Biggie Posted December 28, 2023 Share Posted December 28, 2023 3 minutes ago, stepee said: Hide contents Damn, how cool would a dog with a doggy spacesuit be Spoiler Or a chimpanzee since they used to be launched into space 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted December 28, 2023 Share Posted December 28, 2023 3 minutes ago, Biggie said: Reveal hidden contents Or a chimpanzee since they used to be launched into space That would honestly be great! I do like my robot friend though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biggie Posted December 28, 2023 Share Posted December 28, 2023 Just now, stepee said: That would honestly be great! I do like my robot friend though. Spoiler Spoiler Vasco is good in combat also 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spawn_of_Apathy Posted December 28, 2023 Share Posted December 28, 2023 Vasco is ok in combat. It defaults to melee too often and ends up getting in your way. 9 hours ago, Biggie said: you think Starfield is shit? not entirely. I’ll go with a junk food analogy though, like this person did. Starfield is a huge box of assorted Doritos, where most of the bags are just plain corn Doritos, but every bag is 80% air and the flavoring isn’t even coating every chip. So even when you find a flavor you like there’s just not enough. I recently found out that Starfield has just 1 credited writer. And boy does that make things make sense. Why every quest or mission feels like a “first draft” outline of something that could have been great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted December 29, 2023 Share Posted December 29, 2023 ok phew it’s still just an easy console command to give yourself infinite weight limit, I simply do not want to fuck with that in these games Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted December 30, 2023 Share Posted December 30, 2023 Did the Mantis side quest and got a big armor upgrade and a new ship! I’m definitely enjoying this, it’s pretty much what I expected. Fallout in space with better combat but no vats. I like having a decent third person camera option too. Also i love having the jet boost. Do you ever get a slow motion ability and if so what perks do I want to level up to get that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biggie Posted December 30, 2023 Share Posted December 30, 2023 2 hours ago, stepee said: Did the Mantis side quest and got a big armor upgrade and a new ship! I’m definitely enjoying this, it’s pretty much what I expected. Fallout in space with better combat but no vats. I like having a decent third person camera option too. Also i love having the jet boost. Do you ever get a slow motion ability and if so what perks do I want to level up to get that? Not sure about slow mo. The perks I hit early in was the one that made using digipicks easier to unlock things and of course the weapons like pistols, rifles, shotguns, etc. to make them more powerful. Also health. There are a ton of perks to choose from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted December 30, 2023 Share Posted December 30, 2023 Yeah so far I’m going for combat power but I wonder if there are any abilities later on I’d like to work towards - I care more about anything that adds to the mechanics - cuz I can always just adjust difficulty for power/health. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted December 31, 2023 Share Posted December 31, 2023 Got three more artifacts and visiting this cowboy town now with Sam before I head back to the lodge. Getting tons of loot since I don’t have a carry limit and it’s great. So far the game hasn’t stopped me from doing whatever I want to do without engaging in whatever I don’t want to do so it’s working out well! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
best3444 Posted December 31, 2023 Share Posted December 31, 2023 4 minutes ago, stepee said: Got three more artifacts and visiting this cowboy town now with Sam before I head back to the lodge. Getting tons of loot since I don’t have a carry limit and it’s great. So far the game hasn’t stopped me from doing whatever I want to do without engaging in whatever I don’t want to do so it’s working out well! What are your thoughts on the meat puppet NPC's? I think it's pretty inexcusable this gen but maybe I'm wrong? I know others here didn't like it when I pointed it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted December 31, 2023 Share Posted December 31, 2023 37 minutes ago, best3444 said: What are your thoughts on the meat puppet NPC's? I think it's pretty inexcusable this gen but maybe I'm wrong? I know others here didn't like it when I pointed it out. Do you just mean how the animation is bad and their geometry isnt up to other AAA’s? I mean, they aren’t great for sure. They are definitely a lot better than previous Bethesda games but still behind pretty much everyone else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
