If you don't have ammo for the gun you like you have to buy it lol it's simple. You can sell the ammunition you don't use. And a good thing is that in this game the ammunition has no weight
Might be a hot take but Bethesda games are just delivery vehicles for mods. They create the sandbox and modders and players make their own fun. On their own they are fine games but nothing special.
And instead of giving great experience they give you bugfest with illogical setting, dumb main storyline and derivative side quests… Oh, wait, I enjoyed unmodded Skyrim and both Fallout games! (Sadly, never got into morrowind and oblivion while new vegas is still in backlog)
@@FullMetalB No one makes mods for games that they dont like, for a mod community to thrive, they need support from the developers with the tools and a good base game.
I feel like for NG+ they should let you keep your ship but when you start the next game and get to the point of having a ship again they give you a letter of inheritance from a relative and its your ship from the last playthrough
That makes no sense tho, since you hop through the multiverse, so stuff is different. Also the starborn ship is pretty OP for the early game, has plenty of cargo, enough firepower and a stupid powerful boost.
@@justalex4214 its a multiverse, and a space sci-fi. its kinda super easy to make sense of encountering a legendary ship (i.e. your old ship) left by a mysterious space cowboy from another universe. also dont try to "make sense" of these things- they have ppl all on different stars with different gravity thus different space-time (time being relative). Howd they "make sense" of you sitting in a universe for 3 hrs but actually others should have all died of old age in another part of the galaxy lol
@@fluteaw i'm not really sure what you mean in your last point but if it's the waiting time thing, that is not time dilation, it is about the time it takes for a planet to rotate around it's own axis. On earth it takes 24 hours which is what starfields universal time is based on, but on new atlantis for example the planet needs 50 hours to rotate, it's just that.
It sounds like a missed opportunity that they reset your ship. They could have included new upgrades in NG+ cycles to make you want to expand and expand and eventually end up with a Borg Cube or a Space Hulk or whatnot and swallow the universe in one epic NG+++++++++++ quest. But alas.
Kind sad that you cannot go your own way in Starfield, so many npcs that just cannot be killed, even when they warn you or tell a plot still unkillable feels off. The Outer Worlds handled this soo much better, both story but also options. Still smaller scope, but yeah i rather have quality over quantity. Regarding the spaceflight you should test Starwars squadron kinda the same type of combat but way more immersive and fast.
My main worry with loading screens is just Bugthesda's history where in the old games had terrible safe file system and the longer you played the slower your game ran eventually loading to 2min loading screens which made you think the game crashed. And my main issue is that they highlight the loading screens all the time. Meanwhile other games like NMS and E:D have in some ways just as many loading screens but ppl dont make a real stinker out of it because they hide them by keeping you in to your prefered POV.
ED and NMS did loading in a way that everything looked and felt seamless. There is a huge difference between staring at a black screen and staring from your ship to space as you warp thru the universe. And yes, loading screens are the highlights since you cant even leave a fucking shop without a loading screen. There is absolutely no reason for them to put loading screens on a planet its not acceptable in 2023.
Thanks for the level-headed review. I agree with just about all of your points. Almost 200 hours into the game and loving it, but it's definitely not perfect and I can understand why it can be very divisive. Regarding NG+, I really wish they would allow us to remake our character because I want to continue playing in NG+, but I also want try out different backgrounds and traits. I don't mind losing my money, items, and ships in NG+. What does bother me however is losing my outposts because those tend to take the most amount of time to construct. 15:50 You can actually use those Misc. items to decorate your houses and/or outposts.
“Reaching” pushing the envelope is always great innovation is what is needed in gaming and Bethesda has the balls to do it and of course there is going to be risk to when you’re breaking past that wall but it presents new information new opportunities also is allows and pushes other developers to be more creative as well so over all great for gamers.
I kind of disagree when you talk about ambition outstripping technical capability. It's the sole reason Skyrim has been going as long as it has. Bethesda don't make single player games. They make canvasses for modders to paint on. This game will still be going in 15 years time because they provided the framework to let that happen. Long after dozens of games have been and gone. You really can't judge these games based on a hundred hours then onto the next one. The thing you have to understand with the main quest in Starfield is that it's somewhat metagame. Bethesda have taken the whole new game+ idea and encompassed it into the whole premise of the game. To say that it's not as good as the faction quests is kind of missing the point. It's not supposed to be. And they explain why it's not supposed to be in the lore of this game. It's kind of one of the core principles of the game. You have to not think like a gamer to "get it". What they did was very clever and playing on the motivations of us as people. When you actually stop and think about it, it makes sense. They give you a choice. The same choice they give within the lore of the game. And they explain the choice for and against it in lore terms. It isn't just "Must get to NG+!!" That's utterly missing the point. They don't force you to deal with some cataclysmic, world ending event with you being the Chosen One. The main quest is all about how you, the player, views personal power. And what that means to you as opposed to your place in the grand scheme of things. What you value most. That's literally all NG+ is. A choice you make on what you value most. How much attachment you have to material things vs how much you value your own personal power and knowledge. They give you a choice to be part of something, or be on your own crusade for power. You have to choose. You can't have your cake and eat it. And I think that's actually very profound. Just take your gamer hat off for a while and it will make much more sense. :) It's a somewhat veiled commentary on how people play games, and the choices we make. You could happily never do NG+ and never be the worse for it. But we all know gamers.
I played 200 hours and I did the same as you, I focused on exploring the cities, talking to the NPCs, doing the quests, I didn't jump from moon to moon, planet to planet entering procedurally generated maps, and wanting to explore them. And I had a lot of fun exploring the game's various mechanics, and the game has a lot of potential, if they release DLC frequently and the community makes mods, the game could be improved a lot.
50 hours in and I haven't even touched the main campaign not sure how you can give a review after 100. quick question how many skills unlocked i got 3 in 50 hours and there is 50 something skills so havent played any of the game.
No offense bro, this isn’t aimed at you personally, just this idea that “it runs fine if you just do X”. But If I buy a video game 🎮 I absolutely should NOT then be required to go out and find some third party optimizer. It’s just wrong on Bethesdas part to rely on non-Bethesda employees but….we already know this 😂 lol Ah well ❤
Some of the reviews for this game are really frustrating when they dismiss the space combat. I spent a lot of early game reloading space battles until I got better at it, so there's a learning curve but it's very satisfyingly to figure out. There's a quest where NPC's asked if I needed backup for a space battle. No, I do not need backup. I will take on all the ships myself. It's so fun.
As a 50 something person I enjoyed your Final Fantasy type games early on, in life and it wasn't until I was out sick, I picked up Fallout 3 and was hooked. I am not big on Fantasy games anymore and the realistic settings of post-apocalyptic world and now realistic Space exploring really appeals to me because Bethesda has a way of making as close to real "human" relatable games. The more realistic the better. Sure, there is the "clutter jank" but as an old guy I appreciate the style. Thanks, Rurikhan.
I am the same Love games like Kingdom come, RDR2, Ghost of Tushimia, Mafia1,Far cry Primal, Sleeping dogs, Maxpayne 3 spinter cell. Starfield and Cyberpunk i like due to them being more grounded.
@@John-996 Yeah dude, I actually was loving those Splinter Cell games sniper John Clancy mission type games. I bought a "muti player" Splinter Cell game and didn't realize until I got home and played it. Being a bit of a loner, in games I traveled back to GamesStop and asked for a refund and all I got was store credit that is when I picked up my first copy of "Game of the Year" Fallout 3!! I just read the description and Todd spoke to me *exaggeration*. Thanks for the memory. Liked those others you mentioned from seeing others play!
There is a reason to pick up miscellaneous items and it's to decorate outposts which i enjoyed doing a lot because i could do things like add food in tge kitchen or add food with knives and forks on a dinner table, i also made a office area in my dream house and i could add books, folders, desktop fans, flower pots, snacks and so much more so that it looks lived in which is my favourite part about the game
This was a very fair and reasonable review Ru. I appreciate your determination to really see everything this game has to offer before making a full opinion.
