For those who have pre-ordered it is already here, the rest have to wait a little longer. Starfield is finally here! Have you bought it, why or why not? If you’ve already played it, what do you think of it? We are very curious!

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  • Dandroid@dandroid.appEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Random stream of consciousness:

    I played about 5 hours last night. I’m playing it on a 4K monitor with a 3080TI and 5900x. I’m getting 60FPS on ultra usually, but it drops to 30 sometimes. I think I’m going to try to tweak the settings a bit, because I want higher and more stable FPS.

    Edit: Apparently there is no way to lower the resolution??? So I dropped the settings from “ultra” to “high” (one setting lower), and now I’m getting 60FPS where I was getting 30 and 90FPS where I was getting 60. This feels a lot better to me.

    I really am enjoying the game, but I understand why reviewers say it starts slow. Actually going on missions is really fun, but there is a lot of time between going on missions because I’m exploring so much, talking to NPCs, and managing my inventory.

    The gunplay is good, not spectacular. Leaps and bounds better than Fallout 4’s gunplay.

    The inventory system isn’t good, but the more I use it, the faster I get at it. I just learned that I could favorite weapons, so that should help keep me from pausing constantly to change weapons when one runs out of ammo.

    The world feels good to move in. I like the booster packs.

    The start of the story feels a little forced (“COME WITH ME.” “🤷 okay”), but that doesn’t really bother me too much.

    I like the NPCs I have met so far.

    The character creation seemed simpler than previous Bethesda games, and I mean that as a compliment. I never wanted to make a human that looked like a fish, and having the option to do that would always turn me off from the character creator, as I felt like anything I tried made my character fall into uncanny valley. So I would just choose a preset and maybe change basic stuff like eye color, hair color, etc. In this one, it was really easy to make a character look how you wanted and still look like a human.

    The default keybinds for keyboard/mouse are idiotic, especially in the menus. Sometimes the game will tell me to press the wrong button for an action (the looting in space explanation was completely wrong).

    I haven’t got to the point where I am able to customize my ship yet, but I really want to add storage to it for all my materials, because my carry weight is way too low.