Everyting we now know from the Starfield Direct

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Bethesda has given us a long, extensive look at Starfield following the Xbox Games Showcase, revealing so much about their epic sci-fi RPG. Starfield is coming out on 6th September 2023 across Xbox Series X|S and PC.

Honestly, it looks wildly ambitious, and it totally makes sense why it’s taken this long for Bethesda to bring this game together.

Character customisation is built off new capture technology that Bethesda is using, the studio taking scans of tons of people with different skin tones and racial backgrounds, then blending it together for creating realistic looking NPCs. The same technology feeds into the character creation tool

You’ll wake up after blacking out on the job as an Argos Extractor. From there you can pick from 40 character presets that are starting points for a deep dive into picking hair, teeth and more. You’ll be able to choose from different backgrounds as well, which can inform later interactions and conversation options.

Any character background you pick comes with three traits by default, and these include things like:

You can get rid of some of these traits – like shooting the annoying super fan in the back.

There’s five skill trees that you can trawl through. Every time you level up you earn a skill point that can be used to unlock a skill. After that point, you can improve these skills by performing increasingly difficult challenges to rank up. Each skill has four ranks.

All of this allows you to head down different play styles, whether it’s stealthy encounters, diplomatic and conversational ones, or ramping up combat abilities.

As we already knew, you join the Constellation group. This is the last bastion of space exploration, who discover mysterious alien artifacts that you then seek to uncover