Anyone Else Having a Blast?

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Cold_Brew_Enema@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

Seriously this is a lot of fun. It is absolutely a Bethesda game through and through. Not sure what people were expecting. I’m glad it’s not like No Man’s Sky because that game bored the shit out of me almost immediately.

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magamus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’m having a blast as well. I’m getting sidetracked by all the random side missions and activities that I’m 16 hours in and still haven’t really completed the first main storyline mission. I had to figure things out that would have been taught to me during that mission apparently.

My only issue is resources and modding. Carrying all that crap around on the off chance I need it is killing my carry capacity.

Otherwise I’m just blasting through space and enjoying the dialog and pickpocketing everything I see. Good times.

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- hordenduopol@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  For the first time ever in a Bethesda RPG I’ve decided I won’t go stealth and I won’t pick up every crappy item to be permanently overloaded. FREEDOM! Only 3 hours in but it feels great.
  
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  - Corran1138@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Wait so you AREN’T picking up every styrofoam coffee cup you find?
    
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- Cold_Brew_Enema@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Same here. I spent four hours exploring the moon Kreen and haven’t even fought the crimson fleet mission. It’s amazing how sidetracked you can get.
  
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- BloodSlut@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yeah, its weird
  
  Like you can start gathering and collecting resources from the very beginning of the game, but 30 hours in and i still cant use any significant amount of it?
  
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Piecemakers3Dprints@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I mean, once I got past the whole “Here, take my starship and utility bot. It’s cool. I’ll just stay here with these miners who’re now hunted by a notoriously bloodthirsty merc group. Have fun!”… Sure. 🤦🏼‍♂️

That sorry excuse for writing is how you begin your groundbreaking game, Bethesda? Truly? 🙄

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- Kujo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Eh, I really didn’t think about it too much, but not to spoil anything, but that decision does come back up later with consequences so it makes sense.
  
  But also, when has Bethesda had great writing? This has def been the biggest gripe with them for a long time now, and it’s def not the strongest point of the game lmao
  
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guriinii@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Absolutely loving it. Constantly getting sidetracked, missions, helping folk, I’ve even been enjoying surveying planets. Although I will definitely need the skills to make that quicker an easier.

No Man’s Sky was the biggest disappointment I’ve ever experienced as a gamer. Mining to build something to refine something you mined to make a part you need to mine something to fuel. So boring.

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- finestnothing@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I really like the current state of nms, they’ve added a ton of content and patches since launch 7 years ago, but it’s not for everyone since there isn’t any one direction or goal. There is a central storyline, and every few months there’s an expedition which is like side mini-storylines to introduce new content and get cosmetics, but besides that you’re pretty much left to explore the galaxies as you please
  
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samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Yes, but I’m glad my expectations were lowered before I played it since it was hyped up to be more than just another open world Bethesda game. It’s fun for what it is and I really appreciate that being encumbered doesn’t reduce your run speed, it just makes your stamina (oxygen) lower as if you were sprinting. I’ve been able to realize my dream of looting absolutely every piece of garbage (that isn’t marked as stealing) and selling it when I get back to a city, whereas in previous Bethesda games I had to actually be selective in what I took.

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- guriinii@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It’s a great feature. Works incredibly well on low g planets when you’re far from your ship.
  
  I’ve stopped hoarding resources though, it has got out of hand. Haven’t figured out where to store it all off ship. All the outpost storage at my current level seems pretty low.
  
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  - samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I bought the A class ship with the most storage at New Atlantis ASAP to keep all my junk I may never even use. At over 2900 I’ve only managed to fill it about halfway so far.
    
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  - Skiptrace@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    The Lodge Basement has an Infinite Mass Storage Unit.
    
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47_alpha_tango@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’m about 2 hours in and it’s ok. I’m not loving the combat or the constant use of the menus. Obvious I’ll give it more time yet.

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- BaskinRobbins@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yeah it’s disappointing you need to fast travel to get everywhere, even to the other parts of the planet. It’s a little better using the scanner to fast travel instead of the map but it still feels lame. I’m still having a ton of fun though, about 20 hours in now.
  
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  - 47_alpha_tango@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I’m hoping I’ll get used to using the menus all the time. As for the combat the space combat is kind of awesome but the enemies are so spongy even with headshots.
    
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Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’m having too much choice paralysis. 😵‍💫

I will spend hours just wandering aimlessly looking for things to do end up with 20 missions and not want to do any of them. I’ve just been bouncing around 3 or 4 star systems going between Mars, New Atlantis, Neon and Akila and feel like I’ve barely scraped the surface.

