Starfield - Bethesda's new space IP: will probably be full of fun and easily trackable bugs

[RAT Team Six]

Beat the game last night after doing all the faction questlines. The new game plus is fun, but the world is just so empty and devoid of interesting things to explore. You basically never should go to a planet unless there's a quest sending you there, it's just a waste of time exploring empty copy-pasted buildings.

 

[Caesare]

Emil Pagliarulo should have been fired years ago but continued to fail upwards because he is entrenched in the company.

That dude is worthless. Everything he touches turns to shit and every time he opens his mouth he says something extraordinarily retarded. "I was gonna add these features but then I remembered that modders will add it someday so there's no need." He has no business working in a creative field for a company that's supposed to come up with interesting fiction. He's woefully inept. I bet the entirety of Bethesda is made up of employees exactly like him, too.

 

[Sniperwoof]

Why does every NPC that's not wearing a helmet have that wide eyed bewildered fish eyed stare?

That's got to be a bug because I booted up Fallout 4 and they don't look like that.

 

[Zero0]

Why does every NPC that's not wearing a helmet have that wide eyed bewildered fish eyed stare?

That's got to be a bug because I booted up Fallout 4 and they don't look like that.

It's 300 years into the future and humanity has just gotten more retarded.

 

[Sniperwoof]

It's 300 years into the future and humanity has just gotten more retarded.

Welcome to Costco I love you.

 

[Miller]

Are there alternatives to Nexus Mods?

To be fair a black Frenchwoman isn't exactly hard to find right now in certain parts of France. Just head to the banlieus and its like you're right there in Haiti, complete with all the trash piles and stabbings you could ask for.

The french territory isn't just in Europe. There are départements that are in the Southern Hemisphere.
Not shilling but if you guys ever leave your Burger country for a few weeks, you should check La Réunion, it's a really nice place.

 

[TheArtilleryman]

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

But then Heel Vs Babyface uploaded his vid and set off a shit storm.

Now this might strike some of you as harsh, but I believe everyone involved in this story should die.

@Sniperwoof

That's got to be a bug because I booted up Fallout 4 and they don't look like that.

It's either a bug or a quirk with Creation Engine 2, because so far I haven't noticed a single dialogue speaking NPC do it, but the crowd NPC's and my own player character seem to do it all the time.

 

[Blackstar]

 

[Rockzo]

It's right behind me, isn't it.

JOJO:

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

That's it. I just wanted to point out that a billion dollar company like Bethesda panders to this troon here rather than make a good game for people like Babyface to enjoy.

Unfortunately Bethesda went with the tried method of highlighting negative reaction due to politics to create an anti anti fanbase. So the current support for the game is built by people who play the game and mod it out of spite. It probably won't last, but the company probably already made a profit.

 

[Steinercard]

There's already a mod to remove the hideous NPCs.

Good job. Now give Andreja big tits.

 

[Pissmaster]

Todd didn't come up with that, other games have cost $70 before. Also,

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Prices change. Games used to cost $50 twenty years ago, when $50 was worth more than $70 now. Don't like it, pirate it or buy one of the countless older games you can get for $10 on sale. Blaming Todd for breaking some pricing taboo is silly.

They weren't worth $60 in 2022, and they weren't worth $50 on PS1. Those very high prices came from the days of ROM cartridges costing a fortune in the 80s and 90s, when the likes of Secret of Mana cost $80 in 1994 ($162 worth of modern buying power). Discs should have brought prices down considerably, and downloads even more, but why leave all that money on the table when there are enough suckers willing to cough up the cash?

