Starfield: Shattered Space Broke Me.

Bethesda Game Studios finally released Starfield: Shattered Space, and here is my review and honest thoughts on the DLC. Plus, I explain where I’ve been, including chatting about my new job where I helped launch KILL KNIGHT.
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[@perceivedvelocity9914]

Let's be 100% honest. Bethesda has spent the last year polishing cut content. This wasn't a real expansion. Cut content isn't going to attract anyone who didn't love Starfield at launch. Fallout 76 and No Man's Sky received massive free updates to the base game. That's what turned things around for those games.

[@numberonedad]

'polisihing' lolol

[@armandoriosfragoso6726]

I disagree, I think people only like Bethesda games because we were children, and a lot of people is personality defined by Bethesda, not liking a Bethesda game for them is an identity crisis level event, It's pathetic. Objectively, BGS makes horrible games with great music and good looking worlds.

[@foxmulder7436]

All quests take place on one planetary tile. Its unlike all other faction quests. Enemy types are new with new abilities and Ai. Dungeons are much better than the ones in the base game. Doesnt look cut at all.

[@SKRWdFaLife90]

yea man your for sure right on that

[@armandoriosfragoso6726]

@@foxmulder7436 "New abilities" the same way the game has only 2 guns in the game with different skins. I say 2 guns because they all work the same regardless of how they look, there are no ballistics in this game, a rifle and a pistol work the same, so I doubt these "New" enemies are any differrnt from what we have already, they're just re-skins.

[@SgtBreakaway2]

This DLC feels like a cut faction quest

[@nickstark8479]

Yep

[@slipstream7324]

excuse you.. Could you put a toxic positive slant on that??

[@sw-gs]

Because it is!

[@tj-co9go]

It is a cut faction quest

[@ShadowKallig]

It probably was which is why it was announced before the game released. Lol

[@Quickmart4]

They lost the plot a long time ago and they can't hide their incompetence anymore. It's fucking sad.

[@ashroskell]

Emil Pagliarulo, lead, “writer,” for Bethesda: “But, you don’t know what goes into making a great video game!” Customers seeking a refund: “Neither do you! Clearly!”

[@emongu1]

I hate that it's now "some cool stuff happened, it was awesome, shame you missed it". The museum talking about the war was well made, but it paled in comparison of living through it. Same with 76, there was high stakes events, but you're too late and just reading the leftover story from it.

[@Teldarin]

@@ashroskell The thing is, we as customers don't have to know shit about how hard it is to make a videogame. You want to sell us a product, want our money for what you create, so you better make it worth the player's time and cash. That's how the market works, or should at least. Imagine you go shopping and try on a jacket in a store. You don't like it and hang it back, but then a worker shows up and complains about you not liking that jacket and how hard it was to make. It's ridiculous.

[@ashroskell]

@@Teldarin : Exactly. The practices we see now are simply not tolerated in any other industry. Imagine buying the car of your dreams; all the whistles and bells, self driving, dripping with computer screens and nav devices; an office on the road, whatever, only to be told the STEERING WHEEL is actually DLC and, “We’re still working on that.”!?!? The company would collapse overnight or scramble to get on every available outlet to let the public know it was a one off, “rogue,” incident and not going to happen to anyone else. “We fired the individual responsible,” etc. But video games are getting worse by the day! In the discussion about hard copies versus downloads I used to repeat the slogan, “Own the games or the games will own you.” Now look! We DON’T, “own,” the games now, MUST be online to play them and they get ALL of your valuable data, which they can sell or lose at their own pleasure! We just don’t fight hard enough collectively. And it starts with a, “Broken Windows,” approach in my view. People like Emil should be slammed for his remarks; shown how empirically WRONG he is in countless clap back videos and DM’s, ruthlessly mocked for his passive aggressive disdain for gamers and probably should be fired! We tolerate people talking down to us like naughty children, so they treat us like we’re not responsible enough to manage our own cash and data. Honestly, I shouldn’t be so, “passionate,” about it, but this guy truly sickens me. He’s everything wrong with gaming CEO’s, writers, senior staff in general: Entitled, patronising, ignorant, bad at his job, and fundamentally WRONG as well as wrong headed.

[@ashroskell]

@@Teldarin : P.S. I forgot to add, “gaslighting,” and, “greedy,” to that list of things I hate about senior games company staff.

[@mike_d_melb_music_fan5229]

We should email the voice actors of Sarah and Andreja and ask if they were brought back in post main release to record the Shattered dialogue. Or did they record it 7 years ago ? Which means, yes it was just main release content that got cut.

[@TerrorTrooperM]

Bethesda saying they spent 7 years developing Starfield is like me saying I spent 3 years building the ikea wardrobe in my spare room. The reality is I bought it and got it out the packaging 3 years ago but only recently got around to actually assembling it. Same is true for Starfield. There’s just no way its actual development cycle was even half that, at best.

[@mike_d_melb_music_fan5229]

@@TerrorTrooperM I based that on interviews with the voice actors who played Heller and Andreja.

[@Crow7D]

Waiting for TES6 to release with cut content factions. It would be like everyone in Skyrim or Oblivion referencing the Dark Brotherhood or Thieves but waiting a year for the DLC to play as them. Riften or the Waterfront releasing as DLC. Or the brotherhood of steel being closed off.

[@LoneVaultWanderer]

Good point

[@ErikN1982]

Thats exactly what you're gonna get. "Dark Brother Hood DLC: 39.99" "Dwemer Ruins DLC: 29.95" "Island of the Khajits DLC: 48.98" "Daedric Armor: 18.99"

[@TheMarcHicks]

@@ErikN1982 never forget that Bethesda kicked off the tradition of putting paid microtransactions into single player games with their Horse Armour DLC in Oblivion. Just as they kicked off the tradition of making people "pay" for a good ending to their game in Fallout 3 with the first expanion having the only way of getting an ending where you don't die at the end.

[@jh9794]

The thing with good DLC is when it ties into the main game but doesn't feel cut out. This looks like it was cut out.

[@TheMarcHicks]

That was Phantom Liberty and Hearts of Stone for me. They both add so much to the base game, yet when they were absent I didn't feel like I was missing out on anything.

[@Frank-os6gq]

You literally cannot choose to be evil, if you do you lose and have to reload a save lol in an "rpg" it forces you to be good. Larian studies would shed a tear.

[@sebastiengoulet360]

@@Frank-os6gq i would have love to be able to torment the old man with the music box after the quest haha it would have been a nice evil touch, but it does nothing the old man says nothing...

[@LoneVaultWanderer]

Can you not tell them to begin the serpent's crusade?

