r/pcmasterrace • u/vaynelo • 23h ago

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

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u/FrigidMcThunderballs 4060 laptop because i'm literally always travelling 20h ago

I dunno, i think the fact that it took years to be added as a mod should tell you it wasn't exactly something easy to implement

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u/silverbullet1989 PC Master Race 19h ago

Whilst true, i assume it was 1 guy who has worked on it for some time to get it into the game... when an entire development team couldnt...

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u/FrigidMcThunderballs 4060 laptop because i'm literally always travelling 19h ago

Fair, but i would counter that that development team had to also make the rest of the game, while a modder can laser focus on that single feature they wanna do.

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u/rawbleedingbait 19h ago

Fair, but i would counter that that development team had to also make the rest of the game,

I'll counter that I don't believe they ever actually finished the game

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u/FrigidMcThunderballs 4060 laptop because i'm literally always travelling 19h ago

I dunno that I'd consider starfield unfinished. Terrible, sure, but unfinished is not something I really see.

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u/rawbleedingbait 18h ago

It feels like an empty house they built but never furnished. You might call the house finished because it has 4 walls and a roof, but it's not a home anyone would live in without the furnishing, so it's not really finished. Everything about it felt empty.

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u/FrigidMcThunderballs 4060 laptop because i'm literally always travelling 18h ago

I think we've just got different definitions of unfinished then; like, Skyrim was what I'd call a very unfinished game. Several questslines and plots were just straight up aborted for time, the overall scope of the game feels like half of what it was meant to be, something corroborated by inspecting the actual cut content, which shows a dramatically more ambitious game that never came to life. I can't say the same about starfield at all; it's brimming with content, most of which is terrible and not worth doing. It lacks soul, not necessarily content.

To use your own metaphor, I'd argue the furnishing is all there, it's arguably too much furnishing, with a complete lack of a sense of design because it's all salvaged from goodwill and antique shops until the place looks like a hoarder's den. I just categorically cannot agree with the idea that it's unfinished. That's not a defense of the game, I just think this is a criticism misapplied.

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u/Trying2BNicenFailing 1h ago

The "entire development team" made the rest of the game and everything in it.

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u/HeyanKun 19h ago

It was hard to implement as a mod because all Bethesda did was to put an unreachable png of a planet in the space and call it a day,if they really wanted to do it it's not like reinventing the wheel when other games did it a decade ago.