Its Starfield ship won’t perform complex landing maneuvers, Bethesda’s Todd Howard said in a new interview with IGN’s Ryan McCaffrey. Instead of players piloting their ship through the atmosphere and onto the surface of one of Starfield’s 1,000 planets, the space RPG prefers to separate life in space and life on the planet.
“People were asking, ‘Can you land a ship directly on the planet?’ No,” Howard said in an interview. “At the beginning of the project, we decided that on the surface it’s one reality, and when you’re in space it’s a different reality. You go over in your head everything you want to do in a game like this, and we try to say yes as often as possible.
Howard said the feature doesn’t seem like much compared to the amount of engineering work it takes to make it happen, and that he’d rather the team spend that time and effort to make sure his time on the surface and in space is “incredible” separately. and as good as it sounds, though he didn’t mention what to expect from spaceflight or being on planets.
Elsewhere in the interview, Howard talked about how big Starfield is. The main quest, religion breaks and all, is 30-40 hours long and is 20% longer than their previous games, including Skyrim, with over 200,000 lines of dialogue. Additionally, it has the most handcrafted content of any Bethesda game, and the central city of New Atlantis is the largest city in the studio’s history.
Since exploration is supposed to be a major component of Starfield, the lack of actual space exploration seems to put more pressure on the planets.
While the Xbox Bethesda showcase showed only a small fraction of what to expect from Starfield, most of it focused on large gray boulders and left some gamers wondering how the vast void of space could be huge and empty.
While there’s plenty to do on Starfield’s 1,000 planets, the space RPG has plenty to do beyond exploration, including a robust base-building system, extensive skill trees, and a selection of character-defining traits. . And already some bugs.
Source : PC Gamesn