best3444 Posted December 31, 2023 Share Posted December 31, 2023 6 minutes ago, stepee said: Do you just mean how the animation is bad and their geometry isnt up to other AAA’s? I mean, they aren’t great for sure. They are definitely a lot better than previous Bethesda games but still behind pretty much everyone else. No. On consoles the majority of the NPC'S look scary. Like mutants. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted December 31, 2023 Share Posted December 31, 2023 Just now, best3444 said: No. On consoles the majority of the NPC'S look scary. Like mutants. Oh idk, I haven’t really felt that here. They look decent enough if it were say an AA game, just bad for a production this expensive. I think my MC is kinda cute. Noel too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
best3444 Posted December 31, 2023 Share Posted December 31, 2023 Just now, stepee said: Oh idk, I haven’t really felt that here. They look decent enough if it were say an AA game, just bad for a production this expensive. I think my MC is kinda cute. Noel too. Oh, the main characters are fine. But ok, maybe I was too critical of the mutated puppets. Overall, awesome game and I'm glad you're finally playing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted December 31, 2023 Share Posted December 31, 2023 Yeah, I mean, again I agree they are pretty low rent for this scale of production but it’s not a big deal to me. This scratches that FO itch that hardly any other games do and this one is space so yeah I’m digging it. I really like the environmental look of the game though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biggie Posted December 31, 2023 Share Posted December 31, 2023 6 minutes ago, best3444 said: Oh, the main characters are fine. But ok, maybe I was too critical of the mutated puppets. Overall, awesome game and I'm glad you're finally playing. 3 minutes ago, stepee said: Yeah, I mean, again I agree they are pretty low rent for this scale of production but it’s not a big deal to me. This scratches that FO itch that hardly any other games do and this one is space so yeah I’m digging it. I really like the environmental look of the game though. Is it because they run the same engine they have for years? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
best3444 Posted December 31, 2023 Share Posted December 31, 2023 Probably but I think overall the graphics in Starfield are really great. The environments looks great and so do the interior sections in ships or bases. I love that game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted December 31, 2023 Share Posted December 31, 2023 9 minutes ago, Biggie said: Is it because they run the same engine they have for years? Na, they could have better models in the game if they wanted to and I’m sure modders will do it for them at some point. For whatever reason it’s not just in their priorities. Compared to other AAA studios, Beth has always been relatively lower staffed. Maybe a combination of MS owning them now and technology like metahuman can finally change that for their next game. A lot of games are on the basis of some ancient old ass engine but game engine’s are highly modular. COD runs on the 90s Quake3 engine still. And Bethesda showed CE2 can be heavily updated to look modern in terms of lighting and environmental detail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biggie Posted December 31, 2023 Share Posted December 31, 2023 2 minutes ago, stepee said: Na, they could have better models in the game if they wanted to and I’m sure modders will do it for them at some point. For whatever reason it’s not just in their priorities. Compared to other AAA studios, Beth has always been relatively lower staffed. Maybe a combination of MS owning them now and technology like metahuman can finally change that for their next game. A lot of games are on the basis of some ancient old ass engine but game engine’s are highly modular. COD runs on the 90s Quake3 engine still. And Bethesda showed CE2 can be heavily updated to look modern in terms of lighting and environmental detail. I hope Elder Scrolls 6 is amazing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted December 31, 2023 Share Posted December 31, 2023 Just now, Biggie said: I hope Elder Scrolls 6 is amazing. Im more of a FO guy but I’ll definitely have to get into ES6 since it’s going to be like ten years for FO5 at this point Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted December 31, 2023 Share Posted December 31, 2023 Unless MS is SMART and gets Obsidian to do FO New Vegas 2 like they should Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
best3444 Posted December 31, 2023 Share Posted December 31, 2023 12 hours ago, stepee said: Im more of a FO guy but I’ll definitely have to get into ES6 since it’s going to be like ten years for FO5 at this point Do you think we get ES6 this gen? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 I was just barely not too lazy to install the Luma mod to get actual hdr10 working here. Really glad I did. Looks so much better especially on oled where you expect actual black levels! Definitely worth doing and it’s cool that the mod just adds the new options into the actual in-game menu. 6 hours ago, best3444 said: Do you think we get ES6 this gen? Depends if the rumors of Xbox starting their next gen in 2026 are true or not! If true, then not a chance. If not true, probably cross gen but maybeeee during the last year of this gen. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spawn_of_Apathy Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 The random NPCs are likely ugly due to procedural generation. so I watched a video recently explaining that modders found that the worlds and instances use the ship as a central point to spawn everything around. Because of this even if you connect multiple tiles on a planet to make the explorable area vastly larger eventually the area with the ship will despawn causing the game to crash. This is so fundamental to how the game loads everything, that it is basically in the core of how the game was built. Full or even larger scale exploration of a planet just isn’t possible without a complete rebuild of key game’s systems. I wonder if some similar constraints prevents real time intrasystem travel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 Just arrived in Neon, much better city than New Atlantis! I’ll definitely spend some time side questing around here for a bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spork3245 Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 8 hours ago, stepee said: Just arrived in Neon, much better city than New Atlantis! I’ll definitely spend some time side questing around here for a bit. Just wait until you get to New New York! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biggie Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 8 hours ago, stepee said: Just arrived in Neon, much better city than New Atlantis! I’ll definitely spend some time side questing around here for a bit. It reminds me so much of Cyber Punk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 30 hours in and Im just getting into it more the more I play it. I think I’m not quite half way through the main quest - I just hit a point where the story got a little more interesting! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 Saw a ship land in the distance as I was headed to an artifact and detoured over to see what it was. Decided it was my ship now so I boarded and took out the crew and I was right it’s mine now. I like this game a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
best3444 Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 2 minutes ago, stepee said: Saw a ship land in the distance as I was headed to an artifact and detoured over to see what it was. Decided it was my ship now so I boarded and took out the crew and I was right it’s mine now. I like this game a lot. See, I did that too but the ship was locked up. I even killed the crew that came off the ramp. I think Keyser told me you could do that but it didn't work for me. Yes, the game has its flaws but it's pure Bethesda fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 A Starfield modder is doing something Bethesda should have done: making pilotable mechs | PC Gamer WWW.PCGAMER.COM Don't just stand on alien planets. Stomp on 'em. Quote One of the things I really don't get about Starfield is the whole mech situation. Mechs are everywhere. There's a bunch of lore about mechs being used in the Colony Wars that took place decades earlier. There are mechs you can look at in factories and junkyards and museums. There was even a shot of a player walking past a mech shown in one of Starfield's early gameplay trailers, and an animated trailer heavily featured them. But you can't actually climb into a mech and pilot it in Starfield (explained in the lore as a ban on mechs since the end of the war). When it comes to mechs, Bethesda decided you can look but you can't touch. And you definitely can't ride. I guess my question is: why, tho? The good news is a modder named Jared Kohr is doing something Bethesda probably should have done in the first place. Check out the video below of Kohr's mod in progress that will actually let you climb inside a towering mech and go for a stomp on the surface of a planet: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 I was actually just thinking how it would be cool if you could her forward on the planets just like in AC6 so hopefully that is how they will move as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 6 minutes ago, best3444 said: See, I did that too but the ship was locked up. I even killed the crew that came off the ramp. I think Keyser told me you could do that but it didn't work for me. Yes, the game has its flaws but it's pure Bethesda fun. Yeah it’s a game where I can see its flaws and limitations and get what people complain about (for the most part, some people are just unrealistic or want a more sim like game that I would personally hate) but I’m too busy having fun to care all that much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 Sarah is a fucking wet blanket though, drier than some of the desert planets we explore. I like taking Barret or Andreja with me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
best3444 Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 4 minutes ago, stepee said: Sarah is a fucking wet blanket though, drier than some of the desert planets we explore. I like taking Barret or Andreja with me. Barret is funny and Andreja has better dialogue. I do like how the ally NPC'S actually help in combat. I remember Sarah unloading on guys for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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