Bethesda’s new SciFi RPG Starfield is designed to offer a campaign that will keep you busy for around 40 hours. Even before the game celebrates its full release on September 6th, the speedrunners are already doing well. The record is 2:51 hours.
Starfield is a game to take your time with. There is a lot to do, the speed of the game is generally rather slow and distractions like loot boxes or interesting NPCs are lurking everywhere.
Over 250,000 lines of spoken dialogue should keep us from playing through the RPG quickly.
But the speedrunner community doesn’t care. Here you can see a lot of potential for Starfield and are already working on techniques to get through the campaign even faster.
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A user named “Micrologist” is currently the best speed runner for Starfield. You can see the whole run in a video on YouTube, which is full of spoilers about the game. After all, only the main campaign is pulled through:
The video should thus develop into a kind of instructional video: Which parts of the story can you skip, which discussion options are important, where can you save time?
As the US site VG247 reports, an entire community is already working on a Discord server to develop tricks and tactics to progress faster.
For example, under certain circumstances you can trigger a teleport glitch on your own character, but you’re not sure exactly how that works yet. Something with the melee attacks (via youtube.com). The third-person camera also offers a lot of potential for moving through unwanted barriers.
The 3 hours should not stand long. Someone may have already broken the record, which should now happen in quick succession.
Speedruns are an important part of the gaming community. Many players try such a project in the course of their gaming career, most of them fail in the first few hours. Some people stick with it and have a hobby for life.
And even the big role-playing games are mercilessly optimized until there are only a few minutes left: World record: Speedrunner beats Baldur’s Gate 3 in 4 minutes by putting Shadowheart in a box