id Software Apparently Helped Starfield's Team With Graphics

This is what we want, Xbox drawing from that massive cauldron of Green sauce, all the knowledge, skills and more.
Devs can dip in and out of this massive resource, it benefits all, as some Devs are better at certain things, with certain engines. We need more of this across the board for all Xbox games where possible.

id helping is great news, especially with shooting and graphics etc, not a bad thing at all ✅💚

ID should have helped them with the gunplay instead. It looks better but something just feels off.

@Traman500 they have helped with Gun Play, it looked awesome to me. It won't be perfect, but looks fun at least!

Gunplay looks amazing as it stands so there was no point in adding iD expertise there. 30 fps with good motion blur can alleviate some people's motion sickness.

The game looks amazing, years will be spent playing it - Gamepass.

Excited to see the fruits of labour in just under 3 months!

I'm very excited for this game. Really hoping it's as good as it seems it will be.

@Episode_13 I wasn’t aware of that. The above article only mentioned graphics. I was just saying that would make more sense cause Id is a fps studio primarily who knows their way around making shooting feel good. Makes me more excited if they helped out with that as well.

@Episode_13 It is awesome to see, if all studios are gathering under the same umbrella, then everyone benefits from their assisting one another internally, devs push out a better game and fans enjoy a better game. Win-win.

@Traman500 I'm not 100% sure but I'm sure they helped as it was rumoured a while back they did or tweaked or took a look, advised who knows. I assume they did for now, as it's been mentioned a lot. They could help in many ways, Todd may tell us when the game releases who worked on what, the credits may tell us!

@Traman500 hard to tell without being able to play the game. It's important to note that Bethesda games anyways have adjustable in-game difficulty sliders, and we don't know if when showing the game the difficulty was on easiest so we could focus more on the player movements and combat versus how much the AI can counter you.

Then there's also style and genre, this game won't be Doom, so it's hard to tell right now whether the gunplay is fine as it is or if it will feel off in our hands.

@Kaloudz yeah there's some smoke there for sure.
I listen to a lot of Podcasts about Xbox etc, daily while I work.
There's links to Todd, id and Phil and Booty etc.
Phil said he's been playing Starfield for Months on end in the Giant Bomb Interview which is fantastic. I will link in a Forum.
It would make sense they say hey, come look at this to each other and id popped over etc.

@Mastodon3954 Also just heard something in a podcast, the sandwiches being stole is heavily taken from Skyrim, where you can steal wheels of Cheese and buckets etc. That Engine has some great features, yes bugs, but imagine going to a space ship, hi-jacking it and stealing an ornament or object then taking it back to your ship and dumping it on a shelve of a table would be hilarious and fun.

@Mastodon3954 yeah I’m aware of that. I was just hoping for a step up in gunplay from fallout 4. Like you said though only way to know for sure is to try it out. Just wish September would get here faster.

Character models didn’t look that good to me but the environment looks fantastic.

@FatalBubbles I think that's just Bethesda, looked ok to me.
Not amazing, the rest of the game looks stellar!
It's going to be swings and round abouts for many, but they will have nailed certain aspects for sure. The scope is huge, so I expect some tiny short comings in certain areas.

thats why it has 30fps if they didnt help it would have had 15fps xD

@Traman500 gunplay is gonna be off for console users because of that trash 30fps cap which should never be a thing in any game that allows first person shooting.

@Ep_13 just to clarify as I watched this interview last night. Todd was asked directly if id helped with the gunplay as rumoured and the answer was no. Both Bethesda and id were happy with the gunplay already in the game. The studios collaborated on the graphics only as stated in this article.

@SacredPYRO Cool will see, what ever has happened it look good, that's all that matters Maybe Bethesda have matured into a fine cheese or wine haha!

@Ep_13 my takeaway was that if id had nothing to add to the gunplay then we all have nothing to fear about it.

Hasn't id been helping with Creation engine for the past 10 years or so? I thought that's ancient pre-Fallout-4 news.

@Traman500

You and me buddy, I'd love to see them stepping up their combat.
Recently, one game that wowed me gunplay-wise is Deep Rock Galactic. Would be nice to have that same level of fluidity on new Bethesda titles, but at the same time I'm optimistic that it will be fun enough and there's a lot of other stuff that you can do in the game.

I also can't wait for September to come.. Fortunately, the wait won't be too bad with the likes of Diablo 4 and Armored Core 6.

@Hexamex-Tex If there is one game to buy and not use Game Pass to play, it's this one. If on PC, of course. The best part of Bethesda games is the modding community keeping the games alive well after their already massive lifespans.

That, or play on Game Pass for now, wait awhile for mods, and buy it when it gets cheaper.

@zgillet game pass has definitely supported the game. Trust me. They don't need more money. The controller and the watch already sold out haha. But I get your point. But no one should be avoiding game pass to buy. As it's tough times at the moment. We need as many people as possible to play this as it could be game of a generation. Who knows!

@zgillet That you for your concern but I don't game on PC, my Mac (which is rarely supported for games) is used for my business... so the xbox exists for gaming.

Shame they couldn't get anyone to help with a decent Framerate.

Liam, it's Id, id is an stylisation for logos just like SEGA, DOOM...

@Chaotic_Neutral unfinished game. Is that you Dreamcast guy?

Obviously, I haven't played Starfield yet but the graphics and gameplay look completely improved compared to their older games. I think that Id helped with the engine as someone said in the comments. I wonder why Bethesda still wants to use their updated Creation Engine when it has never been particularly impressive on its own.

@sixrings Maybe, considering he wrote, "most of the titles I want to play are available on PS+ anyway."

@NEStalgia I look it as Id helping out is the MS equivalent of "Monolithsoft helped develop this." I.e., MS/gaming outlets will say it for a while.

This is great news and I'm really glad to see team green doing this .
PS have been very good at this for years, and now that Xbox has some superior devs under its umbrella, it makes sense to ensure the ideas and knowledge are shared with internal teams in the same way.
Great to see it, and from the gunplay we have seen in the latest deep dive, its paid off nicely

Starfield really seems like it will be amazing. I've been very shaky and doubtful of xbox exclusives but...I think Starfield will be a Smash hit.

The scope of it, the look of it, the ability to play at your pace and way you want. I'm damn near convinced it will be flat out awesome.

@Ep_13 my only point is that you will want to buy it eventually.