Constellation Questions: Talking Starfield with Todd Howard

We know you have questions about Starfield. What is the character traits system like? Is Starfield hard sci-fi? In this video, Game Director Todd Howard responds to some of the community’s questions, including questions about games that inspired him while creating Starfield, customization, Starfield’s persuasion system and more.
Starfield arrives exclusively on Xbox Series X|S and PC in 2023. Play it day one with Xbox Game Pass.
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[@IRead614]

Todd Howard could literally sell anything, I swear he could sell me a toaster for 300 dollars and I’d thank him for it

[@moxq2to]

It just works

[@TheMoistBanana]

I got some ocean front property I'd like to sell you in Tennessee.

[@AdmiralSloth]

Don't worry, he says. The lobster will have 16x the detail, he says. The lobster will have new intelligent radiant ai, he says.

[@GreenPawelito]

@@AdmiralSloth 🤣

[@Lindsey_Lockwood]

hey you wanna invest your life savings into some NFTs? You sound like my type of guy

[@KarlRock]

I wish this was longer 😭 I can’t wait for Starfield.

[@FrostySkull]

Woh i used to watch ur videos when i had time. Love to Karl bai, from bd.

[@sean7332]

yeah it's really really short

[@mrbust999]

Love your vids bro

[@nfals6134]

Didn't know you're also fans of bethesda buggy games too🤘

[@bones0013]

same

[@HexLabz]

I love his good humor towards the jokes about him.

[@tylertheguy3160]

Whenever you become a meme, the best option is to embrace. Also I genuinely do like Todd but over the years he has indeed lied quite a bit.

[@harrasika]

@@tylertheguy3160 Idk, most of his 'lies' were just him being excited and overpromising a bit, or people just flat out taking him out of context.

[@tylertheguy3160]

@@harrasika I agree, I don't think he's ever actually meant to mislead people. It's kind of like how Peter Molyneux would get ahead of himself and make promises about the Fable series that were technologically impossible to actually make happen. I don't think he meant to lie either, he just didn't realize what they could actually do.

[@ikariameriks]

@@tylertheguy3160 So... He lied.

[@UN-Seki]

Yeah. Overselling is not always the same as lying. Sometimes you can tell truth but picking words bigger than the real thing. That's exactly what the front man of a company is supposed to do anyway, which is Todd's role in these presentations and interviews. Not saying that it's fair, but Todd gets more flame for it than he deserves. It's a common practice in marketing. You have to learn to lower your expectations yourself too.

[@Girder3]

I would like Starfield to have a hardcore mode with permadeath... ....which immediately loads you into the beginning of Skyrim.

[@lateral1385]

😂

[@RealUlrichLeland]

_DIES_ _Fade from black:_ ⬛⚫◾▫️◽⚪☁️🌥️⛅☀️ ᴛʜᴇ ᴇʟᴅᴇʀ ꜱᴄʀᴏʟʟꜱ ᴠ 𝐒𝐊𝐘𝐑𝐈𝐌 🐴💂🛒🙎🛌🙍🥷 "Hey you, you're finally awake...

[@moxq2to]

💀

[@KK-fi6ms]

I would like a hardcore mode with permadeath... that deletes your save game, uninstalls the game and removes it from your account, destroys your computer, and burns down your house.

[@shadowarrior5928]

@@KK-fi6ms that way you take it more serius

[@LoneVaultWanderer]

Todd looks so damn passionate about this game. I think BGS needed to develop something brand new. A fresh start.

[@Zarcaster]

Get well soon Lone! hopefully you can discuss about this 😀

[@The_Gent]

I hope they do more with novels, graphic novels, comics and other lore books this time like they do for TES. They have NOTHING lore book wise for Fallout besides one Fallout 4 artbook, and thats IT.

[@FasterthanLight11]

This is apparently the one Bethsoft vets have wanted to make for awhile. So they might bring the mustard extra hard

[@tylerbarse2866]

Also the financial element. BGS went from living Paycheck to Paycheck to having the wealthiest backer in the industry. What we're seeing now is the BGS team unchecked, and able to pursue a creative direction, not a direction guided by the profits of the shareholders.

[@wonkabars6982]

Been waiting years for them to make a new IP. Bout time.

[@adamfreeksack0314]

I definitely think the fuel idea was the right call for standard difficulties, but I wouldn’t mind a hardcore mode where fuel management is a much bigger factor and if you run out you’re lost in space

[@ItDoesMatter]

Yeah it's cool for pushing realism a little harder and squeeze some more immersion, but I remember falling into those situations a couple of times in "Elite Dangerous". It gets very tedious and repetitive when you have to always plan your trip so you don't run out on fuel. I guess Bethesda could implement it in a much more entertaining way, but again it's a good call in my opinion as well.

