History VideoGame / Starfield

** Enemies will always attack your character regardless of level and equipment quality and never seem to retreat except in ground combat where they will occasionally, but rarely run away to a safe spot if they've taken enough damage without being killed. This is played straight in spaceship combat where they don't seem programmed to jump away when their ship has taken enough damage without being destroyed. It's somewhat justified in that once their gravitic drive has been temporarily disabled, they cannot retreat and jump away from combat and are forced to fight to the death.

** Also connected to the AL-Physics section: given how completely the Water Cycle and biosphere collapsed on Earth, the utter lack of fossils on what remains of the planet is glaring. Given billions of humans were abandoned, along with virtually all other species, at bare minimum the planet should be teeming with fossils and dead vegetation. And more likely, it should be a horrorscape of freeze-dried, partially-decayed flesh and vegetation. Instead, the only evidence to be found that Earth ''ever'' hosted life of any kind is an odd fungus in a cave near one of the few ruins the developers bothered to throw in.

** The Ruyjin plotline basically is an extended shout out to ''VideoGame/{{Syndicate}}'', with you working for a corporation as an operative doing illegal things in a cyberpunk setting (which Neon comes the closest to), and features a piece of technology that allows you to compel people to do things for you, much like Syndicate's Persuadotron.

** The ship designs of Nova Galactic are very reminiscent of the Terran United Space Command spacecraft from the ''VideoGame/{{X}}'' games. Likewise, the ship designs from Deimos Staryards Inc. are reminiscent of the spacecraft flown by the [=AGI=] Task Force.

** We never learn the identity of [[spoiler:the Pilgrim, a Starborn who came into the current universe centuries prior seeking an understanding of the Unity and impacting the setting's three major religions (Sanctum Universum, Enlightened, and Va'ruun)]].

** The Vanguard quest chain unlocks ship parts after the second mission. One of these is the Vanguard Obliterator Autoprojector particle cannon. This deals high and equal damage to shields and hulls and uses only two bars of ship power per gun. It's more efficient than almost anything else you can load onto a ship at ''any'' level and four of the guns will take down most shields in seconds. It continues to hold up well against B-class particle autoprojector gun modelss and is only outclassed by C-class models.

** The Vanguard quest chain unlocks ship parts after the second mission. One of these is the Vanguard Obliterator Autoprojector particle cannon. This deals high and equal damage to shields and hulls and uses only two bars of ship power per gun. It's more efficient than almost anything else you can load onto a ship at ''any'' level and four of the guns will take down most shields in seconds. It continues to hold up well against B-class particle autoprojector guns and is only outclassed by C-class autoprojectors.

** The Vanguard quest chain unlocks ship parts after the second mission. One of these is the Obliterator Autoprojector particle cannon. This deals high and equal damage to shields and hulls and uses only two bars of ship power per gun. It's more efficient than almost anything else you can load onto a ship at ''any'' level and four of the guns will take down most shields in seconds.

* SpaceCompression: At work as usual for a Bethesda games. ''Starfield'' features the largest cities seen since ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'' and feature generic citizens to pad the civilian numbers. That said, each city is still positively minuscule for how big they should be in the lore. Even New Atlantis, the setting's largest city, feature maybe at most 5 skyscrapers in which civilians resides, far from a metropolis home to the largest population in the Settled Systems. UC as a whole counts 4 major settlements[[note]]New Atlantis, Cydonia, Gagarin, New Homestead. And the last three are explicitly smaller and on the downslide.[[/note]] yet somehow makes up about a third to half of the human race. Akila City meanwhile, the capital of the Freestar Collective counts maybe two dozen one or two story buildings and is moderately larger than a major city in ''Skyrim''.

* SpaceIsCold: It's a plot point that a particular supercomputer was built on the moon because it is "colder" there, making for better cooling; and they mention building it in space if that didn't work. This isn't, of course, how temperatures work; with no air to carry away heat, their supercomputer ought to have more heat problems on the moon, not less.

* LightningBruiser: C-class starships start off fitting the mold of {{Might Glacier}}s, being the biggest, toughest, and having the most power out of the ship classes while being inherently slower and less agile than smaller ones. However, it is very possible, even easy, to design a fairly large C-class ship that has perfect or near-perfect Mobility while crew and skill bonuses can push its top speed over 200. The Bruiser part comes from access to C-class weapons and shield generators which are the most powerful in the game, and even after those are accounted for the ship should have enough spare maneuvering thrust to add large capacities for fuel and cargo before Mobility starts dropping below 100.[[note]]All of this assumes that C-class engines are used, which have the lowest top speed of 130 but provide by far the most maneuvering thrust. Using lower-grade engines would result in slightly higher top speed but very poor mobility due to less maneuvering thrust.[[/note]]

* CanadaEh: "Can-uck!" (a play on Canuck) is a brand of food items with a stereotypical Canadian theme, their packaging featuring giant maple leaves. They sell mundane items like coffee but also more stereotypically Canadian items like poutine, bacon, tourtière, pouding chômeur, and maple syrup flavored soda.