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

The guards interrupting you will you're in convo with someone else and both convos end up happening simultaneously, or the guards magically teleporting to your location when spotted by a civilian looting something is also classic Bethesda.

That suit carried me through the entire game.
I got a gold suit in the late game that had good perks but the actual stats were still worse.

I got it legitimately by picking the lock. It is miles better than everything else I had at that point. Has also prompted me to put points into spacesuit modding seeing as I'll be using it for a while.

Haha. He was fully-dressed for me.

Found myself on a planet surrounded by level 30 Siren creatures and various merc outposts. As a level 7 scoundrel, I made a hasty retreat.

So Susan, was floating about, as one does, and got a distress call about a base being overrun by Spacers. Kicked off the “Groundpounder” mission, went down and knocked a few space heads together and got to the next part where I need to kill Spacer shit in orbit of Altair I and V… I am absolutely getting smashed and can’t get past this bit

I’m about level 12, but still in the started ship. I can take one of the three down and then I’ve got no shields and am blown up. There’s no dodge, etc, so it’s just a case of being stronger and outlasting the opposition, no?

Duffman and the couple of others who said this was bad visually/like last gen. You need to get to Specsavers. It's pretty sexy and if it was 60fps and this sexy it would be pretty amazing.

Played three hours so far, like the combat enough and most other things but I'm not sure I can play this type of game anymore.

Every time I go into my inventory or look at the ship crafting or get into some long conversation or look at the minerals I need for some item all I can think is I don't have time for this.

At level 12, you should be more than capable of getting a significant upgrade and it's likely you already have everything you need to kick off the mission.

As above though, everything else you get from then on will be shit.

Yeah, that’s something I tend to run up against in RPGs in recent years. On one night, I can spend 3 hours doing quests and the next night I might spend an hour just exploring a single location and be like “damn, this game is gonna be HUGE.” I both admire that and am intimidated by it. This is definitely something that’ll take me years to complete, like Skyrim did.

and yeah, the graphics in this are excellent for the most part. The leaves on the trees in New Atlantis look kind of rough though.

Thanks folks… but in the stock starter ship I won’t be shooting any harder after a few more levels, will I? Is the equipment’s strength somehow dynamically scaled as you level up, or do I just need to be at a higher level so I can buy better kit and win that way?

Wait until you visit Avila- it can be astonishingly flat and plain for a 2023 title at times, though it also occasionally has it’s moments elsewhere.
The sound design is the one solid winner for me with this game.

I’ve just run into the same issue as mothercruncher. Stole a ship and am facing three enemies at once 😂

does it irritate anybody else that it’s 0 to heal and O to repair the ship (PC, at least)

I think it looks great and I’ve pretty much habituated to the 30fps. It’s a typical Bethesda game, just without the same open world feeling you get from Fallout/Elder scrolls; ie ejected in to a huge seamless map. This feels a bit different and something is lost, but it’s a space exploration rpg, so not sure how they can reconcile that with the usual open world MO when trying to do the space traveller exploring hundreds of planets theme.

It’s great thou. The barren planets are a bit dull, but apparently it is a slow burner. I do find it relaxing to play and just dip in and out without feeling to need to binge on it.

Thing I find with game pass/ps extra is similar to Netflix. Such a wealth of choice I find it difficult to decide what to devote time to and end up overwhelmed and choosing nothing. Or I feel a restless need to get through a game to move on to the next thing as if a clock is ticking. If I don’t I’m not getting my monies worth from the sub model.

Or I’m just getting older. Or I have been conditioned by social media to have a short attention span. Or I’m just burnt out on gaming and get bored easily.

I finally got enough Science points to get the second tier perk for researching more weapon mods. Then went to research them - with my cargo hold FULL of resources (it has a capacity of 900) - and I didn’t have all the bits and bobs I needed - adhesive, lubricant, tungsten, that sort of thing.

Tried building the mods I could, and it was the same story- I’ve been picking up everything from alien corpses and mining deposits, but didn’t have the right stuff. Not sure I can be bothered to pin one thing I want at a time. I need a shopping list and a planet that has everything. Or a very well stocked merchant.

Yes I can also run Moonlight on the TV itself and have briefly tried that in the past. It's just the shield is particularly good at hardware decoding h265. It's the same android app on the play store, not especially complicated.

Sunshine does need a bit more thought but still not hard imo.