Thread 541794739

>>>The Game<<<
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1716740/Starfield/

>>>News<<<
>05/09: "Terran Armada" was teased
>05/08: New update - Bethesda confirming that "exciting things" are coming in the future: https://x.com/BethesdaStudios/status/1947686948799389848
>06/05: New update in Steam beta: https://x.com/BethesdaStudios/status/1919776896578982315
>06/03: Bethesda confirming future updates: https://x.com/StarfieldGame/status/1897709518013997493

>>>Resources<<<
>Compendium: https://starfieldcompendium.com/
>Mods: https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/

>>>FAQ<<<
>Q: CK?
>A: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2722710/Starfield_Creation_Kit/
>Q: What's the deal with NG+(+...)?
>A: Restarts the game with minor changes to the story and world, while preserving your powers and skills. 10 cycles for suit upgrades, 6 cycles for upgrading the starborn ship
>Q: Should I reinstall?
>A: If you are excited about a customizable difficulty, 3D maps, ship decorations, new bounty hunting missions and mechanics, official mod support and a vehicle, then yeah

>>>Misc<<<
>/stag/ modlist: https://pastebin.com/rNtnZTES
>Artbook rips: https://mega.nz/file/TlJSBTwB#GhmrZRoHDAhhei__Bz2zc6GisgB67_vONrAfYQR8lK0
>Character builder: https://nukesdragons.com/starfield/character
>Threadly space music: https://youtu.be/7Xf-Lesrkuc [Embed]
>>>OP template<<<
>https://rentry.org/stag_op_new (will be periodically updated)

Previous Unity cycle: >>540438889

News when...

>>541798280
Say it with me
2 MORE WEEKS

>>541798280
It's been like a month, I thought Todd was all about releasing things as soon as their announced now.

ENTER GODTRIOX...

>>541798891
Some of my fondest memories in this general were right before release and we were getting flooded with /v/ermin but we were already getting DOMINATED by the Grizzled War Chief Escharum and were ground underfoot of a true /vg/ spammer.

>>541798550
Apparently that got changed because people complained that they weren't releasing significant content patches, so now Bethesda is holding out to likely put anything outside of bug fixes into one big patch.

>>541799746
He spammed /bfg/ when Battlefield 2042 was released and it killed the general....

TODD HOWAAAAAAAAAAAARD

TETSUOOOOOOOOO

>>541804364
The Banished…..too strong…….*dies*

>>541800468
The upcoming patch is supposed to update ship traveling/encounters.

Tim Lamb, the guy whose the lead on the starfield team, said he thinks of Starfield as four games. Ship building, ship exploration, ground exploration, and outpost building. this patch is seemingly going to deal with space stuff, so maybe a 2nd patch later will deal with ground stuff.

>>541811975
Fuck, I hope the game gets more than that one big update.

>>541798280
No time soon. I don't expect to hear anything until March or April at the earliest. If it happens before then, I'll shit my pants with surprise/joy. The Game Awards copers are going to start crying themselves to sleep soon. The real ones knew that any chance of an announcement in 2025 died when the game no-showed the Xbox showcase in June. Slower people like myself weren't convinced of the truth until it also no-showed Gamescom. The poor Game Awards copers are still clinging to the disproven theory that a developer like BGS with hundreds of employees should be able to complete a DLC faster than once every 2 years.

>>541798550
He says that, and people believe him. His idea of announcing and releasing shortly after was true for Skyrim and Fallout 4, then they decided to do that dumb teaser trailer for TES VI in 2018. They've talked about it being a mistake, and how they want to go back to what they were doing before. And yet they just keep doing the same 2018 bullshit all over again. A bunch of random teases for more Starfield DLC, and then silence. Silence which will, if leakers are correct, continue for several more months.

Bethesda was never great at communication, but they did get better with each release... but now they're regressing, becoming worse than they ever have been before. Their plan for managing hype to avoid another Shattered Space disappointment is to tease a bunch of shit, promise big things, talk specifically about what they're going to add, and then dropping off the face of the Earth for another 6 months.

Who wants to make a bet? I bet we'll get another tweet shortly after The Game Awards where they once again say they have "exciting things" coming to Starfield. And then they'll say nothing more until halfway through the year.

>>541822797
Every dev will tell you that announcing things early is bad. The problem is Bethesda works in a snail's pace so you never hear from them for a whole year.

>>541828798
You don't like it taking 16+ years between TES games?

>>541835054
I'm way past that at this point. They could do a teaser that reveals the location though.

>>541836458
they did that years ago.

The TES VI teaser will turn 10 years old before the game comes out. Also before Starfield gets its 3rd DLC. By the time Fallout 5 comes out, the 4th game will be 20 years old. Young people who played Skyrim when it first came out will be starting to have grandchildren by the time we get TES VII.

>>541838317
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NulEG11oIaQ

dead game, shutter the company

>>541836669
It didn't reveal anything they are still discussing if it's Hammerfell or High Rock

>>541838317
Todd will probably retire after FO5 in 2030~, by which point the staff and industry will be too different to really predict their future. The cycle might chug along, they might expand so they can work on two mainlines at the same time, or they might start using third parties again. Its also entirely possible ES6 shits the bed hard enough to oust him or even end Bethesda outright.

>>541839447
Not playing unless it's outside Tamriel.

Posting ships in a dead general

>>541844084
FLAT

>>541844084
It's a bird

>>541844084
It's a plane

>>541844084
>>541844268
The folding wings are a little too star wars but the fact that they fold makes them worth it

>>541844084
>mods
gross

>>541844891
That's pretty cool.

If I post my ship you will laugh it
So I'm not doing that

>>541851036
They're just gonna laugh at you for being a pussy anyway

>>541851212
What if I was a pussy?

>>541851381
A cat is fine too

Bethesda doesn't get enough credit for Starfield visuals
TES 6 would show these ungrateful bitches

The outpost system is very frustrating. There doesn't seem to be any point besides building more outposts, it's a closed loop. You can't build a functional bathroom. There's always 2-3 abandoned industrial sites within eye sight because the stars decided to abandon 95% of their industry because the war ended and they need to rebuild so fuck all those resources. The whole thing is just gay but could have been cool.

>>541856572
I never enjoyed the settlements system in Fallout 4 so what's the solution?

Didn't notice that Varuun ships are are not pitch black but actually a very dark blue. I also bought one from the Dazra ship vendor just to check, then reloaded.
Never captured one before.

>>541862509
They steal from Stroud Ekuland ships but he's probably supplying them off and pretends he's all innocent

>>541856572
>The whole thing is just gay but could have been cool.
the starfield experience

>>541865370
Yes, sex with who? name starts with B

So apparently opening even a single esm still causes xedit to eat ALL your system ram.
Thanks Todd, it justwerx.

>>541865207
You can buy Varuun Habs with Stroud Premium Edition mod.
Also Walter is a proud snakeboi.

If TA flops, you gonna keep makin these threads or move on?

>>541869395
More threads because why not? no one is forcing you to post here

>>541868465
Bed Wrestling with Bayu.

>>541870036
Correct answer!

>>541838317
bigger budgets were a fucking mistake. every game takes 10+ years to make now

What do you think of my shippu /stag/?

>>541869395
I'll continue to piss in his thread.

>bladders full
Thank God I found this thread.

Is Starfield the biggest disappointment in gaming history? 9/10 Anons say yes!

>>541878335
Soon Todd will drop even more reason to be disappointed.

>>541878335
Maybe for low IQ zoomers, but gaming has had far worse. Even in recent memory you have stuff like Shenmue 3 where people waited 20 years for a filler episode. Spore, Fable, Too Human, the entire Sega Saturn, you could go on and on. Starfied by comparison is just kind of unrealized, and it still has a hook for me. Honestly part of it is just a shift in gaming culture away from enjoying games and torwards meme faggotry as the center, so shitting on games just becomes a thing, especially for very online phone zoomers. Same thing happened to Cyberpunk and basically any big new release in the last few years, it's mostly independent of the game itself. Even something like elden ring gets a contingent of faggots saying "lol roll slop lol" to each other in gay discords and bringing it here.

steamdb shows they're messing around with trailers now. Could mean something, but probably not.

>>541880532
What?

>>541869395
The only time the rest of us will move on is when modding completely stops for Starfield.

>>541881053
Exactly who I mean.

>>541880551
False alarm. Other Bethesda games show the same activity. Yet another Starfield nothingburger.

I hate the legendary loot system. I don't want to savescum 10,000 times to get the version of the gun I actually wanted. The older games had a better system. Figure out which gear you want, check the Wiki to see where it's located or what quest rewards it, and go get it. Or craft it yourself.

Also, shower thought: the New Game Plus reincarnation system in Starfield was the inevitible consequence of having Hindus develop your game.

>>541876487
Very snug

>>541876487
Looks like it could be an actual ship in-game, like a freighter-like version a ship producer has, similar to the Deimos Bireme

>>541891192
The kalpas and Shezzarine are over there in Elder Scrolls

>>541891192
Wait till you learn where the word "Kalpa" or where the name "Vivec" come from

>>541891632
>>541891909
Thanks for the engagement but I would have prefered you replied to the first thing I wrote, about Starfield's loot system. The bones of it were there in Fallout 4 but it was ignorable. In Starfield, watching out for muh legendaries is considered a core gameplay mechanic and I think it sucks

>>541891192
Quest rewards are still fixed. Legendaries are more powerful than TES swords anyways leaving them for handcrafted quests is bound to create more repetition in a repetitive game

>>541892339
The anon in your first reply here. I don't know if it's just because they got a new guy to work on the system or what, but they imported stupid things from Fallout 76 that only makes sense for multiplayer balancing

Can't loot NPCs fully, can't improve/upgrade gear class. Now it's even more stupid: mods gets destroyed when you remove them

Yet years after its release, 76 now has a way to mod in legendaries

>>541893318
Or maybe they thought Bethesda games were too exploitable so they took notes and balanced around that.

