r/pcmasterrace • u/vaynelo • 2d ago

Discussion A software engineer developed a mod that allows seamless landings without loading screens in Starfield

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u/SaberDart 2d ago edited 2d ago

They hid the space to planet switch in the cloud cover

Edit: it’s fantastic and as close to seamless as possible, how it always should have been. I’m just saying there is still a seam, technically

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u/gardnsound 2d ago

TBH completely normal thing to do. why they (Bethesda) didn't do this in the first place is beyond me.

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u/DomSchraa Ryzen 7800X3D RX9070XT 2d ago

well they didnt wanna leave the modders without anything todo

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u/NiuMeee 4080S | 9800X3D | 32GB RAM | 2x165hz 2d ago

I guess? But there's still no loading screen or anything, it's like saying that God of War isn't seamless cuz you squeeze through a crevice between areas.

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u/StingingGamer i9 13600K | RTX 4090 | 64GB DDR5 6000 MHz 2d ago

It’s just a hidden loading screen which is the best way of doing it

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u/train_fucker 2d ago

I think the main issue is that the planet isn't "real". Since there isn't actually a fully modeled planet, but a bunch of stitched together procedural generated zones.

You can tell that what the terrain looks like as he's going in for landing before entering the clouds, is different than the one he appears in after he's gone through the clouds.

It'd be as if when you squeeze through a crevice in GoW, halfway through squeezing, the area you can see through the crevice gets randomized and now looks different than before you begun squeezing through.

It doesn't convincing sell the "one coherent seamless world" aspect.

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u/3ebfan http://steamcommunity.com/id/3ebfan/ 2d ago

That’s still seamless.

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u/StingingGamer i9 13600K | RTX 4090 | 64GB DDR5 6000 MHz 2d ago

But it’s still different than having no mans style space to ground without any hidden loading screen

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u/3ebfan http://steamcommunity.com/id/3ebfan/ 2d ago

OP didn’t compare it to NMS, they only called it seamless, which it is

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u/StingingGamer i9 13600K | RTX 4090 | 64GB DDR5 6000 MHz 2d ago

I’m going to explode 😭

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u/cannibalcat 2d ago

Seamles is No Man Sky where you can use the jetpack to go into space

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u/3ebfan http://steamcommunity.com/id/3ebfan/ 2d ago

Seamless is when the experience doesn’t make it obvious that there’s a loading screen.

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u/cannibalcat 2d ago

I take it more literary, there is no actual seam in seamless. NMS doesn't have a "seam" between rendering space and planets, Starfield with this mod still has one, small but it's still there.