Starfield News - Beyond the DLC

[@vincentgagnon8569]

Starfield made me realize that i care less and less about reviews of anything. As i get older i just know more what i like and dislike and prefer media that talk about what i enjoy. After 1800 hours of playtime, I just finally got all the powers (no steam achievement for that tho ). The reason i played as much is because i play vanilla permadeath cranking all the difficulty sliders to the max. When i die i start over. It is my first time having a character finally reaching lvl 100 without xp farming. I will finish the Ryujinx and UC questline this week and after that Shattered Space. I am not the biggest fan of multiverses so when i will jump the Unity, i will consider my character finished. I really enjoyed the flow of the Entangled quest. The Magpulse and Magshear are my favorite weapons since i play with a controller. They don't require pinpoint accuracy. I am gonna miss those weapons when i play another shooting game. I love your videos. Have a good day Sir.

[@RichardBejtlich]

WOW I’m impressed that you are such a hardcore permadeath player! That’s amazing. Thanks for sharing your experience. I appreciate your feedback.

[@mikeymondavi]

I'm actually more jazzed now than i was pre-SS. I think we all know by now that SS was our missing faction quest that was split off from base, most likely at the request of MS product management teams that were added late into product actualization. The real meat/potatoes of the 5 year delivery schedule started after that, so i'm pretty stoked.

[@RichardBejtlich]

I agree the future is bright. 👏

[@IceBoNeZ]

I would also like to see an Ecliptic based expansion, delving into their back story pre all the UC, Vanguard, Freestar, Settled Systems timelines, etc, where they originate, leading up to where they became UC mercs, showing the development of their own particular culture & tech advancements through time, and so on.. 🤷‍♂️ Maybe it's only me..? Lol but the Ecliptics interest me more than House Va'ruun.. 😄 Although I do love Andreja, she's kinda awesome..🔥 😏

[@mikeymondavi]

I never saw any expanded data for Ecliptic from data mining indicating they were going to get fleshed out more like we did with Trackers, but i'm in no way opposed to that. Bring it on. One of the things i think they did a good job of seed planting in base and now SS is the coming faction war. While a lot of that was hinting at Va'ruun, UC, and FC there's a lot more players in the mix at the current time, so having other, smaller factions (ie The Kings or BoS from NV for example) could add on some welcome texture there. Yeah, with you on the Va'ruun. I think they're an interesting faction but in terms of how drawn i am to them, not a whole lot. I hope with the trademark news if the next main story drop does peel back the layers on the Starborn we'll see a bit more of their industry (maybe some clues about The Creators). But on top of that, i'm pretty sure the Fleet story is going to continue as well, if not other things related to the faction stories as most of those like the main campaign essentially stopped after their first acts also. With SS out now, we essentially have our entire first act of SF. And we still have plenty of time to flesh out other things, including Ecliptic.

[@frujinassen9076]

Greatings from Bulgaria. Starfield is a GRAT game. Be alive and healty like ve seе in Bulgaria. Sory for my very bad english.

[@RichardBejtlich]

Thanks for watching and commenting! 🙏

[@bhavyasharma4115]

Nice English, but what you mean is actually better than what you have written ❤

[@SistaCitizen]

Awesome video. Thank you for the updates. o7

[@RichardBejtlich]

TYVM SC! 🙏

[@SiNKiLLeR_]

Great Starfield news update thank you

[@RichardBejtlich]

TYVM boss! 👏

[@BeKind1Love]

@@SiNKiLLeR_ I love seeing other creators commenting on videos :)

[@justinsmith3456]

Great video. I love how you get into the weeds on how the game actually functions between the platforms.

[@RichardBejtlich]

TYVM! I appreciate your feedback. 🙏

[@elliottjoffe145]

My Series-X handles the large save files that grow with the time spent in a specific universe pretty well, but saving slows it down substantially, which has caused me to refine my autosave options. Now, I have to remember to quicksave periodically. However, one interesting bug that has cropped up is that some of the planets in my universe show up with a slew of POIs. Planets in areas I visit over and over again can be covered in POIs when I zoom in. Anyone else seeing that?

[@RichardBejtlich]

Did you just post that on Reddit? If not, then at least one other person has the same problem. Thanks for watching and for your comment.

[@Mike-h4n9g]

Love the aspect of starfield can’t wait to see how they answer some of the questions that the unity leaves you with and if they put in universes that are still in war and so on

[@RichardBejtlich]

Agreed, hoping for more.