[@AIIEYESONME]

C'mon man, be reasonable, the Beth Senior devs are now flush with MS buyout money and not enough spare time to enjoy it. You really would expect them to take the time to add an ounce more of anything to flesh out their game with the reported $250M budget?? Wide as an Ocean, deep as a puddle. It's what Bethesda has lived by and lived up to more with each passing Decade. Devs have become Older, richer, less motivated. It's all just staring us all in the face.

[@Backbone420]

67d 21h 55m sailing the blackest sea (Xbox). I started following SF when I think there was only 3 sources on the internet acknowledging its existence. Checked on it every few months or so. Despite addressing flight very little, we ALL held hope that we could fly our spaceship. And when we found out there was no atmospheric flight, it broke all our hearts just a little bit. Whether we want to admit it or not. Starfield taps into the magic of spaceflight, but removes flight. Experiencing that “marble” turn into a world beneath your feet, that’s flight. Fighting the greatest force in the universe and experiencing that world turn back into a “marble”, that’s flight. Burning across the surface, taking in all the flora/fauna, slipping through the terrain, checking your outposts or objective with a bird’s eye view, maybe a little airpower to soften the target, pulling a sweet thruster drift move, and touching down nice and soft. That’s flight. Mechs, POIs, story, melee movesets, kill cams, lack of quality control with mods, unstable mod system, large cosmic events visible in space that draw you to those far away planets/systems triggering investigations to the cause, radio stations, large scale enemies and engagements, bad AI, etc. These are all moons orbiting the problem at the core. SF taps into the magic of spaceflight, but removes the wonder of flight. I still like the game obviously, but that one thing is always there. Catch a smile out there. o7

[@korruptwisdom8688]

This 💯

[@ajtrujillo21]

What I can’t believe is that the keep vendor doesn’t even sell the new Va’ruun assault armors. It took me reloading a save 5 times and killing an npc with the armor I wanted in order for it to spawn on him.

[@GastonGenta338]

@@ajtrujillo21 In older game if you kill enemies wearing that armor you can loot it. Simple. Immersive. Amazing. I don't understand why they remove that feature. They really doesn't understand what make their game special.

[@StoneAgeWarfare]

I think Bethesda would greatly benefit to switching to Automatron style DLC's for this game. They need more creative systems to flesh out the world.

[@510DeshawnPlays]

Building a badass robot death machine

[@510DeshawnPlays]

@@baitposterthey’d have to switch game engines for that most likely

[@baitposter]

​@@510DeshawnPlays That would be for the best. They should make a new engine with ECS architecture, which would be even better for mod support. Being Fast Travel simulator even to go long distances planetside or to different cells on the same planet hurts the game's modding potential deeply

[@behurastudio]

Building Codsworth some legs was GOATed

[@foxmulder7436]

@@StoneAgeWarfare robot customization is not bad but still a gimmick. The quest from automatron straight up sucks. Terrible level design. Waiting for Ada to open doors is complete garbo.

[@Odder-Being]

You got 3 positive points and 10/12 negative points and its still fine for you? That doesn't compute.

[@HM-eg9hv]

I like lone so this isn't meant to sound mean but I think it's denial... I accepted that Bethesda is dead a while ago and starfield was just a solid reminder (I'm so glad I didn't buy it). RIP elder scrolls

[@Skegfromcraigslist]

@@HM-eg9hv fully agreed

[@WeeWeeJumbo]

'i mostly wasn't having fun because it's mostly bad. i don't know how to feel about this expansion' -- LoneVaultWanderer, somehow

[@2138Dude]

There are clowns in reddit trying to prove me that new weapons and armors aren't reskins... Like bethesda fanboys are going to believe that 2+2=5 or something

[@mrfishsticks266]

It's not just on reddit. It's here in youtube as well

[@StoneAgeWarfare]

Out of everything, the Starstorm and Penumbra are unique. There's only so many ways you can do a minigun.

[@Maxsmack]

They also try to claim the game was a financial success, with million of players only on console, and steam charts isn’t accurate. The fact it was imminently put on game pass shows everyone knew it would be flop. The only hope is the main team has already been working on tes6 for sometime now, and starfield was just filler to kill time.

[@TheMarcHicks]

@@mrfishsticks266 yep @Foxmulder comes to mind 😆

[@TheMarcHicks]

@@Maxsmack Remember last year, when Phil Spencer and Todd Howard would only mention game DOWNLOADS, and not game SALES? I think that's very telling.

[@Domicle]

It was disappointing. Was enough to bring me back to play, not enough to make me stay.

[@LoneVaultWanderer]

I feel you hit the nail on the head for lots of people

[@mick_hyde]

Why does Bethesda think that we LIKE sitting there watching these people talk and talk and talk? Looting, they really don't want to give anything away, even though you paid for it.

[@armandoriosfragoso6726]

Because all their games are like that?

[@wolfwing1]

@@armandoriosfragoso6726 yeah, but in the past there was fun stuff to do between them. Fallout 3/4 and skyrim I would travel between quest giver and quest if I hadn't already done it, unless in a rush. It gave you something to do and fun stuff to find, this game even with the improved planet it doesn't feel that much better in the, "Explore on the way." method. Starfield is like they left in all the worst parts of a bethesda game, and took out all the good stuff.

[@wolfwing1]

@@armandoriosfragoso6726 for all it's flaws, fallout 4 least was fun to explore.

[@justinmarlowe6999]

@wolfwing1 it's not an exploration game.... I tend to have more fun with games when I understand what they actually are and not what entitled people want it to be

[@wolfwing1]

@@justinmarlowe6999 except everything else it does is shite, so it's kinda the problem, if it was fun on it's own it be fine, but they removed all the reasons to play a bethesda game without adding anything else.

[@TakaChan569]

I can't believe it, people that would normally dig their heels in and Bury their heads in the sand are calling this "dlc" out. Bethesda may see this stuff and try to do better now they aren't getting a pass, so we may have hope for ES.

[@keepitclean8791]

If ES6 is a flop, it will actually be over for Bethesda.

[@andykod77]

This guy is delusional

[@PATHETIC_DISASTER]

@@keepitclean8791 I hear this about 343i since Halo MCC😂The suits in charge of everything from MS are a bunch of retarded mongoloids that have no idea wtf they're doing.

[@Skegfromcraigslist]

They’ll have to gut the entire studio for ES6 to have a chance and they certainly won’t do that

[@ErikN1982]

when 76 launched and was a joke Todd Howard flat out said that "oh we just made that for money so that we would have more resources for Starfield, thats my real dream"

[@chrisianieri6747]

I can’t imagine it was “because they ran out of time” that they couldn’t put this in the base game. I understand giving the benefit of the doubt but they were working on this game for like 10 years, how much more time did they possibly need?

