We’re still no doubt a long way off from having those Starfield achievements, but the Starfield team did discuss the various factions we’ll see in the game in their latest “Into the Starfield” video, ranging from the United Colonies to the Freestar Collective. Check it out below:Design director Emil Pagliarulo, lead quest designer Will Shen, lead artist Istvan Pely, and game director Todd Howard discussed Starfield’s factions in the “Made for Wanderers” video, reminding us that “it’s a giant open world for the player to do what they want.” In the introduction, the devs add that they’ve “always allowed the player to create really interesting, unique characters” and that with “This game we’ve definitely, severely levelled up.””One of the big choices is, ‘which part of the game world am I going to engage in?'” says Shen. “We always make a bunch of different groups that represent some of the major factions in every game. And in this one, we’ve got the United Colonies, that represents the future of space republic, idealised — you also have the Freestar Collective which is the space western fantasy… We’ve got Ryujin Industries, which represents corporate life. I think it has one of the best starts of any of the factions.” Howard chimes in about another of the factions, saying, “What we’re doing with the pirates, the Crimson Fleet, they’re not just this foe. Let the player join them, what does that mean?” Pagliarulo adds, “The cool thing about the Crimson Fleet… what if you’re a good person and you want to be a good player? And you don’t want to play as a bad guy? You can side with the pirates or you can report back to your superiors, and be like a space cop… so it lets you be a good person and still play with the bad guys.” We got a look at what appears to be concept art for the game, some of which we’ve included above. “As a game we have romance, adventure, mystery, but I think with Starfield there’s this other layer of the cosmos, the universe, and what is out there,” Pagliarulo concludes.
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