Starfield fans are going into meltdown due to a leaked in-game message that prevents you from exploring parts of a planet.
One of the key selling points of Bethesda’s space-exploration game, Starfield, was you could do exactly that, explore space. This includes flying your very own custom starship from system to system, before landing on one of the game’s 1,000 planets and explore it at your leisure.
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Unfortunately, fans are panicking at leaked gameplay that suggests once you walk a certain distance on the planet, the game stops you from going any further and asks you to pick a different region.
It was already pre-established that players wouldn’t be able to simply fly down to a planet of their choosing and start wandering. Instead, players need to choose the planet, and which part they want to explore, and have the ship take you there automatically. Many believed that while you couldn’t fly around the planet in your ship, you could at least travel the globe on foot if you so desired.
That’s obviously not the case though, as leaked gameplay, that’s been since deleted but collated by Kotaku, shows a player walking for several minutes in a random direction, before an in-game message prompt appeared saying: “boundary reached.”
This was followed by "Open the map to explore another region, or return to your ship."
Obviously, some fans are now worried that Starfield has fallen victim to classic Bethesda marketing, and planets aren’t as explorable as we once believed. That being said, others believe the boundary message is being blown out of proportion, with some claiming the planet the boundary message appeared on was the tutorial planet, so other planets will likely have more to see and do than the one you start your adventure on.
We’ve only got a few days left to find out the limit of Starfield’s enormous galaxy, but with first impressions showing nothing but positivity and praise for the game, fans likely have nothing to worry about… hopefully.
Starfield officially releases for Xbox and PC on the 6th of September, with early access starting on the 1st of September for those who purchased the Constellation Edition.
