Starfield Pre-Release Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[N'wah]

STOP RIGHT THERE CRIMINAL SCUM

It's like we are stuck in a time-loop

Even have the bullet sponge enemies that take an entire clip fired at point-blank range to take down.

 

[Zeriel]

The tiles being 99% full of nothing or repetitive bullshit will be more annoying.

Bethesda could've very easily scaled the worlds to be more small (Fallout 4/Fallout 76 world scale) and have more quantity and quality content, it's never "All empty" or "not empty but small as a box"

Sure, but the whole reason companies go after this sort of thing is to advertise "INFINITE exploration!", just like the point of Radiant quests was for Todd to be able to say "You can play Skyrim forever!".

 

[Zombra]

Links to PDFs of all Backgrounds, Traits, and Skills full text and descriptions transcribed by a true hero

 

[Gargaune]

Even have the bullet sponge enemies that take an entire clip fired at point-blank range to take down.

Well, looks I'll have to wait for balance mods to come out before I play.

 

[Ryzer]

90% of the 1000+ planets in Starfield will have no life, according to Todd Howard​

https://www.videogamer.com/news/90-of-1000-planets-starfield-no-life/

Todd howard wants to immerse the players into codexer's life, unbelievable!

 

[Modron]

In a space exploration game, you cannot fully explore the planets you find in space.

Did you fully expect to be able to spend years in real time circumventing a planetoid? Question for science nerds if an asteroid was small enough you could pick a direction start walking and end up where you started in 15 minutes or less would it have enough gravity that if you jumped you could safely expect to not become untethered from the rock?

 

[racofer]

90% of the 1000+ planets in Starfield will have no life, according to Todd Howard​

https://www.videogamer.com/news/90-of-1000-planets-starfield-no-life/

Todd howard wants to immerse the players into codexer's life, unbelievable!

Todd left those planets there so that modders can populate them, obviously.

 

[racofer]

Question for science nerds if an asteroid was small enough you could pick a direction start walking and end up where you started in 15 minutes or less would it have enough gravity that if you jumped you could safely expect to not become untethered from the rock?

Depends on its mass, not its size.

Are we talking an earth-like composition or a fragment from a neutron star?

 

[Gargaune]

IF I COULD TURN THE PAGE

 

[Child of Malkav]

STOP RIGHT THERE CRIMINAL SCUM

That FOV....Jesus Christ!

 

[Crispy]

90% of the 1000+ planets in Starfield will have no life, according to Todd Howard​

I don't have a problem with this at all.

Only about 10% of the planets in our own solar system have life so it seems about right to me.

 

[ferratilis]

Source: a short man wearing a mustache and dark sunglasses, said his name was Rodd Howard.
https://insider-gaming.com/bethesda-bugs-game-sources/

STARFIELD IS BETHESDA’S LEAST BUGGIEST GAME TO DATE, SAY SOURCES​

With Starfield in the hands of media, creators, and those fortunate enough to get the game early by other means, there’s been one question looming over me for months – Is Starfield full of bugs?
In the past, we’ve all been accustomed to, and memed about the fact that Bethesda is known for its buggy games, but is Starfield going to break that cycle? Fortunately, I’ve been speaking to several people who have been playing the game for over a week now to get the answer.
Our first public comment about Starfield being a polished game came from journalist Tyler McVicker, who’s currently under an embargo for the title. Despite being under the embargo, McVicker took to Discord to say, “Also, 15 hours in and not a single bug”.
Taking one person’s comments at face value is never enough, so I reached out to my contacts to delve a little deeper.
Speaking with several sources under the condition of anonymity who are currently under embargo and couldn’t speak publically about the game, McVicker’s comment is the same sentiment given by everyone I’ve spoken to. Five individuals, who have a varying amount of time put in the game have all said that the amount of bugs they’ve experienced can be counted on one hand. In fact, most said one or two at most, with everyone I spoke to having put dozens of hours into the game. In addition, it was also said that almost all the bugs that were found have already been listed to be fixed in the Starfield Day 1 patch.
Admittingly though, even with speaking with five individuals, it’s still a small pool of opinions in the grand scheme of things. Public perception will always be different, but in my opinion, hearing the behind-the-scenes buzz and positivity of the game is a very strong encouraging sign. Whether or not public opinion will be different remains to be seen, but hey, I guess we’ll have to wait another 5 or so days.
In June, Microsoft Game Studios head Matt Booty took to a Giant Bomb stream to speak on Starfield bugs and said, “Working with Todd and the team, I see bug counts and, just by the numbers, if it shipped today, this would have the fewest bugs any Bethesda game ever shipped with.” It’s a bold statement, but from what we’ve been able to gather it seems entirely accurate. But let’s be clear – Starfield will have bugs. All games do. But a Bethesda game with as few bugs as possible sounds like a match made in heaven.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

Question for science nerds if an asteroid was small enough you could pick a direction start walking and end up where you started in 15 minutes or less would it have enough gravity that if you jumped you could safely expect to not become untethered from the rock?

too small to have any proper gravity field. consider the moon, almost 11000 km circumference, has barely 0.16g.

 

[Akachi]

Infinitron why is this game not in the Space Games subforum when its description says anything in space goes there because space > all? Starfield is obviously no RPG, but a Space Game.