[@adamfreeksack0314]

@@ItDoesMatter It basically works the same as the power armor system in Fallout 4

[@arbitrary_thoughts]

@@ItDoesMatter I think it's a good call as well, but I do think it would be great for a survival mode. Just make sure there's ways to prepare and or manage to get out of the scenario. Thete's certainly a good amount of people who enjoy that sort of management, planning, and tedium. Just look at all of the survival mods for Skyrim and Fo4.

[@OriGummie]

Skyrim and Fallout have survival modes, so I guess the fuel system might be implemented in Starfield, and if anything, there will be a mod that does it I’m sure Edit: Starsector has a simple fuel system that works great. You can salvage defeated ships for more fuel and such

[@nighturnal9708]

You can't have Fuel Rats in a single player game.

[@DagothDaddy]

Todd seeming downright giddy when talking about Starfield is so refreshing. Especially in the age of dead eyed presenters announcing the 50th live service action game with gear score.

[@alaskanyeti907]

@@telomettotittettori8218 that's unfortunately what all the AAA publishers want us to believe

[@leolizard3152]

@@telomettotittettori8218 It’s a good idea on paper, but terrible in execution. No one will probably be able to do the concept right.

[@sspectre8217]

I think Bethesda and Todd in particular have wanted to make a space game like Starfield for years, maybe even since before Oblivion. No wonder he’s giddy

[@elama293]

@@sspectre8217 Even before Morrowind they had ownership of a different space based IP. Unfortunately they lost ownership, but even in the days of Daggerfall they wanted to make a game like this. Makes me excited to see how they make it work.

[@hovsep56]

Tbh it would be pretty cool that each time you die you get transfered to a older bethesda game till arena.

[@LordOfLightningSkies]

The fuel limiting could be a good Survival-esque mechanic for a more Hardcore difficulty setting.

[@sean7332]

yep or an option in settings, personally I find it irritating in a game like no man's sky it just restricts exploration

[@ethangueck5206]

I personally am extremely hapy that fuel will not be an issue. I cant wait to experiece starfield, i am not sure I want to be stuck in space.

[@doctormoobbc]

@@ethangueck5206 I always hated it in NMS and am very relieved that you can explore more freely. Imagine if in Skyrim you needed to stop at farms along the way to feed your horse? Not my idea of fun.

[@elvanlukas8161]

LOL. Fuel. In space.

[@_S.H_]

Todd admitted there would be mods for that, and these actually are the type of mods I would be interested in.

[@aderek79]

Very glad to see a return to a more traditional dialogue system.

[@sean7332]

I always preferred it

[@balthasargelt447]

A long time coming, hope next bethesda title keep it as well

[@Varil92]

Yeah, Fallout 4 was a nightmare.

[@alexlyster3459]

@@Varil92 I can see why they tried to make the changes that they did for Fallout 4, but it was just so limiting and didn't work. Very happy they're going back to what did work rather than doubling down.

[@shinobismoke1466]

@@alexlyster3459 I can't see it , especially after NV and how that game was such a hit.

[@anoniemuss824]

Starfield is Todd’s boyhood dream finally coming to life.

[@veryrare432hz]

That’s why this game will hit different t

[@deluxedecoy]

I think that will motivate him to make this his best game

[@jmyname8290]

Thank God for Todd Howard and all of the hard workers at Bethesda. We love you guys and can't wait to see the amazing space you've created.

[@jiffy6969]

Thank Todd for God Howard

[@reapthewhirlwind6915]

Godd Howard *

[@sanescobar2369]

Sarcasm right? You can't be serious about this liar todd

[@NinjaWiener]

@@sanescobar2369 why is it a problem for you? is it because you're a nobody and will never be relevant? Quit being bothered by someone simply stating they love the devs.

[@BuddiiiBoiii]

That dialog system looks incredible.

[@jordanrivas7398]

It just looks like a normal dialogue system. It’s not bad at all but let’s reel it in a bit.

[@BuddiiiBoiii]

@@jordanrivas7398 whoosh

[@PepeLa_]

@@jordanrivas7398 Hey, in comparison to FO4's BioWare dialogue system this one looks incredible.

[@jordanrivas7398]

@@BuddiiiBoiii Nice save bruh 😂

[@BuddiiiBoiii]

@@jordanrivas7398 You're still not getting it bruh. The community has been asking for that dialog interface that was like Skyrim. But they went even farther and made a persuasion "mini game" like Oblivion had. So yes, I stand by what I said that it looks incredible.

