Starfield's New Vehicle Exceeded My Expectations

[@lorekeeperval3772]

When I crashed into a rock Sarah said "I disliked that" I love it when devs get in on a joke in the community.

[@jacksonbarkerthebluehairedfox]

Or the loading screen hint "Driving a vehicle through a crowded city is often frowned upon by local authorities. And by Sarah."

[@langleymneely]

Literally just discovered your channel this morning and subbed! Love your nuanced and intelligent takes on Starfield. It’s a welcomed change from the deluge of lazy “Starfield BAD!” content KZbin is plagued with. I don’t mind watching content that is critical, Im critical of this game, BUT what sets many creators apart is the ability to articulate and critique a game intelligently. I like that you articulate in detail what works and what doesn’t, being constructive with your opinions.

[@mattc7420]

I was using a fast travel exploit but, This makes surveying planets a lot easier and opens the doors for a lot more.

[@ethanbalcazar226]

I’ve been following for a while and I just wanted to say that I’m grateful for the positiveness in your Starfield videos, keep up with the great content!

[@langleymneely]

In low G the Rev is so entertaining! Trying to go as long as you can without touching the ground is hilarious and a ton fun. Since launch my 2 biggest complaints were about land vehicles and maps and now that I have them I am a supremely happy camper!

[@eggg505]

Thanks

[@TheBlooMoose]

Thank you!

[@manolobridgante6095]

I like the vehicle. Couple of changes: I don't think the vehicle should be drivable in settlements. Steering and acceleration shouldn't be on the same stick

[@JoseMacias4050]

To me, the driving felt like halo and made me download the Warthog mod

[@snippysilver8357]

Hy lol​@@JoseMacias4050

[@streakingclothed]

I totally agree. i think this is a step in the right direction and will speed up and differentiate gameplay a lot. Cant wait for the mods that use this system to create Sparrows from destiny and Speeders from Star Wars!

[@langleymneely]

Oh my god yes!

[@elchewbacco]

Gameplay should be fun not sped through

[@langleymneely]

@@elchewbacco Who's to say that having options to speed up exploration ISN'T fun? lol

[@elchewbacco]

@langleymneely same unfun exploration but now its a bit faster

[@woufff_]

Totally agree with you, the Rav-8 is really fun to drive and makes exploring much easier. If now Bethesda could make the world tiles bigger or add a new tile every time you arrive at a border that would be great. And the Escape mission was certainly worth the 5 bucks for me, contrary to the Vulture mission. But of course, selling mission by mission as they do for the moment is not the way Bethesda should go for the future.

[@CGGarage]

Its been a long while since ive played this game, paid for the premium, happy to be getting shattered space auto downloaded soon, but other than dont really have much wanting me to play for abit until they add more to the game to liven it up a bit. You're totally right about how just having the REV-8 shows that they're listening to players, that actually caught my eye pretty good too.

[@pyro-tu4le]

I loved it, the scanner range is further, getting to temples is a lot easier, I don't have my plasma skill up but the gun is a life saver, and it's more fun to explore and a great to get right after ng+. The only problem is npcs will move the buggy when walking passed like it doesn't exist even with you in it, and it stops way too fast. The escape mod is awesome, I love the horror aspect to it, and if you ng+ always knock it out for great early game loot.

[@Ollidor]

To me it felt that the fallout 4 and Skyrim creation clubs made a lot more sense and were more reasonably priced than what’s being given in Starfield

[@ezoni8438]

I remember someone saying how much they hated the car cuz "it has no inertia it just slides around everywhere".... they were on a low gravity ice planet

[@RabbitWatchShop]

I’ve only come across one new bug since this update: for whatever reason, the weapon workbench sinks into the floor on ships, making it obstructed when attempting to use it and thus it is unusable. I noticed this, because I was modifying two Derretech pre-built ships to remove the bugs that currently undermine his designs. I was successful in that endeavor, but I can no longer use weapon workbenches on ships. The only thing I’ve heard others state is that Bethedsta patched a ship part glitch, which angered them greatly. There’s already solutions to that tho. Thus far, the update has been a welcome improvement. The mini side quest “Escape” was fun albeit short. With Shattered Space, it’s my hope - and the hope of others - that new caves, buildings, and structures are added to planets to provide the player with more to explore and do. At this point, Bethedsta’s main goal should be filling these barren planets up. By doing so, it will go from an okay game to a relatively great game. I hope I can now complete the Crimson Fleet missions, because prior to this update, several were broken with bugs, preventing me from completing them.

[@TheBlooMoose]

It will be really interesting to see what kind of random locations / encounters they put on Va’ruun’kai especially!

