Todd Howard says Starfield's NG+ was misunderstood and defends Bethesda's new U-turn on how it works: 'You can tell us if we're done our job right'

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Starfield's recent Free Lanes update has brought changes large and small to Bethesda's somewhat-maligned space RPG, with one of the biggest being how the game's NG+ mode works. To talk about that we'll need to briefly cover the game's ending, so: spoilers ahead. Obviously.

The main story quest of Starfield involves collecting weird space artifacts from across the galaxy and, when you've collected them all, undertaking the game's final mission, which gives you the option of entering The Unity, a nexus for the multiverse. If you choose to do so, the game starts over in a new version of the universe where your character keeps all of their skills and powers, but loses everything else, while all character relationships are reset.

Oh and perhaps most importantly: some weird stuff might start happening, though unfortunately it's a bit of a roll of the dice on just how weird. In a game that felt a little u...

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