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

Sarah told me, landing in New Atlantis, that this planet might have a breathable atmosphere.

There is no such thing as a nice 30fps game, especially first person ones though.

Yeah, it's not nice in any kind of shooter, but can be OK in other games even when there's an option for performance mode. FH5 worked surprisingly well for example, and FFXVI is absolutely fine when you get used to it.

This is just a jarring mess so far and combat feels a bit rubbish as a result. I might move to PC instead, but it's just too fucking hot to have that mini space heater pumping away this week.

I'd like a mode that does first person for combat and exploration, and automatically switches to third person in settlements. Just tied it to the same option that's already there to not show your spacesuit and/or helmet.

I must have a higher tolerance for standard Bethesda jank than most -I'm loving it despite the usual flaws. I did wonder if there would be a Game Pass effect where people are playing at launch because it's free, when otherwise you'd only be hearing from players who already knew what to expect. But it does sound like some of you liked other Fallout/Scrolls games and aren't into this one (or have reached a breaking point with those issues)

I am enjoying it a lot, but the way you acquired your ship was a bit laughable. They couldn’t come up with anything better than that haha.

I do like the ‘Alien’ style themes to the ships/tech level. Can definitely see a a lot of thought and care went into the design. Feels great.

The 30fps isn’t bothering me much. I find I can get used to it provided I’m not dipping in and out of other 60 fps games. Just of focusing on this now

I have ACLIMATED to 30fps, yep. Scanning a planet fully to see what that gets you, you need to visit each set landing spot on any one planet by the looks of it to collect everything.

Meant to mention this days ago, but I like how the laser mining cutters are straight out of Star Trek VI.

I loved Fallout 3 (which came as a huge surprise to me at the time considering how highly I regard Black Isle's Fallout games), liked Skyrim (but found it far too similar to Morrowind and Oblivion and ultimately got bored before the end), but Fallout 4 fell completely flat for me. I probably made it about halfway through before I dropped it and moved on and have never had a desire to go back to it.

Still plugging away at Starfield - and enjoying it, for the most part - but I can't escape the feeling that this really is just a fancy reskin of Fallout 4 with some extra steps involved for fast travel; a spaceship mini game bookended by menus, loading screens and non-interactive animations to make you feel like you're actually going somewhere.

As a space nerd who's put well over 1500 hours into Elite Dangerous, the promise of space travel and exploration was what most excited me about Starfield. As it stands, it's (imho) inferior in pretty much every way when it comes to the gameplay (including the on-foot combat - seriously, ED Horizons low gravity FPS combat is surprisingly lovely) EXCEPT for the missions and narrative structure, which Elite has never excelled at (almost nonexistent) and is without doubt its largest critical flaw (along with the absolutely insane level of grind to engineer your ships to a high grade). It's not for everyone and I certainly wouldn't recommend it to people wanting more 'actual game' in their game!

I was hoping Starfield would bridge that gap and offer something sort of similar, but all of the 'space game' elements seem like afterthoughts added to pad things out a bit in between missions. I do enjoy roaming around scanning flora, fauna and geological elements while finding all the points of interest on the map (and have probably sunk most of my time into this part of the game up to now), that's probably my favourite part of this so far and will almost certainly keep me playing longer than Fallout 4 did.

TLDR: I just wish they'd made space travel more interesting, I guess.

Video games have been set up with much less.

You could well be heavily CPU limited as well as GPU limited.  I'd recommend the Hardware Uboxed Youtube videos on GPU and CPU performance as they suggest settings for worse setups than yours.  They conclude there are bunch of settings which basically make no difference so may as well have them on full, then there are a few that really do have impact.  The Low and Medium presets are apparently not very optimised in terms of bank for buck.

Also get the DLSS mod.  Won't add performance but does improve image quality at same FPS a bit.

I was the same re: FO4 and I find this miles more engaging, but yes it feels rather like a re-release of a late 2000s game with a hi-res texture pack and post processing added in.

I can certainly see how 30FPS would greatly impact the experience. The FPS bits and weightless bits really need smooth motion. I think a 60Hz patch is unlikely as the CPU will probably be the issue on Series X (as it is on most PCs) but you'd think they could and should do an unlocked VRR mode. 40fps feels way better than 30 in my experience. My PC is upper midrange but it's been pleasantly set and forget beyond the first hour or two of initial tinkering. Not found any 'dodgy' areas than tanked the framerate.

I've finally started fulfilling the mothership dream. Got my pilot license to level C and upgraded my ship so I can carry everything, have all the various workbenches and 3 crew. Feels quite a bit like Mass Effect 2 now, which is a good thing.

Next step will be adding a bit of beauty to it and a bit of feng shui as it's an ugly utilitarian beast right now and the corridor layout makes no sense as I still don't entirely know what I am doing.

I'm playing on a 3080 and it's a very solid 60fps vsync at 1440p uspcaled to 4k with DLSS. Settings all on highest except for the two or three that those guides suggested knocking down one level.

That went well

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