Starfield is Improving thanks to New Update

Starfield is finally getting a bigger update after launch, and it's got some great features like ship interior customization, a better map, and some unexpected improvements that should enhance immersion.
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0:00 Intro
0:46 How to Try Early
1:09 Difficulty Tuning
2:37 Cinematic Cam Toggle
3:13 New Map
4:18 Ship Interior Customization
7:37 Ground Vehicles Preview
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[@Morphologis]

Is this enough to bring you back to Starfield, or do you still need something more? Personally, I'm really itching for that rover.

[@Slokeyz]

Star Citizen 3.23 my friend

[@caiooca5793]

Once they make the rover and fill in the main worldspaces, I will recommend the game to everyone. For now, it's already pretty fun if you choose the right mods, there are thousands already.

[@Lome67666]

I think Starfield will age great although it’s slow now it’ll get to a point where ppl really take it serious. This next update is really great

[@VossLikeTheWater]

Whens the update that fixes their dogshit writing coming to starfield?

[@TheSonnyJohn]

Rover and expansion, that's when I will jump back in.

[@harrasika]

3:40 the map doesn't actually show the whole generated landing area; it only shows a certain distance from the player, so it is always centered on them. So if you move far away from your ship, it'll eventually be out of the map area. Ironically, the previous map system did actually show the edges of the explorable area.

[@DJLegends]

and if ya remove borders the map follows ya btw

[@dennislp3]

every video I have seen seems to make this error...I guess no one actually plays or tests it. There are no borders as far as I can tell...I have moved multiple cells away from my ship and the map just follows you.

[@stefans4562]

There are borders but they are soooooofar away.

[@DJLegends]

@@stefans4562 latest update pushed it even farther now

[@Jess_2k]

I did want to get back into Starfield and this honestly feels like it gives another reason to give it another playthrough. Thanks Morph!

[@fristek2143]

Actually, the map doesn't show entire tile and it expands (or more accurately: moves) when the player goes far enough. I also heard that they made generated region larger, probably in preperation for the new vehicle.

[@DJLegends]

yep when turning off borders one guy was able to travese to one tile to NA seamless

[@studiosandrock]

The map is centered on you. The map doesn't show everything once you land. When you move towards the edges, the map moves to reveal more. So the map is actually bigger than what is currently being shown. But maybe it would be better if they have feathering in the edges and not super sharp and straight cut.

[@lurakin88]

frankly, the ship interior decoration stuff seems pointless to me without the ability of determining the layout of doors and ladders. It also begs the question: If you edit your ship in any way after placing decorations, will it still reset all of those decorations? That's always been the number 1 reason I never bothered to decorate, because it would all be undone if I make even a slight edit to the ship.

[@Paladin1034]

That was my question, too. Even with mods that allowed this, the caveat always was that editing your ship after would wipe all you did. Hopefully Bethesda thought of that

[@theseamoon2180]

That has been addressed (the decoration resetting, not the door/ladder), now when you make a change the decoration will be saved unless the change you make add a door in an area but if that's the case only the spot where the door/ladder was added will remove some stuff and be put into your ship's inventory

[@lurakin88]

@@theseamoon2180 Well that's a start at least. Of course that would be even less of an issue if they let us decide where the doors go.

[@fwg1994]

​@@lurakin88 I thought the beta updates, but reading through it again, it just says "more openings available for doorways" so I guess you can choose the kind of door, but not the placement now?

[@lurakin88]

@@fwg1994 I think that just means there's more spots where doors can do. the placement is still done automatically, following a logic me and most of the community never managed to figure out

[@ArkhBaegor]

I know it's a very different game but I just got back into X4 and god DAMN that game is amazing now.

[@inot88j24]

Yeah but sadly the perfotmance is bad in the endgame or on bad pcs

[@lurakin88]

It's just a shame it's more about empire building than anything else. When I learned it eventually becomes pointless to get into the cockpit of your ship, I lost all interest

[@zman_o7]

it is and has always been a dumpster fire amazing game yea right 🤣

[@ArkhBaegor]

@@lurakin88 That's actually not true at all, you can play however you want. You CAN build an empire, but you really don't have to, there's tons of other stuff you can do. And even if you do build an empire, you'll definitely still have tons of reasons to fly ships.