>>541893318
>mods gets destroyed when you remove them
Yes, I forgot to add that to my list of things I hate about Starfield. Basically the theme of the game is you need to collect 40 different versions of the Beowulf if you want to swap between scope, iron sights, automatic, semi-auto, different legendary perks, etc. I just want one gun that I can swap mods onto as needed. Other games figured out how to do this. Even older Bethesda games had it figured out.

>>541893646
I'd agree with you but ships have the same sense and feel of build freedom that is present in Fallout 4's item modding. Given enough skills and levels you can take a basic ship all the way through your journey

>>541893318
>they imported stupid things from Fallout 76 that only makes sense for multiplayer balancing
I think the loot system was designed for flexing, or "e-peen" as they used to call it. No Man's Sky does the same thing. You have a 0.0001% change of dice-rolling the perfect set of perks or starship upgrades or colorway or whatever, so you feel all proud when you finally get it, and you upload your screenshot to reddit for updoots.

>>541894624
You msy not like it, but this what made Borderlands a billion dollar franchise

>>541896091
:(

I'm just glad BGS is managing our expectations by promising big things coming to the game, dropping a Tim Lamb video with exciting implications followed immediately by what is essentially a title reveal for the next DLC, and then going silent for what will probably be several more months. They're doing an excellent job of preventing overhype by teasing us for a year straight and providing zero real information.

>>541899657
Huh, I didn't think of that. Tempering expectation is definitely the way to go, though I can't guarantee that some people won't still be disappointed, especially if people put too much speculation into what this DLC is actually going to be about.

Farseer seems like a interesting paid mod, but the description makes it seem like it features fleet command gameplay which makes me a bit concerned about how it will react with Watchtower

>>541856572
>There doesn't seem to be any point besides building more outposts, it's a closed loop
The point is to give players the ability to
A. Mass harvest resources automatically, which feeds into research, and crafting.
B. Build homes in cool looking environments where they want.

Okay, Richard. You convinced me to try out Tiny Reasons to Explore Space

>>541905826
We got flying whales in Skyrim
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/43598

>>541906459
Can you get eaten by them, and harvest resources from them?

>>541906596
Nope, they're purely for ambience

>>541906785
shame, still cool though
one of these days I'll get around to playing Skyrim in VR

Weird, but neat

>>541903328
The issue with resources is that buying them when you're in town gives you everything you need, and sleeping to reset the vendors is still more time efficient than setting up outposts for so many different resources. Outposts are better for racking up hundreds/thousands of resources, but that's far more than you ever need for research/crafting and less efficient to sell than guns. The home aspect is also underbaked, the available habs are meant for industry, not comfy space cabins.

The only unique thing outposts bring to the table is the ship builder. They could've leaned into that more, with a progression of fancier pads offering more and better parts.

Thread could use some more space music. And remember, there can be only one who can reach the Unity at a time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEJ8lpCQbyw

Pretty fucked up looking Terrabrew

>>541909347
Cool, what mod?

>>541922557
https://creations.bethesda.net/en/starfield/details/3e722dd3-d83f-434d-ab14-24dd1607738e/Tiny_Reasons_to_Explore_Space

>>541878335
I like a lot of the systems and the idea of the setting but hate 95% of the characters and world-building

>>541925061
That 5% is all Sarah

2025 has been a depressing year to be a Starfield enjoyer. Can't wait for it to be over. I wish I didn't like this game. I bet The Outer Worlds 2, a game that isn't even out yet, will get DLC before anything else comes out for Starfield.

>>541941335
At least Starfield will get DLC before GTA6

>>541942590
I wouldn't count on that. I think the chances are about 50-50.

>>541942937
More like 100% since Shattered Space is already out.

>>541925061
The story/characters are fucking shit, but it could have been a lot worse. It could have been more george floyd, or trantifa like some of the other games that flopped hard recently.

They could theoretically do some relatively minor adjustments to the story and salvage it, but they won't because they don't care. Bethesda are completely delusional about this game when it comes to their perceived quality vs what everyone else actually thinks about it.

This is from this mod: https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/15022

>>541945897
Fine, I'll install it.
Starfield has the best fog I've ever seen in a modern game.

>>541945897
Why cant that look more like this? Are modders even trying?

>>541946149
It can look like this but the performance drop is huge

>>541947301
Cliffs, rivers, and waterfalls seem impossible for this game.

>>541947514
AHHHHHHHHHHHH

>>541948113
Good job, you turned it into a basic ass Vietnam. AI was a mistake, please kill me already.

>>541947657
Rivers are a thing, but only in some biomes. Waterfalls can only be found on Jemison and in some caves in the Kavynk system

>>541952768
*In New Atlantis

>>541952768
Why cant Bethesda and modders make random generation great again?

>>541956872
No Houdini which is what they used to make procedural generation

Somebody should totally make a Samurai themed space suit

>>541960561
They have already. Go away.

>>541961167
Took a bit to find it but you're right, Tank Girl actually made one a month ago.
https://creations.bethesda.net/en/starfield/details/00adb171-5ceb-4f25-9861-c175e185c4ee/TGs_Starborn_Spacesuit_Pack_2025

>>541961884
Told you, dipshit. Next time think before you waste everyone's time.

>>541961943
I actually already tried looking before making that post, but I didn't see it at first

>>541962018
Shut up

>>541962076
No U

>>541961884
That one is mid
Tell them to release a paid creation I want to pay for something good

>>541962809
Just found another one from Tank Girl up nexus that's actually free, but of course with it being released right around the game's release, it's a bit more bare bones.
https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/7149

>>541963270
Oh never mind I thought you posted this
>>541961884
This one is much better

I hate this game. I wake up every day furious that it exists. I seethe that it's fans are alive and well. I just want it to disappear, and for anyone who utters it's name to be cut down and displayed for everyone to see, and shame brought upon their family.
Shit game.

>>541969897
Just go and tickle some other anons feet, you'll feel better

>>541970156
I call dips

i wish sarah would tickle my feet

>>541947301
How big is the percentage difference? Is it more heavy on CPU on GPU you think?

>>541979773
Sarah's Rub & Tug

>>541980658
I think it's both, try it out yourself
https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/9710

There's also an .ini setting that changes these values without using mods but I can't remember it

Pack it up, boys. Cyberpunk won.

>>541982595
They won the "lack of third person" competition

Third person is nice but combat is better in first person for that immersion

Zzzz

>>541982753
Third person doesn't even work in starfield. You try aiming the mag weapons, you can't. Also the movement feels like shit because there's some weird acceleration that's not present in first person. It's like they were made by two diffrrent people.

>>541891192
If you're not on console, just respawnactor on the container.
You have to look away and look back.
it just works.

>>541998942
>respawnactor
recycleactor.

>>541982753
FO4 and Starfield win lack of body in first person and won't ever get mods to fix it.
Skyrim and 2077 are superior in that regard, also there are mods to get third person in 2077.

>>541798891
>>541799746
>>541806454
ACK!

>>541969897
I promise there's a game you like that's shitty too. Get over it and go jack off to some tranny porn, you'll feel better.

>>541999419
Those mods still haven't fixed how retarded V moves in third person. Even John Tanner didn't look this bad

>>541998202
I think it's better that way. Notice how melee attacks propels the character forward in third-person, which is typically a good thing? In first-person that can be jarring, but it's much easier to jiggle WASD to achieve the same thing in first-person anyway

Basically different animation sets. Probably why you mostly can't switch perspective mid-action

These seem to be the most must have mods (at least in my opinion) for improving your space experience right now:

Paid
1. Watchtower
Tons of different things going on in this mod, but as for space, you get a new faction encounter (with high difficult because of their sheer numbers), the ability to build a fleet of ships, and some new ship parts

2. Tiny Reasons to Explore Space
Adds a bunch of ruined spacestations and asteroid settlements for you to explore a bit in Zero G. They usually have a bunch of supplies to find, so it's ideal for a scavenger playthrough

Free
1. Dark Universe series
Some of these mods adds more npc warfare activity as well as mission board opportunities that includes destroying hostile objects, and exploring abandoned starstations and alien infested ships

2. Horizon
Work in progress spacestation player home, probably the best one made so far as you can even transport it around the settled systems

3. Astrogate
Allows for real time interplanetary travel, either manually or through an autopilot feature. Pretty good if you want to just do just hang around your ship and watch the galaxy go by

4. Better Boarding Encounters and Enemies Boarding My Ship
The former mod adds a chance for you to encounter traps when boarding enemy ships, and a chance for enemies to board your ship after docking with theirs. The latter mod makes it so that enemies attempt to dock with your ship and board it mid combat

The way this mod tries to implement the ability to explore the vacuum of space is pretty jank, but it gets the job done.

