Starfield fans discover delightful nod to Skyrim's most infamous line

With around 1000 explorable planets on offer, Starfield is positively bursting with new environments to explore. But some players think they’ve discovered something more familiar: an homage to a classic Halo planet. Kinda. 

Starfield is a pretty realistic depiction of what the world would look like should humanity ever venture out into space and leave Earth behind. It chooses to ignore some of the wackier elements of the sci-fi genre in favor of a NASA Punk aesthetic that has served it well. However, there's one part of Starfield that fans find a little bit unrealistic, and that the complete lack of cats and dogs across the entire Settled Systems.

If you've been a fan of Bethesda games for a while, you'll more than likely be well aware of the Invisible Dawnstar Chest glitch from Skyrim. Over a decade ago, one lucky Skyrim player found a seemingly invisible chest packed to the brim with powerful and expensive items, tucked away inside of a random cliff in Dawnstar. This was actually a chest filled with a nearby merchant's inventory, but was accidentally placed too close to the surface, letting fans pilfer the contents of an entire shop without punishment.

There are a lot of things that Starfield lets you do, even if its detrimental to your own health. You have to live with the consequences of your actions of course, but there are very few things that the game takes completely off the table. One of those things was getting out of your ship whilst you're flying through space, something that the last fifty years of sci-fi movies and video games warns you not to do.

Starfield has only been out for a few days, and players have already begun to show just how creative you can get with the ship-building feature, with players taking to social media to share their creations with other fans. In this case, we are looking at a creative that is perfect for another who has a particular fondness for ducks and other waterfowl.

Starfield offers players an enormous amount of freedom when it comes to how to play. It’s possible to be a sandwich pirate and hoard food from around the galaxy, amass a fleet of ships and become a trader, be the hero every planet needs, or be an evil tyrant who coerces everyone into giving them their hard-earned Credits.

Starfield is a critical and commercial success, with millions of players now searching the Settled Systems for adventure and mischief. That doesn't mean it's perfect though, as every game has its irritating flaws that can build up and slightly tar an otherwise perfect time. Starfield is no exception, as even the players that love the game the most have been sharing their biggest gripes that they hope Bethesda or modders will fix in the future.

Oh, Astarion, you either love him - and I mean, really really love him - or hate him. A Baldur's Gate 3 companion that not only introduces himself with a knife to the throat but also tries to drink your blood after about 24 hours together is always going to be a bit marmite. So much so, that some fans might opt to just ignore him altogether, walking right past the rogue when you're meant to encounter him.

Bethesda has a pretty long history of releasing slightly buggy titles that have all sort of weird exploits that players can use. Starfield is admittedly a lot more polished than the studio's previous titles, but fans have already managed to find a relatively simply way to get infinite cash, and it harkens back to the good ol' days of scamming shopkeepers in Skyrim.

Starfield has only officially been out for a couple of days, but fans have used the early access period to recreate some of the most famous spaceships from movies, TV shows, and other video games. They’re incredibly detailed and faithful to the originals; genuinely impressive feats for a game that hasn’t been out very long yet.

Starfield is officially out, and modders have been working hard creating helpful add-ons, from useful, quality-of-life mods such as revamping the inventory UI to unofficially adding support for DLSS. Others have added more cosmetic things like reskin in-game clothes. And then there are some people out there who keep modding Bethesda's Todd Howard into the game.

Starfield hasn't been out a week yet but players have already discovered an infinite money exploit that's very similar to that in The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim.