The difficulty tweaks are my favorite honestly, I love that I can make it so that enemies can near one shot me but I can also near one shot them. I despise Bethesda's bullet sponges and this is such an awesome change. Makes combat a lot less mindless, reminds me a lot of S.T.A.L.K.E.R, I'm actually checking my corners in a Bethesda game lol.

@SabiJD

29 күн бұрын

But without a health option, how is the bullet sponging avoided? Damage output of both sides needs to be balanced relative to both sides' health pools. I'm near the end of building an LO for Fallout 4, so I've not had time to test SF's combat, I just fiddled with the settings, and had to refine my weapon loadout due to ammo mass. I need mods to make me care about restarting SF, as the MQ broke on my first attempted playthrough, and I just resented it never being fixed.

@JonoLB

29 күн бұрын

Agreed. The difficulty tweaks kinda change the game. Really heightens the risk and enjoyment factor. Been having a great time so far.

@joshuastender4871

29 күн бұрын

​@@JonoLB 100%. Combat feels far more immersive now that I cranked up the damage output for both myself and NPCs

@GophersVids

29 күн бұрын

@@SabiJD Can't you just make it so both sides are glass canons? I haven't tweaked it much yet.

@christopherlowe1082

29 күн бұрын

Same here. First thing I did was set player damage to V easy and enemy damage to V hard. Fights are now much more lethal both ways. Spongieness made Skyrim legendary difficult too dull spamming fireballs at a single draugr boss for 30 seconds.

Yo I remember watching you back 10 years minimum ago and you just randomly popped up!! I'm glad you're still at it

The fast travel system is going to be a lot more immersive and interactive, I'm glad that you mentioned that you would be more curious to explore places you've been before... Because it gives you an opportunity to Rediscover places you've been before... And utilize the new Fast travel features, all of the settings utilize a sliding scale when it comes to experience.. you can adjust the amount of credits at vendors have, you can adjust the amount of damage enemies do to you, you can adjust how much damage you do to enemies, you can adjust ship access proximity, add tons of other settings at the cost of experience points. It would be a good idea to make a hard save before you adjust any of the settings... Now that you have an opportunity to ReDiscover these locations, take some time and go to one of the cities... And explore each location, and then try fast traveling between them... I've got my seat belt on because this is going to get pretty wild!

@Medved-

29 күн бұрын

This may be what I need to bust.

@VampireNoblesse

28 күн бұрын

fast travel, hate it.., try to avoid it in Bethesda rpgs.., but here it's unavoidable

@jonathanward3633

28 күн бұрын

​@@VampireNoblesse I don't fast travel in Starfield anymore, haven't done so for ages. Get on my ship, go to space, fly to wherever, land. I've had so many interesting encounters that way. Unless you are counting FTL travel as fast travel? Personally I would prefer not to spend thousands of years travelling across the galaxy 😂

@carlsmith2225

27 күн бұрын

​@@jonathanward3633That's why for the life of me I can't understand y ppl are complaining about fast travel who really wants to take hours on hours back tracking & exploring the other side of the galaxy

One thing that I'm hoping that they do, is that they add the option to build a space station above the planet that you establish an outpost on. Land vehicles is one thing, by having a full-on Outpost with a space station... That is awesome 😎👍

@Sally4th_

29 күн бұрын

I want to be able to take over capital ships 😁

@Freakyman403

29 күн бұрын

space station building is an unimplemented feature as some people have found the assets for space station building so it was most likely a planned feature, so we might see it as a DLC

I'm glad i kinda took an indefinite break after the first hundred hours to wait for the expansion and the game to just. Become a more coherent thing so i can enjoy it more than i would have months ago. First 50 were. Not enjoyable but i stuck with it and eventually started enjoying it, especially playing through the vanguard questline. It only took that long to realize starfield doesn't have that "pick a target and start exploring doing side content on the way to the target" kind of exploration i love.

"We need maps for ES6." And a release date within my lifetime.

Loading screens normally don't bother me that much as long as they don't take forever but even I couldn't believe some of the ridiculous loading screens in Starfield. The one that baffled me the most was the elevator in the Astral Lounge. Was it really too much for it to move up ONE floor without loading? I'm looking forward to the expansion though and hopefully they'll address more of the game's problems with it too.

@TheKazragore

29 күн бұрын

I suspect that in Neon they use the load screens as bandaids for NPC AI and pathing. Goodness knows the elevators in Fallout 4 could get very fucky with followers.

@yourmom9200

29 күн бұрын

I think Will Shen shed some light on these seemingly baffling decisions. Bethesda's development pipeline is inefficient and sluggish. He explained that getting something as simple as a new chair for an interior you're working on would require you to ask permission and contact the 3D modeling department with exact specifications and they'd ask if you also need animations with it and yadda yadda. If you were lucky, maybe your request didn't get pushed down the pipeline indefinitely. So I believe it's possible however put together the Astral Lounge and other similar interios said screw it and used a loading screen teleporter instead of asking for an animated elevator.

These are good changes that should have been there from the start. It's still going to take the DLC and modding tools being released before I'll consider starting a new playthrough.

Those maps are great, they even help show how empty the planets are. Honestly I hope shatter space will adds some more filled planets.

Nailed it again, Gopher. Agreed, the future expansion and the possibly to official mod support means going back to this game might be fun in the future. I am looking forward to the story of the DLC, sounds like it will be great.

@TheTundraTerror

29 күн бұрын

You're on drugs if you think modding is going to help this game considering Bethesda's history of basically screwing over modders on the regular.

It baffles me how some of these things weren't in at release. I'm sure this update will get plenty of people going back to the game, but I don't believe I ever will.

Damn this looks really good. Yeah i think i'm gonna jump back into Starfield too once the expansion and mod support gets released. I completely missed the tweakable gameplay options, that's even better! Thanks for talking about it.

The new maps are making me explore more and spend more time on planets because I can now see where there are POIs, identify what they are by their shape, and then run across to them. The old way was to jump up and down on the ship to see into the distance or to fly up high or across the planet on planets with low gravity. It still takes far too long to run from one POI to another though even with my level 80 character equipped for maximum oxygen to run for long distances. I need a vehicle or, preferably, a fast jetpack. A wheeled vehicle isn't going to be any use on the forested planets because trees.

I really wonder how a map of all things wasn't there from the very start. I mean, Skyrim already had the same LOD map that they just added, so it's not like the technology wasn't there before? Like, they already made it work 13 years ago, so why didn't they do it again from the very start? And another thing, as much as I like the game (and I said like, cause love would definitely be the wrong word), what really killed all the hype from me post-release was the fact that we STILL don't have the creation kit. Skyrim and Fallout 4 had it, what, 2 months after release? And for Starfield it's not even on the horizon yet? Seriously Bethesda? What are they doing? Me and I dare say many, many people would still be playing this game if they actually provided some modding support.

@SabiJD

29 күн бұрын

I think this video maybe gave a hint as to why BGS didn't include detailed maps. It really does expose the borked limitations of the PG system. I'm on console, so my wait for mods is less assured. But yeah, after I abandoned the game (MQ broke, and BGS seem incapable of patching it), mods are really the only thing I'm waiting for. BGS really don't seem to understand, or fully appreciate, the value modding adds to their IPs. They should've been *pushing* and celebrating mod support in the showcases, but it was barely touched upon.

@Legacyartist

29 күн бұрын

When it was released data miners and modders discovered not only was Starfield not designed with mod support it wasn't designed for DLC support. I don't know if that was fully true I know nothing about code but it would explain why Shattered Space and mod support aren't out yet. They have to patch the game to handle additional content.

@marklamutt

29 күн бұрын

Creation kit for Fallout 4 came out 5 months after launch, FYI. So not immediately, but still sooner than Starfield.

@odst2247

29 күн бұрын

Most games don't even get the modding support that Bethesda gives to its players, so I don't think it's that bad that it's taking a bit longer for mod support than previous games. Atleast it's coming.

@yourmom9200

29 күн бұрын

It's because the low poly Skyrim map was far easier to generate than Starfield's custom 3D maps. Every map is rendered in real time and they had to create a lot of additional cutoms assets especially for interior layouts. Mod support takes longer because frankly, everything takes longer these days in the games industry. It took CDPR 3 years to release update 2.0 and Phantom Liberty for Cyberpunk. I don't really understand your argument, it's not like releasing the Creation Kit right now instantly opens up a huge library of high quality mods that you can download. These things take time, it will be years before Starfield has a truly game changing mod library like Skyrim and Fallout 4.

I set enemy damage (NPC and Ship) to extreme, but my damage to very easy. This way Gun fights are tense and require quick thinking because the guns actually kill you and the enemies far quicker as guns are known to do. No more bullet sponges!

I really liked starfield at launch, even if I had major frustrations with the game as well. This is a good update, hope they have a few more of these substantial updates before shattered-space arrives and then I'll be very happy to jump back in. Thanks for covering it Goph :)

@SuperBallani

Ай бұрын

Honestly i don't think there is another update before the DLC, because i think the next update will come with the DLC to do all in once.

I just want the mod tools out already! Need that open system exploration!

