Starfield (Bethesda Game Studios)

[Emmi]

I enjoyed my time with TotK but in my opinion it is another example of an overblown hyped game where I still don't really understand where all this development time went into? And yes, i have spent close to 70 hours playing this game but haven't touched it in literally months now and I have no desire to return to it if I'm honest. If I remember correctly Jason you had posted a hot take in the other topic and said that Nintendo gets away with absurdely high meta scores for their blockbuster games akà 3D Zelda and 3D Mario ... I also agree with this and I'm not so sure where this is coming from either.

[Margot Robbed Me]

Heres my trick y'all

 

[Failed Again]

My impression so far is:

This game was built for the LONG RUN...

 

The more I play the more I discover...not really something a lot of folks appreciate.

 

 

Yes, you can.

I have this controller, I used for Elite Dangerous.

Once I install my new GPU, I will test it. 

also, for Voice control.

 

 Many years ago for voice control I used MS Game Voice

[Mister Pink]

On 10/2/2023 at 2:35 AM, Failed Again said:

My impression so far is:

This game was built for the LONG RUN...

 

The more I play the more I discover...not really something a lot of folks appreciate.

Yeah, and maybe that's why they were kind of complacent with a relatively slow start.

 

Howard has said in a few interviews that the team definitely went into this with the long game in mind. I can feel that too. It taking me a while to level up my Pilot skills and I'm just enjoying exploring and by exploring that doesn't mean going out without purpose and just randomly landing on planets. I find with Starfield, if you do a bounty, you know it's going to take you somewhere interesting. So I use the bounties as motivation to travel to new places, gather resources, collect money from the bounty and check out some local points of interest. Then, if I've fast travelled a lot from a grounded ship to surface of another planet then I know the algorithm probably has something in store for me if I choose to Take Off and I'm usually right. I'll end up in a battle where I'm assisting the FC.  

 

I love that they ask you what type of reward you'd like. It's a nice touch of having a choice. 

[Failed Again]

It's really getting amazing; I'm loving how some things you do in the game develop into such interesting stories...

The Delivering Devils goes a really long way...................

 

[Frabbi 01]

Did a few more missions and completed the one with Walter at Neon....

 

Then...... STARBORN.......

WTF........ no idea but things just got even weirder. Can't wait to keep going.

[Margot Robbed Me]

Old ship before the redesign

 

[Failed Again]

 

Pretty amazing

 

Oliver@ DF did a few tests - he gives it good marks..if you want to see more detailed review.

Edited October 3, 2023 by Failed Again

[Punkd]

i am not up to date with starfield, i dodged every news since its release because i am planning to play it soon

do we know when a first "big" update/patch will arrive?

https://bethesda.net/en/game/starfield/article/3DKJAom2GjFh4P3gprf5E9/starfield-updates-and-mod-support-september-13-2023

they talk about hdr calibration and FOV slider etc

[Jason]

No date and it's not a guarantee that stuff like the FoV slider and better HDR support will be coming in the first big patch, they just listed stuff they're working on.

[Tacymist]

So I named my character Tace Griffin as a reference to another character from a game I played back in the day.

 

Anyway, to my surprise there's a character in the game with the same last name as what I gave my character.

 

 

So she's my space wife now.

[Jason]

So I've known that toilets can have loot inside them for a while but today I've learned bog standard cabinets can have stuff inside them as well. The only way to access them is by basically shooting or otherwise jarring them open using something.... the f*ck BGS?  Why go through all the effort of making loot spawn in that stuff if you can't open them lmao.

[Margot Robbed Me]

^ What standard cabinets? I've been playing Baldurs Gate so I don't remember what Starfield cabinets look like. 

 

Fortunately, when I finished Starfield, I only did around 20% of the side quests, so there's still a lot of game left for me when I start it again.

[Jason]

Just the stuff you'd come across in outposts, bases, etc. Kitchen cabinets and stuff like that lol.

 

I'm guessing they probably intended for you to loot those places but probably pulled the feature, possibly cause it'd slow down the game even more if everyone was rummaging through every cabinet and toilet, but I guess they left the spawn points in those places still marked.

[Failed Again]

8 hours ago, Tacymist said:

So I named my character Tace Griffin as a reference to another character from a game I played back in the day.

 

Anyway, to my surprise there's a character in the game with the same last name as what I gave my character.

 

 

So she's my space wife now.

 I named my Character Bishop Howard, turns out he's an android video game producer.

[AZAZEL]

Current iteration of my home ship. Love messing with these things, and really appreciate all the little intricate details of the designs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Red Velvet]

Wasn't sure where to put this but: 

I PUT ROMAN'S TAXI IN STARFIELD

[Jason]

Well, I've seen weirder things modded into a BGS game. 

