Eagle-eyed gamer spots Starfield feature hiding in plain sight

Since the dramatic and exciting Starfield gameplay reveal trailer released back in 2022, it’s largely been radio silence from Bethesda in terms of revealing new details about the game.

However, one eagle-eyed gamer has just seemingly spotted a Starfield feature that has been hiding in plain sight ever since that gameplay trailer reveal—it’s just that hardly any gamers spotted it.

The discovery, which was posted in a thread (opens in new tab) on the Starfield subreddit, was made when the gamer just happened to spot that in one frame of the gameplay trailer you can see the option to ‘pickpocket’ an NPC.

During the early gameplay footage showing the player fighting a bunch of space pirates within a dark facility, one enemy runs up to the player and, just before they get killed, an option to pickpocket flashes up for a frame, with the player offered the chance to press the ‘A’ controller button to do so. Here’s a close up.

After that single frame the pirate is killed and the command quickly changes to the far more obvious to see ‘transfer’ option, indicating that the now deceased enemy can be looted.