#Starfield gameplay update

Howard went on to direct Fallout 4 and oversee development on Fallout 76. Development on Starfield is being headed up by director Todd Howard, who rose to prominence internally at Bethesda when he directed the critically acclaimed and wildly commercially successful The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and all three of its post-launch DLCs.

In one such update, studio director Angela Browder explained that Starfield would be a more grounded title than previous Bethesda games, and that the studio utilized its 'lifetime of knowledge' in relevant areas to make the setting feel as realistic as possible.

#Starfield gameplay update

While the game is no longer scheduled to release in 2022, Bethesda has continued to issue steady updates on Starfield's development in the form of developer diaries and update videos. RELATED: Starfield Takes Inspiration from Cyberpunk 2077. Reportedly, the decision was made due to developers' concerns that Starfield would become the 'next Cyberpunk,' in reference to Cyberpunk 2077's notoriously disastrous launch. However, after internal turmoil at Bethesda made it clear that the hotly anticipated game would be unable to meet its targeted release date, Starfield was delayed to 2023 with no specific release date or window given.

Starfield was initially scheduled for release on November 11, 2022, the eleventh anniversary of Bethesda's most commercially successful title, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, which famously released on Novem(11/11/11). Rather than the fantastical setting of The Elder Scrolls or the irreverent post-apocalypse of Fallout, Starfield will feature a grounded science-fiction space setting with a focus on exploration. The game will take advantage of systems introduced in Bethesda's other popular RPG series, The Elder Scrolls and Fallout, to tell a new and compelling story. Since then, news has trickled out at a steady pace about Bethesda's RPG. This is in addition to the character customization, in which Howard commented is BethesdaвЂ™s most extensive yet.Starfield was announced all the way back in 2018, and not much was known about the title at the time. Of course, the gameplay reveal isnвЂ™t complete without mentioning the RPG aspect of factions, crafting, customizable perks, and a skill tree that shapes your character.

The gameplay trailer also highlighted some great gun-play against NPCs and other outer-worldly monsters in both third and first-person. Additionally, you can get NPCs to help keep your vacation home up and running while youвЂ™re off exploring the universe. However, with in-game base-building, you can personalize an outpost on any planet for farming, resources, or survival. It also showcased one of the main locations, known as New Atlantis. Each planet appears to have its own set of secrets and adventures, which we are looking forward to discovering. The trailer showed outposts, bases, towns, cities вЂ“ basically, the whole charade across the planets that make up its interstellar map. WhatвЂ™s even more intriguing is the planets youвЂ™ll travel to on your ship. We hope you love building spaceships as much as we do. YouвЂ™ll want to put careful consideration into this because galactic spaceship combat has been confirmed and it looks nothing less than epic. Additionally, you can get NPCs to help command youвЂ™re ship. Which can be customized entirely from scratch. All of which can be discovered in your very own personalized spaceship. Major Takeaways from Starfields Gameplay RevealДЄs far as space exploration goes, Todd Howard commented that Starfield will contain 100 different star systems and over 1,000 fully developed and explorable planets.