For those who have pre-ordered it is already here, the rest have to wait a little longer. Starfield is finally here! Have you bought it, why or why not? If you’ve already played it, what do you think of it? We are very curious!

Discuss all things Starfield below!

  • net00@lemm.eeEnglish
    896·
    2 years ago

    Just played 4 hours. Not saying whether the game is good or bad, but I’m not seeing the point of the spaceship yet.

    It’s looks like merely a medium for the fast traveling mechanic. You can’t really “move” in space (as far as ive tried), and can’t use it to fly within a planet.

    I expected being able to manually travel from planet A to planet B and finding cool stuff along the way. If you wanna actually move you need to fast travel.

    I also expected to be able to get in my ship and go from place A to place B within the same planet (also finding cool stuff along the way). It seems that also is just done by fast traveling only.

    • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      2 years ago

      Sounds disappointing. I’m definitely unnaturally excited with the idea of “Large vehicles” - being able to walk inside with your character, take casual actions like crafting/talking while it transports, then stepping out. It’s why I enjoyed Sea of Thieves and Subnautica, and it’s what I mainly want out of trains in games.

      Reducing them to interaction prompts and cutscenes sort of undersells them to me.

    • dlpkl@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 years ago

      Damn, I guess we’ve been spoiled by No Man’s Sky. I was expecting it to be a completely open, manual traversal universe.

      • uberkalden@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        Why were people expecting this? I agree it would be awesome, but I thought they were pretty clear this wasn’t going to be like no man’s sky

    • Boiglenoight@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 years ago

      I had this complaint early on. It was very disheartening.

      20 hours in, I love that I can fast travel from one planet to another in an entirely different solar system, to the building I need to get to.

      • net00@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        Tbh I have had a lot of fun with this game (35h in). It’s an RPG first and space explorer second, nothing necessarily wrong with that.

        I also learned that if you’re tracking a quest you can use the grav drive right from the ship’s HUD by selecting the locstion marker. It does help immersion a tiny bit more.

        Overall it’s what they promised, modders can anyways “fix” the shortcomings.