Summary
- Starfield, Bethesda's highly praised space RPG, offers players an expansive galaxy to explore, similar to the level of exploration in Skyrim.
- Despite some glitches and bugs, Starfield remains one of Bethesda's more stable games upon release.
- The game's glitches include an amusing glitch where a player's crew abandons them after disembarking their spaceship, leading to jokes about the player's captaining skills.
A Starfield player was abandoned by their crew shortly after disembarking their spaceship. The space RPG was a hit with critics on its release, citing the large galaxy that gamers can explore in their own way. Bethesda’s first new IP in 25 years gives players a level of exploration that’s on a par with Skyrim.
While the game was well-praised, Starfield has seen its fair share of glitches since it was released in September. Although it remains one of Bethesda’s more stable games out of the gate, players quickly encountered issues ranging from merely laughable to progress blocking. One gamer has found a glitch that runs the lines of both of these categories.
The Reddit user joldsworth04 has posted a video to the Starfield subreddit showing their custom ship blasting off into space shortly after the player disembarks onto the planet. As the spacecraft returns to orbit, Vasco, Starfield’s loyal robot companion can be seen jumping from the vehicle mid-takeoff, none of which is supposed to happen. Joldsworth04 has taken this glitch with a pinch of salt, jokingly suggesting that the crew has staged a coup owing to the player’s captaining skills.
Replies to the video mainly poke fun at the original poster’s predicament, suggesting the crew is just heading off to Starfield’s Paradiso resort for some relaxation. Other players suggest that the ship taking off could be a glitch that occurs when gamers commandeer a stolen ship in Starfield. From previous reports from gamers, it would seem that a ship is more likely to disappear if the stolen ship has been modded.
As with any open-world RPG, glitches and bugs of any size can often be overlooked by the developers. Bethesda’s space epic is no exception to this and has seen some strange quirks in the short time it has been on the market. One such glitch has even left the Starfield companion Andreja headless. This was apparently due to a player equipping a chameleon pack to the popular ally, and would not resolve itself despite swapping out packs.
With thousands of locations to explore, it seems almost inevitable that there will be some issues found within Bethesda’s space RPG. Despite glitches of headless companions and ship mutinies, Starfield is popular with the public and one of Microsoft’s biggest releases of the year so far. With such a large playground for players to explore, it will be interesting to see what strange quirks players will find in the future.
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OpenCritic Reviews
- Top Critic Avg: 85 /100 Critics Rec: 83%
WHERE TO PLAY
Starfield is the first new universe in 25 years from Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 4. In this next generation role-playing game set amongst the stars, create any character you want and explore with unparalleled freedom as you embark on an epic journey to answer humanity’s greatest mystery.
The year is 2330. Humanity has ventured beyond our solar system, settling new planets, and living as a spacefaring people. From humble beginnings as a space miner, you will join Constellation – the last group of space explorers seeking rare artifacts throughout the galaxy – and navigate the vast expanse of the Settled Systems in Bethesda Game Studios’ biggest and most ambitious game.
- Platform(s)
- PC, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S
- How Long To Beat
- 20 Hours
- Metascore
- 86
