One particularly noteworthy detail about Starfield comes from Reddit user _eldrone, who decided to highlight the game’s character rendering technology. They posted a short GIF that zeroes in on one of the characters’ animated skin folds, facial animations, and skin wrinkles to compare it with Bethesda’s previous mainline release, Fallout 4​​​​​​.

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Bethesda proudly announced that Starfield’s character creator is its most ambitious implementation yet, but the buck doesn’t seem to stop at mere customization. As _eldrone rightfully pointed out, the game features the most advanced face rendering technology Bethesda’s had yet, which helps make the characters way more interesting and believable than they were in any of the studio’s previous RPGs. In comparison, Fallout 4’s characters look dated and have a general lack of fidelity, which isn’t particularly odd considering the game’s age.

What’s particularly noteworthy is that all the characters in any given Bethesda game are effectively created using the game’s character creation tools. This implies that the character fidelity boost is a baseline, systematic improvement that should apply to all characters across the board, including NPCs and player creations alike. It’s also going to be interesting to see how these advanced visual features are used by Bethesda’s modding community, as Starfield will fully support mods from the very start.

As well-animated as the game’s NPCs might be, role-playing fans should also make note of the fact that Starfield is going all-in on RPG elements across the board. To that end, not only will characters look and animate in a way that’s never before been seen in a Bethesda game, but players will also get to enjoy a wide variety of classic character creator features that were previously present in games such as Oblivion, only to be removed in Skyrim and Fallout 4.

There’s already been a substantial number of awesome Starfield reveals featured as part of its first proper gameplay showcase. With the game slated to launch early in 2023, Bethesda and Xbox are bound to have even more footage to show off in the coming weeks and months, and things are looking good so far.

Starfield launches in 2023 for PC and Xbox Series X.

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