[@ugrena7419]

​@@lurakin88 That completely depends on how you play. I tend to fly a destroyer of some sort, and command my fleet from there. The AI is a bit stupid though, so more often than not I end up needing to mop up so that they don't get completely worked. You could also just not engage with the empire building at all, and be a pirate. Stealing ships via boarding is extremely viable.

[@leepaulison4928]

Empty modules should be cheaper given the cost of creating items. And yes, the coffee machine next to the Pilot chair is a valuable addition.

[@fwg1994]

This won't be enough to get me to come back to Starfield, there's a number of issues I had, and while it's a step in the right direction, it doesn't really address my main issues. The story was abysmal. It followed Bethesda's seemingly recent trend for starting the game of both on rails and jamming all the toys into your hands right away narrative be damned. Then most of the main story didn't amount to more than fetch quests and almost none of them went to areas that were worth exploring beyond the story mission. What little I did find interesting, the end of the game just tossed aside. The exploration suffered greatly from how the game evolved from their previous games. The strength of Bethesda rpgs was always the journey. You get an objective, but on the way there you run into interesting things that derail you and get you immersed in some side adventure, or you just run into unscripted encounters from the npcs just interacting with the world. Starfield may be a much bigger game, but it cuts as much of that journey out as possible. You pretty much have to use fast travel to get around, which means there's not much point to manually jump system to system, and when you land you're almost always right next to your objective. Exploring is something you have to go out of your way to do, and that makes it so much weaker. If you find nothing interesting on the way to your primary objective, that's fine, you just keep doing your primary objective, but if you go exploring with the express purpose of finding something interesting and don't, then you just wasted a bunch of time. So with the design changing such that exploration needs to be a more deliberate action instead of an incidental action, the burden on the things to discover is a lot higher, and it's just not up to par. Lastly, none of the companions were too interesting. Having all the companions with some amount of backstory and personality be part of Constellation was pretty disappointing. They all feel pretty similar. Would've really liked the major factions to have some companions you could get. Having a companion with a story I could get invested in would go a long way in holding my interest in the game. The game was at its best when it was the fun space adventure game. I didn't really find the loading screens an issue. Sure, it'd be better without them, but they also didn't really interfere with the game being a fun space adventure. A lack of companions I was invested in, interesting things to discover, and stories to play through did. They weren't completely absent, but they felt few and far between. I'm hopeful that the expansion can inject more of that into the game, but mainly I'm waiting on the creation kit for mods to take off.

[@TheNightman.]

20 billion loading screens take you straight out of the adventure, it's a huge issue they will never resolve

[@fwg1994]

@@TheNightman. Maybe it's just that I grew up on loading screens being an extremely common thing, but no they really don't. And honestly, it'd be a ton of work, but it is a solvable issue. Fallout 4 elevators acted as a dynamic loading screen where it unloaded one cell and loaded another. They could just turn every load screen door into an airlock where there's two doors, one closes, unloads the cell and loads the next cell, then the other door opens. You never lose control of your character, and after the patches the load times were fast enough that it probably wouldn't be an unnatural delay for most players. For planetary landing they could do a canned animation of flying into the planet with a fade in to go from the planet LOD to surface terrain. More or less what Skyrim was doing as you approached distant terrain in a rapid, controlled fashion. Space jumps would be the easiest of the bunch to change because you got barely anything to load/unload. This is all stuff that's doable in the engine currently. It'd be a ton of work, and could take a lot of time to make it look good and run smoothly, but it's not beyond the engine capabilities.

[@durdygirdy]

Can you make more videos of you just decorating interiors on ships and bases? Idk why, it felt really calming watching you set up that room and I really liked the aesthetic. Maybe even add in lofi music when you do lol

[@eagle_2351]

I think that loading cutscenes (e.g. warping between planets, landing, etc) would be a great addition to combat the loading screen bs.

