Starfield Developers Answer Fans Questions Here’s The Full Q&A

16.08.2023 - 18:27 / gameranx.com / Emil Pagliarulo / Will Shen

If you’ve been following Bethesda for the past few years, you know that they are hard at work with their next big RPG, Starfield. It’s gained a massive following as fans knew that this title would be landing for the next-generation platforms at the time of its announcement. Of course, since then, we found that Bethesda came under the Xbox umbrella after Microsoft picked up ZeniMax Media. So now this game is set to be a Microsoft exclusive, which means it’s only releasing for the PC and Xbox Series X/S platforms.

Regardless, the game has continued to blow in popularity. Since then, fans have had plenty of questions despite the various trailers and deep dives. Fortunately, while the game is still in the works and not set to launch until next month, the development team from Bethesda decided to hold a little Q&A. Fans of the game could enter their biggest questions, and the team hand-selected a total of sixteen that they offered to answer.

Taking to the official Bethesda Game Studios Discord server, Bethesda’s Will Shen, who is the lead quest designer on Starfield, along with Emil Pagliarulo, the lead game designer, took to the server and answered some of your questions. We have the complete Q&A from earlier today below in case you missed out. You’ll get some lore regarding the Colony War, dwellings, smuggling contraband, to even some of the religious groups within this game universe.

Can we buy houses or properties in main cities?

Will Shen: Yep! There’s housing in different cities that the player can get. Some you have to purchase and some are rewards for specific quests.

Emil Pagliarulo: Sure can! You can purchase a dwelling in all the major cities in the game. And there’s at least one that you get specifically for completing… something.

If we get the Kids Stuff trait, will our parents be generated based on our characters look or are there standard parents put in place? What benefits might there be?

Will: Our programmers on our new face tech were excited to make a function that could try to match your custom face and then create the two parents. So they are based on what your character looks like, although the specific math involved is a bit beyond me. We had similar tech in our previous games.

Emil: Yes, totally. Just as we did in Fallout 3 with your dad, and in Fallout 4 with your son, in Starfield, if you take the Kid Stuff Trait. your parents are based off of you. No spoilers, but I think fans will really appreciate the actors we got to play those roles. And they just get SO into it, it’s awesome. (Oh, and yeah, you can get… stuff)

For those of us who have never played a BGS game and will be starting with Starfield, what information should we know that will make the experience more impactful