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Return to the Starfield Edition
>>>The Game<<<
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1716740/Starfield/
>>>News<<<
>05/09: "Terran Armada" was teased
>05/08: New update - Bethesda confirming that "exciting things" are coming in the future: https://x.com/BethesdaStudios/status/1947686948799389848
>06/05: New update in Steam beta: https://x.com/BethesdaStudios/status/1919776896578982315
>06/03: Bethesda confirming future updates: https://x.com/StarfieldGame/status/1897709518013997493
>>>Resources<<<
>Compendium: https://starfieldcompendium.com/
>Mods: https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/
>>>FAQ<<<
>Q: CK?
>A: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2722710/Starfield_Creation_Kit/
>Q: What's the deal with NG+(+...)?
>A: Restarts the game with minor changes to the story and world, while preserving your powers and skills. 10 cycles for suit upgrades, 6 cycles for upgrading the starborn ship
>Q: Should I reinstall?
>A: If you are excited about a customizable difficulty, 3D maps, ship decorations, new bounty hunting missions and mechanics, official mod support and a vehicle, then yeah
>>>Misc<<<
>/stag/ modlist: https://pastebin.com/rNtnZTES
>Artbook rips: https://mega.nz/file/TlJSBTwB#GhmrZRoHDAhhei__Bz2zc6GisgB67_vONrAfYQR8 lK0
>Character builder: https://nukesdragons.com/starfield/character
>Threadly space music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sftFzatlg4I
>>>OP template<<<
>https://rentry.org/stag_op_new (will be periodically updated)
Previous Unity Cycle: >>553026621
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A few mod highlights since we've been down:
-Falkland Systems will soon receive an update that moves the building out of New Atlantis and will instead be a spacestation orbiting around Jemison. If you were concerned about the performance impact and potential bugs and conflicts caused by that mod, that should now be resolved
https://www.reddit.com/r/starfieldmods/comments/1qlzohk/many_of_you_ha ve_shared_your_feedback_and_to/
-SFAnon is working on a female companion mod. Looks to be on the low morals side of things and is said to be romanceable. He's also looking for a voice actress if there's any femanons here looking to help him out with that
https://arch.b4k.dev/vg/thread/553026621/#554970146
-Star Wars Genesis has been updated
https://genesismodlist.com/8-6-1/
-Native Animation Framework and Custom Command Framework will soon receive a successor according to a guy whose been commenting on their mod pages
https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/7360?tab=posts -Gergel Ebanex (Sex Mod) was updated yesterday. Includes a few new features, fixes, and more animations and furniture types
https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/14425
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A reminder that Bethesda is handing out free content to Fallout 76 and Starfield players through a bundle, though for Starfield it's just a weapon skin for the Beowulf. You must be signed in to Bethesda.Net and click the Claim Now button on the following web page, then you'll have the skin ready to download from the in-game Creations Menu.
https://freebundle.bethesda.net/en-US
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>>555231241
The Falkland one is a godsend. It's better to have been a space station or a separate location outside of New Atlantis similar to Hopetown. I can understand the space station route as it's easier to do.
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Based on what I've purchased so far
-Watchtower if you want a DLC sized quest mod that adds fleet assembly and orbital strikes
-Mcclarence Outfitters if you want a few new spacesuits and the ability to customize the stats on both your weapons and spacesuit (Fair warning, there's a lot of grind in this mod)
-Falkland Systems if you want more ship types and parts
-Tiny Reasons to Explore series if you want more small unmarked POIs showing up on land and space to make exploration more rewarding
-Everbright if you want a smaller DLC sized quest mod that comes with a romanceable female npc
-Forgotten Frontiers 1 and 2 and Lost Light if you want to add a number of big POIs to explore
-Cryomancers if you want to add a new faction and POI with really difficult enemies. Comes with new weapons, armors, and pets
-Vigilance if you want a huge underground POI facility with a new faction as well as highly customizable weapons and armor
-Modular Explosive Delivery System if you want to add drone weapons to your game, both AI controlled and player controlled options
-Choose Your Chunks if you want to earn passive income from owning a Chunks franchise
-Settled Systems Shuttle Service if you just basically want a to ride a bus in space. Might be more ideal for immersion
-Rideable New Atlantis Transit if you want to make riding the NAT animated. A bit on the clunky side though
-TGs Jars of Life mod if you want to add huge placeable terrariums for you to live in. Pretty looking, might be good for screenarchery
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I would say most of The_Wulfys stuff. I like variation in suits and I like his kitbashes. It's just SUCH a BA2 slot eater though for his stuff. His freestar one is good and his UC one is kind of nice with the downside of the armored helmets having the faceplate exposing the faces and UC sec outfit being replaced much more with the spacesuit.