@NevG27

Ай бұрын

Yes! I need my build-a-gundam mod, and build-a-deathstar lmao

@wolfhors3_660

Ай бұрын

They gotta let their paid modders make a bunch of mods first so they can claim copyright on any modder that makes a similar mod 😂😂😂

@76marex

28 күн бұрын

@@wolfhors3_660 its all MS now, probably it will never released

@wolfhors3_660

28 күн бұрын

@76marex I hope that's not true but....

I know you never make videos for the second playthrough you play offline but it would be cool if you made like an update video of that playthrough after youre done. Like showing your ships and choices you made

Loving starfield

there are also available at ship vendors , empty spaceship habs .

Oh cool. I may continue my playthrough now.

These are good updates, but the only thing that would get me to play again is if they greatly expanded outpost building. I want to build a town on a planet with breathable air. But there is no way to build stairs, walls, floors, ceilings, bridges, doors, etc. The hab units get old fast. I spent over 400 hours building settlements in Fallout 4, but was done with Starfield's outpost system after a few hours.

@SabiJD

29 күн бұрын

Yeah, loved the build system in F4. I really enjoyed how it essentially extended character RP, in terms of making a home feel like it reflected your character's journey (Place Anywhere FTW... ). In SF I couldn't really see an RP or mechanical reason to bother with outposts, plus the options were so limited. It seems SF was designed with teams not really having any vision of how their features would segue with other elements, or the overall flow. The outpost system just screams that. Personally I think SF most suits a kind of expedition camp system, far more than any outpost or settlement feature.

@odst2247

29 күн бұрын

Hopefully they do a outpost dlc, I mean, it would be a massive opportunity not to expand on it.

I haven't played in months now but these changes are very welcomed. That they're taking food and drink seriously is good to see, and that it's actually separate from the difficulty is even better. I just want to enjoy playing the game but have actual reason to use consumables.

I'm actually impressed they added toggleable/customizable gameplay settings instead of the usual set difficulties, and the horrible FO4 survival mode with its very limiting and restrictive "features" (that needs a ton of mods to have any semblance of balance and playability for me). Mods have been using customizable individual settings since forever, it's about time BGS realized that people like having options. Hopefully they'll carry this approach for TES6.

Like the new things. The moment full mod support arrives this game will blossom. Fallout 4, X Com 2, etc have improved got massive content from talented modders, noone has any doubt how much this game will improve

@orbit1894

Ай бұрын

nah, most modders already gave up. Theres nothing to salvage.

@MolnarG007

29 күн бұрын

@@orbit1894 respectfully i disagree.

@SabiJD

29 күн бұрын

​@@MolnarG007Agreed. The notion that the most conveniently moddable sci-fi game on the market won't have good support is a bit daft, I feel. My MQ broke and I just abandoned the game many months ago. I'm waiting for mods, as I can't wait to see what the community comes up with. I can guess, of course, so SF will just start to be transformed (some fundamental limits aside).

@LNER985

29 күн бұрын

@@orbit1894 Lies.

@Legacyartist

29 күн бұрын

@@MolnarG007 Orbit1894 is technically correct in the sense that large portions of the Fallout and Elder Scrolls modding community aren't interested in modding Starfield. Partly do to the lack luster continued interest in the game and the very different way the game utilizes the engine at times. However that doesn't mean a new community won't fill in the gaps. I don't expect Starfield's modding community to be as big as the more popular titles but I do expect it to be plentiful in it's own right.

Ill take your word for it

its such a great update, I've had a blast playing the beta

@wolfhors3_660

Ай бұрын

Can you now place doors and ladders where you want them?

"and preferable a lot less load screens" Now your asking for too much. 😂

@Poldovico

Ай бұрын

at least back down to Skyrim level. If every interior transition still has a load screen, I'll put up with it, but don't give me a TES 6 on an archipelago, with a ship that you need to load into, load to a new island, load out of...

@SPITSPHIRE

Ай бұрын

@@Poldovico lmao Inb4 tes6 is a island hopping game 🤣

@fartloudYT

29 күн бұрын

@@Poldovico i dont think thats possible. in Skyrim you take a quest, and have a possibility to stumble upon something on the way, either a quest or some systemic design procedurally generated thing. in Starfield we just skip all of that. There is nothing on our way to the objective, it is just load screens. There is no space (lol) for all those random occurances to happen or predefined quests to be placed upon. The best we get is the random 'you came to the wrong neighbourhood buddy' type of bandit chats we sometimes get on entering a system. the only place where you could make up for that would be on the surface of the planets that are also more or less randomly generated. probably increase ambushes by enemies by getting them fly via ships and landing next to you. thats still quite boring and eventually with all those additions it would still be lackluster compared to Skyrim or Fallout 4. 'island hopping' is a good way of naming Starfield's issue. removing loadscreens changes very little.

