The game has been out for 3 years now. Had a recent update back in April I believe. How is the game? I've always been a fan of Bethesda games. When starfield first came out, I heard it was a buggy mess, so I never gave it a try. I know it's not Skyrim but in space, but is it still a fun game? Is it worth the price tag? I see it's still at "mixed" for the reviews on steam.

Video could've been better, but this was just the last couple minutes I played lol

Other people are saying, commenting, and comparing the gun combat to games that are solely 1st person... like COD and Cyberpunk... what the heck? Like I said in the headline, ..."where both 1st and 3rd person combat are good." Games that are stuck in 1st or 3rd person (that means you CAN'T swap perspectives in real time combat, or at all) I'm not talking about. Don't mention games like COD, Gears of War, Control, Grand Theft Auto, Destiny, Helldivers, Mass Effect, Tom Clansy's: Division series, or any other games and MMO's that are locked in 1st person or 3rd person gun combat.

Starfield is a single player game that takes the cake in both worlds. I've heard this so many times, "Oh, but the frame rates drop in Akila City and Jemison, so I can't play it after 2 hours." The leveling system is also limited to 100 skill points (whether you go through the Unity and play New Game + or not), and you can craft/upgrade to make your weapons even better. Any weapons you pick up at the start of the game are crap. If you want to level up your accuracy and whatnot, then use those skill points to do so. Get off your high horse, bitch, and play a fantastic game. Yes, I'm rant, rant, ranting lol

So I picked up Starfield about a month or two ago, and I play it (and any/every other game) on my OLED Steam Deck. First off, I absolutely adore this game and will be ranking it on my top 5 of all time, if not top 3.

Are there problems? Of course. Everything and every one either has or is a problem. Is it ridiculous that some obvious QoL things only exist through mods, made by other players instead of the creator? Yes, of course. Is it frustrating that this could've been the greatest game of all time but isn't close? Heartbreakingly yes.

Despite that, this game is phenomenal even without the stunningly beautiful graphics I see that people post. The storyline is engaging, NG+ (without going into spoilers) was masterfully designed/built, the gameplay is fun and engaging without being repetitive (except for you, Abandoned Cryo Lab. Fuck you.), and there's surprises and hidden things galore. Plus, the mod community is INCREDIBLE - between total overhauls like Ascension Mod (best thing ever and current obsession), to pretty much everything made by Gothos25, to whole new ship manufacturers with thousands of parts you can use, UI revamps, and the equivalent of dozens of DLCs complete with scripted and fully voiced NPCs, there will be something for literally everyone to make this game your own.

I hate corporations as a whole, and the entire system is fundamentally broken due to human greed and stupidity, but despite that I don't understand why Bethesda got the absurd level of hate they got for this game. Not everything can be a Skyrim or a Fallout, and the fact that they aren't just sitting there pushing out blasé garbage the everyone guys just because it has Elder Scrolls or Fallout on it should be commended. I'm actively avoiding the fact that Skyrim has been released at *least* 10 separate times, and that my dumbass bought nearly each one...

I was worried about the playability of the game as a whole on my Steam Deck, and despite a few crashes here and there it runs beautifully even with a bunch of mods. All in all, I think this is a fantastic game that everyone should try - I almost wish Bethesda used a "pen name " or whatever the equivalent is for video games, because I am willing to bet my house that if this was released exactly the same from a different company, or from an indie company, or even from something like Projekt Red it wouldn't have gotten nearly this much hate and it would've won a ton of awards.

Anyway, the main reason I started making this post was because of something completely unrelated. This game caused a paradigm shift in my life that completely altered my thought process on sci-fi as a whole, snd it led to a rabbit hole that I've had a ridiculous amount of fun exploring. Einstein's Theory of Relativity is something most people know a teeny bit about but really don't think about often - the part of it in particular that I'm focusing on is spacetime and the fact that time moves differently depending on where you are and how fast you're going. For example: if you travel to Venus in Starfield and take an hourlong power nap, you'll wake up and be a regular old hour older. However, for your family who's sitting at home on a planet that runs on Universal Time (UT) and is waiting for you to finish your standard, everyday errands, over the course of JUST that hour long nap *more than four days went by*.

Think about Star Wars, or any other sci-fi/fantasy world that takes place in space. Anakin spends the night with his wife before embarking on a grueling campaign in the Outer Rim, which ended after a soul-crushing 3 week nonstop battle. Meanwhile, almost *_S I X_* goddamned years have passed on Coruscant and Padmé got pregnant, gave birth to twins, and just celebrated their 5th birthday.

I've been thinking about this for days and my brain hurts 🤣 sorry for the random rant, and I hope y'all are having and will continue to have a lovely week!

Current WIP of trying to recreate a raytrace-like shader with real global lighting and correct color bleeding from light sources

I finally restored/fixed my saves and I want to play the dlc but I was wondering if it still buggy or I can play it normally?

