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

[Oracscube]

The encounter at 8.33 made me laugh...proof the pilot ai is awesome, he/she/they, knew it was time to leave.

 

[anvi]

That video reminds me of Crysis.

 

[Reinhardt]

so now this thread went from negros staring down passing wypepo to romances, just like every thread do. gamer is thirsty. retards ranting about developers not listening to customers are, well, retarded. developers know their potential customers too well.
that's why swen game was doomed from the start. one degenerate bear scene and few average to ugly bitches can't win against incoming avalanche of alien spiders and top models orgy mods.

 

[Crispy]

This dude who calls himself PureDark came out with a DLSS3 / framegen mod for Starfield a couple of days ago, I just discovered it.

Once again, typical of Bethesda, it took someone who actually knows what they're doing to fix their game.

Just Google "puredark starfield framegen mod" to get started. You're going to need a 4000-series card and you'll have to pay the guy $5.00 on his Patreon, but it's an absolute miracle of a performance fix.

I'm now sustaining over 120fps in New Atlantis with the Ultra preset. Zero image quality degradation, and no input lag that I can detect. Sweet.

WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU, TODD? FUCK!

PM me if you want to try this and need a hand figuring it out.

 

[Kiste]

Jesus fucking Christ, the writing in this game...

Doing the Freestar Rangers quest line. You need to find someone who is a patient at the hospital space station. The patient, a hacker, checked in with a wrong name and also manipulated the computer records.

First of all, how difficult can it be to find a female hacker patient who had an emergency operation and now requires long-term care on a space station with like 15 people on it? Anyway, in order to find out what's going on, you can investigate the computer network for clues.

You log into the terminal and you get the option to open the process list, i.e. the fucking task manager. There is a conspicuous process named "Disruptor Mk IV", because this military superhacker apparently could not camouflage his malware process as something that looks even remotely legit. No, it has to be "Disruptor Mk IV". It's also the only process marked as "unknown", as if "Disrupter Mk IV" didn't make it clear enough. But then again, Bethestards are the target audience, so better make sure things are very, very clear.

Even better, the malware process can be queried. The malware then tells you the name of who installed it, in addition to useful information like "Patient, V.I.P. wing". Isn't that convenient?

Who writes this stupid shit?

Edit:

It gets even better. Once you enter the VIP wing, the evil hax0r lady is gone. She rigged a security turret, killed the nurse and put a mine in her room and then fled the station. Fortunately for us, she left behind a Data Slate with correspondence on it that tell us exactly where she went.

Oh, and even though there is a bloody corpse in the VIP wing and a fucking mine exploded (on a space station!), nobody on the station appears to recognize what just happened in the VIP wing. There is zero reactivity to the events of that quest chain from anyone else in that location.

 

[tastywaffles]

spicy

Mechs should have been the new power armor.

 

[Reinhardt]

Jesus fucking Christ, the writing in this game...

Doing the Freestar Rangers quest line. You need to find someone who is a patient at the hospital space station. The patient, a hacker, checked in with a wrong name and also manipulated the computer records.

First of all, how difficult can it be to find a female hacker patient who had an emergency operation and now requires long-term care on a space station with like 15 people on it? Anyway, in order to find out what's going on, you can investigate the computer network for clues.

You log into the terminal and you get the option to open the process list, i.e. the fucking task manager. There is a conspicuous process named "Disruptor Mk IV", because this military superhacker apparently could not camouflage his malware process as something that looks even remotely legit. No, it has to be "Disruptor Mk IV". It's also the only process marked as "unknown", as if "Disrupter Mk IV" didn't make it clear enough. But then again, Bethestards are the target audience, so better make sure things are very, very clear.

Even better, the malware process can be queried. The malware then tells you the name of who installed it, in addition to useful information like "Patient, V.I.P. wing". Isn't that convenient?

Who writes this stupid shit?

how it's any better than murder investigation when you can just talk to the dead?

 

[Konjad]

Still can't believe they released a game like this without any ground vehicles. No bullshit in-setting explanation as far as I can tell either, Todd just went full Gigachad, refused to include vehicles, and feels compelled to offer no explanation beyond "you have a jetpack".

Ground vehicles would probably be tied to horse mechanics and physics because the engine is ancient and barely works.

Well, so they could include horses!

 

[dsndo]

There were a couple knuckleheads in this thread earlier talking about how the Crimson Fleet faction is actually well done. Please explain yourselves.

 

[Konjad]

critically wounded enemies pathetically try to crawl away from you and you just fire up that lasergun up their ass

10/10

Yes, I followed one of such crawling enemies. He crawled up the stairs from me, then changed his mind, and crawled down the stairs, looked at me and died.

Traumatic experience.

 

[Fedora Master]

The lockpicking is still stupid and unfun.

 

[Vic]

aight another day, another day of playing starfield

fuck you King Crispy for being a retard, it has been said itt many times that early game is boring but it gets good and apparently the ending and resulting endgame is really fucking good

I am now rushing the boring, cookie cutter main quest so I can go to actually the fun part, which you haven’t mentioned at all: the planetary exploration and crafting/research/base building

game is shit but I can’t stop playing amirite

also to your comment that Starfield hasn’t achieved anything technologically: have you looked at the scale of the planets? Each one is mind boggingly huge. And there’s shit ton of them. It has to be the biggest game in scale ever made.

Get out there and explore dude

 

[Crispy]

said itt many times that early game is boring but it gets good and apparently the ending and resulting endgame is really fucking good

Whatever. I'm trying.

