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Heavy weapons are one of ’s most deadly guns. They either fire single, precise, deadly shots or spray a barrage of bullets. However, they tend to weigh more and have drawbacks, like longer reload times or more expensive ammunition.

David Harbour has been playing , and his opinion of the game is spot-on, for the most part, anyway. In a recent interview, the actor had some things to say about Bethesda’s latest title that echoes the consensus about the game. It’s great to see that he has his finger on the community's pulse, but a few details could be added to flesh out the actor’s sentiment.

In , romance options can sometimes feel pretty slim. After all, while it's more than possible to unlock special missions and quest lines for the romanceable companions, these characters are limited to the four core members of Constellation. This leaves much to be desired regarding connection, as a lack of choice can sometimes feel underwhelming in the expansive space exploration game.

Throughout different New Game Plus runs, players can encounter different universes that change Constellation in significant ways. These new dimensions mainly change aspects of the characters at The Lodge, completely changing the story narrative, and sometimes in a very peculiar manner. Though it's necessary to complete the game to unlock these hidden universes, some online have figured out a way to view them all, which has enabled people to see the different variations of the world that can be unlocked upon the start of New Game Plus in .

Navigation in 's Starmap can be frustrating. Even for those who have invested hundreds of hours into the game, the base game for lacks proper labeling, which can make space navigation difficult. While astrological accuracy is undoubtedly something the game has achieved by correctly naming solar systems and planets after natural systems in the known galaxy, not everyone is an astronomer. This lack of decent labeling can make navigating to even the most well-known locations a hassle without the aid of auto-navigation on the mission screen.

Starfield may not be your typical looter shooter, as it's more concerned with telling a compelling story in a vast world than having you slaughter the same enemies over and over again just for the chance for a slightly more powerful pistol to drop from their body. That doesn't mean there aren't any who try and get the strongest gear they can though, and many people are starting to get pretty sick of Starfield's "laughable" loot drops.

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.

Like many previous Bethesda games, features a vast number of hidden details, secrets, and Easter eggs — it is not surprising that in a game with over 1000 planets and 100 star systems, although some are reasonably easy to locate or experience, others are exponentially harder to discover. These Easter eggs are, for the most part, wonderful references to pop culture, astronomy, history, and other Bethesda IPs; though being aware of one of the game's many references is rewarding, having to hunt for them and spend a great deal of time and effort in locating them only amplifies the reward.

Starfield isn't the most complex of games, but it does have a few sneaky tricks that players can take advantage of if they know how to pull them off properly. We've already seen players uncover methods of killing civillains in broad daylight without angering the local law enforcement, and several ways to obtain unlimited cash. Now players are just discovering a much easier way to pinch things, and it involves tricking poor helpless NPCs into pretty much stealing things for you.

has a vast multitude of companions that space adventurers can meet and recruit to their group. While some have deep and emotional storylines, others have funny personalities or are cool to have around. However, outside the core four Constellation members of Sam Coe, Sarah Morgan, Barrett, and Andreja, the game's other potential ship crew candidates don't get the love they deserve. So far, space adventurers have found a total of 27 different recruitable companions in .

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.

Fans have been wondering if The Elder Scrolls 6 will be an Xbox exclusive ever since Microsoft bought Bethesda in 2020. According to a newly revealed slideshow dedicated to "Microsoft's approach following acquisitions since 2018", it will not launch on PlayStation.

The Adoring Fan was introduced in The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, an immortal stalker who would follow you around nonstop after you conquered the arena in Cyrodiil. You can throw him off a cliff, burn him to death, or just cut him into pieces with an ebony greatsword - it doesn't matter. He always comes back, worshipping the ground you walk.

Mortal Kombat 1 hasn't left early access yet, and the first Kombat Pack hasn't even launched, but already leakers have uncovered proof of future DLC.

If you’re looking to learn every skill and make your spacefarer the strongest across the galaxies, you will definitely need to know how to XP farm in Starfield.

