Comment on [MEGATHREAD] Starfield - Your experiences!
rDrDr@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It’s pretty good. I’m not super into fantasy so I think I prefer the story so far over TES. I do like a sideish plot I’m in to join a faction and potentially betray another faction.
I am running on a 3080 with no real hiccups. I get 40-80fps. It’s higher indoors and on the blower side in cities. This is on Ultra with resolution scaling at 77% at 4K, which is slightly above the Ultra preset.
There are loading screens when you take off and land or enter certain areas. They’re annoying, but usually just 1-2 seconds. I do wish they optimized this more.
Combat is decent. It’s not the best shooter in history but it generally works okay. Space combat is again just okay. Kind of simplistic relative to something like Elite Dangerous or Star Citizen.
c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The space combat looks like it has the complexity of Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare.
It was an amazing game, but yeah kinda arcade-ish.
tal@kbin.social 9 months ago
To be fair, the realistic space combat video game genre really doesn't exist, that I've seen.
You can get pretty hard-realistic combat aircraft sims. Not many, but they exist.
But in space combat games, you're always playing something roughly like Star Wars. Which is cool and all, but just not what actual space combat would likely look like.
googles for one of the pages talking about the issues
https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/real-life-space-combat-would-look-nothing-like-star-wars
samus12345@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Because realistic space combat would be slow and boring.
tal@kbin.social 9 months ago
I dunno.
Real life naval warfare is generally slow and boring, but by using a variety of tricks, like time compression and only having the player involved in actual combat, many games have made that palatable.
Redredme@lemmy.world 9 months ago
store.steampowered.com/app/380110/In_The_Black/
tal@kbin.social 9 months ago
Thanks, haven't looked at it before.