Ruri always keeps it real with honest and constructive criticism. Now that the game is in players hands it’s rated a 3.75/5, so a 7.5 out of 10 on Xbox’s own storefront, so most players are feeling about the same. I lean more towards an 8 but I can definitely understand why people even may give it a 7 or lower. Hopefully Bethesda can be quick with their updates without leaving everything to modders to fix it for them.
@@beefymario88depends on your expectations. There are a ton of people who haven't played a bethesda game yet so they expected things that the game couldn't deliver, simple as that.
I'm enjoying it a lot. But with how it was (and still is) marketed as "next gen" and "unparalleled". It can't get anything but a 7 because as fun as it is it glaringly behind pretty much any other next gen AAA game in many, many aspects.
Not sure what it is but I swear I see your comments everywhere, thought I'd check out your channel. I agree the ship building is hands down the best part of this game in my opinion, I could do with DLC that adds more ship parts. I also wish you could sacrifice one thing on your your ship to add more of another, basically being able to go over the cap if you maybe only run one weapon system instead of 3. Stuff like that would add more depth and balance to the ship building but it's just a little nitpick. As for the faction quest, they are decent, my favorite one was the pirates and the UC vanguard because you get my favorite armor set. I found it strange that it never affects anything else, not even for flavor's sake. You can be all the factions and it just doesn't matter, on occasions if you are in new Atlantis random npcs will acknowledge you are a vanguard but that's pretty much it. By the time I got to do the UC vanguard quest line, I was already a ranger. There's this quest where you need to talk to someone from the freestar embassy and I thought I could use my status as a ranger to maybe sway them, but it just was never brought up. Everything in the game is just disconnected, and in many ways it's somewhat of a downgrade from previous Bethesda games. And that's my biggest gripe, they had more time and more budget then their previous title and this is the best they can do? It's like Bethesda is so set on releasing a really samey empierce but also being super safe, they are so afraid of letting players fail. Would have been neat if your actions had consequence but they don't, you destroy the UC sysdef and the UC doesn't even care. It's just so odd, as an rpg it's pretty lite and as a space explorer it's worse, but because it's on game pass it's easy to recommend. I think overall, I agree with your review. The main benefit to Bethesda games, is that even if you aren't a huge fan eventually there will be so many mods that the game will be night and day
Bethesda was under ZERO PRESSURE (in regards to Release Date) to push this game out. They were completely able to dictate the speed at which developers needed to work on this. The only thing they WERE under pressure for was to just release a Good Game 😂 It really is downright disappointing that THIS is what they came out with 😢
@@Macheako Yes well for people like us, seems like starfield has a lot of die hard fans. Even the slightest critic will have some people insulting you, it's silly but some people really love this game.
A solution to the ship problem is to let the player save blueprints of ships/ outposts that can be loaded in later and purchased all at once at any port, as part of the players retained memory
One interesting thing about the procedural generation prefabs that you can stumble upon when doing planet exploration, you can find slates that gives you a point of interest to another place. The one I found from a random procedural generation prefab sent me to a hideout that had 80K worth of contraband and so much good loot as well. I found that most of my good loot so far has been from the procedural generation stuff
Good loot doesn’t really have anything to do with AI though 🤔 unless some ding dong programmed in the best loot exclusively coming from AI generated spots 😂 but that would be really really lame imo You shouldn’t need AI to generate random loot ❤ we’ve been doing it since Chrono Trigger 😂
So compared to other titles out there these days at $70. You think 100hrs of enjoyable content is priced too high? Not to mention this game has replayability. I think its way better value the the 20 to 60 hr one and done $70 games out there
yup, building is the best part of Fo4 for me with mods because the game's building system is so broken it is impossible to enjoy the game at all but with mods it has bring me 4k+ hour into this game. I would think similar will apply to Starfield once many mods being available. For now I will let it cook for awhile.
Im about 5 days in and around 3 days of gameplay atlantis started "falling apart". Shuttle train in the comerical district is gone, the walkway to the falls is just not there. The ramp leading up to your ship the black strip before it bends up is missing. The most recent thing that is happening is the well elevator at the port is not opening at all. Im hoping once i 100% the game i can still access atlantis cause even the lodge main door bugged out by doing the opening crack but never did the load so i took the roof access and it fixed itself thankfully lol.
Honestly, "overall okay" is exactly my feeling about this whole game. Everything is so frustratingly below par for what should be a modern game. You can argue all you want about about nvme drives having to be standard, but when the issue with playing this game on other types of hardrives is abundant studdering, not texture issues, that's an optimization problem. I can run Cyberpunk on ultra settings with no more issues than occasional pop-in, and yet Starfield freezes constantly, and they're on the same drive. That's Starfield's issue, not anything in my PC. The ship builder is fun, I liked it a lot but it has limitations that I don't agree with, I think 40m is not a big enough limit, especially when we aren't even allowed to rotate habs, it's just lego bricks with hardly any way to make it look good and be functional at the same time. Flying ships dosent even really mean anything more than how fast it rotates in whatever space box you're loaded into. Theres no aerodynamics because you never personally fly your ship in-atmosphere. There is no bullet collision for where your guns are placed. They'll just shoot through whatever blocks them, so line of sight means nothing more than having auto aim line up your shots for you. And that little rant is only a fraction of my issues with my favorite aspect of the game. Everything else is very lackluster, shallow and means very little in terms of enjoyment and excitement. It's actually a fairly boring game overall, especially when you spend 15-20 seconds in a load screen every five minutes no matter what youre doing, and thats IF the game isn't also constantly freezing, that's just the way it was designed, loading into one box after another, honestly felt more like I was stuck in The Cube. The ship going away in new game plus dosent even make fucking sense either, you literally use your ship to initiate the process of going into ng+. And once you get to the place where it happens, your ship just vanishes into nowhere. Just stupid. So many stupid design choices and limitations. If you want my advice, if you are wondering whether to buy Starfield, dont. Wait for mods or dlc, wait for a sale, whatever you want, but unless you want to be a goody two shoes, pretending to explore space that's already been settled, doing so one loading screen at a time, on rails that Bethesda has placed for you, then look for better space games. Play X4 Foundations, play Elite Dangerous, play No Mans Sky if you like the arcade feel of space combat. Play the Mass Effect series (before Andromeda) hell, if you have a decent pc, you can screw around in Star Citizen for like $40 I think. This is a painfully mid-tier rpg, space game and any other kind of game it's trying to be. There are much better games for whatever you're looking for already out there.
Mostly agree with you. I think once the updates come out people will start coming back to it. With the new maps, mods, dlc every year, and dune buggies very soon.
I enjoy the ammunition system because it forces me to swap between weapon types and I make an effort to save powerful ammo types for larger engagements. And it makes me seek out traders to purchase ammo.
There's a reason Microsoft delayed this game for well over a year and brought in multiple external teams to simply work on Bugs, and Optimization. It just wasn't enough time.
It would have been amazing story wise if they pulled off a massive war event between the UC and the Crimson fleet where you become the deciding factor... Like they did in Skyrim.
I agree for the most part. I do believe that building a ship builder on your base gives you access to most ship parts and not some exclusive parts from certain factions but you still have to buy everything every playthrough soooo..... that was my worst feeling of starting ng+. Why build a base, why build a very good ship you can call home? Modders have work to do lol
Ok but in every other game there is not a new game plus. I’ve made so many different characters in all of the Bethesda games. That being said I’m going to take my time still with my first play through(40 hours in) but I’m not really going to bother with base building until I get to new game + 8. I want that to be my last play through because I think that armor looks the best.
The main storyline gives you the dialog options to say that you’re not the big hero, to say that you think it’s better to stick with what you have in your own world. So it basically gives you the RP tools to let you go off and do your own thing without having the game make you the big hero.
