Official Starfield Hype Train Thread Choo Choo (9/6/23)

[BurtReynolds]

"b-but I might need this rotten apple for a minor side quest later! I have to keep it!"

you. are. playing. it. wrong.

[Ello Sailor]

Great, now you've upset the neckbeard. Nice work, everyone.

[BurtReynolds]

You need to be making difficult decisions about what you choose to take with you on your adventure. You need to be making painful choices about what you choose to leave behind. You need to be gettin' good.

[CopperTom]

Burt's character name: Marie Kondo

[psychobain]

110gb update
lol

[Ensign9]

"b-but I might need this rotten apple for a minor side quest later! I have to keep it!"

you. are. playing. it. wrong.

I’m not picking up the damn apples. I just don’t want its tooltip cluttering up my screen while I’m looking for duct tape and a copy of Great Expectations.

[scrub12]

I can’t stop playing. Side missions are great.

I also don’t pick everything up. Haven’t yet become encumbered because of that.

[CopperTom]

110gb update
lol

No! That can't be! Please no!

[Simple Torture]

110gb update
lol

No! That can't be! Please no!

I had pre-loaded it and there was no required update when I booted up my Xbox today.

[BurtReynolds]

On the other hand maybe picking up everything is good...

https://www.pcgamer.com/starfield-playe ... ve-gotten/

[Simple Torture]

Still very early in the game for me, a couple of hours in (and I play slow), the game is still very on rails right now, so I can’t really speak to the exploration or open-worldness of it all, but I like it very much so far. The whole aesthetic is cool and so incredibly detailed, characters look good, voice acting is good, sound is great. Gunplay feels nice, I’m not usually a big pistols guy, but I didn’t feel overwhelmed in any of the early going. Space combat I’ve got to do some more of before I can judge it. I really like the lock picking mini game, big fan compared to the Fallout/Skyrim model that was getting so old.

I had my first crash when trying to ride the monorail in New Atlantis.

There is one mechanic from Fallout 76 I wish that they carried over: in that game, when you kill a base full of raiders or whatever, you can just select one guy and there was a button for “search nearby corpses,” and a big transfer list will come up that aggregates all of the loot from the guys you killed. Starfield is back to having to go to one dude at a time and selecting loot, which seems like a step back.

Ensign is right: Vasco gets in the way all the fucking time. I also feel like he dealt no damage.

[scrub12]

I got lost on a 2 hour side mission last night that ended in blackmail. Just randomly found the guy. The type of stuff I love.

[scrub12]

I love this game, and I haven’t even touched the main story. So much shit you just find by wandering around.

[Simple Torture]

I found the trigger to the already infamous Mantis quest this morning. Going to wait to go up a few levels before giving it a shot.

[CopperTom]

I took 4 hours to install this yesterday. Still haven't actually played it yet.

[scrub12]

I found the trigger to the already infamous Mantis quest this morning. Going to wait to go up a few levels before giving it a shot.

I finished that one. It’s very worth it but it gets tough in parts.

[Simple Torture]

Taking my time so far. Did a few campaign missions until I was promoted to choose one of three paths, then branched off and did some bounty missions I picked up at a mission board on Mars. They were for the most part standard dungeon-crawl-y, but it’s been fun to do some combat under different gravity conditions, pick up some new weapon types, and start to level up and pick skills. Still not sold on space combat, it just doesn’t seem very skill/strategy based, you just sort of try to keep a ship in your sights and go pew pew pew. Reminds me of my least favorite part of No Man’s Sky (not that these games should be compared!).

[scrub12]

30 hours into already and have barely touched the main story. Finished the Freestar Rangers quest and it was very worth it.

[Simple Torture]

Similar, I’m working on the Vanguard questline but have done a ton of other side missions along the way.

[Simple Torture]

Similar, I’m working on the Vanguard questline but have done a ton of other side missions along the way.

Actually no, I started the Vanguard questline but got sidetracked and am working on the Crimson Fleet missions.