How Starfield's Outposts Improve Upon Older Settlement Systems

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Bethesda came out with a whopping 15-minutegameplay reveal for Starfield during the Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase 2022. The video showed off the upcoming game’s environments, storylines, and other gameplay features, among which is the new outpost system.

Starfield’s outpost building system appears to be an improved version of Fallout 4’s settlement building mechanic. The trailer only showed players a glimpse of what the outposts might look like. Still, it’s worth going into how Bethesda improved the feature, especially in comparison to the systems in Fallout 4.

Starfield Should Focus More on Its Own Environmental Puzzles Than Updating Prior Systems

At around the 10-minute mark of the Starfield gameplay reveal video, players get to see the outpost building system and how it works. The new building interface already looks cleaner than that of Fallout 4, with all the information laid out much more neatly. Additionally, the window displaying the different building structures appears much easier to navigate. It also shows the name of each structure, as opposed to Fallout 4’s interface, wherein the player had to scroll through each item to see what it was.

Aside from this, Starfield also presents players with the option to toggle their view of the outpost. This is something the players wished was available in Fallout 4. There’s even a cool Fallout 4 mod that integrates the option in-game. Luckily, the feature is already built into Starfield.

Moving past the UI improvements, it seems Starfield’s base building mechanic will also be more flexible than Fallout 4. Specifically, it will allow players to set up an outpost seemingly wherever they want. Again, this was something players wanted in Fallout 4. This issue was remedied by