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canis_majoris, do gaming w Starfield enemy ships used to be too smart, so Bethesda had to make them "really stupid"
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This is the second article today where I saw Todd Howard talking about severely nerfing aspects of the game. Earlier this morning I read an article saying similar things about the space suit system - initially they were going to be a lot more punitive on what you can and can’t wear based on environmental conditions, so you’d need a suit for cold, a suit for toxicity, a suit for radiation, etc.

ImplyingImplications,

Turns out people wanted a fun game not a real life simulator!

Quentinp,
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Also read about the spacesuit thing just today. The planet thing at least would’ve made more sense to all the spacesuit bits. It’s pointless and a bit confusing now, I just ignore it and repair whatever damage I receive which the spacesuit article made it sound like that is intended. The little hazard UI thing is so bad, and why doesn’t the aid section use the same icons as the status section. Hate having to dig around to find the right treatment in my inventory (slowly just grabbing snake oil whenever i find it)

Ah well still enjoying it at around 100 hours played, but you can see where they’ve had to cut back on systems all over the place.

canis_majoris,
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Yeah the hazard warnings are pretty useless now, because they’re not actually that dangerous or meaningful. I didn’t even know that it caused damage, I guess I haven’t been on a severe enough planet.

Quentinp,
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The annoying one is Frostbite, especially on some story missions where you keep getting it while the characters blab on and on. Other than that i’ve either run thru a steam vent, broken my lags boosting wrong, or sometimes sandstorm lung damage.

JokeDeity, do games w A quarter of Starfield players couldn’t even be bothered to finish the first mission

Terrible article they misses so many factors that play into this.

Quentinp, do games w A quarter of Starfield players couldn’t even be bothered to finish the first mission
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If I use a sample size of me and use my library of a measurement, it’s probably more than 25% of games I haven’t even launched let alone completing the first mission.

jaycifer,

Sure, same here, but how many of those did you pay $70 for less than two weeks after it released?

Quentinp,
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Possibly a few (though to not finish the first quest would be unusual).

muddybulldog,

Undoubtedly a significant number of these non-achievers are Gamepass subscribers.

EveningNewbs,

People who have never launched the game aren’t counted in these statistics.

sandriver, do gaming w Starfield's planets aren't all interesting, but they're not all "supposed to be Disney World"

wow it’s just like playing Daggerfall again

Ganbat, do games w Starfield gets low-spec PC mod for those gaming on potatoes

What? Already? Damn, that was fast.

style99, do gaming w Starfield's planets are an illusion: you can't land on them
@style99@kbin.social avatar

You can land on Pluto though you aren't really meant to. It's just there for decoration.

This is similar to how you can glitch outside of Whiterun in Skyrim, though doing that in the same worldspace as Whiterun will just let you be up close to the low-detail versions of the outer world, which you aren't really meant to do.

Harlan_Cloverseed, do gaming w Starfield topped 230,000 concurrent players on Steam, and it’s not officially out yet
@Harlan_Cloverseed@kbin.social avatar

I heard it kinda sux

CIWS-30,

From the grapevine, it's less that it sucks, more like it's meh. 7/10 and all that. Exactly what you'd expect from Skyrim / Fallout 4 in space, but somehow more bland in terms of characterization and storyline.

Same Bethesda shallowness and jank. People who just like exploring a big universe and doing repetitive stuff mindlessly will enjoy it, people who want more choice and character interaction with a compelling story probably will not.

It's kind of like the old Bethesda / Bioware split, except that Bioware's basically dead now, and Larian's doing what they used to do, but possibly better in some ways. Then there's Obsidian who used to be like Bioware / Bethesda but better in the past, but nowadays they seem content to just try to copy Bethesda while adding some "quirkiness" and hoping it'll work.

RaineV1,

Most reviewers have given it a good score. Usually around 8/10. ACG has a pretty good review of the good and bad where he gave it a buy rating.

dom, do games w Baldur's Gate 3 Patch 2 to be "chonky" with fixes for performance issues and more

I really hope they make a steam deck optimized settings like CDpr did with witcher 3

curiousaur, do gaming w Baldur’s Gate 3 had to be scaled back for the Series S, but the console still has a right to exist

Just gotta change some settings and it’s perfectly playable throughout the game.

csolisr, do gaming w Overwatch 2's Steam debut is big, but those user reviews are rough

I’m not touching that game until they go and take the cowboy out of the game. We’re not fools Blizzard, that rename was just a cheap way to put things under the rug and we know already who’s that guy based on

ampersandrew,
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But like...the real guy isn't a cowboy. They renamed him. You'd remove an entire character from the game? Renaming him seems like the appropriate response.

harmonea,
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I agree removing the character entirely seems too far. The characters are designed differently enough that you would be leaving a reasonable number of people without their favorite playstyle entirely without a suitable replacement.

I get people not being able to look past the history, but I'm not sure there's any more reasonable course of action that can be taken. The name was the homage, not the kit, art, or lines. And now that name is gone.

I think those who are still upset about it would have to accept they fall under "Don't like? Don't engage" rather than calling for further action.

AlbertScoot,

I was more angry that they changed the name at all, it's just an attempt to pretend they never did anything wrong.

PolandIsAStateOfMind, do gaming w Starfield's latest update draws player ire by sticking a bounty hunting quest behind the Creation Club paywall
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Polish info about this update was such a word salad that i didn’t even get the most important thing, so maybe someone here knows: are we finally getting mod tools?

ZeroHora,
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Yep, they released the creation kit on steam

PolandIsAStateOfMind,
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Finally, hope its not too late

CaptDust, do gaming w Tekken 8 has a strong start as its first month sales outpace Tekken 7

2m copies in a month puts this on pace with SF6, could this be a signal the general FGC has expanded? Pretty impressive

WanderingPoltergeist, do gaming w Highly anticipated indie Sims 4 rival Paralives sets early access release window for 2025
@WanderingPoltergeist@kbin.social avatar

@mike591 I'm excited for this game because they've built up a lot of sensible gameplay elements so early on in development. The social system seems more interesting than The Sims 4, where you could become best friends and marry someone on the same day you met them (I've done this so often, even with conflicting personality traits). It takes both time and effort to befriend the other Paras! That is what I desire from a social sim, investing time into creating the story for my character and having that time feel meaningful.

blazera, do gaming w Highly anticipated indie Sims 4 rival Paralives sets early access release window for 2025
@blazera@kbin.social avatar

it looks...very bland compared to Sims

MacedWindow, do gaming w So far, Goku and Vegeta alone make up 24 slots of Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero’s roster
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It all depends on the ratio. 24/48 is pretty bad, but 24/150 is a bit more reasonable.

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