Subj : Todd Howard says that hundreds of plans for Starfield "went out o
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Date : Mon Sep 11 2023 17:30:03

Todd Howard says that hundreds of plans for Starfield "went out of the window"

Date:
Mon, 11 Sep 2023 16:07:53 +0000

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Todd Howard has spoken about the many plans for Starfield which "went out of 
the window" during development.

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 Starfield director Todd Howard has spoken about plans for the game that 
didnt make the final cut, including the idea for a very neat Fallout 
reference. 

In an interview with The Washington Post, journalist Gene Park mentioned that 
hed hoped to find the nuclear wasteland from Fallout 3 on Earth in Starfield 
, since the planet has a destroyed surface which is completely devoid of 
life. Spoiler alert: the reference wasnt included, but Howard revealed: We 
talked about it. 

He then confirmed that hundreds of other plans didnt get included in the 
game's final version, either: Oh, we planned, and those plans went out the 
window, he said. 

We knew we were going to rewrite parts of the engine, so we started building 
technology for the planets and the outer space stuff on our previous engine 
and renderer. 

In general, Starfield faced some big challenges in its development. It was 
ported over to a new engine, and the COVID-19 pandemic meant that the 
developers ended up producing the game from home, too, which was very, very 
slow. 

The response to Starfield has been generally positive now that it's out. 
Yesterday, the space-exploration RPG hit an all-time concurrent player peak 
of 330,723 on Steam , which surpassed Skyrim s record of 287,411. Meanwhile, 
on its release date (September 6), it managed to hit a concurrent player peak 
over one million across all platforms - including PC, Xbox Series X |S and 
cloud streaming. 

Modders have been very busy in Starfield , too - weve already seen Thomas the 
Tank Engine added to the game , as well as Todd Howards face (who can now be 
projected from your flashlight ). If youre a Star Wars fan, you can also 
replace all of the United Colonies guards with Stormtroopers . They dont bump 
their heads on things, though. 

 For more games to get lost in, be sure to take a look at our recommendations 
for the best open-world games . You can also keep up with future releases 
with our roundup of upcoming games .



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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/gaming/consoles-pc/todd-howard-says-that-hundreds-of
-plans-for-starfield-went-out-of-the-window


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