[@Keego0201]

I really like the lore and the idea of starfield, and realistically speaking this is their first crack at a space game. They nailed the atmosphere of having that old NASA look to everything, but it does feel like fallout with a Skin on it. Hopefully they don't give up on the series, and they create a Sequel that addresses a lot of these issues.

[@snowman6033]

it feels like fallout with a skin on it because it it. every game since 2002 has essentially been a morrowind mod

[@Keego0201]

@@snowman6033 Thats pretty harsh considering morrowind could be played on a graphing calculator these days

[@snowman6033]

@@Keego0201 i suppose it is meant to be a little harsh. graphical improvements aside, bethesda games have increasingly been feeling the age of their underlying tech, even to the extent that they made a point to show that npc's could actually use ladders in starfield, a noted shortcoming in previous titles. I'm not hating, i'm just saying they might need to reconsider using the same tech they've been using since morrowind when trying to make a compelling space game. It feels like fallout, because it's basically fallout, and skyrim, and ultimately morrowind at its core

[@Keego0201]

@@snowman6033 game styles are defined by a companies core values in the type of game they are trying to make. That's like asking Rockstar to make GTA6 locked in first person like cyberpunk 2077, if it works then it works. Starfield doesn't struggle from it's design being ultimately out dated, at the core it just isn't living up to the standard of their previous titles because everyone has expectations it'll be different. Can't always reinvent the wheel, it's hard making something unique. Sometimes you just gotta find ways to make the wheel rounder.

[@snowman6033]

@@Keego0201 I think maybe we're misunderstanding each other. I'm a big fan of the bethesda style of games, not many others make games in this style other than obsidian and warhorse, and I always wish there was more. but mechanically bethesda games have remained largely unchanged since morrowind. when fallout 3 came out, it was called oblivion with guns, this isn't new criticism. I'm not even opposed to it, it's a style of game i enjoy. but starfield in my opinion fell short, and part of that is the tech they have to work with is poorly suited to a space exploration game. and in this case, i think tech informed design, which led us to spaceships that are fast travel machines, and procedurally generated planet surfaces with limited range to explore.

[@graxxor]

Despite environmental hazards becoming more severe, it doesn’t matter what suit you wear. The environmental protection of a suit lasts only a few seconds to a minute or so regardless of the numbers your suit shows, if you turn up the hazards. It’s a difference between say 30 seconds and 90 seconds. Basically not enough time to reach anywhere without succumbing to lung failure or frostbite.

[@Lome67666]

The tile size on the map is just the loaded area not the full range per dev in the trailer.

[@cratoic1603]

Regarding the map, I'm fairly sure the map doesn't show the whole playable landing zone space, but rather only a small portion of it. The map that is visible is always centred around you and will dynamically load in new parts of the map. For example, you can keep heading north, and the map will eventually load out the area where you landed your ship

[@talonsblade1758]

Been playing Starfield a off and on since it came out and after 935 hours of playing with NO mods and have lvl 153. Today i finally got to getting 92% of the achievements (only 4 achievements left). I cant get 2 of the achievements till the slate needed in the Ryugen story line is fixed. The other 2 i can get of 5 outposts with cargo shipping routes and a maxed out companion rank. I got all my super powers and finished many of the side quests. I set a hard save so i can go back but i did make the jump and finally jumped through the portal to the new universe. I feel i did alot and have enjoyed the game. I love the shipbuilding part of the game and have 3 styles of ships i like. Just waiting for more content and bug fixes now.

[@madbananas5555]

I admire your tenacity going through the completely awful scripts, the uninteresting story, the bland characters, and the stupidly retarded mechanic of having to run everywhere once you landed. God, not to mention what an awful pile of woketardism crap it is.

[@tomalexander4327]

I've never understood why BGS don't just buy the top ten mods and add them as official updates.