There's a few altars that show up in these places associated with Sanctum Universum and Va'ruun that I'd assume would give you a buff or something. Looks like you can't get those buffs if you don't have the traits associated with them

These Starborn Crystals will also supply you with random stuff like credits or equipment in exchange for 2 quantum essences

Starfield is a disaster

Every general's got that one ritual poster, a term I learned from /co/.

>>542018398
You needed /co/ to tell you that and not /tesg/ with its abundance of attention starved posters?

>>542019252
I don't really visit /tesg/ as much these days. The generals I mainly participate in now is the Starfield and Toonami generals, and I'm likely considered to be one of the ritual posters in the latter.

I fucking hate Starfield. What a shit game.
Time to play some NMS.

>>542023581
Do you feel like a big tough guy now after posting that? I hope your day gets better, and that whatever is bothering you in your life is resolved soon.

>>542023581
Cry moar

>>542020816
tesg is fucking cancer, actually one of the worst generals.

hi stag howru?

>>542034596
It's just another day for you and me in paradise

game sucks

>>542039852
You suck

How confident are you that you've come up with a name for your ship that someone else likely won't come up with themselves unless they came here and stole it?

>>542046964
One of my ships is literally called "Thank you /stag/"

Saw this up on Richard's channel. Skyrim getting some extra mod support for PlayStation could mean that Bethesda has some big plans for the brand, which probably also increases the likelihood of Starfield heading to PlayStation in the future.

>>542046964
I just pick from existing names myself

I usually determine a "role" for the ship or what I use it for and then just pick a name from the Space Shuttles or adjacent, like sea ships

If I'm feeling strongly fancy about a particular ship I'd take one from myths, epics, abrahamic faiths

If I'm feeling trashy or sentimental I'd pick a reference from a deviantart fanfic or something

>>542049073
Took Sony long enough to allow external assets...

>>542049073
We already knew Starfield was coming to Playstation. The PS logo has been seen on some Creations already, and we know they've been sitting on a Playstation port for awhile.

>>542049715
True, but that might not have been convincing enough for some people

>>542052148
sick ride bro

u-up!

Game needs some more rough and tumble elements, at least a few hot heads that occasionally try to pick a fist fight with you in some of the bars

What effect will the implosion of Microsoft's gaming division have on Starfield? I'm worried sisters, they might cancel the second dlc

>>542063063
It'll be fine

>>542063063
The game is on Steam and will soon be on PS5 and Switch 2. Doesn't matter what Microsoft does, Starfield and Bethesda will continue. Also Xbox isn't even going anywhere, there will be new hardware

>>542049715
>we know

>>542066147
>Switch 2
Smooth silky 15 fps

>>542001336
Kek bitter
The shitty games I like don't require Starfields mental gymnastics to enjoy

>>542071605
>mental gymnastics
I don't think you know what this word means.

>>542071605
Bro my gymnastics skill is at level 3, I'm good. Starfield is a better game.

>>542072669
Based gymnastics bro

>>542071542
It might be better than that. They already created the settings preset to make it possible when they added the very low preset in the May update.

>>542073415
I highly doubt that judging by the released games

it's up
https://youtu.be/3U_fkVl8mw0

>>542077148
Youngest Starfield player

starfield time

Open all the doors
And let you out into the world

Seriously guys? not even Sarah is impressed

>>542063063
Isn't the publisher releasing a dozen games between this year and last year?

>>542063063
Even if the hardware failed, becoming a third party publisher is the most likely outcome which means they gotta release more paid games for playstation players to buy. Gamepass is why no one is buying anything for Xbox consoles.

>>542066183
The game was originally made with PS5 as the console release.
Did you forget that's the whole reason Microsoft bought Bethesda, Starfield being a PlayStation exclusive.

>>542099158
XBox's issue is that the consoles themselves aren't selling.

>>542104209
And gamepass didn't help that so it's biting them in the ase

>>542107015
Biting Sarah in the ass while Phil Spencer is watching

>>542107015
Gamepass was made to add value to the XBOX brand and make the consoles more appealing and even that couldn't save them.

>>542071605
Yeah
Starfield is unironically the worst video game ever made. What a catastrophe.

Wait, this game is real? I thought it was just a meme game like half life 3 lmfao

>>542111924
No it's not we larping about playing a fake game
WAKE UP ANON THE WORLD ISN'T REAL

MORGAAAAAAAAN

Lmao I just learned this place exists

>>542120343
Stop it.

>>542120343
What is this place that you speak of?

>>542111359
It's a 6/10 at worst. Maybe you should go give Gollum or Dustborn a spin, drama queen

All just serve

>>542131807
WE ARE BACK

>>542131807
*must
You fucking idiot. Now where did you get this?

>>542132073
Scam Citizen

>>542131807
I thought it was terran Armada or starborn dlc not more fucking varoon shit

>>542131807
New ship?

>>542131807
Looks like they're introducing a new lighting system then. I think cyberpunk did something similar in one of their updates. You can tell by the character model. That's pretty impressive. Hopefully all of the factions are getting a face-lift like this, along with additional faction quests. I'm excited.

>>542133987
why would any of the factions get new faction quests?

>>542131807
>posting scam citizen trash
Only people more retarded then Saarfield enjoyers.

2 more months to go until we get to cope our way through The Game Awards. After that, I'll cope my way to the end of January, praying that Starfield shows up in the Developer Direct.

TIIIIIIIIM LAAAAAAAAAAAMB

>>542141386
He trolled us and made us think more information would be coming soon. Maybe we'll hear more at the showcase next June.

>>542141519
June? December, please.

>>542157385
I think if it's announced this year, it will be in November. October is all about The Outer Worlds 2. December will be all about Fallout 76 since it has a new update coming to coincide with season 2 of the show. There's a nice slot for Starfield to fit into. But I won't be surprised when nothing happens.

>>542158954
Game Awards is in December and fuck Fallout 76 they are getting too many announcements

>>542162850
I agree, fuck Fallout 76. Unfortunately, it's the game Bethesda is focusing on right now. The Fallout 3 remaster isn't ready, and Fallout 5 is obviously many years away. Fallout 76 is how they capitalize on the success of the TV show. They have no room or fucks to give for Starfield at the moment. Their presence at The Game Awards will be spent on Fallout 76. Starfield fans will be waiting until next year for any more news, most likely.

>>542162850
It makes sense for 76 to get the most amount of support because MMOs are a bigger passive money maker than single player games are.

>>542164057
TES VI will probably just be an expansion pack for The Elder Scrolls Online

>>542164019
Not him, but with Starfield I was hoping Bethesda (the Game Studios) would finally be free of the Fallout burden since now they have their own scifi game series, and fallout could finally be left to rot or go to back to Obsidian again for all I care..

>>542167885
Starfield had an iffy launch and Fallout is more popular than ever before. Best case scenario now is that Starfield is added to the franchise rotation and we get a sequel 25 years from now.

>>542167885
I don't know why you would even think that, Fallout is still a major cashcow for Bethesda, Starfield mostly served as a testing ground to expand their franchises outside of TES and Fallout.

Some information came out on the revenue modders receive through Creations if anyone cares about that, some other stuff is in this video as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2YGG_3n8OE

>>542173907
I know people are dumb but how did they believe that Bethesda takes the most amount of money from them? Why would anyone make paid mods at that point.

>>542175216
>but how did they believe that Bethesda takes the most amount of money from them?
Luke Stephens said it, and people gobble his nuts.

>>542175903
I should've started a youtube channel already. All it takes is a pretentious thumbnail and a safe-nerdy looking guy for it to take off.

>>541958349
Maybe Bethesda Should stop making games if they cant move forward.

>>542185250
They can't just give Houdini away. It's not theirs to give.

>>542186885
>cant use it
>cant get rid of it
>cant replace it
What can Bethesda do then? They should just give up and hand their IPs to a studio that can do something.

>>542188592
They likely won't, you're better off playing something else if you can't stand Bethesda anymore. Go boot up Dark Souls or something

>>542188592
Name one AAA studio that allows modding as much as they do.. can't answer? shut the fuck up then

>>542190552
Why not

>>542189017
He has a point though. Using Houdini instead of developing their own solution (not like heightmaps are arcane supertech) was a terrible decision. You're using "but they allow mods" to defend something that has crippled a whole category of modding.

>>542193428
Houdini is why the environment has procedural generation that doesn't look completely incohesive. Bethesda would spend a whole decade developing for one game if every tech was made in-house

>>542197950
Again, Houdini isn't the only company to have figured out procgen. Bethesda is not a struggling indie company, if they didn't already have programmers who could make something good enough in a timely manner they could just hire/contract them and have a solution that modders can access. Even if its not quite as good as what they got with Houdini, that tradeoff would've been worth it.

I'm not saying they should go through the trouble for every little thing, but this wasn't a little thing. Its a game about exploring planets and they locked planets behind proprietary software. Imagine if they pulled that for TES6's interiors and no one can make house or dungeon mods. Would you be saying "but who else allows you to make swords"?

>>542201753
retard.

>>542193428
NO HE DOES NOT!

>>542201753
There's several hundred planets and you can tweak the proc gen of the planets that are already in the game.

>>542203201
That's not okay, that kind of language doesn't represent us starchads. Do better, Sarah says.

>>542209105
okay nigger

Luke Stephens said his favourite video games are

BG3
NMS
Cyberpunk
Star Citizen
Quake 3 Arena

just to remind you ingrates.

>>542213448
definitely an NPC on top of being a liar.