[@Mihail_G]

Please, more of these! Definitely feeling a bit more excited after every diary, and also give us a nice insight into the development. Looks really promising!

[@marekjanik9962]

"I will judge them not by what they now say, but by their final work"

[@calebszyszkiewicz719]

@@marekjanik9962 youre so prolific and wise thank you!

[@marekjanik9962]

@@calebszyszkiewicz719 To jest cytat gamoniu

[@thegreatresetofthehumanrac664]

@@marekjanik9962 Making sound decisions is cringe, just buy everything

[@stevenumerator]

I played Traveller back in the day when it was first released decades ago. You could actually die during character creation, especially if your background involved a dangerous career like the military. T-shirts immortalized this with lines like: “You haven’t lived until you’ve died during character creation.” Todd referencing that pen-and-paper game was like music to my ears and makes me very hopeful for Starfield. :)

[@vidoxi]

That's hilarious, I love that. Reminds me of how you can be attacked during dialogue in fo4.

[@zeedub8560]

Same here. As soon as he said "pen and paper" I was like, "Traveller? Did he play Traveller?" That got me excited to a degree that surprised me. I guess I miss it more than I thought. It was my introduction to RPG's.

[@wonkabars6982]

This game is already shaping up to have some of the best-looking armor sets they’ve designed to date. That space pirate’s helmet looks insane.

[@CoolColJ]

instead of an eye patch he has gaff tape - LOL

[@traversal6881]

Who doesn't like good head? I mean helmet.

[@finalxcx]

I was thinking the same.

[@TheRedRaven_]

It's a wet dream for me, I'm a huge fan of Bethesda games and Elite Dangerous...this is the game I've dreamed about :')

[@Lindsey_Lockwood]

this might even be better than fallout 76.... take all my money todd.... poop in my mouth for 60$

[@big_matt3496]

Todd being aware of the memory leaks in his games is peek comedy

[@Ma1q444]

Can you elaborate

[@RobertPayne556]

He could.

[@RuthwikRao]

@@Ma1q444 back in the day when they launched Morrowind on the OG Xbox, the game could run out of memory during loading screens, so basically a solution they found was just... restarting the xbox during the loading screen without the player knowing and it worked.

[@ShadoShade]

Todd: You can remove traits. "KID STUFF" trait: Your parents are alive and well. Oh no.

[@alteredgrey]

Thought that immediately lol

[@Dread_the_Deathclaw]

Oh Lord......

[@brianbitner]

Ha. To be clear, he was saying you can remove the negatives that come with a trait. So in that case, you'd be removing the 10% hit on your income.

[@LordOfLightningSkies]

Parents? Oh, you mean a free house thats fully furnished 😁

[@ShadoShade]

@@brianbitner No, no, he says "removes the entire trait." The good and the bad parts of it.

[@BaconDrive]

Regardless of what kind of games you enjoy, you can't deny Todd's got an eye for good UI design and game-feel. I love that BGS games aren't in-your-face with the systems, and let you interract with he world organically. That's kindof always been a Todd special.

[@DomCombatVids]

You can thank the Creation Engine for that. World interactivity is one of the reasons they never got rid of it

[@decom707]

Every single Bethesda game so far needed mods to fix the UI. I do not know where you are pulling that good UI from.

[@DomCombatVids]

@@decom707 very subjective. I love Bethesda UI. I've played every Beth mainline game since Morrowind (save for FO3) and out of all the mods I use, none of them are UI

[@BaconDrive]

@@decom707 hard disagree, but to each their own. To me, the smaller the ui the better. Ideally I don't want to see anything on my screen at all that isn't the game.

[@_Chad_ThunderCock]

@@DomCombatVids their biggest reason is modding

[@CharlesVanexX]

Don't care what anyone says....I am elated and extremely excited for this game.

[@mspeed101]

You've been running computers out of memory for 40 years now!

[@forsign410]

I don't think you could have made a better comment!

[@stagslatts8782]

This was a great comment!

[@mspeed101]

@@forsign410 Thank you, took me a while to come up with...

[@lesmoe524]

Can we appreciate the fact this man has been programming games since the "Apple ||," what a legend.

[@fargoth391]

Gigachad

[@mdd4296]

He has never actually programmed. He was hired as a producer since 1994 and has been a producer since then, with contribution in designing and writing depends on the game.

[@tronam]

@@mdd4296 These weren’t commercial games. They were games he programmed for himself as a kid. I did that too on the Apple ][e back in the day. Many modern game devs got their feet wet on that computer because BASIC was such an easy to learn programming language.