[@ArgelTal_]

Because Creation club isn't really in starfield yet. :D thats what creation club is for Fallout and Elder Scrolls.

[@misapheonix]

Or do a CDPR and say they've added stuff, but actually they copy pasted 80% of their "new" ideas :/

[@human3504]

I mean they have done that kinda. They have hired popular modders in the past. One example being Chesko who made Frostfall that turned into survival mode for Skyrim.

[@Warface]

They don't buy but stole them from the creation club and gives zero credits back to creator. Look at Skyrim anniversary edition

[@human3504]

Would you like to give me a source on that? I don't see anything on google about Bethesda stealing from mod authors. Even when I launch my Skyrim Anniversary Edition and look at creations everyone's mod is credited.

[@philipegoulet448]

Loved the wide aspect ratio in this one!

[@Broadjjj]

Fantastic vid, can't wait for this update!

[@CaptainBlaine]

The lighting thing is probably a bug. Fallout 4 & 76 have light options that don’t cause those weird effects and are decently immersive.

[@lurakin88]

sure but that doesn't mean that they didn't take some botchy approach with Starfield that limits that aspect. modifying such an ancient and limited engine can result in shortcomings like that

[@RicoZaid_]

But do they have Master Modes? 😅

[@NthreeE]

I remember when maps was part of games back in the day. Nice to see that coming back in 2024.

[@raph43L]

Waiting for Creation Kit to drop. Overhaul mods are going to be great! Hoping for Open systems and populated space mods with freighters, fights, and more random space encounters

[@johnnybravo5131]

I brought the shattered space update and I haven't seen anything worth wild. Yet and still I will enjoy it because I play it when I can

[@WallaceNine]

Wondering if I will get to change traits without going through the Unity. I am at NG+ 10 and have now built outposts and ships and don't want to start over again.

[@donaldwillis6434]

I'm ready for the land buggy 😆 im gonna be exploring like crazy

[@sethrogan98]

I mean if you use a module with crafting benches in it you are buying those crafting benches from the station where as if you use a blank module you have to build them yourself so it makes sense you wouldn't get them for free, just use modules with the crafting benches and then blank modules for a living space

[@Paulunatr]

Starfield and I are not on speaking terms at the moment because a quest I got invested in is bugged and can't be completed. But I'll definitely be checking it out closer to the release date of Shattered Space.

[@radar5566]

They should allow you to purchase items to customize your ship with if you get blank module, along side letting you craft them. That way players can choose how difficult they want their playthrough to be, while letting the creative types to make a ship truly theirs at the cost of a few extra credits.

[@larryiaquinta57]

I watched a video where a KZbinr showed that if you move along the map, the map will scroll down, which whould show that the map is bigger than appears at first. 4:34

[@Zerashadow]

I would just use the furnished habs until i have uppgraded outpost building for more furniture, as well as enough materials to start decorate the empty habs. I wish they would make all the misc items you have in inventory a separate category, so you could add them from the decorate menu, cos that is an easier way to place stuff correct.

[@Erad_Prime]

Starfield is this game I enjoyed and I always want to get back to (haven't uninstalled it) but somehow I never find the motivation to.

[@disky01]

Good stuff...I'll wait until there's more to actually do though.

[@ianyboo]

I hope we someday get the ability to export ship builds. Even if it's just to yourself, I would love to be able to spend 10 hours building a ship and not have to do it again on a different character.

[@lukeenright6381]

You can travel outside of the shown map. The new map doesn’t show the full tile, just a portion within the tile

[@ChillgameshGaming]

If it would let me crew multiple ships and use them as the transports between my bases, I might play Starfield again. :D

[@weeevan3078]

We need a Microsoft Games Theme Park as large as Disney world or bigger. Just imagine all the possibilities... They can recreate New Atlantis with real hotels, restaurants and shops. Use the metro to travel to each universe e.g. Fallout, Elder Scrolls etc. Imagine walking around a Skyrim world, riding a dragon, ride into hell with the doom guy, help master chief on a mission, eat some grilled radroach with a nuka cola in a fallout world with family and friends, Try on a power armor, play escape vault with your family and friends, take a selfie with a deathclaw. Go inside and tour a starfield ship, etc etc etc. The possibilities are endless.

