is the studio's first new IP in 25 years.
Naturally, Bethesda fans are psyched. It doesn't even matter that Starfield remains mostly a mystery, because even though we've seen a decent amount of gameplay in trailers, there have been no hands-on public previews. It's apparently a "bit more hardcore of a role-playing game", which is really saying something after Skyrim. As Bethesda releases tiny tidbits of news here and there, a more cohesive picture of the story and gameplay begin to form.
Here’s everything you need to know about Starfield, including all recent news, videos and leaks.
Starfield was expected to launch on 11th November 2022 for Xbox Series X/S and PC but it was delayed to September 2023 at the start of the year. After a previous delay in March which gave a "first half of 2023" release date, Bethesda put out an official launch date trailer confirming the new September 6th release date.
Microsoft first teased Starfield at E3 2018, then kept quiet about it until it dropped a new trailer and exact release date at E3 2021. Starfield is currently set to release before The Elder Scrolls 6, but is likely to share a some key features.
However, it would be taxing the handheld console to its limits. If you could get it to run, performance would be unlikely to reach a playable standard. Furthermore, the rest of Bethesda's stable of open-world games don't play perfectly on Steam Deck. The likes of Oblivion, Fallout 4 and others are listed as "playable" with caveats like tiny text, icons not displaying properly, resolution issues and problems with the game's launcher.
The space that you experience in Starfield will be different to pretty much any other player exploring the galaxy. Rather than having completely set locations to sniff out, Starfield will fit together novel starscapes from fixed pieces.
"We generate the planet itself as procedural content," Jean-Francois Levesque, Lead Technical Producer at Bethesda Softworks explained in the deep dive.
"The hand-crafted content comes as the player explores. Our system builds the planet as the player approaches it and we stitch together a block of terrain, then after that we have the system that adds interesting locations for the player to explore, creatures to encounter or plants to pick up.
"It allows us to add that touch of environmental storytelling that Bethesda is known for. So even if your friends were to visit the same planet that you have, you would have a different story to tell."
Before you land on a planet, you will be able to scan it to discover the available resources and activies, so you know what you will be getting into rather than getting frustrated as you wander aimlessly.
The proportion of planets that will contain points of interest that you can actually explore, like bandit strongholds and the like, isn’t known. But the number of planets hosting hand-crafted story content will probably be much, much lower than the majority of unexplored planets geared more towards resource collection.
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