Starfield

[Rich-D]

Went and bought an xbox for this after watching some trailers. Good game and enjoying it so far (4 hours in). As above though the shooting is a bit annoying, running out of ammo all the time with the amount of shots being fired!

Doesn't take long to get a lot more guns and a lot of ammo, it's not an issue once you've got a few hours play in.

 

[JP83]

I have been giving this game far too much time lately, and I intend another mammoth session on the Xbox tonight. It's addictive!

 

[Rich-D]

It's definitely addictive, I have spent hours this weekend just exploring planets, finding locations, scanning plants & wildlife, without doing any of the main missions, just random stuff and side quests, I'm currently at 1d 6h 21m of playtime!

 

[Cookie]

Discovered you can cheat. Excellent. Millions of health packs so I can just Leeroy Jenkins everywhere

 

[Hixle]

This game is a time-sponge man. 60+ hours and barely touched the main story 😂

Enjoying the typical Bethesda’s glitches too. My side companion didn’t have a head for a few days. Back now though.

 

[JP83]

Disclaimer - I'm only on it because I got some Amazon vouchers ok, but this references TikTok....

Loads of cool tips and spoilers on TikTok. Finding all sorts of useful stuff.

Finally got my head around the ship builder, but the Outpost is driving me nuts.
I'm a hoarder as well, but it's no good with all my resources being in storage in The Lodge, and I'm on a random moon 20+ lightyears away.

 

[Jonnio]

Downloaded last night via Xbox (PC) Game pass. Will fire it up later probably!

Best set OBS recording for the glitches.

 

[Hixle]

Remember my last post about it being a time sponge? It’s because I do really productive things.

 

[Jonnio]

Hour 11. Roamed the Moon of Jemison. Staring into the endlessness of space from a barren rock.

10/10 for causing an existential crisis.

 

[Daz...]

Got this to install with no errors on the third time of asking.

Still haven’t fired it up yet as the football was about to start.

 

[Jonnio]

Hour 11. Roamed the Moon of Jemison. Staring into the endlessness of space from a barren rock.

10/10 for causing an existential crisis.

Think I've maxed everything out in the settings + FSR Sharpening but dropped the render resolution to 50% at 4K 120fps. Looks good to me sat on the sofa. Frame rate seems okay, will wait and see how DLSS works when they bother to add it properly.



There was a ship along with a few Spacers, and a friendly trader roaming about with an alien dog thing at that place on the hills. Not entirely sure who the ship belonged too or what would happen if I tried to nick it. Found this up there - https://www.ign.com/wikis/starfield/Lawgiver.

 

[Rich-D]

I am staying up far too late and not getting enough sleep, stupid addictive game LOL 😴

Mostly doing lots of exploring & scanning, amazing how many more places appear the more you walk, then you get hooked on wanting 100% explored.

A moon rover type vehicle would be nice, rather than walking everywhere!

 

[Ray Gin]

Remember my last post about it being a time sponge? It’s because I do really productive things.


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Sweet Jesus 😭

Buying ✅

 

[jenic]

Now I have my PC I gave this another chance, it is so much easier to kill them pirates with a KB and mouse.

Will put some proper time into it tomorrow evening I think, I was super impressed that it picked up my xbox save and they'll transfer between the two.

 

[boultonn]

A friend has been raving about this on GeForce NOW so I gave it a try and it is amazing, everything running on ultra compared to medium on my actual PC and is so smooth. Will defo be using that to play this and Cyberpunk going forward.

 

[SharkyUK]

Frame rate seems okay, will wait and see how DLSS works when they bother to add it properly.

It looks better and can give a nice performance uplift depending on your (nVidia) hardware. I have been using one of the DLSS mods in lieu of the official implementation.

 

[Rich-D]

Stuck at 96% exploring a planet, I refuse to quit now, I have walked for miles!

 

[jenic]

It looks better and can give a nice performance uplift depending on your (nVidia) hardware. I have been using one of the DLSS mods in lieu of the official implementation.

Installed the DLSS mod tonight, super impressed by the performance increase. Around a 25% boost in fps @1440p ultra settings.

Put a couple of hours in today, didn't have as much time as I wanted, ended up just exploring the city and did the brownouts side quest. I don't really know what I'm doing tbh, I'm just exploring and collecting missions to complete at some point.

 

[Rich-D]

Stuck at 96% exploring a planet, I refuse to quit now, I have walked for miles!

Finally did it last night after I fathomed out where I was going wrong and that you can land pretty much anywhere on a planet/moon!

Now exploring Earth 🌏

 

[Jonnio]

🤣

 

[Jonnio]

Finished surveying the first system. Maxed the boost pack thingy.

Currently 830 odd metres above my ship on the lowest grav moon. Doesn't seem to want to go any higher.

 

[Rich-D]

Played a lot this weekend, completed all the Freestar Ranger stuff and got the free ship the Star Eagle, which is decent and my 3rd ship. Did the mantis missions early on and have been using the Razorleaf since then, this is a lot bigger in comparison and has a lot more cargo space to store all the crap I keep collecting LOL.

Now doing the Barrett storyline on Gagarin, still really enjoying the game.

 

[SharkyUK]

I built an Outpost somewhere on one of the planets... and I can't find the f**king thing.