[@BenCooke419]

I remember buying Skyrim in 2012. I played it for 8 hours and forgot about it, because it wasn't all that fun to me. I installed it in 2022, ten years later, and it was a totally different game that was fun and had a lot to do. I'll probably get interested in Starfield around 2033, when it's fun and has a lot to do.

[@charlescharles9755]

Ill try game again in year or two once hopefully as much that can be fixed is. This isn't enough to make it a good game and I don't want to keep being disappointed. Hope this game becomes worth playing one day.

[@1truehero55]

What bridge is that at 6:04 and where do you buy it? lol

[@bmanrockwell2174]

For ground vehicles I hope for a giant walker of some sort. AT-AT, or whatever.

[@thorssensgamesNCC1701]

Prepare for a ton of jokes and memes about catching up to No Man's Sky, but I do look forward to improvements.

[@cobaltross9059]

Our chat at work is currently railing on Starfield. What timing.

[@sabersight908]

Oh yeah, i always forget before clicking on the video that Morphs vids are meant for widescreen only xD

[@CyberKnightX21]

None of these particular updates seem like anything I really care about. Except for the fact that you can actually move stuff that you couldn't before. That's useful. Honestly, at the second I'm just too busy to spend a ton of time doing this and the main thing that could have made it more interesting is back to the original issue of, if this was a multiplayer game it would be amazing. That's why currently, it's going to be beat out by Helldivers constantly.

[@demastrasz3340]

We should be able to park it in cargo bay if they move the ladder somewhere else in the corner maybe

[@Cibbic]

They won't hide structures because some people want to see what's there.one of those things where you can't please everyone on. Old map was good for hiding undiscovered structures

[@Pieman29666]

Im very interested in the game, but i think il wait for the DLC to have that much more to discover and have a fuller game experience.

[@fluffywarhampster]

i honestly hope we get some sort of starfeild equivalent to power armor. still make it limited use like fallout with some sort of rare(ish) power source but also have a similar level of customization to fallout in terms or frames, armor peices and mods. even better if they can add difficulty settings to where certain environmental conditions are not survivable outside the armor like a high radiation or gravity planet ect. making these items available to enemies as well could add to the difficulty curve with human enemies rather than them bullet sponges just because its a video game.

[@christianmaheu]

Yeah, it's missing a few things but it is still a good game. I'll definitely go back to it and see what it's all about.

[@JuanDiegoCorreaQuintero-ss1pd]

"a few" 😂😂😂 Bethesda fanboys have no standards

[@TheNightman.]

It's missing 90% of things, starfailure is dead dogshit

[@Luukullus]

Thank yo for your video! I am happy they decided to head more close to the version 1.0. In my opinion some of these features (an others) should have been already in the "release version". Before someone might be angry about what i say.. Please keep in mind its my personal opinion. Its okay not to have the same ;).

[@ColinPaddock]

7:26 This lady looks just disgusted at the blow-up doll on the bridge.

[@sw-gs]

They at least should make map connected to what systems we have on ship. More powerful systems, more advanced spacesuit, more info on map. Also objects that are undiscovered could be pixelated.

[@SenseiMudd]

lol I sure am glad the three lighting modules being sub par didn't ruin your entire experience

[@sirjonsmithiii992]

I want to like it (I think I do like it a bit more than others), but not enough to keep playing it. I am a little hopeful it will be good enough given time, patches, mods, and DLC.

[@GhostlyCowboy]

I never left. I truly enjoy the game and this update will just make me enjoy it more. Im over 200 hrs in and still play regularly.

[@Corgblam]

What killed the game for me was an insufferable cast of characters in the main questline, and the overabundance of loading screens. Instead of getting to fly our own ship into orbit, we get a loading screen. Instead of being present to witness warp travel, its a loading screen. You cant even go to the cargo hold to exit the ship without a loading screen. Everything might as well be on the same planet, since you dont even feel like you're actually traveling to another place. Actually initiating travel is confusing too, and I fumbled around trying to figure out how to actually jump to another place.