So we're all sad about Skyrim's famous bucket heists and how they're not replicable in Starfield. Sure, there've been replacements in the form of shuffling credit sticks into laundry baskets, but none of these methods use something as common as the humble bucket to work their magic.

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For reasons I won't get into here because it may constitute a little bit of a spoiler, the planet Earth in Starfield is a bit of a wasteland. But what if it was The Wasteland—that is, the post-nuclear hellscape of Bethesda's other big sci-fi-ish game series, Fallout? In an interview with The Washington Post, creative director Todd Howard said developers actually gave thought to the idea.

I'm 40 hours into my Starfield playthrough and only now realizing there's an easy way to mine ore faster. No, I'm not talking about letting Outposts do the mining for you, I'm talking about good ol' fashioned laser cutting. Did you know the laser cutter has a secondary fire? I didn't know that, but I sure wish I did a week ago!

Some missions in Starfield are straightforward whilst others require further explanation. The Sabotage mission is one such quest and we’re here to help you get it completed.

Being a dedicated spacer I've never had much interest in the base construction aspect of Starfield, but that was before I learned that you can spacewalk by means of console commands, aka cheats. Reddit user WeirdConcern4666 made history on this front yesterday. Here's how you do it: 1) get up from the cockpit controls, 2) hit the tilde key to open the command console at the bottom of the screen, 3) type "player.setpos x 10" to teleport your character outside the ship, then hit return and 4) type "setgravityscale 0" to engage zero gravity and stop your character plummeting endlessly. Then hit the tilde key again to close the command console, and well, there you go.

Do you, like me, have an inescapable compulsion to thoroughly survey every barren rock, volcanic wasteland, and frozen desert that Starfield takes you to? Do you, like me, also have a tendency to hoard resources for the game's crafting and research systems? Then you, like me, have probably also experienced the agonising tedium of walking veeery slowly towards a point of interest because you're severely over-encumbered and worried about accidentally killing yourself by running and draining all your O2. But guess what? You don't have to.

Starfield is arguably this year's most hyped game. At this point in time, the game runs well on AMD hardware thanks to its partnership with Bethesda, but Nvidia owners haven't gotten as much love. Though the game runs well enough, Nvidia GPUs are uncharacteristically underperforming in Starfield, and official support for Nvidia's bedrock technologies such as DLSS are missing.

It's every astronaut's nightmare: you're in deep space facing down a pack of serpent-worshipping fanatics, but when you pull out your favorite gun and squeeze the trigger, nothing happens. You've got plenty of ammo, the gun is loaded, and you're not in scanning mode. But for some reason, you just can't shoot.

First noticed by user WeirdConcern4666 on the Starfield subreddit, it's actually pretty easy to dip out of your ship and do a spacewalk thanks to two quick Starfield console commands. There's not much to do out there in the void at the moment, but doing a cheeky extravehicular activity (EVA) lends itself to some nice screenshots, and I'm excited for the modding potential here.

I like a good Star Destroyer or X-Wing as much as the next guy, and while there've been great renditions of them in Starfield's ship builder—some which we've highlighted already—I'm endlessly curious about which obscure rust buckets people love enough to recreate.

If you're playing Starfield on an AMD graphics card, there's a good chance you've missed one of the most glaring bugs in the game, because you just won't have seen anything. The AMD-sponsored Bethesda game simply doesn't render a local star from any planet without an atmosphere on an AMD card.

With millions of players having already jumped right into the thick of it with Starfield, it’s hard to deny the fact that a non-insignificant number of them are facing performance issues on powerful PC hardware. When the director Todd Howard was asked about these issues, he responded in a way that some might say was tone-deaf. Notably, he said that Starfield was optimized and that some PC gamers might simply need to upgrade their rigs for it to run properly. A bold statement, to be sure, but one that may also ring hollow following some strange discoveries from the open-source community.

In Starfield, different backgrounds and traits offer unique dialogue options throughout the Settled Systems, but one that has gone viral with fans is an extrovert choice that lets you gaslight a patrolling guard.