MrMatty said The Outer Worlds is better than Starfield

>>542213480
Gameplay options are the coolest feature from this list. Bethesda games are all about customizability and to translate that into the difficulty is genius. I love having each character with its set of gameplay rules.

>>542213448
Very basic bitch tastes. lol

>>542213874
Is MatPat even relevant anymore?

>>542214269
MatPat left his channel last year
Matty was never relevant outside of niche Bethesda spheres

Luke Stephens aka the only guy who still remembers that Saarfield exists. I'm surprised he even bothers to talk about this absolute failure with 1000 players on Steam inbetween his NMS sessions.

>>542214946
Luke Stephens is the type of guy who'll try to persuade Barrett into fucking his wife but Barrett refuses because he's gay

Who is Cora's real dad? Barrett or Vlad?

>>542213448
>Star Citizen
May he end up destitute

>>542215984
Barrett is gay.
Also you already know the answer, Jacob Coe

>>542221070
So he is hiding more than maps in there...

>>541891192
Would the bottom variant be really bad if it also came with a visible change? Like adding a serrated edge, making the sword longer... Weapons in Starfield actually do that, swords too like the Varuun ones.

>>542225153
Ooooh yeah that Va'ruun sword, I hope it was a test for TES 6 weapons. I can already imagine how cool the variants would be considering Bethesda has tripled their art budget since Skyrim.

>>542225153
Yes. The tier system's main function is to frustrate players and waste their time by arbitrarily making their loot obsolete. It doesn't belong in a single player game, and any tricks to fix it up like visual changes would be better off as part of a mod/enchantment system instead.

>>542228286
They should copy Diablo or POE and make the add-ons the things you grind for

>>542215984
Cora is adopted. Fact of the matter is Sam is actually an FtM whose original name was Samantha Coe.

>want to play Starfield again
>look at mods
>become overwhelmed
I felt that when modding Mass Effect for example, there were very clear and unanimously decided upon "essential" mods. And then I'd add some stuff I liked on top. Here I feel lost, especially so given Creations exist. Maybe I just play vanilla again. Maybe I'm just retarded. Maybe both.

>>542229104
both. Starfield, like Fallout 4 without mods ia horrible experience. Console kiddies have it rough
Just do a collection you spaz

>>542228469
They shouldn't be copying any lootgrinders. Gear progression should be about exploring the world, engaging with it through quests, or building up crafting skills so you can cobble something together yourself, not grinding 1000 identical lairs and praying one of them spits out something usable.

>>542229104
Just think back to something that annoyed you, then see if there's any mods addressing it.

>>542229320
>Starfield, like Fallout 4 without mods ia horrible experience
I have used hundreds of mods for Skyrim but only like 5 for Starfield now and it's just aesthetic one.
Also for Fallout, tested dozens but only had like 15 at most running for normal gameplay.

In fact I can boot up MO2 right now
Skyrim active 138, total 282, some of these are patches or variants for the same mod, but tested hundreds over the years
Starfield active 9, total 32
Fallout 4 is empty because I uninstalled long ago and never played it again

I'm so confused. Which YouTubers are the good guys, which are the bad guys?

>>542231298
>good guys
Smaller or Starfield focused youtubers
>bad guys
Bigger or grifter youtubers

>>542231298
Good guys
- Luke Stephens
- Heelvsbabyface
- Mrmattyplays
- Legacykillahd

Bad guys
- Crimson Flyboy
- Sista Citizen

>>542231694
You might as well expand that list
Good guys
-Asmongold

Bad guys
-Renfail
-Richard Presents Starfield
-The Bloo Moose
-Neon Jai
-Red Wolf Renegade

Vlad's BBRC (Big Black Russian Cock) vs Sarah the Snowgranny

(You) vs. a woodchipper (feet first)

Starfield (a cathastrophic failure) vs No Man's Sky (beloved cult classic)

Looks like the burgerturds are waking up

>>542233023
Shitposters around this early in the morning are usually Australians. Most of us in the U.S won't actually be up until like 7-ish or 8. I woke up around 4 by accident and haven't been able to get back to sleep since.

>>542231298
>good guys.
Not Applicable.
>Bad Guys
Everyone else.

I miss forehead

>>542234108
APPLY

>>542234108
Kino poster

Good morning, I hate Fallout 76 for constantly stealing the spotlight from Starfield and being Bethesda's favorite child

>>542242114
>Bethesda's favorite child
It's a pimp and whore relationship really.

>>542244790
In that case, I wouldn't mind if they starting whoring out Starfield a bit more. I'd pay another 30 bucks to stick my dick in that.

>>542245310
>I'd pay another 30 bucks to stick my dick in that.
Based, so based

>people actually play fallout76 in 2025AD
Like why? Wasn't that just multiplayer fallout4?

>>542249371
Looter shooter go brrrrrr
But I got bored from it and switched to different games, used to play a LOT of Starfield but I'm playing Borderlands 4 now from time to time.

>>542259848
>no UC femboys
>no Freestar Ram Ranch
>no Neon cyberwombs
>no Va'ruun "snakecharming" rituals
>no women that got the Alien DNA trait and sprouted mind controlling terrorcocks
Not gay enough. Even the degeneracy is bland in this fucking setting.

>>542264203
True, its grounded homosexuality.

Time to play through Farseer

Oh look it's Matthew Santoro!

Glad to be coming across mods like these. Bethesda really did screw up some of these perks up with adding some unwanted affects
https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/10297
https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/5780

>>542271793
sick album cover

This mod seems to have some nice interior designs so far

Vault-Tec populations tend to have a big enough population to avoid inbreeding issues for those living in them for over a century, but how did the ECS Constant manage to avoid that with so few people living within it for over 200 years?

>>542286339
How many years is starfield set in the future? 200? Assuming a breeding generation is ~25 years you can manage it with arranged marriages with a population of around 100 or so.

>>542286339
Don't think about it, Bethesda didn't think about it so neither should you

Yep, this is definitely an annoying puzzle alright

>>542286339
you guys are so fucking dumb lol.

Well, Farseer was a pretty short mod. Upon finishing the story, you'll get a spacestation player home and two drone ships that you can choose to have follow you around and provide attack and stun support in combat. it's looks like there is also some post content for the mod that you'll get access to over time, like for example I just unlocked an option to increase the reactor output of my ship after waiting a few days.

Realistically what would the next update bring exactly

>>542302754
Bug fixes primarily

>>542302889
Now this is what I call realistic expectations.

>>541794739 (OP)
>46th president
He will be our 50th President after Vance's two terms are up.

>>541856572
I want to build my own Akira City or my own Neon. I know that'd be like asking Starfield to also be a city builder or a game like the Sims or something, but if they ever got to that point in Starfield, it would literally be one of the only games I'd ever need. It's already one of the only games I play much anymore and is literally the only game that came out this generation that I do still go back to and invest a good amount of time into.

>>542306267
>He will be our 50th President after Vance's two terms are up.
Finally, a president that everyone and their grandma will actually know for sure is full of shit

>>542306778
Funny how that applies to both

>>542302754
Cruise mode

I know Tim Lamb is cooking a fine ass cuisine. It's in his name, Lamb.

>>542302754
They're working on something called cruise mode (presumably seamless ship travel, or at least better obfuscated seams) and something called Terran Armada, so its safe to say some kind of space update is coming, but all we have is names right now, no idea about the exact content. TA might be DLC2 coming way after the next update, or a small Vulture-tier creation meant to showcase cruising, or another Kinggath mod.

>>542312116
I doubt Terran Armada is DLC 2. If ti was they would've trademarked it.

>>542313307
It's part of the free content drop for the ps5 announcement. Starborn will drop with the PS5 release in April. The content drop will drum up some good will

>>542313307
A smaller mission is most likely. Still, they didn't explicitly say "this is the title of the next update" so its not impossible the TA thing was a lore tease for something within DLC2 and not the actual title. If its called Starborn, maybe the plot is about a group of them taking over and enhancing a fleet of generation ships to steamroll their way through the artifact hunts.

>>542315075
I hope this theory is correct. A big base game update shadow dropped at the Game Awards alongside a trailer for the next big DLC and PS5 port announcement. It makes sense, it sounds awesome, and would be a very smart business move.

>>542313307
Is a trade mark necessary for a DLC?

>>542324494
Is anything necessary when the game is shit?

>>542326586
Yes. Now stop being dumb and answer my question

>>542324494
No, but it's a good idea to do so if you don't want to deal with other people trying to claim ownership over it and try to claim you're infringing on the trademark, or use it to trick people into buying the wrong thing. Bethesda might also want to build merchandise around it too.

>>542327256
>paid mod
so sick of this shit
every good mod is paid and nexus only gets the scraps and dregs
fuck you todd

>>542327956
MF:
/?ehi720kmjxxrg

>>542327256
transwiz

when does the ps5 version of this game come out so we can finally get a good update?

>>542330506
I'm going to laugh when they do drop a PS5 version and the update that comes with it breaks all the existing mods as bad a the Fallout 4 next gen update did.

>>542331046
Fo4 update broke everything that touched facegen because its facegen was already broken and the update broke even more. Modders have already fixed it but it's baffling Bethesda hasn't done anything about it. I don't know if Starfield has an equivalent

Backstreet's back, ALRIGHT!

>>542331695
>Ah shit, Bob broke Fallout 4. Should we send a couple of devs to fix it?
>Nah it's printing money regardless, focus on TES 6 right now

I've spent days trying to build a ship and when I finally finish I find out that the doors on the ship are incompatible with the modded parts I have. I hate ship building.