[@darkmarc]

@@tronam Same. There were great computer magazines with pages of code you could even type in by transcribing them, which would generate simple, playable games.

[@deadgoroth2581]

@@tronam Thanks to him for popularizing DLC's and monetizing free mods aswell

[@Baraz_Red]

Love the concept of spending a resource for Persuasion, rather than the usual random roll or auto-fail/auto-success. So you choose what/when it is important.

[@pewlivepie5006]

I usually go for a diplomat/speech build. That will be interesting!

[@henco8716]

Yea it does look interesting!

[@traversal6881]

Same. It feels more like realistic conversation. If you try to persuade over time, you lose the ability to do so because you become less effective as the conversation drags on. Making a point system to options mimics that 'drain' of ability, so to speak. I like it.

[@jensb9536]

It’s probably been mentioned already but I hope that the “Hero Worshipped” trait is a reference to the Adoring Fan in Oblivion. If they can get the original voice actor or at least have them say “By Azura” I’d be happy

[@handiro8585]

"Azura" would feel out of place, he likely will say it with Starfield's gods instead: "By the Great Serpent".

[@pancake_the_pancake]

I would love having the adoring fan voice actor to come back for this trait

[@RobertPayne556]

By Microsoft Azure.

[@liamhewton6989]

Looks like you got your wish LOL

[@jensb9536]

@@liamhewton6989 It’s gonna be the first trait I pick

[@DarkMage1972]

There are fun ways to deal with the out of fuel situation. If in space, send out a distress signal and see who responds (friend, neutral asking for a favor in return, or an enemy). If an enemy faction responds, they force dock with your ship and you and your crew fight them fps style. If you lose you have to reload a previous save point, if you win you get their ship, now you have two ships. If you ran out while near a planet, you do a controlled crash land. Then scans show the locations of materials to get the ship repaired and fueled, involving radiant quests. If you decide to send a distress signal while on planet, the other scenario may or may not play. Sounds like a lot of fun to me.

[@manix429]

Starting to feel that anticipation and excitement that only Single Player Bethesda game launches can bring

[@seaneppel7465]

Pumped for this game. Always great to hear Todd talk, love his passion and knowledge.

[@CHICKENNUGGET69360]

Screw Todd, Screw Starfield, I just want Jess Finster lmao!

[@erisk.1707]

Simp alert

[@lyonoxproductions]

@@CHICKENNUGGET69360 Put your dick away Waltuh

[@TrendTrove171]

I’m extremely excited for starfield. Bethesda just has a way with open worlds and feelings I can’t describe. Just the freedom you feel when launching their games are amazing. Cannot wait to play this at launch.

[@fafanir82]

I am exited to but I am still waiting for a review or metacritic score .tbh i still don't trust bethesda

[@AnonYmouS00816]

​@@fafanir82 I don't always trust metacritic. Critics can hate on a good game and can praise a bad game.

[@LOKIUSLOKI]

@@fafanir82 it’s best to try the game yourself why should you trust a critic’s perspective if you can trust yours? You don’t know if a critic is lying or not so I would suggest try the game yourself

[@areoladan5580]

Fwaaaah props to whoever did the character model at 3:58, homie looks rad as hell and the weathering gives a lot of depth to his character

[@Sworswmsdmkx]

I'm totally looting it from his corpse when I kill him...(or get it as soon as I join them, that works too)

[@DanHigdon]

As an old Traveller and Sun Dog player, I am so excited for this game.

[@eridor]

I play Traveller! I'm 20 and my group has a game going every other Friday.

[@YodaPotter117]

Traveller is so good

[@Caz0r]

I can't wait to die in character creation

[@DanHigdon]

​@@Caz0r A recent chargen session we had was so bloody that we started making up stories about how each character died. We'd roll for the skill they WOULD have gotten had they survived the term, then figured out how earning that skill got them killed. We decided that these characters were all people the surviving characters knew from their childhood or service terms, and their tragic stories became memories for our party.

[@Gazbeard]

I'm 63 and still have the original boxed set of Traveller rules ... and a cupboard full of self-written adventures and campaigns. Maybe I should have tried to get them published?

[@frbrbrgrblgrr7777]

I have gripes with Bethesda/Zeni and I have gripes with the team's ultimate direction choice. But I do not hold ill will towards Todd Howard. He gets to be both the one that gets praise and the one that gets flak. It's a double edged blade but there is an entire team, boards, directors, things could be amazing but they still have to keep a certain quota, release time, etc. etc. This man has brought us few games he personally has helped in but YEARS of entertainment. They try to improve and sometimes it doesn't work (F4 Dialogue Wheel) and look what happens. We got the old menu back in Starfield. These guys try to do better for us while keeping the suits happy and trying to reach a larger audience on release so they can continue to bring us games. I will be calm and when it drops I will buy it and make my own decisions as I do with everything. Just remember if there is a glaring issue, it's not just one man, it's a team and they are all being ultimately steered by a group. What I'm saying is, don't be pricks.

