Starfield participant has surveyed each doable planet — all 1,694 of them

Starfield is a behemoth of a recreation, and surveying simply one among many actions that may hoover up numerous hours of your time — but one participant has already managed to survey each doable planet (over 1,500).

Starfield has a large number of actions which may tempt you from the principle story — outpost constructing, ship constructing, facet quests, contracts, exploring and looting; there’s loads to do. Surveying is one such exercise. When you head to unexplored planets and survey them of their entirety, you possibly can promote the information to make some credit. It is a great way to earn expertise and cash, and it is also very various. Relying on the planet and the way barren it’s, you would be enjoyable and surveying the occasional mineral, or else preventing off hordes of alien beasts — and even dealing with off towards spacers in a supposedly “deserted” facility as you get lost searching for POIs.

With gasoline giants, you do not even have to land to completely survey them. However for different planets, which have loads of natural world in addition to sources and planetary traits, it may well take some time to finish the survey information. Add to that the truth that Starfield has over 1,000 planets to discover throughout its varied methods, and the thought of surveying all of them sounds much more daunting. But Reddit person u/DoomZero shared a picture confirming that they’ve already managed to survey each planet doable. That is 1,694 planets they’ve totally surveyed throughout 120 methods, with them needing to land on 1,441 of these planets to gather information (the truth that they scanned 1,695 planets however totally surveyed 1,694 is outwardly as a result of bugs inflicting some planets to not be totally surveyed).

In response to u/DoomZero, they’ve round 200 hours in Starfield, with round 180 of these hours spent surveying — an outstanding feat. In different replies, they point out that there are 5 abilities particularly that assist with surveying extra effectively: “I feel Astrophysics, Zoology, Scanning, Botany, and Surveying all assist tremendously. Additionally Enhance Pack Coaching with a skip enhance pack together with Health to enhance oxygen use are must-haves as effectively.” Additionally they shared a picture of what a few of their assortment of planet survey information seems to be like.

Talking to IGN, u/DoomZero says, ““As soon as I began enjoying and realized concerning the surveying and totally surveying planets the thought simply form of acquired caught in my head. I’m a little bit of a completionist and thought that it could simply be a cool private accomplishment.” Surveying each planet is a formidable feat all-round, particularly given how huge the sport is, what number of distractions there are, and the potential for bugs there might need been. u/DoomZero additionally highlights different difficulties that include studying to survey. “Studying all of the several types of fauna I used to be searching for was in all probability the most important one. There might be flying creatures and small beetles that that you must discover. Probably the most tough one was studying that there are literally aquatic creatures to be scanned within the ocean biomes and people can solely be accessed by touchdown in an space that has the (coast) descriptor connected to it.”

Surveying planets was one factor we liked in our Starfield evaluation, though there’s loads extra to do when you’re zooming about house after these Starfield achievements. When you’re nonetheless searching for one thing nifty to zoom round house in, take a look at our record of the greatest Starfield ship designs.