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>Sarah thinking we were too incompetent to handle big decisions
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Looks like concentration spells are now possible in Starfield.
https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/15913
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>>555231241
I feel like Gergel Ebanex may have already well exceeded Fallout 4's total AAF animation count since it's said to have 1039 animations in total, but I honestly don't even remember how many animations are available for Fallout 4
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Alright, I'm getting sleepy and it doesn't seem like we're going to make it this time. If this general does die again, I guess we actually should wait for more news from Bethesda. I might make a thread for us on /vrpg/ later and provide some mod news there if I come across anything interesting.
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>>555249395
Some of these don't look too bad. Thanks for the info
>>555250802
Kinda feel bad for the creators actually trying to make content worth paying for when the store is flooded with nickel-and-dimers splitting their mod into 12 parts for maximum profit
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>>555300410
That's a good thing as it means that Matty actually gives constructive criticisms and they value his opinions. A company worth it's salt doesn't just shove it's head in the sand and try to drown out the criticism, they listen and try to improve or what they did wrong. Not listening to the discourse is one of the reasons why Volition died and one of the reasons why giants like Ubisoft and Disney are struggling
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>>555347829
Yes but those games have a much larger fanbase (All of them sold magnitudes more than Starfield, especially Skyrim and CP2077). Starwars mods are literally the only thing keeping this game even remotely relevant right now, and Starwars is gay and retarded thanks to disney.
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>>555348184
Doesn't matter, aside from the fighting game generals, /vg/ is one of the few boards that's actually mostly filled with a small concentration of weirdos instead of the normalfags pretending to be abnormal like they do on /v/. And /stag/ is not the only general struggling to maintain activity.
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>>555354674
If they were smart they would delay it till 2027 and release 3.0 after everyone gets bored of GTA. Full procgen overhaul, rivers, roads and settlements that aren't just a few buildings, full documentation for the creation kit, temple overhaul, seamless travel everywhere, skills overhauled and rebalanced, main story rewritten, expansion where you set up a mining company with your bro Heller and explore the galaxy looking for rare rocks to add to his collection.
They could save this game if they wanted to, but they probably won't.
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>>555356562
That's assuming GTA 6 is even getting released this year, not to mention that game recently got news that a physical release was being postponed to next year to avoid datamining spoilers, so that on top of it not coming to PC at the same time shouldn't fuck up Starfield's momentum all that much.
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Ship building in Starfield feels like it was the first time in years since you could effectively completely build something from scratch in a Bethesda game instead of just adding on to something that already exists. I think Oblivion was the last game to feature something like that through spell crafting.
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We'll probably get them back one day
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New Whofield TARDIS screenshots
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They're also hosting a competition on their Discord to submit TARDIS desktop designs
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>>555402418
Bethesda has some things planned, but we don't know shit about anything besides the following:
-Core systems are going to be updated, but we don't really know to what extent besides a datamine of interplanetary flight, a teased DLC called Terran Armada, and a rumor about reduced loading screens
-Bethesda gave several people a glimpse of what they're doing behind the scenes a few months ago, but they're all under NDA, so they can't reveal anything besides telling everyone that Bethesda invited them out
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also more context the Terran Armada teaser was in September on the game's second anniversary and Bethesda previously said new content out before the end of 2025. Its been radio silence except for the aforementioned youtubers.
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They invited him over in November so they had something worth showing 3 months ago
It is almost February now, wtf are they doing there
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Yeah the jiggle physics mod is going to need some work. kek
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>>555495358
I couldn't care less about the Disney canon stuff myself, and 90% of the shit tied to it failed to impress people. As far as old time Star Wars fans are concerned, EU/Legends is still the right way to actually enjoy this franchise while the only things salvageable from the Disney side of things is the female characters themselves just for the rule 34 art.
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>>555407351
I actually wonder if the 2.0 preview thing went well and whether or not the radio silence is in response to some negative feedback they got. It might be that they're delaying it further to make more changes. (Honestly this is why Bethesda is so fucking stupid and out of touch, hiding this shit all the time instead of just gathering and responding to feedback constantly like other companies do.)
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>>555499507
Because I'm not retarded enough to have Starfield be the only game, and I have other games to tied me over until something gets announced. Matter of fact, I'll be playing the Nioh 3 demo that will be dropping in about 3 more hours.