[@TheIronMelon]

It's unfortunately what happens since he's the face of the company essentially. Even when he isn't directly responsible for some decisions, he ends up getting the pushback

[@jeffreyschilder7468]

Agreed, even traits from Fallout are back in Starfield! They looked at even the tiny criticisms and improved on them. I haven’t seen a big company do something like that in a while

[@fueldbyirony8126]

God man that dialogue system looks so much fun and getting an idea of what elder scrolls 6 dialogue is gonna be like has me so excited

[@NanocDark99]

What does look special to you? I can only see that u can choose from some answers as always.... do i miss something?

[@steveninsav]

@@NanocDark99 yes your speech level is too low

[@adepressedcatwithabadnicot246]

@@NanocDark99 speculation with points and persuasion progression to be balanced against a "pressure system" picking answer that'll fill the persuasion bar before turn limit and without over pressuring the person. It reminds me of godfather system a little bit you gotta push them but push them too far and they snap.

[@aditsood9369]

can you explain how the +1, +3, +5 thing works in the dialogue option? i didn't quite get that part.

[@Mr.Autodelete]

@@NanocDark99 you forget the last mainline bethesda game to come out was fallout 4 where you only had four options that never had anything to do with your skills and where voiced they showed here they the dialogue is no longer voiced which for many people is huge including me. Also, it looks like there are more options than there were in skyrim with more options being tied to your skill! Combine this with the sheer amount of dialogue and you know this is going to be an incredibly fun roleplay experience

[@Damarcodude]

Can't wait to see more about Starfield! The whole team is doing some amazing work!!!

[@timur72299]

^

[@lif6737]

^

[@thatcanadianguy7699]

Interested in this persuasion system. Reminds me of Fallout 76's actually, with the multiple stage persuasion. Also, obligatory: "You've been running computers out of memory for 40 years!"

[@StephenYuan]

I am looking forward to convincing some bad guys to surrender/kill themselves.

[@PeterHarlequinWhite]

Todd being self aware is the best part of this video. More with him please!

[@cadiancommando1758]

So happy to hear that Traveller was one of Todd's inspirations for Starfield. Makes me very happy!

[@JFK31]

We love you very much, Uncle Todd. 😊👍🏻👍🏻

[@sonystarling2189]

TODD IS GETTING OLDER. BREAKING MY HEART

[@charlesdjones1]

It's life, what can I say? I'm thankful he stuck it out after 76 and gave us one last adventure with Starfield. I truly believe if everything goes as planned for this release, he is going to hang it up on a high note and let the next generation handle ESVI. Just my thoughts.

[@anengineerandacat]

Can definitely feel the energy coming out of Todd from the new IP work; I really hope they manage to hit the vision they are looking for.

[@zZRedVeNoMZz]

Ill always praise these moments, the subtle hype before a huge game that feeling of " man I can't wait to explore this world " and not knowing what beholds. Had this feeling with fallout 4 and new Vegas and it's a very welcoming feeling. Just something about listening to Todd every game months before release makes me happy to be a Bethesda fan lol Can't wait and thanks for all the great games!!

[@KRG30001]

Fantastic! Can’t wait to sink another decade into this

[@cristobaldemetrius7406]

If there'll be another decade :))) but yeah, who knows xD

[@MrBigah]

My boy Todd lookin’ fit! Putting time in Starfield AND the gym.

[@l.n.9688]

I once played a traveller campaign and am glad to see Todd Howard knows it as well

[@strfish1]

Love the traits we have seen so far.

[@GabrielyanAkop]

the amount of details on the suit and helmet of the space pirate is amazing

[@Silver_Rayne]

Loving the look of the dialog/persuasion interface! I hope to see more of these episodes soon!

[@Nu7s42]

Really looking forward to the game, not just at launch but for many more years to come. You make the type of games that last a lifetime, experiencing them again from childhood to seniority. Thank you.

[@JS-tg1hv]

Todd is clearly passionate about video games, and that is a big reason why Bethesda and it’s games are so great

[@morty18]

Todd name dropping Traveller is all I need to get hyped

[@AMaupin2]

Totally stoked for this game! I shall patiently live on the scraps we get from you guys until it's game on! And, thank the team for their hard work.

