Your biggest Starfield questions, answered

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There is a lot to do in Starfield, whether you want to build ships, live a life of crime, or maybe just be a good guy going through space. With all that customization, it can be easy to get lost in the sauce and confused by many of the options.

For your sake, we compiled some of the questions we had both before starting Starfield and had as we played, which we answered (to the best of our abilities) below. We even pulled some questions and answers from our launch day AMA — which is more expansive and has more niche questions — so you should check that out, too.

You are a space miner who gets wrapped up with a group looking for these mysterious space artifacts, which leads to other mystical inhuman events. We don’t want to spoil things for you, so all you need to know is that you are just a miner who is looking for some precious artifacts around the galaxy.

Definitely more like Skyrim, but with shooting. (There’s no V.A.T.S or shooting assist like in the Fallout series.)

Surprisingly good! Bethesda shooters aren’t exactly known for being butter-smooth, and while it’s not as precise as, say, Halo Infinite, the first-person shooting in Starfield is akin to a mid-tier Xbox 360 shooter — aka, perfectly passable.

Starfield is, through and through, a Bethesda game — a staggeringly large scale RPG that focuses more on creating a sense of place than anything else. If you’ve bounced off the studio’s previous games, you’ll likely tire of Starfield too. Yes, the game has impeccable midcentury NASA space vibes, but vibes can only get you so far.

If you’re curious about how long it takes to beat Starfield’s main campaign, a few of us at Polygon have completed all of the story missions in 20 hours. But it’s tough to say when you’d