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>flying towards page 11 at incredible hihg speed
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>>555557803
Do I get a stealth multiplier if I hit someone from behind?
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>instead of making a single patch or contributing to a community project, every miniscule tweak or fix is a separate mod
so much for fixing the donation point whoring problem
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>>555496731
my personal opinion is that they had intended for end of 2025 release, but didn't want to take any wind from the Fallout tv show. Since the last episode is next Tuesday a Starfield announcement is imminent, only two more weeks guys.
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on another note, I'm one of those people that have been waiting for the next update to start a new run. I haven't finished Watchtower yet, what are the chances the new update breaks all of the major mods/creations on release?
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The next update will be running on an almost entirely new engine, with Creation being merged with Unreal. This will mean most, if not all mods, will be borked, and any documentation for the game will need to be rewritten. You will be waiting a long time, anon.
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>>555610097
No it won't, and it's sort of the other way around. Bethesda is actually working with Microsoft to upgrade the Creation Engine with a select number of features that will mimic some of Unreal Engine's features, they are not actually combining it with Unreal Engine nor are they going to use any of it's assets like they did with the Oblivion Remaster
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https://youtu.be/uHhPhEoFyjQ?si=qKwRAI9QuLO0-0vQ
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>Creation being merged with Unreal
Ah yes the engine best known for being terrible for open world games. I didn't think Bethesda could get any dumber, but I guess I can cast off that last lingering bit of hope I had for TES6
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They made one demo and every non-developer jumped in to shill it plus it's free so everyone is trained on it which led to numerous amount of games using it
Unreal could become as realistic as Hellblade the issue is that realism comes at a cost of the game being a linear playable movie while open world games like Borderlands 4 are struggling with performance harder than Starfield
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>killed absolutely everyone on SY-920 cause I'm bored out of my mind
>nobody ever noticed or cared
>quote space marine: "eh, another casualty" while walking past the body of another marine he's been happily talking with just a minute ago
>escaped with the ship successfully
>no bounty either
This is one of the better quests when you do it in straightforward way, but it's ridiculous how I was able to more or less casually snipe everyone without raising the alarm once. It's almost like stealth is completely broken in this particular case (as opposed to ryujin quests where it's also broken but in the opposite way).
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Pack Attack Starfield. It was made by Greslin, the guy behind PACE and its modules for FO4, but he started sperging out at Starfield close to the end of 1.0 development for the mod and abandoned it. It basically is supposed to be Pack Attack ported into Starfield with new features, after he quit development on it he backported all the new stuff he did for it back into FO4.https://www.patreon.com/posts/past-v1-0-pre6-100057440
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To my understanding it's done in a similar manner to how the Oblivion Remaster is. Unreal is basically going to be used for the visual assets I think, but outside of that it's all Creation Engine. That's IF the rumor of the hybrid engine coming to Starfield is real in the first place.
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>it's actually real
I'm just going to go back to bed
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Damn. At least she went out in a better way than robby
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When the fuck is 2.0 going to come out? I've been waiting to play since Shattered Space bombed.
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>>555760190
That just means slower progress rather than no progress, it took well over a decade for Skyrim to get where it is right now. If the old talent doesn't want the glory, then it will simply go to the new talent.
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>>555761619
Whether it's dead or not depends on the kind of mods you're personally looking for really. The fact that Starfield on Nexus alone has 10,000+ mods that aren't translations, and a 140+ million user download count that's soon to surpass Fallout 3's is pretty indicative that the scene is doing well in the nearly 3 years that it's been out.
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Exactly. All mods aren't equal. Very few of those are anything of any substance. Also Fallout 3's modding scene sucks shit because everyone ended up using TTW
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>>555763651
I'm sorry to have to be the one tell you two this, but despite what you've seen and the doom and gloom you have for this game, Starfeld has actually been silently surpassing your expectations.
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Todd...
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big changes take time. be patient.
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because they are adding a lot more stuff than that, retard.
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>>555771396
He was probably asking because the website install page insists it won't work, which is untrue, but they probably just put that there to duck liability. The only problem is on wabbajack's side since it reads Steam's app manifest. All you have to do to bypass it is to look up Starfield's steamid, grab the appmanifest for another Steam game you own and replace the AppID inside it with Starfield's.
Sorry you had to pay 80-100 shekels for Starslop while I got it for free.