[@highskilleddude1440]

I love how passionate Todd are about this game (and all the Bethesda games)! Thank You for creating these games all over the years! 🙏

[@MrAmad3us]

Brother was struggling to keep his eyes level 😂

[@Drackas1]

This is exactly what I wanted, and what we needed Great content for fans as always!!!

[@someguy._.]

Can't wait to spend hundreds of hours into this game!

[@SpontaneousWeasel]

This looks great. Take your time on this one! Happy to wait for the finished product ☺️

[@hellssurprise9338]

Bethesda has broad shoulders with companies that want to rush them. they normally take ages on games which isn't always a bad thing (just hope theres not many bugs they leave in)

[@100Wilbur999]

Very excited to mod! Imagine the storytelling possibilities if people gave the time necessary to make their own planet

[@JCtheVictor]

The mods are going to be sooo good!

[@easyHoax]

3:31 This one scene looks awesome. I love those helmets

[@leviticus6105]

i LOVE the look of the new persuasion system. So cool that you have multiple options with thier own degree of difficulty

[@PepeLa_]

The dialogue system looks cool, I wasn't a fan of FO4's so seeing you take a more traditional approach makes me happy. 😊

[@user-ut5ki2fi6b]

I loved a voiced protagonist but the actual lines available to them were subpar. It wasn't on the same level as Mass Effect nor Dragon Age. It COULD be though. I hope one day they try it again.

[@PepeLa_]

​@@user-ut5ki2fi6b I hope they don't, having protagonist dialogue that's in-depth as well as voiced in an RPG of this scale would take absolutely forever to pull off. It's also not even worth it to most people because it hinders your ability to roleplay, like it doesn't matter how you different you make your characters because they'll have the same voice every single time. Based on the feedback they got and seeing how most people rejoiced when they announced Starfield's silent protagonist I can't see them trying it again anytime soon.

[@mrxlvcrft]

This community director is so gorgeous my god. What a beautiful person.

[@alisterx8698]

You know it’s a serious video when you have the theme music and Todd Howard coming in.

[@arbitrary_thoughts]

I'm very excited for Starfield! I'm very interested in all the the customization options: character looks, skills, ships, outposts, items, etc. Always excited for these videos, thank you!

[@macboyter3753]

Oh man I am so pumped! Thank you Todd and Bethesda for doing something new! (Of course still beyond excited for ES6 :))

[@TheSoleDweller]

Keep it up, Bethesda. This looks exciting !

[@sannerpatton3589]

Love this kind of thing, Bethesda. I think this will really help with your relationship with the community-helps people set their expectations correctly.

[@cory0778]

Love the direction this game is going

[@Joov]

Wait no come back I want more

[@williamb3740]

I like how really excited Howard appears to talk about the game. You can tell this is his opus, this what he’s had in mind since he was 12.

[@fastex-inside5240]

The background music / soundtrack. I'm crying... it sounds so calming and I can't f*** wait for friday. To Bethesda: Even if it wouldn't be perfect: It doesn't need to be. I know how much love you spend in this project.

[@MrSh1ppey]

Awesome to wake up to this, can’t wait to wake up and play someday.

[@SeanForeman]

Whoa, he actually knows how a warp drive would work. I'm impressed

[@aldunlop4622]

Nobody knows how a warp drive would work, or we’d be building them.

[@ryanfitzsimmons2426]

@@aldunlop4622 Military here!: we've been building secretly in Solar Warden

[@BigWheel.]

@@ryanfitzsimmons2426 illuminati here: you weren't supposed to say that.

[@SeanForeman]

@@aldunlop4622 I should have said he understands the current theoretical approach to a warp drive: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jJyYk6t-mtl_atU

[@ryanfitzsimmons2426]

@@BigWheel. Oh sorry my bad

[@xteel1013]

...it looks incredible the dialogue system they are really going back to their RPG roots I love to see it 😊💚....

[@husainzaidi]

I love the direction the game is heading in! This 3 min video actually got me more hyped than all previous ones. The details shown here is really encouraging! Dialog, Quests, removable Traits!

[@methical__]

Love the faces of the characters, we came a long way from es3 and 4 to this :D

[@MarvyraRift]

I love the music, atmosphere, everything about this. Just awesome and can't wait! ❤

[@hellssurprise9338]

Skyrim in space single player game and then hopefully eventually it becomes big enough and strong enough for it to be a MMO

[@chumon1992]

This seems like a passion project to him and I really hope the quality reflects that. It looks like its gonna be awesome and I cant wait to play it.