[@LoneVaultWanderer]

Starfield has so many different little mechanics that I feel like they focused too much in certain areas

[@GSXR750ization]

Dialogue is fine if it's interesting. If it's crap and isn't interesting then sitting through it is horrible.

[@LoneVaultWanderer]

But it's also the way it's done. Going from character to character, having gargantuan conversations with them, and then moving onto the next didn't feel good. It's hard to build any kind of connection with a character because you're not doing much with them, seeing them grow and building some kind of a relationship. This is why I liked the grandpa questline and twice reformed - it tried to do just that

[@GSXR750ization]

@@LoneVaultWanderer Yes. In comedy it's called timing. So they aren't just horrible writers but they don't know how to even deliver. Makes you wonder what these people are like to talk to. They are socially ignorant.

[@nothobbesmufc949]

@@GSXR750ization they don't hire writers. they have developers write it.

[@sw-gs]

"Handcrafted world" When I looked on world map I see that "handcrafted" is only 3x3 chunks of what is usually generated. Bethesda lies so much, they've cut content from main game and tries to sell it as "expansions" and "creation club" content. That is worst type of selling content. WORSE THAN HORSE ARMOR. And who is to blame? MICROSOFT! Bunch of stupid people on board who never played any game, have no sense of what players want or are willing to pay for will cut game into pieces and shove it for 40-60$ per piece and stupid people (including myself to them since I bought expansion too) will buy anything what has "Bethesda" stamped on it.

[@justinmarlowe6999]

@sw-gs or just leave your entitlement out of it 🤣 creation club is hired and unoffical modders who yall glaze so much 💀💀 and the rest is bonus content that you entitled morons think should be in because why? Cause boo hoo woe is broke you 🤣 like should have dropped the cash for the early release and extra skins and get the free creation credits and dlc free too 🤣🤣🤣 like no wonder yall broke bad money management

[@pmpowalisz]

Shattered Space is only 30 dollars, and is worth the price considering the new city, main/side quests, and there are at least 20 handcrafted locations (many with named NPCs). So what if some of it was cut considering the base game still was released with at least a 100 hours of story related missions.

[@michaelrogers1327]

The game is just crap. Played 70 hour's wast of time. Don't say the it's fine to play. If jou do you are a simp. We should stop acepting this kind of poop for 70 dollar's and this dlc 30 dollar's WTF. It's just BAD.

[@AIIEYESONME]

Mundane, nonsensical, goes nowhere and it takes it's sweet ass time doing it too. 😅🤡💩💀

[@t-rexreximus359]

I was disappointed we didn’t get any full Constellation equivalent companions / romance options! With loyalty missions etc. & also evil/ neutral morality. There two crew / followers, but it’s not the same.

[@heroicgangster9981]

Starfield’s universe is just too intentionally boring to make fun stories out of. The identity of Starfield to me is that it tries to seem mature and groundbreaking by being boring from how the story and characters are not allowed to be entertaining from trying to be too down low compared to fallout and elder scrolls.

[@EliJahFedgo4tr]

They're like trying to make a really bad game so elder scrolls 6 will look like a god in comparison. Let's not get our hopes up though.

[@AIIEYESONME]

YUP, that's how I felt playing Starfield. All of these mundane characters going through mundane conversation trees, I'm hoping it actually leads to something but mostly it's just, "Anddd so that's my job, and I work really hard at it but I hope you find what you're looking for in the future, I'm feeling super thanks for asking" If you actually get a quest from these terribly mundane conversations there's a 30% chance it has something to do with fucking coffee. It really does as you say, trying to be so realistic and mature in it's boring mundane trivial style. I feel it was supposed to make their Constellation questline feel magical and epic in comparison. Only they just couldn't be bothered to think of anything more new or complex than their old games "Starborn" and barely cobbled together enough for a temple with puzzle to copy/paste it over a dozen times.... Ahh nothing says truly how much passion a developer truly feels about their project like 75% copy/pasted MQ and proc gen worlds.

[@jhallo1851]

@@heroicgangster9981 it’s insane how they took sci-fi in space boring. Literally snatching defeat from the jaws of victory 😭

[@spike238]

Playing Starfield as an independent , my partner is Rosie , having to join the cult of Va'ruun just wasn't happening ,, politely told them I had zero interest in becoming a member and they could look for someone else to sort out their problems , promptly got in my ship and went back to my beachfront home ... another days work , completed ...

[@AIIEYESONME]

"unprecedented freedom" - Todd " LMFAO" - Larian Studios

[@pmpowalisz]

@@AIIEYESONMEthat actually is freedom. Also BG3 is a turn based game which frees up a lot more money, time, and effort for story, characters, and graphics.

[@AIIEYESONME]

@pmpowalisz You mean they didn't spend time money and effort making 12 types of cheese and 100+ food stuffs with their own physics and empty stats..just bc they thought that would be funny or somethin? So Huh, I wonder which concepts turned out to be more of a meaningful experience to make their Games more fun? Umm I'm betting on the cheese, yeah, that's always worth the VRAM. Never change Bethesda 👍

[@rynlo93]

Just imagine the situation: Bethesda cut off the Dark Brotherhood's or The Companion's questline from Skyrim and sell it for $30 as a "DLC". Shattered Space is the same - it should have been in the base game from the start. Bethesda simply spat in the face of its most loyal fans.

[@zupmeoff]

Finally glad to see folks starting to realize what the rest of us have been saying…Bethesda is incompetent.

[@cwalser544]

I can fix Starfield. But they don't want me to. Here's what you do: You need a full continuous jet pack flight; without loosing boost or just a tall falling simulator. That's stupid. You need a radio full of alien like hype music. E.T. Katty Perry, Alien Ant Farm, Post Malone Ect. You need planets that are hand crafted, smaller and traversable without the YOU CAN'T GO THAT WAY nonsense. You need to Stop randomly generating only 3 different bases to assault the Mission Board Targets. Mix it up. You need at least 50 different unique weapons and same number of spacesuits. Star travel needs Giant warfare simulators where we fight not just 3 different ships in an infinity of empty space where you can't even exit your spaceship and spacewalk outside into deep space and just jet pack around like Superman flying through the cosmos without a stupid ship that is more of an obligation that you must sit in, rather than a useful house. You need thousands and thousands of ships that I can choose to hail and participate in the massive space wars in deeper jump systems is a desperate data removal intentionally designed by Emil. You should be ashamed. And After fighting the whole army's during the shallow space systems, you need giant octopus 🐙 Cthulhu monsters that you have to shoot of of high speed chasing and then engage with in target locking to shoot it's arms or tentacles to kill it. There a fun game. I can do it. Emil can't. Give me his house and money.