@ArschvomDienst

29 күн бұрын

Yes. The creation engine is listed as from 2011. That is when skyrim launched i.e. the engine is older. In all actually it is a forked version of the much older gamebryo engine they used for TES3 (released 2002), TES4 and Fallout 3. Starfield was made officially with Creation Engine 2 but it the end it "only" is a beefed up version of a beefed up version of a beefed up version of a 27 year old engine. That is a big reason as to *WHY* the many loading screens are needed. And yes, TES6 is said to use this engine so the many loading screens will be there whether we want them to or not.

@BababooeyGooey

29 күн бұрын

@@SPITSPHIRE I mean... that would be kinda cool actually, at least in part. If the Hammerfell speculation turns out to be true (or the even wilder Hamerfell + High Rock rumors), there'll be a decent bit of ocean to explore with plenty of islands and peninsulas. Owning a ship and sailing around ala Assassin's Creed Black Flag/Odyssey style would be pretty sick.

The fact maps were only now added is infuriating

"Helps to have a map."

When I saw the new gameplay options, I thought that Sustenance would be the most interesting option out of all of them. I was wrong. The 4 options relating to environmental damage & recovery, alongside afflictions and its treatment, considerably change the gameplay loop when maxing out those difficulty options. It makes treatment aid items actually useful because you gain affliction much easier, and they also don't get cured immediately when taking one. Instead, it takes time and perhaps more than one treatment item to fully cure yourself from it. Not to mention, you can gain afflictions (like puncture or burns) from combat now, depending on what weapon the enemy is using. It also makes planetside exploration more dangerous depending on the planet's conditions.

most updates for Starfield I've seen are things that are like "yeah, that should have been in from the start", which makes me think a lot of these were probably planned from the start and they just ran out of crunch time. it's a shame they messed up the building system, it's impossible to fine-tune the rotation with clicking the mouse as much as I could in Fallout 4 by turning my camera just a touch

@SimmerCK

24 күн бұрын

An Xbox controller helps a lot with rotation. I switch to it when putting down objects and also flying my ship.

I've been playing the new update (beta) for the past week and I'm loving Starfield again. However, I'm now having an issue with the quest marker. For some reason now the blue quest marker often doesn't indicating my currently selected quest, but some other quest (the quest name is indicated when hovering the scanner reticule). Fortunately, the scanner still shows the direction to go to the current quest. I wonder if anyone else is experiencing this since the update.

Take the positives where I can, good point. The positive is that I waited to see how the game turned out before spending money on it.

Damn, that Local Map is good af.

Good to see this. As much as I'm enjoying watching your playthrough, the biggest things holding me back from getting the game are the Creation Kit, and a good sale.

This game has so much potential to be an amazing open world game especially with expansions and mods. I hope this game gets a resurgence like Cyberpunk2077 did.

@Legacyartist

29 күн бұрын

That's a bit of an ask BGS isn't putting that level of work into the game once mod support comes out I'm sure it will develop an even larger dedicated community but I doubt it will get the level of resurgence Cyberpunk did.

There is no door placement update.

@GophersVids

29 күн бұрын

Then I have no idea what the hell that line in the update means.

@nessuno1984

29 күн бұрын

@@GophersVids It means the new empty habs have every possible door placement be a door. You can't choose where the door goes, it's just all the door spots have doors. Which is annoying as we all want less doors not more.

Haven't even thought about Starfield since Dragon's Dogma 2 came out lol. Might be time to get back into it and finish my 300 hour playthrough. I just hope my mods still work...

As someone who doesn't have a pc that can play Starfield, I purposely haven't watched anything about it, I didn't know it didn't have maps like this from the start, that's actually a bit sad. This game seems both amazing and amazingly rooted in the past all at the same time. I'll play it eventually until then I'll keep wondering what Skyrim in space is really like.

Definitely! On roleplaying side that's an automated sector scan. :D Came in thinking of mods, because on my new HW it's slick but strange. I might should wait those new incomeing things like story and mod support with my first playthru?

@normal6969

29 күн бұрын

On that they know we know they know now, I've roleplayed Skyrim to look at the map only at villages simulating I ask around for directions. Used the signpost mod too. So no map in Elderly Scrolls Six would be a good idea, with good support like I've mentioned above. Optionally. On/Off like survival mode.

@normal6969

29 күн бұрын

You are right, clone-bro!

I know its never gonna happen, but i would love if tes6 had a non magical map, that doesnt show where you are, it just shows the world

@GophersVids

Ай бұрын

KCD Hardcore style? Well I'd imagine it might not be too hard to make a mod for that :)

@TheBlubba13

Ай бұрын

Or Bethesda could just provide us a Setting. "Don't show own position on map"

@Rincenso

Ай бұрын

@@TheBlubba13 Should be skill-based and show where the character Think it is and could be Miles off. :P

@TheBlubba13

Ай бұрын

@@Rincenso Oh god no. I don't need another perk unlock for basic things.