[@TheGameIsOverCy]

It was very interesting to hear Todd Howard talk about Starfield and his inspirations. I’m looking forward to seeing more of this game!

[@nyctihawk]

Oh really loving the look of the new dialogue interface! Good luck Mr. Todd and team! Really can't wait to play Starfield next year!

[@hickory654]

As someone who has played these games from Oblivion when I found it in 2011, I am so excited. I love Sci-Fi and the aesthetic is so unique in comparison to Fallout. I've been a "Bethesda RPG" fan for a long time, and with the exception of very few which match that feel (Cyberpunk, which isn't half as janky as some claim), you guys have profoundly affected my taste and expectation in games. I got my family into video games with Oblivion. My mom has consistently played ESO for years now, and has "beaten" the most recent expansion. Whatever line of games this is, I know walking away that I'll be just as excited as I always have been. You guys may have had ultima and sundog, but I have TES and Cyberpunk. I'm excited to add to that roster.

[@HidesFromSun]

Well said mate. I'm the same, only ever play Elder Scrolls mainly, but I do play Fallout and one blessed day, Starfield. I did try Cyberpunk as well but it wasn't for me. I just love the design that BGS has with their games

[@markhalstead2386]

I started with Oblivion then moved to Skyrim. Tried Fallout, but more of an Elder Scrolls fan. I love their games and think Starfield will be great. It will be a great holdover while we wait for Elder Scrolls 6.

[@erisk.1707]

"unique aesthetic" Uhu...Not like they stole assets from No man's Sky and Put a No man's Sky skin over Fallout 4 weapons

[@greysnake2903]

Nice meme

[@BaconDrive]

You know what they say, the family that plays together stays together

[@boreanknight]

Dialogue system got me all excited but that NPC design is just amazing.

[@aditsood9369]

can you explain how the +1, +3, +5 thing works in the dialogue option? i didn't quite get that part.

[@boreanknight]

@@aditsood9369 It's a skill check of some sort. Larger the number next to a dialogue line, harder to succeed in speech interaction. It could depend on chance and/or character skill, who knows. But it adds depth and replay value.

[@aditsood9369]

@@boreanknight so basically, the higher my persuasion skill, the more risks i can take and the more beneficial it'll be to me?

[@boreanknight]

@@aditsood9369 Yep. That's my guess at least.

[@aditsood9369]

@@boreanknight alright, thanks a lot

[@ColbyePresents]

*Thanks for the memories, Mr. Howard.*

[@AlexLosty]

3:56 "Drifter, brother, I can hear it's you. What's up with the helmet?" - Speech lvl 10, probably.

[@LuixWalkingDead21]

Exactly my thoughts :V

[@wesleymitchell2125]

he HYPE is BACK!! I felt like i was going to cry because of lack of content. We can now see Alien DNA and other traits. Speech looks fresh and new take one playing the game! Pacifist and Charisma play throughs are going to be much better

[@AlfredFJones1776]

Thank you Todd, for everything.

[@LithiumLogica]

I appreciate Todd not being a bitter, angry person about people poking fun at his games and him. He's the face we see associated with these games most of the time, so criticism is going to come his way, regardless. And he has many games that are numbered amongst the best ever made, even if the modding community had a large part to play in that. Even if the modding community contributed, if Bethesda hadn't made it possible, it could never have happened, so that's appreciated, too. And it's good he seems to realize we like him and the games they make in a time when companies don't have to be likable to be profitable.

[@swinehorde9118]

It's going to be so refreshing to have a AAA game commit to a hard(ish) sci fi. I've grown so tired of having conventional RPG magic mechanics explained away as 'plasmids' or 'augments' at the cost of a logically consistent universe, for the sake of not risking to diverge from established RPG conventions.

[@Koutchise]

people really do have the time to make their lives extra complicated lmao

[@t.t6294]

Starfield has Cyber augmentations. at least in lore

[@wargames43]

@@t.t6294 I mean Cybernetics are not far away from our own world these days. Look at robot arms prostetics etc we even are testing with robotic eyes for blind people or a new prostetic ear that is basically a microphone inside you head for deaf people. Things like that where non hard sci-fi in the 50's but these days its almost a reality. So Todd is kind of right. For someone who grew up in the 50's playing this game it will feel to sci fyie but to someone born in 2010 this game might look like the distant future

[@BioClone]