No, it gives flavor text but does not change any outcomes. The hardest consequences is pissing off companions like killing innocent people with Sarah around she'll stop being your teammate. The story is the same Bethesda had written since forever, you are the chosen one who's the only one capable of changing the world. It's serviceable at best but hardly what I would consider an RPG.
If you build a ship landing pad as a part of an outpost you gain access to all of the non-unique ship parts if you make a ship in that outpost. But yeah, it would be cool if Bethesda let you save a template of your ship, so you could construct the ship you like in ng+ without wasting time. Overall, I liked the game, but it's not worth 70 bucks. Maybe 50. It's really the best Bethesda game in terms of different features and systems, but I think they fucked up the exploration, which was the best part of the other Howard titles.
Rurikhan, your own staryard (the one you build in your outpost) have almost all the parts, as far i know, the only ones it doesn't have are the cutting edge ones from each manufacturer
The game can only be appreciated by those who really played it (it’s not a linear, cinematic game that can be appreciated in a gameplay video of UA-cam). I played it for 76 hours and finished the main quest and the game would’ve been 9.5/10 if it weren’t for the loading screens, space exploration and the poor performance on pc. I give it a 8.5/10. Such a good game.
The space-setting and shooting is mainly why this isnt for me. I am still interested how it turned out. I loved Oblivion (it blew my mind), and skyrim was pretty good once modded (still didnt like the combat). It still seems like the same old bethesda game. Yanky npc's+bugs, below mediocre combat, terrible ui, but a great immersive world with good faction quests (main reasons i liked the games). Thats dissapointing considering oblivion was about 20 years ago... About none evolution at all? i was at least expecting to be able to just go anywhere and find interesting stuff, but Ruri stated that is not what this game is at all.. Would have made sense to add that to the bethesda experience/fomula. Main thing i take from starfield impressions is: Elder scrolls VI will be a huge dissapointment :/
Describing very hard as just bloated HP pools really doesn't do justice to how bad that difficulty actually is, the fact that you randomly get "legendary" enemies that not only have a HP pool thats bloated to all hell but also a shield that is bloated to hell and regenerates to the point that it takes entire magazines to drop it then it simply comes back while your reloading absolutely kills any fun that combat in the game had.
I played Elite Dangerous and now mostly Star Citizen with HOTAS and my opinion as a veteran of those two games is that Starfield is much worse. There are no complex maneuvers. At least I have the feeling that everything is a semi-arcade. Implementation of thrusters is OK, but again nothing special. At the moment, I'm about a hundred hours into the game, my friend tells me that I'm not even halfway through the main story :-) I stop everywhere, talk to a bunch of NPCs, and enjoy exploring the planets for more than an hour. I read all the messages on the terminals, I research the lore of the game. I knew this was basically Fallout 4 in space, but unlike you, I love the Fallout series and as far as space is concerned, we are the same. As one of the biggest problems of this game, I would point out that the main problem is that the game was made with the Xbox console as a basis. To me, this game seems like a semi-OK PC port. If this game was made with PC as a basis, I think that many of the problems that are bothering us now would not exist. Bethesda has not learned the lessons of the past and is repeating the same mistakes. Todd tells us to buy better hardware, and his game doesn't even have basic features like FOV or contrast slider. Does anyone remember which of Tod's games had the same problems? It starts with the letter F and ends with the number 6. Do you remember how long we asked and waited for some basic things to be added to the game? I agree with the faction missions. I have enjoyed. Even the most common pop up missions knew how to surprise me. Main story.... 6 out of 10. All in all, an OK game with a lot of content, especially for those of us who like to explore and we used to drive around one planet in Elite for 5-6 hours. Is the game over hyped? It is. Is it GOTY material? A big NO! All in all, as with previous Bethesda games, they will collect money and others (moding community) will fix their game. Not a bad tactic Todd :-)
The “typical bethesda jank” thing is really sad. If it were any other AAA studio, things like glitching NPCs or assets not loading properly would be inexcusable.
I have been saying this for a while now, I am sick of people defending Bethesda for shitty games then saying the modders will fix it, I don't buy this excuse. No other company gets this pass so why should they.
I find it to be all about the scale of the game, if a game has an average of 100 interactions with npcs, those npc glitching out is unacceptable, when a game has 1000s upon 1000s of interactions with several potential outcomes players tend to be more forgiving. (Personally like I said, I think the game’s ambition far exceeds the engine capabilities, I wish they’d lower the scope a little for a more polished experience)
But is bigger but buggier = better than smaller and more polished? I honestly prefere much more the more smaller handcrafted polished gems instead of those bloated Triple A Titels.
Baldur's Gate 3 had game breaking bugs in Act 2/3 on launch and it's still considered a great game. Witcher 3, Dragon Age Inquisition and tons of other similar ambitious RPGs have a lot of bugs, that is just the reality with this genre of game.
They really need to modify NG+ so you keep your inventory+your ship and anything and everyone on it. Want a crew of Adoring fans? Just NG+ a few times lol
after my own 150 hours, I've only had repeat of 3 areas and I did engage in a lot of random side shit, in fact into NG+, the first 2 areas I had to go to were new to me had just commented on that to my mate - but 100% agree on the poor NG+ implementation, as soon as I realized from the story reveal what was going to happen in NG+, i just rushed it, was no point doing anything anymore and now in NG+, knowing I need to loose it all again - motivation is now gone, I'm done with the game. Thoroughly enjoyed that 150 hours tho - roll on the mods to sort it out :)
something i disagree on is the whole 30 fps thing. 30 fps is a thing of the past, i mean the ps5 has had games at 60 fps while looking good in 4k for years now with uncharted, spider-man, god of war, the last of us. there’s just really no excuse for the modern consoles to not improve on the old ones. sony is definitely outclassing xbox in that regard
Starfield should have made it so that you could not even come near the main quest unless you chose the right trait or were at the right place or let someone else touch the thing.
I agree with you stating you should keep your ship. I also think there should be a way to reclaim your outposts in NG+. The same argument exists with outposts. I want to do NG+, but my motivation is severely lacking due to losing absolutely everything I built.
Make your outpost and build a ship landing pad. You can build your ship on it and it has all the parts centralized there, besides very specific specialty parts.
I totally agree with the shipbuilding aspects. One of my fav parts of the game. I jus spent over 15 hr solely on building my ship and I'm still not 100% satisfied.
Getting the same performance exactly on the same card at 1080p. Performance issue is likely within engine itself, like engine is running slower in certain scenes. I don't want them to drop the engine though. Just hope they fix it eventually. If not, modders will, and even then, I'm fine with 30-60 max settings in my single player RPG
@@Laocoon283 Except framerates actually effect gameplay and game function on a mechanical level, the fact that lower framerates actually induces shit like control input latency due to your buttons needing the next frame to be recognised means there is actually a very real reason for you to need the highest possible frame-rate.
Got a 1T ssd drive just to play this game... It crashed soo many times, I thought it was my P.C. So I played Total War Warhammer three! That game works great, so it is Starfield. Starfield needs better optimization & loads of patch work. Mostly crashed loading into the lodge & when I was purposely trying to crash it. I couldn't make a chick with a dick, I couldn't fly planet to planet, I couldn't scare NPC's, and I couldn't say F U to that dumb ass constellation faction (I fucking hated every one of them). If my computer can play Warhammer 3, it "should" be able to play anything... Sad.
Upgrade to what Todd, I have an RTX4090!!!! Also I lost 50 hrs of game play because I did Return to Vektera first instead of Into the Unknown and got the bug in Empty Nest where you pick up the artifact but the quest is still marked as "pick up the artifact" and only console commands could fix it!
No it isn’t…. There’s a lot of it if you want to go and do that, but you can completely ignore it, most of the time any average player IS only going to be interacting with a little bit of procedural generation, because the point of the game is the hand crafted content.