@GophersVids

29 күн бұрын

I'd be OK with perks for navigation aids along with a hardcore mode, as long as it really was optional (or a mod). The KCD hardcore mode is definitely not for every player :)

ILL WAIT TILL THE GAME OF THE YEAR EDITION...

Is that a starborn ship I spotted on Akila City Launchpad?

@GophersVids

29 күн бұрын

The final one, yeah :)

I would like to see that video on what mod support would do to get Gopher to do a new playthrough.

I'm not going to lie when Gopher started talking about and showing the map i honestly thought that was a mod authors creation he was just sharing and not an actual update by Bethesda themselves that completely changed the map. makes you wonder if starfield coulda cooked for a few more months if the maps where that god offal that even the dev's that made it decided to go back on their let's say... "creative decisions" good changes for sure just makes me wonder what behind the door chatter was like

Ill be back on when they add the lamd buggy an more things to explore

For me this is to little to late maybe shatter space will catch my attention but I feel like I got everything I wanted out of the game. Starfield is just this odd game for me as a videogame I enjoyed it and got my money's worth as a BGS game I kind of feel like I was ripped off and didn't get my moneys worth.

I have held off on playing till this!!! ... now I just have find the time to play

Is anybody getting visual issues after the update? I’m on series s

Ok apparently is a selective update, cause I'm still stuck whit the . . . . map. Or do I need to fly to another planet for the damnd thing to work?

@SwedDRPlastic

29 күн бұрын

ok, I actually did a missing files search, and it found 1. So now it's downloading 14.92 GB. whit a 25.91 Gb patch. What the fluff ? !

Thou shalt always get distracted by other shit

Has performance improved at all? I need 60 fps if im going to play, at launch i could get even 40 with a rtx3060 at lowest settings 1080p.

@GophersVids

29 күн бұрын

It made a massive difference on mine because I run a 4000 series, and they implemented Frame Generation which really boosts performance. But for the 3000 series you need to rely on just the DLSS alone, but that should perform better on your 3060 than FSL did, and it should look better. Only way to know for sure though, is to boot up the game :)

I mite be worng but i feel like adding maps would have taken alot of dev time and maybe we will get alot more from now on

I'm glad they're updating it however I feel land vehicles are a mistake when you have invisible walls to contend with. I hate to use the words immersion breaking but yeah. They just need to release the Creation Kit and let modders fix this mess.

I'm still so scared for ES6...

Should have been there from the start! There, I dun it

An Admiral was visiting one of his ships. While having tea, he noticed that every biscuit had the ship's insignia embossed on it. He is very impressed and calls the cook to ask him how he does this. Cook, "When rolling the biscuits, I slap each one onto my belt buckle before putting them in the oven." Admiral, "That's pretty unhygienic !!" Cook, "In that case, Sir, I'd suggest you skip the doughnuts."

@feliciab5019

Ай бұрын

😂

@Medved-

29 күн бұрын

Haha I get it he puts his cock into the doughnuts hahaha hilarious and dubious!

It's a shame that they went all-in on procedural terrain and "infinite" areas to explore, what killed the game for me was the constant loading screens between relatively tiny areas. I loved Fallout and TES games for their massive truly open worlds (for the most part), where I could walk around for hours and hours finding interesting unique scenes, only to be sidetracked by some random shenanigans - like a wolf being slung across the map by a dragon, or a settler being nuked by a charging mutant. I found that while Starfield's larger handcrafted segments inspired the same feeling, it just seemed entirely lacking throughout the main portion of the game. What made TES and Fallout great, was that it wasn't only unique in the dungeons, but the world we traveled across was equally unique. Hopefully some madlad creates a no-zone loading mod for Starfield in a few years, I'd pick it up again if I didn't have to trigger a loading-screen every 5 minutes, followed by 4 more in quick succession (flying to shop, leaving ship, selling, entering ship, flying to new location - plus whatever dungeon or shop loading there could be) Loading screens was the only reason I quit... I'm desperately hoping they won't try this sort of "infinite" crap again, it's best suited for the survival genre, not a story/ loot driven RPG.

