Starfield player flies 18 hours into the sun (which is impressive)

It's no secret that Starfield hosts over 1,000 planets and moons for you to explore, but the stars themselves have always been off-limits. However, one enterprising player spent 18 hours of real-world time flying his ship from Mercury to Sol, Earth's sun, and their results were quite impressive.

Posting their findings and how they got there on Reddit, the player, under the username InfinityPortal, said they used some unorthodox methods to make the long journey, as the game typically only allows you to travel to gravitational attractions of planets or planets. Moons by fast travel. (Although you can't land on gas giant planets, you can at least fast travel to them, which are a lot closer than you can normally get to the Sun.)

The journey involved using a model that, according to the player, “unlocks the acceleration” of the spaceship. However, they left the speed low enough to make the trip at least somewhat long. After flying for too long, they had to turn their ship in reverse and release thrusts to help slow down, stopping “about 2.2 liters away from the sun.”

One of the most interesting findings from the journey is that Bethesda has actually put a high level of detail into the surface of the sun despite players being unable to get close to it under normal circumstances. Some people who responded to the post pointed out that in a few star systems, there are planets close enough to their suns that some of these details can be seen, and speculation has also been raised that Bethesda may have been aiming for players to be able to fly all the way to the stars in Previous versions of the game. “There are a lot of aspects of the game that suggest they had ambitious goals that had to be scaled back during development,” commented Reddit user XOmniverse.

This isn't the first time a Starfield player has reported coming close to the sun. Reddit user DaKushyMonster too Share a similar photo of a ship near the sun last September, noting that the star made a unique noise. There is, too This YouTube video From around the same time period, the player actually passes through the sun in their ship and uses mods to get out of their ship to get a closer look.