You cannot fly directly to the surface to a planet's surface.He expects modders will be very pleased with the possibilities of the game.This did not include faction and side quest lines. To explain further, he said that if the normal length of time for completing the main quest in their previous games was 25 hours, Starfield would be about 30 hours or possibly 40 hours. Todd described the main story being about 20% than previous games, although said it was still not fully set in stone.Besides exploration and answer the mysteries of the universe, Constellation also deals with recovering 'Old Earth artifacts'.Constellation also keeps their headquarters there. New Atlantis is the biggest city in Starfield, as well as the largest Bethesda has ever built.Players will have a set starting point for all players, with a 'step out' moment like previous games.As was demonstrated before, your background will have some unique dialogue related to it. Backgrounds are reminiscint to classes from previous games, and there are around twenty in total.You can disable, board, and steal enemy ships.Ship combat will be more slow paced, and draws inspiration from Mech Warrior and FTL for their power management gameplay.For example, there is over 200,000 recorded voice lines. There is more handcrafted content in this game than any previous Bethesda game.The technical difference between having a single explorable planet and a thousand is minuscule once the systems for the first one are created.He also compared choosing to explore the procedural-generated portions of planets to Daggerfall's gameplay. Todd Howard went over Bethesda's history with procedural generation and discussed how it is used to help create their worlds, using Skyrim's quests and landscape as an example.Todd Howard said they might do a deep dive to explain it more. They expected people to be surprised by the comment about how many planets are present and explorable.Here is a quick summary of some of the major answers: This fifteen minute interview used its time well, and covered a lot of ground in that time.

Following off on the heels of the Official Gameplay Reveal, Todd Howard held an interview with IGN to discuss some of the burning questions the demonstration generated.

Starfield official teaser trailer