During this year’s Develop: Brighton Digital conference, the keynote session featured Todd Howard and his career to this point at Bethesda. During the hour long session, Howard delved into his beginnings as a developer and his start at Bethesda, discussing the numerous games made there, and some of the decisions made for various franchises like The Elder Scrolls and Fallout. However, towards the end of the interview, Howard touched on the future of the studio and upcoming titles like Starfield.

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The biggest confirmation from Todd Howard is that Starfield will ditch the Fallout 76 model and instead be a completely single player experience like Bethesda’s older titles. There were not multiplayer components or aspects included in the experience. In terms of both Starfield and The Elder Scrolls 6, Bethesda is aiming to give NPCs a larger role and make cities expansive and larger compared to previous games.

What also may excite fans is the confirmation that the Creation Engine has largely been overhauled for the next set of games. While rumors indicated at an engine change based from LinkedIn listings, Howard confirmed that the team has completely redone things like rending, character animations, procedural map generation, as well as artificial intelligence, and pathing. According to Howard, the technology jump is massive and even larger than the one made from Morrowind to Oblivion.

While this information may excite fans, Howard went on to confirm that Starfield is still a far ways off. There’s also the lingering question of whether or not Starfield, as well as The Elder Scrolls 6, will ultimately arrive on rival platforms now that Bethesda is a Microsoft first party studio. It’s a question that remains unanswered even by people in charge like Phil Spencer, leaving fans to speculate and hope that the traditionally multi-platform games will remain so. Analysts continue to believe that these games will remain multi-platform, giving Microsoft an even bigger reach and way to accumulate profit.

Starfield is in development.

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