Starfield gameplay trailer hints at sophisticated space piracy

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The Starfield gameplay trailer must be feeling pretty exhausted. Picked at and pored over since its reveal at Summer Games Fest, it continues offering up tiny details on Bethesda’s upcoming space RPG, hoping, perhaps, fans might eventually leave it alone and go back to Fallout and Skyrim. But until we get that precious Starfield release date, the first gameplay trailer is all we have, and it’s still, surprisingly hiding a few choice secrets, including a hint at what it might be like to be a space pirate.

If you check out all the information we have on the Starfield release date, rumours, and news you’ll know the Bethesda RPG sadly does not support direct space-to-planet travel: if you’ve been exploring the cosmos and want to touch down on terra firma again, it’s probable you’ll need to go through a loading screen, rather than a seamless transition. Docking with other ships, however, seems to be much different. If you want to converge with a fellow space traveller, or, more likely than not, plunder their ship for whatever you can get your oxygen-suited hands on, all the information you need will be right at your fingertips.

As spotted over on the highly dedicated and eagle-eyed Starfield subreddit, when you commence docking, your ship’s computer presents an overview of all the dockee ship’s systems. You can see if their engines work, if they have live weapons, and if there is a functioning life-support system. This will allow you to know in advance whether or not the ship you intend to board is worth the effort, a helpful kind of preview before you load up your guns and go full pirate mode.

If an opposing ship has a decent weapons system, you might want to think twice. On the contrary, if the life support is down, it’s