It's funny how often I hear reviews complaining about some glitches or errors and I never experience them, or at least no where near the rate of the reviews. Even on my old rig years ago that was well past it's prime... by years. I guess it's possible that I was lucky on every game I played and for whatever reason the hardware I happened too put together was the best optimization for every game I chose to play. Or.... some reviewers suffer from the fallacy of focusing on the few errors. I recall people in places I worked complaining about some vendors we dealt with were the absolute worst. But when I investigated it was a couple of issues, and they were far from the most common with issues. But the few issues really bothered the co worker so that's all they could think about. Perhaps here the reviewers are focusing on issues so that a half dozen glitches in 100 hours seems like 10%. And yes the usually bethesda issues are there. I get NPC's wandering into conversations. Last night I fell through the floor of my ship and kept getting rubber banded back inside. First time something like that had happened. I'm at 94 hours, and while I haven't been keeping track, I would estimate these errors happening closer to 1% of the time, probably less.
there is a huge potential here with this. I mean imagine Elite Dangerous multiplayer with First Person RPG element that Bethesda does. Add excellent first person shooter which Microsoft helped them to improve... and that partnership! considering what the procedural and generative AI could create.... If they build on this as a base with that vision, future starfield games could be the most space games ever created.
If you don't have ammo for the gun you like you have to buy it lol it's simple. You can sell the ammunition you don't use. And a good thing is that in this game the ammunition has no weight
Having a trillion types of ammo is quite annoying. I just go to vendors and buy ammo because the likelihood of looting ammo for the specific guns I like can be quite low most of the time
Why not just pay attention to the guns you use the most, then buy the ammo for those guns? I have had no issue at all. 7.77mm was clearly the most abundant early game so I used that and built up a surplus in other ammo types. Then when I had the ammo to use I could see which guns I liked, I have about 5 guns on my rotation and so I only need to remember up to 5 ammo types, two of my main guns use the same ammo. Also when you see you’re low on ammo for whatever gun you’re using and you’ve forgotten the ammo type just look at it in the menu…. I don’t get why some people are having problems with this…
It’s been commented here so… I just want to share that outposts is the most fun bit, despite been bugged, for many. Get on it , mate. Perhaps you may like, make content or find the secret to your wishes. Great vid though. Cheers
For hotas there is the thrust master t-flight. Consoles read it as a controller and you can tell steam to read as a generic controller so starfield reads it as an Xbox controller. Works great 👍 it was very popular for elite dangerous.
They take your ship!? thats dumb. Just make up a new quest where you explore the ruins and discover a legendary ship (i.e. your old ship) which was left by a mysterious space cowboy
You asked about the load screen times for Xbox. I can happily say I play on a series S and it takes anywhere from 5 to 10 seconds to load. Also worth noting sometimes on the load screen the little loading circle in the corner stops for whatever reason it means your game froze. 😅
@@FullMetalB I mean skyrim froze on me now and again. So did FO4. Can it be annoying sure. Do I care, no not really it takes seconds to load the game back up.
Procedural generation isnt that bad though.. ppl say they see the same thing everywhere but. But that is the same with NMS. Only difference is NMS on that part is that Starfield is a smaller game in that sense and has less stuff. Like less resources to scan/discover
The procedural generation is also just mere extra optional content. If people are playing the game for the procedural generated part of the game then they’re playing the wrong game, it’s an RPG.
I don't care if it does it as well as a 7 year old game. If it doesn't work, don't use it. They wanted to prove that procedural generation could be as good as curated content. They failed. That's it.
@@blackmax6882 TOTK for open world, nothing better than zooming out and seeing 100's locations like shrines completed BG3 for best RPG this year, compeleted 100% with joy cant wait for definitive edition remnant 2 for best looter shooter, 50 bucks for 100 hours of content decent mob and boss variety, only cringe part was the unlocking operators through secrets ac6, not an mech guy but loved going for S rank mission completion frustrating but rewarding hogwarts for nostalgia, havent played harry potter since 2000's, terrible perfomance launch for pc and one button game at some point but loved it
I don’t care for base building beyond the potential to mine for resources, seem serviceable, the only thing I’d like more from it would be some kind of optional snap in place to be able to place things at aesthetically pleasing angles instead of rotating it 1 degree at a time to try and nail some form of symmetry.
truthfully, think the Series S forced Bethesda to cut down a bit on its ambition (especially with variety of the "tiles" and general spaceship exploration take offs / landings)
The 22 different types of ammo wouldn’t be a problem if we could craft ammo. It would also massively increase the need to mine and create outposts.
There's already a mod that does exactly that :)
If you don't have ammo for the gun you like you have to buy it lol it's simple. You can sell the ammunition you don't use. And a good thing is that in this game the ammunition has no weight
@@LuisKunhablah blah blah
@@justalex4214lol yeah that makes missing mechanics ok
So not being able to craft ammo makes the game bad?
Might be a hot take but Bethesda games are just delivery vehicles for mods. They create the sandbox and modders and players make their own fun. On their own they are fine games but nothing special.
Great, more games should include their community into their production
@@AllegoryGarthere is a difference between including and completing relying on but sure.
@@AllegoryGaryeah no… they should make a complete game that doesn’t require modders to fix it.
And instead of giving great experience they give you bugfest with illogical setting, dumb main storyline and derivative side quests…
Oh, wait, I enjoyed unmodded Skyrim and both Fallout games! (Sadly, never got into morrowind and oblivion while new vegas is still in backlog)
@@FullMetalB No one makes mods for games that they dont like, for a mod community to thrive, they need support from the developers with the tools and a good base game.
I feel like for NG+ they should let you keep your ship but when you start the next game and get to the point of having a ship again they give you a letter of inheritance from a relative and its your ship from the last playthrough
That makes no sense tho, since you hop through the multiverse, so stuff is different. Also the starborn ship is pretty OP for the early game, has plenty of cargo, enough firepower and a stupid powerful boost.
And it also has the added advantage of looking like a sperm with vertical wings.
@@rurikhan and no way to upgrade it or make the interior not look um "minimalist"?
@@justalex4214 its a multiverse, and a space sci-fi. its kinda super easy to make sense of encountering a legendary ship (i.e. your old ship) left by a mysterious space cowboy from another universe.
also dont try to "make sense" of these things- they have ppl all on different stars with different gravity thus different space-time (time being relative). Howd they "make sense" of you sitting in a universe for 3 hrs but actually others should have all died of old age in another part of the galaxy lol
@@fluteaw i'm not really sure what you mean in your last point but if it's the waiting time thing, that is not time dilation, it is about the time it takes for a planet to rotate around it's own axis. On earth it takes 24 hours which is what starfields universal time is based on, but on new atlantis for example the planet needs 50 hours to rotate, it's just that.
It sounds like a missed opportunity that they reset your ship. They could have included new upgrades in NG+ cycles to make you want to expand and expand and eventually end up with a Borg Cube or a Space Hulk or whatnot and swallow the universe in one epic NG+++++++++++ quest.
But alas.
Kind sad that you cannot go your own way in Starfield, so many npcs that just cannot be killed, even when they warn you or tell a plot still unkillable feels off. The Outer Worlds handled this soo much better, both story but also options. Still smaller scope, but yeah i rather have quality over quantity. Regarding the spaceflight you should test Starwars squadron kinda the same type of combat but way more immersive and fast.
That is my issue as well The first contact mission is an exsample. Also the fact NPCs do not reallly react to you when you point a gun at them.
My main worry with loading screens is just Bugthesda's history where in the old games had terrible safe file system and the longer you played the slower your game ran eventually loading to 2min loading screens which made you think the game crashed.
And my main issue is that they highlight the loading screens all the time. Meanwhile other games like NMS and E:D have in some ways just as many loading screens but ppl dont make a real stinker out of it because they hide them by keeping you in to your prefered POV.
What bugs?
