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

[Mr. Racewar1488]

did anyone else get the texture bug on the planets yesterday ? I had to reinstall and verify files on Steam to fix it honestly kind of annoying, wtf are they hiring to do these updates ?

Skyrim modders and pajeets so it's to be expected.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

Modders are certainly having fun with this vehicle, at least.

 

[Miller]

I've tried the vehicle and it isn't very good. I hope they find a way to fix that weight issue, on normal gravity the vehicle is way too slow and on low gravity planets it's like the tires are stuck in the mud.
Also I've found a thicc Sarah mod. It's funny to see how Bethesda went full "body diversity" and yet women aren't allowed to have tits and asses in Starfield.


And the game still has that random glitch that spawns trees in the sky of New Atlantis:

 

[Caddo Cobgang]

Screenshot from my current game, still gotta buy the vehicle, working my way through the Freestar Collective Questline while exploring planets I find interesting, im overall enjoying the game, a lot of the Criticisms I have for Starfield are the same ones i'd have for Fallout 4.

 

[AeroGavin Rossdale]

Went to check the nexus to see if there's enough mods to justify a reinstall and vehicles now? What's the story there? Did they do that from scratch, or take from another Beth project or what? Kinda impressive if it's from scratch.

 

[M3xus]

Well, tried it with mods. Even with a mod that makes the temples unnecessary and a couple combat overhaul mods, it's still boring and I gave up after a few hours. I have the super-deluxe edition, so I'm getting the expansion free. We'll see how shit it is come September.

 

[Deus Exica]

Did they ever add more randomly generated prefabs to this piece of shit? Doing the same exact dungeon 100 times is a slog and a half. At least in Fallout or Skyrim you know you're doing the same dungeon again if you actively go out of your way to respawn it and walk in.

 

[Serbian Peacekeepers]

I wish people were modding Starfield so I could drive the General Lee around New Atlantis doing sweet jumps over their gay little war memorial.

I had this exact same thought, so sad we can't be The Dukes of Cheyenne. Cyberpunk 2077:1 Starfield: 0

Went to check the nexus to see if there's enough mods to justify a reinstall and vehicles now? What's the story there? Did they do that from scratch, or take from another Beth project or what? Kinda impressive if it's from scratch.

I wouldn't be shocked if the vehicle idea has been floating around since Fallout 4 and probably 76, but I think these cars is the first time Bethesda made actual usable vehicles in the base game.

 

[Wild at Heart]

Hate to come in and just bash the game as I'm sure everyone has done in the 200 pages or so I couldn't read here. I will try to spin my straw opinions into bronze at least for the productivity of the thread.

I played a few hours and was worn down by the consistent sluggishness of all elements of the game. The menu was extremely slow, the dialogue was at a snail's pace, the intro sequence was more slow Bethesda bullshit. Gray squares of characters were talking to you and giving you sloppy world building. Traversal was slow, The loading screens were slow. Slow, slow, slow. This wears down on a player either consciously or not. I guess in my old age I am less tolerant of this sort of chaff in games. I love other Bethesda games because they don't waste my time, and I am always able to disengage from the story and leave and go do something else.

In this game, I tried to find some fun by going on a rampage, hitting a trash can robot that didn't fall over or say anything, and then get arrested by another dead-eyed NPC. I went to jail and it started a new quest where the warden slowly walks in to the room and starts yapping to me. Since being arrested, about 5 minutes had passed, and I realized it was going to take at least another 5 or 10 to accept the quest and be sent back to the sandbox. Once my brain realized I needed to take at least 5 or 6 steps to resume having fun again, it overloaded and I quit, never to play again.

I was really surprised to see all of the "hype" and disillusionment after the first major gameplay trailer dropped, showing the lifeless NPC's, boring combat, and bland ass art design. It's perplexing seeing lifelong Blizzard, Bethesda, and Bioware fans simultaneously rage and disavow their favorite company, and then froth at the mouth when a new game is released. Just look at people still excited for Elder Scrolls 6, when Starfield showed all the soul and fun elements of Bethesda are gone, and only their stubborn ham-fisted writers and lazy devs remain.

 

[Mr. Racewar1488]

The loading screens were slow.

This is one criticism of Starfield I never understood. When I was playing my loading screens were never longer than 15 to 20 seconds. Are modern gamers spoiled or am I so old that I remember minute+ load screens? I was using a Gen4 NVME that gets ~4.5 Gbs so that might help but in the year of our Lord 2024 you really should be using a NVME drive for your PC.

 

[Super Hans v2]

This is one criticism of Starfield I never understood. When I was playing my loading screens were never longer than 15 to 20 seconds. Are modern gamers spoiled or am I so old that I remember minute+ load screens? I was using a Gen4 NVME that gets ~4.5 Gbs so that might help but in the year of our Lord 2024 you really should be using a NVME drive for your PC.

If it was a single loading screen, that wouldn't be a problem. But when you accept a radiant mission on one planet that sends you to another, you have at least one going back to your ship, another to get into space, one per jump you have to make, another to land, another getting you to where the objective is in, and then all that again to turn it in. And on top of that, Bethesda couldn't be fucked to at least hide them diagetically like Elite: Dangerous does.

 

[Miller]

This is one criticism of Starfield I never understood. When I was playing my loading screens were never longer than 15 to 20 seconds. Are modern gamers spoiled or am I so old that I remember minute+ load screens? I was using a Gen4 NVME that gets ~4.5 Gbs so that might help but in the year of our Lord 2024 you really should be using a NVME drive for your PC.