[@Joseph_Coaltrain]

@@cwalser544 Now I would definitely play that!

[@justinmarlowe6999]

@cwalser544 then make the game and stfu 🫵🤣 you can't do anything or you would have done it already 🫵🤣

[@jean-alexandrethibault3892]

Great suggestions actually

[@AIIEYESONME]

What is this "mix it up" thing you speak of?? I'm curious, I only play Bethesda games and I'm not familiar with branching quest lines or differing dialogue to make an appropriate response. I have unprecedented freedom to do whatever I want, and wherever I go and everything I choose doesn't make any difference in the world or the characters you meet, everyone in the world will keep the exact same response to your character outside of some random guard dialogue that keeps track of your bounties. Bc that is the thing with Bethesda, apparent secret magic is always present when it comes to tracking crime or some mailman delivery service, or a settlement that waits patiently to be attacked right at the same moment you arrive. How about going into that Nord crypt to discover that High Elf Windilious using Phantom potions to scare people away only t o take his notebook back to the Innkeeper and hear him exclaim, "what a fool I've been this whole time" _ Alright cool, I set this place straightWEEElll only to hear in the next second the Innkeep tell Lindley to " I want you to stay away from that place, I promised to keep you safe.." Dude?? What did I just give you, in fact you're still holding it in your hand... jus why....How can you make a game this nonsense????? 🤦‍♂🤦‍♂ All I know is Illusion of player choice and written or spoken lore that is referencing cool, places, characters, or things that aren't in the actual game. Exc-( Giant Blue Ghoul Whale that can sink ships? Granit Hill?? Morrowind had heaps of stuff I went exploring for bc Todd said a lot of hidden stuff you can look for by listening to NPCs conversations and the like. Well that's kinda true but mostly just a lot of talk that leads to nowhere. Those Oblivion pirates in the cove inside that cave under the castle that speaks of their huge hidden pile of treasure??? waste of time.. I only know of basic loot you can find and receive as rewards, The same exact weapons or armor mind you but with different random stats. Remember the legend of Red Eagle? So frikin cool to read that book and receive a secret quest only to turn out to be one of Bethesda's horribly generic ghosts with the reward being the same ugly rusty iron sword you can loot off of the hundreds of Draugr you've fought. Lol🤦‍♂️ Wow, Bethesda, no please never bother to change, I wouldn't want you to put in the work to make your games actually make any damn sense or feel exciting outside of the opening 20 minute outside World reveal. Keep making half baked quests with no real intentions of going back and retouching anything or adding in one or two different dialogues or real unique items as quest loot rewards. nahh, just keep having fun with your inside joke of a dozen types of cheese. Ahhh that never gets old and is where your priorities should stay kept.

[@hhjk377]

This dlc feels more like a chunk of unfinished stuff that got cut and polished for later. Like how Bethesda hyped the civil war in Skyrim but clearly cut a vast majority of what they wanted to get into the game. That’s fine. What’s NOT fine is charging 30 dollars for something that was clearly supposed to be in the base 70 dollar purchase. This felt more like something that should’ve just been a free drop.

[@dantefettman354]

I don't think they should've made it free. They need to a financial kickback for developing it, after all. However, I do agree it shouldn't have been $30. If the expansion was $15-$20, I feel the conversation around it would've been much different.

[@ares12351]

This is how I would of had the dlc go, My fix: when you enter the Citadel you end up getting sent back in time to dazra before the disaster Happened, and you go on an additional 10 hour quest line to figure out either how to stop the disaster from happening or you can help cause it to happen.

[@baitposter]

At this point, I would prefer they skip to making Starfield 2 with truly seamless exploration and travel. No more loading screens. Being Fast Travel simulator even to go long distances planetside or to different cells on the same planet hurts the game's modding potential deeply

[@Maxsmack]

Would you prefer the delay to fallout 5 and tes6 for them to due that

[@baitposter]

Absolutely Fallout 4 and 76 weren't particularly good at launch, Far Harbor's developer left the company months ago, all of their best writers have left the company over the years _(especially the ones responsible for the nuances of TES' cosmogony),_ they promoted their worst writer _(Emil "Nate is a war criminal" Pagliarulo),_ ESO is made by an entirely different developer, and at this rate, Elder Scrolls 6 will be their worst spun yarn

[@tarasmigs9114]

It makes me really wonder why such a large studio seems to do so little in comparison to their competitors.

[@leitooomzz9136]

The problem with modern games is that those who pay full price on day one get a half made, glitchy piece of crap and are fed up with the game by the time things start being improved. Its better to leave it a few years until you start hearing good things and then buy it at discount price.

[@GameBoyDame]

Step 1. Fire Emil and Todd Step 2. Hire some damn writers (Chris Avellone anyone?) Step 3. Clean up the trash on the "creations store." Step 4. Add meaningful content (mechs, space station building) Step 5. Free updates like no mans sky. Step 6. Comeback story.

[@karldergrosse-333]

It's genuinely this easy, but BGS is obviously not going to learn from their mistakes. ES6 will most likely be hogwash and I genuinely don't think there will be a fallout 5 from BGS (thank God).

[@amitansurkar1769]

Maybe Emil but not Todd, Todd is Bethesda

[@jd-gb2kp]

Step 7 Wake up

[@rootbeard1990]

You absolutely can't fire Todd lol 100% fire Emil though

[@anonymous_dot_com2326]

I dont think Todd is the problem here, Emil is. If Starfield had great writing, it wouldve been loved. Good writing is what immerses you into the world. Look at mass effect for example

[@nonamegiven202]

yeah it's around a 7, 8 in places, tho i think the core problem is they really wanted to do two totally different DLC, the sci-fi space horror/unnatural disaster and the Va'ruun culture exploration/pollical houses infighting, so neither side really got properly developed.

[@dantefettman354]

Agreed. I personally was more interested in exploring House Va'ruun and it's culture and wanted more of that in the main questline.

[@zenayurvedic]

In an alternate universe Todd left and Mike Kirkbride stayed. Starfield is blowing people's minds in a good way over there.

[@skramerwrites]

It literally broke my game. Literally bugged out and stopped letting me use weapons after I beat it. Unbelievable. It makes me not want to go back to the game at all. I’d have to go back hours worth of saves to fix it. Just deleted it from my Xbox. Lost trust moment.

[@abrahambobst4602]

Overall they dropped the ball!!!

[@joshroark92]

Yea that's what I was thinking too, that it was originally part of the base game but they ran out of time, so they just made it into a DLC instead. The DLC was too short comparative to Bethesda's past DLC's

[@realnamenonumber]

The planet is very pretty but the blues killed my framerate.