 

[Crispy]

Infinitron why is this game not in the Space Games subforum when its description says anything in space goes there because space > all? Starfield is obviously no RPG, but a Space Game.

Between this post and reporting the thread (lol) I think you've made your point.

 

[Elthosian]

In a space exploration game, you cannot fully explore the planets you find in space.

Did you fully expect to be able to spend years in real time circumventing a planetoid? Question for science nerds if an asteroid was small enough you could pick a direction start walking and end up where you started in 15 minutes or less would it have enough gravity that if you jumped you could safely expect to not become untethered from the rock?

I think it was the right call. It's feasible even for Bethesda, but I doubt it would have been worth the effort. 99.9% of the people that would use such a feature would have been streamers doing the 'let's go across the planet' meme.

 

[Late Bloomer]

No doubt this will be taken down soon, but someone put in fast forward, himself (or yanked it from somewhere else) running to the end of the invisible barrier.

 

[Fedora Master]

Infinitron why is this game not in the Space Games subforum when its description says anything in space goes there because space > all? Starfield is obviously no RPG, but a Space Game.

The subforums exist to memoryhole irrelevant games.

 

[Elthosian]

No doubt this will be taken down soon, but someone put in fast forward, himself running to the end of the invisible barrier.

It's like 30-50 minutes for Skyrim, so 20 minutes (assuming he landed at the middle) per bounding box sounds solid. I don't expect to spend more than half an hour in any areas without hand-crafted content. My only gripe is that this makes vehicles (which I only wanted for funsies; don't need them to fit well within the systems) completely redundant and not likely to be added at any point, but eh, I can live with that.

 

[Just Locus]

Just to let everyone know.

 

[Akachi]

It's like 30-50 minutes for Skyrim, so 20 minutes (assuming he landed at the middle) per bounding box sounds solid. I don't expect to spend more than half an hour in any areas without hand-crafted content. My only gripe is that this makes vehicles (which I only wanted for funsies; don't need them to fit well within the systems) completely redundant and not likely to be added at any point, but eh, I can live with that.

The lack of vehicles is really jarring. The idea of having to run around every alien planet on foot is ridiculous, and watching someone actually do it in that video really proves the point. To Todd, it's apparently plausible to be capable of interstellar flight without having a vehicle of any kind to actually explore other worlds with. I assume the lack of vehicles also means any of the more exotic or less hospitable planets are all off the table by default, how are you supposed to get around any planet that's not a rocky planet with a surface crust, for one? Really lame.

 

[Butter]

Who knew that the most futuristic part of Firefly was riding horses on a planet?

 

[Gargaune]

Source: a short man wearing a mustache and dark sunglasses, said his name was Rodd Howard.
https://insider-gaming.com/bethesda-bugs-game-sources/

STARFIELD IS BETHESDA’S LEAST BUGGIEST GAME TO DATE, SAY SOURCES​

With Starfield in the hands of media, creators, and those fortunate enough to get the game early by other means, there’s been one question looming over me for months – Is Starfield full of bugs?
In the past, we’ve all been accustomed to, and memed about the fact that Bethesda is known for its buggy games, but is Starfield going to break that cycle? Fortunately, I’ve been speaking to several people who have been playing the game for over a week now to get the answer.
Our first public comment about Starfield being a polished game came from journalist Tyler McVicker, who’s currently under an embargo for the title. Despite being under the embargo, McVicker took to Discord to say, “Also, 15 hours in and not a single bug”.
Taking one person’s comments at face value is never enough, so I reached out to my contacts to delve a little deeper.
Speaking with several sources under the condition of anonymity who are currently under embargo and couldn’t speak publically about the game, McVicker’s comment is the same sentiment given by everyone I’ve spoken to. Five individuals, who have a varying amount of time put in the game have all said that the amount of bugs they’ve experienced can be counted on one hand. In fact, most said one or two at most, with everyone I spoke to having put dozens of hours into the game. In addition, it was also said that almost all the bugs that were found have already been listed to be fixed in the Starfield Day 1 patch.
Admittingly though, even with speaking with five individuals, it’s still a small pool of opinions in the grand scheme of things. Public perception will always be different, but in my opinion, hearing the behind-the-scenes buzz and positivity of the game is a very strong encouraging sign. Whether or not public opinion will be different remains to be seen, but hey, I guess we’ll have to wait another 5 or so days.
In June, Microsoft Game Studios head Matt Booty took to a Giant Bomb stream to speak on Starfield bugs and said, “Working with Todd and the team, I see bug counts and, just by the numbers, if it shipped today, this would have the fewest bugs any Bethesda game ever shipped with.” It’s a bold statement, but from what we’ve been able to gather it seems entirely accurate. But let’s be clear – Starfield will have bugs. All games do. But a Bethesda game with as few bugs as possible sounds like a match made in heaven.

An article about Bethesda's "least buggy game" with a bug in its title. Impressive, as failures go.

 

[Zombra]

Codex: I'm too cool for walking simulators

also Codex: I'm so very angry that I can't walk a straight line for 40 minutes on an empty planet without a load screen. because that's what I really wanted to do in this game

 

[N'wah]

It matters not whether you should but whether you can.

Now excuse me while I enjoy this seventy-hour playlist of somebody trekking across Daggerfall.