Topic: Starfield

@themightyant oh I didn’t win. I had to watch them twice! Yes I dislike the ‘it’s good by Bethesda standards’. Should be held up to 2023 standard.

I have very mixed feelings on Starfield, slow start, good middle but by the end I was getting more annoyed with a lot of little features. (Such as inventory management) I probably went 8/10 > 9/10 > 8/10.

I will probably do a new game plus run through once some mods drop, as I think there will be some good QoL ones.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner I get that. I've slowly gone up in score from a 7 (or maybe even a 6 in the first few hours) to an 8 or a 9, but the more I play the more I like. It's just these frustrating things, especially the ones that seem solvable like bloody inventory management that hold it back. Can't wait to do the main quests as those have been brilliant so far, but i'm only early into each.

As to random quests has anyone done the one about the cult? I found a random ship in space and when I hailed it there was no response, I boarded and everyone was dead. There were hundreds of packs of tainted orange juice 'of the enlightened' (or somesuch) and each body had an invitation to the death cult and a note about their life and how they wanted to 'ascend'. Really enjoyed that, despite it's bleak nature I miss a lot of these sort of events with amazing environmental storytelling.

Disappearing down a sidequest rabbit hole and changing up my companion has got its hooks into me. I found some amazing armour and a new ship. It's so much better than the frontier, I can't wait to try it out!

I have finished the game. As expected the ending was not that great but overall I really dig it. Now I will wait for some QoL patches (and hopefully they manage to let me finish the handful of sidequest which are bugged (doors that don't open, NPC that disappeared, etc)

@Ryu_Niiyama you can put spoilers in a block by posting [/spoiler] and then when you are finished, same again without the slash. Guess I know which way they are going to make new game plus 😕

Got side-tracked again this weekend, but hit level 43 and completed the Ryujin questline. There were some interesting moments, but ultimately I was a little disappointed by it if i'm honest. It felt like a lot of fetch quests and didn't seem realistic at all. Why was I in ANY of the board meetings? or why were the board even listening to me, a junior operative who started last week? It just seemed very unrealistic and I couldn't suspend my disbelief. A shame as some of the individual writing and choices were interesting. In the end I convinced them to merge with the Infinity LTD and scrap the internal neuromod.

I also pushed on the with main quest a little as I want some more powers. So far i've only really used The original anti-grav spell which is seriously OP and Highlight life which is also OP when clearing bases/ships, as you can see everyone before you or they come round a corner. Aside from those i've been a bit disappointed by the other 5 or so I have, and hardly use them.

I also finally 'married' Andreja, though it's weird the moment I did I wanted to move to another companion to do their questline, which didn't quite feel right. Felt gamey.

I now want to concentrate on the main quest and faction quests. I'm not quite sure how I feel about being in the middle of the Crimson Fleet questline as it makes several other missions completely trivial. i.e. you go to a base filled with Crimson Fleet and instead of fighting your way through the base you just walk to the end as they let you by. It feels like skipping content, so perhaps I will concentrate on that.

@Ryu_Niiyama Be careful with spoilers please, everyone is at a different stage of the game.
Use [ spoiler]SPOILER TEXT HERE[ /spoiler] without the space before the opening bracket.

After 110 hours of playtime I finished the main quest yesterday. Did basically all sidequests that were available and played around a little bit with outposts and such, but i feel there still is a lot of stuff i didnt even touch yet. I barely explored planet and didn't decorate any houses or shipbuilding. If I did all that content I would easily pass the 200 hours I feel.

Except for the ending, which was kinda meh tbh I enjoyed the game. Sure it has its flaws here and there and around the end I had the game crash around 2 times or something, but besides those things it's an very enjoyable ride especialy if you take your time with it. I don't know if I will do New Game + or if I will move on to a new game and do a New playthrough at a later time, but I am happy with the game as it currently is

I've finished the game last week and I'm already playing the New Game Plus. I loved the story, but in my first playthrough I had a major bug that prevented me from finishing the Crimson Fleet questline. Apparently that's a very common bug. It was heartbreaking because it was the very end of the last mission of that storyline. I tried to load a previous save, but guess what? It was glitched as well, so there was no way of proceeding without loading an even earlier save and lose many hours of progress.