[@illreytito]

Broken is a strong word. But i see where people are coming from.

[@Lucy-lx3dn]

the cope is crazyyyy

[@AdamLAD]

My two favourite franchises in fallout and elder scrolls are looking for a dark future if star field is anything to compare the future titles by

[@t-rexreximus359]

‘Orahim’ (the former Zealot from Twice Reformed) would have made a great companion!, & possibly also ‘Inaza Kaisir’ (the Snek lady). Hope they add more Varuun companions in a future update!

[@LoneVaultWanderer]

Completely agree!

[@DocTraubo]

Shattered Space may has the map size of Far Harbour... ... sorry, I'm out of positive comparisons with Fallout 4. It's a DLC for/with House V'aruun and you're still forced to be the same boring dull morale-drunken goody-two-shoes, still mostly the same 'New York and San Francisco people in space' NPCs with the same 'just shoot me in the face' appeal as Disney's Star Wars characters, Andreja still competes in terms of world integration with Billy from the fridge, even less gameplay expanding items than the F4 workshop expansions, no unique ship parts (ffs!! what the heck??) and a few mostly re-skinned weapons and like 5 attires... I paid around 80 bucks for main game and add-on, played about 470 hours total - so it was definitely worth my money (e.g. shipbuilding was a genuine blast). Though as a Skyrim and big(!) Fallout 4 fan, I really lost my faith in BGS to ever get a gritty murky gory mature long-term-captivating RPG again, with an open world letting you discover new locations and details and ways even after thousands of hours playtime. I lost hope for TES6, and especially all hope for Fallout 5. But at the end I have something very positive to say about Starfield: it cranked my love for Fallout 4 on a 0-to-10 scale from 9.2 to 13.7 - mods not taken into account. That's something.

[@GamingGranny.]

I think you’re right on. What we feel is what happens when there is no real game design document to control the story line and make everything work together.

[@LoneVaultWanderer]

🙏🏼

[@Kwizats245]

The Duel quest had potential, when I found the slates documenting the brothers abuse at the hands of their parents, I thought okay heres something, but all it did was ad a little dialog with no alternative ending I thought, what a waste. they could have taken that and made something special. It's almost like the writers started and then ran out of time to finish.

[@foxmulder7436]

@@Kwizats245 there are technically 3 endings though. Sure the duel has to take place, but still.

[@cassieudy5718]

You can get the armor (and weapon) from the Fang quest. After completing it and giving the gear to the person who wanted to repair it, there is a low chance she will spawn at a random Va'ruun Camp POI while you are exploring planets. You can pickpocket the gear from her.

[@LoneVaultWanderer]

Yeah someone else told me, that's pretty cool

[@cassieudy5718]

@@LoneVaultWanderer The best part is that the unique "Fang's Rifle" is mistakenly classified as an "Orion" rifle from the base game, rather than the expansion's new and more powerful "Longfang" version, resulting in hilariously pathetic damage. The only unique weapon found in Shattered Space deals literally half of the damage that the common white variant deals. Never change Bethesda

[@BrokenMessiah1]

Defenders...let me ask you...without cheating what are the three house names can you give me one sentence about them that makes them unique?

[@jacktheripper6716]

i made a new char based on house.. but i was so god damn bored with traveling and fast travel was broken with missing textures on my 6700xt i love all rpg's but this had to force myself to play it with dragon age and outerworlds i find myself wanting to play it like base game Fallout 4 and new vegas.. hoping veilguard is good i want to drop 70gbp for the deluxe version but i should wait

[@cargorunner9960]

I would give it a 6/10 and no where near as good as the trailer or interviews would suggest. The main problem for me is the really weak writing. House Va'ruun did not deliver and did not feel believable. They just re-used old ideas. "You are the listener", "You are the chosen one" and a badly copied version of the houses of Dune. One of the main choices is to sacrifice yourself for the faction. If you do that you just get a white screen. No message. No epilogue. No nothing!!!! You are just looking at the screen confused, not believing what you see. How can they give you a choice for an important ending and then NOTHING HAPPENS !!!! I still can't believe they were too lazy to write one of the endings!!!!! 30 USD when the quality is this low is way too much.

[@t-rexreximus359]

Had hoped we would have met the Great Snek in this DLC 🐍 & / or some other intelligent alien entity! They seem to have side stepped it (like with the Creators in the base game). I know not all mysteries need to be explained, but give us something. 😅Imagine if we never got proof the Daedric Princes existed or got to interact with them in Elder Scrolls. It would be a lot less compelling imo.

[@behurastudio]

Really surprised they didn’t have it as some kind of boss or enemy or anything

[@dantefettman354]

Agreed. The most we got is... [Spoilers below] .... the possible existence of some form of space angels or demons in the form of the phantoms. I felt that was interesting, but right when I was getting invested with them, they didn't really go anywhere else with them as the main story just ended. That was disappointing.

[@marklamutt]

Congrats on the new job Lone! That's awesome news! And I wish you the best wth the family issues. I hope they resolve for you in the best way possible. Have missed your uploads, but absolutely understandable.

[@LoneVaultWanderer]

Thank you so much brother 🙏🏼

[@davegordon8602]

Glad you’re doing well, sorry we won’t be seeing as much of you

[@LoneVaultWanderer]

Thanks Dave

[@meko264]

I'm not going to give up on Starfield just yet. I'm banking on the Starborn DLC bringing in new gameplay mechanics.

[@adrianalicea6704]

what Starborn DLC??

[@KD--nz4ck]

@@meko264 lmao your cope is strong. Imma wait A WHOLE YEAR AGAIN for them to turn my expectation around 🤣💀🪦

[@KD--nz4ck]

@@adrianalicea6704it’s a figment of his imagination

[@baitposter]

Shattered Space should have been that DLC BGS already blew their best chance, and they've lost their best writers over the years, and kept their very worst (Emil "Nate is a war criminal" Pagliarulo). I gave up, and now I'm enjoying Remnant 2's latest sci-fi DLC

[@meko264]

@@adrianalicea6704 - That was the name of the patent leak. Bethesda said they wanted to do a new expansion annually.

[@christianludvigsen8770]

When I first played the game and my character got lung damage from walking through some toxic gas while wearing a full spacesuit, I knew I was in for a special experience.

