Starfield (PC / Xbox)

[Tobal]

i find it amusing the only way to scan fauna is to kill it.

Been trying to roleplay as a negotiator, drugging my persuade up to a total of 45% between lvl2 in skill, abit of gear and drugs to talk my way out of a surprisingly amount of quests.

Story stuff after you get sent off to follow the gravitational flux and the Neon main quest.

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Gotten far enough to become dragonborn... it's abit lame having all the chosen one cliché again and who ever decided those temples needed a 10 minute pac-man sequence needs firing. Shortly after finishing the main quest line on Neon, i laughed when a Babylon 5 minbari cruiser jumped out of grav space, not seen who's inside but i assume based on the spaceship, space elfs.

[nonny]

i find it amusing the only way to scan fauna is to kill it.

Been trying to roleplay as a negotiator, drugging my persuade up to a total of 45% between lvl2 in skill, abit of gear and drugs to talk my way out of a surprisingly amount of quests.

Story stuff after you get sent off to follow the gravitational flux and the Neon main quest.

->Open Spoiler<-

Gotten far enough to become dragonborn... it's abit lame having all the chosen one cliché again and who ever decided those temples needed a 10 minute pac-man sequence needs firing. Shortly after finishing the main quest line on Neon, i laughed when a Babylon 5 minbari cruiser jumped out of grav space, not seen who's inside but i assume based on the spaceship, space elfs.

You don't have to kill them, you can creep up and scan most animals in close range...

[Tobal]

You don't have to kill them, you can creep up and scan most animals in close range...

I'll stick to murdering then, i get exp and items!

[charlesr]

2 minutes in. Why does everyone NPC walk so slowly? I must look like I'm Ussain Bolt to them

[Tobal]

2 minutes in. Why does everyone NPC walk so slowly? I must look like I'm Ussain Bolt to them

i had to follow npc on mars for 10-15 minutes while he walked very slowly to where he needed to go, i couldn't run off as it had no quest marker destination... i was so very close to choosing [attack] over [persuade] option once we got to where he hid the stuff

[Lebowski]

i had to follow npc on mars for 10-15 minutes while he walked very slowly to where he needed to go, i couldn't run off as it had no quest marker destination... i was so very close to choosing [attack] over [persuade] option once we got to where he hid the stuff

Ah Nostalgia the walk with a slow NPC mission, Fetch quests, Waist high walls, Exploding barrels, Rush goalie. Two at the back, three in the middle, four up front, one's gone home for his tea. Beans on toast?

[MartyG]

You don't have to kill them, you can creep up and scan most animals in close range...

Or you can increase you scanning skill and scan from 50m away and zoom your camera further.

[MartyG]

I had to use the console to force a mission skip as the 5th main quest "All That Money Can Buy" didn't trigger after completing the previous one. The SetStage stuff doesn't work as there was effectively no active mission (which SetStage needs), but you can do StartQuest to, well, start it.

However, that didn't work either so there's clearly some state that the game is in that's stopped it from triggering, so that's the first progress halting bug I've encountered. I've been able to skip to Starborn and continue, but it means I've missed out on quest five :/

[fishbowlhead]

Played this last week with my pal on a rare couch gaming night instead of our usual online. It’s ok, not amazing, but it’s decent overall. 30fps is better than most attempts these days but the background blurring when turning the camera makes me want to vomit, so only played for about hour and half, otherwise it was pretty smooth for the most part.

Really needs a 60fps option on console (or upgrade my graphics card) for me to play any more.

Definitely gives off a modern Mass Effect vibe.

[MartyG]

I wouldn't rate it over Skyrim for sure - I think that the scale of game is actually somewhat of a negative as it spaces (ha!) out the interesting bits a lot further apart than they would otherwise be in something like the former mentioned game.

I've managed to sink over 50 hours into it so far though, so there's definitely stuff in there to keep me interested, despite having to look a bit harder for it.

[Finsbury Girl]

Agreed Marty. At least in Skyrim you can ride a horse or dragon to get where you want to go faster. But planet exploration in Starfield is plain bad. The annoying oxygen mechanic makes it worse. I don't feel the urge to explore as everything is so far away and takes forever to get there. I pray someone makes a Mako type mod for this. I do get the criticisms around intersolar and interstellar exploration as well because fast travelling everywhere does take some enjoyment out of exploration. Having said that I accept it is a limitation of the game and it doesn't stop me from having lots of fun exploring the various quest locations.

[MartyG]

You need to adopt a different running technique

Invest in the jetpack skills, you can just hop along the planets/moons (and especially the lower grav ones) without using up oxygen at much at all (it regens while you're in the air). Even jumping stops it from reducing as fast (won't regen with a jump), but a ground vehicle would be nice.

The incidental discoveries happen in orbit, with the comms, but these also require traveling about a bit, so you have to visit a lot of places.

[wakka]

Ah Nostalgia the walk with a slow NPC mission, Fetch quests, Waist high walls, Exploding barrels, Rush goalie. Two at the back, three in the middle, four up front, one's gone home for his tea. Beans on toast?

Jumpers for goalposts. Marvellous.

[MartyG]

I completed the main quest line yesterday, and then the game crashed at the credits. Not sure if I have a save or if I'm going to have to do the final battle section again. I hope not as that did start to drag in the end.

But I want to get to the game+, so will have to check later today - generally satisfied with the quest, aside from quest 5 bugging out and requiring me to skip it on the console, but a couple of the faction quest lines were definitely better.

[MartyG]

I had a save at the point where it takes you into Game+. I'll spoiler tag this as you might not want it spoiled. Info about Game+ within.

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So, once you reach the Unity gate (which is what you eventually get to after assembling all the artifacts and gravity warping on your ship), you meet yourself and he tells you some gubbins about being reborn. You walk through the gateway and you see the credits. After skipping those (you're forced to watch a minute or so of them), you get to New Game Plus.

Everything except skills seems to be reset, so inventory, ships, money are all gone (so hoarding a load of crap in your inventory is a pointless pursuit), but you do have a new cool ship (which you can't mod) and a special Starborn spacesuit with some nice stats).

However, people will now react differently to you, essentially the Unity is a gateway to the multiverse, so when you walk through it, you are entering a new universe and things are slightly different. You get the option of whether you want to pursue the main quest fully again, but then it's down to going doing the alt-missions again or anything else you care to do.

From what I can see, there's nothing fundamentally game-changing to the reset, so it's not some tangent shift to what you're doing in-game.

It's fun to see people you've met previously change their dialogue tho.

So that's it.