[@pizzaman6784]

I feel like stuff that is just a few new weapon textures or one outfit/weapon should be 100 credits (I doubt anything will be priced below 100), and then Trackers Alliance/Quest Mods should be priced no more than 300. I wish instead of the water cooled miner outfit for 400 credits, they did a bunch of new outfits for 400. I feel like there isn't that much customization you can do for your outfits, like there are outfits I really like but they aren't in the right color or have the wrong faction symbols on them for roleplaying. I really wish the First Cavalry outfit could be customized to have UC or standard Freestar insignias instead of the "1" on it.

[@langleymneely]

Agreed. My favorite mods are apparel mods that create new clothing options. I kind of wish Bethesda implemented their own that utilized the various outfits throughout the game. As it stands one of my favorite things to do is kill enemies and loot their clothing with the loot mod. I’m a regular psychopath! “Ooh… thats a nice cowboy hat… bet it would look better on ME!?” Lol

[@GoalOrientedLifting]

This is my favourite Starfield yapping channel.

[@RabbitWatchShop]

Charging that much for plushie sets and skins is criminal.

[@Sioolol]

I think its not about that, its basicaly "If you like our game and want to support us, give us some money and take this complimentary stuff". Its more like a charity donation, than purchasing something that has value.

[@RabbitWatchShop]

@@Sioolol a sucker is born every minute

[@jacksonbarkerthebluehairedfox]

​@@SioololExactly. Literally the reason merch exists.

[@themagnus2919]

I can already tell that that the days of me walking to points of interest are over.

[@spacekettle2478]

Hopefully one day they'll let us have a vehicle builder so we can make some sort of cool mobile base, and let us transition into another tile by reaching the edge of one tile (I'd be fine even if it will be another loading screen). Might make for a cool gameplay of exploring a planet's surface for science or for good old rare mineral or something.

[@TiredNeedSleep-c3s]

100% agree. This actually, for me, kinda ruins Starfield even more. I don't want to be milked for everything I have during a cost of living crisis, when I already paid money for what I thought was a complete game. I've also got a personality of a collector, so I "have" to have everything otherwise it feels incomplete. It's related to OCD. However, if I spend moneyh on this nonsense, I feel dirty, wrong and bad for spending money on it. So I just avoid games with this crap in it.

[@machinegod3000]

Its a good start and needs alot of improvements - a bit too bouncy and drifty for my taste ...there could be procedural generated roads in the settled areas, enemies could utilize vehicles too and more different models could be available and upgradable ....like the ships!

[@lastdayer101]

Bethesda definitely trying to price anchor people. Notice how Bethesda's mods are pretty consistently more expensive than the creator's mods. More likely than not they will do a Starfield Anniversary edition down the line were you can buy hundreds of dollars of creations for like 10 bucks like they did with skyrim.

[@AuthorPaulGDay]

It doesn't matter. The essential stuff is free.

[@YogBaal]

Great video. I bought the Tracker’s Alliance quest and was SO disappointed in it; it ends with no ending. I am so mad about it I won’t be buying this new quest even though it may be good.

[@freeasabird30]

hm, I think you can still get around better with your jetpack then you can with the buggy. it seems to me the only difference with it, then without it is you have it or not. thats it. like, the buggy should be a fast way to get around but it seems not all that faster then jetpacking. :/

[@craig.a.glesner]

I also wasn’t all hyped for vehicles but I am also having fun with it. Though I apparently am one of the few people who use it in first person.

[@RickBelt]

We need automatic scanner and collect things. I don't know why devs don't created a platform to put the vehicle inside the ship. The spawning broke the immersion.

[@thomasdumollard4136]

Because for people with smaller ship or starborn ship it can be a problem and this kind of vehicle is probably mean to be fast to build l(ike maybe 10min )and easy to store to save space on board once unbuilt. our astronauts probably have to build them too irl.

[@RickBelt]

@@thomasdumollard4136 well, some module are suitable only for some kind of ships, so the vehicle must be used only in some ships, problem solved!

[@langleymneely]

Honestly I can see a future update tinkering with this in the future, if modders don’t do it first? As far as smaller ships or Starborn vessels are concerned I can see the addition of a switch or small interface on your ship to spawn the Rev giving at least a bit of immersion even in those use cases?

[@stevendeamon]

@@RickBelt You want content gated under ship size? Are you daft? I swear some of you are completely braindead.

[@wookieepelt]

That ship at 3:47 looks sick.