@tmb-gaming2604

29 күн бұрын

Starfield doesn't really have that many loading screens and actually has way less than their previous games when you actually consider where most of the loading screens exist. In Starfield, going from star system to star system is obviously going to require a loading screen, right? There is no other way to do that. The best they could do here is hide it better. Going from planet to planet is also going to require a loading screen, because in the Starfield setting, the only FTL travel that exists is the grav drive which no matter how you do it, it's going to be like a load screen. Trying to manually fly to another planet would take many real life hours. Maybe even closer to days if we are being realistic here. Landing on a planet is also going to require a loading screen. Taking off from a planet is going to require a loading screen. I don't think anyone should be surprised by this. Now, when you are actually wandering around on planets, there isn't that many loading screens. Even in cities most of the so called "loading screens" is just your character being teleported and they use the loading screen as a mask so it doesn't look silly (If you don't mind seeing your character teleport from one location to another while in an elevator or taking the tram, then maybe eventually a mod will come out to remove them). For example, you can explore all of New Atlantis without using the tram aside from The Well, nearly everything is in one space, while simultaneously being on a pretty big map. No loading screen leaving or entering New Atlantis. Now with that said, there is the occasional shop that has its own space and requires loading. But compare that to Skyrim, where it's every shop that is like that within a city. Just walking through Whiterun alone you probably could go through like 10 - 20 loading screens easily. And unlike Starfield they tend to take more time. Enter Whiterun, loading, enter blacksmith, loading, exit blacksmith, loading, enter alchemist, loading, exit alchemist, loading, enter companions, loading, basement, loading, exit basement loading, exit companions, loading, enter dragonsreach, loading, exit dragonsreach, loading, enter inn, loading, exit inn, loading, exit whiterun, loading. I think people overreact to Starfield's loading screens or they just don't realize how many loading screens exist in their previous games.

@mikeity2009

29 күн бұрын

@@tmb-gaming2604 Starfield is horrible bro, stop it.

@tmb-gaming2604

29 күн бұрын

@@mikeity2009 Disagree

@Fiirow1

29 күн бұрын

@@tmb-gaming2604 The issue is that the interesting areas are all separated by loading screens, in Skyrim it didn't load whenever you entered a new small town or wandered from region to region. In Starfield everything is gated behind loading screens, the actually interesting stuff is all separated... Since the zones you play on planets are all pretty much empty of "unique" content. You forget to consider the basic stuff: Enter ship= loading screen Fly to a zone= loading screen Leave ship= loading screen -Activities (with/without loading screens)- Enter ship= loading screen Fly to a zone= loading screen Leave ship= loading screen ^That loop plays over and over again, since you need to constantly be selling stuff.

@tmb-gaming2604

28 күн бұрын

@@Fiirow1 Look, no offence but your argument just isn't true. Nearly all of Skyrim's content requires some form of loading screen to access. The smaller cities you speak of, there usually isn't much to do there outside and most of the interesting things require accessing a house which requires a loading screen. There is way more loading screens in Skyrim, that is a fact. And they also take longer than they do in Starfield. I already gave you example, where just walking around Whiterun can lead to you dealing with 10 - 20 loading screens. Even accessing a smaller town that doesn't require a loading screen to initially enter, requires loading screens for most buildings. Want to trade? Loading screen. Last but not least, the areas you expect to not have a loading screen in Starfield is ridiculous. The best they can do is hide them better, removing them is unlikely an option.

They still need fix the neptun, he isn’t that blue, he looks more like white with a little bit of blue. That’s official since around January 2024, they had enough time to fix it. It feels just so immersive breaking.

Ill go back to starfield when and if i can actuality fly my ship from planet to planet within a solar system.

@GophersVids

27 күн бұрын

So never? :)

@chromechef891

27 күн бұрын

@GophersVids Ha, probably 😆. Or if a good mod comes out for traversal.

@GophersVids

27 күн бұрын

@@chromechef891 Honestly, that feels unlikely. I mean that's almost a new game rather than a mod. It would be like adding Elite Dangerous to Starfield. I won't say never, because the modding ocmmunity has done some insane things, but I'd say it's unlikely in the extreme.

I read something about being able to change traits now, anybody know anything about that, it is related to NG+?

@th1rt3nth

29 күн бұрын

yes, when entering NG you can change traits and even background if I'm not mistaken. If you wish to change them.

@bluewrites2278

29 күн бұрын

@@th1rt3nth Thanks, I haven't gotten that far yet.

I enjoyed my time with Starfield but stopped due to life reasons and then decided to wait for some updates. The Planet maps are the least impressive thing for me because those never bothered me much, the City maps are welcomed though. However everything else is pretty great.

Gopher will you be doing a full review once your play-through is finished?

@GophersVids

27 күн бұрын

I finished my play through a long time ago, and have posted my 'review' over a number of videos. I posted two specifically where I talked about how it was Skyrim in Space, and another how it was NOT Skyrim in Space. Those two cover the good and the bad.

