Todd Howard: Starfield lets players choose pronouns, dialogue changes accordingly

Bethesda Game Studios' upcoming scientific discipline-fiction office-playing game Starfield is still a ways away, but artistic director Todd Howard is sharing a few more interesting pieces of information for eager players on what could be ane of the best Xbox games available. In a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Annihilation), Howard explained that Starfield has expanded character creation, allowing players to choose the pronouns they desire, with the game'due south dialogue accommodating that choice.

"Actually excited most what the squad has washed with character creation hither," Howard writes. "Including choosing groundwork, skills, etc. You also tin can pick your pronoun (he, she, they) and we've recorded all the relevant dialogue to support that choice."

Starfield features about three times the dialogue of Skyrim, with a full Japanese localization at launch. Howard also noted that Starfield should have the same kind of mod support Bethesda Game Studios titles are known for, even though the studio is at present using the Cosmos Engine 2.

"Our program [is for information technology to] take total modern support like our previous games," Howard explains. "Our modding community has been with u.s.a. for 20 years. We honey what they do and promise to run into more make a career out of it."

In a recent interview, Howard spoke on how Bethesda Game Studios' "passion" is for single-player games, even though the squad may experiment with social or online elements. Speaking on the launch issues of Fallout 76, Howard explained on Reddit that "We let people down and were able to larn and exist improve from it. We're fortunate 3 years later to take 76 be 1 of our most played games, and it'due south thanks to the 11 million players who take made it an incredible community. It'south fabricated us much better developers in the end."

Starfield is currently slated to launch on Nov. 11, 2022. It's coming exclusively to Xbox Series X, Xbox Series South, PC and Xbox Cloud Gaming. It's also launching twenty-four hour period one in Xbox Game Pass, like all Xbox first-party titles.

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