Waiting in Bethesda RPGs is a time-honored tradition, whether it's standing motionless outside a vendor's shop all night until they open for business in Oblivion, or crafting a chair in Fallout 4's survival mode so you can park your butt and avoid taking hunger damage.

They say that money can't buy you happiness—but it can buy you an entire sodding pirate base in Starfield, as Reddit user VeganSatan666420 has discovered.

Video games and parents often do not go hand in hand. They are often put on the back burner, if their existence is acknowledged at all. Sure, sad-dad games like The Last of Us or God of War (2018) received acclaim, but they’re the exception.

Cursed ship designs were always an inevitability with Starfield, and after two full days in the wild, players have already made some wildly funky and plainly cool ships. Scrolling through social media channels, you’ll find that players have hammered away at their own unique designs while also creatively remaking other iconic vessels from Mass Effect, Star Wars, Halo and, of course, our friend Thomas The Tank Engine. There’s also been a shocking lack of, uhm, male organ-shaped spacecraft which makes putting this post together much less hard. But for now, onward! Let’s admire some cool ships.

Modders have already begun creating Thomas the Tank Engine mods for Starfield. 

A few weeks ago, Dying Light 2 developer Techland announced that it would be introducing a new Item Store, along with a new premium currency called DL Points. It explained that this store was primarily implemented to keep players in the game, and to avoid having to list bundles on platform storefronts. However, now that the store and premium currency have been introduced, fans are furious to find unfriendly business practices and broken promises that these bundles would only contain cosmetic items.

After finding out that Starfield completely omits any ground-based vehicles for your avatar to ride on, many players have wondered exactly why Bethesda made this design decision. Fortunately for those players, Bethesda executive producer and Starfield director Todd Howard recently addressed the matter in an interview with Bloomberg. You can find the interview posted further down this article, where you can skip to 3:00 to hear Howard’s response.

Bethesda’s officially released yesterday after about a week of early access availability. Director Todd Howard and Xbox CEO Phil Spencer recently answered a few questions about the new game in a recent interview. .

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In Starfield, you will no doubt accrue a lot of stuff across the universe, and some of it may fetch a pretty penny. To help empty your pockets (and fill them up with credits), we’ll be looking at where to sell items in Starfield.

While there are many impressive locations and sights to behold in Bethesda’s gargantuan space opera, the most majestic of them all is arguably New Atlantis. Where is New Atlantis in Starfield? We’re glad you asked.

When you pick up your first weapon in Starfield, the game doesn’t tell you how to holster it so you don’t accidentally shoot some poor unsuspecting NPC or waste some precious ammo. Sometimes, it’s best to put your gun away so no one can see it, too.

When exploring the seemingly countless planets in Starfield, you have the ability to scan whatever flora, fauna, and minerals you happen to come across. Normally, in games that let you do this such as the Metroid Prime trilogy, you need to perform the scan before you defeat the enemy or collect the object you’re scanning. Oftentimes, it can become a challenge in and of itself to remember to do this, particularly in the case of enemies that can often attack and interrupt you while you attempt to scan them. Naturally, many have assumed that scanning in Starfield works the same way, especially since the game allows you to scan manually with the press of a button.

The voice behind a ton of iconic Bethesda characters from The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion to Fallout 3 has made a return in Starfield.

Bethesda's most prolific voice actor has returned for Starfield, and players have already found their in-game character.

Ship Services Technicians are hugely important in Starfield. They will fix up your ship, help you to modify and upgrade it, and happily sell you new ships with which you can explore the universe. You don’t want to have to jump back to New Atlantis to find one, however. In this article, we’ll show you where to find assorted Ship Technicians.

Starfield's ship creator is so in-depth that people are recreating the Millennium Falcon and Futurama's Planet Express. But there's a new meta on the horizon... cubes. Giant, ugly, ungainly cubes, blasting through the sky like a Chunks block of meat lodging down your throat.