I have my games on a SSD and sometimes Starfield takes way too long to load a save. It's very random, sometimes it loads in a few seconds, sometimes (like today) it's 20+ seconds.

 

[Wild at Heart]

This is one criticism of Starfield I never understood. When I was playing my loading screens were never longer than 15 to 20 seconds. Are modern gamers spoiled or am I so old that I remember minute+ load screens? I was using a Gen4 NVME that gets ~4.5 Gbs so that might help but in the year of our Lord 2024 you really should be using a NVME drive for your PC.

The first week it was very slow. I also think there was an issue depending what GPU brand you have. On top of that the frequency of loading screens make them more egregious.

 

[Deus Exica]

played a few hours and was worn down by the consistent sluggishness of all elements of the game. The menu was extremely slow, the dialogue was at a snail's pace, the intro sequence was more slow Bethesda bullshit. Gray squares of characters were talking to you and giving you sloppy world building. Traversal was slow, The loading screens were slow

I finally gave it a shot myself and holy shit this game is an absolute amateur hour production when it comes to trying to keep your interest. The game is just so boring.

It is every bad Bethesda trope rammed into the most dull and lifeless setting I think I've ever seen in a game. I was actively getting annoyed the longer it went and had to quit after finally getting to Constellation. I think I am going to flee the planet ASAP.

I also immediately got exhausted by seeing every major NPC that's in charge or a badass being some dried up eggless old lady. You see a lot of old Asian women running mining operations today? I sure don't.

Then I get to New Atlantis and I'm immediately greeted by some decrepit old hag that is apparently a fucking bounty hunter. She tells me "If I was after you, you'd already be dead."

Okay Meemaw, I just shot my way through forty space rapists. What the fuck are you going to do? Break your hip at me? Fuck off.

Of course since this is a Bethesda game there is no dialogue options to that effect.

I seriously doubt modders can salvage this one. At least you can turn Fallout 4 into Stalker.

Hopping from Cyberpunk 2077's well realized and inter sting world to this is like going from a lake to a dry desert. Holy fuck.

 

[Sniperwoof]

Yea I noticed that too, almost every women in Starfield appears to be on the wrong side of 45 with many of the prominent ones being 50+ it's like young people don't exist in space.

I can buy that hags are working desk jobs at the Arasaka rip off sure but I have to imagine that space bounty hunters would probably not be 50+ year old women if they existed in real life.

 

[Deus Exica]

Yea I noticed that too, almost every women in Starfield appears to be on the wrong side of 45 with many of the prominent ones being 50+ it's like young people don't exist in space.

I can buy that hags are working desk jobs at the Arasaka rip off sure but I have to imagine that space bounty hunters would probably not be 50+ year old women if they existed in real life.

I am seriously starting to suspect that some kind of DEI requirement is no characters under 35. You don't see any teenagers or relatively young people, and especially not any young white men in charge of anything.

I could buy a woman as a badass bounty hunter if she was like a cyborg ninja or a young woman in her twenties with lots of guns but women hit their 30s and start to totally fall apart even worse than men. Grandma is going to track me across a deserted wasteland, beat me up, and drag me back to her ship? I don't think so.

 

[Sniperwoof]

I am seriously starting to suspect that some kind of DEI requirement is no characters under 35. You don't see any teenagers or relatively young people, and especially not any young white men in charge of anything.

I could buy a woman as a badass bounty hunter if she was like a cyborg ninja or a young woman in her twenties with lots of guns but women hit their 30s and start to totally fall apart even worse than men. Grandma is going to track me across a deserted wasteland, beat me up, and drag me back to her ship? I don't think so.

Steven Randall in the new Vegas Bounties mod is 37 and tells the courier that bounty hunting is a young man's game and he doesn't go into the field anymore. No way in shit some 55 year old women with her bones turning into dust is out there tracking down murderers and rapists.

 

[Deus Exica]

Steven Randall in the new Vegas Bounties mod is 37 and tells the courier that bounty hunting is a young man's game and he doesn't go into the field anymore. No way in shit some 55 year old women with her bones turning into dust is out there tracking down murderers and rapists.

Based Someguy understood that men were the sort to do bounty hunting as a profession. If Bethesda had any balls they would have hired him to write a better setting for Starfield. Bet he would have made the UC Vanguard story worth playing.

 

[Sniperwoof]

Based Someguy understood that men were the sort to do bounty hunting as a profession. If Bethesda had any balls they would have hired him to write a better setting for Starfield. Bet he would have made the UC Vanguard story worth playing.

Part of the reason Starfield sucks so hard is that Bethesda hired the guy who made the Interesting NPCs mod for Skyrim to do quest/npc dialogue. That mod absolutely had some good stuff in it like Anum La the argonian but a lot of the content was of the excessively wordy and quirky variety.

 

[Mr. Racewar1488]

Part of the reason Starfield sucks so hard is that Bethesda hired the guy who made the Interesting NPCs mod for Skyrim to do quest/npc dialogue. That mod absolutely had some good stuff in it like Anum La the argonian but a lot of the content was of the excessively wordy and quirky variety.

And don't forget Rumarin who implies he likes to fuck animals and the guy in Windhelm that's fucking his orc daughter because she looks like her mom. The dude also went full on with the BLM shit in 2020 so of course Bethesda hired him. The only modders that want to work for Bethesda are the talentless hacks that want to push the Blackrock-approved globohomo shit.