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this but unironically
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>All you have to do to bypass it is to look up Starfield's steamid, grab the appmanifest for another Steam game you own and replace the AppID inside it with Starfield's.
Or use WabbaUnlocked, which will also auto download without a Nexus subscription
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Its been a year and four months since the last content update, they've offered no apology or explanation for that "exciting things in 2025" post, and still haven't given a single actual detail other than a title which could be anything from DLC to a mobile spinoff. At this point its blind faith, not patience.
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Companion Mod Progress Update - Cass Wu
Alright anons, remember that companion mod I promised? Finally got off my ass and made actual progress.
What I've Done:
Reverse-engineered BGS's companion system (SQ_Companions, SQ_Followers, the whole shebang)
Got a test companion successfully integrated into the ActiveCompanion alias
SetRoleAvailable() and SetRoleActive() confirmed working
Basic following behavior functional
The Character:
Cassima "Cass" Wu - Former Crimson Fleet pirate, now gun-for-hire
Chaotic neutral/evil alignment (finally, a companion who isn't a moralfag)
Sarcastic, pragmatic, loves ships and zero-G
Has actual opinions and will call you out on shit
Avoids Crimson Fleet areas (has history with Delgado)
Current Status:
Test quest works. Now building the full implementation:
Full actor setup (scripts, factions, AI)
Affinity system (100+ action event reactions)
Story gates for relationship progression
Romance path (she's bi)
Personal quest (organ harvesting backstory reveal)
Planned Nexus Release:
Basic version will include:
Recruitment quest
Basic companion functionality (follow/wait/dismiss)
Combat barks
Basic affinity events
Initial dialogue
Full version later with:
Complete story gates
Personal quest
Romance/commitment
Full scene reactions to vanilla quests
ETA: Working on it. College slowed me down but I'm back on it.
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oh well, if it has to be that way to get my perfect starfield, so be it.
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And Bethesda said exciting things were coming in 2025. Developers lie, exaggerate, or just fail to keep their word all the time. I do believe an update is coming, just not in the mythical 2.0. There's no proof they're working on anything that ambitious and not just getting delayed by shit management and/or most of the team moving on to TES6.
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your dumbass cares way too much about some collquical title that youtubers came up with. it got pushed back because it's not ready yet. they showed something off to journalists two months ago. and their are rumors saying they are making updated to the engine. that's actually more than "muh 2.0" in itself since red engine was just abandoned
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbOk0unnlbw&pp=ygUScmV0dXJuIG9mIHRoZSB tYWNr
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>>555788196
Complete radio silence doesn't do the game a favor at all because in the absence of real facts people will imagine something unrealistic about it in their heads then shit on the game twice as hard when it finally gets revealed because it failed to live up to their expectations. Regular updates do not only serve to create hype, but also to keep fans from running wild.
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It was >>555502480
you'd have to talk to her to get any deets if she's still hanging around the thread
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>BGS built a massive affinity system (location triggers, quest reactions) then forgot to use it.
Brother, I support what you're doing but all of this is in the game and applies to all the core companions.
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>>556008028
I too wish he was not a nigger
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>>556034830
I guess I'll make another one immediately this time if we die early again andsomeone else doesn't want to. I'll do what the other anon did and let you guess decide what image we use for the next thread instead of me picking one of my own webms
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This anon ment to reply to this anon
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but his reply failed to link to that post properly. You can tell it’s the post he was replying to because the original post used the word “nigger” even though nothing particularly racist was said?
Just thought I’d clear things up.
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It's never our turn. Oblivion Remastered. Fallout 76 updates. Fallout 4 Anniversary Edition. Season 2 of the Fallout show. Fallout 3 Remastered perhaps. Maybe TES VI will even get re-announced near the end of the year. Don't forget all the other space games and RPGs that Bethesda shits their pants over, pulling Starfield back so it doesn't get overshadowed. Waiting on a PS5 port that never materializes. Waiting on voice actors to catch up on their backlog from the strike. Waiting for this, waiting for that. It'll be at this showcase for sure bro... no, I guess maybe that other showcase actually. Any time now. This year, or in the coming months. Exciting things are on their way, you just have to wait another 3 months, 6 months, a year, a year and a half. It'll be at the Xbox show in June, no doubt about it. But it won't be there actually, because don't worry, they'll have it at Gamescom. We're eternally forsaken.
