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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Creator behind hugely popular Skyrim co-op mod gives up on the Starfield version of it because, drum roll please, 'this game is f***ing trash'⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh dear. I was planning on never installing Starfield Together. Now I’ll have to find some other multiplayer mod to completely ignore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Freestar Collective and Akila Security fire on site⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  In which case, go to Sol system. You can land on Venus and sleep in your ship’s bed for 24 local hour. A month or so will pass on Akila, which should give any combat alert time to expire.

  Maybe stick your head into the Broken Spear in Cydonia on the way back and double check the bounty terminal there. Just to make doubly sure you don’t have a bounty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate the stealth missions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The first time I did Generdyne was a nightmare. Then I did it again over the weekend on NG+4 (I think) and it was a breeze, Admittedly I had more skills, wore the operator suit rather than my spacesuit and I found a load of vents I managed to miss the first time. Still, I managed to make it right to the final area without being spotted.

  Then, I didn’t fancy trying to get through the last office area so I just engaged Void Form and sprinted. I got into the boss’s office, and hid behind a partition. One worked ran in in a panic, didn’t see me, and evnetually ran out muttering something about “If I reported every weird thing I see in this place …”

  I quite enjoyed that mission.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SPOILERS | NG & DLC Discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I did one NG+ run where I took the cut down quest option and speedran the temples. That rang kind of hollow, so I’ve not done it since.

  Currently new arrived at NG+4 and taking my time about things, I dunno if Ill get to 10, or if I’ll get bored and launch a whole new character, but I’m having fun at least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SPOILERS | NG & DLC Discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Keep a save at NG+9?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google has sent internet into ‘spiral of decline’, claims DeepMind co-founder⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Also a full capitalist system would not have invented the internet as we know it

  We’d have had CompuServe, only bigger. Subscription only, walled garden environments.

  Might have got something close to modern ubiquity with cable companies bundling search and forum functions in with the video, but it would still be heavily monetised and tightly controlled.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the best skills to invest in early in the game?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Get a broad spread of basics early. There’s a lit of Bethesda things you need to pay points for so get them, theft, stealth, pilot, targeting, boost, a couple of combat skills, maybe welless. Then start adding based on RP and what you want to do better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I swear to god if that one gaurd in the Rock doesn't stop telling I can take spacesuit off on this planet, I'm going to quicksave.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I do that too. Also in combat when I realise the CO2 is solid red.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How about that Ryujin questline?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Must admit, I always use keyboard and mouse. I’ve never tried to use the neuroamp on someone on the move, but adjusting power levels gets fluid enough after a little practice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I swear to god if that one gaurd in the Rock doesn't stop telling I can take spacesuit off on this planet, I'm going to quicksave.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It is. On the other hand, I get a perverse satisfaction from the times I forget to wear the suit and almost suffocate on an airless moon somewhere before I remember to dress properly.

  It doesn’t help that the “dying from no atmosphere” warning looks exactly the same as the one you always seem to get for too hot/too old/solar radiation/noxious fumes/high pollen count.

  Of course, I’ve also been known to take the suit off on airless worlds just for screenshot purposes. Not generally without activating Personal Atmosphere though :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xEdit for Starfield Progress is proving ... challenging?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Fucking Bethesda, what happened?

  Speculating, I’m guessing this is a side effect from adopting The Forge for rendering and animation. I’ll bet those missing formids are now stored somewhere else, possibly outside the esp itself. Apparently something similar happens in the NIF format.

  I don’t believe the formids are missing or the game wouldn’t run. They’re just stored somewhere a little counter-intuitive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How about that Ryujin questline?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  First time through, it was a bloodbath and I got told off back at Ryujin HQ.

  Second time I did it, I sniped the turret and took the guards down with EM weapons. No problem after that and no complaints at HQ.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How about that Ryujin questline?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I confess, I rather enjoyed the Ryujin questline. The last two stealth missions were a bit of a nightmare, first time through, admittedly. One you know what you’re doing though [Starborn] they can be q lot of fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DIY Alternate Start⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You get to Duelling 4, each kill heals 10% of your total health, which helps a lot. But yeah, up to that point you can go through a lot of med packs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh, now that's just wrong!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I know what you mean about the price. I admit, I came within a hair’s breadth of saying “sod it - I’ll come back in a year and buy it discounted”. Main reason I didn’t was I didn’t want to get the game spoiled any more than necessary … and I felt like it was about time I paid full price for one of their games.

  How many glitched NPCs have you seen, anyway? In 260 hours I reckon I’ve seen it about twice, Sarah both times. And there’s been a couple of occasions where a companion has temporarily decided to stand at the doorway and sulk for some reason, and that’s pretty much it.

  What did annoy me was the bug where you sell a captured ship at the Den and get teleported back to New Atlantis with no ship exterior and no ground mesh in the spaceport. That was annoying, but I expect we’ll see a fix for that sooner rather than later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DIY Alternate Start⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Take Duelling skill. Melee is effective, you save on bullets, and when you do need to shoot someone, you absolutely can.