ED and NMS did loading in a way that everything looked and felt seamless. There is a huge difference between staring at a black screen and staring from your ship to space as you warp thru the universe. And yes, loading screens are the highlights since you cant even leave a fucking shop without a loading screen. There is absolutely no reason for them to put loading screens on a planet its not acceptable in 2023.
Thanks for the level-headed review. I agree with just about all of your points. Almost 200 hours into the game and loving it, but it's definitely not perfect and I can understand why it can be very divisive. Regarding NG+, I really wish they would allow us to remake our character because I want to continue playing in NG+, but I also want try out different backgrounds and traits. I don't mind losing my money, items, and ships in NG+. What does bother me however is losing my outposts because those tend to take the most amount of time to construct.
15:50 You can actually use those Misc. items to decorate your houses and/or outposts.
The issues is not only the fps rather than combined with the extremely low FoV can cause you to feel dizzy.
You should be able to save your ship as a blueprint, and in NG+ just have it be for sale as a whole ship. No hassle besides credits.
Imo it's a atrong 7 low 8. Worth playing and easy to lose track of time but there is nothing that will blow your mind or is amazing.
“Reaching” pushing the envelope is always great innovation is what is needed in gaming and Bethesda has the balls to do it and of course there is going to be risk to when you’re breaking past that wall but it presents new information new opportunities also is allows and pushes other developers to be more creative as well so over all great for gamers.
Starfield is one the most formulaic and safe games ever made. It doesn’t push any boundaries at all. What are you talking about?
I kind of disagree when you talk about ambition outstripping technical capability. It's the sole reason Skyrim has been going as long as it has. Bethesda don't make single player games. They make canvasses for modders to paint on. This game will still be going in 15 years time because they provided the framework to let that happen. Long after dozens of games have been and gone. You really can't judge these games based on a hundred hours then onto the next one.
The thing you have to understand with the main quest in Starfield is that it's somewhat metagame. Bethesda have taken the whole new game+ idea and encompassed it into the whole premise of the game. To say that it's not as good as the faction quests is kind of missing the point. It's not supposed to be. And they explain why it's not supposed to be in the lore of this game. It's kind of one of the core principles of the game. You have to not think like a gamer to "get it". What they did was very clever and playing on the motivations of us as people. When you actually stop and think about it, it makes sense. They give you a choice. The same choice they give within the lore of the game. And they explain the choice for and against it in lore terms. It isn't just "Must get to NG+!!" That's utterly missing the point.
They don't force you to deal with some cataclysmic, world ending event with you being the Chosen One. The main quest is all about how you, the player, views personal power. And what that means to you as opposed to your place in the grand scheme of things. What you value most. That's literally all NG+ is. A choice you make on what you value most. How much attachment you have to material things vs how much you value your own personal power and knowledge. They give you a choice to be part of something, or be on your own crusade for power. You have to choose. You can't have your cake and eat it. And I think that's actually very profound. Just take your gamer hat off for a while and it will make much more sense. :) It's a somewhat veiled commentary on how people play games, and the choices we make. You could happily never do NG+ and never be the worse for it. But we all know gamers.
I played 200 hours and I did the same as you, I focused on exploring the cities, talking to the NPCs, doing the quests, I didn't jump from moon to moon, planet to planet entering procedurally generated maps, and wanting to explore them. And I had a lot of fun exploring the game's various mechanics, and the game has a lot of potential, if they release DLC frequently and the community makes mods, the game could be improved a lot.
Runs excellent on xbox cloud. Load screens are less than a second. Minimal jack.
My review - loadings galore, braindead ai.
Todd Howard /10 .
A craft that protect your outpost would solve the reset problem. Like a shield that will preserve the universe reset.
50 hours in and I haven't even touched the main campaign not sure how you can give a review after 100. quick question how many skills unlocked i got 3 in 50 hours and there is 50 something skills so havent played any of the game.
I use a 4070ti and this game ran perfectly using Hardware Unboxed's optimized hub settings at 1440p/60fps. Not using the DLSS mod either.
No offense bro, this isn’t aimed at you personally, just this idea that “it runs fine if you just do X”. But If I buy a video game 🎮 I absolutely should NOT then be required to go out and find some third party optimizer.
It’s just wrong on Bethesdas part to rely on non-Bethesda employees but….we already know this 😂 lol
Ah well ❤
Just for reference I got a 3080 water cool setup and it didn’t run well for me until I installed the DLSS mod from Nexus
Some of the reviews for this game are really frustrating when they dismiss the space combat. I spent a lot of early game reloading space battles until I got better at it, so there's a learning curve but it's very satisfyingly to figure out. There's a quest where NPC's asked if I needed backup for a space battle. No, I do not need backup. I will take on all the ships myself. It's so fun.
As a 50 something person I enjoyed your Final Fantasy type games early on, in life and it wasn't until I was out sick, I picked up Fallout 3 and was hooked. I am not big on Fantasy games anymore and the realistic settings of post-apocalyptic world and now realistic Space exploring really appeals to me because Bethesda has a way of making as close to real "human" relatable games. The more realistic the better. Sure, there is the "clutter jank" but as an old guy I appreciate the style. Thanks, Rurikhan.
I am the same Love games like Kingdom come, RDR2, Ghost of Tushimia, Mafia1,Far cry Primal, Sleeping dogs, Maxpayne 3 spinter cell. Starfield and Cyberpunk i like due to them being more grounded.
@@John-996 Yeah dude, I actually was loving those Splinter Cell games sniper John Clancy mission type games. I bought a "muti player" Splinter Cell game and didn't realize until I got home and played it. Being a bit of a loner, in games I traveled back to GamesStop and asked for a refund and all I got was store credit that is when I picked up my first copy of "Game of the Year" Fallout 3!! I just read the description and Todd spoke to me *exaggeration*. Thanks for the memory. Liked those others you mentioned from seeing others play!
There is a reason to pick up miscellaneous items and it's to decorate outposts which i enjoyed doing a lot because i could do things like add food in tge kitchen or add food with knives and forks on a dinner table, i also made a office area in my dream house and i could add books, folders, desktop fans, flower pots, snacks and so much more so that it looks lived in which is my favourite part about the game
This was a very fair and reasonable review Ru. I appreciate your determination to really see everything this game has to offer before making a full opinion.
Ruri always keeps it real with honest and constructive criticism. Now that the game is in players hands it’s rated a 3.75/5, so a 7.5 out of 10 on Xbox’s own storefront, so most players are feeling about the same. I lean more towards an 8 but I can definitely understand why people even may give it a 7 or lower. Hopefully Bethesda can be quick with their updates without leaving everything to modders to fix it for them.
Im at an 8 but I don’t understand how it could be rated lower than 7. It’s definitely a ‘good’ game at least.
@@beefymario88depends on your expectations. There are a ton of people who haven't played a bethesda game yet so they expected things that the game couldn't deliver, simple as that.
I'm enjoying it a lot. But with how it was (and still is) marketed as "next gen" and "unparalleled". It can't get anything but a 7 because as fun as it is it glaringly behind pretty much any other next gen AAA game in many, many aspects.