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breadsmasher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I love No Mans Sky, and still play it regularly today.

I am also really enjoying Starfield - I am glad they are different games as I wouldn’t want what would amount to playing the same game, slightly differently skinned.

Overall, really enjoying it. I have seen complaints that basically amount to “its another bethesda experience” which isn’t necessarily wrong, but I do enjoy their games in general.

I am approximately 15 hours into the game

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- Cold_Brew_Enema@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I wish I could get into NMS. Yeah the seamless planet to space transition is cool, but I found the game pointless. I haven’t played in awhile maybe it’s better now.
  
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  - breadsmasher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    There have been a lot of updates over the years to add content, all free
    
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- HeyJoe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yeah I always find that comment weird. I love Bethesda games so it’s not terrible that they still follow the same format and in this case the polish was nicer than normal.
  
  It’s like saying hey look at this new Tarantino or Wes Anderson movie coming out, ugh I am so tired of them doing the same thing every movie.
  
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Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’m 17 hours in so far and really enjoying the game. For a short moment at the beginning I was a bit annoyed because I couldn’t find the last resource to scan on a planet to get 100%. But the next day I said screw that and continued the main quest and I’m having a blast since then.

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- Cold_Brew_Enema@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I can’t find the last resource on the Moon. Guess I need better scan equipment or something.
  
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  - CMLVI@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    There may be a cave or something where it generates, if it's a rare material.
    
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  - Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Try looking in caves. Sometimes the necessary resource is only found in a cave. Or at least that’s what it seems like.
    
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  - Okalaydokalay@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    This is me on Neon’s planet. Apparently there is fauna to scan?? I just found the sea creatures and started scanning them.
    
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vind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’m nearly 50 hours in already (and haven’t played at all today, yet 😎) and having so much fun with the game, barely even touched the main story because I’m so fixated on rebuilding my ship constantly

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- variants@possumpat.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I opened the ship edit screen and just backed out haha, Im not ready!! although I did end up going back in to make the starter ship all black. Also do you know if you hijack and steal another ship does it just sort of stay in inventory? or can you like assign crew to live in it or something
  
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  - Dima@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    You need to dock with the ship and pilot it somewhere that lets you modify your ships. Then just go into “view and modify ships” to change your home ship if you want to use something else.
    
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Skiptrace@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’m loving the game for it being finally a Bethesda game in a setting I actually enjoy.

And, No Man’s Sky tickles a completely different itch for me.

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iforgotmyinstance@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Super fun, I wish I could fly around in atmosphere.

I realize now that is asking a lot since the game is almost completely instanced instead of free roam.

But the naysayers from early access have been proven wrong. The game actually runs fantastic on my 3080 (despite my processor necking the system), at 60-70 fps with everything on ultra and scaling down to 80%.

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variants@possumpat.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Im having a lot of fun, running around the planets trying to find new locations, I want to start building bases because I have so many followers I cant assign to stuff

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CMLVI@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I'm like 30+ hours in and it's all in thinking about at work rn. That doesn't always happen, few games hook me like that. Halo 2/3 from MS/HS, probably Skyrim to an extent, ESO (forever and always apparently, cause I'm still playing that amongst Starfield), and now this. And it's all aspects. I want to build my ship, I want to do my outposts and crafting, I want to explore planets to find needed resources, gear, and weapons, I want to finish the main story, and the side quests (and I'm actually agonizing over which side I want to go with).

I'm debating bringing my Xbox with me to a friend's house for a weekend trip so we can play there.

I'm definitely bringing it, who am I kidding?

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Slade357@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The fact that the game is unplayable on an HDD is really upsetting. That’s it, I can’t form an opinion on the rest because the stuttering is so bad that I cannot play it.

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- breadsmasher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Still using an HDD in 2023 is like trying to use a horse and cart and complaining the motorway traffic is too fast
  
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- 47_alpha_tango@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Well that’s on you. In the MINIMUM requirements it does say “Additional Notes: SSD Required(Solid-state Drive)”
  
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- Fubar91@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yeah physical spinning disks haven’t been relevant on mondern systems outside of cold data storage since roughly 2016. Price difference between SSD and HDD are pretty much the same up to the 1-2tb range. Its also listed in the minium requirements for the game.
  
  Think its time for a modern storage medium my dude.
  
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  - HeyJoe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Honestly, I would go as low as 2013. As someone who works in IT, that was about the year all the regular desktop stations basically came with an SSD standard or didn’t really cost much to swap so it was a must. 2016 was more of the move to NVME with M.2 drives.
    
