Starfield has been in the hands of players for a while now, and so the great and time-consuming achievements of the most dedicated fans are starting to show up. The example we bring here is the case of one of these hard-working space warriors who decided to fulfill the task of researching all the thousand planets available in the game’s vast explorable universe.
Even if we can’t appreciate the more specific details of this achievement and the results of the extensive research, we can be sure that this player can glimpse all the cosmic landscapes that Starfield has to offer. Whatever the negative reviews, it is undeniable that the depth and scale of the game are surprising and that this journey is a landmark in the gaming community.
All of Starfield’s Thousand Planets Were Surveyed by a Single Player
Todd Howard, head of Bethesda, assured at the Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase in June that Starfield would have more than a thousand planets to explore; he just couldn’t count on that this would instigate a specific player who would visit each of them, one by one. The statement came more as a way of promoting the game with its variety of scenarios achieved through procedural generation, as not all planets were handcrafted by Bethesda developers, and only 10% of Starfield had life.
While understandable, the reality is frustrating compared to expectations, but that doesn’t stop Josh, also known as DoomZero on Reddit. Last week, they accessed the Starfield subreddit to claim his achievement as “a true scientific explorer”, said the title of the topic, which provided proof of his achievement. In total, 120 systems were visited, 1,695 planets scanned, 1,694 planets fully researched, 1,441 planets landed, 807 floras fully scanned, 794 faunas fully scanned, 86 stations docked, and 22 ships docked.
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With these 1,694 fully researched planets that catch the eye here, whether they are gas giants, moons, or buggy planets, Josh’s mission has not been stopped. He visited each orbit to fully examine the planets and found the special features, which are geographic or environmental anomalies or features that become points of interest (usually zero to three) when exploring on foot. In addition to needing to catalog the flora, fauna, and resources they have, in other words, they walked and walked a lot.
Regarding his motivation, DoomZero said
Once I started playing and learned about the surveying and fully surveying planets the idea just kind of got stuck in my head. I am a bit of a completionist and thought that it would just be a cool personal accomplishment.
Regarding their method, Josh reported that he started exploring from left to right and top to bottom so as not to get lost in the systems along the way. DoomZero also said that he learned along the way, for example, better ways to do a complete survey of a planet.
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According to Josh, the fauna is one of the most challenging parts, as in Starfield there can be flying animals, small insects, and aquatic creatures that need to be found and scanned. Regarding tips for new space explorers, DoomZero suggests Astrophysics, Zoology, Scanning, Botany, and Topography as skills first and Boost Pack Training with a skip boost pack along with Fitness to improve oxygen use as mandatory to reduce time to travel and scan points of interest.
If your biggest question is how long this lasted, he’s not alone. Josh revealed that he played Starfield for around 200 hours and that 180 of those were spent on research. This would be, on average, more than six and a half hours every day, seven days a week, for 30 days in a row, but you can take it easy if you want to since the trophy has already been won. DoomZero also warns that two planets are practically impossible to fully research due to apparent errors in the game that Bethesda now needs to fix, even if they didn’t expect them to be found or didn’t even know about them.
Finally, Josh says that although varied, the Starfield galaxy still repeats itself when it comes to this massive exploration, but that it is an issue that can be improved. Therefore, the premise of games like No Man’s Sky and Starfield may no longer be so far from reaching a satisfactory point.
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