Starfield Q&A 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.

FOR CURRENT CONSTELLATION MEMBERS:

FOR NON-CONSTELLATION MEMBERS:

[moto]

Regardless of the memes Todd Howard is a legend

[sternencolonel]

Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies

[jiubboatman]

I've been a long-time fan of Traveller and Megatraveller. Missed it not being made into a video game in more recent years. This has piqued my interest more.

[WhoaNellyJake]

I wish this was four minutes of him saying “it just works”

[peggy]

Whisper me those sweet little lies todd 😳😳

[Blazex]

I'm just ready to sink hundreds of hours in another Bethesda rpg, bugs and glitches included it's all part of the experience and I love it.

[cjslippin]

Uff…Sad to see Todd getting old even if you don’t like him now….He did a lot for our childhood memorys

[JTsavage]

But Todd we need to know, is there 16 times the detail? does all of it just work?

[TotalWarDesigner]

This looks exciting, and I'm happy to have a classic dialog system back!

[DogManProductions]

In regards to that whole thing about spaceship fuel and "just being stopped" if you ran out... not a fan of that game dev mentality frankly.
Let's be real for a sec, fuel management is a MASSIVE part of space exploration in general, in games and IRL. And it's also something with huge potential for emergent situations.
Like, imagine what kind of fun scenarios you could create from running out of fuel. Say, for example you have a battle which leads to a fuel leak, which leads to getting stuck in space, leading to getting boarded by enemy reinforcements, or maybe you run out while exploring and you send an SOS, which could have different "rescue" scenarios, good or bad ones.
You know, working around the "just being stopped" problem rather than to just cut it out?
Anyway, we'll see how it turns out with their implementation, just feels kind of a missed opportunity imo.

[MrSomeDonkus]

I did not know that starfield would have a silent protagonist until i watched this.
I thought that after fallout 4 pandoras box had been opened and we would never get back to silent protags again.
Its cool to see.

[aryanrgb]

Bethesda studio receives god rays as you can see from the window behind Todd

[baundiesel]

Did you all seriously just re-upload their video? lol

[grady]

I won't let myself get hyped for this

[seid]

For their sake they’d better hope this turns out great!!

[quinnfoto]

Shoutout to everyone who watched the unlisted video yesterday

[orifine]

You’ve been running computers out of memory for forty years now

[Vinsmoke]

so todd how much detail is in this game is it 32 times the detail now

[ozmanoshe]

I often wonder if the guys chatting in the background were setup as part of this shot and isn’t just happenstance.

[schadenfreude]

Thank you Bethesda, It has been more than 10 years since the Kickstarter announcement. I sold my children and my mother on the Dark Web to be able to buy Spaceships to pew pew around with and pretend to be a cool Space Person. I really appreciate this Q&A about Star Citizen. :)