Starfield's May 2024 Big Patch And My Updated Thoughts
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The comments on this video are a LOT nicer than the similar one I made in December.😅 lol
Wake me up when space travel is possible
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It's a tough world out there for Starfield content. So many wild people out there who go out of their way to tear down anyone who enjoyed it. I happy to see the top comments on Starfield videos are starting to be positive or nuanced. However, sorting by new and you get the weirdos who have to tell you how its boring and bad.
This video is a good example of what you said. I made a video in December and got absolutely destroyed by people for saying anything nice about Starfield. This one has been WAY more kind and that's nice. I suspect most of the people who hated on the game just to hate it are on to other things.
@@baundiesel I actually just watched your original vid last night, saw the ratio. Glad you didn't give up.
I loved Starfield on day 1. Though I understand the issues people had with it. It's definitely much better after the changes.
I appreciate bethesda improving it. Most games don't get all this post launch support (whether they are buggy or not - and SF wasnt that buggy).
That said, I did play SF to death. So I'm in Fallout 76 now until there's new stuff to do in SF, like DLC or modding
Unless someone is able to mod immersive intergalactic flight, I think I've had my fill.
Love your comment on Starfield being a cozy game. Never thought of it that way. It does make some sense with the pacing of the game and how a lot of my friends and I felt the game's experience. Still waiting on the Shattered Spaces DLC to really dive back.
I think waiting on the DLC is probably the best move for most folks. Thanks for watching!
"The more you give to Starfield, the more it gives back." ~Tod Howard.
I am finding this to be true. The more things you have going on, the more interconnections you start to have. I built an outpost outside New Atlantis. All the fast travel links are visible from my outpost. I can just look over, click on one, and off I go. There is also an abandoned farm POI close by with a landing pad attached to it. I thought cool, there is a lot of organic material i can get from there if I need it. Today I look over and there is a ship on the landing pad. I go over and it turns out to be a Va'ruun ship. I board it and take it. I hope they retaliate and attack my outpost.
I put 5 mannequins neat the bay entrance of my ship. I am outfitting them with space suits, boost packs, helmets and apparel for each of the environmental conditions. So now every time I take loot, I am looking at the environment specs and special features from the rare, epic, and legendary loot and piecing together gear for specific tasks.
I liked starfield from the start. I think if it had suggestive clothing and let you give the character curves there would be a lot less hate for it. Rule 34.
The patch raised the floor for the game.
That’s a really great way to put it
I'm trying Starfield now after finishing The Outer Worlds. I absolutely loved Outer Worlds so I want more Space adventures. So far it's beautiful and fun
I'm at 250 hours and can't wait for the Shattered Space dlc. Only let down for me was the procedural exploration, I was expecting a little more variety and density of locations but given the scope of the game it's totally reasonable.
Yeah, I have settled in the camp of wishing we have MUCH fewer planets if they were more curated and varied. I still enjoy it all though.
@@baundiesel That is the consensus that most people stand by. I rather have just a very nicely populated Solar system then a whole galaxy.
i just finished playing outer worlds and it got me wanting another spacer fix. im terrible at keeping up with the gaming communities latest tragedy they cry over, what does it do differently to other bethesda games that people dont like?
It would be great if you could at the least fly around the solar system your in and add procedural generating locations and random events in space. I would also add an atmospheric barrier around planets so if you get to close, you will get a warning that you will get stuck in grav lock so people can’t fly through planets. And lastly, they need to update the animation for space travel and make it more immersive/seemless during the loading screen bits. If they did this, the game could be incredible. What’s strange is you can fly throughout the solar system but they won’t let you travel fast at all. So it’s possible but they need to let you have more speed. I can live with the loading screens from planet to space but let me fly in space.
That's fair.
As Bethesda fan, my issue was the repeating POI. I'm lot more OK with more "cookie cutter dungeons" than non-Bethesda fans, but literally identical layout/clutter from POI to POI repeating itself was too much. To me the game makes or breaks based on this alone. IIRC there were like 30 different POI in game data files ignoring unique locations. If they double, triple that I'd suddenly enjoy the game much more. And that repetition only became obvious in latter half of my playthrough, which is my my opinion on the game changed over time.
I've been playing the shit out of a modded skyrim playthrough recently. After Dragons Dogma I've really been craving immersive medieval adventure.
Give kingdom come deliverance a try. Not for everyone but top tier in medieval immersion
@@TheCottonMan18 I love KCD, and I'm very excited for 2 later this year. SexyBiscuit is one of my favorite UA-camrs. Lol
So far its runninng alot better for me and the additions are nice enough for me to last enough the dlc. Good surprise for me since i Hated the game when it came out
Too little too late for me I've moved on to final fantasy 14 ages ago
The biggest issue that people have, which is repeating POIs, absolutely can be fixed
Hopefully!
The new map has made that a little less annoying. Now you can see what it is before you get there.
It is a pain to walk 700-1000 meters or so just to find it is a POI you have visited recently.
Don't care about the frame rate. Just make a good game
umm nope...
play on 1fps i dare you.
May QoL update really improved some things for me. the chatty companions are still annoying and likely won't get fixed without mods. once mods are available, it will really open up the game's potential.
Yeah, the creation kit is going to be huge. The mods people have made already with the limited resources have been impressive.
*Todd Howard likes this*
End of the day the game sold well, its a financial hit and a win.
I thought it was an OK game, the storyline wasn't as strong as I was expecting. The open world looked amazing but the dialogue on activities and side requests was repetitive.
But on a plus I loved Sarah Morgan and how that the relationship took along time to cement. Overall Starfield was a decent "filler" game in the Sci-fi rpg genre.
