Starfield Player Scans All 1,695 Planets

The best Starfield weapons can turn space pirates into space pulp with just a few shots, and one player has taken this philosophy, and the RPG's weapon modding system, to an extreme by converting a shotgun into portable artillery that devastates entire areas so efficiently that you barely have to aim the thing.

One incredibly lucky Starfield player has stumbled onto a space pirate that was three times their level and, somehow, walked away with both their life and a sweet legendary rifle. 

If there’s one thing missing from Starfield that cranked up the immersion in previous Bethesda games, it’s probably the radio stations. Walking through the post-apocalyptic landscape in Fallout 4 surrounded by Death Claws and Super Mutants while blasting Big Band music on your Pip-Boy really elevated the gameplay experience for many. Unfortunately, Starfield came without a galaxy-wide space radio, to the disappointment of numerous fans who have been asking where Starfield’s radio is in multiple forums since its release. Many players were expecting it to be a given, but one player put matters into his own hands and created an all-around Starfield space radio that anyone can play for free while soaring the Great Unknown.

Pete Hines isn’t the only major departure from Bethesda Softworks. Will Shen, lead quest designer and design director on Starfield, has also announced that he’s leaving the studio. He’ll join Something Weird Games, a studio of former talent from BioWare, Bethesda and Obsidian Entertainment, to work on Wyrdsong, their debut RPG.

Knights of the Old Republic takes us back thousands of years before the Star Wars movies, but there are a lot of similarities. You find a smuggler with a Wookie friend and the two are in trouble with a local gang, so you recruit their help to get off planet and steal a ship. That ship also happens to look suspiciously like the Millennium Falcon. Among KOTOR fans, it's just as iconic, so it's no wonder that they've brought it to life with Starfield's extensive shipbuilder.

Every time a game comes out that includes some kind of vehicle or base-building feature, you just know that the recreations aren't too far behind. We saw shortly after launch of Starfield that someone recreated a whole bunch of spaceships from other games and movies, which included The Normandy from Mass Effect, The Millenium Falcon from Star Wars, and a Pelican from Halo. Unsurprisingly, it seems like Starfield has quite a few Halo fans in its community, as another recreation from the series has been gaining attention on social media.

Ahead of the launch of Starfield, Bethesda chief Todd Howard said there were over 1,000 planets to explore in the science fiction role-playing game. "From barren but resource-heavy ice balls, to Goldilocks planets with life,” Howard said during the Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase in June. “And not just this system, but over 100 systems — over 1,000 planets, all open for you to explore."

Starfield has a vast galaxy to explore, but most of it is empty. Only a handful of planets and systems are handcrafted like past Bethesda games, the others use procedural generation and often serve as spots for resource gathering and base building, rather than questing. But that hasn't stopped DoomZero from fully surveying over 1,000 planets, meaning that they found and scanned every landmark, creature, and resource on each.

Five months after its launch on PC and Xbox, Arkane Studios’ Redfall has received the performance mode patch that enables 60 fps support on Xbox Series X and S consoles. Performance mode for Redfall arrives as part of game update 2 for Arkane’s vampire-infested first-person shooter — an update that also includes new stealth takedowns, accessibility improvements, and “an even more dangerous Redfall with an increased open world enemy population and new encounters.”

When Redfall launched earlier this year, one of the most highly requested features was adding an option to play the Xbox Series X/S version at 60 frames per second - and that request has finally been granted.

How often do you clean up your living space? And I’m not just talking about Starfield or any other game — but in real life. Are you the type of person who cleans once a year when everyone gets on that ‘Spring cleaning’ wave, or do you tidy up your house daily? If you’re like the latter, then you would absolutely hate u/foslforever, a Starfield player with an… interesting way of managing their own personal space. It is hard to put into words exactly how the ship of this user looks, so instead, we’ll just show you and you can make the conclusion yourself. Just be warned, it isn’t pretty — especially for clean-aholics!

id Software and Nightdive Studios released the first update for Quake 2 Enhanced Edition. It improves on a new feature added with this remaster, the Compass, with better objective navigating through several places in Quake 2, Quake 2 64, The Reckoning and Ground Zero.