Mad Player Spent 180 Hours to Explore All Planets in Starfield
Todd Howard presented a vision of a vast cosmos ready for exploration to those waiting for Starfield. One gamer took this to heart and explored all the celestial bodies available in the game, including planets.
It's been almost a month now since the release of Starfield. During this time, many space explorers have managed to travel the length and breadth of the galaxy, but I don't think anyone has so far devoted themselves to actually exploring the celestial bodies included in the game as much as the hero of today's article.
180 hours and more than 1,600 celestial bodies
Player known as DoomZero recently boasted of a certain achievement on Reddit. The Reddit user has explored all the celestial bodies available in the game (except for one, about which in a moment) - he has a total of 1,695 of them to his credit. It took him 180 hours of the roughly 200 he spent in Starfield in total.
Source: Reddit - DoomZero
Of these 1,695 celestial bodies (including planets and moons), he failed to entirely study one. The reason is mundane - namely, bugs that did not allow for 100% scanning of all flora and fauna. However, it turns out that there were more problematic celestial bodies, because, as DoomZero himself wrote in a comment under the post:
"I believe these are the three planets I ran into that has some sort of bug that caused problems for me for fully surveying them. Masada 3 is the planet that has the ocean biome fauna that doesn't spawn.
Beta Marae 1 is the planet where there is a fauna in the wetlands that can't spawn. Charybdis 2 has a flying fauna that spawns into the world invisible but if you go to an area they are supposed to be quicksave and then load that quicksave they [the fauna - ed. note] become visible and scannable."
This player's achievement is certainly admirable, especially considering that the planets in Starfield are often not limited to just one biome - just because a planet looks desert-like upon landing doesn't mean there aren't any wetlands or forests on the surface.
Starfield is available from September 6 on PC, Xbox Series X/S (also in Game Pass).