[@BeKind1Love]

Getting some stuttering in the key, neon core and akila city for some reason on xbox series s. Clearing cache and some troubleshooting fixed for the key but neon is still stuttering (game freezes every 2-3 seconds for a moment) stuttering breaks immersion way more than a low fps imo but either way, i hope they fix these issues. I can barely fathom how difficult these complex games are to make, and I'm looking forward to starfield's future. Tempted to get xbx in the future, although if i could afford a very strong pc id rather play on pc. (mostly because of mod restrictions on console) The only reason i dont play cyberpunk or some other games more often is because we cannot mod on xbox.

[@RichardBejtlich]

Thanks a lot for your thoughts. If you want to get into the PC side I highly recommend www.youtube.com/@PCBuilderChannel for hardware recommendations.

[@Starfield_Eclipse]

News coverage for starfield is important as a frequently gets reported by drama KZbin that will drop content to shape a narrative.

[@RichardBejtlich]

Hope you enjoyed it! 🙏

[@briancowan4318]

Well, this weekend I surpassed 60 hours in Starfield. I've been following several channels on KZbin and found yours today. I like your content as it covers a wide area in one video. My opinion for paid mods may be contrary to the rest of the community. I would prefer the creators to have a link where my money could go straight to them, if I decided to 'Tip the Creator' any amount instead of paying in 'Creation Bucks'. But that is only my opinion.

[@RichardBejtlich]

Thanks for stopping by! I agree that we need better ways to reward Creators. I donate on Nexus but it's pretty rare apparently.

[@FireStarShadow]

Rn or at least what I've been doing in Starfield is that I wasn't able to land my Starborn Gaurdian on Varuun Kai at all it's frustrating but either then that Starfield has been pretty fun. I would have to say that my favorite part of the game is coming across derelict ships that have been abandoned due to various reasons. I think a cool update for Starfield eventually is if they added ship wreckages in space and maybe some type of space anomaly in the future would make space travel a bit more interesting.

[@RichardBejtlich]

Those are good ideas. When I find derelict ships I use mods or console commands to add them to my fleet. 😆 kzbin.info/www/bejne/i5jNqWBmqrWSe6c

[@ZygmuntNadratowski]

Great stuff as usual. Nadia Mufaz!

[@RichardBejtlich]

TYVM for watching all the way though. 🙏🔥

[@tunin6844]

I am an OpenSuse Tumbleweed user on my desktop. Starfield runs pretty well at 1440p on my r7 5700x and rx6800.. On the topic of reviews, after playing the game myself I quit paying attention to most of them. One thing that stood out was the almost universal complaints about exploration being horrible and that you shouldn't invest points in the science tree. Speaking for myself, I see the science skill tree as the primary exploration tree and the only skill tree in the game that I see the use of every skill for the way I play. Oh well, so much for reviews....

[@RichardBejtlich]

I’m with you on Science. I’m all about that. Thanks for watching!

[@greenmerrick7407]

Where is Nadia Muffaz? Thanks for the video Richard. In terms of gameplay I have some outposts in the Feynman system and decided to get the entire Star System to 100% explored.

[@RichardBejtlich]

She’s the SSNN reporter in New Atlantis. 😆 Nice idea building and surveying Feynman!

[@IceBoNeZ]

How do you highlight & scan resources etc without the scanner hud showing..? I would simply be happy with a new update that fixes all the stupid bugs to make the game fully playable again, so I can enter New Atlantis without being kicked back to the Xbox dashboard every damm time...😞

[@IceBoNeZ]

Oh, and, Nadia Muffaz! 😄 🤘🏼

[@RichardBejtlich]

Yes this mod www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/11842

[@RichardBejtlich]

Thanks for watching!!

[@IceBoNeZ]

@@RichardBejtlich 🍻

[@OneLastScholar]

What HUD mod are you using?

[@RichardBejtlich]

Yes this mod www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/11842

[@roberthatcher1224]

Good info! Some of your tech talk items are a little hard for me to follow (casual Xbox X gamer), but you gave a good variety of news. Keep making these and I'll keep watching.

[@RichardBejtlich]

Thanks for watching! 🙏

[@wildmanjeff42]

linux on Debian has worked very reliably, and my amd gpu works better than 2 970 strix on windows. I thought my 30 sec load time on Nvme was bad.....but running a lot of creation mods and level 200 character with most of the factions except crimson fleet done. thanks for the video !

[@RichardBejtlich]

Glad you liked it! Happy to hear from another Linux player. 👏

[@Rikhammer]

Awesome video Richard. Me I just want a ship building DLC lol

[@RichardBejtlich]

A ship and outpost expansion DLC would be AWESOME.

