One key thing separates Star Wars Outlaws from Starfield and No Man’s Sky
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It seems that no matter how massive video game worlds get, developers continue to find ways to make them even bigger. But the ways in which this is accomplished vary from game to game.
We are no longer in the era of ‘See that mountain? You can go there! We are now in the era of ‘See that planet? You can fly there! Two of the most anticipated upcoming games are this year’s Bethesda’s Starfield and next year’s Star Wars Outlaws from developer The Division Massive.
But while Starfield is taking a decidedly No Man’s Sky approach to how it creates its planets, Star Wars Outlaws is moving in the opposite direction. In an interview with Edge magazine (via eurogamer), creative director Julian Gerighty confirmed that the planets in Outlaws are crafted.
“We have not procedurally generated an entire planet,” Gerighty explained, adding that each planet can be expected to be approximately “[equivalent to] two of the areas from Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey, for example.”
Space should be more “manageable,” according to Gerighty, who did not reveal how many planets Outlaws will include.
That approach, of course, is in stark contrast to that of Starfield, which has over a thousand planets. Most of those planets are going to be intentionally empty. Bethesda relies on procedural generation to not only create some of those planets, but also populate them with different enemies, encounters, flora, fauna, and sometimes quests.
Starfield will have its own set of custom planets, of course created by Bethesda, that will be the same for all players. No Man’s Sky popularized the idea of using algorithms to create entire planets, based on parameters set by the developer, which can make each planet unique but also has the side effect of making everything look like different shades of each other. same.
Starfield arrives on September 6 on PC and Xbox Series X / S.
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