Starfield sparks a space-snake-worshiping death cult and more

starfield Only a few weeks awayAnd Bethesda is still feeding in new information for gamers desperate to finally get their hands on the long-awaited Xbox console exclusive. Will you be able to buy apartments in the cities you travel to? Will you be able to smuggle illegal items across the galactic frontier? Will you go to jail if you commit crimes? The answer to these questions and more is “yes”.

Bethesda held August 16, Q&A with fans on Discord, and choosing which comments to respond to as they walk a tightrope to pre-create hype in the run-up to the RPG’s September 1 launch. Lead designer Emil Pagliarulo and lead mission designer Will Shen provided the answers, and although many of them are what you might expect from the studio behind The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim And Fallout 4It also sheds light on new possibilities that has not been previously confirmed.

Here are the highlights:

• Residences can be obtained in all major cities, some through purchase and others through quests
• Some items will be considered contraband and must be hidden on your ship using special modules to pass inspection
• Faction missions do not conflict with each other and they can all be completed independently
• There are up to 20 named characters that can join your crew, follow you and carry your items
• Commit crimes and you can go to jail, pay a fine, or resist arrest
• The machines are in ruins and unusable
• Fully non-lethal play is not possible

Both designers also talked at length about some of the world building elements in the game, including the role that religion will play. starfieldfuture university. There are Sanctum worlds who believe space exploration is a way to get closer to God, and a group of atheists called The Enlightened who focus on secular humanist programmes. Then there’s House Va’ruun, the snake-loving death cult. Here’s how Pagliarulo describes it:

So, in the game, I’m not really sure of the whole truth, but… the gossip among the guards is this: a colony ship sets out for a new world, making shovel jumps along the way. After a gravitational leap, one of the passengers claimed to have spent that time communicating with a celestial entity known as the Great Serpent. What was a few seconds for everyone else was…a much longer time for him. And he reinstated the mandate, which is basically, “Join the ship, or you will be devoured when the great serpent encircles the universe.”

So be sure to be on the lookout for a time-bending magical space snake as you chart unexplored planets, mine resources, and maintain your trade routes. with any luck, starfield It will contain a lot of strange secrets just like it.