[@Rikhammer]

@ yes give me a reason to finally get into outpost building. 2000 hrs into the starfield and I haven’t even touched outpost I tried it one time for 30 mins never again. lol thanks again Richard

[@jimpugh2522]

Close to or over 4000 hours on steam and Xbox ,Steam ,Xbox series s and old old Xbox series X and my Game PC….lot of my older saves will not load anymore have played over and over a lean windows Xbox Ultimate allows me to use code to keep it going on Xbox and steam is good but sometimes it can be a challenge……love the game latest bug I ran into is not being able to talk to vendors so I have to make everything I need in code or stripping the battle fields 😮 have bought multiple copies still have Xbox Disk….thinking on adding to my GOG Nice News feed on Starfield wish there were more …..good audio ..hearing impaired….some of you tube has good info but you can’t hear it very well… music to loud or sounds like they are talking into a toilet bowl….😂…..PS you can Not buy on GOG …. 13:57 every body is getting strange ….i am firm believer that when you buy a game it is your property

[@RichardBejtlich]

Thanks for your comments and welcome aboard! 🔥

[@elaron2537]

I do wonder how Nadia Muffaz would conduct an interview of Todd Howard. I've not played a huge amount since finishing the DLC main quest and all of the DLC sidequests I could find, but I've been keeping a close eye on Creations and been thinking about making a purchase or two. I think the entire thing about paid mods is a storm in a teacup. If you go listen to Elianora (famed Bethesda game modder), being a part of the programme has let her keep her head above water, financially, and do so while working on something she loves. I suspect it's a similar story for Kinggath, too. And neither has stopped doing free mods. The future is bright for Starfield, I think. There's a huge amount of scope for Bethesda and others to tell stories in this universe, with themes as broad as space-based science fiction can bear. I also wouldn't mind smaller DLCs that focused on some gameplay element, like Fallout 4 had -- I'd happily fork out some cash for a package that included more ship parts, perhaps a new manufacturer, and perhaps a mission chain that focused on space gameplay. I've not been seeing your Community posts in my KZbin feed, despite setting notifications to "All". Just means I need to visit that section more often. I wouldn't mind seeing you open a Discord, but I know that even medium sized Discords can become a fair amount of work to moderate, so I don't blame you for wanting to concentrate community interaction to the comments and other updates. Thanks again for your videos, it's always good to see your positivity!

[@RichardBejtlich]

Thanks for watching and for all of your thoughts! I think quality paid Creations can be an on-ramp for starting an indie studio. I would love to be part of such a group developing content. I think of it like TTRPGs, except the paid Creations are like game modules made by third parties, and not TSR.

[@elaron2537]

Kinggath has actually done that -- he formed his own small studio (Kinggath Creations) based of the work he did with the Sim Settlements mods he did for Fallout 4, and they published what I understand to be a highly regarded paid Creation for Skyrim

[@RichardBejtlich]

💯I'm watching them closely.

[@DannyVannasdall]

I want a mod that gives me a bathrobe, towel, and a gold ring on my thumb.... Also add the "PAN-GAGALICTIC GARGLE BLASTER". The effect of which is like having your brain smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped around a large gold brick."

[@RichardBejtlich]

Is that a Hitchhiker’s Guide reference? 😂

[@PseronWyrd]

"...Most of Bethesda's focus is on Indiana Jones and the Great Circle..." The Indiana Jones game is developed by MachineGames, not Bethesda Game Studios. Bethesda Game Studios are not involved with the development of Indiana Jones. Development of Indiana Jones will not delay anything that Bethesda Game Studios is currently working on.

[@RichardBejtlich]

DOH I knew that and ignored it. 😆 Great point. If I could edit the video I would. I’ll make a note in the description. TYVM.

[@skyriminspace]

Indiana Jones? If he's not one of the nine divines I couldn't care less. 😂

[@pdraggy]

@@RichardBejtlich Machine Games (Wolfenstein studio) is a sister studio for Bethesda though, they were both under the Zenimax umbrella before MS acquired them, so perhaps that lead to the misunderstanding.

[@EJSimonsen]

Enjoyed. Keep up the good work. Nadia Mufoz is a hard worker, or maybe a Droid. She's seems to work 24x7.

[@RichardBejtlich]

Got to get those stories! Thanks for watching. 🙏

[@anderporascu5026]

Mainstream reviews or any are like Hollywood critics, I could care less either way. I play what I like and like what I play just as a true artist does what they love and loves what they do or there is no point. Nadia Faz.