    For myself I believe I made the switch in 2010, once you get a taste of that speed boost it was hard not to justify the extra cost! Wasn’t to bad either if you got small storage to cut cost. I just wanted my OS to load quick.
    
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  - Slade357@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    That is simply not true. If hdds were outdated 7 years ago I would have had problems 7 years ago. This is the only game out of the hundreds I have that doesn’t work on an HDD. Elden Ring, EFT, Baldurs Gate, Call of Duty, Hogwarts Legacy, hell even Star Citizen works fine on an HDD and that game is massively unoptimized. Having it on its minimum specs isn’t an excuse. If it was just a case of load times being bad and assets loading in slowly then yeah sure, they did their best and it’s a better experience on an ssd. That’s not the case though, talking to anyone, fighting, opening an inventory, just walking, all of these cause a 5 to 30 seconds freeze and the audio is constantly cutting out. There’s no excuse for that and this is unique to starfield. I am making room on my SSD to play it because I still want to try the game but claiming I’m the unreasonable one for voicing a problem is absurd.
    
    I could also say that a 1-2 tb hard drive isn’t relevant on modern systems anymore. The price difference between a 4tb SSD and HDD is 2-3x the price.
    
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- Cold_Brew_Enema@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Dude, SSDs are not expensive anymore like they were ten years ago. If there is any upgrade you need to make, replacing the hdd with an ssd is absolutely the first thing you should do.
  
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- Okalaydokalay@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I understand and agree to an extent that games should still be able to be stored on an HDD and played. But Starfield is an exception because of how massive it is. An SSD helps with the loading and transitioning when traveling between planets and new zones. An HDD is just too slow for this.
  
  But SSDs are much cheaper now and keep getting cheaper. I spent $300 for a 1TB SATA 2.5 inch SSD only about 8 years ago and I saw on Amazon that there is a 1TB NVMe SSD for only $49. If you’re willing to spend $70 on a game, you should be willing to invest $49 for a SSD.
  
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- Toasteh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  An ssd is the best bang for the buck upgrade to a slow machine in my experience. Putting even a cheap $40 Kingston one in my grandmas old ass computer took it from unusable to decent speeds for web browsing/office applications/etc. I highly recommend you get one.
  
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  - Slade357@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I have an SSD and an HDD. There’s not room on my SSD for games.
    
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- TastyWheat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It’s 2023 - SSDs have been affordable for years.
  
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dan1101@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
As soon as I gave up on it being a good spacesim (instead of just looking like one) I’m having tons of fun. I do like the ship combat though.

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Cold_Brew_Enema@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Also has anyone else been having a flickering screen issue on PC? I turned off film grain but that didn’t seem to help.

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- Darkncoldbard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Like the whole screen going black type of flickering?
  
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  - Cold_Brew_Enema@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    No it’s like there is a strobe light on. Constant flashing. I can’t figure it out.
    
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Cheekyw443@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Agreed. Most fun I’ve had in a long time. And I own like 400 games lol

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_cerpin_taxt_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Question to those who may know: I swapped my crew habitat for one of the 3x1 habitats last night, and noticed afterwards that the new habitat did not have a research station. I tried switching it to the engineering version of the hab, but no luck. Anyone know how I can get it back?

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- Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I had this all down pat yesterday because I looked up a guide just on what all the pieces look like on the inside and what extra shit they have that the game doesn’t tell you on the build screen, and now I can’t remember which one it said had all of the things in it… 😩
  
  One of the 2x1 hab modules has basically everything in it, while the rest have nothing.
  
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  - SwampYankee@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    There’s one that’s literally called “all in one” IIRC.
    
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  - _cerpin_taxt_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I’ll have to try some other ports out! I’m still pretty early in the game, just thought I had missed something somewhere lol. I’ll add glad hab back onto my ship!
    
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- Okalaydokalay@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Try going to different shipyards as each have different habs to choose from, this also includes different planet cities’ landing zones where you can talk to a technician.
  
  There are habs, for example on Mars’ moon Demios’ shipyard, that are specifically for research.
  
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  - _cerpin_taxt_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Awesome! I was wondering what I was missing. So you buy your different stations and whatnot at vendors, and that’s not in the build screen, right? I assume there’s some kind of fabricator that I can also buy and add to my ship, but they don’t really do a great job of explaining any of that haha.
    
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BallShapedMan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’m having a blast once I figured out how I want to play it. At first I struggled with the time I spent in menus and fast travel.

Now it’s fun and I’m hooked!

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