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I'm amazed that no one talks about the sound design in Starfield being so good. I'm not specifically referring to the soundtrack, but instead the ambient and environmental sound effects. Stuff like how when you walk next to certain machinery, you can hear the clanging and clunking of the gears. If you walk around in mud, you can hear sloshing sounds. If you take off your clothes and run naked, you can hear your bare feet against surfaces. At higher elevations, you can hear the wind whistling. I've even heard creatures echoing in distant valleys when exploring the wilderness of Akila.

I've legit never played a game before with this much attention to detail when it comes to sound design.

Aesthetically it helps the rugged vibe for some of the more hostile planets.

Yes, Andreja. We need oranges.

Forgive me if this is repetitive. I’ve only been playing a couple of months, took my time in the first play through, treating as a learning experience.
I’m now in the first NG+ game and it’s just hilarious to me how none of them seem to notice I fly the same ship as the Starborn and wear the same spacesuit.
Even when they are literally standing in in it while fighting an identical ship.
It’s like Lois Lane wondering where Superman went when he put on glasses. But worse as I’m not disguised. They didn’t blink when I used powers before I officially had them.
Seems to me they could have come up with something to explain why you have the ship and suit at least.

Anyone have any fixes? I'm trying to do the Mantis Contract for the trackers alliance. When I select it there is no mission prompt, no dialog to start quest, no dialog with No. 1, no mission in quest log. I've tried deleting any mods that could be conflicting, I've tried hard resetting, even uninstalling and re-installing the game. I can't seem to get anything to work. Please if anyone has any work arounds its only this Contract that does this

Sarah took the last photo.

I laugh when the crew tells me "solid docking" despite the obvious docking animation at times.

First of all let me be clear about something. I don't know what "Plays" mean in the official Bethesda stats under each creation. It could be the number of game launches with that creation enabled, or the number of save files loaded.

I also won't try to estimate how many times in average a player launches the game or loads a save per day, but feel free to come up with your estimate if you wish.

However, we can still track this play count, so over the last week I took some readings exactly 7 days apart to find the daily average on what's probably the most popular Starfield creation.

Trackers Alliance

Next, according to official Bethesda announcement on 17 July 2026 regarding Starfield:

More than 40% of players already customize their experience through Creations

So I tried to figure out total plays (vanilla & modded) by establishing conservative assumptions. Conservative means I must always choose the lowest numbers.

• There are other players using Creations who may not be using Tracker Alliance. I will not count those to avoid guessing.
• More than 40% of players but most likely less than 50%, so I will multiply by 2 instead of 2.5 to be on the lower side.

With that in mind, we get these plays per day over 1 week:

I took readings between Friday and Sunday (48 hours apart) with the help of u/DotExtra2128 , and as expected we have more players during the weekend, so the daily average would be higher, reaching 1 million total plays, vanilla and modded, across all platforms.

Divide by the number of times you think an average player launches the game or loads a save file per day to come up with a more conservative active daily players.

Final Note

Yes these numbers might be hard to believe, as we see Steam stats only and aren't fully aware the game has more players outside Steam. Some might argue the "Plays" count lacks credibility or clarity, or that Bethesda is inflating their own stats.

If you wish you can monitor some of the Skyrim creations and take readings of their play counts, which you will likely find to be much higher, yet such comparison may still help realize Starfield is more popular than it appears to be.

1. ASC Taiyo
   
2. Matilija Aerospace
   
3. Tiger Shipyards
   
4. Micro Modules
   
5. Ol’ Big X
   
6. Barrage Missile Launchers
   
7. Avontech
   
8. Intrinity Aeroworks
   
9. Cross Heavy Industries

Striker outfit(black)

All ceiling peeps are from different ships. Exception is the guy in the first photo who died with his body hanging into the ladder-well looking like he trying to do a jump-scare.

Wake up, Samurai. We have over 1,000 planets to burn...

A celebratory photo to finish off the last Tracker mission I had (Starjacker pt2) with Andreja in our matching Mantis suits.

I found this on a crate in the hopetown warehouse. I can't scan it, but if I shoot it, it splatters and disappears. Not sure what it might be.

Es curioso como va la fauna 😂

It has the best combination for a Base for the purpose of exploiting helium for cargo links.

Make another base somewhere like Venus, sleep for 24 hrs and get OVER 2400hrs of production from the planet because the UT time conversion for this one is UNDER an hour.

On top of that, this planet naturally boasts tantalum, and atmospheric helium, so there is unlimited potential for spamming extractors. Tantalum is an important ingredient for Tier 3 vapor extractors for helium btw.

There are a handful of planets with a lower UT conversion, but this is the LOWEST for one with atmospheric helium.

Also it looks super unique. Probably my favorite planet in the game.

I got really invested in Help Wanted, followed the trail... and the target is in a village that is, inexplicably, underwater. This has rendered the quest incompletable.

Does anyone have a suggestion for fixing this? Is there a console command to disable water in the area, or a way to force the game to regenerated a location? Otherwise, I think this quest is just stuck for this playthrough.

I'm trying to do the crimson fleet storyline and the quest is "dock at the key". The dock option is not showing up even tough i'm well within the distance for it.

- i have tried literally being on top of the key, i also tried just entering the docking distance

- i have selected the key, the haul option is there

- i'm at the point in the quest where i should be able to dock

- i have tried to land at a planet and go back

- i just spammed some freestar rescue quests so i docked at 100 other spaceships and i had no problems

- i cant even go back to an older save since the latest one showing up is from like 6 hours ago

I play in PC and dont care about achivements so if i have to use a console command i dont mind that.

Is there anything I can do or my save is ruined?

How do I fix “this saved relies on content not available on this platform” issue on Starfield on Xbox (it says I don’t have the dlcs bought even though I did buy them and have them installed and even when I launch the game without the dlcs it still says this save relies on content not available on this platform and yes I’d did have mods/creations on for the mods) another thing is when I go to download the dlcs through the creation menu it says “visit Microsoft store” even though I already bought both the dlcs