 

[Jonnio]

 

[RSRowe]

Amazing 😂😂

 

[Jonnio]

Any tips for the bullshit spaceship fights?

I modded the first ship to carry more stuff so it's proabably worse than it was originally. Did a laser and shield upgrade in the skills. Got to repair a satellite which instantly spawns 3 ships and I've only managed to take 1 out up to now. 😣

 

[Jonnio]

Any tips for the bullshit spaceship fights?

I modded the first ship to carry more stuff so it's proabably worse than it was originally. Did a laser and shield upgrade in the skills. Got to repair a satellite which instantly spawns 3 ships and I've only managed to take 1 out up to now. 😣

It downloaded an update and I managed to get through a few of these fights so potentially they've dropped the difficulty a bit.

Another silly vid... 😆

 

[Cub.]

Any tips for the bullshit spaceship fights?

I modded the first ship to carry more stuff so it's proabably worse than it was originally. Did a laser and shield upgrade in the skills. Got to repair a satellite which instantly spawns 3 ships and I've only managed to take 1 out up to now. 😣

Recommend you do the Mantis mission or the free star mission lines. You get a free ship at the end of both, which are much more geared up to fighting.

 

[Cub.]

I’ve been steadily ploughing hours into this aswell.

Got a pretty large outpost that I spent time building and have three crew members on it. Mining He3, Aluminium and Iron.

Got into the detail massively. Linking lights with switches and power, furnishing it up nicely and building loads of containers to store resources etc.

Also poured quite a bit of time into modding weapons and R&D of stuff, including cooking 🤣

The game is huge. I’m level 25 and I haven’t even done the third constellation mission yet….

Last night I spent 2 hours running / boosting around a planet charting geological anomalies to identify planet traits.

NERD.

 

[Rich-D]

Last night I spent 2 hours running / boosting around a planet charting geological anomalies to identify planet traits.

Welcome to my life...

 

[SharkyUK]

I'm really enjoying this, the only downside is the crash to the desktop, which happens about once an hour. Very frustrating and no matter what I do, it keeps on crashing.

I found my outpost... LOL! And immediately removed it now that I have a better idea of what I'm doing. I've just hit Level 50. And I've not even started the main missions yet, just side quests (of which I have many available!) It's a massive game. I'm also enjoying the Outpost building stuff...

Just chillin' and reflectin' on a hard day scannin'...

Checking out Neon...

Thinkin' about nickin' a ship...

Thank f**k it's got Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, helps pass time whilst grav jumpin'...

Whilst some of the characters can look a bit dodgy and not so well grounded in the world, some of the ships, cities and locations look absolutely superb.

 

[Rich-D]

This game will just get better & better as they develop it over time, it's already pretty good at launch, no complaints from me.

 

[Cub.]

This game will just get better & better as they develop it over time, it's already pretty good at launch, no complaints from me.

There is one very annoying glitch I suffer from. My ship doesn’t always land on my landing pad at my outpost. Just dumps itself somewhere off in the distance.

Which means I can’t access its cargo from the outpost. Which also means I have to manually load myself up like a mule and crawl back to the outpost 🤣

#starfieldfirstworldproblems

 

[SharkyUK]

I put about 4-5 hours into this yesterday... and not a single crash. And nothing has changed between the previous play sessions and yesterday's. In other Starfield news, I REALLY hate the auto-snap when trying to place outpost items.

 

[Cub.]

I put about 4-5 hours into this yesterday... and not a single crash. And nothing has changed between the previous play sessions and yesterday's. In other Starfield news, I REALLY hate the auto-snap when trying to place outpost items.

The autosnap has gone massively backwards compared to Fallout etc.

It auto snaps containers outside in the wrong place, but won’t let you autosnap things like furniture / crates / etc inside.

Messes with my OCD big time!

 

[SharkyUK]

Yup, I can only agree @Cub. - it's mighty frustrating! I've built a superb farming Outpost that covers 4 biomes/materials in one compact area (just). But now it is being raided regularly and I am trying to be creative in my building and defences... and the f**king auto-snap is driving me bonkers! That said, the more I play it the more I am impressed despite the annoyances here and there!

 

[Cub.]

Yup, I can only agree @Cub. - it's mighty frustrating! I've built a superb farming Outpost that covers 4 biomes/materials in one compact area (just). But now it is being raided regularly and I am trying to be creative in my building and defences... and the f**king auto-snap is driving me bonkers! That said, the more I play it the more I am impressed despite the annoyances here and there!

I read that the gun turrets are largely pointless because the raiders target the power first.

So more people / crew in the outpost seems to be better. Particularly crew that can handle themselves like Sam Coe.

 

[SharkyUK]

I read that the gun turrets are largely pointless because the raiders target the power first.

So more people / crew in the outpost seems to be better. Particularly crew that can handle themselves like Sam Coe.

Ah, interesting... that might necessitate a few changes! Thanks for the heads-up, mate.

 

[Rich-D]

I'm torn between playing Starfield and Forza Motorsport, why did they have to release 2 great games so close together!

Not enough hours in the day to work, deal with wife/kids and play both games, FML 😐

 

[Jonnio]

I think my games bugged, this fauna won't scan for some reason. Any ideas? 🤔