>>542306252
WOOOOOOO

>>542347763
This is also Sarah apparently.

Dead game.

Why do I have three variations of the StarfieldCustom file? Which is the real one to edit? The config file has text in it, while the actual ini is blank. This doesn't at all line up with what I'm reading on mods and their comments.

>>542348549
Trust the plan

>>542348549
Don't use mods outside of creations, and you wont have these problems.

>>542348687
>>542348839

>>542348839
>don't add cheese to your pizza and trust me it won't taste like shit!

Or just don't play bad games like Saarfield

>>542349096
More like don't add cheese to your cardboard cut out of pizza.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, dead thread.

I think I might kill myself. I am genuinely unable to enjoy video games anymore. Nothing else is like seems to be working out and I have no distractions from life.

>>542350125
Sounds more fun than starfield

>>542348549
Also what the fuck is up with this? Does this have anything to do with launching with SFSE via Vortex?

>>542348549
Enable viewing file extensions from explorer settings

>>542352249
Oh, good looks, thanks. I just assumed (incorrectly obviously) that was already enabled since I could see .ini on some. Though now I wanna know what the based/baked files are for and why they're never mentioned anywhere.

>>542352512
You used the configuration tool I think

>>542350125
Maybe try playing good games bro and not Toddslop.

>>542350125
Haha don't kill yourself you're so sexy

Cute

>>542363068
b-based

BBC (Big Black Comrade)

>>542350125
It's just the state of the world man people can barely afford to even be whimsy anymore

Looks like Starfield passed the 110 million mod download mark. Just needs 5.5 million more to surpass Mountain Blade, and 69.5 to surpass Witcher 3 so it can finally catch up to it's other Bethesda brothers.

>>542371484
Not bad for a new IP they had to make from scratch, instead of adapting existing non-game works

>Mountain Blade
You mean "Mount & Blade"?

>>542368664
>people can barely afford to even be whimsy anymore
NTA but none of my problems stem from not being able to afford things (seems to be a meme from people too stuck on politics refuse to work around). Currently the things lacking from life are good people, entertainment, and the idea that the future is bright.

The invisible walls between Virgin and Ohio need to go.

>>542383038
Virgin?

>>542378859
mountain blade butterlord

>>542378859
What makes it even more surprising is that Starfield is more of a hand scifi setting, which have traditionally done poorly.

>>542393332
It's not that surprising at all when you consider the fact that it's a Bethesda game. It might not have been well received, but the fact of the matter is that Starfield still has a high potential to be a modding playground like it's predecessors. People will try to shape it into the ambitious space game that they dream about playing.

>>542383038
This.

>>542400281
Can I ask what mod this is or I'm gonna get yelled at

>>542407835
Tiny Reasons to Explore Space. It's a paid mod though

>>542365246
I was watching a documentary about a Nigerian living in the coldest russain town and it made realize this how Vlad came to be 300 years later

Vlad was obviously meant to be a white russian guy but Bethesda blacked him because of the war in Ukraine.
Someone there is not a fan of Russia because Starfield does not have russian localization iirc and Oblivion Remaster also got released without official russian localization despite the OG one even having dubbing. I guess if the war goes on russians will have to play TES 6 in english or with fan translation.

>>542415160
Starfield still doesn't have a Russian translation yet? That probably explains why the steam concurrent player numbers are still so low. Russians I think are one of the major players of Bethesda games

>>542415160
Russia deserves it so its fine lol

>>542415160
Vlad was black since the very first concept art. Barrett was white however.

>>542415160
Ehhhh there's Gagarin, and the portraits of Russian astronauts in the Lodge

They chickened out from calling the AK a russain rifle but that's about it.

Someone should remake Moonraker as a questline in Starfield

The worst thing about Starfield is being a game that romanticizes space flight as if we're capable of archiving it in the next 50 years or so. I think even Todd knows FTL is impossible since the only way they achieved it in universe is by a literal divine intervention.

>>542440226
>by a literal divine intervention.
I don't think you know what divine intervention is, since no god or deity was responsible for the creation of the grav drive in Starfield.

>>542440226
Assuming you meant achieving it, we're already capable of space flight, it's just not feasible to travel outside of our own solar system right now as the people who would have made the trip irl would be LONG dead before they even get to the next one, and the ship would also be stranded in space as it would run out of fuel.

The only really unrealistic aspect of space travel in Starfield outside of FTL is the ECS Constant in particular, which wasn't even equipped with a Grav Drive when they left earth in the year 2140. They somehow made it to Porrima in around 200 years when with our current flight capabilities, should actually take tens of thousands of years to do so, and we'd somehow have to have sufficient fuel and power to make it there. So by year 2140, humanity would have had to have not only discovered a much faster, near light speed method of travel before Grav Drives were even a thing, but also have found a way to keep the ship fueled for the propulsion system to keep working.

>>542440226
We'd probably have permanent moon/Mars bases within 50 years (and could've already had them years ago) if our civilization ever decides to stop being a feeding trough for endless hordes of human garbage. And plot contrivances to enable FTL happen in every interstellar sci-fi setting, kinda unfair to dig at Starfield for that.

>>542443571
Okay, fine.
*ahem* Intervention from a human from a different universe who somehow managed to communicate with another version of himself in the past through dreams.

>>542444612
>They somehow made it to Porrima in around 200 years when with our current flight capabilities, should actually take tens of thousands of years to do so
Not him but no. The furthest star system in Starfield from Earth is only like 150 LY away. Paradiso is about half that. Even at sublight speed you could make that journey in less then 200 years. At just lightspeed it would only take like 70 something.

>>542445450
Looking at it in-game. Paradiso is only 42 LY from Earth, meaning that it would only take 42 years, at light speed, to get there. For them to get there in 200 years means they were going about 1/5 of lightspeed

>>542445450
In game probably, in real life no. We're not even capable of 1% of light speed travel at this moment in time

>>542446210
And in real life we couldn't even build a ship like that. They were obviously a lot more advanced.

>>542446210
10-20% is an optimistic prediction for fusion drives. So its not realistic hard sci-fi in the sense that we could actually build it anytime soon, but its also not magical bullshit.

thoughts on Sista Citizen?

>>542446210
I certainly hope we can build better spaceships 150 years from now.

What I don't get is why Bethesda added another 200 years on top of that. New Atlantis, Akita, Neon do not look like 300+ years in the future cites.

>>542446328
>>542446210
There is Project Orion which was supposed to reach 5% to 10% of the speed of light back in the 70s. Nuclear bombs have amazing ISP and thrust to mass ratio, perfect ship fuel. Cancelled because of some treaty against nuclear weapons in space. Ship could have gone to Mars and back in weeks or reached Alpha Centauri in decades.

>>542448978
You better hope reincarnation is a thing, because we'll all be long dead before we get to see them.

>>542450320
I'm Canadian, every morning I wake up hoping for a nuclear war that vaporizes every major city. I'm always disappointed that it hasn't happened yet.

>>542450875
>I'm Canadia-
My condolences

Does anyone else find it really weird that in a Scifi setting with grav drives and laser guns, people still use acoustic weaponry?

>>542440226
Anti-space travel sentiment among americans is one of the weirdest (and dumbest) things in recent times.

>>542460660
>Americans
Republicans you mean. Exploration is a distinctly Democrat interest.

>>542460441
You mean ballistic? Not really, SF tech hasn't advanced in a way that would make bullets obsolete.

I thought mag guns were a pretty cool hard sci-fi evolution of guns since bullets are bound to have bigger drop off in high gravity areas

>>542329767
That's a train, anon.

>>542408284
Why is EVERYTHING paid
Who is even making this shit? There were like 10 people for the Skyrim and Fallout CCs.

>>542463804
The CC program went from something like 20 people to 150 people after Starfield released.

>>542463804
76 and CC are their primary profit vehicles. The base game is just to facilitate totally not microtransactions where players pay 10$ for a quest or a gun or a room.

>>542464968
I'd pay $10 for a moon.

>>542462951
I think its supposed to be a railgun version of Metal Storm. Not sure how that's supposed to work, but considering some of the other guns they probably didn't put much thought into it.

>since bullets are bound to have bigger drop off in high gravity areas
Environmental rock-paper-scissors with weapon performance would be neat. Ballistics ranges dropping with gravity, lasers with atmosphere, and particle weapons with magnetosphere.

>>542463804
>Why is EVERYTHING paid
Like 90% of Starfield mods are free.
>Who is even making this shit? There were like 10 people for the Skyrim and Fallout CCs.
Starfield doesn't have Creation Club, it has Creations which is a different program. Skyrim Creations have like 70 verified modders based on this list
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim_Mod:Verified_Creator_Program

>>542466967
>it has Creations which is a different program.
So it has a club for creations

>>542462217
I mean acoustic, not fucking canonballs you moron

>>542460441
>people still use acoustic weaponry?
Where are there any sound guns in Starfield?

>>542464968
At this point they should online modes for their single player games. GTAV Online makes ludicrous amounts of money for rockstar. Modded servers would be insanely profitable.

>>542460441
The lasers suck and the smallest grav drive is the size of a bus. There'd be flying cars long before there'd be any device that can be carried by hand.

up

>>542483602
and down

>>542472304
>At this point they should online modes for their single player games.
ESO and Fo76 exist to be this.

