They are fixing them, though, which is not something they've ever done with prior releases.
I care less about the stuff and mostly about the ships I spent time building. I wish there was a blueprint system to save ship designs.
Hard yes on that; I spent an hour the other day following a build tutorial on a ship (that I absolutely love), and I'm about to do another NG+ loop so I can respec my traits.
Hopefully they plan to create gear that actually protects against that damage. I am curious about the inventory tab setup. I would love to plunk environmental repair items by tab so I wouldn't have to scroll through pages just to find the one I have that repairs lung damage.
I have gotten to know the symbology really well, and of course the StarUI mods help with that considerably. This is pretty important, because while it has been a couple of weeks since I have played, I am still on my "explore all the things" NG+ playthrough, so exploring harsh environments is a thing.
Obvious question - why not mod scanning? Would save you considerable time while not appreciably impacting your goal being Spacer Attenborough.
I get that this would be the easiest way to handle the obvious shortcomings of the Bethsoft approach to skilling up. But, as I play through this NG+, my playstyle is completely different from the first time through. I worked my way up to level 62, and the skills I increased were focused more around combat and crafting. At the end of the first playthrough, my character was a walking, talking fighting machine, with death in each hand, and I built a ship that could take on multiple high-level ships at once without breaking a sweat. Since those skills came with me through the singularity, I am broadening my skillset, and so why not focus on exploration skills? Outpost building is still horribad, so I am not sure I am going to invest a lot into that this playthrough, so I will have skill points to spare before I get through the first few planetary systems. Come to think of it, I already have a couple of skill points I can spend, and I am already at skill level 2 or 3 on scanning, so it's a bit lighter lift than 10 points.
There’s definitely a balance there. I always liken these instances to falling somewhere in between Red Dead Redemption 2 and AC Odyssey. Say you kill a deer from your horse and want to gather its goodies. In the former you have to holster your weapon, dismount, walk over, skin it, gather the pelt, walk back over to your horse, secure it to your saddle, then remount. In the latter, you just gallop over it at warp speed while hitting a button and your horsey friend snorts it up like they’re doing a line.I think that ground vehicles will have an impact, as well, but knowing Bethesda you won't be able to scan anything while driving a ground vehicle at first, despite the fact that any sane vehicle designer would probably, you know, put better scanning and detection equipment on an exploration vehicle than what can be carried by an already overencumbered fool in a space suit.
A lot like Ark: Survival Evolved/Ascended. You can automate even further by setting your tamed creatures to feed on their kills, or even hunt freely. Which means they feed after you kill something, and you will find whatever the dead critter had on it in your tamed animals' inventory, like pelt/hide, meat, and in the case of predators, sometimes the tools of its last victim.
If I didn't have to cover about 1000m of ground from my "landing zone" and the POI I landed at on foot, I would agree with you. But it seems the only time I actually land at a POI site is when I have a bounty to collect, so I am not using the actual landing fields for settlements. A vehicle would make things a lot easier, and if you could scan from one, more the better.
I have yet to successfully land on a coast, but I gave up pretty early, frustrated.
I predict that both scanning from the ground vehicle and storage will have to be accomplished by the mod community. I mean, if ground vehicles are an afterthought, making them actually useful will probably be, also.
I wonder if the distance you start out as has to do with ship size... a bigger ship can't land as close because there isn't enough room. If true, they're certainly not explaining it.
I just did the LIST settlers mission for the umpteenth time in my absolutely massive new ship the other day, and I can definitely dispute this, as I parked so close the ship was literally clipping through his building
This is Bugthesda we're talking about, I wouldn't be surprised at all if both conditions are possible in different parts of the game.I just did the LIST settlers mission for the umpteenth time in my absolutely massive new ship the other day, and I can definitely dispute this, as I parked so close the ship was literally clipping through his building
While this result has been inconsistent, I have found that often when I have already visited a settlement, I can start landing near their settlement, but if I have never been there, I park far away and have to hoof it in. Probably the most notable time I did this was when a Va'Ruun ship landed at a settlement I was walking towards, and it let out Va'Ruun zealots who promptly started attacking the settlers. I killed the zealots, boarded their ship (which promptly took off for orbit), I killed the onboard zealots, took their ship as my own, and landed in the same landing spot it had been in, right next to the colony, some 600m from the "Landing Site" where I had landed the first time I tried to land at the settlement.I just did the LIST settlers mission for the umpteenth time in my absolutely massive new ship the other day, and I can definitely dispute this, as I parked so close the ship was literally clipping through his building
This is something they have through the Steam Workshop for Empyrion, and I have got to say it would be awesome for Starfield. There are a lot of folks out there for whom starship design is their jam, and they seem to love sharing. Bethesda should definitely work to facilitate this as much as they do the rest of the modding community.
I've been out for a while. Did they fix all the bugs that would randomly happen when you stole a ship?