 

[ZMOT]

Why the fuck do they insist on using a fucking 20 year old engine they clearly have no idea how to use and have proven over and over is increasingly outdated for the type of games they want to make?

money. and manpower, which is also money basically.

look at it like this: you got a hammer, how much would it cost to turn it into a spoon? probably more than making a spoon from scratch.
but now all your devs only know how to use a hammer, so you'd have to retrain them to learn how to use a spoon - which takes time and money, because the time they're learning the new pipeline and processes, they're not cranking out new code or assets for the final product. and if you hire new ones, you'd still need to onboard them. and the further you are into the development, the more expensive and risky it becomes (see: DNF or daikatana which did exactly that, multiple times even).

in the end it's not about the engine, or lazy devs, but simply time (and time is money) and also money, again.

it's also why bugs and workarounds tend to stay. fixing bugs and refactoring code doesn't add a new or more features, nothing the suits can sell. and after launch people already gave you their money, improving the product more than necessary would be a waste of time, since they won't give you more money for it - unless you sell DLC or go full live service, but then people also complain.

it is what it is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Right now I think we're in the "copying popular shit" stage of ship building for the most part, so coolness will vary depending on if you like Star Wars, Halo, Expanse and/or Mass Effect I guess.
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There are some original designs floating around though. At least I think they're original...

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nice, todd let's me do what I could already do better 8 years ago in empyrion.

speaking off...

 

[Belegar]

Yes Todd, clearly only the most top notch PCs can handle your "next gen" graphics. Absolute mongoloid.

https://twitter.com/tomwarren/status/1699703814209548630

Whats insane about this is that modded skyrim looks and runs so much better meanwhile Starfield looks like a ps4 title. My friend bought it and i watched him play it on Discord. He has a 4090 and a newer ryzen proccessor and he just barley get stable 60 fps on high, 2560x1440. While maxing out his gpu and at 75% cpu load. Truely an engineering marvel!
Protips for the AMD bros who bought this game. FSR2 is a crock of shit with the 7900s cards it crashes the game switch it off and you won't have to quicksave every 5 minutes and as a bonus you get to expirence the game in 30 fps as Todd intended.

 

[Battlefield2142EU]

But then Heel Vs Babyface uploaded his vid and set off a shit storm.

Say what you want about him the bald fuck. If Bethesda and their YouTube shills like ACT Man just shut up and ignore him. It wouldn't highlight the pronouns covering up how broken Starfield is. He, not apologizing, actually helped his unknown channel. Similar to turning Red 9/11 meme help Mr Enter in the long run. But I doubt Heel Vs babyface smart enough to pull this off intentionally.

 

[Sniperwoof]

So apparently DLSS isn't supported natively for Starfield but a fan mod that adds the option increases performance by like 75%

Bethesda is lucky their fans are retards and will buy/support anything.

 

[Karakhalkin-Gol]

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Even though I agree with much of what he shouts, this clip felt much longer than 2 minutes.

 

[genericwhitemale]

Idk if this is a containment thread for the fat guy yelling about pronouns shit and the fallout of it, but it is something I can't seem to stop thinking about. I think he's a retard for being angry on camera, when the appropriate response would be "wow, games fucking suck now", or seeing it and then immediately uninstalling it as a funny bit. But it's hard to put into words how it's kind of been this startling moment of realising that society has become so gaslit and buck broken towards something that fifteen years ago was unheard of, and less than ten years ago was relentlessly mocked. How quickly jokes about sexually identifying as attack helicopters and assuming gender that was like a go to punching bag for anti-SJW people- those are now people who are like "actually, what is wrong with pronouns?" Like I get on one hand if it's just about thinking it's an overreaction, but it's just funny to see how things have been prodded along until now that's just what's considered to be the norm.





Pics related.

Also people make the comparison to a game letting you choose male or female and doing this weird, countersignalling of "I guess this is too far as well, huh?"

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Turns out Bethesda really should have polished it more.

They were not allowed, big daddy Microsoft said so. As much as Bethesda deserve blame/fault for what they've done, they at least wanted to delay it another six months to get it working and optimised.

Would it have made the game less boring? Maybe, maybe not, but it would have launched in a better state, and probably to better fanfare than it has. Microsoft deserve a large portion of the blame.