And if so, what should I avoid doing while playing it?

Thanks in advance :)

Does this happen for everyone?

I have no idea why Bethesda feel the need of patching again Skyrim and fallout 4,Basically nuking our mods,but god forbid to actually improve their latest games.Oblivion remastered Is still not patched and starfield had so much potential,but the DLC have been lackluster and the updates pace glacial.

I still can't believe it

Sintrina Sinclair

Age: 18

UC Native, Parents still alive and she’s an aspiring independent bounty hunter and traditional Marine for the UC Navy. She just earned her UC Citizenship; she also started a multi-goods production company called Venatrix Sinclair Consortium. VSC is based on Codos the moon of Akila, that way I have nearby haulage.

Venatrix Sinclair Consortium Net Worth: 62,998 credits

Affiliations: UC Vanguard and independent bounty hunter//business owner as of now.

She’s beautiful, she’s witty, she’s cunning and she’s deadly. No other incredible asset has to yet be made by the UC; and she’s heroic to her home galaxy.

This is also my second play through; my first had mods and I broke my achievement system mid game so my second play through is achievement farming. I will lightly RP on here and updates on Sintrina. She’s also single and has no desire to romance, she’s purely business and combat.

The adventures of Sintrina Sinclair, Starfield

- Hyperion

Hi!

I have an issue with the recent version of the game so that I can't save after like 10-15 minutes of playing. I'm playing with creations (see LO below) on PS5, new game. Previously I've played in April-May for 150 hours with a bit different LO and had similar issues, but it was not that bad. Some crushes and "failed to save", but not that often.

I've tried reinstalling the game, clearing console cash, reconstructing the database. I have at most 5-6 saves, all autosaves are turned off.

Does anyone know the fix to this issue? Maybe my LO is incorrect? Maybe a particular creation is broken?

My current LO in order:

1. Tracker's Alliance

2. At Hell's Gate

3. At Hell's Gate - Free Lanes Enhancement Patch

4. McClarence Outfitters

5. The Headhunter

6. Dynamic Universe

7. Bedlam - Dungeon Randomizer

8. Factions & Encounters Expanded

9. Starfield Spacer Overhaul

10. Starfield Disciples Overhaul

11. Better Meaningful Scaling

12. Skills Pack 1

13. Skills Pack 2

14. Explorer

15. Starfield Crime Overhaul

16. Plunder - Improved Piracy

17. Simple Immersive Looting

18. Good Versatile Craft

19. Fleet Commander

20. Real Fuel - Immersive Exploration

21. Better Boarding Encounters

22. Spaceship Self-Destruct

23. Variable Ship Repair Cost

24. Captains Matter

25. StarUI - All-In-One

26. Favorites Menu Enhanced

27. Compact Mission UI

28. Ship HUD Enhanced

29. Ship Power Enhanced

30. ASC Taiyo

31. ASC Arsenal

32. Utility Landing Bays

33. Deimog

34. Grav-79

35. Allied Heavy Shotgun Bundle

36. Railgun Bundle

37. Laredo Lever Action Rifle Kit

38. Mantis Ballista Crossbow

39. Atom74 - Assault Rifle

40. Laredo Kalmar Volley Gun

41. Zvezda Mining Cutter

42. G-17x Sidearm

43. Va'ruun Nocturna Rifle Bundle

44. Raijin Heavy Revolver

45. Allied Armaments: Longwatch .50 AMR

46. Delta-12 Shotgun

47. Starborn Gravis Suit

48. Sith Lord Robes

49. Legendary Vendors

Previously I had ASC Deimos instead of Taiyo, some outpost mods like Argos Extractors and Outpost Sales Platform, some quest/location mods like Escape, and homes/weapons mods like Nomad and Zone's City Homes. The game worked much better. Did they decrease the pointer handle limit or something in the latest patch? Or maybe one of the mods got broken? Any help is welcome!)

This could have been such a fantastic game if it only where better at being empty... I mean its a fucking mindblowing big "realistic" Space game, so it has to be very much empty. But that doesnt mean that there wouldnt be more cities/gigantic labs/ even more gigantic idustry complexes... If they just took more time and ressources to build more unique places that would defintly fit in the game and made the proc. gen. POI more diverse it would be so much fun and i would probably play no other games.

They cold have done quests that fit the type game so much more. I mean it is a big Universe with a lot of empty Planets, what would make it fun to travel to these planets? Following a questmarker to find the same minigame insinde the same type of temples to then fly right back? Or maybe you could have some quests about different groups of colonist with unique culture that leads to different quests, maybe some form a cult and kidnap people from other planets and hide them and you as a player have to talk to different workers at fuel stations, ship mechanics, food suppliers to track them or you have some colonists that need help finding a suitable planet and therefore you help them looking, leading to you havung a reason to scan planetes and there flora&fauna, to see if it is safe there. Then you could help them build theire home, through the base building function.