[@zacharyadammusic]

Have you noticed if the mannequins and weapons displays are stable now ?

[@ColinPSeaman]

The map is almost enough to make me want to play again. Just show me where the interesting bits are!!!

[@andreholsve1787]

Some of Starfields problems is that it was made as a modding platform in mind because that brings longevity which equals €€€, the lead writer Emil dont care about writing good stories or dialogue (He said so himself), they made the game in a way that the base story and faction stories was too dependent of the dlc parts for the world to make sense, that they cut out of the game, which results in shallowness and hollowness which also in turn makes you feel unimmersed in the world you are playing in. That is also one of the reasons everything feels disconnected, not just because of the size of the game. Too much copypaste is a big dealbreaker too. I know many people blame the outdated engine and you are partly correct, but their older games was worth the loading screens, this one is not, and either way if they did remove them, the game still wouldnt get more soul to it or immersion because of all the other before-mentioned flaws. This update is needed sure, but getting to POI's faster doesnt change the fact if you have been to 1 of them, you have been to the same 1 at 500 other planets, with exact same layout, enemies, corpse with the exact same name as the previous one with the exact same slate telling you what happened there, so yes there is plenty to do in the game, but do you WANT to do it? Their previous games had something that made them unique, in this one they went so hard for realism that it lacks any uniqueness whatsoever, its bland and sterile, it makes you feel like a 5 year old, having another 5 year old pretending to be your parent in kindergarten, and there is no way that a company like Sweetbaby inc isnt involved in this flop, i mean come on, a club in a drug and crime infused world where the most nsfw content you will see is a bunch of fat dudes stripping in teletubby costumes, and the most nsfw words you will hear in the game is "bullshit" and "bastard" from "hardcore" pirates and gangsters that kill people for a living😂 Yep this game has Sweetbaby inc written all over it, and if you dont know what that is, google it and see how they operate, basically a bunch of angry feminist chicks that dont get enough D, and gay pedo dudes cooperating together, blackmailing game companies to release trash like this. In the bright side though, their modding tool will be released one day, and the only reason its a good thing is because you can remove 90% of the game and put something actually interesting in its place if you want to, and the only reason a sane person would want to even bother doing that in THIS game is because there is $$$ to be made. I think the only ones this game is a good fit for is either VERY VERY ambitious modders, Or christian LGBTQ+ parents with failed psychology and gender studies degrees with very young and already wokeism-brainwashed children, this would be right up their alley

[@marconihimself]

Creation engine may have had limitations with lighting in the past entries, but if you spent some time around lighting mods for skyrim and fallout 4 you know how impressive it can get. Most of the problems people have with the engine have more to do with how bethesda uses it.

[@angepano8591]

I bought Starfield and started playing it. Then stopped because (much like Cyberpunk 2077) I wanted to give some time for improvements. I want to enjoy this game and I'm not in a hurry. Glad to see this.

[@ujayet]

Cool.. I want food to matter.. u can eat stuff in the fly with minuscule results,, but I want to be able to cook and pack lunch or save in fridge.. eating them gives you a quarter of health bar depending what type food you can make… traditional home building from scratch on any planet should be available also… if besthesda get those in it’ll be back on it just for that alone.

[@legrosroger]

Waited for Starfield to come out since the first niche rumors 10 years ago. The game is great, but so much was left on the table. There's a foundation for so much more than what Bethesda gave us.

[@TheNightman.]

The games dead dogshit, starfailure is a flop

[@GTduzIt]

a Personal Space car would be Dope.

[@PedroGomes-cx7ku]

The lightning issue isn't a "Creation Engine limitation", as Fallout 4 is capable of handling artificial lights from the get go.