Bethesda loves to work with the set of voice actors in its stable, a well-tamed team of thoroughbreds who players get pretty familiar with over the course of the hundreds of hours we spend in these RPGs. I'm always partial to the many NPCs who sound like Stephen Russell, including Fallout 4's Nick Valentine and Codsworth, Fallout 3's incarnation of Harold the mutant, and Skyrim's talking dog Barbas, among others.

Matt Mercer, Critical Role’s many-talented Dungeon Master, has a starring role in Starfield, the latest role-playing game from Bethesda Softworks. The announcement was made Wednesday on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.

With Starfield being all about a science fiction world grounded in our real life history of space exploration, one may wonder why there are no dogs in Starfield. Surely if dogs can survive the medieval rigors of The Elder Scrolls and the post apocalypse of Fallout, that there’s room for them in Bethesda’s shiny new space game.

For those sick of the goody-two-shoes of New Atlantis or the clichéd cowboys of Akila City in Starfield, then you may find solace in cyberpunk tropes of Neon.

Space is a big place, and getting around planets and cities can be a chore if you’re just walking around.

It wouldn’t be a space game without exploring space stations and living out your dream as a space pirate, stealing ships and whatnot.

This gives a whole new way to level grind.

If you've been saving yourself for that one special Starfield romance partner in your playthrough, it turns out you've been missing out on a status effect that's arguably better than any single chem can provide. It's called «Emotional Security,» and the only way to get it is by having sex. If only it were that easy, Starfield.

Starfield drops you into an impossibly huge galaxy to explore at your own pace — but most of us are going to blaze through the main story first. Not only do you get powerful new abilities for completing the first few hours of the story, but you’ll also unlock companions, romance options and visit most of the major settlements in the Settled Systems. It only makes sense to play through the main story right away! Most articles even recommend you play through the main story first.

Oh my dog.

Not one of Starfield's 1,000 planets contains a labrador retriever. Why? Because Bethesda killed them all off.

One of Starfield's best armor suits can be obtained via a busted glass case.

We're still two days away from Starfield's full launch, but early-access players have already discovered (and opened) some of its secret doors. 

As is self evident, Todd Howard’s hand can be seen everywhere across Starfield. Should we call Todd Howard an auteur? That would take away from the efforts of the hundreds of staff who worked on the game, from programmers and game designers, to the creatives who did voice acting, CG graphics, and other elements of the game, and even the testers and other support staff.

According to Bethesda, a lot is going to happen between now and 2330, when Starfield is set. Most obviously, if we follow the timeline setout by the developer, humans will be able to gallivant around in space and planet hop as casually as popping across The Channel for a quick visit to France. In fact, possibly even more casually than that.

One of the bigger Discourse torpedoes aimed at Starfield's glittering hull over the past month has been its strict division between planetary surfaces and outer space. Space sim fanatics were dismayed to learn that you can't actually fly down to the surface of the planets you're orbiting - instead, you hit a button to initiate a loading break and a landing cutscene, which makes outer space feel more like a glorified airlock chamber than, well, outer space. This segmented approach has prompted many unflattering comparisons with No Man's Sky, in which you can manually pilot through the atmosphere.

Starfield players are discovering that some of the old Bethesda game tricks work in the developer's epic space RPG too. The bucket trick is back!

The classic method of Bethesda bucket burglary doesn't work in Starfield, as confirmed by our own Morgan Park, who placed not only buckets but also bins and boxes on the heads of various NPCs. All of them were still able to see him commit theft, though none of them cared he was plonking objects over their faces. That doesn't mean you can't commit ingenious criminal acts by manipulating objects, however.

Do you want to go through the whole campaign again in Starfield?

Back in 2011, scores of Skyrim players became master thieves overnight thanks to the discovery of a simple exploit. The bucket trick, discovered just one day after Skyrim launched, made any NPC completely oblivious to thievery simply by blocking their line-of-sight. The trick? Put a bucket on their head. You'd think an exploit that trivializes pickpocketing and stealth would've been removed at some point, but the bucket trick survived through Skyrim's many re-releases, and the same trick even worked in Fallout 4.

