Starfield’scharacter creatorlooks incredible, with sprinkles ofFallout: New VegasandOblivion, making it far more in-depth thanSkyrim’sandFallout 4’soptions. That means we can make some truly unique builds to explore the galaxy with, rather than defaulting to safe, tried and tested formulas. But let’s be honest - we’re all gonnamake a stealth archeragain.
At first, maybe we’ll try something like a diplomatic bruiser or a thick-skulled travelling bounty hunter, taking on bandits with high-tech laser rifles using nothing but a club. But as fun as those builds might be, the nagging urge to put a silencer on a sniper and hide in the grass will overwhelm us.
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There are so many reasons that the stealth archer meta prevails in Bethesda games, but the big one is that it lets you see everything on offer. If you try to be a hardened Dragonborn warrior in Skyrim, using heavy armour, shields, and spiked maces to cut through your enemies faster than Sheogorath goes through a cheese platter, you’ll excel in the Companions. But try bruising your way through stealth missions in the Thieves Guild or pulling off elaborate assassinations in the Dark Brotherhood when your toolkit consists of hammers and loud foghorns—you’ll end up in massive debt from all the bounties on your head, and you won’t even enjoy it.
A stealth archer, meanwhile, can just as easilycapture forts during the civil warand slaughter werewolf hunters for the Companions, essentially giving you the ability to try every guild in one playthrough. It’s convenient, so of course we all do it. And what’s doubly convenient is that the best stealth archer builds can one-shot nearly every enemy, so why would you ever want to run up and mash the attack button with a blunt weapon?
So, we make a stealth archer. We pump our levels into sneak, speech, lockpicking, pickpocketing, archery, alchemy, enchantment, and all the other useful skills needed to create a character that can take on the world, literally. But now we’re taking on 1,000 worlds, and I don’t know about you, but I’d like to stick to one gargantuan playthrough for the time being.
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