[@estatodonodisponible]

A fast hoverbike and being able to decide where the ship builder places doors and ladders would be my bare minimum requirement. But in all likelyhood, it will be some amazing mod years down the line that will make me install it (I have it via gamepass).

[@Joseph-wh5of]

A hoverbike does not make sense for the universe of Starfield. They will bring a rover.

[@TheNightman.]

modders abandoned starfailure, there won't be any amazing mods

[@druid4243]

@@TheNightman. absolutely incorrect. Weird rumor spread on the basis of one singular guy saying he probably wasn't going to mod it.

[@valterspatriks8752]

All I want is hubs that have no doors, and adding doors manually wherever you want them. If we would have the option to be able to have a simplified interior view for hubs when we build the ships to know how doors would affect them, that would also be awesome. The shipbuilder has such potential, but it’s destroyed by automatically adding passageways. Simply terrible, stupid idea.

[@TheDlaw84]

You wrong about the size of the maps. If you travel, you will see the map move with the player, rendering more of the map.

[@SteveMan9231]

I just fired up a new game on my laptop I’m having fun with the beta updates

[@OLCtv]

Can u take off and land on planet like manually leave the atmosphere and enter it

[@Cythil]

OK that detail survival option should really have been in Fallout 4. Rather than the blanket difficulty setting the game has. So good to see they finally learn. Even if it took until Starflied and an update down the road.

[@_Lazy_bones]

My problem with Starfield was just the lack of gumption that it had. I played maybe 50 hours of it in the first couple weeks of release and I don't remember a single thing about any of the characters, any of the storylines or any lore details at all aside from the mission that they stole from Titanfall 2 with less than half of the finesse

[@The_Azure_]

Seeing your post made me try and see what I could remember about the game. I remembered several members of Constellation, though not the name of Constellation nor most of the members. I remembered Sam, his daughter, his father, and his ex. I remembered Andreja and.... that was all. That was everyone I could remember the face of, without googling, for the main faction of the game. But it gets worse with every other faction. I remember a few missions like the Terrormorph line, and some of Ryujin. But the rest is basically a blur. According to Steam I played for 67 hours and got 76% of achievements. If I were to compare to another game with similar Stats, Yakuza 0 I played for 68 hours and got 69% of achievements. However with Yakuza 0 I can still remember most of the main quests, many of the side quests, a ton of characters and their development... and I haven't touched that game in 5 years.

[@madbananas5555]

This.

[@cyborgmetropolis7652]

Doesn’t look like the entire overhaul needed to get me to play it again.

[@security9999]

Love the game before. Stepped away after 100 hours. Coming back again. Love all the nuances of difficultly settings and being able to decorate starborn ship.

[@TheNightman.]

it's dead dogshit, there's no nuance to starfailure

[@hurtfixer_]

And also Nice to see No more Load screens,,,,

[@TheNightman.]

There will always be the 10 billion loading screens, it's something they'll never ever fix

[@HazzR8]

It wasn't a terrible game at release for me, but I stopped playing less than halfway through the story because it just seemed like it tried to get in the way of having fun. The skill tree was super frustrating and I hated that I couldn't experiment with any proper resource or outpost building unless I invested in that tree, but the skill points came so slow. I think I'll still give it a pass unless there is a mod for more xp and respec anytime to open up experimentation.

[@JaggedJack1]

Can I fly my ships around near a planet's surface yet? Or is it still a loading screen from orbit to a fixed landing point on the ground.

[@BalokLives]

Yet? You will never be able to fly near the surface.

[@JaggedJack1]

@@BalokLives Then I will never be interested in this game.

[@BalokLives]

@@JaggedJack1 I completely understand. That was why I mentioned it. I didn't want you to be hoping for something that will never exist in this game. Star Citizen is great though.

[@JaggedJack1]

@@BalokLives😂How could you tell I was a Star Citizen fan.

[@BalokLives]

@@JaggedJack1 It's pretty easy. Enjoy.

[@Ehawk_]

My problem with Starfield was the loading screens. There was just so many it really took me out of the game world. Otherwise I quite liked the game its just the amount of loading screens that made me not want to continue it. However I think i will go back and finish it one day.