@DHDtroll

27 күн бұрын

@@GophersVids I see them now, thank you :)

Lmao this map update broke one of my saves😂😂😂 I spawned in new Atlantis and my ship was invisible then I swapped to the frontier and then back to my ship still invisible, so I tried ship editor on my ship and boom crash😂 all of my good weapons were in my armory on the ship so I lost all of my weapons. Good job Bethesda 🎉😩😩😩

Where are the land vehicles

They need to hurry the hell up with the mob support🤨

Still waiting for the creation tools and mods to save this game.

I do NOT like the local maps. You can clearly see every POI outside of your scanner range and see exactly what it is. While it allows you to see exactly where you want to go, it removes blind exploration completely. The new ship decorations is amazing, especially for people that prefer smaller ships. You no longer need 5 different habs. You can add all the work benches/storage to a single hab if you like.

my immersion is improved

By "full mod support" do you mean an official CK?

@GophersVids

29 күн бұрын

Yes. The release of the official modding tools usually signals the point where modding starts to ramp up.

The one thing that keeps running around my mind with every update to this game is. "Wow this game was really unfinished when it came out."

No man's sky and elite:dangerous are already better...

Welcome to the Saltine Cracker effect. These changes, while nice, are still not enough for me to re-install. It's a shame, with DLSS the game looks amazing.

I just hope ES6 doesn’t have mass procedural generation and they make it more true to the older games :/ Heres hoping It being an existing IP will prevent them from going to crazy with it.

Does this update break current mods?

@th1rt3nth

29 күн бұрын

skse is already updated, address library not yet. Some mods will continue to work, some will break.

@wolfhors3_660

29 күн бұрын

@@th1rt3nth thanks, I'll wait to update 😁👍

Still can't place doors and ladders where we want them, nor move already placed objects. Not good enough

@GophersVids

29 күн бұрын

On the immovable objects thing, there are now 'empty' habs you can completely decorate yourself. Although that might take a while .....

@exoticspeedefy7916

29 күн бұрын

@@GophersVids Unfortunately empty habs places two doors when connected to another hab. Door placement is the bigger problem

Wait. Maps are important?

No, you still can’t put doors and ladders where you want them.

I’m glad they’re updating starfield and adding good features like these. I think the procedural generation is one of the areas that they messed up with the most. Yes it let them make it faster but I don’t think it belonged in the game

Sadly, these days adding features post release is the norm. Hell, even to GotY-ed BG3 added an actual ending to the story post release! At least they are doing the right changes. Unlike what some trolls think, Bethesda DOES listed to feedback. They may experiment, resulting in unwanted features (like a voiced protagonist), but at least they listen to following feedback. I'm glad that they stuck with Starfield. It would be so tempting to abandon the game after the combined massive success of the game and massive backlash against it from certain agitated gamer groups...

I almost finished it. I was bored at the end that I didn't finish the Ranger questline. I can't see me going back to it at all. I have zero interest in moving chairs or tables around, I used the same ship I started the game with throughout, and a map or vehicle wouldn't make me want to explore a tile. I wouldn't want to experience any quests I've already done in the game a second time. It had its moments, like the ship where the gravity kept switching on and off throwing shit everywhere, the Mantis was a really cool idea with great rewards, the first time you encountered the Terrormorph in the Vanguard questline was good, but it was the little ideas and areas like those which were best, not the big ideas or locations which were boring. So more Homestead and Mantis Lair than Jemison or Akila and things could have been different. They should have done something with the L.I.S.T stuff, that was a missed opportunity for making exploration relevant.

You can make all the gameplay changes for quality improvements, but I don't think you can fix the story and the writing, which is quite worrying about the next Elder Scrolls game. How much dumb down can you really go that'll make the next game a huge chore to play through and make it a complete waste of time? If the mods can fix the story, that'll be great, but do we expect the next Bethesda game to be a non-functional broken game for us to fix like LEGO? Would it even count as a game for $70?

@GophersVids

29 күн бұрын

Well to be honest, people said that about Oblivion, Skyrim and Fallout 4. So honestly I'd say the next TES game will be pretty much on par with all their other games.

@TheTerminatorChris

29 күн бұрын

We'll see till then.

My problem with Starfield is the fact that the goal of the game is to simply start the game over. This pretty much means the entire game is kinda worthless since you aren't really getting anything done. I think the endgame should have been the heat leeches/space deathclaw storyline.

@BababooeyGooey

29 күн бұрын

I think it should've been coming into contact with an actual, intelligent alien species. So many sci-fi games either take place in periods where first contact is old history, or the aliens are just immediately hostile with little to no hope of diplomacy. When I first encountered the Starborn I was so goddamn excited, it felt like everything I had done had lead to that that moment, to board their ship and meet a new sapient species for the first time. And then the reveal that they were just alternate versions of human characters... most disappointed I had ever been in a story (video game or otherwise). It would've been far more cool to make first contact with a proper alien species and try to forge a friendship with them, learn about their cultures and beliefs, technology, etc. Or be a complete goblin and go to war with them for their sick-ass alien tech lol.

