Your Starfield ship looks set to salvage scrap from scuppered foes

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Building and upgrading your Starfield ship is, naturally, set to be a huge component of the upcoming space game from the RPG veterans behind Fallout and Skyrim at Bethesda Games. As we wait for more news to arrive, the eager community is pulling apart every inch of the gameplay we have, searching for any modicum of potential new information – and it looks like you’ll be able to grab loot directly from destroyed ships after Starfield space battles.

With Bethesda saying to expect news on the Starfield release date “very soon” and plans in the works for a fully fledged, standalone Starfield showcase courtesy of Microsoft, it seems likely that we’ll be flooded with fresh footage to fulfil those interstellar cravings. In the meantime, however, eagle-eyed enthusiasts have spotted a very intriguing UI element that could tell us a lot about how space looting might work.

During a Starfield gameplay trailer, a sequence showing off the space combat against Crimson Fleet Ghost ships – one of the Starfield factions you’ll encounter on your travels – there’s a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment where the player blasts apart one ship and turns immediately to fire upon another.

Between the explosion, the rapid change in focus, and the overall speed of the whole thing in action, it’s easily missed, but pause at the right moment and there’s actually a very clear diamond-shaped ‘loot chest’ icon that pops up over the destroyed hull. This seems like fairly clear-cut evidence that you’ll be able to nab resources from defeated enemy craft.

There’s no clear indication how you’ll actually go about picking things up yet. Perhaps you’ll just be able to tap a button as you zoom past and handily suck everything straight into storage on the fly, or