The thing is you expect to feel like a character that lives in the future, that knows the future and that is able to react to that world but you actually will overlay your "contemporanean" experience into that world... because is the only way to keep certain logic... Its just like pretend to emulate the "360 vision" of a chameleon on a "chameleon simulator game"... your mind cant even imagine how to process a image that doesnt have a similar POV to your one... For example, while this not really affects Starfield.... people likes to imagine in Sci fi that you would be moving like: 1- on a straight line (lets call this newtonian style) 2- you create a portal / deform space (lets call this "quantum" style) but you probably will be missing "3" how the gravity wells affect the long distance traveling.... because that knowledge takes a lot to be processed and definetelly needs to be much much simplified to make it something you could process in real time, instead taking pen and paper, and turning yourself mad like people does in NASA all the time... You can find a very nice example on a very uknown game under development, "celestial command" you may take a look on what I say here - kzbin.info/www/bejne/pWHYgGqrhd1sZpI You can see mechanics like gravity wells, how the slingshot technique or put something in orbit would work... this is not actually "super elaborated scifi" its just based on real concepts simplified.... the truth is "a real quantum drive/hyper speed/ lightspeed" would be WAY MORE COMPLEX than this exposed mechanics... yet we want to experience being experienced on that without actually knowing anything about was is supposed to be easier. Ussually, at least for me, the biggest difference on hard sci-fi with soft sci-fi is simple, dont threat the viewer/player as stupid, create certain rules that will be working always (not randomly change them to accomodate new events/surprises, destroying the atmosphere portrayed) and have very good taste as developer to know what lore/information the player will get and which one never will be revealed... (lets remember this is an artificial narrative construction designed for the viewer) ...noone can imagine a universe atom by atom... If you talk about something interesting such what is life, humanity, space rules or the future, you need to _"create walls that blurs the skydome, so you will not realize it is indeed a well developed lie"_ blur it well enough, and most people wont be able to tell it is a lie, blur it like a master, and people may see you like a prophet (Jules Verne). In retrospective, lets point at a couple of my favorite games ever HL1 and HL2. On both you are Gordon Freeman a theoretical physicist... but in the whole game, you never really exploit your "superior knowledge"... yet Newell managed to add to the game recipe the _"playing with physics"_ motto... what also was not too exploited into the industry in that time... this made the player could find familiar mechanics to certain degree, ussually never aplied into videogames, coming from the real world that "in essence" fits the role of gordon freeman... because it somehow makes for the player to feel smarter... You never behave like a scientist at all BUT the way it was done in the correct time reinforced the role to sky limits. Obviously this is something to be experienced in the moment, and playing for first time now HL2 wont probably feel the same impact. I think every game developer out there would wish to get that same thing Newell did with physics-Freeman-HL combo.

[@rensin2]

I recently explained this in another thread, so I hope that no one minds if I copy/paste. Absolutely everything we have seen from Starfield so far tells us that this is fairly soft Sci-fi. It only has the aesthetic of hard Sci-fi. It has planetary systems whose scales are completely wrong, airplanes in space in place of spaceships, atmospheric travel even when in vacuum, ultra-dense asteroid fields, faster than light travel, etc. This is the same soft sci-fi you get from Star Wars.

[@connybengtsson9304]

Love you guys! Keep up the amazing work

[@samtate2011]

One of these a week would be nice

[@o377691]

I absolutely adore the music. Game looks epic and on gamepass. What a world we live in!

[@BigPurpNurp]

They read them all. Interesting. A couple days before they changed the release date someone asked if they’d be able to “clap dem alien cheeks”. I think we can conduct someone higher read this then decided they needed to make some changes

[@arbitrary_thoughts]

That's honestly the most common way I've seen that question phrased XD The internet is consistent.

[@bjaurelio]

Excited by the new dialogue system

[@ErikMalkavian]

3:23 THANK YOU Todd for answering my question about Dialogue and Speech Checks and Skill Checks! Day One Buy for me!

[@jccusell]

00:42 we noticed them too, Howard. They are amazing.

[@ggboot1]

I can't WAIT for this game!

[@Alexandra-Rex]

For the actual flying and piloting other vehicles, please support proper setups for that 🤞

[@rockyraccoonhendrix1733]

0:41 My eyes are up here, Todd!

[@maxdelpo5578]

Yessss, great choice about the dialogues, thanks

[@SlyNation]

I have been following Starfield for years now and every update gets me that much more excited for release!

[@DeathStalker]

Man I absolutely cannot wait for this game.

[@proftrees]

Hearing Todd talk about upcoming games was the inspiration for me to become an engineer and influenced my life to be what it is now. I love how he talks about the influences of past games even back to pen and paper. It's nice to see him doing more of these videos, I only hope there are kids out there now being inspired by his work as I was.

[@oldthug2309]

i have never been more excited for a game than this one. please bethesda don’t disappoint me