Not sure what it is but I swear I see your comments everywhere, thought I'd check out your channel. I agree the ship building is hands down the best part of this game in my opinion, I could do with DLC that adds more ship parts. I also wish you could sacrifice one thing on your your ship to add more of another, basically being able to go over the cap if you maybe only run one weapon system instead of 3. Stuff like that would add more depth and balance to the ship building but it's just a little nitpick. As for the faction quest, they are decent, my favorite one was the pirates and the UC vanguard because you get my favorite armor set. I found it strange that it never affects anything else, not even for flavor's sake. You can be all the factions and it just doesn't matter, on occasions if you are in new Atlantis random npcs will acknowledge you are a vanguard but that's pretty much it. By the time I got to do the UC vanguard quest line, I was already a ranger. There's this quest where you need to talk to someone from the freestar embassy and I thought I could use my status as a ranger to maybe sway them, but it just was never brought up. Everything in the game is just disconnected, and in many ways it's somewhat of a downgrade from previous Bethesda games. And that's my biggest gripe, they had more time and more budget then their previous title and this is the best they can do? It's like Bethesda is so set on releasing a really samey empierce but also being super safe, they are so afraid of letting players fail. Would have been neat if your actions had consequence but they don't, you destroy the UC sysdef and the UC doesn't even care. It's just so odd, as an rpg it's pretty lite and as a space explorer it's worse, but because it's on game pass it's easy to recommend. I think overall, I agree with your review. The main benefit to Bethesda games, is that even if you aren't a huge fan eventually there will be so many mods that the game will be night and day
Bethesda was under ZERO PRESSURE (in regards to Release Date) to push this game out. They were completely able to dictate the speed at which developers needed to work on this. The only thing they WERE under pressure for was to just release a Good Game 😂
It really is downright disappointing that THIS is what they came out with 😢
@@Macheako Yes well for people like us, seems like starfield has a lot of die hard fans. Even the slightest critic will have some people insulting you, it's silly but some people really love this game.
@@aersla1731 I think they WANT to love it….more than they actually DO love it 😂🙏❤️
Everyone knows Bethesda is all about factions. That’s what makes their games so GOLD
FOOLS GOLD 😂
When you build an outpost and put a landing pad there you can build ships with all parts on it.
A solution to the ship problem is to let the player save blueprints of ships/ outposts that can be loaded in later and purchased all at once at any port, as part of the players retained memory
One interesting thing about the procedural generation prefabs that you can stumble upon when doing planet exploration, you can find slates that gives you a point of interest to another place.
The one I found from a random procedural generation prefab sent me to a hideout that had 80K worth of contraband and so much good loot as well.
I found that most of my good loot so far has been from the procedural generation stuff
Good loot doesn’t really have anything to do with AI though 🤔 unless some ding dong programmed in the best loot exclusively coming from AI generated spots 😂 but that would be really really lame imo
You shouldn’t need AI to generate random loot ❤ we’ve been doing it since Chrono Trigger 😂
Bethesda already announced some new updates like Dlss support, FOV slider and hdr calibration.
Honestly it's wild that a 2023 FPS doesn't have an FOV slider.
@DaShikuXI but Todd says it's a truly next gen experience....
So compared to other titles out there these days at $70. You think 100hrs of enjoyable content is priced too high? Not to mention this game has replayability. I think its way better value the the 20 to 60 hr one and done $70 games out there
yes, or Sony exclusives, 7 to 20 hr one and done games.
For example, Ratchet and Clank, $70 for 7 hours of gameplay.
Not surprised the ship building is the best part. fallout 4 base building was a lot of fun with mods turned on
Yep, going to play the main story on game pass then when it’s in special pick it up on steam and go nuts with mods
yup, building is the best part of Fo4 for me with mods because the game's building system is so broken it is impossible to enjoy the game at all but with mods it has bring me 4k+ hour into this game. I would think similar will apply to Starfield once many mods being available. For now I will let it cook for awhile.
Im about 5 days in and around 3 days of gameplay atlantis started "falling apart". Shuttle train in the comerical district is gone, the walkway to the falls is just not there. The ramp leading up to your ship the black strip before it bends up is missing. The most recent thing that is happening is the well elevator at the port is not opening at all. Im hoping once i 100% the game i can still access atlantis cause even the lodge main door bugged out by doing the opening crack but never did the load so i took the roof access and it fixed itself thankfully lol.
My ship renamed itself, the ownership bugged and the cargo deletes itself every few days in game now. There really are some nasty unacceptable bugs
Honestly, "overall okay" is exactly my feeling about this whole game.
Everything is so frustratingly below par for what should be a modern game. You can argue all you want about about nvme drives having to be standard, but when the issue with playing this game on other types of hardrives is abundant studdering, not texture issues, that's an optimization problem. I can run Cyberpunk on ultra settings with no more issues than occasional pop-in, and yet Starfield freezes constantly, and they're on the same drive. That's Starfield's issue, not anything in my PC.
The ship builder is fun, I liked it a lot but it has limitations that I don't agree with, I think 40m is not a big enough limit, especially when we aren't even allowed to rotate habs, it's just lego bricks with hardly any way to make it look good and be functional at the same time. Flying ships dosent even really mean anything more than how fast it rotates in whatever space box you're loaded into. Theres no aerodynamics because you never personally fly your ship in-atmosphere. There is no bullet collision for where your guns are placed. They'll just shoot through whatever blocks them, so line of sight means nothing more than having auto aim line up your shots for you.
And that little rant is only a fraction of my issues with my favorite aspect of the game. Everything else is very lackluster, shallow and means very little in terms of enjoyment and excitement. It's actually a fairly boring game overall, especially when you spend 15-20 seconds in a load screen every five minutes no matter what youre doing, and thats IF the game isn't also constantly freezing, that's just the way it was designed, loading into one box after another, honestly felt more like I was stuck in The Cube.
The ship going away in new game plus dosent even make fucking sense either, you literally use your ship to initiate the process of going into ng+. And once you get to the place where it happens, your ship just vanishes into nowhere. Just stupid. So many stupid design choices and limitations.
If you want my advice, if you are wondering whether to buy Starfield, dont. Wait for mods or dlc, wait for a sale, whatever you want, but unless you want to be a goody two shoes, pretending to explore space that's already been settled, doing so one loading screen at a time, on rails that Bethesda has placed for you, then look for better space games. Play X4 Foundations, play Elite Dangerous, play No Mans Sky if you like the arcade feel of space combat. Play the Mass Effect series (before Andromeda) hell, if you have a decent pc, you can screw around in Star Citizen for like $40 I think. This is a painfully mid-tier rpg, space game and any other kind of game it's trying to be. There are much better games for whatever you're looking for already out there.
Mostly agree with you. I think once the updates come out people will start coming back to it.
With the new maps, mods, dlc every year, and dune buggies very soon.
I love this game. 50 hours in.... I need to get back into the main quest. I keep f*cking with the side quests.
same bro
This game is a solid 7.5/10 but it isnt goty caliber imo
I enjoy the ammunition system because it forces me to swap between weapon types and I make an effort to save powerful ammo types for larger engagements. And it makes me seek out traders to purchase ammo.
There's a reason Microsoft delayed this game for well over a year and brought in multiple external teams to simply work on Bugs, and Optimization. It just wasn't enough time.
It would have been amazing story wise if they pulled off a massive war event between the UC and the Crimson fleet where you become the deciding factor... Like they did in Skyrim.
That quest does exist, but instead of several battles you get one big final ship battle UC against Crimson fleet and you can choose your side
@@mortecai222 Vermire? I almost always go with Ashley.
They should have had aliens. Idk what’s wrong with them, they half assed the game. They went big and gave up half way through
I agree for the most part. I do believe that building a ship builder on your base gives you access to most ship parts and not some exclusive parts from certain factions but you still have to buy everything every playthrough soooo..... that was my worst feeling of starting ng+. Why build a base, why build a very good ship you can call home? Modders have work to do lol
Ok but in every other game there is not a new game plus. I’ve made so many different characters in all of the Bethesda games. That being said I’m going to take my time still with my first play through(40 hours in) but I’m not really going to bother with base building until I get to new game + 8. I want that to be my last play through because I think that armor looks the best.
@@solidsnake3962There's plenty of games with NG+.
The main storyline gives you the dialog options to say that you’re not the big hero, to say that you think it’s better to stick with what you have in your own world. So it basically gives you the RP tools to let you go off and do your own thing without having the game make you the big hero.
No.
No, it gives flavor text but does not change any outcomes. The hardest consequences is pissing off companions like killing innocent people with Sarah around she'll stop being your teammate.