>>542449503
If it hadn't been cancelled due to a treaty it would have ended up cancelled for some other reason. Even nowadays this is impossible cause it would cost way too much and the public would throw a shit fit at potential pollution if something went wrong.

Two months to go until The Game Awards. Surely that will be our night. There's no way it will be a Fallout 76 Burning Springs trailer and nothing else.

>>542490786
76, yes, but ESO is an MMO down to its core design

>>542463804
Several of the top modders from the other games have decided to avoid Starfield like the plague, which has pretty much allowed this idea that people should be paid to mod to fester as the low amount of Nexus user activity for this game is too disheartening for them to want to mod it for free. I guarantee that TES6 and Fallout 5 are going to suffer from this as a result

>>542503375
>have decided to avoid Starfield like the plague
I don't know if these "top modders" avoid it because they simply don't like it or simply because it's not popular with the zeitgeist

If it's the latter, then they mod not because they want to, but because they do want to be paid, just in clout and popularity

>>542500029
ESO is bleeding players and probably won't last another five years. If MS still has any sense, now would be a good time to start working on an ES76 to replace it. SF76 would probably do pretty well too if they can sort out the technical challenges around space gameplay, filling a niche between the more casual NMS and autistic hypertechnical spreadsheets like EVE.

>>542503375
The only "top modder" who avoided Starfield was the guy behind Skyrim Together, which is a meme of a mod that barely works and everyone dunks on.

>>542511896
He asked for donations too
Just attention whoring off Starfield, many such cases

>>541794739 (OP)
soon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4io4zeaXMjc

Trekkies about to eat good. I don't care for slapping whole Trek ships in personally, but those interiors look nice so hopefully they come in hab form too.

>>542530405
Looks neat
>coming out on the 21st
Damn, I'm surprised a mod that looks this ambitious is coming out so soon

So we got Star Wars stuff, Star Trek stuff, Halo stuff, Mass Effect stuff, Stargate stuff and some upcoming Dr. Who stuff. What's next on the Sci-fi menu for Starfield?

>>542530405
based

>>542534214
what stargate stuff?

>>542460441
the laser in starfield suck, both ballistic and particle weapons are better, only thing lasers have going is being cheap

>>542542445
https://www.nexusmods.com/games/starfield/search?keyword=stargate

>>542534214
40K probably. But I think SW and Trek to a lesser extent will be the only ones that push for overhauls and not just assorted bits and bobs. Vanilla SF was already quite close to SW mechanically and the fanbase was starving so they went fucking nuts and damn near finished their overhaul already. The other fanbases mostly just want the novelty of walking around their favorite ships or can't implement much with the current tools.

>>542546672
I'm surprised somebody hasn't done a Millennium Falcon ship mod yet with a matching interior like someone did with the Normandy.

>>542547906
There were shitloads of vanilla Falcons day 1, but I guess there's less demand for a perfect replica since Falkland came out.

I hope Starfield runs decent on Windows 11

ASC Deimos is blatantly for making UNSC ships, so I wonder if he's working on an ASC Taiyo for covie parts too.

Thread could use even more space music (R.I.P Longcat)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWmRrfCrMPI

It's up!
https://youtu.be/J-BvGZiwD3s?si=dS-WokQzkwccnbhh

>>542574764
I was content until I saw the pool and remembered Starfield has the worst use of water in any Bethesda game.

>>542565131
Seems to run fine after upgrading, but the audio quality in W11 somehow sounds even worse than it did when I first got into W10.

Textures are fine (the Frontier) but the planet looks like shit. Guess I should mod them.

>>542587639
there's this, but it's a hefty download
https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/6538

>>542588638
I was gonna look when I was done for the night, but appreciate you doing the legwork. The mod doesn't look that much better though. Probably just keep em default and not look at em too hard.

>>542565131
Forced to use a worse Windows, Microsoft should pay for this

Never seen something like this before. And it's the only one as far as the eye can see. Unscanable, nothing to interact with, can't mine it for resources. Is it anything other than a neat widget that seems wildly out of place?

Finally ready to play this game seriously

>>542594103
SHAMONE

Hehe *dies*

>>542569614
lololololol

it's up
https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/15058

>>542621734
Make it 2701 I'm launching the game right now

Renfail has died

>>542628379
RIP.... who?

>>542629758
One of the Youtubers who has a positive opinion about this game. He's not actually dead, but Ian Watkins is lol.

>>542630029
Well, D'Angelo just died.

>>542634457
I wonder how many white people here even knows who that is. F

>>542634548
He made that RDR2 song, /v/ will be interesting in the next few hours.

>>542634457
what the fuck goddamn

>>542593619
It's a type of vegetation(or technically fungus) that spawns on some planets. There are some locations that have these colorful luminescent lifeforms clustered together and can be scanned. I forgot how it was called, but if you have those it's possible somewhere on the map there's a small oasis-like location.

>>542634457
Sigh. Too young at 51

Wtf? Not a Starfield player and I know about the game's shortcomings, but I will seriously consider getting it if this megamod/overhaul comes out solidly good.

https://youtu.be/e-GLeMZBStc

It will definately scratch that freeroaming Star Wars RPG itch that the franchise never had (excluding the MMO).

Terran Armada.

>>542658528
The Game Awards

Are we dying?

>>542670262
Always have been. Welcome to the life of zombie general!

Startrash general.

New Atlantis Awaits is a pretty good mod if you want to help the city feel more alive. My only gripe with it is that some of the buildings it adds block your Mercury Tower home view on one side

>>542670262
No, just going into hibernation. By the end of this year we will have much more to talk about. In Todd we trust.

>>542677223
>going into hibernation
Anons have been in hibernation since launch.

>>542681516
Na.

>>542683559
Дa

>>542685416
>steam charts
>on a game whose primary platform is gamepass
kek

>gamecope
jej

>>542685416
Concurrent Player Numbers vs. Actual Player Numbers

>>542687219
Doesn't matter if Skyrim's numbers are higher, Starfield still has a healthy playerbase

>>542686276
>on a game whose primary platform is gamepass
May I see the numbers?

>>542687939
>Sales figures for Starfield are only around like 3-4.5 mil
>Bethesda has reported over 15 million players of Starfield
The total PC and Xbox sales only amount to less then 1/3 of Starfield players

>>542688564
>Bethesda has reported over 15 million players
Why should I believe them?

That glass it too clear

I don't know anyone who uses gamepass and I am the only person I know who has played Starfield.

>>542688854
This is a type of fallacious argument known as a unfalsifiable hypothesis, and hold no real weight.

Shalom

>>542690006
Dobrey Dyen! Hello to all the children of the world!

>>542689294
cook him up

>>542687219
Anon your date uploadeds...

>>542691538
>1 year apart
so Starfield will have closer to those numbers in a year? lol

>>542692335
Where did I say that?

>fix space so you can do more space stuff in the space game
>release animation tools so modders can add cool guns and ayys to shoot
>add romance options that aren't geriatric divorcees
>make DLC2 about Colony War II
There, game salvaged.

>>542693878
>make DLC2 about Colony War II
This would be the most stupid thing ever. All this would end up being is the Skyrim Civil War, New Vegas's NCR/Legion was, or the war in Witcher 3(all of which were some of the most criticized parts of those games), where both sides do basically nothing but sit around with their thumbs up their asses all the time since having a fully dynamic war, where major planets/cities get attacked gets in the way of playing all of the rest of the content in the game, and would get annoying.

>release animation tools so modders can add cool guns and ayys to shoot
Bethesda legally cannot do this.

>>542694112
They can't legally release any of the 3rd party tools they used to build Starfield, but they can create their own which is probably the reason why they haven't released any for modders to use yet. Starfield's a whole different beast compared to past games

>>542694854
>which is probably the reason why they haven't released any for modders to use yet
Lol no. If Bethesda had any intent on doing this they would've done so with Skyrim and fo4, which had the same issue

>>542694112
Civil war was a mess, but I feel like Starfield's mechanics could make it work.

>tons of systems, so the war doesn't need to touch the main cities
>dynamic system takeovers would be relatively simple with most of them being random procslop, it would just mean fleets in orbit and adjusting POI spawns
>they already give you option to skip the MQ in NG+, CWII could do the same with faction quests, taking place in a botched timeline where all their events happened a few years early with the worst outcomes, causing the war
>UC has weaponized terrormorphs, Hopetech's magic dirt has allowed for crazy mech production to match, Ryujin is mindraping everyone, Delgado is carving out a pirate state with his riches, Dazra became a ghost town and the ghosts are going on a jihad
>How does the player win it? You don't, this universe is fucked, have fun.
I know they won't do anything close to that and we'll be lucky to get stationbuilding before they pull the plug.

>>542700101
>tons of systems, so the war doesn't need to touch the main cities
This wouldn't make sense. The UC and Freestar would be duking it out over the important "core" systems, not going off to far flung systems that don't matter. You don't beat an opponent by attacking an area that has no value to either side.

>they already give you option to skip the MQ in NG+, CWII could do the same with faction quests, taking place in a botched timeline where all their events happened a few years early with the worst outcomes, causing the war
>UC has weaponized terrormorphs, Hopetech's magic dirt has allowed for crazy mech production to match, Ryujin is mindraping everyone, Delgado is carving out a pirate state with his riches, Dazra became a ghost town and the ghosts are going on a jihad
This would require far too many dialogue rewrites, and world state changes, to make possible.

