*S*T*A*R*F*I*E*L*D* / Starfield

May actually play it now.

I’m sure he’ll toddle off eventually

But Howard he going to do that?

Personally I don't understand how Bethesda has gotten away with releasing such a turd with Starfield. I'm amazed there isn't more rage about it. Or, it's an merely an indicator of how far Bethesda have fallen that the response to Starfield has almost been a shrug.

CD Projekt got absolutely lynched when they released Cyberpunk and whilst it was buggy as hell and there were things lacking, it massively pushed forward graphics, was an amazing world to wander around from the get-go and had some top tier characterisation and decent acting. It did a lot right.

By comparison, Todd has gotten away with murder in broad daylight.

Star field IS a good game. But it deserves to be a great one… I hope they can get there but without a large modification of their game engine I’m just not sure…

Maybe because on Steam right now there's 3000 people playing Starfield and 12000 playing Skyrim?

Its actually quite a good looking game with lots of detail in meshes and textures so I'm not actually arsed about RT but ...

It needs the option to remove entry/exit animations for cockpits, doors, lifts, workstations etc. they are a fucking chore.
It needed land vehicles.
It needs unique loot tied to locations rather than RNG at loadtime based on difficulty.
It needed more of the zero-g combat as found on that casino station.
It needs a reason to explore the planets present even if it's clues and tidbits about hidden items/locations. The crafting and transport is so convoluted such that you eventually just think fuck it. I'm not expecting satisfactory levels of automation, just simplify it. A lot or not cos again, who gives...

I am hoping that lots of the planets in this are placeholder so they can seamlessly add content rather than having their add-ons go 'off-map'.

One thing that they really need to do it set it to remove the Crimson Fleet tag from enemies when doing their mission. I stumbled upon it early and it made almost every outpost I went to combatless, just walking straight in and taking what I needed while listening to "Glad you're in the fleet..." repeated by every passing NPC. I can't imagine it'd be too hard to change them from "Crimson Fleet" to "Pirate" for the duration.

It's a space station in alpha centauri iirc. Probably one of the first places I wandered off to when I thought wandering might be worth it

I remember swapping my ship in this for something else that I thought would be better for combat but turned out it was much lower on storage and all my inventory just over spilt meaning I couldn't add anything else. I was stuck on a planet over encumbered with a ship I couldn't offload to and I actually could not be arsed to keep going traversing between different vendors because I couldn't sell all my shit.

Just swapped the ship back and then gave up with it. I love a factory/production/craft/inventory management game more than most but even I fucked it off as oppressive bullshit

I built a custom ship that was heavily based on one of the Elliptic (Ecliptic?) mercenary ships but with the best possible generator and weapons. It outclassed the Freestar ship by some margin, and made ship combat pretty trivial.

I liked the game just fine but had enough after going into NG+ a couple of times. I’ll probably like the DLC too, but it’s console mods I’m really waiting on.

Was it just me or did the game have too much hacking/picking and not enough digipicks? I remember buying every one I seen and I was still short and I wasn't failing the mini games. Seemed you couldn't enter a room without stumbling over several and I eventually just stopped because even the hardest ones only had 7.77 ammo and fruit.

I think they made using digipicks easier as despite the locks saying expert or advanced they're really really easy.