Here's proof:

You can see how much better the game is looking (visually) and how much smoother it's running now with the DLSS3 mod, but why is my character defying gravity by leaning forward like that?

 

[Konjad]

Yes, I already did it with a smaller object:

https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads...ng-september-6th.122389/page-318#post-8653742

Although some people claim, including Vic that instead they get bugged out in space (flying without changing position, even with the same object):
https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads...ng-september-6th.122389/page-318#post-8653769


Either way it's extremely lazy and trash. I expected there would be at the very least a landing animation where you land on a random place of the planet. Bethesda strikes again with complete garbage lazy 'development'. Can't even be bothered to write a few lines of code.

 

[kangaxx]

Niggerfield looking DOPE!
Seriously, what's with all the niggers in this game? WE BE KOLONYZING SPES 'ND SHEEEIT! Did Bethesda forget that the majority of their fanbase is white? In the future there are no whites and asians?
Character models look like absolute dogshit, this is a Bethesda game after all.
That ugly engine has been overused to the point of near death...

Would have been funny when you land on Earth, you discover it's brimful with whites and they're like: "Oh shit, they found us at last."

This is the most insightful post on the thread.

 

[Modron]

You can see how much better the game is looking (visually) and how much smoother it's running now with the DLSS3 mod, but why is my character defying gravity by leaning forward like that?

Your mc is obviously an alien:

 

[Vic]

but why is my character defying gravity by leaning forward like that?

his knees seem to be bending inwards

 

[Vic]

Either way it's extremely lazy and trash.

like already said, space travel and combat is absolutely unfinished in this game. Including, before crispy pops an artery over this discovery, that you can’t actually swim under water.

I hope it will be improved in updates

 

[Konjad]

Either way it's extremely lazy and trash.

like already said, space travel and combat is absolutely unfinished in this game. Including, before crispy pops an artery over this discovery, that you can’t actually swim under water.

I hope it will be improved in updates

Nah, it's not unfinished. It's just an extremely lazy design. Lazy and incompetent because bethesda have been hacks for a long time now.

 

[Justicar]

Get bent starcucks

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

Hold on a second, the video doesn't match the statement, what the fuck is going on here? The clip shows her flying through the planet, sounds like someone should've set up collision bounds in orbit, but you can fly around a star system from one planet to another? 'Cause there's a big difference between "you can only freefly in orbit" and "you can freefly between planets, it'd just take you extremely long to do it." Or does it mean you can fly from the fast travel point to that planet?

Pretty much, yeah. She didn't fly to a different planet, she flew toward the planet until she collided with the sprite.

And yes, collision bounds would seem obvious to anyone but a Bethesda staffer. Spacebourne 2, a $20 indie game in early access, did planetary landings using bounds.

 

[Vic]

Either way it's extremely lazy and trash.

like already said, space travel and combat is absolutely unfinished in this game. Including, before crispy pops an artery over this discovery, that you can’t actually swim under water.

I hope it will be improved in updates

Nah, it's not unfinished. It's just an extremely lazy design. Lazy and incompetent because bethesda have been hacks for a long time now.

idk man gaming has changed, nowadays games get released in unfinished state and fixed over time

I shall remain hopeful

A Deep Sea DLC/Update would be fucking awesome to explore huge underwater planets and build underwater bases

 

[Konjad]

It'd be funny if the game asks you for your pronouns, then bugs out and starts using the wrong ones.

Asking people's preferred pronouns so they can misgender them correctly

 

[Tyranicon]

also to your comment that Starfield hasn’t achieved anything technologically: have you looked at the scale of the planets? Each one is mind boggingly huge. And there’s shit ton of them. It has to be the biggest game in scale ever made.

From the Elite Dangerous Wiki

Elite Dangerous contains a vast 1:1 scale simulation of the Milky Way galaxy based on real scientific principles, current scientific data and theories. It includes around 400 billion star systems, and is modeled on actual galactic charts. Planets and moons rotate and orbit with 1:1 scale in real-time, thus constantly changing a system's environment. The galaxy is divided into 42 Galactic Regions.

Edit: No Man's Sky is also massive and supposedly even bigger.

Proc gen man, it's crazy.

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

Mad Respek, Crispmon... I know you've been looking forward to this one, having put in 10,000 hours into Skyrim, but mad props for admitting it's shit.

Crispy is on the Larian payroll just like the rest of the Youtuber shills that are giving 9's and 10's left and right to whichever title brings in the most bang for buck. Take his opinion with a grain of salt because the more that the media cans Starfield, the more they'll feel justified giving DOS3 the GOTY award. Its always the same thing with these loser shills who pick their favorite golden child. It used to be Witcher 3 and that game was always hot garbage.

They now criticize Starfield while at the same time praise CDPRs Cyberpunk, a game that was total fucking trash on release but with 3 years of updates later the entire games media is doing the usual bait and switch redemption arc routine. Now watch while everyone lines up to consume Cyberpunk once again with this Phantom Liberty dogshit. Ive said it before; Consumers are not learning creatures. They consume what they are told to consume.

Pete Hines already said that Starfield has a 10 year roadmap ahead of it. I'm not praising Starfield. I think all of these games are TRASH and Im yet to even play any of them. But if you want to compare Starfield to Cyberpunk 3 years on, you are doing nothing but towing the line at this point.

Btw, didn't you rant endlessly about how BG3's "AI" sucked because there were no NPC schedules?

Do you have a cope for the lack of NPC schedules in Starfield? Or is that the reason you say it's trash?