>>542688564
Taking these numbers to their logical conclusion
-Physical copies own only represents around 20-30% of total players
-There's around 5.5-6K people playing Starfield during its weekly peak on Sundays
-This means that there's around 18.5(low end), to 30K(high end) playing on PC, or probably around 24K on average. This is more then Fallout 4 gets on its weekly highs on Steam, and Steam is Fallout 4's dominate platform since it didn't come to gamepass until like 6 years after release.

>>542700357
>The UC and Freestar would be duking it out over the important "core" systems, not going off to far flung systems that don't matter.
Could say they're stuck in a stalemate, and the war POIs are about gathering/denying resources for a breakthrough.
>This would require far too many dialogue rewrites
I don't think it would. Most of it would be avoided by locking out the big questlines, the few sidequests that directly contradict it could be disabled too, then it would just be a matter of adding new SSN broadcasts and ambient lines.

Or it could lean into the doomed timeline concept by starting with the cities already destroyed and making it a fight over scraps.

>>542689060
Glass? they are floating

Why didn't that mine section at the beginning start with an insectoid alien attack, or a mine collapse or something even slightly interesting? The whole thing just feels so pointless, especially when you compare it to Skyrim or FO3 where there's a ton of shit happening at the very start of the game.

>>542723828
Because this boring intro doesn't force any backstory down your throat. In Skyrim, you were always from Cyrodil and in Fallout 4, you're a parent who's looking for his child.

>>542731368
It's such a fuckup it's unreal. Aside from the intro being boring and shit, the whole "You've finished the intro, now here's a giant world to explore" feeling is just entirely gone in Starfield. Like that one thing that was completely iconic to Bethesda games, and they just got rid of it in in favor of a UI navigation/loading nightmare. If you could have gotten in the spaceship, flown into space and then landed on another planet or moon like in NMS, it would have been fine.

What a bunch of fucking clowns.

>>542732258
No one is doing these intros beyond the first playthrough and Bethesda knew that. What they did wrong is making the intro longer than usual, like 40 minutes long.

>>542732258
If you could have flown into space and landed on another planet... which is exactly what happens in the intro. You go to Kreet and fight pirates. Did you even play the game?

>>542739729
Haha you did the meme.

>>542740372
idpol brainrot is real

>>542741448
not an argument. You lose, again

>>542689156
Same and I wouldn't want to be friends with someone who did use game pass.

>>542742517
I wasn't arguing and I wasn't the original anon

I just woke up. Time to reinstall, shoot Sarah, then uninstall.

>Bethesda hired the writers from Veilguard
It's over

>>542745524
John Dombrow wasn't involved in the silly Taash shit, plus he'll likely just be put on TES6 rather than Starfield

>>542748135
taash wasn't the only terrible thing about veilguard. the factions/governments/character motivations were watered down or made worse. think along the lines of
>the dark brotherhood was actually only killing evil people the whole time who were past the point of no return
>colovian imperials were actually dwemer blooded the whole time
>molag bal actually made vampires because he was commanded to by a more powerful daedric prince he was afraid of

>>542748135
So then it doesn't matter. What is Starfield getting? Tehran Amanda? What do we know?

>>542748135
How many times has something like this been said for other sinking ships just for the concerned anons saying its over to be proven right?

>>542748135
He wrote Wessiupt and Davrin both of which were fine but not mind blowing either

>>542749673
>What do we know?
We know that Todd's team is locking in and pumping out that low quality DLC that will make Shattered Space look good.

>>542749673
We know nothing except for the following:
1. Terran Armada teased
2. Starborn Trademark, whether this will lead to a DLC or not remains to be seen
3. Space gameplay overhaul based on datamining and whatever Tim Lamb said
4. Phil Speer was hired as Starfield's Lead Quest Designer, he worked on some of the praised Creations quest mods

>>542750937
>Space gameplay overhaul
If the leaks are the limits of the "overhaul" then Bethesda needs more Layoffs.

I cannot wait until you guys learn that the Starborn trademark is for a mobile game lmao

>>542752725
I'm going to laugh so fucking hard when you are right.

>>542750486
Shattered Space was fine, at worst its around Dawnguard level. People were just buttmad that it wasn't Starfield 2.0 that completely changed the entire game, despite the fact Bethesda never said it would be.

Terran Armada will be as good as horse armor.

>>542754672
Terrain Banana*

What changes would you make to Starfield to make it more palatable for you?

>>542758629
Honestly, only really big changes I want is cruise mode(which seems to be coming) and them reworking POI cooldowns so the same ones stop showing up as frequently.

>>542758629
Fuel. No cruise mode just make it so I have to think about my destination and prepare my ship for that so I don't slap a shit amount of cargo bays and not suffer the consequences.

POIs having more variants and variety. Easier said that done but bounty hunting gets repetitive very quickly thanks to this system.

More gameplay options. Restricted sleep and saves, restricted fast travel, Hazards that aren't extremely punishing.

>>542759998
>Fuel.
>Restricted sleep and saves, restricted fast travel, Hazards that aren't extremely punishing.
Only if they keep this crap in a 100% optional "survival" mode or something.

>>542759998
>POIs having more variants and variety.
I recall someone actually went through all the POIs in Starfield and found there's like 150 or so "base" POIs, and over 270 POIs including all the variants. Which is almost as many locations as vanilla Skyrim or Fo4 had. Besides tweaking the POI cooldown, I don't think theres any changes they can really make to have them not feel repetitive after awhile.

>>542758629
Unfuck some of the lore
Radio
Water exploration
More companions
Add a major event in the backdrop, ie another war/cramble for territory/first contact
Overhaul terrain generation

>>542760821
>Radio
Radio wouldn't even make sense.

>>542761692
why?

>>542763168
There is no FTL communication in Starfield. Radio waves would take years to move between star systems. Only places where radios would work are star systems with major cities like the system for new Atlantis, Akila, and Neon. Every other system would have a non functioning radio.

>>542758629
-Animated Ship TVs
-At least one official extra girlfriend you can marry
-Player's face changes expression while in combat
-Melee combat animation overhaul, just add more variety to attacks and make blocking look like it's receiving some impact
-Motorcycle land vehicles
-Respawning legendary ship encounters. Apparently there's only 3 legendary ships per playthrough

>>542763718
where is this autism when it comes to sound in space, the state of earth in-game, the implausibility of humanity's distribution, the colony ark's population not resulting in genetic downturn, or the inconsistency in sarah's age?
it's some handwavy comm network or some spacer tossing a relay on his ship that's too much

>>542765781
>where is this autism when it comes to sound in space
You aren't really hearing sound in space, and, in fact, Starfield muffles sounds when flying ships in first person to make it sound more realistic.
>the state of earth in-gam
What about it? They explain it in-game.
> the implausibility of humanity's distribution
What specifically is implausible?
>the colony ark's population not resulting in genetic downturn
Its only been 200 years, they easily could've have had enough people to not suffer any noticeable genetic issues in that time.
>or the inconsistency in sarah's age
What inconsistency?

>>542760640
Yeah but bounty specific POIs i.e. big dungeons are not that many. They should come with a randomizer at least.

>More companions
>At least one official extra girlfriend you can marry
These games aren't supposed to be dating sims, they already added to much of that already.

>>542779495
The companions are pretty deep. Not deeper than Sarah if you catch my wind.

>>542779495
but you gotta answer to the hordes of people who unironically throw around the word "romance" without a moment's hesitation
"omg this NPC has a bit more eyeliner than the typical NPC. I wish we could romance her"

>>542779495
t. Asexual named Lauren. There's always room for "optional" romance mechanics in rpgs

>>542740372
You probably do the meme of "right wing people are retarded cunts" by being a retarded cunt every single day. Yes, I'm sure Starfield would be better if it was more like NMS and you had to spend ten minutes flying through nothingness to get to the next part of your quest. Starfield haters can't even handle spending 30 seconds driving a car across the surface of the moon and call it boring. "Why is there a loading screen that takes 1.25 seconds? I wish it took 100 times longer instead, that would be more immersive." We all know you don't even play video games, you just watch Asmongold and get mad whenever you see a woman on TV.

>>542723828
The only reason you should have gotten the artifact in the first place was because Lin and her boy toy couldn't reach it, but they just tell you to get it despite it being super important. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense

>>542797593
They don't know its super important, only that Barrett was looking for it. They couldn't have predicted Starborn powers, visions, and other shit.

>>542789326
You can smell the impotent troon seethe behind this post lol.

>>542803547
The purpose behind their operation was to get the artifact so it's pretty damned important. Just make it so that they player needs to be the one to grab it because the pirates have started to land and the player's not yet registered and can't be tracked or something.

>>542763718
Live broadcasts wouldn't work, but a FO style radio could be explained as prerecorded content that SSNN lets everyone download as they pass through the major systems.

>>542758629
>What changes would you make to Starfield to make it more palatable for you?
combat
outposts
more ship parts
change all of the terrain gen
underwater stuff
more space stuff
more than 3 human enemies
Basically remake the game, but good. With a new engine.

>>542821185
>switch to UE5
>game loses 30 frames
>still riddled with bad design choices that never get fixed without mod support

>>542821185
>combat
Combat is fine
>outposts
Bethesda de-emphasizing outposts was one of the better changes. We don't need another Fallout 4.
>more ship parts
Bruh, there's like over 700 ship parts as is. I can't imagine how you'd want more.
>change all of the terrain gen
Terrain gen was never the issue though? Its POI cooldowns.
>underwater stuff
To do what?
>more space stuff
Such as?
>more than 3 human enemies
Spacers, Crimson Fleet, Ecliptic Mercs, House Va'ruun. Already there.
>Basically remake the game, but good. With a new engine.
Ohh, no wonder your list made no sense, you're an "LE ENGINE" meme retard.

