By Michael Miskulin The upcoming role-playing game Starfield and other play-playing games from Bethesda will be full of different organizations and factions. A key element of the previous role-playing games was that players would also make their heads in any of these organizations. Starfield is apparently going to take a similar approach, but slightly different.
In the latest Starfield developer video, lead quest designer Will Shen explains how players can research and influence all factions of the game. It won’t take control of them, though. Starfield features a number of different factions. United Colonies, Freestar Collective, Ryujin Industries, Crimson Fleet and House VaRuun. Each faction has different thoughts and motives. The structure of this group, as the story unfolds, will surely clash. Shen explains that players don’t need to worry if they wish they would do all of the quests.
Starfield: Faction quests won’t eliminate other quests.
One of the first things we chose was that the main quest would offer a little tour of the settled systems and all the key players there so you can taste what they’re up to. We also talked as soon as possible about whether or not the factions would like to be able to stand out together. And we decided we really want to make sure you can play all faction lines independently.
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Shen continued, This time we wanted the stories to be a bit more personal, since you can choose the direction of the faction. Let’s say — a Freestar Rangers policy matters more than its justice or is it the economy right? Where are you going to try to steer them one way or the other? You’re not necessarily the leader of every faction in the game. But of course all the main characters and quests of the faction are affected by your decisions. But the faction and its interests may be impacted.
In that sense, this approach is a bit more like Skyrim than Fallout 4. In Bethesdas Fallout 4 players could experiment with all factions, but eventually they were forced to make their final choice and leave the other teams behind. At the same time, the Starfield approach is a bit more down-to-earth. When you break out of the head of the chosen Dragonborn, Starfield seems like your first recruit for a scouting party. If it’s not all the same, we will be able to check in from the first half of 2023 if this is the case to the next half of history.
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