[@armandoriosfragoso6726]

Liking Starfield base game but disliking Shattered Space makes 0 sense to me. Did you ran out of coping juice ? Because they're literally the same, in fact, Shattered Space is the most feature complete section in Starfield, it has a vehicle, bugfixes, and a hand-crafted world, BGS fans makes 0 sense, Shattered Space is literally the best Starfield has to offer. You are all are stuck at 12. It makes me mad listening to their nonsensical rethoric. This is the game you deserve after years of reinforcing clown behaviour from Bethesda. Put on your clown nose and enjoy the circus, it was made for you.

[@AIIEYESONME]

This KZbinr was literally a paid shill for Bethesda, He dropped his subs in a heartbeat to go be some community hype manager marketing shill for Bethesda in AU. Once they fired him, he lone Wandered back to KZbin to build off of Bethesda's fanbase and bet his channel heavily on their newest game. So he was all glowing and positive. Now after a year and these Bethesda grifters are seeing little to no return, they're all turning on Bethesda, even Juice and Matty. And they have built Mansions from sucking off Bethesda's dick Ofc NOW a year later this Lonely Vault Dude is all erm, uhh, ahh, ummm, yeeaahhaauuhhumm welp this is awkward, I dunno what's happened to me?? Derp.. Just tell me what to say to keep y'all subscribed???😂😂 Disingenuous intentions are so easy to read when you know what to pick up on.

[@MsRafaelRGO]

I can't get over the fact that in this game there is not a simple peace of long distance communication...none...it's amazing! a game that takes place in a space future, and if u want to talk to your mother, you have to jump on a space shit, travel 4 solar systems to than find out your mother isn't home....This game is next level idiotic.

[@daywaster1382]

Lone... Thank you for not shilling for this entirely. I'm happy to see an on-brand channel waking up, at least a little.

[@xathlak]

The reason what she said was generic is because you can go there before she tells you that she's part of house Va'ruun. They should have given her different lines depending on whether you've progressed that far with her or not.

[@wolfwing1]

long dialogue is kinda what killed base starfield for me. You had 3 really shitty long boring quests back to bck and a lot of talking or reading. First you have the quest to buy the artifact, this at least has some combat, but is mostly just talking and walking, the one interesting part breaking out is ruined by being told how to escape without letting us figure it out, the sale was shitty as it's supposedly 3 ways to complete, but it's 2 ways to give the exact same answer, "We have done X, your better off taking the deal and leaving." or the third one wich is worse, where your give the same answer as above, but treated like a baby for wanting to kill the guy. Then you have the 3 groups quest, talk talk talk talk, walk around, talk talk talk, walk around then talking and instead of trying to solve the quest, your given the answer like babies first quest. Then you have the go find the wanderrs home wich again is a lot of walking, but instead of talking you read. It was so stupid, can't remember if these 3 were all at once, or if some quests between, but doing them all in a row one after the other with only break being space travel and maybe a quest, so I could beat the game in a day really just made them worse. Least in skyrim/fallout 3 unless rushing through the main quest you can go kill enemies along the way, but here the lack of exploration kills that. There was no motivation to have fun elswhere, as there wasn't any beyond more quests, and if they were as bad didn't feel worth it. Starfield feels like they took out all the good stuff, "loot, exploration, fun features." and just left in all the stuff people hated. Even fallout 76 and 4 for their issues were fun places to explore and find cool little atmospheric stories and places to loot.

[@ThrobbGoblin]

This was originally a part of the base game, and they cut it to sell the Ultimate Edition with access to the "EXCITING, FRESH DLC (*coming a full year after launch)!"

[@ramen_guru]

About the melee ratio drops, they said combat would be closer in Shattered Space, so I think that was intentional

[@TTVTheDoctorJay]

At 17:53. I use mods that help me modify my legendary weapons to how I like them. And loot all misc items because I use the galactic recycler mod that turns them into resources to modify weapons, clothes, and armor. I use about 111 mods lol. I literally made the game the way I want it. and I personally feel Thats what Todd and the devs intended. Make it your own. :)

[@armandoriosfragoso6726]

Clown

[@TTVTheDoctorJay]

@@armandoriosfragoso6726 troll

[@Lucy-lx3dn]

if you need to build the game to play it, maybe the game wasn't good to begin with.

[@TTVTheDoctorJay]

@@Lucy-lx3dn Nope. It just enhances the game. Todd in an interview said that this game was meant to be a modders paradise.

[@armandoriosfragoso6726]

@@TTVTheDoctorJay put on the nose and enjoy the circus.

[@Pook500]

This video just reminded me to free up hard drive space by uninstalling Starfield. I wanted to love it.

[@JayMaverick]

Starfield is okay, as long as you've never played anything but Bethesda games. This expansion is okay, as long as you only compare it to Starfield. Wild stuff, man.

[@js100serch]

Remember guys, Nintendo made Zelda Majora's Mask in one year.

[@gamewizard1760]

I always knew Starfield was going to be bad. Too much hype, especially surrounding the graphics, and too much development time. Those two things usually add up to a buggy mess, that's going to take years to fix. Now they've come out with a $30 expansion, that's only worth, maybe, $5. 4 hours of playable content, with nothing else new added to the game, feels like buying the horse armor for Oblivion. It's cool for about 30 seconds, until you realize it adds nothing to gameplay, only a reskin for your horse.

[@StoneAgeWarfare]

I feel like you didn't play the DLC judging by this comment. Too many giveaways here.

[@dbozed4952]

Referring to the fang armor and weapon. You can acquire the fang armor and weapon. You have to go to the tomb of the fang, start the quest after you gather the peace's and turn in quest you have to persuade the father. After Maaylia Hajtal is a random spawn at Va'ruun camp site where you terminate her and get the fang set

[@whogon]

I can't get over him saying in the SAME paragraph, that he was "crying" & was "touched"

[@shaquillemartin5674]

Based on the positioning of everything on the map it looks like this faction questline was suppose to be in the base game they didn’t have enough time to implement it so they decided to package as dlc to buy upfront. The adding the hand crafted locations was placed there because of bad feed back from the fans. It’s sad because this literally was suppose to be part of the game from start. This is a slap to the face sadly.

[@KingpinLuther]

When Lone is telling you a Bethesda product is not great, you know it's not great.

[@flightlessbird2281]

One of the critical failures of Stanfield is the "writer' Emil who got paid 10mil to spend 10 days to compile the chatGPT trash he generated.

[@metallicaaa]

It was tough to finish it, only played it since it was preordered, finished & deleted the game right after.

[@mickey3448]

Was let down by the lack of meaningful choices regarding House Ma'leen, especially given that many important decisions in side quests and even main quest at the end have a great deal to do with why the house went into exile and became the Zealots. Without spoilers, just saying we should be able to choose Ma'leen for things and be able to have more consequential choices regarding them specifically toward the end of the main quest.

