It just seems like it will be super easy to add new planets and stuff. When modding really gets going it'll be something to see.
That's a filter, you could easily turn it down or even off in the settings.
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Nah, I doubt anything particularly interesting will come about besides some overambitious mod projects that won't get released until 2035 and have a bunch of gross sexualization shoved in for no reason.
You need only look at previous mods for games like Skyrim or Fallout 4. How many mods were released that were purely just settlement based that added anything interesting? For Skyrim, there is like that one mod that lets you be Jarl of your own little castle place, and that's like it. Everything else are mods of whole new areas that took like a decade to release and still aren't finished.
Generally, I view mods as able to refine existing concepts and systems (cosmetics or refining gameplay). When you are expecting mods to add wholly new questing content, I know that likely won't be happening, and if it does, it won't be for a long while and of dubious quality. 730+ mods installed later and Fallout 4 is still a terrible Fallout. No mod can fix that.
Y'know what could have been another neat option for space travel? The way Mass Effect 2 and 3 handled it where you control a little icon representing your ship in the orrery view, which basically has the same effect as flying an airship in an old-school JRPG. Maybe icons representing random encounters or POIs could appear in that view.
Figure this may be the best place for this question, abset me finding the OT. I am thinking of getting a Pre-built with the following specs:
AMD Ryzen™ 7 7700 Processor
NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 4070 SUPER™
16 GB DDR5-5200MHz (UDIMM) - (2 x 8 GB)
and a 1TB SSD
I've been looking to transition over to PC gaming, and accounting for me selling my PS5, I can get this for around $950 out of my pocket.
Would I be able to run Starfield on high settings on my TV with this setup? Am also thinking of getting into modding and some light game dev, fyi
AMD Ryzen™ 7 7700 Processor
NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 4070 SUPER™
16 GB DDR5-5200MHz (UDIMM) - (2 x 8 GB)
and a 1TB SSD
I've been looking to transition over to PC gaming, and accounting for me selling my PS5, I can get this for around $950 out of my pocket.
Would I be able to run Starfield on high settings on my TV with this setup? Am also thinking of getting into modding and some light game dev, fyi
I love ME2 and 3 but I personally hated flying the tiny ship around. It looks really goofy to me. I'd rather just pick a planet on a map and be there, like ME1, TOW and Starfield.
Because rotations and orbits would also speed up. Frontier: Elite II did exactly this in 1993, as it also had a pro gen galaxy at 1:1 scale, and it's one of the things that gave flying in that game an extremely steep learning curve. Maybe it might work if the whole process is on-rails and players don't actually have to keep track of their destination's orbit while flying to it.
I'm not holding my breath, but I hope Bethesda does something to make space travel in this game actually feel like travel because, to be honest, it's the one gameplay aspect that most sets Starfield apart from Fallout 4. The main difference from ME1 and TOW is that Starfield lets you almost completely ignore your ship, but if you do that the game really just turns into Fallout 4 with better combat and a less interesting setting. The other difference from those other two games is that they never tried to sell the fantasy of flying a ship.
Heh, that's the exact game I was thinking about when I suggested it. I don't recall the flying being hard tbh, I preferred it. Once you realise that there is a difference between where you're facing and where you're going it's pretty intuitive (to me). Edit: also Elite had an autopilot module IIRC, and it worked it all out for you, landing included. I also really loved that it showed your velocity as a speed relative to the largest gravitation body near you. Also also, obviously, that it did actual planetary landing, so no loading screens for the entire solar system.
Honestly my dream game is the guts of Elite 2/3's systems with a graphically modern narrative RPG strapped on top.
I never really got the hang of it, but interestingly, Outer Wilds uses a simpler, more approachable version of the same fundamental system where you have to account for inertia when flying. It makes me believe that, if other developers tried, they could implement another "casual" step between arcade-style flight and full Newtonian.
I think this is the ultimate dream but nobody has really figured it out yet. One of the main problems is balancing the use of proc gen to create a real sense of scale with pacing that directs players toward hand-crafted content. The tutorial for on-foot gameplay in Elite: Dangerous makes me believe that Frontier actually could make a solo campaign if they tried and if they ever added landable atmospheric planets to the game.
Glad to hear mod tools are in modders hands FINALLY. I've been waiting for that, I really believe this game will improve ten fold with a few select mods.
Ill probably wait for the expansion and then dive in (with mods). Only a few more months!
Ill probably wait for the expansion and then dive in (with mods). Only a few more months!
Lock Elite:Dangerous and Starfield in a room, play some Barry White music and nine months later we'd have a perfect space game
Lol we would also have the first 1000 hour "golden path" game.
Lmao, please don't make Starfield the #1 reason to get a PC upgrade.
Why not? When I get around to upgrading my PC Starfield with unlocked framerates is going to be my number 1 reason for doing so.
I just want POIs with random interior layouts (the ones with loading screens) or at the very least randomization in terms of who/what/how many enemies you're encounter at them. It was pretty disappointing to find a POI I had been to on a different planet and realize it had the same enemies, the same number of enemies, the same loot container locations, the same robot to activate...
I knew Starfield wasn't going to have the same sort of exploration as other modern Bethesda games, but I was really hoping they would lean into the randomized dungeon-crawling of Daggerfall where you wouldn't know what to expect with each location.
It's literally in the screenshot of the video output settings from the May Update video lol
Just hopped back into Elite for a minute which made me realize that yeah, they theoretically could let you do seamless flight between moons or in complete orbit around a planet without breaking light speed, and heading from one moon to another might take a few minutes. Maybe a couple of minutes at 20 or 30% light speed.
Lmao, please don't tell people what they should do and what to enjoy.
I have close to zero understanding on PCs but isnt this like… one of the best u could get as of today?
It's the modding tools in general. All mods you've seen so far have been manually hacked together, CK is basically official mod support, and is the tool that Bethesda use (with a bunch of internal stuff removed) to build the actual game.
This remark seems kinda unfair, considering the only games where they used that camera before came out from 2006 to 2008, lmao.
EDIT: Apparently this was an older post already, apologies, didn't pay attention to dates.
Uh.. just a bit of an elite please. I don't got no time for a trip to Hutton orbital entering the system. Like fuck that!
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That's wild to me - it was on sale on the Lenovo website. Didn't seem like it would be that good, compared to the other builds I was seeing.
Would recommend any one looking at PC laptops or desktops check out Lenovo. They got some good deals right now!
I think the only thing that was questionable before were fps modes for console, nobody thought anything else was infeasible.
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You can even see NPC ships on the map that have landed from orbit
Yes, very solid PC. But I recommend going for 32GB RAM for future proof.
There is a story around Hutton right? Like which Dev did this lol
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I am curious to see how 60 FPS will function in New Atlantis on the PS5. That area absolutely hammers the cpu. Its quite literally the only area apart from TLOU Part 1 Remake which pushes my 7800X3D to its limits. And this is a 7800X3D vis a vis Ryzen 5 3600 on the PS5.