Earn loads of cash and credits in Starfield.

Putting off this main story quest for too long could mean you're missing one of the game's best parts.

Starfield's early access starts today, letting anyone who picked up a premium version of the game play it five days before its full launch. But even if this is Bethesda's first new universe in years, some things never change - the playerbase still wants to wreck chaos wherever they go. So, as always, the devs have put in some limitations on who we can harm.

It's not a good look given that Starfield is one of the most hotly anticipated releases on the PC for an age. But with the game now entering Advanced Access, early adopters with Intel's Arc graphics cards are reportedly suffering widespread issues including plain old crashes, failure to load and catastrophic image corruption.

The universe of Starfield is enormous. So enormous that you can easily get lost in the intricate mess of features, systems and skills you’ll need to learn if you want to survive for long. Early in your adventure, there can be massive difficulty spikes, killer space battles, and you’ll always be lacked for credits and cargo space. There are many, many mistakes you’re liable to make in the first 10 hours of Starfield, and to help your space exploration just a little easier, we’ve put together a list of 10 mistakes we wish we avoided on our first playthrough. Trust us, some of these tips are life changing.

Acquire a free Class-C ship depending on how you complete the Overdesigned mission in Starfield.

Starfield doesn’t just give you one world to play on. It gives you 1,000 (give or take). Bethesda’s space-faring RPG casts you as an interstellar traveler — and gives you everything you need to actually feel like one. On one hand, this results in (at times) truly awe-inspiring moments. On the other, it’s also an overwhelming amount of choice.

There are several ways to obtain free ships in Starfield.

AMD has just rolled out its brand new Radeon Software Adrenalin 23.8.2 WHQL drivers which offers a huge boost to GPU performance in Starfield.

Apart from being the first new universe in over 25 years from Bethesda Game Studios, Starfield is one of the most highly anticipated games of the year. We know that the title will feature a whopping 1,000 planets, with approximately 10% off those containing life. If you’re wondering if the planet we call home is in Starfield, we’ve got all the details about the role Earth plays in the upcoming game.

In the five years since Bethesda Softworks first announced Starfield, much of the conversation has been focused on the endless possibilities that await players within the game’s web of planets and choices. There’s complex character and personality creation, a spectrum of geography all tricked out with the latest lighting and physics technology, customizable spaceships and space teams from highly dimensional NPCs, and loads of other bells and whistles to take advantage of the current generation of consoles.

How long we spend in video games is dependent on several factors. First, the type of game it is. Second, how long the game’s story is, should it have a campaign mode. Third, if a title has a long gameplay loop, you can keep diving into it endlessly, such as with several FPS franchises. Finally, how big the world or universe of the game is, which is always determined by the developers. In the case of Starfield, Bethesda has promised a massive universe for gamers to dive into and seek out whatever they want. One person who has felt this “experience” for many hours is Pete Hines.

Starfield is easily one of the biggest and most anticipated video game titles launching this year. Fans have been waiting on this game for what felt like an eternity since this title was first unveiled. However, since that initial announcement, we saw Microsoft come in and scoop up ZeniMax Media. This deal allowed the studio’s next upcoming Bethesda RPG to land exclusively for the Xbox Series X/S console and PC. As a result, a lot of marketing is going into this game for the Xbox team. Even the head of Microsoft’s Xbox, Phil Spencer, spoke about how much time he’s spent so far in the game. 

There are some big games still slated to hit the marketplace this year. Starfield is one of the biggest and most anticipated titles for Xbox Series X/S and PC players. We’ve been waiting on this game for years. Bethesda initially unveiled this game as a next-generation exclusive, but of course, since then, we have seen ZeniMax Media get acquired by Microsoft. So, with this game quickly approaching its release date, the developers behind Starfield have continued to market this game as much as possible. With Gamescom going on, Pete Hines recently commented to fans during the Xbox livestream on what not to skip out on.