After what appears like a lifetime’s wait, Starfield’s launch is simply across the nook. Certain you may spend these remaining days actually staring into house (see what I did there?) ready for the sport to launch, however there are in all probability extra productive issues you may be doing to organize.
Are you certain your set-up is able to begin taking part in as quickly as the sport drops? Will your first playthrough be one which’s value sticking with? May your hype ranges go just a bit bit greater? The chronomark is ticking so that you higher get began.
1. Clear Some Storage Area and Preload
Enjoying Starfield on Xbox, or on Home windows PC by way of the Xbox app? You possibly can already preload the sport. Steam preloads start on Aug. 30 so though you’ll have to attend somewhat longer, there’s nonetheless loads of time to get the sport put in earlier than the early entry interval opens on Aug. 31.
Preloading the sport not solely implies that you’ll be capable to bounce into the sport the very second that it launches, but it surely additionally provides you loads of time to filter some space for storing if you have to discover room for the sizeable 125GB required by the sport.
2. Wipe Your Social Slate Clear
It’s essential to spend time together with your family members. New Bethesda video games don’t come round all that usually although, so that they’ll certainly perceive for those who skip out on that all-important household barbeque. As for work – pfft, no approach.
After all, you may all the time feign sickness on the day, however perhaps it’s higher to only be upfront and allow them to know you’ll be off exploring the galaxy as an alternative. That’s obtained to be worthy of no less than a complete week shut up indoors with no distractions. Neglect touching grass, you’ll be busy touching moon rock.
3. Get a Spare Battery Charged
Let’s be trustworthy, no person ever sat all the way down to play Skyrim for a fast 10-minute session. Bethesda video games are constructed to suck you in and hold you in your seat. Starfield’s immersive worlds look to be no exception.
The very last thing you need when you’re getting fired on by pirates is on your controller battery to die. You won’t be capable to afford your individual customized Starfield set-up for the event but it surely may be value conserving a spare battery pack subsequent to these easy-to-reach snacks and drinks while you’re taking part in a marathon session.
4. Soak within the Trailers (Once more)
For the longest time, it felt as if we actually knew nothing about Starfield aside from that it was ‘the Bethesda house recreation.’ Since then, there have been a number of phenomenal trailers, to not point out an excellent in-depth 45-minute-long Gameplay Deep Dive.
Whereas there’s nonetheless an enormous quantity of stuff that we don’t know in regards to the recreation, there’s an terrible lot to unpack in what we have now been proven. In case you’ve solely watched the trailers when you’ve in all probability missed or forgotten some issues so now’s the time to return and have one other look. It’s value it simply to take heed to that stunning principal theme once more.
5. Improve Your PC
With video games akin to Baldur’s Gate 3 proving that we’ve actually entered a brand new technology in gaming constancy, chances are you’ll be wanting from the Starfield gameplay footage to your dusty PC and wincing barely.
Certain you possibly can play the sport on Xbox Sequence consoles, and even over the cloud, however for the easiest Starfield expertise, PC is the place it’s going to be at. We already know that the Xbox Sequence X (& S for that matter) will solely run the sport at a relatively disappointing 30 FPS, however over on PC, the sky’s your FPS restrict. Properly… 60 FPS is your restrict, however that’ll do us properly! If ever there was a recreation worthy of an excuse to swap out that outdated graphics card for one thing new, that is certainly it.
6. Splash Out On the Premium Version
When you’ve obtained your pockets open you may as nicely make the leap on the sport’s Premium Version as nicely. It’ll offer you entry to the sport’s first growth, Shattered Area, as soon as it’s launched, and also you’ll additionally get some in-game skins and digital copies of the sport’s soundtrack and artwork guide.
That’s all very good, however the main perk of the Premium Version is to get Early Entry to the sport. In different phrases, you’ll be capable to begin exploring the farthest reaches of house on Sept. 1, relatively than having to attend a complete 5 days extra till Sept. 6. Some may say it’s just a few additional days of ready, however you’ve waited lengthy sufficient at this level.
7. Keep away from FOMO With a Gamepass Subsciption
Possibly, (whisper it) you by no means actually introduced into the Skyrim hype. Maybe Fallout 76 obtained your eyebrows raised about future Bethesda tasks. Otherwise you may simply be extra of a fantasy kinda individual and the entire NASA-punk factor simply isn’t doing it for you.
But, there’s that outdated feeling of FOMO rearing its head as that is all anyone goes to be speaking about for the following few weeks. You’re actually not dropping a whole lot of {dollars} on that extremely fancy Constellation Version, however perhaps it’s value taking out a Sport Cross sub for a month to see what all of the fuss is about.
8. Watch Some Basic Sci-Fi Movies
The workforce at Bethesda have talked up the sport’s cinematic aspirations quite a bit within the lead-up to launch. Whereas the sport actually does have that Hollywood sheen, it’s additionally clearly taking inspiration from a whole lot of nice sci-fi movies.
What higher option to get your self within the temper for enjoying the sport than to observe a few of these classics once more. 2001: A Area Oddysey is a transparent touchpoint for the practical house vibe that Starfield is aiming for, as is the more moderen Interstellar. Then there’s Alien to provide you a style of working life on board a spaceship – for those who’re courageous sufficient.
Even Bethesda’s Pete Hines is getting in on the sci-fi suggestions. Simply the opposite day, Hines tweeted that Starfield followers ought to watch Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine on Netflix, to essentially get them within the house exploration temper.
9. Clear Your Backlog
This 12 months has already been an all-timer for brand new recreation releases – and a whole lot of them have been very lengthy video games. Whereas Baldur’s Gate 3 is presently stealing everybody’s time, chances are high robust that you simply’re nonetheless juggling Tears of the Kingdom, Diablo 4, and Ultimate Fantasy 16 as nicely.
Take this time to attempt to clear as a lot of these video games out of the way in which now, or it might be a while earlier than you’re headed again to them. And y’know, there’s additionally a few thousand different video games popping out earlier than the tip of the 12 months that you simply additionally want to seek out time to play. The struggles of being a gamer, am I proper?!
10. Silence Your Social Media
We all know that Starfield seems the half. We all know that the character customization goes to be prime notch, and we all know that there’s going to be a whole lot of hours of stuff to maintain us engaged with the sport for years to come back.
However Bethesda has promised us thriller and revelations that we nonetheless haven’t any clue about in anyway. And any person goes to take nice enjoyment of spoiling all of it on the web the minute the sport launches. Now may be a great time to step away from social media for a bit.
It’ll solely suck extra time away from you taking part in anyway.
How else are you planning to organize your self for Starfield’s imminent launch? Tell us down within the feedback under.