Kaines
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Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6
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Cinge
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
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All I can say is figure out using scanner and other means to fast travel places. Can save on multiple loading screens and menus.
But yes be prepared for lots of load screens(and in some dumb places like a shop). Thankfully if you are on a m2 they are quick.
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Soygen
The Dirty Dozen For the Price of One
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Yeah, my PC is all high end so the length of loading wasn't a problem. Just the volume of loading. Speaking of scanner. How does the scanner work? I was looking at plants/creatures with it, but it wasn't registering on the counter(ie: 0 of 4 fauna, etc).
Utnayan
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So it isn't like No Mans's sky - you actually have to scan the thing like 7 times. I scanned one flower twice and it moved to 25% scanned.
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Cinge
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Hit E to scan them. And like UT said for plants/animals, it will take multiple scans to get the 100% for each. Resources are one and done.
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Denamian
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sleevedraw
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Correction: Your character can't have a massive lizard cock yet. I'm sure the modders will have Argonians/Dragonborn (and complementary nude mods) patched in within the year.
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Vorph
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I like the fast travel for getting around cities and saving on long runs back to the ship on planets, but I think it's best to avoid planet to planet fast travel. You miss out on so much if you don't actually enter the system in your ship before landing on a planet. About the only time I don't actually "pilot" my ship to a planet is if I have contraband and need to just get rid of it immediately without risking a scan.
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Tuco
I got Tuco'd!
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I bet a lot of the (very valid) complaints about the fast travel system would be subdued if the first time you visit a planetary body you have to fly there using a non-menu way.
Ex: you could toggle a display in your ship that showed stars and planetary bodies you could grav jump to, and then aim your ship at the star and hit the "grav jump" button. If a star wasn't visited before, it wouldn't show up on your map unless you're within grav jump range of it. This would give the player a sense of the constellation's connectivity and make the fast travel feel like a QOL feature they've earned instead of making space travel feel flat.
My guess: They had this and a bunch of other typical gameplay implementations ala NMS, ED, Star Citizen, Freelancer, X4 et all, and everytime they playtested it people said they thought it was cumbersome. So they just dumbed it down to menu-based fast travel with the whole constellation explored.
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it's googleable, but to save other people the amount of time I spent on it - if you have 1 or 2 fauna left on a planet and you really really can't figure out what's missing, you probably need to find a spot that says (Coast), go to the actual lake or ocean, and look for fish in the water.
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Tuco
I got Tuco'd!
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This chuck e cheesed me for a bit. Another tip: find as small an island as you can that'll let you land on it, then move that targeting reticle pixel by pixel into the corner of that island until you can't move it no more. I did this on the thinnest gilligan looking island I could and hit the maximum corner and STILL had to run for 15 minutes to find the stupid sharks to scan.
Cybsled
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Others mentioned scan uses E, but other tips
1) default range on scanner is really short - you practically have to be within like 10 meters for it to register. There is a skill tree that extends the range
2) Killing an enemy or harvesting a plant or mining an ore in scan mode will auto-scan the target
3) scanning corpses counts, the animal doesn’t need to be alive. This is useful when you find a predator den with lots of corpses
4) the scanner will say “biome complete” in green letters if that biome contains no additional examples of unscanned flora/fauna. So your plants might be 3/5, but it says flora complete because you’re in a forest biome and there are no other plant varieties there. On some planets, you have to land in different spots to survey everything
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I admittedly haven't played the quest but if you watch the clip, the way it is presented, it is completely playing into the Trans experience. There is little room left for any other interpretation.
Well, the galaxy is mapped out but I get what you are trying to say, and making players do something the long way once to give a sense of scale is always a good idea. There are any number of things and mechanics in the game such as the scanning thing thing mentioned above, that are not very well explained or demonstrated in the game. I agree with the Forbes writer that the intro needs to be re-worked to better explain and show off the game.
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Tuco
I got Tuco'd!
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Yeah the intro is a really poor introduction to the game. It'd be better if they more forcefully introduced you to the different factions with quest trails to continue those quest lines in an obvious way (and those factions were more closely tied to the game modes, ex: the LIST questline involved you making an outpost, the UC Vanguard was more ship-combat oriented, the Rangers more classic dungeon-clearing, whatever faction was more trade stuff and crimson fleet being piracy) and then told you to come back at level ~20 and once you have a good ship. Or something. And then they progressed the main quest with a mid-tier monster up front to motivate you to actually get to level 20 before coming back. Blitzing through the main quest to get fus roh dah is kind of confusing since the factions explain the mechanics much more.
popsicledeath
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No. Game Pass is pretty mediocre overall, and I'm actually a fan. I like the Xbox ecosystem because their rewards system pretty much funds my gaming hobby, but Starfield doesn't seem like it's close to being good enough to be the rationale to buy an Xbox. Nor Game Pass in general.
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With all the talk of weight management, I think many of you will find this useful like I did:
Nice and direct way of explaining how to upgrade your basic ass ship. I noticed in the comments one guy asked why not go for "snake" (longways) instead of "turtle" (wide), and so I took it upon myself to do just that, with the same items the guy in the video uses.
The result:
21k cost for 2130 cargo space, with the only other cost being it looks faggy and tarded (but that's what cockpit flying is for!). Doing it lengthways gives you a lot of spots for cargo on the side and underside (not pictured). You might also notice a gap on the port side, and that's because when I had a nice even 4 landing gear, I got an error there weren't enough, and when I had a nice even 6 landing gear, I got an error I was too heavy, but wouldn't you know it, 5 is juuuuust right. I'm sure you could do some other upgrades to flesh things out but like I said this is the most basic-ass shit I could do following the video guide (and also eschewing the weapon upgrades he does).
Nice and direct way of explaining how to upgrade your basic ass ship. I noticed in the comments one guy asked why not go for "snake" (longways) instead of "turtle" (wide), and so I took it upon myself to do just that, with the same items the guy in the video uses.
The result:
21k cost for 2130 cargo space, with the only other cost being it looks faggy and tarded (but that's what cockpit flying is for!). Doing it lengthways gives you a lot of spots for cargo on the side and underside (not pictured). You might also notice a gap on the port side, and that's because when I had a nice even 4 landing gear, I got an error there weren't enough, and when I had a nice even 6 landing gear, I got an error I was too heavy, but wouldn't you know it, 5 is juuuuust right. I'm sure you could do some other upgrades to flesh things out but like I said this is the most basic-ass shit I could do following the video guide (and also eschewing the weapon upgrades he does).
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