There are plenty of reasons to want to quickly pass the time inStarfield. Most commonly, you may wish to take full advantage of the fact that rolling the clock ahead a few days can fully restock many vendors' inventories, so you don’t need to make multiple trips to stock up on your much-needed goods.
Some NPCs will only show up right where you need them at specific times of day, in true Bethesda Game Studios fashion, for another example. Whateveryourrationale, it’s important to know how to tap into this basic, fundamental, function.
Pardon the terrible little pun, buttime was, you could move the in-game clock forward just standing around in Bethesda games - it didn’t matter what you were doing, nor where you were, so long as there were no enemies in the vicinity. That’s changed in more recent entries, and the change continues in Starfield.You’ll be able to dial the hours forward up to 24 at a time only when you’re in bed or seated, be it on a bench, in a chair… maybe not your starship’s cockpit, but just about anywhere else.
Spiffy little thing about waiting in Starfield: there will always be a display indicating how many hours will have transpired in local time relative to the number of Earth-based hours you choose on the dial. It’s kind of surreal.
Now, what do you press once you’re in a suitable position for some miniature, user-defined, time travel? On Xbox, follow the on-screen query that ought to pop up bypressing the ‘Y’ buttonto pull up the wait menu. The hours will pass in mere seconds. You can repeat the process as desired. On PC, you’ll need topress ‘E’ to sit down, and then ‘B’ for the wait menu.
It’s best to sleep in a bed rather than a chair whenever you can - just like in real life, to be honest - as you’ll gain theWell Rested status, which will temporarily boost the amount of experience your character earns by ten percent. That adds up quickly in a game like Starfield.
