Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

FFS, this game is still a goddamn mess. I installed the DLC and loaded up my old save (L70 character still in the first cycle, and for some reason I had quit playing the game in the middle of the prison mission for the pirate dudes). I remember the NPC who's with you for that mission used to bug out and get stuck a lot, and to my complete lack of surprise, he still does. Doesn't really matter since he teleports to the next spot for the story when you get near it, but it still looks retarded when it keeps happening. All the weapon crates in the place were locked but totally empty too, but I guess you can probably chalk that one up to loading a really old savegame.

I finally complete the mission and escape in the prison shuttle. Instead of the dude tagging along for the mission being on board with me, suddenly my entire crew from my own ship magically appears in the shuttle and start yapping about all their usual bullshit, all at the same time talking over each other. Looking out into space around the Key, there's a bunch of ships just spinning in place. Usually 2-3 ships in one spot clipped into each other too.

Maybe it's all because of it being a save that's just over a year old, but I kind of doubt it. That could cause issues with the cells that were already loaded in the save data, but every other cell in the game should be unaffected. I really don't want to play this turd from the beginning just to check out the DLC, and also see what changes have been made to the ship builder in the past year. Although I did just remember that that playthrough was before I knew how the story missions worked and I ended up losing Andreja. Doesn't really seem like a good idea to do a whole DLC built around Varuun without being able to bring her along for it, so I guess I do have to either start over or finish up the rest of this cycle and go on to NG+. Ugh.

Out of curiosity I checked the concurrent player numbers for this on Steam to see how much interest the DLC has...

Skyrim is higher right now

Even cucked DEI journalist couldnt save those ratings.

Steam users are having none of it either.



Mostly due to the price vs. amount of content. Definitely a valid criticism, seeing as the 'expansion' is just a chunk of a planet. It's hand-crafted unlike the rest of the game, but it's all completely self-contained. It's like they realized the game failed so spectacularly at being about space travel and exploration that they just said fuck it and made a Skyrim/Fallout-esque DLC that takes place all in one area. There's nothing new for ships, one(?) new recruitable crew member, and a handful of weapons/equipment.

Having just loaded up the game for the first time in over a year I was also pretty disappointed to find that the Razorleaf ship build that I spent a few hours perfecting back then seems to still be the best possible setup for max speed + maneuverability, 30 LY jump, highest dps guns, ~3k cargo, 6 crew, etc. The 'home ship' thing is still just as clunky as before too.

Still torn on whether I want to bother with doing the whole DLC at all. I definitely don't want to restart a whole new save, but it seems like to do it properly I will have to go through all the unity bullshit and then do whatever is necessary to get to the point in the NG+1 story where doing the DLC makes sense.

Yeah, it's hard to pass that off as worthwhile content for the price when Phantom Liberty was also $30.

Even CDPR admitted their engine had issues and jumped on the UE train

This day and age, when the complexity has increased a great deal, it's difficult to turn your back on something that's getting continually tested by a thousand different developers.

Vorph said:

so I guess I do have to either start over or finish up the rest of this cycle and go on to NG+. Ugh.

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Or just don't play it?

If sleeping pills could magically become a game, they would become Starfield. Between the somber music and the Chucky Cheese animatronic NPCs yapping 10 minutes of exposition in the flattest way possible and the vast swaths of nothing on most planets and the absolute snoozefest of a MSQ, it's a chore to even play. The Terrormorph UC questline was probably one of the few that was interesting, but even that was punctuated by a lot of the above issues.

I have the xpac because I was a sucker and bought the deluxe edition at launch and I have almost no motivation to even try it.

The only game that made me want to doze off even more in recent history was Dragon's Dogma 2