**** Starfield ****

Ì actually rather enjoyed it as well. I didn't go in with much expectation, and it certainly wasn't a great game, but it was enjoyable and I had a good bit of fun with it.

I don't know about you but I remember when Oblivion and Skyrim launched and they were like gaming crack cocaine, I literally couldn't pull myself away from my PC and when I did it was to do the bare minimum just to allow me to go and play again. Starfield hasn't hooked people in the same way I don't think.

I was referring to Outer Worlds with that, for the record.

Lol, I finished the game there. Got the achievement, the credits rolled, then it crashed and I can't start new game plus now unless I do the ending again. No interest in playing it anyway.

I enjoyed it but got bored at about 50 hours and went off and played some other things, came back to it after 3-4 weeks and finished off the main questline (had already finished all the faction missions) and enjoyed it much more again after the break.

I thought it was a brilliant game but I can see why there are not many players after finishing it as I put over 120 hours into it and there is not much left to do unless you want to explore each planet but the buildings you get to are the exact same as you already done so not much to gain from exploring any further. I bought it on Xbox to play early even though I have Gamepass and got it free on steam with a AMD CPU.

Anyone still playing? I'm dipping in and out of it from time to time. Updates haven't really added/fixed much yet (I'm on Xbox) but I am looking forward to DLC whenever that comes. Honestly the game would be much better if there wasn't so much load screens. That's a big immersion breaker for me.

I hope that comes to Xbox.

Stopped playing last month, will give it a bash again if console mods are ever released.

I actually am stuck with nothing to play since I finished tomb raider remaster, with the update I may give it a whirl

I doubt I'll bother with it unless the DLC is free, which of course it won't be. Bought it for €60 on disc and then they cut the price in half, which is a more realistic price for the broken horrible mess it still is. This made the loss on selling the disc rather large. I got it on xbox and the performance is really grating. My son built me a system that fairly closely emulates a Steamdeck, except with a more capable GPU, so Ideally I would liked to have sold the disc and re-bought on Steam.

AMD had Avatar FOP as an incentive with the GPU and once I tried that it was goodbye Starfield. Now that's how you do an Alien world and immersion, characters, story and graphics. Now I am very keen on getting Star Wars Rebels from the same developer.

Bethesda's bug fixing performance still leaves me cold and failing to comprehend their mindset. They fix endless lists of little trivial things, most of which I never even noticed, and yet fail to fix the most basic problems that have a major impact on gameplay and user experience. In my current play through, both ship services techs on Mars and Neon are still AWOL, and have been from early on. If I land in about half my ships on Titan and Gagarin I am stuck pinned underneath my ship with the only fix being a reload from an earlier save. How messed up is that?

I have a broken mission in my list of things to complete, but after the last update, I still have it in the list but it's dead as in you can't use the link to return to the planet it was based on. Don't know if they fixed the mission or just were lazy and deleted it, which I rather suspect.

So new DLC when the base game is still a broken mess doesn't enthuse me and their incomprehensibly bad bug fixing strategy to date does not inspire confidence that the next update will be any different.

I played this game on Xbox while putting over 110 hours into it and never came across any game breaking bugs.

I also own it on PC and played a bit of it on there. 7800X3D and 7900 XTX and I find the Xbox version was just as good.

Its hardly a broken mess. It is without a doubt Bethesdas most stable release and that's thanks to Xbox giving (forcing?) them to take an extra year to polish it.

The only bug I came across in my 70+ hrs was when you're talking to an npc but approach them from an unusual angle and they end up talking with their back to you or talking to you from behind a pillar.

Lucky you.

Here I am permanently stuck, having spawned underneath my ship at New Homestead. To reload from the last save took 46 seconds, from a supposedly fast SSD.

Here I am fruitlessly looking for the ship services tech at Cydonia. After all the updates this is still not fixed.

I have a starparcel to deliver at Neon; any ideas how to swim down to where he is?

Out of these missions to complete, One is Awol, possibly deleted, and those two delivery contracts are permanently broken and can not be fulfilled. One of them is so bad there isnt even a mission terminal at the receiving end.

Add the star parcel job and that's 4 out of 8 broken. The Inter system cargo link system is still as completely stuffed as it was at launch.

In my defence, 122 of those hours were just loading screens and another 110 were waiting for previous saves to load. 😂