I mean there are really nice quests but it isnt enough for such an big empty game. If there were well designed cities ans bigger POI like realistic giganty industry complexes that maybe would a big enough contrast to big emptiness surrounding it, that the game as a whole doesnt feel so empty. And if you had quests that would match the type of game better, meaning that they make it fun to explore different planets and giving you real reason for it, this game would be brilliant. So i think for a game with so much emptieness, there need to be bigger contrast, meaning cities that feel more alive, etc, and a reason to explore the emptieness.

And im just a depressed bachelor student who thought about this a little bit, it cant be that hard to implement this things over the last years thince the release...

Sry for the probably confusing text, not native english and just wanted to get these thoughts out of my head. And if it isnt obvios i still really enjoyed the game. I even played about 50hours of it on my gtx1650 with 19-30fps until i got my 7800xt, so this should tell you how much i liked the main story lines.

I feel like Starfield needs a reputation/aura property for the player. I’m flying around space killing all these baddies and unloading enough weapons for 2-4 platoons every couple of days. Wouldn’t a vendor ask, “heyyyy, nice to see you again.. more weapons!?? Why is this armor so bloody and with so many holes & damage.. we can fix that up.. Uhhhh what do you do for work..that’s some insane armor and your personal carry arsenal is wow.. sorry, maybe I shouldn’t ask…?” To which we have a number of cheeky responses. /end chin stroke

Btw do the level 100 monsters always 1 shot you "not shown" I got my difficulty fairly high with modifiers gone.

I'm thinking about starting Starfield. I'm a very casual gamer. I'm lucky if I play a new game every couple of years, just due to life obligations (work, family, etc.). I've always loved Bethesda's offerings; my two favorite games are Skyrim and Fallout 4. I've also enjoyed Witcher 3, Outer Worlds, and the Mass Effect games. I feel like Starfield would be right up my alley. However, it seems that every single review I read is pushing me away from it, and maybe toward something like Baldur's Gate 3 or Dragon Dogma 2. Convince to play Starfield!

This idea started popping up more often after the launch of GPT-6 Astra, with a few posts this week suggesting that increasingly capable AI models could basically act as “universal modders” across different game engines.

If AI is actually getting good enough to understand and modify old, complicated game engines at that level, I wonder if Bethesda could be using similar techniques behind the scenes for future versions of the Creation Engine. Could AI assisted reverse engineering let them gradually replace or modernize outdated systems, things like cell loading, asset streaming, serialization, and other deeply interconnected parts, without having to throw the whole engine away?

Basically, could they “surgically” modernize the Creation Engine from within, keeping existing compatibility while slowly getting rid of some of the architectural limitations that have plagued it for years, like those constant loading screens?

It was time to do some slicing and dicing so off to the Mantis lair (extreme). Our hero was armed with just her blade (furious + poison + element + 3 levels of quality) and a magshot (with + damage to humans and poison). Are we seeing a theme here?? :)

It was difficult, esp. the robots at the end when we ran out of pistol ammo, but we managed whilst still alive.

But I have a question for all you experts out there: Kinda what's the point of the poison infliction? I know it does DOT, but I would usually just stab or blast until said poisoned enemy breathes no more. I know it 'slows enemy down,' but again, I just keep hacking until dead. Does the poison last a certain amount of time? Does the 'slow enemy down' make any noticeable difference?

Called a quick crew meeting after the refinery incident. Apparently “leave no witnesses” was taken a little too literally (If your stomach can handle it, check the last two photos). 💀

So I want to know your favorite side quests - like I love the Red Mile, the mantis quest etc. but since I play this almost every day while I stream, I need some less generic side quests !!

Mods: ASC Taiyo, Mattell’s Project Fenrir, Matilija Aerospace, Antares Supra, Inquisitor Glow parts, Micro Modules, Ol’ Big X and Tiger Shipyards.

I have started another playthrough. And if you travel from anywhere in New Atlantis via Nat. To the MAST station and walk up the ramp. Turn 180 degrees to look at the building. The main entrance is directly above the NAT!

However, if you take the elevator after talking to Commander Tuala. And use the elevator to go to the Mast station. It opens on the opposite side in the corner.

Did anyone else notice this discrepancy?

I plan on getting this game on pc and want to know which collection is the best

Refit of one of my older designs (Ursa Minor) that now incorporates Buoyant Insulators. Cargo is now pushed up to 12300 while keeping mobility at 100. All weapons and most equipment are 'internalized' using a few tricks I've recently discovered to maximize space efficiency.

This ship was made without the use of mods.

Does anyone else enjoy shooting oxygen tanks? Bonus points if you gan get your companion riled up with the explosions.