[@ThatGuyYouShouldKnow]

The buggy 100% reminds me of the vehicle in Blaster Master Zero I and I love it

[@nutherefurlong]

Too bad there isn't a grav plate in the back of the vehicle, although I guess letting your payload scatter across the landscape after a boost can be diverting. I wonder if you can throw a bunch of grenades in the back, jump, and scatter them everywhere before they explode :) I haven't played a Bethsoft game since Skyrim so the creation store is new to me... Not really into the idea, but I wonder if it was a subscription model instead, one price for access to it all, if it might encourage more modding (if they get some sort of cut I guess) and make individual mods feel less like a content tax

[@ToeMcTaggins]

Bethesda's mods are of better quality, especially on console. I want to support the paid modders but if they can't guarantee that the mod they sell works and won't break the game then yeah let's go, but I'm not paying for less quality and more bugs in a BGS game. Example the Darkstar mods are free and well crafted, the author has amazing support for his mods and all of then add so much for FREE. When he adds a paid mod it could be crap, and I'd pay because he's given so much to my play through for free. Also, the BGS creations are all achievement friendly and enhance vanilla play

[@theitechlab]

The quality of the mods is a big thing for me as well. I like getting achievements, and BGS-created quests in Creation Club don't disable achievements, and I can typically guarantee they won't break once an update drops. Plus, they are of a higher quality (voice acting, unique weapons) and mesh with the lore of the universe, so I don't have to worry about someone adding a character or location in that isn't really part of the universe BGS created. I know that modders are very talented and am not downplaying them in any way, but the stuff from BGS tends to be what I look for over unofficial quests that disable achievements/break the lore and may not function properly. I do wish the prices were lower, but I think that the new "Escape" CC questline looks really good, especially factoring in the ship and unique items/weapons you can get.

[@wasteexplorer1133]

couple days late but I do want to comment on the sore point that is bethesda and some of their mods costing money... On one hand I do genuinely agree some of the price points for certain content is outrageously overpriced and need to be tweaked while others are more acceptable... great example being the stark contrast between "The Vulture" and "Escape" quests in their quality to price point... Specifically seeing as "The Vulture" being 700 credits and made solely to naturally introduce (according to todd howard in the MrMattyPlays interview) what was just originally a weapon and outfits pack and wanting to do more compared to just being place into the world with no lore or story... Like the starborn suit being placed in your constellation room which you can obtain at the beginning of the game with no cost to the player or the mind bafflingly priced 400 credits Water-Cooled Miners Outfit which is also placed with no lore or story at deimos mining quarters... Now when you contrast that quality with the "Escape" quest which has multiple endings and choices with neat secrets and puzzles with also unique rewards for those who are smart enough/pay attention enough to find them (or use a guide) all for the price of 500 credits which I for one and so has many online say thats a really good and fair price... it shows they are learing although still with some "growing pains" and as todd howard mentioned in his interview, that I mentioned up above, that large in part these creations help subsidize the continued support on their games for much longer compared to their past games and as a prime example has allowed them to keep on making free expanions and updates for the fallout 76 community via the atomic shop subidizing the majority of the costs of doing so... So while I understand the sentiment towards they should make all of their creations free and refund the spent credits to go solely towards the freelance devs/modmakers I think it would be an ultimately short sighted endeavor as it would force bethesda to move on quickly (as many people are wanting in hoping for... *Stares longingly in the distances for ES6*) and abandon further support of the game after cranking out a few expansions and disincentivize releasing free updates with content like the rev-8... Thanks for reading my TED Talk and inb4 too long didn't read or too much yap comments lol...

[@JAIMEGARCIA-gw9re]

I'm glad you brought up the point that would the vehicle being fun planet exploration hasn't changed much. Still not much to discover.

[@ignisspiritus6392]

2:51 Is that Todd Howard lol 😂

[@colinator6828]

even the stuff the modders put out is a way too expensive like one gun for 5$ is crazy i think they should curate the modders stuff more if bethesda combined all the things they have made into one dlc i think that would be ok but as it is it just doesn't have the value it would also be cool if they combined atoms with creation credits so you could unlock stuff by playing fallout 76 i don't think they would ever do that but it would make me play 76 again but this would also give people another incentive to get fallout first personally i hate fallout first

[@madoffler]

I'm relatively new to Starfield, I bought the game on the last Steam Summer Sale and I'm still milking out my first play through. I played the game for around three weeks before the vehicles came out and I have to say I'm underwhelmed. I agree with your point that it doesn't solve the root problem of travel and exploration simply not being interesting, only faster. I'm doing my best to give the game a fair shake, I hated my first play through of Fallout 4 and now it's the game with the highest playtime on my account and that's mostly because of survival mode and the amazing mod community. I share your concerns about Bethesda charging for quest content, it only serves to breed distrust of the creation store which will hurt modders in at least the short term. I don't have an issue paying for well crafted content coming from the community but overall the modding community doesn't seem to enjoy actually making mods for Starfield. Cumbersome support and tools are a common complaint but more than that the sentiment is that the game just isn't fun enough to put the effort into. Rather than milking cash from the community for quest content they should be focused on filling in all the blank design space they launched the game with and empowering the modders to aid with that goal.