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Affinity events system is used by ALL Elite crew members and Constellatiion members, only quest reactions is used by constelation which sucks but it be hell to pay for all them Vas
the best they can do is let the elite members react when ya use starbon power xD
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>>556048075
>nigstamping made you THIS mad
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Didn't bethesda make this game harder than usual to mod? why does it have its own general
I am honestly asking I never got around to playing it because too many people said it was soul drainingly bad
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Its okay, you can't download it even if you go on his discord because he took down the links lol
Your only hope to get it is if someone who just so happened to have had it reuploads it to catbox or something, but the regulars here aren't as based as /fog/ is so I wouldn't count on it
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https://files.catbox.moe/zfdfh4.7z
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Oh so the game just sucks so bad that no one gives enough of a shit to bother like they would for an elderscrolls of fallout game
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I did a little bit here and there, but honestly opening the game to try my edits or the thing I was working on got stale fast so I dropped the game... I've seen just a few people that keep experimenting from those times
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which is sad because those are "rigged helmets/masks", they blink and the mouth moves, but those arent real faces, you cant customize them at all. Bethesda had fucked up elves, lizardmen and anthromorphic cats 15 years ago, they could have put playable aliens in Starfield and just said "They are humans who were genetically modified centuries ago to live on certain planets". God man, they did so much wrong with this IP by trying to be grounded, and all the fantasy aspects of Starfield are so stupid they give me a migraine.
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It's bizarre too because Starfield's setting is a corporate hellhole dystopia that, for some reason, the narrative pretends is supposed to be a hopeful uplifting utopia we should all look forward to
It was just so fucking bizarre to pick up a chunks! product, synthetically produced square egg food, and then look at some ugly mystery meat creature that smiles wide, eyes unblinking
>Better than the real thing!
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A pretty good reflection of a capitalist society like North America when you really think about it. The Settled Systems in a sense represents everything that's wrong (or right depending on your views) with our society, and maybe that's the point. It doesn't really try to be obvious and steer you away from this kind of society like a story with morals, rather it lets players capable of critical thought determine for themselves where the faults lie.
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They certainly feel pretty sure about globalists winning. Everything in the settled systems is America. Every company,every faction and every city. It´s all just America. No other civilization is allowed to exist. No Russia,China and no independent Europe. But Africans keep their accents because that is very important to Americans.
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It's nothing really like America, though. It might be like California, maybe. My favorite starfield fact about the npc's is that they're all based off of real people, like actual real life people Bethesda went and picked off the street in various countries to depict a truly "diverse" society.
So when you see some ugly, horrific fucking mutant in the game, their face exists in real life somewhere in the world today.
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Constellation beats you over the head with its morals, most choices are black and white, and nearly all the antagonists are cartoonishly evil. I find it very hard to believe the state of the settled systems was intended as some subtle exhibit of modernity.
Chunks is just a parody and the other dystopian elements are just genre conventions present in most other sci-fi settings. Difference is, those settings either fully lean into those elements as the central theme or just use them as the "seedy underbelly" bit of the wider world. With Starfield it feels like they accidentally became the central theme because everything else was too dull to leave an impression.
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get rid of Starborn, reduce constellation to an explorers guild that you hand planetary survey data to, add xenohuman races, and crank up the sandbox and survival elements and you'd have a great game, all of this is within Bethesda's abilities
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>Todd: What should we call them?
>Emil: Starborn, you know just like the Dragonbron
>Todd: Lol based, put it in the game
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>>556207295
Let me fix some of that for you and add to it
>make the Starborn a unique xenohuman race that have no bearings on the main quest, and can teach the player how to use their powers
>make the Unity it's own thing separated from both the main quest and the Starborn, and have the player complete at least 4 large puzzle filled temples scattered across the settled systems to access it
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>chunks!
I once ended up stopping near their shop in NA while doing something else with the game in the background and boy does the dude there have a soul-crushing job. All he does is repeat the same like 4 corporate slogans in a loop every time someone comes nearby. Not handling the sales cause the vending machine does all that, not tending to customers, no nothing, just doing what a sound recording would perfectly do because someone in the management probably thought it would better appeal to customers if they had a real person do it. I wonder if bethesda had the VA repeat the lines for like half an hour in a loop before he nailed it.
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>introduce power hungry aliens/celestials fighting an infinite battle across every universe
>do fuck all with this concept until you need a generic villain for the main quest
>thinly veiled christcuck le follow your destined path bullshit
>add NG+ mechanics to the least replayable Bethesda game
>variant universes are the narrative equivalent of a post-credits scene some of which brick your progress without mods
Emil Fagarillo can't get keeping away with it
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