I still love this game and cannot stop playing, nonethless. Hopefully I'll have more luck on NG+.

@RazputinAquato Bugs like that are so frustrating, ESPECIALLY in a major quest line like this. But glad you are loving the game.

@Lavalera Agree it feels hard to feel "Done" with this game, there is just so much to do. I've spent at least a couple dozen hours ship and outpost building and feel I have barely touched the surface of that.

Talking of touching the surface like you i've barely visited any planet surfaces not required in quests, though to be honest this is the weakest element of the game. I've come across 2 planets with almost identical outposts and enemy placements, as well as identical cave structures, and the exploration to get to these is pretty dull too. I stopped doing it after that. In future this will be helpful for modders and maybe expansions but right now it's very underwhelming. Thankfully the other parts of the game are great.

Re: Bugs: Anyone else find that as their save gets longer the game is getting glitchier and loads are getting longer? The later used to happen on Skyrim, pretty drastically in fact. But i'm noticing a lot more soft crashes (the game just hangs) and frame rate issues the more I am playing. I only had a couple of crashes in my first 50 hours but have had several more in the last 20 or so. You never lose much due to the autosaves but it's still annoying.

@themightyant definitely had more crashes by the last 10/15h. In total I guess I had 10 or so.

@Balta666 Glad it's not just me! Thought I was going mad, especially when people claiming the game is bug free. lol

@themightyant yep, it is strange. I reckon maybe the series S version is somewhat more stable than the X as it appears most people saying it is not buggy are playing that version

One thing I kind got into and would like to hear from other people is that as I finished the campaign and most sidequests I am level 45. On the skill trees I completely ignored the science sector as I am not in starfield for exploration/outposts and 90% of my skills are on the tier 1 of each of the other trees (with most of them leveled to max). At some points I thought that I should move to the higher tiers but at the same time I wanted the max upgrades from each item I have already unlocked...

@Balta666 Yeah I don't think you can respec, which is annoying. I spent quite a bit in Science recently and regret it. It's definitely scaled for multiple playthroughs. There were also many skills I didn't want that I had to get to get to the next tier.

@themightyant @Balta666 yes there’s a lot of ‘dead’ level points that you just don’t need, or others that you don’t want to put points in but the game kinda makes you (carry weight for example)

I'm about 23-24hrs in and only at the 4th main mission out of 19 or so. At least that's what I've read. I think I'm done with side missions like Vanguard and Freestar Rangers and going straight for the main stuff. With October being as crazy as it is for releases, I can't keep playing starfield into November or even December.

@NintendoByNature fair enough but I would recommend to focus more on the faction's quests than the main story. There is where Bethesda games shine brighter

@Balta666 trust me, I actually enjoy them alot. But it's getting to the point where I have too much to play and not enough time. I might be buying 3 or 4 full priced games this month. Not to mention, might fire up amnesia and RE8.

How's everyone feeling about the game now? I'll be honest the gloss has faded for me quite a lot and i'm making a beeline for the end before I dislike some aspects of the game even more. I've just got a couple of crimson fleet and main questlines to do I think.

I've lost count of the number of bugs i've had and the game keeps crashing more and more the longer my save file gets - an old Bethesda bug - and i've got several blocked quests which is frustrating too. Lots of other mini-rants like bad writing, repetitive exploration and more. But all in all it just feels the magic has died and all the little annoyances have broken my immersion, i'm ready to move on.

Just hoping the end of the last few questlines I have to do are good.

@themightyant I have been away from it for a couple of weeks now after I was done with all quests I could do (not bugged) and while all you said it is true for my experience I still loved it as most quests are well written imo.