That's a very reasonable take.
@@baundiesel tbf I haven't played it since they patched it up. Might revisit in a year or two, or closer to when the next Mass Effect (hopefully) will launch.
They are banking on Fallout. They probably already low key gave up on Starfield.
That doesn't seem to be true at all but I suppose we'll see.
For all the people out there, Just because YOU don't like the game doesn't mean it's a bad game. I've heard people say X game is bad, then say they hate games of a specific genre. Don't review the game if you know ahead of time that you don't like the genre.
it is a bad game though
I'm new to the channel, good video. There is too much negativity in gaming. I've started playing again recently, and like you, I've started again. Now that you can change traits on NG+ I am leaning into the NG+ mode, planning to do a different main story or faction quest line on each run. It's not a perfect game, certainly not as good as Fallout 4 or Skyrim, but it's worth playing. I think the thing that annoys me about it the most is the temples. Skyrim had a dungeon for each word, for Starfield it is the same annoying minigame over, and over, and over. Apart from that, it's pretty solid IMO.
I can appreciate all of that. As for the channel I'm just a guy saying what I think and curious to what others have to say. Thank you for watching!
Still waiting for updates. But this video nails what I feel. I want to like it but it's just not there for me. When FO4 is more enjoyable to explore, rather than an "exploration" in space game...theres an issue.
Hook your platform of choice up to the internet.
I jumped back in but it didn't fix the general game. I do like that you have a lot of depth in customizing the difficulty and other aspects of the game that could be annoying (like vendor credits), but at the core, the problem with the game is that there is no sense of exploration or discovering something new and exciting. All the outposts look the same, all the spaceships and stations look the same, the faction quests are short and uninteresting and the characters/companions are generally god awful milk toast cardboard cutouts. I ran into a bug on my most recent replay where I can' t finish a faction quest, and in general they picked this weird atmosphere for space. The entire UC and Free Star space feel like a 2024 college campus safe space and there is absolutely nothing interesting going on. I mean, compare even just the ATMOSPHERE and design of Star Citizen, it's not even close. The feeling of the universe you get from Star Wars or Star Trek, not even close here. There is nothing COOL about Starfield, and the missions are generally lame too. The combat is sweet though... until there is no reason or motivation to play.
That's certainly an interesting take.
Agreed. Its just a bad game. I hope they can fix it, but I have my doubts. I've been playing Elder Scrolls games since Morrowind and don't know if I will even buy the next one. Exploration is Starfield is trash, going anywhere is just selecting it from a series of menus. I'm the type of player that doesn't like to fast travel and would rather wander and experience the world. The story is awful, they basically just copied Skyrim. Maybe the next Fallout you will be the "Vault-Born" and go around different vaults collecting shouts. The RPG elements locked a lot of important features behind perks making it less fun to explore different builds. Restrictions on ship building, literally no intelligent aliens, etc.
NOTHING changed. Them adding Map (LOL) has to be a quite the joke.
That's objectively false. If the changes aren't enough for you that's all good. Just play other stuff. There's lots of fun to be had right now.
I was down on it at release. Partly because it was buggy as hell and it stuttered and freezed so much I could barely play it. Partly because they lied and set expectations so high.
Now, the performance is still pretty much as bad as before, but I’ve mitigated that somewhat. When I look at it with fresh eyes, though, and try not to think about the wasted potential or compare it too much to games like No Man’s Sky, it’s become fairly enjoyable to play. 🤷🏻♂️
Interesting.
@@baundiesel I know. No one is more surprised than I am. 😂 I wouldn’t say it’s a great game or maybe even much of a GOOD game, but I’m enjoying some of the story and gunplay, now that I have it running well enough that it’s not constantly freezing and crashing. 🤷🏻♂️
It’s still ridiculous how bad the performance is, though. My rig isn’t high-end, but it usually plays most games at high or ultra for most settings. Even at lowest settings for everything I can’t get Starfield to play well. That’s not a failing of my hardware, that’s just bad game design.
FreeStar Rangers Rock
I'd played Sea of Stars before playing Starfield on PC gamepass and I enjoyed Sea of Stars more than Starfield. When a main character died on Starfield I could care less. The writing was awful. I remember some missions gives an illusion of choice the no matter which dialog or action I choose the result were exactly the same. While some of that also applies to Sea of Stars I actually felt something when one of the main characters died.
Starfield was just average. I doubt I will ever play it again with so many other games I rather play.
That's a wild comparison of games. lol I played Starfield after Baldur's Gate 3 and found the joy in both of them in very different ways.
@@baundiesel Sea of Stars just happened to be the game I played right before Starfield. Even though the game was simple it revealed to me just how poor Starfield writing was and how little I cared about the characters.
It is still not the game they promised
But it can still be fun for people
I think people made up a lot of their own expectations as well.
I'll just wait for the complete PS5 version
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The game needs better armor and outfits.of course mods will fix that.mass effect or cyberpunk did that slot better
That's fair. I'd like to see more "low profile" space suits. Too many bulky ones.
If you think starfield looks good, you should try a game called "No Mans Sky" or "Elite:Dangerous Odyssey" Thank me later :)
I've played both and they're cool for sure. All three games have very different goals and strengths.
It was just wasted potential because I could see how it could be much better easily
Starfield is not a good game, that being said there’s nothing wrong with liking a game even if it’s bad.
That's subjective. It's fine if you don't think it's good. I disagree vehemently.
Nope.
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It always was.
Nah, it was good the whole time.
"People were expecting too much". This explains the negative reaction to the game when it was first released. After the upgrade the game is now even better and worth the time.
Did not like Witcher 3? wow.... this guy is dead to me