Lack of graphics settings aren’t why I stopped playing. It’s the game mechanics. The game isn’t that fun for two major immersion breaking reasons.
- Loading screens. So many loading screens. Just reminds me I’m using software instead of being in a universe.
- Over reliance on fast travel. Yeah, space is boring. But why have a space setting at all if we are going to skip through it? Why bother building custom ships if there are no real challenges to overcome with them because spending time in space is not necessary at all ? Worse, it’s a bad experience because of the loading screens.
There should be a happy medium. I haven’t played Elite Dangerous in a year because I’m 50 jumps away from where I need to go, which means like 3 hours of nothing but travel. But the realism is out of this world. This Starfield thing of never needing to fly is too far in the other direction. I think a happy medium would be a system like Elite Dangerous, but if you need to travel more than a couple of systems over, have a long distance jump gate or something like that, and maybe autopilot. Eve online has jump gates and autopilot, but it can still take hours to cross the universe. It’s more entertaining to have a quick travel option for those scenarios. Eve has wormhole systems that will let you cross the entire universe in a few jumps, but finding those connections will take longer than just flying directly, unless you’re in a huge wormhole corporation that uses 3rd party tools to map all of the wormhole connections to known space.
Why doesn’t Elite let you travel offline? Like, set the destination, close the game, and reopen it 3h later.
I’m not sure. I guess because they go hard in the simulation aspect of the game. Although if we’re being realistic, it’s unrealistic that you’d have an interstellar space ship without an autopilot. I read that there are mods to enable autopilot, but I also read they can get your account banned, so I stopped looking into them.
Because they decided to make the game always online in a persistent galaxy so the possibility a ganker finds has to be respected.
Given every single system in Starfield is already explored and built on, I think they should have just given up on the jump system and gone with a gate system like Freelancer or the X series. You get to fly to every point without menus while still being time efficient. The reason they didn’t go with this is presumably because of the supposed “exploring the unknown” angle, but you never explore anywhere new in Starfield anyway.
I’m 50 jumps away from where I need to go, which means like 3 hours of nothing but travel
If you upgrade your fuel scoop, that’ll cut down your time severely. I can do about 30 jumps an hour with my Krait Phantom. Refuels before my FSD is even cooled down.
I think the X-Series did this really well
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It’s a lot of fun to drive around in GTA 5 though
You see this issue when one of your core game loop isn’t enjoyable. It happens a lot in games, and you notice it if a game gives you and item or ability to play the game less.
This can be okay if this item comes in just as that loop gets boring (like you unlock special flash grab drives part way through the game). But if they let you fast travel from the beginning the likely case is that they found the whole space travel boring and they ended up providing a way around it.
Which leaves people asking “why’d you bother adding it in there”
Sigh. All these publishers are doing by rushing games out the door is training future buyers to not want to buy games on release.
Sales figures keep going up so why would they wait?
Exactly. It was on games pass and it was still the most profitable release Bethesda has ever had. Why put in real effort when you don’t have to?
Xbox’s M.O.
People are even paying more to play it early, what are you talking about.
There’s always a disconnect between gaming communities and reality.
Like how many boycotts did we have, and then the sales figures say differently?
So does this mean the game is finally ready for me to buy? Just waiting on a Steam sale and I’ll finally get to play this. Bugs or not, I’m not paying $70 for a base video game.
So does this mean the game is finally ready for me to buy?
Nope. Worth waiting for a few more fixes and proper mod support.
Yep, as someone who beat it several times, I agree with this. Its a great game, but is unpolished at launch like any bethesda game, 5 years from now it will have memorable gamer cultural references and a consistent modding/playerbase.
With the love of using the game engine to create entirely new games that bethesda fans have, I’m basically expecting a Star Wars/Star Trek total overhaul mod within the next decade.
The playerbase already dipped below Skyrim on steam. I really doubt that this game will have the usual Bethesda longevity.
While that’s definitely possible, Bethesda games always take unpredictable trajectories.
I wouldn’t take it dipping below their most beloved game in player count as it being a flop just yet.
Wow, I consider a game “personally great” if I like it enough to completely finish once.
Id wait till post expansion and creation kit imo.
Reletively speaking starfield is already a lot less buggy then other Bethesda game studio titles. Its just matter of fixing parts of the game some users didnt like.
I doubt a patch nor mod support will motivate me to play this game. This is the most empty Bethesda game they’ve released when they could’ve had something special if they had any ambition.
Think I’ll keep waiting a bit more. Give great mods time to get in.
But Todd told me it was optimized!
Did they finally release modding tools? Bethesda games without mods are such a slog and Starfield was worse than any previous one.
The game we should have had at launch is one where my >100h save wouldn’t make it crash on load.
Menus the game?