[Failed Again]

7 minutes ago, Yukiko Okada said:

Wasn't sure where to put this but: 

I PUT ROMAN'S TAXI IN STARFIELD

But can it fly....

nice btw

[Red Velvet]

12 minutes ago, Failed Again said:

But can it fly....

nice btw

Not yet, but soon! 

[lndex]

You wouldn't need an extensive plushie collection when you've got that. 

[OysterBarron]

18 hours ago, Yukiko Okada said:

Wasn't sure where to put this but: 

I PUT ROMAN'S TAXI IN STARFIELD

Ah so this is what turns up when the screen goes black on fast travel.

[.Ryan.]

23 hours ago, Yukiko Okada said:

Wasn't sure where to put this but: 

I PUT ROMAN'S TAXI IN STARFIELD

Now the question remains. Can Roman be modded in to call Niko to go bowling in a galaxy far, far away?

Edited October 7, 2023 by Harwood Butch3r

[Jason]

Honestly I bet w/ the creation engine physics you actually could go bowling...

[Frabbi 01]

2 hours ago, Jason said:

Honestly I bet w/ the creation engine physics you actually could go bowling...

Was going to say maybe a modder will somehow add coop, then WE CAN GO BOWLING COUSIN!!!

 

Also, now someone just has to give their character a facelift to look like Roman.

 

Made it to the Entangled mission as well. WTF AGAIN. Lots of holy sh*t moments in this game. It really is ridiculous. One of the best years in gaming for sure. Should have the story done in a day or 2. Can't wait to see new game+

 

I have 150 hours in so far, and I still have only been to 25 or so systems, and maybe 1 or 2 planets on each. Going to take quite awhile before I'm anywhere near done. Then there's the upcoming DLC. Then there will be mods.....

Edited October 8, 2023 by Frabbi 01

[Jason]

Have a bit of a dodgy ear so I'm a little half deaf and didn't really want to play something immersive like Cyberpunk until it's back to normal, but I've been having an itch to play Starfield so I've started my second save. Plan is to keep this save pretty simple for now and use it as a pick up and play save that I can drop and come back to at will. Starfield's a lowkey pretty damn good looter shooter and I've just been wanting to hop into a game and shoot stuff, so this is gonna be a save for that.

 

 

Picked the NA citizen, House of Enlightened and Wanted traits, with Bounty Hunter background. Felt those make a decent origin as an ex bounty hunter on the run hiding out as a miner until the start of the game played out. I love the Freestar Collective so I'm keeping that trait for my third save, which will be when the mods for this game are in full flow. 

 

Anywho, walked straight out of the Lodge on my own as soon as I could, picked up Marika at the coffee shop and headed out w/ a mission board quest. Gonna do stuff I never did in the first save while just dabbling in smuggling, thieving, bounty hunting and also use some of the non-Constellation companions and build a crew w/ those lot. No plans to touch the main story or get powers or anything in this save. Got it loaded up with a few mods like 3 skill points per level for the first 10 or 20 levels (can't remember what I set it as) then 2 points after, also removed the challenges to level up skills, so with those two I can get the must haves very quick. Also went with that improved AI mod to see how that goes.

 

First port of call is to make some dosh and get my self a small little bounty hunting ship I think.

[lndex]

Is that the improved AI combat mod? I might give that a try when I end up returning to Starfield, coz the AI is too easy at times.

[Jason]

Yea, "Improved Combat AI". There's a mod called "Console Command Runner" that makes installing the early mods like that easier as well, a growing amount of mods support it like Improved Combat AI. No more manually editing configs for those files to make sure the .bat's run.

 

Not sure what difference I've noticed thus far as it's been a few weeks since I've really sat down and played the game, but I also know the game a lot better now than I did at launch so difficulty at this stage is bit a easy still. Think I'll bump it up to hard actually tbh, IDK if enemies do more damage on that difficulty but more legendary enemies spawn which means more chances at legendary loot.

[lndex]

I've not been back on Starfield yet, but it seems like there's a patch today that's added in a first- and third-person FoV slider. No more ini tweaks, and at least it's there for those on consoles now.

[Jason]

Update came out just as I was tweaking a UI mod, didn't realise it, and somehow my script extender exe shortcut got overwritten or something so my game updated and now I have to wait for the SE to be updated. Feelsbadman.

 

Had just picked up a small Taiyo ship for like 80k, tweaked it a little, and was about to go back out to make some more money to pack it out w/ better guns and cargo, lol.

 

The FoV slider is welcome but they did forget the ship FoV slider, lol. Also has to be said they are updating the game at an alarmingly slow rate. I hope it's them building up one big mega patch or something, but when you compare it to how quickly Larian patched up BG3, admittedly they had no console cert to deal with in the first month, but yeesh. Few fixes vs pages of fixes, new features vs just one FoV slider.

 

I mean no DLSS yet is ????. Modders added DLSS in hours, there's even a DLSS mod that adds DLSS options in the actual graphic menus. There's already a mod to eat food instead of picking it up. Why are they so slow with this stuff?