[@RichardBejtlich]

Well said 🫡

[@Daynger_Fox]

I can't figure out how to install xbox game pass stuff on my steam deck. I want to try starfield on that!!!

[@RichardBejtlich]

I'm afraid that is one area I do not know. Maybe someone else here does?

[@Daynger_Fox]

@RichardBejtlich I hope, I tried following a tutorial but im kinda terrible with Linux.

[@gbhgvhgbh]

Machine Games are developing Indiana Jones, not BGS.

[@RichardBejtlich]

Yes thanks, I updated the video description. 🙏

[@fjrsean]

OMG the book title. Now I understand your Reddit username :)

[@RichardBejtlich]

Yes indeed. It’s been my infosec identity since 2000 I think?

[@510DeshawnPlays]

5:50 that would be pretty much censorship

[@RichardBejtlich]

I don’t mean to delete scores altogether. Instead of thumbs up or thumbs down, maybe a scale of 1-5, like reviews on other sites? Then it’s pretty easy to see “review bombing” because the bombers usually choose 1 (lowest score). Someone with legit issues will probably use 2 or 3.

[@OwnerGriffin108]

KZbin reviews for games are what pisses me off about modern gaming. People decide they hate something before it comes out, and so many people follow narratives to get views rather than just saying what they actually believe in a rational and fair way.

[@RichardBejtlich]

💯agree. I've learned the term is "anti-fandom."

[@dante001ish]

I thought there was a limited release to reviewers (probably don't muddy the water ones) with a review release date clause for Dragon Age & mainstream media reviews have the same tagline again & again, don't feel this is quite the same as Starfields review issues.....Dragon age is openly looking for the magical audience that does not buy....only bemoan it isn't "this" enough, just hope Starfield gets a stuttering fix after shattered space....it's getting annoying.

[@RichardBejtlich]

Yes there were review codes released early and now players can get the game. I agree it’s not exactly the same but it made me think. 🤔

[@willwillis5186]

I really like your rational approach/ I hate rants. I.m a new subscriber/

[@RichardBejtlich]

Thanks a ton! Welcome. 👏

[@tubeincompetence]

Still no interest in playing Starfield - but good video :)

[@RichardBejtlich]

Fair, thanks for watching! 🙏

[@leafstormblaze9449]

Indiana jones and starfield are two different devs

[@RichardBejtlich]

I know. It's in the description. I also published a correction in the video after this one. Thanks for watching!

[@ardentdfender4116]

I’m a bit amazed and dismayed all at the same time how the studio behind Space Marines 2 can release so many game updates, bug fixes and patches since game release and Bathesda can’t release any patches or updates since Shattered Space DLC. I just can’t understand Bathesda.

[@RichardBejtlich]

It’s a fair question. I wrestle with it too.

[@Za-Raina]

Comment for algorithms. Nadia Mufaz!

[@RichardBejtlich]

TYVM for watching! “This is SSNN.” 😆

[@b8man88]

Not gonna lie I don't even pay attention to the reviews anymore. I liked mass effect Andromeda but people were making it sound unplayable. I understand some things but people be doing to much.

[@RichardBejtlich]

I hear you for sure! 🙏

[@pdraggy]

BEST way to get a free Vista III xD man, I miss this game...

[@RichardBejtlich]

😂 yeah I stole it after everyone was in my brig.

[@stiftarcory4364]

Shattered space is it, Bethesda will do a few more updates but that’s it. It’s obvious the game will be abandoned in order to move on and ruin tes 6.

[@RichardBejtlich]

Nope. 😂

[@WeAreNIM]

"I doubt Unreal could handle anything as complicated as Starfield" My guy, UE5 currently runs circles around Creation 2. Not only that, but UE5 could enable orbit-to-surface landing with no loading screens.

[@RichardBejtlich]

😂 you seriously think UE could handle keeping track of all those in game objects?

[@WeAreNIM]

Here's the thing; not every player is going to fill their ship with thousands of instanced potatoes - it doesn't matter what engine you're using - at some point the sim will fail to account for all objects every tick. Your average player isn't going out of their way to break the game, and even if they are, UE is an instancing monster. On average your typical player is decorating their ship or outpost with a few hundred items, and even Creation Engine 2 puts limits on asset count for performance and minimizing the size of the save file. UE can handle that complexity with ease. I've been working with Epic's tools for 15 years, across 4 generations of UE. I have zero doubt that it's not only doable, but more performant.