  I’m seriously thinking of doing a mainly physical build. Maximum hand-to-hand tanky-ness. (I’m thinking “File Not Found” and play her like River Tam in Firefly). It could be fun to spend the start of the game hunting and scavenging outside of New Atlantis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh, now that's just wrong!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, there are bugs. I mean there are going to be bugs in any software project of this size and complexity, but OK - that doesn’t mean the bugs don’t exist. I’ll grant that. And yes, there are what appear to be incomplete systems. The code for fuel economy and environmental hazards appears to have been ripped out at a comparatively late stage, and you can see where they’ve papered over the cracks.

  And while no-one is saying either of these are good things, per se, there is a question of magnitude to consider. Forgive the minor paraphrasing, but “not finished, broken or widely disliked” rather suggests that the villagers have assembled with pitchforks and torches and are in the process of storming the castle - and that doesn’t seem to be the case. Certainly I don’t think that the game’s failings are storming-the-castle bad, and if you believe otherwise, then here we have indisputable subjectivity.

  As for misplaced actors - have you played a lot of Bethesda games before this one? In Skyrim, it’s not uncommon to see someone asleep, floating on the air, three feet to the side of their bed. Positioning glitches happen, and I guess long time Bethesda players tend to take it in their stride. Granted, if everyone I talk to has their head embedded in the ceiling that would be problematic, but I can honestly say I’ve only seen it once or twice in Starfield. It’s not a game-breaker, at least not at level I’ve seen.

  Facial expressions? I’ve played Morrowind. I’m not expecting Uncanny Valley realism here. These are characters in a computer game and all expressions are going to be approximations of real life. Tell me that your favorite game does it better and I’ll probably take your word for it, but I’m still not seeing anything that would incite me to burn the Baron’s castle to the ground.

  Thanks for having a civil convo with me btw. I appreciate it more than you probably realize.

  I try. Since you gave me a pass on mud slinging, I’ll cut you a break for “you’re very obviously not being honest or truthful with yourself” :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh, now that's just wrong!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  To clarify “masterpiece” was in quotes to signify them having used that sort of verbiage and not as a mocking mechanism

  Clarification accepted.

  as I said that was a friend who had completed it in that timeframe.

  Didn’t say it to me. All I got was “$70. 20-30 hours. Play NMS instead”. Did sound a little on the mocking side, if I’m entirely honest.

  My point is that, yes they can pack in all this side content, but the majority of the games functionality is not finished, is broken, is widely disliked, or is just insanely mundane/formulaic

  All of which is subjective, of course. I’ve found very little that is broken or which strikes me as “insanely mundane or formulaic”. As for widely disliked. it’s difficult to evaluate the truth of than when may of those same dislikers were trying to talk the game down before it was even released.

  Come back in a year and we’ll pick this up then. People will either being playing it or not, and either way we’ll have our answer. Until then, all you’re doing here is slinging mud.

  Come on man, you gotta at least admit the rigging and animations are pretty bad for a AAA title

  I honestly don’t believe I do. I guess it’s like HiFi systems - beyond a certain point I’m not sure I can tell the difference. So long as it doesn’t impinge on my enjoyment (and it hasn’t so far), why should I care?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I swear to god if that one gaurd in the Rock doesn't stop telling I can take spacesuit off on this planet, I'm going to quicksave.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You could just take it off.

  The game hides it, but you’re still wearing it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Advice wanted regarding melee enemies when you tend to wield guns…⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Boost and Boost Assault can be good too. Take off as they approach, and with a bit of luck knock them down and set them on fire on the way up. Then slow time in mid air and shoot them from on high.

  Failing that, get some Duelling skill and put that Painblade to proper use. I’m usually the one charging the enemy :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every citizen npc is one of two people⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What? Shocker!

  Next thing you’ll be telling me Starfield isn’t Real Life at all, but just some elaborate computer game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh, now that's just wrong!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not bashing anyone else’s feelings on this topic

  Well you say that …

  pushed off so they could work on their “masterpiece”

  But you have to admit, the sarcastic tone does come across as a little belligerent.

  I mean you rushed the main story, and decided the game wasn’t for you, and that’s fair enough. But there’s a huge amount of stuff that no-one is going to be able to come to grips with in 20 hours, and I say based on having ten times that amount and still finding new things. So entitled as you are to give your opinion, I hope you’ll forgive me if offer my own by way of contrast.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh, now that's just wrong!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If only it was also fit for drinking :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh, now that's just wrong!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I am glad I ate my lunchtime strawberry yogurt before I read that! :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh, now that's just wrong!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s ultra-pasteurized! It’s got to be healthy, right? Right?

  looks worried

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh, now that's just wrong!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s a brief review

  $100

  Still playing at NG+3 after 200 hours. Still finding new things daily. Having a whale of a time.

  Consensus: but no man sky instead

  Consensus: No Man’s what now?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh, now that's just wrong!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No regrets here :)

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some challenges buggy?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks. I really was starting to wonder if I’d misread the instructions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some challenges buggy?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Chances are, the stealth detection is bugging out and they are detecting you at the last second. A sneak attack bonus message should appear in the corner of your screen.

  Yeah, something like that. Come of them were absolutely in white when I struck, but if ti’s as you say, that wouldn’t help.

  Mugging xenogrubs though, that works fine. I just need to find another 16 of the sods.