[@Ph33NIXx]

Looks alright - I wont come back before the dlc

[@MrEsphoenix]

It's nice they're adding in features that should have been in the game from day 1, but there's just not a tonne of replayability in the game yet. Maybe when the story DLC drops it'll give more reason to jump back in.

[@lihkan]

I will propably wait for the DLC, but when I get into it, I am gonna decorate sh*t out of my ship, thats for sure

[@The_Azure_]

Once Starfield is better than Daggerfall I'll happily come back.

[@carodar34]

have the game since last year for free with my new rig i bought for star citizen. i was on the first planet and since then i logged out and hoped for mods and stuff to make it playable...

[@BeeM.Z.]

Finally, some freedom in interior design!

[@hunter4hire]

I'm gonna wait till they add atmospheric flight/dogfights.

[@DieFlackLP]

I think it is a step in the right direction.

[@bareloto]

well for 2024 it's bellow my baseline - Either a very immersive game play (which is not ) or a very immersive campaign (which is not) could make me go for this game... but no - minimum effort is not the way forward, and actually i think that's the general complain minimum effort...

[@tekviper9]

They need to give a reson for outposts other than an EXP / Money farm

[@simondigger7701]

People been waiting for Bethesda to release proper modding instruments for months so modders can finally properly fix the game and they do this instead 😔

[@OmegaZyion]

Looks like they still haven't fixed the god awful placement controls for customization. Seriously, how hard is it to tie object rotation to mouse movement rather than a single full spin-cycle key press?

[@3RST-GAMING]

There's still too few POI on each tile, they need to be generated closer together.

[@tillson8686]

God I hope there won't be a loading screen for getting in and out of the vehicle

[@Paladin1034]

Wouldn't surprise me a bit. I'm imagining it won't be fully animated like SC. But that's about the extent of options. Either you animate it, fade to black, or transmat (which doesn't make sense in the lore)

[@Puerkl8r]

IMO the reason Starfield doesn't have the same feel as the other Bathesda games is mostly because Bathesda excels at hand crafted interesting landscapes and locations, but Starfield basically eschews that by having generated landscapes and randomized points of interest. The individual points of interest are fine, but I've found the same locations several times in a playthrough. I think the real game changer for Starfield, will be when the modding tools come out and players can create their own new locations to add to the randomized list. If anybody is even interested in modding it that is.

[@Puerkl8r]

My other big gripe with the game is navigating with your ship is clunky. I wish it had a way to travel from system to system w/o having to go into your map menu.

[@lurakin88]

that last sentence is important. I'm sure there will be plenty of modders, but I remember hearing some big skyrim modders expressing little to no interest in modding starfield because it doesn't provide as good of a baseline as skyrim did

[@steveredstone1711]

They needed a small universe just like SC with handcrafted content.

[@AdjudicatorBrbal]

I stopped playing after the floor kept disappearing in Jameson if i remember the name

[@chesi_7_0_79]

Still, no land vehicles release date, when that feature should've been added since release. When I play this game, it feels like its on Game Preview or Early Access.

[@PapaFenn]

They need to fucking come out with the modding support already

[@Ja-mbi]

Patiently waiting for that creation kit to drop and then the modding community will pop off. Then the game will rise to Skyrim levels. I have hope

[@ArgelTal_]

It absolutely has the potential for that. I think especially since people are not limited to creating fantasy elder scrolls or fallout america style, the only limit is "space magic" ... and that is not really a limit. :D Everything is possible. DLC sized Mods because new planet and system? or just added a cell on an existing one? Create a whole new faction, new ship and weapon manufacturers? Whole Storylines? Thats a given. And thats just a tiny portion.

[@markpogson3799]

When I saw the first review of Starfield I thought "FO4 in space", but now I'm beginning to think that is unkind ... ... to FO4 😅

[@jsullivan649]

oh, cool... they finished importing Fallout 4's building system... greeeeat.