>>542822434
>still riddled with bad design choices that never get fixed without mod support
Most likely couldn't be fixed with how bad Unreal modding is compared to Bethesda modding.

>>542758629
I think one biggest thing to keep you playing on Bethesda game are mods, and Starfield modding community are practically dead thanks to Todd's verified CC. Remove Toddsbuck and we'll be seeing golden era of starfield modding.

>>542758629
More natural POIs, as in those geological and ecological themed ones.
They get exhausted and repetitive much quicker than human-made POI when people land on planets, and only sometimes you get some more obscure things.
Human-made POI are already way too many and I think only their spawning rate and placement should be refined, but modders and maybe Bethesda too will probably give us the #9845796397 bunker/outpost/laboratory instead.

And natural formations in general should be larger and more imposing, a few are, but many are just small scaled down version of what should cover large part of them map,
Are active volcanoes even in the game? They should be.
Biological ones too should be larger/weirder, like giant trees piercing the skybox, giant alien animals hives and others.

Not a priority, but there should be more color to bodies of liquid, why not green or purple oceans from all the algae? (those brown cola/pepsi-like oceans on some frozen planets are actually plausible btw, especially around gas giants)

>>542788898
You already have that in Starfield, there's even that option to have two partners. There's many other things that are more important.

>>542826814
A harem needs at least 3 partners for it to count, and that only exists in this game if you're bisexual.

>>542824770
I think the dull setting has done more damage than Toddbux. CC has had negative effects too, but I'm confident VI's scene will be far more active than SF's just because people are more invested in the world.
>>542826037
Volcanoes exist, but they're rare.

>>542827170
>and that only exists in this game if you're bisexual.
There is an ending where you get both Sarah and Andreja and is acknowledged in the Unity sequence.

>>542827549
>"dull" setting
For some people yes. They probably would have preferred (and expected) TES in space, some sort of Mass Effect/Star Wars with a TES reskin, but ended up with Starfield something different from most other things on the market. Not the best strategic choice by Bethesda in therms, but I find the setting refreshing.

>>542827882
Let me rephrase what I said a bit: A harem officially requires you to be romancing at least 3 or more people, and that only counts in this game if you're also bi and decided to romance Sam and/or Barrett along with Sarah and Andreja. Just those two by themselves only really counts as a threesome/love triangle/menage a trois

Let's all agree if this big Terrible Amanda 2.0 update isn't the fucking game changer we've been waiting over a year for, we drop the fucking game. I'm so close to being done with this shit. I wouldn't mind so much if the game I had in front of me didn't shit the bed every few minutes with some new bug or glitch.

>>542829556
> if the game I had in front of me didn't shit the bed every few minutes with some new bug or glitch.
I rarely run into bugs or glitches.

>>542829976
Nobody fuckin asked you

>>542829556
>we
lmao
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBNhpkw5tGI

>>542828962
I don't mean the hard sci-fi aesthetic or lack of aliens, I mean how, for lack of a better phrasing it feels like most things are dialed down to a 4. The wars are long over, the UC isn't *too* tyrannical, Neon isn't *too* debauched, CF are shooty but nothing *too* evil like slavery, you go on a companion quest with a cowboy and the climax is couples counseling, lots of quests about very mundane problems and such.

A mundane setting isn't inherently a bad thing, but I feel like going as far as they did is bad in the context of an action adventure RPG.

>>542828962
>For some people yes
The majority is not just "some people"

>>542829556
Way ahead of you. Haven't played the game in a year. Don't plan on buying anymore ToddGaems. Starfield is disgusting, and I hope Bethesda feel bad.

>>542833993
See you in /tes/ when 6 gets released

Todd won't hurt me anymore now that I divorced him

>>542838558
You didn't get a restraining order, he's still in your house.

>>541856572
i think you're meant to have one that makes a bunch of the stuff for some of the drugs that can be made by outpost harvestables. then you land there, make a bunch of combat drugs, and be merry. they used to be for some sort of fuel depot, range extension mechanic that i think was removed because beta testers said it was kinda annoying. would be cool if you could make drones or munitions or something

up

>>542758629
add more gay niggers and granny waifus

>>542864465
This. Give Sarah a twin sister

>>542864465
>Dirty Homo wants more zesty niggers and fag hags.

Can we just round up the gays and have them gassed already?

>>542870093
Let's do that, starting with you

>>542876014
>no you

Cringe.

>>542829556
I agree. Starsisters, we need to find a better game if TA flops.

>>542877359
Cyberpunk is pretty good

>some of us will likely still play Starfield even if Terran Armada flops
>anons who want to move on won't be able to because the bandwagon effect is too strong
lol

>>542883478
>bandwagon effect
is it a bandwagon when there are ~29 people

>>542883583
Yes. All you need is just the knowledge that a group of people are still playing it, even if it's a small group

>>542883670
Not sure if that anon was falseflagging but he said multiple times that this general's existence is making him angry

>>542887050
That's purely out of envy. The nature of 4chan is that it's full of people who want to be contrarian and enjoy things most people don't. He effectively feels like an outsider as he's unable to get into Starfield like us, and that's pissing him off

Luke Stephens said that Starfield should be removed from Steam.

>>542889436
We'll just pirate it anyway

>>542889436
why he even care?

>>542895098
Luke Stephens is a massive grifter, and making comments about Starfield gets him clicks.

He's also made up nonsense like claiming Bethesda needs to implement cell based loading into their games... not knowing they've done it since Morrowind.

>>542895098
Engagement bait. People like >>542889436 who hate Starfield are easily influenced into watching stuff bashing on it, so that's easy ad revenue

>>542889436
>Luke Stephens said that Starfield should be removed from Steam.

zzz up

Cute

>>542908708
You're cute

What sort of things do you think Bethesda might add in updates/DLC?
-Fuel for ships
-Robot customization
-Space stations for outposts
-Space walk segments(though probably not usable everywhere)
-LIST update similar to Tracker's Alliance
-Starborn DLC about artifact creators/what happened to Constellation's founder.

>>542921787
Space stations and fuel are most likely. Robot customization seems to be canned for good since their artist left Bethesda. He was responsible for Automatron and the vehicle in Starfield long before the game launched.

>>542923435
The framework is there. They can just get a different artist or hire more jeets to churn out assets

>>542931709
The assets are there too they just need someone to break them down or something.

>>542921787
>What sort of things do you think Bethesda might add in updates/DLC?
idk but they need to add in the "fun factor".

bump :)

>>542944296
Game is pretty fun as is

>Sista Citizen has the only honest review on Kinggath's creation
>she's black and a woman so they can't do any tactics to discredit her
love to see it

Terran Armada is about a fleet of experimental Terrabrew delivery ships that have barista pilots prepare drinks mid jump for maximum freshness. Cruise mode was developed specifically for this and is hard coded to only work while mixing drinks in the new Terrabar™ cockpits.

An actual doordasher/barista will have a mental breakdown after encountering a reflection of their dystopian life in what was supposed to be their escape, and ram their car into Bethesda's office, delaying TES6 by another 2 years.

>>542950156
Mentally ill poster

Terran Armada is actually about the lead singer of my band who gets all the girls to take off their underpants

>>542949961
We need more black queens reviewing mods
Can't have an irish twink doing all the work

Rhombus

Terran Armada is about a gang of spacers who have been building their own ships from salvaged old-earth schematics. It will be in the vein of Nuka World, allowing you to become a spacer, with their own ship parts. Bethesda heard the complaints on the Shattered Space dlc not having ship parts and decided to double down on ship parts in this dlc.

They should have made it so grav jumping relies on the GRAVITY of a star to slingshot you into the GRAVITY of another star, leaving you to make your own way to whatever planet in that system, allowing for random encounters, Instead of just calling it a grav drive that has nothing to do with gravity.

>>542950156
the first compelling interpretation of the name as linked to the in-game lexicon I've seen so far

>>542977721
Hey stop saging

>>542978387
We can sage here??

This is how it sounds when starfaggots say they'll just mod the game to be better.

>>542985813
Just be gay and romance barrett
A freeing experince

ded

I got excited, a new tweet by Bethesda and it's nothing.

>>542996235
Like your social life.

>>543008594
SHOTS FIRED

You guys didn't UP this ?
https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/15094

>>543027940
>alt start mods
script bloat galore!

>>543034010
/tesg/ think I'm Hitler for using Arthmoor's alternative start mod

>>543037953
>using anything by Shartmoor
You are hitler

>>543038312
Yeah! gas the kikes, or something.

Looks like Ace Frehley also died. F

another month gone, another month of nothing for starfailed

>>543048147
Just don't stick to only Starfield, pass the time by playing something else until we get some news. I'm busy playing the new Pokemon game myself.

>>543038312
Hitler was right. Shartmoore was wrong

I can't believe the /cp77g/trolling beat you guys... They fucking won.

>>543057647
hey I'm part of that general too

>>543057647
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn

>>543058717
We know

>>543070648
no you don't

Wanna have a holster for your weapons?
https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/15114

>>543070807
Yes we fucking do. You literally outted yourself a month ago.

>>543078015
I haven't posted here since last spring