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Only a month after Starfield’s release, someone has already surveyed every planet in its universeThere are far more than Todd Howard said, too
There are far more than Todd Howard said, too
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bethesda Game Studios
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bethesda Game Studios
Starfieldhas only been out a month, and someone has already been to every planet in its universe. While Todd Howard saidwe’d be able to visit over 1,000 planets, the Bethesda dev actually undersold the sheer scale of Starfield’s galaxy - there are actually close to 1,700 planets, and now someone’s seen them all just weeks after launch.
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Despite the huge number ofplanets in Starfield, DoomZero’s playtime feels surprisingly small given the work involved in surveying some planets, which require not only entering orbit but scanning specific creatures, plants or resources. (Apparently finding aquatic creatures was the most difficult bit, DoomZero toldIGN.)
That took around 180 hours in total, on top of 20 hours spent doing other things in the game - meaning that they needed to play an average of six and a half hours a day, seven days a week, to survey everything so quickly.
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bethesda Game Studios
Another detail is that surveying the entire galaxy took DoomZero’s character to level 130, having started on their completionist quest after finishing only a couple of the early main missions and side quests.
“When you get out into the galaxy and start exploring everything does feel vast and overwhelming,” they said, “Some of my favourite places that I surveyed were moons that may have only had a couple of resources on them, but they were extremely close in proximity to large planets and the entire landscape is just a visual of that planet on the horizon.”