The story is the same Bethesda had written since forever, you are the chosen one who's the only one capable of changing the world. It's serviceable at best but hardly what I would consider an RPG.
@@mortecai222 Wow bethesda fans really only play shit games. The companion that can die can be anyone!? WOW! Next gen xD
If you build a ship landing pad as a part of an outpost you gain access to all of the non-unique ship parts if you make a ship in that outpost. But yeah, it would be cool if Bethesda let you save a template of your ship, so you could construct the ship you like in ng+ without wasting time. Overall, I liked the game, but it's not worth 70 bucks. Maybe 50. It's really the best Bethesda game in terms of different features and systems, but I think they fucked up the exploration, which was the best part of the other Howard titles.
Rurikhan, your own staryard (the one you build in your outpost) have almost all the parts, as far i know, the only ones it doesn't have are the cutting edge ones from each manufacturer
The game can only be appreciated by those who really played it (it’s not a linear, cinematic game that can be appreciated in a gameplay video of UA-cam). I played it for 76 hours and finished the main quest and the game would’ve been 9.5/10 if it weren’t for the loading screens, space exploration and the poor performance on pc. I give it a 8.5/10. Such a good game.
The space-setting and shooting is mainly why this isnt for me. I am still interested how it turned out. I loved Oblivion (it blew my mind), and skyrim was pretty good once modded (still didnt like the combat).
It still seems like the same old bethesda game. Yanky npc's+bugs, below mediocre combat, terrible ui, but a great immersive world with good faction quests (main reasons i liked the games). Thats dissapointing considering oblivion was about 20 years ago... About none evolution at all? i was at least expecting to be able to just go anywhere and find interesting stuff, but Ruri stated that is not what this game is at all.. Would have made sense to add that to the bethesda experience/fomula.
Main thing i take from starfield impressions is: Elder scrolls VI will be a huge dissapointment :/
Describing very hard as just bloated HP pools really doesn't do justice to how bad that difficulty actually is, the fact that you randomly get "legendary" enemies that not only have a HP pool thats bloated to all hell but also a shield that is bloated to hell and regenerates to the point that it takes entire magazines to drop it then it simply comes back while your reloading absolutely kills any fun that combat in the game had.
Oh he is still alive
I played Elite Dangerous and now mostly Star Citizen with HOTAS and my opinion as a veteran of those two games is that Starfield is much worse. There are no complex maneuvers. At least I have the feeling that everything is a semi-arcade. Implementation of thrusters is OK, but again nothing special.
At the moment, I'm about a hundred hours into the game, my friend tells me that I'm not even halfway through the main story :-) I stop everywhere, talk to a bunch of NPCs, and enjoy exploring the planets for more than an hour. I read all the messages on the terminals, I research the lore of the game. I knew this was basically Fallout 4 in space, but unlike you, I love the Fallout series and as far as space is concerned, we are the same.
As one of the biggest problems of this game, I would point out that the main problem is that the game was made with the Xbox console as a basis. To me, this game seems like a semi-OK PC port. If this game was made with PC as a basis, I think that many of the problems that are bothering us now would not exist.
Bethesda has not learned the lessons of the past and is repeating the same mistakes.
Todd tells us to buy better hardware, and his game doesn't even have basic features like FOV or contrast slider. Does anyone remember which of Tod's games had the same problems? It starts with the letter F and ends with the number 6. Do you remember how long we asked and waited for some basic things to be added to the game?
I agree with the faction missions. I have enjoyed. Even the most common pop up missions knew how to surprise me. Main story.... 6 out of 10.
All in all, an OK game with a lot of content, especially for those of us who like to explore and we used to drive around one planet in Elite for 5-6 hours. Is the game over hyped? It is. Is it GOTY material? A big NO!
All in all, as with previous Bethesda games, they will collect money and others (moding community) will fix their game. Not a bad tactic Todd :-)
My dude hates everything I love about BGS games… here’s a hint, buy ammo.
The “typical bethesda jank” thing is really sad. If it were any other AAA studio, things like glitching NPCs or assets not loading properly would be inexcusable.
I have been saying this for a while now, I am sick of people defending Bethesda for shitty games then saying the modders will fix it, I don't buy this excuse.
No other company gets this pass so why should they.
I find it to be all about the scale of the game, if a game has an average of 100 interactions with npcs, those npc glitching out is unacceptable, when a game has 1000s upon 1000s of interactions with several potential outcomes players tend to be more forgiving. (Personally like I said, I think the game’s ambition far exceeds the engine capabilities, I wish they’d lower the scope a little for a more polished experience)
But is bigger but buggier = better than smaller and more polished? I honestly prefere much more the more smaller handcrafted polished gems instead of those bloated Triple A Titels.
Depends on who you ask, personally I prefer smaller and more polished, but some players prefer scale.
Baldur's Gate 3 had game breaking bugs in Act 2/3 on launch and it's still considered a great game. Witcher 3, Dragon Age Inquisition and tons of other similar ambitious RPGs have a lot of bugs, that is just the reality with this genre of game.
They really need to modify NG+ so you keep your inventory+your ship and anything and everyone on it. Want a crew of Adoring fans? Just NG+ a few times lol
after my own 150 hours, I've only had repeat of 3 areas and I did engage in a lot of random side shit, in fact into NG+, the first 2 areas I had to go to were new to me had just commented on that to my mate - but 100% agree on the poor NG+ implementation, as soon as I realized from the story reveal what was going to happen in NG+, i just rushed it, was no point doing anything anymore and now in NG+, knowing I need to loose it all again - motivation is now gone, I'm done with the game. Thoroughly enjoyed that 150 hours tho - roll on the mods to sort it out :)
star citizen time =]
I swear, they set this game up where you have to give your favourite gun to your companion.
something i disagree on is the whole 30 fps thing. 30 fps is a thing of the past, i mean the ps5 has had games at 60 fps while looking good in 4k for years now with uncharted, spider-man, god of war, the last of us. there’s just really no excuse for the modern consoles to not improve on the old ones. sony is definitely outclassing xbox in that regard
Somehow I enjoy doing the side quest more than the main quest. I'm glad I'm not the only one.
Starfield should have made it so that you could not even come near the main quest unless you chose the right trait or were at the right place or let someone else touch the thing.
4:34 perfect timing
I agree with you stating you should keep your ship. I also think there should be a way to reclaim your outposts in NG+. The same argument exists with outposts. I want to do NG+, but my motivation is severely lacking due to losing absolutely everything I built.
Have a separate save for your grind then go into ng+ for different paths in the game. I wish we can rename saves in the future tho.
I have a 3080, the games installed on an NVME. It’s a problem with the game.
Make your outpost and build a ship landing pad. You can build your ship on it and it has all the parts centralized there, besides very specific specialty parts.
I totally agree with the shipbuilding aspects. One of my fav parts of the game. I jus spent over 15 hr solely on building my ship and I'm still not 100% satisfied.
Combat looks dull
Very
I don’t mind the different ammo types but there should definitely be more standardized ammunition between weapon types
I get between 30-60fps (i capped it at 60 bc that's good for me) on a RTX3080 @4k, so idk what all the noise about performance is
Getting the same performance exactly on the same card at 1080p. Performance issue is likely within engine itself, like engine is running slower in certain scenes.
I don't want them to drop the engine though. Just hope they fix it eventually. If not, modders will, and even then, I'm fine with 30-60 max settings in my single player RPG
Whats your most favorite game ever?
I like most of your review but some of it is ridiculous like the Ammo issue I personally love it go find or buy the ammo not the biggest deal 😂
So the game worth $60 if you avoid bethesda common bugs and limit yourseft what can you do? mmmmm ok
Ruri as you said, it's a "Fallout" in space. And the moment i learned that made a refund.
Random Question, Ruri, have you played Deep Rock Galactic?
