Starfield’s short lifespan can be improved with regular content updates. If Starfield’s randomly generated planet formula were often updated, players may experience drastically diverse planets with every couple of updates. For previously saved games, this means exploring planets that haven’t been p...
Planets in Starfield are procedurally generated when the player arrives there, creating a unique planet on the fly using a selection of handcrafted locations and events to populate them. To add to this, as revealedin an interview with Todd Howard by Kinda Funny Games, there are both single-bi...
On those first two points, we have absolutely no idea where Starfield is at. Until we see some gameplay footage, there’s just no way to tell how it plays. We haven’t even seen stylized cinematic interpretations of gameplay, the way we have with the Xbox showcase closer, Arkane Austin...
With "Starfield," Bethesda took that approach a few steps further, going from single levels to entire planets. Discussing the team's use of PCG in an extended gameplay overview, Jean-Francois Levesque, lead technical producer on "Starfield," said it involves a foundation of PCG complimented by...
with planetary births, and a roadmap for future studies of the makeup of planet- and comet-forming regions. The new study unlocks clues about the role of molecules in planetary system formation, and whether these young planetary systems in the making have what it takes to host...
Todd Howard, director of Bethesda Game Studios’ next big title,Starfield, has announced that although the game will contain more than one thousand planets, only ten percent of them will contain life. As Howard explained in an interview with Kinda Funny Games, the intention behind this percentage...
So, it seems like a lifetime ago whenNo Man’s Skycarried the weight of being one of gaming’s most “disappointing” launches ever.Now, look at it. Graduated with flying colors, got the job of its dreams, and is living its best life. Today,No Man’s Sky...