Starfield Direct: Everything Revealed, Including Space Travel, Character Creation, Companions, and More

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The long-awaited Starfield Direct has arrived following the Xbox Games Showcase and it gave us an extensive look at the much-anticipated game from Bethesda Game Studios.

The Starfield Direct lasted over 40 minutes and was packed with gameplay footage and developers discussing many of the game's features, including combat, exploration, space travel, character creation, companions, outpost building, and so much more. It was a lot to take in, and this guide will break it all down for you!

Starfield is going to be huge, there is no doubt about that, especially considering Bethesda has re-confirmed there will be over 1,000 planets for players to visit. While every planet won't be filled with life-changing quests and some will barren besides some resources to collect, Bethesda has crafted a galaxy that is filled to the brim with places to go.

These planets will be a sight to behold, as well, as they will be filled with alien flora and fauna and the lighting on the planet will be determined by the type of star in the system and the atmosphere on the planet.

Bethesda also wants players to have unique experiences that are still hand-crafted, which means players may have different experiences from their friends who have visited the same planet. Bethesda's planet tech generates the planet "as procedural content, but the hand-crafted content itself comes as the player explores."

This means that Starfield will build a planet as players approach it by stitching together "a block of terrain." Following that process, the game will add interesting places to explore and creatures to encounter and more around the planet that will keep things fresh and unique to each player. There will obviously be main story missions that all players will