[@kableguy8975]

The end of the main quest aggravated me the most. I thought we were going to release all this evil upon the systems with the evil choice, then they force you to shut it down and kill the guy, and it really aggravated me.

[@Just_George7]

Theres a random encounter at certain locations with the woman you give the fang armour and weapon to. Kill her and you can take them for yourself.

[@sanholo2483]

30 euros for a bunch of cut content with a makeup layer? Weapons that are a combination of skins of already existing ones? Not even a new ship at the end or new ship parts? Story that has the potential for a cool bad ending only to cancel it right away and then making you choose if you want a good or bad ending in a boring dialogue with three other charachters? Who is in charge of quest design in bethesda?

[@-drey]

legacy of the fang - after you finish the quest you get a new random encounter on unexplored locations with that lady wearing it. save 300m before going to the location (for reroll, until you get the right event) ko the lady, get the armor

[@marconihimself]

Always nice to see a lone video popping up. People like to give bethesda flack for the creation engine and call it outdated. I really think that if the writing was good everything else would click and we wouldnt have conversations such as these so frequently. Take a game like BG3 (minor spoilers for act 3): The "evil" choices you can make in act 3 are mostly convenient ways - shortcuts - to achieve your end goal, while the "good" choices are the ones which involve careful planning to outsmart the villains without killing too many innocent people in the process, because at that point in the story you are on a proverbial leash. Its frankly weird how a d&d game out of all franchises handle this type of mature choice and consequence better than most other games in the market, specially considering d&d is often regarded as the entry level tabletop game for people that like hitting stuff. Thats the kind of scripts I daydream seeing in a bethesda game, because the framework the game is built upon could easily allow for that.

[@ashroskell]

The fundamental issue with both the base game and the dlc is the writing. They did it all bass-ackwards. They wanted to create this, “1,000,” planets and built a world without knowing, “who,” was going to be IN IT. And they even gave up on that in the end, when they ran up against the enormous technical difficulties, hence the loading-screens-hell we got instead. You’re supposed to have a great story that you want to tell! In a world populated with great characters, a cool protagonist and excellent villains with a legit weed up their butts! People get hooked on NARRATIVES. It’s how the brain is wired, as part of our evolution. We survive by gossiping, sharing, “stories,” about people in our communities, telling our own story and bonding within these groups. Stories are hard wired into our very DNA! The great games get this concept, where people want to stay in the, “world,” and keep playing, because there are real stakes at play. Look at John Marston and Arthur Morgan in Red Dead? Look at Geralt in The Witcher? V in Cyberpunk? The Tarnished in Elden Ring? Back when Rockstar cared about Red Dead, their DLC was Undead Nightmare. Unforgettably funny, irreverent, yet still scary and a joy to play! The Witcher gave us Blood And Wine AND Hearts Of Stone! Massive geographical expansions of Geralt’s physical world, built AROUND NEW CHARACTERS to tell their STORIES. Phantom Liberty! Again, opening up a whole new area of the city as the BACKDROP for the new CHARACTERS in which to tell their STORIES! Shadow Of The Erdtree is considered one of the best DLC’s ever made! Compare and contrast. And to those who say it’s about budgets or time I offer you Exhibit A) Robocop in Robocop: Rogue City. A gripping protagonist, at once both terrifying and cool AF. That game had a lot of jank in it and the facial animations were only moderately better than the cruel affliction of Zombie-Eyed-Resting-Face that Bethesda decided was, “good enough,” for a triple A experience. Robocop is a double A game with a quadruple A experience for fans of the original movies, or just people looking for a fun shoot ‘em up. And the reason it’s so good is because the makers of that game RESPECT the player’s time, RESPECT (and clearly LOVE) the source material and, above all else, had a great STORY to tell! A story that is not childishly predictable; not insulting to the intelligence of the gamer; not offensively trying to be, “inoffensive,” and with plotting and characters that make perfect sense in that world. The internal logic is not broken by people doing irrational things just to keep the quests intact. You don’t find yourself asking questions all the time like, “Why haven’t you even BOTHERED to explore your own homeworld if you’re all meant to be the universe’s greatest explorers?”!!! If you don’t have the story to tell, you don’t have a video game. Not in this genre, at any rate. And the, “writers,” of this game NEVER grasped that. Emil Pagliarulo said as much in that infamous Power Point presentation he gave, in which he said words to the effect of, “Why bother with plot, quests and story, when players will spend 20 hours building the perfect base, or hunting for special equipment?” He was referring to the Fallout franchise at that time, but it’s obvious he believed people would be doing that in Starfield. Hence the mechanics for base building, which everyone ignores! I have uninstalled the game and regret losing valuable time to this franchise, which I honestly feel is way more cynical and exploitative than people credit it as. You touched briefly on the cost of the DLC and the Creation Club nonsense. But that should be a source of public outcry! We’re normalising this exploitation because it’s relentless and we just don’t have the collective energy to fight it off! I hope Starfield fails and flops completely because that’s what it deserves. But, if video gaming culture has taught me anything, as Clint Eastwood put it in Unforgiven, “Deserve’s got nothin’ to do with it.” ‘Blam!’

[@giantpunda2911]

For me, Shattered Space was Bethesda opportunity to show that they can turn things around. They clearly cannot. This is literally the best that they can do. I'd pretty much done spending money on Bethesda. Certainly full price. Given how Emil's recent response on Twitter regarding Shattered Space feedback, there is absolutely zero hope of the studio improving without at least his removal from the company. Expect more of the same middling content for future Starfield DLC and TES:VI.

[@BadAirQuality]

I’m happy I’m not the only one still trying so hard to be loyal to a company that shaped my world and influenced my life. But damn it’s hard

[@matthewatteberry8711]

Before the expansion, the game broke me when I came across the same facility three times in a row on three different planets in different systems. Everything was identical. My immersion was broken. On top of that, I was actually showing it off to my cousin when this happened. I went to three random locations and was just disappointed. This was not the only thing. It was just the final straw. Thanks for the video. I came away with a similar opinion.

[@andreasplosky8516]

"Starfield: Shattered Space Broke Me." I was already broken by the insane repetitiveness of the vanilla game. Not even when hell freezes over will I spend a dime on anything Bethesda vomits out ever again. Fix the broken foundation of Starfield first.

[@PariahPsypomp6775]

As someone who loved Morrowind, I really enjoy Starfield and Shattered Space. Sure, it doesn't compete with games like Cyberpunk but I don't want it to. I enjoy the experience Bethesda keeps providing. If they "changed with the times" I'd stop playing their games.

[@pmpowalisz]

How is 15 hours of game time not worth a $30 price tag? There were some popular triple A games that mostly have that runtime.

