“Just upgrade your PC”
Highlights:
- Starfield’s open world is made of procedural copypasta.
- Prey species can’t or won’t escape predators.
- Predators routinely wipe out their own food supply, yet somehow haven’t gone extinct.
I watched some predators kill their prey and then just left it. Didn’t even have an animation to eat it.
Right? Just update the behavior to stop and eat after killing one. Have the herd run away.
I don’t think the Creation/Ganebryo engine is capable of such complexity.
Nah it’s just a skill issue, Steam Workshop modders have been carrying the franchises of incompetent studios like Bethesda and Paradox for ages and as others here have stated, they’ve already modded this problem away within the first week of this game being on Steam.
Just like how the traffic manager mod for Cities Skylines always updates only days after all the usually pointless shit Paradox keeps doing to their games’ mechanics every other week in those stupid nickel-and-diming “patches”, because they already know the other “sick man of the gaming industry” isn’t smart enough to implement speed limits, make roundabouts act like roundabouts, make cars honor emergency vehicle sirens, set up vehicle restrictions for industrial/maintenance roads or stop virtual vehicles from using only one lane on a 3-lane highway or EMTs from collectively booking it for a tiny downtown road that cycles about 3 ambulances per green when there’s an on-ramp right next to their hospital. There’s a reason why Cities Skylines has such negative reviews on the Amazon order page for its Switch cartridge compared to its Steam page; with Nintendo sending ninjas after anyone who so much as looks at their IPs funny, there is no such opportunity for modders to cover Paradox’s ass there. Steam’s encouragement of crowdsourced, third-party bug fixes is the only reason Paradox is relevant, and also why Bethesda is.
25 years in the making!
Extra polishing will need 25 more years. Just in time for Elder scrolls V Ultimate Mega Super Ultra Universal Anniversary Remastered Remake Extreme to release.
Removed by mod
You don’t understand, they programmed planet orbits in real time. Truly a gem!
I wanna see Todd Howard and Peter Molyneux get together to make a game
I think people really overstate Todd Howard lying to compare it Peter Molyneux’s shit. Like we’re looking at Molyneux who said you could plant a tree and have it grow in real time or whatever. The same Molyneux who promised a “life-changing” award for winning a P2W clicker game (the award was royalties and early access to Godus, a game which they abandoned for what was essentially Godus: Subtitle, which was promptly abandoned soon after). And now his most recent game being something that involves “blockchain technology” where you can make money in real life by making money in game.
I think people really overstate Todd Howard lying to compare it Peter Molyneux’s shit. Like we’re looking at Molyneux who said you could plant a tree and have it grow in real time or whatever. The same Molyneux who promised a “life-changing” award for winning a P2W clicker game (the award was royalties and early access to Godus, a game which they abandoned for what was essentially Godus: Subtitle, which was promptly abandoned soon after). And now his most recent game being something that involves “blockchain technology” where you can make money in real life by making money in game.
Yeah they need to dial the predator/prey action down a bit. But it hasn’t been that weird IME. I mean you’re on an alien world with alien flora and fauna, that’s the remarkable part not that there are a lot of creatures fighting.
well for me i’m mostly just seeing barren lands that ain’t worth exploring
Or undiscovered temples surrounded by alien looking monoliths, surrounded by science and industrial complexes.
I would have had no complaints about this game if it was released a decade ago. Two decades ago even then I would have significantly more time to waste on it and be more forgiving, on top of it being legitimately state of the art.
You’d be more forgiving of a game decades ahead of anything released at the time? Yeah, no shit. Y’all really need to chill on the ridiculous hyperbole. Starfield has a lot of problems, but it’s unmistakably a modern game.
It is not a modern game in any way. It’s just Fallout 4 in space, which was Skyrim with retro futurism.
It’s once again a giant shallow pond.
Even a decade ago i would laugh out loud every time i saw these dead ass expressionless npc’s and their clunky ai. Gta 5 released 10 years ago. But a small indie developer like Bethesda can’t be bothered to make their games better
GTA V is one of the most successful games ever made. Not exactly the norm of the time period.
I wish they would just use modern game engine / build a new engine that let people have inventories rather than having to teleport things from chests hidden under the world, and allowed animating of faces.
They keep pushing the engine they have past its breaking point and then it shows.
If this game was released 1,400 years ago, I’d have no complaints also.
Of course it’s a flop, it’s Bethesda. Not particularly known for their quality control
Do you guys not have
phones$2000 to upgrade your PC?Gotta find something to complain about don’t we? If it isn’t hyper realistic, and has zero bugs, super interesting, and smart AI, must be trash…
Well yeah. It isn’t an indy title so you would expect them to do something.
