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

[elrond hubbard]

Why can't I shoot people out of my ships airlock

 

[Panoramic Overton Window]

It's funny though, the people saying it has a fuckton of black people are absolutely right, I feel like every other notable character is black.

I would imagine these characters were designed during the period of the Festivities honoring St. George the Floyd and influenced by such. Please tell me they at least had black voice actors; trans-racial VA drives me nuts.

 

[Articles and Nudes]

So ever since unlocking Ship Design 4, my character's mercenarial exploits are funding the galaxy's most expensive lego set. What shipyard has the widest variety of ship parts available? I'm sinking six figures into designing the most heavily armed flying biscuit, only to then another six figures five minutes later because I've found another port with even shinier cosmetics.

 

[I'm Retarded?]

Naw mang, overall it's a great game. Just skip the bullshit companion dialogue and shoot the handful of faggots you come across in the face (literally in Starfield). It's an RPG, so roleplay being a /pol/tard.
The few of you that aren't simply parroting Josh's latest dumb take are almost definitely just contrarian losers who haven't enjoyed anything for at least a decade. The type of person who makes their nieces cry by throwing a spergfest whenever an interracial couple appears on the TV.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, gamers are some of the most shamefully retarded nigger cattle on this gay earth. a dozen games of all different shapes and genres and qualities are released every day such that you can find a lifetime of experiences to pick through, big and little, that aren't repulsive made-by-committee oceans of gray slop. yet people flock to these extremely for-profit commercial games that do not respect your time, intelligence, or capacity for critical analysis, and rain cope on any objectors. "you can't enjoy anything," they say. "you didn't even play the game, you just want to be mad." you shit idiot, you absolute rube. I have seen entire eras of culture rise and fall from behind these grease-stained keys. I have played more games than I can count. I have spent a terrible amount of my stupid life inside a digital dreamscape. through my screen-damaged eyes, I see people line up behind the garbage they're brainhacked into settling for because they refuse to accept the responsibility of forming their own opinions. passion projects with spunk and soul huddle in rags around a guttering fire while troon-infested game assembly plants like Activision-Blizzard and Ubisoft are lavished with riches. from one side of their mouths, gamers lament that more titles are not as competently assembled and functional as Baldur's Gate 3; from the other side, they lash out at any implication that the new barely functional and broken Games Media Product that everyone is playing could in any way be considered mediocre. I wish every day I could share with people the joy I find in the corners and back rooms of the medium. but my attempts are simply waved away as I watch names on my friends lists cycle between World of Warcraft, Destiny 2, Diablo 4, or whatever the New Hotness is, faithfully following each prescribed content release like clockwork, while their imagination dies a little more each day. this is the future you niggers chose. give me my autistic and MATI stickers and choke on it.

 

[Cornelius James]

I finished the Rangers story and the Crimson Fleet story first. I find whatever this starborn shit boring and predictable for a Bethesda game.

 

[TVB]

Replace all the reddit-tier dialogue options with one liners from 80s and 90s action movies.

You forgot 2000s

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

So it sounds like the game is, in fact, mediocre.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

God. That's genuinely retarded. Infuriatingly so, since it also means they at no point bothered to look into how spaceships are designed. Even just a quick ten minute fuck around on something like Atomic Rockets - without any scientific understanding - would make you realise what a stupendously retarded idea it is.

Because the lack of air means you can't radiate away heat?

It's probably not real esoteric knowledge in these parts but it is a surprise to many people since people make a big hooplah about the coldness of space. That a ship's main concern would be cooking to death - that they need radiators - makes sense but isn't the kind of thing people come up with on their own. I first learned it from Terra Invicta and then read a lot more about it in It's Only Rocket Science (which is where I got pretty much everything I understand about piloting real life spacecraft from).

I think Starfield obviously falls into the category of space opera that has no interest at all in science, it's just an aesthetic. Which is a bit ironic for something calling itself NASApunk. The very design of the ships and the infrastructure is retarded, though. You're not going to have big flat boxy ships flying down through the atmosphere of a planet and back. At best you might have the ship stay in orbit like a ship anchored in the sea and use a rocket to and from surface like taking a boat to "shore" (surface). The idea of making any ship you want in whatever retarded shape you want was pointless and it never appealed to me.

 

[Johan Schmidt]

Because the lack of air means you can't radiate away heat?

It's probably not real esoteric knowledge in these parts but it is a surprise to many people since people make a big hooplah about the coldness of space. That a ship's main concern would be cooking to death - that they need radiators - makes sense but isn't the kind of thing people come up with on their own. I first learned it from Terra Invicta and then read a lot more about it in It's Only Rocket Science (which is where I got pretty much everything I understand about piloting real life spacecraft from).

I think Starfield obviously falls into the category of space opera that has no interest at all in science, it's just an aesthetic. Which is a bit ironic for something calling itself NASApunk. The very design of the ships and the infrastructure is retarded, though. You're not going to have big flat boxy ships flying down through the atmosphere of a planet and back. At best you might have the ship stay in orbit like a ship anchored in the sea and use a rocket to and from surface like taking a boat to "shore" (surface). The idea of making any ship you want in whatever retarded shape you want was pointless and it never appealed to me.

Exactly. so; the heat needs to go into something else and space is effectively a vacuum. I don't mind if the game doesn't want to try and be a sim - I have KSP for when I want to LARP as mission control sitting with my hands behind my head going 'Fuckfuckfuckfuck' as a five billion dollar rocket turns into a five billion kelvin fireball - but they clearly didn't even bother doing any research at all. Everyone may as well be flying around in spelljammers for all the difference it would actually make. It's not even on the same level as Star Trek.