[@Starfield_Eclipse]

I am about 20 hours in and I am really enjoying it. The side quests are very well designed. I would like some new ships and ship parts but overall very happy with this DLC. Hope future DLCs are done in this format.

[@gabopenav]

Dude you character model, it's you!!!

[@LoneVaultWanderer]

Lmao I tried my best!

[@ryanmsalisbury5499]

When I think about Dazra...what does that have to do with Shattered Space? Space would denote not on the planet. Maybe the original DLC was not Dazra but a different faction.

[@philipajfry]

If you liked Starfield - then it's a good game with a whole faction intentionally absent. That makes the game 1 worse, and 2 $100. Imagine if the institute was $30? Imagine if the Empire was $30? Buncha bs.

[@shapeshift13]

I enjoy starfield a lot but playing older stuff especially NV, made me realize how insanely shallow the dialogue and world building are.

[@theroguerider]

It’s almost like if you let a development studio produce games for DECADES that are glitchy and buggy, and people just call it the “charm” of their games, they will continue to produce garbage and not learn a damn thing from its customer base… go figure.

[@510DeshawnPlays]

17:48 I’ll make a mod for that this week

[@dylanfilby4424]

Enjoy your new job, Lone and focus on that! Love just hearing discussions from you even if they’re not scripted or have heavy editing

[@TTVTheDoctorJay]

I thoroughly enjoyed the DLC. Finished it in about 41 hrs. I did all main and side quests and activities. I ventured to all of the POIs. I loved the storyline. But I love a deep story with several options for dialogue. The characters were cool with awesome tattoos and accents. I liked the weapons and armor/clothes even though people griped about recolors. It's nothing new. I loved the music as well. I gave it an 8.5/10. I had a few performance issues on Series X. I don't get the hate.

[@gamewizard1760]

It took you 41 hours to finish 4 hours of new content? 😂

[@mara_jade021]

​@@gamewizard1760 Yes, It has far more 4 hours of content. If you play the game and read and explore. Who says it is 4 hours uses cheats on easy and doesn't read or do any side quest.

[@TTVTheDoctorJay]

@@gamewizard1760 wah wah wah wah

[@slipstream7324]

yeah but $30 worth?

[@TTVTheDoctorJay]

@@slipstream7324 41 hrs of content (for me) / 26.99 = 0.67 cents/hr played so yes it was worth it to me. :)

[@Nord_Meadly]

My main issue is there is no missions to replay to stay on varuun Kai once you do the main and side quests your pretty much done. I’m upset that once I started doing the quests it only took me a day to complete everything far harbor had a lot more to do so them claiming this dlc was just as big is a flat out lie, I like this game but I’m finding myself relying on mods to keep myself immersed and having fun I’m basically turning it into a different game and that’s a shame.

[@Player1LoneWolf]

Thank you for not rushing this like other KZbinrs did. I respect a good honest review.

[@Joseph-wh5of]

The DLC, in my opinion, is a solid 7 out of 10. But I'm just very confused about what people thought this DLC was going to be. It's not going to rewrite the entire game. Elden Rings DLC is just more of Elden Ring, Phantom Liberty is just more of cyberpunk, and shattered space is more of Starfield. Did people expect this to be a brand new game?

[@gamewizard1760]

Not only is the expansion garbage, so is Starfield. Bethesda should keep their focus on Elder Scrolls and Fallout (not including Fallout 76). They are losing their way, horribly.

[@nickstark8479]

​@gamewizard1760 Don't know about that. I liked what they were reaching for and the lore was cool with starfield... but the execution wasn't there. Felt like they wanted to make the game much bigger than it ended up feeling, which was empty and devoid if life - not literal life, but the characters themselves feeling lifeless

[@sw-gs]

@@gamewizard1760 Bethesda killed Starfield and Fallout. They gave license to ZENIMAX ONLINE who KILLED entire lore of The Elder Scrolls.

[@wdf70]

Considering from Bethesda from the past we were given: Shivering Isles, Mournhold, Solstheim, Dragonborn, Point Lookout, The Pitt, All of the New Vegas DLC (even though that wasn't Bethesda) and Far Harbor. This is just an absolute disgrace from this company. If all they wanted was a story expansion, they should have just released it as a free content drop. Bethesda DLC and Expansions are "more of the game," yes. But they always added something new and fresh to the game. New interesting characters, cool weapons and armor in droves new locations to explore and discover and sometimes a story that adds something to the game or wraps up a loose end in a character's story. Shattered Space only does 2 of those things in characters who aren't very interesting and locations that are just filled with generic pirates that shouldn't be there in the first place. The story is disconnected from the main game because there is no story in the main game. And the one character they could have had a loose end with, (Andreja) doesn't offer ANY quests or colorful commentary on her own faction's misfortune. Only a few occasional quips that nobody else even talks about ort she gets mildly upset with you if you choose the ending that screws over Va'ruun. Nobody wants to pay 30$ for lazy game design in an already lazily designed game.

[@dannygleason5912]

I expected new game mechanics. Longer to complete, more space ship habs too. New companion to the level of the main 4. Any of that. Andreja having more impact, like nick valentine in far harbor. It took them 1 year to come out with this, they charged $30, and it has the least value for the money charged. I think Bethesda takes no head of the feedback, in fact they actually gaslight over it with the steam review responses. Instead they trudge along doing “their own thing” and losing fans.

[@Salvadorrius]

Starfield is soulless. very weird, it could have been entirely AI made BTW, everything is procedural and dull

[@riothead1240]

This dlc felt like a paid mod. Im so scared for ES6 and FO5. This is not a good sign of things to come. Too bad Todd is like that ex girlfriend I cant quit.

[@kalashnikovbob355]

Bethesda needs a complete restructure at this point if they want to survive. Emil should have been fired long ago, along with a lot of other people. Now that bgs is union they're never getting rid of those people.

[@MU-oi1su]

Fallout 4 is saved by the modding community. Everything after that is just confirmation that Bethesda can't make fuckall worth playing.

[@deltadragon117]

Also just addressing some mistakes in this video: There is unique weapons in both base game Starfield and the DLC, although they are already existing weapons with unique names/effects/skins, and in the DLC there’s only 2 with 1 only being obtainable after completing the main story and the other requiring you to get a specific ending in a sidequest and then kill a named NPC The DLC being dialogue heavy isn’t really unique to this DLC, you mentioned you haven’t played the main game in a while but the amount of dialogue in Shattered Space isn’t really any different to the main game And yes, you can get the heirlooms in the Fang quest although personally I think expecting the game to give them to you upon completion considering the plot of that quest would defeat the entire purpose of that story.