Starfield gameplay trailer suggests connection to Fallout universe

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The Starfield gameplay trailer has been pored over and picked clean, as fans of Bethesda’s upcoming space RPG search for clues about story, mechanics, and of course, the Starfield release date. A recent find, however, suggests something more subtle, a sly hint that the worlds of Starfield, Fallout: New Vegas, and Fallout 76 might be linked.

We already know there are aliens in Fallout. They’re in basically every Fallout game, and even have their own expansion in the form of Fallout 3’s Mothership Zeta — Fallout 3, incidentally, contains my personal favourite appearance of the aliens, via the incredibly rare Firelance Event, whereby you spot a burning UFO hurtling through the sky, then have to locate the crash site, complete with dead alien bodies and the titular OP handgun. I’ve always found it very spooky, for some reason. But I digress.

Aliens are in Fallout – okay, there’s our first, galactic connection. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if you encountered them – the little, green, 1950s-looking dudes from the various Wastelands – on one of Starfield’s 1,000 planets, either. But there’s another link between the space and apocalyptic RPGs. Fallout and Fallout 2 both contain an enemy called a Floater – it’s also present, in much more detailed, 3D form, in Fallout 76. Likewise, it was meant to appear in Fallout: New Vegas, but was ultimately cut from the final game, remaining present in the file archive in name only. Goofy, big-headed, kind of dopey-looking things, Floaters are a regular companion of Fallout 76’s super mutants. And according to the Starfield gameplay trailer, it’s possible they can also be found in space.

The “Diseased Metropus Floater”, shown fleetingly in that first Starfield footage, bears a striking