It's just another sign that Bethesda seems to have genuinely shrugged their shoulders, mashed together five or six different tech demos, and called it a day. It's just so fucking amateur hour. It's like finding spelling mistakes, or bad sound mixing everywhere. Nothing deal breaking, nothing that actually makes the game measurable shitter. Just an indication that at this specific point, someone didn't give a fuck and phoned it in. Which would be fine if the game were free, or made by like six dudes in a shed. But it's not. So it's not. Very shitty work.

Games just tedious. It's not even bad. It reminds me of when I played Destiny and Anthem. I went 'Oh this is kinda cool' for about four hours, then I stopped giving a shit. Didn't do that with any of the Fallout games, or any of the Elder Scrolls. Did it with Starfield. Very dull. 5/10. If blockbuster existed, it'd be worth a weeks rental.

 

[M3xus]

So ever since unlocking Ship Design 4, my character's mercenarial exploits are funding the galaxy's most expensive lego set. What shipyard has the widest variety of ship parts available? I'm sinking six figures into designing the most heavily armed flying biscuit, only to then another six figures five minutes later because I've found another port with even shinier cosmetics.

I think Akila City and New Atlantis have the widest variety.

If you played Elite: Dangerous, you'll be happy to know good ol' INARA has a Starfield section that tracks what ship parts are available at which Space Services vendor, and at what level (the last ones unlock at 60). Hope this helps you!

 

[anustart76]

I'm about halfway through the main storyline and maybe 3/4 of the way through the major side mission storylines. It's aggressively mediocre. Feels like Fallout in space in so many ways. The plots are bland, the characters are one-note and mostly unattractive (the best-looking female I've seen in the game so far is the captain of the ship above Paradiso), and the game limits you in so many ways. Ship combat feels like it was really underutilized, as does the ship building. That should have been a bigger focus. Terrain traversal is irritating, would it have killed them to add some kind of landspeeder or whatever? Character customization is kind of mediocre, you can't do much more besides customize your head and fat/muscle. Clothing and spacesuits are all plain, some color options would have been nice, like in the old Saints Row games.

Not to mention the main plot feels like they're just trying to hop onboard the multiverse thing that's the new zeitgeist lately. Considering all the factions the game has, I really would have preferred something more like New Vegas in space, in the sense that it would be cool to lead a faction (or none) to controlling space.

It also kind of bugs me that they made earth a wasteland. Just once, it would be nice to visit a shiny future earth in a space game.

It is kind of nice that you can have parents, and they're good people too.

 

[Sniperwoof]

I miss being able to be an asshole in videogames. In Starfield you can't be a douche, at worst you can be mildly sarcastic. For all it's faults Cyberpunk2077 is one of the few modern videogames where you can play an outright psychopath if you want. Everyone else is too afraid of offending reddit dorks.

 

[Mega Black]

shoot the handful of faggots you come across in the face

Actually you can't do this because over half the named NPCs are marked essential. Some RPG.

 

[Mine is the Fury]

So ever since unlocking Ship Design 4, my character's mercenarial exploits are funding the galaxy's most expensive lego set. What shipyard has the widest variety of ship parts available? I'm sinking six figures into designing the most heavily armed flying biscuit, only to then another six figures five minutes later because I've found another port with even shinier cosmetics.

Establish a settlement on the planet of your choosing and build a landing pad with ship builder (it's the big circular one). All modules from all manufacturers, including black market, will be available to you in one place.

 

[derpherp2]

So I guess the bill gates money spent to get NASA into this shit didn't involve actual rocket science.

 

[Muttley]

 

[Chode Red]

Actually you can't do this because over half the named NPCs are marked essential. Some RPG.

Yeah, there's lots of little QoL changes that the modding community are going to have to unfuck. One undeniable positive to come out of Starfield's release has been Nexus Mods further alienating it's user base by banning the Remove Pronouns mod.
It's wild that these companies are so hellbent on catering to what, 1-2% of the population? Hopefully one day the gender autism will prove to be nothing more than a fad but I'm not optimistic.

I don't care about interracial couples or whatever, I don't even know what that has to do with anything. Starfield sucks and you're retarded if you play it, simple as.

The point was you're an unpleasant politi-sperg. The sort of person who isn't allowed to have alcohol at family dinners anymore.
And you brushed past parroting Daddy Jersh, so there we go. Average MATI cultist further proving they have nothing to say that wasn't released on the latest podcast firmware update.

 

[Something Awful]

It's crazy how Bethesda games have not advanced at all since Fallout 3. Even graphically this is barely an improvement, let alone fancy stuff like storytelling or interconnectivity of quests. Hopefully a better dev comes along and makes Starfield's version of New Vegas or Forgotten City.

 

[BigKant]

Someone on 4chan claims that Starfield still has S.P.E.C.I.A.L skills in it, can someone who has the game see if its true?

Spoiler: Console Commands

player.getav strength
player.getav perception
player.getav endurance
player.getav charisma
player.getav intelligence
player.getav agility
player.getav luck

Another claim that all of them are set to 1 as a default or that they are leftover code.

 

[Left Ass Cheek]

The point was you're an unpleasant politi-sperg. The sort of person who isn't allowed to have alcohol at family dinners anymore.
And you brushed past parroting Daddy Jersh, so there we go. Average MATI cultist further proving they have nothing to say that wasn't released on the latest podcast firmware update.

You’re fighting men made of straw. Starfield runs like shit, didn’t even launch with a FOV slider, or exclusive fullscreen or fucking brightness settings and I’m supposed to believe it isn’t a turd meant for consumption by morons with low standards? Lmao you’re dumb as dog shit, sob a river.

Reminder, all of these were issues in previous Bethesda games, EXCEPT the brightness settings thing. That is just funny.