30 fps is a major problem man. It’s 2023. Not 1999. The games is rough at 30 fps and if you play on console, it looks bad
Who cares about fps? It’s useless
People are wayyyy too obsessed w frame rates
It's like the obsession with graphics
@@Laocoon283 Except framerates actually effect gameplay and game function on a mechanical level, the fact that lower framerates actually induces shit like control input latency due to your buttons needing the next frame to be recognised means there is actually a very real reason for you to need the highest possible frame-rate.
Got a 1T ssd drive just to play this game... It crashed soo many times, I thought it was my P.C.
So I played Total War Warhammer three! That game works great, so it is Starfield.
Starfield needs better optimization & loads of patch work. Mostly crashed loading into the lodge & when I was purposely trying to crash it.
I couldn't make a chick with a dick, I couldn't fly planet to planet, I couldn't scare NPC's, and I couldn't say F U to that dumb ass constellation faction (I fucking hated every one of them).
If my computer can play Warhammer 3, it "should" be able to play anything... Sad.
Upgrade to what Todd, I have an RTX4090!!!! Also I lost 50 hrs of game play because I did Return to Vektera first instead of Into the Unknown and got the bug in Empty Nest where you pick up the artifact but the quest is still marked as "pick up the artifact" and only console commands could fix it!
"Upgrade" to AMD is what he means
"a little bit of procedural generation" the understatement of the year
No it isn’t…. There’s a lot of it if you want to go and do that, but you can completely ignore it, most of the time any average player IS only going to be interacting with a little bit of procedural generation, because the point of the game is the hand crafted content.
@@ProjectMoff😐🤔🫵🤣🤣🤣🤣
It's funny how often I hear reviews complaining about some glitches or errors and I never experience them, or at least no where near the rate of the reviews. Even on my old rig years ago that was well past it's prime... by years.
I guess it's possible that I was lucky on every game I played and for whatever reason the hardware I happened too put together was the best optimization for every game I chose to play.
Or.... some reviewers suffer from the fallacy of focusing on the few errors. I recall people in places I worked complaining about some vendors we dealt with were the absolute worst. But when I investigated it was a couple of issues, and they were far from the most common with issues. But the few issues really bothered the co worker so that's all they could think about.
Perhaps here the reviewers are focusing on issues so that a half dozen glitches in 100 hours seems like 10%. And yes the usually bethesda issues are there. I get NPC's wandering into conversations. Last night I fell through the floor of my ship and kept getting rubber banded back inside. First time something like that had happened. I'm at 94 hours, and while I haven't been keeping track, I would estimate these errors happening closer to 1% of the time, probably less.
To be fair, you can actually kill someone with said fork in BG3
there is a huge potential here with this. I mean imagine Elite Dangerous multiplayer with First Person RPG element that Bethesda does. Add excellent first person shooter which Microsoft helped them to improve... and that partnership! considering what the procedural and generative AI could create.... If they build on this as a base with that vision, future starfield games could be the most space games ever created.
imagine star citizen instead
If you don't have ammo for the gun you like you have to buy it lol it's simple. You can sell the ammunition you don't use. And a good thing is that in this game the ammunition has no weight
Having a trillion types of ammo is quite annoying. I just go to vendors and buy ammo because the likelihood of looting ammo for the specific guns I like can be quite low most of the time
If you have a PC there is a mod that lets you craft ammo.
You’re supposed to be using multiple weapons. I cant imagine spending all your cash on ammo is better than just carrying like 5-6 different guns
Why not just pay attention to the guns you use the most, then buy the ammo for those guns? I have had no issue at all. 7.77mm was clearly the most abundant early game so I used that and built up a surplus in other ammo types. Then when I had the ammo to use I could see which guns I liked, I have about 5 guns on my rotation and so I only need to remember up to 5 ammo types, two of my main guns use the same ammo. Also when you see you’re low on ammo for whatever gun you’re using and you’ve forgotten the ammo type just look at it in the menu…. I don’t get why some people are having problems with this…
The ship combat definitely a highlight and things you can do as you said, epic. Curious...did you meet the mysterious stalker in space as well? 😅
It’s been commented here so… I just want to share that outposts is the most fun bit, despite been bugged, for many. Get on it , mate. Perhaps you may like, make content or find the secret to your wishes. Great vid though. Cheers
7.5MM, 7.62MM, 7.77MM ahh yes indeed
For hotas there is the thrust master t-flight. Consoles read it as a controller and you can tell steam to read as a generic controller so starfield reads it as an Xbox controller. Works great 👍 it was very popular for elite dangerous.
Interesting that within 3 mins of video a few of the things you mentioned are being covered in the upcoming patch.
I thought Barret was only character that had an interesting personality
They take your ship!? thats dumb.
Just make up a new quest where you explore the ruins and discover a legendary ship (i.e. your old ship) which was left by a mysterious space cowboy
Whether you pick that stuff or not, it'll be where it's put.
There is a centralized staryard for the outpost builder. It has nearly every part.
You asked about the load screen times for Xbox. I can happily say I play on a series S and it takes anywhere from 5 to 10 seconds to load. Also worth noting sometimes on the load screen the little loading circle in the corner stops for whatever reason it means your game froze. 😅
Uh...yeah that's not like a cool feature. When the game freezes animations stop....cause you know, frozen.
@@FullMetalB I mean skyrim froze on me now and again. So did FO4. Can it be annoying sure. Do I care, no not really it takes seconds to load the game back up.
@@DeadbyDefault17 hahahahahahaha
I'll buy it when it gets a high discount, sure that's ages away but at least some performance fixes should be done by then
Also you'll be able to reap the benefit of the mod community which is often the saving grace of Bethesda games
@@ochrow Absolutely all the inventory mods out already make it 100x more appealing
Procedural generation isnt that bad though.. ppl say they see the same thing everywhere but. But that is the same with NMS.
Only difference is NMS on that part is that Starfield is a smaller game in that sense and has less stuff. Like less resources to scan/discover
The procedural generation is also just mere extra optional content. If people are playing the game for the procedural generated part of the game then they’re playing the wrong game, it’s an RPG.
I don't care if it does it as well as a 7 year old game. If it doesn't work, don't use it. They wanted to prove that procedural generation could be as good as curated content. They failed. That's it.
try the big launching station on the outpost. i think it has most of the ship parts
People actually thought midfield would win GOTY 🤣
What game do you like better
@@blackmax6882 almost every other major release this year is better
@@blackmax6882 TOTK for open world, nothing better than zooming out and seeing 100's locations like shrines completed
BG3 for best RPG this year, compeleted 100% with joy cant wait for definitive edition
remnant 2 for best looter shooter, 50 bucks for 100 hours of content decent mob and boss variety, only cringe part was the unlocking operators through secrets
ac6, not an mech guy but loved going for S rank mission completion frustrating but rewarding
hogwarts for nostalgia, havent played harry potter since 2000's, terrible perfomance launch for pc and one button game at some point but loved it
@@FullMetalB you played every other major release?
@@FullMetalB I really want to break this down with one of you ponies and expose how y’all are sheep without your own mind and nit picking
No opinion on the base building?
I don’t care for base building beyond the potential to mine for resources, seem serviceable, the only thing I’d like more from it would be some kind of optional snap in place to be able to place things at aesthetically pleasing angles instead of rotating it 1 degree at a time to try and nail some form of symmetry.
@@rurikhan ahh alright! Yeah true, i didn't really get into it much aswell
I kinda thought you voiced sam in starfield
‘Dude in Space’ is a great album title .
truthfully, think the Series S forced Bethesda to cut down a bit on its ambition (especially with variety of the "tiles" and general spaceship exploration take offs / landings)
I was mad they took my guns away. I rushed to the ending and I was mad I lost my guns. Don't even want to play the game anymore. BG 3 here I come.
You rushed to the ending… You did that… If you’re sloppy, careless and ignorant of the game you’re playing you deserve to get mad.
I agree with the Ship experience I love it I already have a custom class C ship so fast so agile!