Starfield was announced at E3 2018, and since then, next to nothing has been revealed about the game. The few scraps of information that Bethesda has made public since - like the fact that Starfield will be an exclusively single-player game - have come very recently. At its reveal, Bethesda said that there was still a long wait in store for Starfield, and there are no hints as to when that wait will be over yet. All that’s known on the subject is that Starfield is expected to launch before the long-awaited Elder Scrolls  
Virtually nothing is confirmed about Starfield except that it's Bethesda Game Studios ' first entirely original RPG IP in many years and that the company considers it and The Elder Scroll VI are its top priorities . A 2018 teaser seemingly implied a hard sci-fi tone, with more realistic spacecraft than those in games like The Outer Worlds or Mass Effect . In fact, designer Todd Howard says he visited SpaceX as part of his research, though he has also clarified that the game's spaceflight won't be as " punishing " as it is in the real wo  
The gameplay is obviously like comparing apples to oranges; KCD2 has one of the most grueling , steep combat systems out there, which can be the make-or-break point for many players, especially notable in the original game. Starfield's combat is fun, don't get me wrong, but it’s generally less about mastery and more about stat rolls and gear scaling, with gunplay feeling more generic compared to the tactical nuance of KCD2’s swordp  
Microsoft announced back in September it had purchased ZeniMax Media , which owns Bethesda and id Software, among other companies, for $7.5 billion. This dealt a massive blow to Sony in the console war leading up to the next-gen release this month. The acquisition, which should finish up sometime in 2021, gives Microsoft exclusive rights to the majority of Bethesda's best franchises, including Fallout , DOOM , and The Elder Scrolls , in addition to Bethesda's upcoming space RPG Starfield . Bethesda will still retain a certain degree of autonomy as developers will be able to publish titles for PlayStation on a "case by case" basis. However, Microsoft has gained a huge advantage in taking exclusivity of Bethesda's strongest tit  
Upcoming titles The Elder Scrolls 6 and Starfield will be available on Xbox Game Pass on day one of their launches, according to Bethesda executive producer Todd Howard. Microsoft's acquisition of the company isn't yet wrapped up, but this news indicates both parties are confident the deal will finish without a hi  
Recently, Howard took part in a Develop:Brighton Conference . During a conversation with James Batchelor of GamesIndustry.biz, Howard revealed that while Starfield and The Elder Scrolls 6 are still a ways off, they'll be available on Xbox Game Pass on the first day of their respective releases. This confirms speculation on how Bethesda would handle its future releases . Howard also dropped a few more tidbits about the two anticipated titles, including that Starfield will eschew multiplayer in favor of a singleplayer format and will be in a universe even bigger than Fallout  
If that is indeed the case, it may herald a gradual overhaul of how players purchase and play games. It could lead to a phase out of physical and digital one-time purchase copies in favor of monthly subscription streaming services. Bethesda's status as a prolific studio with a considerable degree of clout may make it the standard bearer for such a revolution, or at the very least, the forerunner in Microsoft's ongoing studio acquisition campa  
Although Starfield delivered somewhat on being the most ambitious entry in the genre, KCD2 just has way more depth, immersion, and realism in its RPG mechanics and simulation gameplay . It's 15th-century Bohemia setting feels alive—NPCs have believable routines, political systems matter, and you even have a better notoriety system with clear rules and logic for committing treason or other cri  
Plus, with the dynamic gameplay and physics engine, there's an endless layer of creativity present here, from manipulating the game's environmental physics for cheating puzzles to using Link's abilities in unimaginable ways for resolving enemy encounters, one that evolves further with Tears of the King  
A supposed leak of Starfield screenshots may have just been verified by the unlikeliest of sources: a t-shirt worn by a Bethesda developer. The screenshots in question leaked in September, offering a brief glimpse at a possible player character, a spaceship design, and the HUD of Starfield . Bethesda has neither confirmed nor denied the validity of the leak to d  
Bethesda's secretive space RPG Starfield side Quests|https://starfieldgalaxy.com/ is almost certainly going to miss 2021, as suggested by recent reporting about the state of the games industry. The COVID-19 pandemic is said to be affecting the industry so badly that the 2020 fiscal year was effectively " lost " in terms of development schedules, and publishers are learning to keep target release dates under wr