Pete Hines Q&A summary
- “The game doesn’t really start until after the main quest”
- Says it’s his favourite Bethesda main quest ever
- He once accidentally got sucked into the vacuum of space because he boarded an enemy ship and the pilot took off
- Multiple passive POI’s across the galaxy to find. An example he gave was a set of farms where the people give resources to the people of other planets
- Modders will be able to create planets
- Certain companions will get annoyed with you if you do bad things. Even companions who are really close to you
- Lots of settlements with their own people and quests to find outside of the major cities
- New game plus relates to the main story so he couldn’t say a word on it. Says it’s different from most new game plus mechanics and is rather “special”
- Doesn’t know if you can fly from planet to planet as Grav Driving is much quicker (Only takes a few seconds apparently)
- Weapon mods combined with skills are really diverse. Said that he felt like Iron Man at one stage
- You can get bounties put on you but there are ways to undo them
- Museum on New Atlantis explains the lore of the game. The colony war, what happened to Earth etc.
- Says the boost pack skill is really important and fun
- Adoring fan can not become a robot (LOL?)
- There’s an enormous amount of creatures. He has no clue how many are in the game
- Also has no clue how long it would take to 100% the game. Says after 150 hours he isn’t even slightly close
- Lots of mod support post launch
- Mission boards can ask you to build outposts on planets.
- He gave a hilarious example where the mission board gave him a quest to take two people across to a different planet (space taxi?). After 5 hours he found the 2 people still on board his ship and realised he had completely forgot to take them to their destination.
- Lots of Easter eggs as you’d expect across the game
- No level cap (he thinks)
- Starter guides are coming out according to the German interviewer. No clue when.
- People on PC who have played the game early have said performance is smooth