Starfield - How To Have More Than One Active Follower

While it’s true that there are developers who seem “to never miss” with the titles that they make, it’s also fair to note that there will always be a bump in the road eventually. Bethesda is riding high right now, thanks to the arrival of their latest IP, but they’re still working to fix one of their biggest mistakes in Fallout 76. For those who don’t know, this entry in the beloved post-apocalyptic franchise came out many years ago and was aimed to be an “MMO version” of the popular RPG. But from the start, things were problematic at best.

In a mesmerising tech-meets-fashion moment at the Paris Fashion Show, Humane, a startup founded by ex-Apple design and engineering team Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno, has revealed its latest creation, the Humane Ai Pin. This was during the roll out of the 2024 Spring Summer show by renowned fashion house Coperni. This wearable device, reminiscent of a combadge, boasts a camera and a screen projector, and it's turning heads for all the right reasons.

With most video games, a New Game Plus simply lets players spend more time with a game they enjoy, though it lacks story-based rationalization, but structured its entire main plot around making New Game Plus a part of its story. Most titles take the route of with a New Game Plus, where it might offer players a special weapon or ability, or a harder difficulty mode appropriate to higher level characters. Other titles have used the feature to provide alternate endings and additional story content, but few games have made it the centerpiece of the plot like .

Bethesda boss Todd Howard says Starfield was designed and built for longevity, even more so than RPGs like Skyrim or any of the modern Fallouts, with the studio already considering how the game will evolve for years and years to come. 

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Plans change continuously in game development, and some content a team has spent months, even years, of resources on may not make it into the final release. Starfield is no exception, even with an eight-year development cycle. While speaking to Ted Price on the AIAS Game Maker’s Notebook Podcast, director Todd Howard highlighted how the game’s planets previously had much more punishing environmental effects.

Starfield's planets were originally supposed to be much more punishing for players, that is until Bethesda "nerfed the hell out of it," reveals Todd Howard.

From Oblivion to Skyrim, Fallout 3 to Fallout 4, Bethesda games and bugs go hand in hand. It’s become, essentially, part of the charm. Watching Deathclaws rocket into space, putting buckets on people’s heads to steal their gold – who doesn’t have fond memories of Bethesda bugs? Starfield, however, seems comparatively slick. Despite the size of the Settled Systems, the new world built by Todd Howard and company rarely presents any big bugs or graphical errors. Nevertheless, the ongoing community Starfield patch, which aims to remove any and all issues from the RPG, has identified a considerable 249 separate potential problems. From ships to companions and NPCs, there’s a pretty long hit list of Starfield bugs.

Starfield has a pretty decent range of clothing for all you fashionistas out there, but every now and then you'll spot an NPC wearing a particularly attractive suit or outfit that puts your own threads to shame. If you were playing Skyrim, you could simply get into your best sneaking position and attempt to undress the person where they stand, but Starfield has no feature that allows you to swipe the clothes that NPCs are wearing. Even murdering them doesn't let you take the clothes off their body.

If you're bummed that Starfield is not more like No Man's Sky, where you can seamlessly travel from space to planet, there's now a mod available that does just that.

Not everyone in Constellation is a gun-toting, space-faring cowboy with daddy issues. No, sometimes Starfield will throw some rich old bloke at you and ask you to give him a hand in some greasy backroom corporate dealings to retrieve yet another artefact. Worry not action-fans, there’s more to this quest than meets the eye. 

There's a whole universe to explore in Starfield, quite literally, in fact. But it looks like a good chunk of the game's player base has yet to leave terra firma.