@allenmiller3205

29 күн бұрын

I think it plays perfectly into the story. Do you regret any choices during a playthrough, as we all do? Start over again and do it different. Then, do it again to try something new. After a while, you slowly become the Hunter, callous and indifferent to the people in the game because you know it's just another universe and consequences last only as long as the next "reset".

@qwertyvypez

28 күн бұрын

You don't have to play NG+. It's literally your choice

@Yuuppppp

27 күн бұрын

That’s the least charitable way to describe the goal of the main story quest line at best

i am just waiting for modders to make the planets feel less empty

I have the complete opposite viewpoint on the new maps. To me all they do is very clearly show just how empty and boring 98% of the playable space is. With the old map you just had a general idea of what the terrain is and where the POIs are, but the way to map actually looks was left up to you to explore. Yes the new maps are much better from a visual point of view, but they just leave absolutely nothing to the imagination. You just see the infinite sea of the same ground texture dotted with the same pool of 6 different bushes and rocks. This update is just too little, too late. Sure it adds some cool new features, but it's not like it fixes the idiotic writing and characters, or the lack of real time travel between planets and systems, or the limited fishbowl exploration. These issues quite frankly not only won't be fixed, for the most part they literally cannot be fixed. The story and characters would require a complete rewrite, recording voice lines, etc. And the boring, loading screen filled exploration is tied to the way the engine works. Even some of the most active Bethesda modders have already given up on Starfield, because even when they release the modding tools, it's the core features of the engine itself that are holding the game back.

With every "feature patch" it seems to become more and more clear that Todd lied out of his arse about game's completion status, and that it was really, really rushed. And that detail, that "all employees are playing it before launch" was not a sign of excitement and polishing, but a sign of lacking workforce. Probably because covid created a gap that shifted all plans 1 to 2 years forward which they weren't ready for.

I certainly concede that this is an improvement, but it's an improvement in the same sense that someone putting down a paper towel before taking a dump in my living room is an improvement over "dump classic." The fundamentals of the game remain a dumpster fire. It is 5 miles wide and an inch deep. This is a game that looked at the failure of procedural generation in 3D environment games and said, "yeah, that's for us."

The epitome of "putting lipstick on a pig". I didn't even update to this so my mods wouldn't break that add actual features like oxygen depletion (and I already have mods for empty habs and decoration, same for gameplay difficulty settings, so I'd really just update for the map).

I generally want to be positive about games getting post-launch support, but even though everything here is good, at this pace it will take YEARS before SF is anywhere close to being something I can wholeheartedly recommend to people. At this point, the first expansion is the only chance I see for the game to recover from being almost universally dismissed as underwhelming (I genuinely don't have much faith in SF's modding scene in that regard), though obviously some people's hyperbolic vitriol will never dry up.

I think having to find the map in game would be 'immersive' 😂

You're too optimistic IMO Gopher. Remember Skyrim "map" ? We let them know it wasn't great, that we wanted a real map not just a view of the terrain from above that didn't even show the roads. And yet in Starfield what did we get ? An even more imprecise "map" that can in fact barely qualify as one. And , sure , for Starfield they listened and ended up changing it, after one year and a half, but what did they give us ? The Skytim map in Starfield .... So I don't have much hope for TES 6 to be honest.

I'll take StarUI over all the improvements provided in this patch...Hopefully it will be updated soon...the update feels like a downgrade tbh.

the whole multiverse ng+ thing only might have sense, if you could travel back&fourth through your multiple universes, with your ship and all what it contains. let me collect a shitload of money with kryxs legacy in multiple universes, gimme some consequences with unlimited bounty etc. and let me flee into another universe, where i chill with andreja and stuff. And goddamn, gimme something to collect and indexing stuff. Thats a multiverse... What they made is just crap and it's contrary to any aspect of an open world game..

I don't think I'll ever enjoy this game even if they fix all the technical stuff. The total lack of culture and personalities just makes immersion impossible.

After the disappointment of buying Starfield, I have grave fears for ES6. Hope I'm wrong.

Positive maybe, but Bethesda dropped the ball with the game. So much potential and it was wasted by this loading screen simulator

I played the beta patch for 10 minutes and realized that the game still isn't fun, because there isn't anything worthwhile to do or to explore.

$70 game 😂

@wolfhors3_660

29 күн бұрын

Buy ten or twelve "creations" and it's a 200 dollar game 🤣🤣

@wavereb

29 күн бұрын

@@wolfhors3_660 what a bargain 🤣

They could spend another 2 years on this game and it'll still be garbage.