Not sure; I didn't encounter any bugs this time around, at least.
I remember reading in the patch notes (not the latest, early in the year) that they patched the bug out. I would not know, because in my first playthrough I never experienced it, and here in my first NG+ playthrough I am selling everything I capture because it is pretty early on, and I have yet to capture a Class C. When I do, I will bank it for such a time as I have about 800k+ credits to build out the ultimate ship for me, which I will call "Fool's Paradise." In the first playthrough, I has a Class B captured from the Crimson Fleet named the "Fool's Gambit," and a Class C kindly donated by bounty hunters dubbed the "Lost Bounty." Neither of which ever flew off without me, although I believe it was @mogbert who experienced the bug last year.
Yup, lol!
This is one of the reasons why I did not do any of the faction quests in the first playthrough save the Crimson Fleet faction quest. I deliberately saved content so I could play through it a second time. I also found that I did not come close to fully exploring the systems I did visit on the first playthrough, so I am now trying to fully explore every planet on every system. Still stuck in Altair, which is the first system you start out in, because I am missing scans of fairly elusive fauna on one of the planets.
Sleep is overrated. I get most of my gaming done in the early AM hours where my body says "fuck you, you don't deserve to sleep"
I am up in the early AM hours, because while I live in the Mountain time zone, I work in the Eastern time zone. My shift ends conveniently right before my youngest gets out of school. I'd like to think that sleep will be something that I can get at some point, but the only good night's sleep I have gotten since Squeaky was born has been when I have been traveling without my family. I can bide my time, I am still playing Skyrim and FO4, if that is indication WRT timelines, I will still be playing Starfield after I retire. Assuming, of course, I live that long.Sleep is overrated. I get most of my gaming done in the early AM hours where my body says "fuck you, you don't deserve to sleep"
I have no kids, and my solution was to get my wife into gaming. Unfortunately she is starting late, so she has the gaming ability of about an 8 year old. That's not too bad, but she has the habit of calling me in there to fight the bosses for her or when she can't figure something out. I've tried to get her into playing games like Starfield, but ANY game that requires inventory management is right out the door with her. Without a solid background or experience with games, she has no way of understanding what she would need and wouldn't need. So she either picks up everything or nothing. And then calls me in when her inventory is full.Also, I am sure you fellas have never heard this, but having a wife and kids really put a damper on video game playing...
I don't want to derail this thread, but if you have any suggestions for some REALLY beginner civ type games, either send them to me (does this site still have PM's?) or @ me on the Gaming thoughts, bite-size chewables - new orange flavor thread.
We've got a 4X thread, which is the perfect venue for that question:
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My wife had consoles when she was younger, but did not get into computer gaming really until our kids started playing for real. I thought the kids would be okay in Minecraft but the then 11-year-old Squeaky was exposed to some very dark stuff because groomers gonna groom. So we came up with a solution that we could all play together with simple game mechanics, on a private server where I did not have to worry about my kids meeting internet predators. That was just over 9 years ago, as Squeaky is 20 now.
My wife started out rough, and the running joke in the family is that she still has problems getting through doors. We play Ark: Survival Evolved/Ascended, and the first thing we do when we come onto a new map is to tame some predators and turn them into my wife's bodyguards, which we call 'The Queen's Guard.' Inventory management in Ark is more simple because there are fewer items, you can dump them into nearby bins/storage or into the inventory of your tamed pack-beasts, and unlike Starfield there is absolutely nothing you can pick up that you can't use. I do not know what they were thinking with the plethora of tools laying around that you can pick up and not do anything with considering they got it right in FO4 and Skyrim, where at least you could break things down into its base useable components. I am sure everyone in this thread was pretty surprised when they learned that 'vacuum tape' could not be used for any crafting, and could not be scrapped to at least render some precious, rare 'adhesive' or 'sealant.'
Try a survival game that is simple, where you can play together. Since we started Ark: Survival Evolved in 2015, we have branched out, and now have family servers for that, Dark and Light and Empyrion. We also play a lot of the co-op games. It's easier on my wife because she just follows us around, and she has gotten better over the last 9 years. She is our main builder in survival games, and our heavy weapons specialist in Generation Zero.
My last ship I built before crossing over was like that, sort of. I had the highest level fixed PB's facing forward for the joust as well as an extremely long range missile rack, two side-facing PB turrets on the 'top' of the ship's hull, and two backwards-facing under-slung PB turrets for people who were coming at me from different angle. This strategy was so effective at eliminating enemies in ship-to-ship combat, that I had to make a separate, smaller ship that I flew around in with no turrets, replacing the missiles with a disruptor, if I felt like disabling and boarding ships. Which, for me at least, is super fun and appeals to the space-pirate in me.
Also, the 'gravity torpedo' on the Starborn Guardian ship is the bomb (one should always intend one's puns) for disabling