[@TheChenny73]

The planets didn’t change because they are not procedurally generated for you. They were procedurally created but they are static for the player. You keep saying procedurally generated as if the game is randomly making up the planets on the fly as you land. That’s not how things work. Except for locations of temples in ng+ the planets are the same for everyone.

[@ezoni8438]

I hope soon we get some new vehicles like tanks or whatever

[@JoseMacias4050]

I like your videos i just now found u

[@adriangunter00]

I would even be happy with a like "Bethesda 2024 Creations" pack or something. It's just not worth what they are asking for individually. Bundle the stuff with a significant discount at least

[@ShaggyShagz13]

My boost pack is much more efficient for travel than the buggy. The terrain was never meant to have vehicles and it shows. I have little use for anything outside of the starship building to begin with so I don't care how sht the buggy is. I would like for the fkn game to successfully start up and being able to save would be nice.

[@goodtaste2185]

We can't even use lip sync, so modders cannot make something on par with Bethesda quests. I wish they would focus on making the CK on par with the actual developer tools.

[@lastdayer101]

That's fake news. You've been able to do lipsync since oblivion.

[@goodtaste2185]

@@lastdayer101 show me one mod released for Starfield that has functional lip sync. I'll give you 365 days.

[@lastdayer101]

@@goodtaste2185 alright, meet here again in 1 year.

[@YanitedBT]

I love your videos !

[@lvlndco]

I found the Rev-8 to be more Bethesda FU to the players. It is slow, if it goes fast too long the engine can't keep up. On many planets it is a major source of frustration. In real life NASA put multiple vehicles on the moon and they trekked around with little issue. Stick the Rev-8 on the moon and wow...people in the future have no idea of traction control or speed control. Instead you are stuck spinning about uncontrollably on several planets. And why can't the survivalist we save hop in back? Or if we have Vasco he hops in the passenger seat...lame that we leave him running to catch up with no support...wow, some rescue.

[@yesteryearr]

Funny that you say the laser is overpowered... I play on Extreme and the laser does almost NO damage

[@TheBlooMoose]

Might be that I’m currently using custom gameplay options to deal high damage to enemies, while they deal high damage back - but they don’t get many shots in when I’m flying around in the Rev-8!

[@Noctilucent_Cloud7]

The best quality? The tracker alliance gun can't reload right? Or did they fix that?

[@princerose233]

Maybe you should look at the patch notes

[@redwes1]

@@princerose233 I saw another video on this-- it was not fixed.

[@CatDadGamer]

Great commentary on the Bethesda paid creations. I absolutely will not pay for their in-house creations. They are far overpriced and I personally feel the value of the quality is not on par with other modders. It really makes me feel more negatively toward bethesda. I get what they're trying to get at, but they're going about it the wrong way and I want nothing to do with it.

[@JoseMacias4050]

I want more romance options from Bethesda, not mods and I will pay for that or a free update

[@prokhor_zakharov]

Nice video, I appreciate your balanced take on the game. Personally, I don't mind the paid Bethesda mods. Are they a great value? Not really. But the game is already complete without them, with hundreds of hours of content. And there will undoubtedly be an anniversary edition that bundles the majority of them up. If you're a super fan like me who's already played hundreds of hours of Starfield, you probably don't mind chucking a few extra bucks at them for a couple more hours of high-quality content every once in a while. On top of that, Starfield is still one of the most modded games on the Nexus, meaning there's a whole ecosystem of free mods available outside of Bethesda's Creations shop, too.

[@nickblood7080]

if you didn't tihnk that starfield needed land vehicles I don't trust your judgement on most things.

[@stevitos]

This creations stuff is really no good business dealing. Game was disappointingly empty as far as hand crafted content goes and now they want to charge us for the side quests they should have had all along? Ridiculous

[@7BitBrian]

Why are we expecting them to keep supporting a Single Player game with Free updates when we only paid once? Where did this entitlement come from?

[@TheBlooMoose]

Many are eager to buy more Starfield content and support the game, but nobody wants to feel ripped off. The value proposition of a full DLC vs Creations content is wildly different. The free updates, I think, are more about winning back favour with players anyway - much like Cyberpunk did.

[@DrSid42]

Mouse and keyboard controls suck ..

[@kenmck7802]

"Huge update" Oh yeeeaahhhh they accomplished something that most of the INDUSTRY has done now for DECADES. They deserve NO praise, only...laughter. You enjoy, myself? I'm not...impressed.