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While there are plenty of aspects of Starfield that arguably don’t quite live up to the hype, the game still has lots of interesting stuff tucked away for intrepid explorers to find. The latest discovery players have made is a bizarre creature that can deprive foes of oxygen as a defence mechanism.

Yup, you’ve probably seen plenty of alien lifeforms that look like dinosaurs and probably had to shoot your way out of some pretty hairy Terrormorph encounters, but that’s not all the cosmos have to offer. Prompted by some dialogue from NPC Major Hadrian Sanon, one intergalactic explorer has seemingly found the galaxy’s most breathtaking cockroaches.

The player in question, user DiamondZoyd, has posted a clip of their find on the Starfield subreddit, explaining: “Hadrian refers to an (alien) creature on a distant world that ‘sucks the oxygen from around its prey to suffocate it’, it's real and I found it.”

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