Starfield brings back Fallout 4 favourites, ideal for controller users

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In case you’re living under an asteroid, the Starfield release date is now official. Director Todd Howard confirmed that the next Bethesda RPG game will land in September during a brief video teaser, but in doing so also gave us a few more teasing glimpses of what we can expect from the final game. As such, eagle-eyed Starfield fans can spot that the video confirms it will bring back the Fallout 4 favourites system, rather than the likes of ones used in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim or Fallout 76.

Gameplay featured in the announcement, which can be seen below, includes a quick look at the player switching between their various weapons and equipment. We did get a glimpse of what such a system could look like in the initial gameplay reveal that teased the 1,000 planets in Starfield, but it looks to be in a more final form here that closely resembles the cross-shaped quick-swap menus of Fallout 4.

You can see the moment at 2:16 in the Bethesda video below:

This confirmation is undoubtedly great news for those who plan to play Starfield on a controller – it’s certainly preferable to the clunky favourites menu of Skyrim, for example. Personally, I quite like Fallout 76’s radial-style menu, but if you have access to a d-pad then the ability to quickly tap one given direction one to three times to easily grab the tool you need is a very handy way to play.

Mouse and keyboard players might be a little less satisfied, however. As someone who played Fallout 4 that way, I always found it a bit of a strange one to navigate with a mouse. I’m not too worried, though. Fallout 4 had a much better solution for keyboard players, after all: simply allowing each slot to be assigned to one of your 0-9 numerical keys. As such it’s likely that