***The Official Starfield Thread*** (As endorsed by TNA)

[Radox-0]

I have visions of driving a Mako around for hours in Mass Effect on almost barren planets with a few collectables.

Yup imagine kind of similar, or scanning the local environment. Can see in the trailer, on the moon where they show a outpost being built, literally shows the collectables on that particular planet, in this case resources and 100% once you got them all. Can imagine that being similar in many cases elsewhere.




For me, still very excited by this game, just think people may be disappointed if they are expecting anything special on the 925+ or so planets outside the core ones IMO.

 

[Cantankerous]

When they confirm modding support, that's the point when we should all be happy. The same as the earlier fallout games

I expect I'll play it and it'll be a fun game for a playthrough.

The planets will be 99% empty, I don't see how they can't be. I expect one key location on a couple planets per system tops, ala mass effect. A scan function to find resources on planets to locate resource deposits and then build an outpost to auto mine it. And never return

 

[TheSwede]

Yea, I hope so. Still, 1000 seems a lot. I wonder how many systems there will be?

100 systems with 1,000 planets according to Toddy boy.

 

[TNA]

100 systems with 1,000 planets according to Toddy boy.

Interesting. Thanks. Might be the case of you can enter a system and just go to one or two planets and not bother with the rest. Hell, some systems may have nothing but ming and can just move on I guess.

 

[Tombstone]

Got nothing to lose really, its on gamepass so its not like the game is going to cost me anything at all, so as it will effectively be free I may as well give it a go

 

[TNA]

Got nothing to lose really, its on gamepass so its not like the game is going to cost me anything at all, so as it will effectively be free I may as well give it a go

Oh yea, gamepass! Unless this gets awesome reviews I will just get gamepass for £1 and play it there like I did with Halo Infinite

 

[agnes]

Got to admit, the gamepass is one hell of a deal...

 

[jonneymendoza]

Got to admit, the gamepass is one hell of a deal...

Is it still £1 a month only?

 

[Matty8787]

Is it still £1 a month only?

For your first month.

 

[TNA]

Is it still £1 a month only?

Yeah, for the first month. I think that resets ever year or at least has whenever I have used it I just pay one quid and that is enough time for me to play anything I want.

There are also 2-3 month passes floating about out there for a fiver.

I still prefer having my games on steam though. But certain games are either not available there or they simply not worth the asking price on release. A good example would be The Out Worlds. I played and enjoyed that on gamepass. Been wanting to add it to my steam collection with all the dlc, but the dlc price is still looney so I will continue to wait until I can get the whole package for 10-15 quid.

 

[Grim5]

100 systems with 1,000 planets according to Toddy boy.

990 of which will be procedurally generated barren wastelands, requiring modders themselves to add content

 

[Bubo]

I dare say there will be several factions in the game who will control a number of the 1000 planets each, so they will likely be several of the same design planets but controlled by different factions to make them "different".

 

[Blackjack Davy]

So Fallout 4 in Space then, looks increasingly like a pass from me.

 

[arknor]

990 of which will be procedurally generated barren wastelands, requiring modders themselves to add content

much life real life then

 

[Matty8787]

990 of which will be procedurally generated barren wastelands, requiring modders themselves to add content

Makes more sense than a thousand planets all bustling with cities and life... I feel the vast majority should be barren bar resources.

 

[BeeP]

I’m liking the look of this but then again I loved FO4.

 

[Cantankerous]

I do hope those that all the outposts you build won't start generating random 'defence' missions ala The Minutemen defend missions that were spammed in FO4.

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[Darujhistan]

On the whole - meh. There's nothing new here, it fact I thought it looked quite dated.

 

[ttaskmaster]

That's console gameplay though, and for some reason these companies never show PC gameplay or have people playing using a keyboard and mouse.

I can't recall which of the various controversial releases it was... NMS, or Aliens: Colonial Marines, I think... but a few years ago something much-anticipated came out and the consoleers all had a massive hissy fit, because the trailers used PC footage and the console gameplay looked like absolute rat-**** by comparison!

I did get strong Star Citizen vibes (it's that type of game) but without the sense of scale that SC has.

What 'scale' does SC have?
There's only, what, 16 landable planetary bodies, including moons? This is supposed to have about 1,000, and if only 25-50 have anything of interest it's still more than SC... but nowhere near the ridiculous (procedurally generated?) number in Elite, either.

I have flashbacks of driving a Mako around for hours in Mass Effect on almost barren planets with a few collectables.

I quite enjoyed that part actually, along with the Hammerhead and Nomad later on.
I never really got stuck either, though I recall taking the mick when my friends ragequit from it happening so often to them!

 

[Calin Banc]

What 'scale' does SC have?
There's only, what, 16 landable planetary bodies, including moons? This is supposed to have about 1,000, and if only 25-50 have anything of interest it's still more than SC... but nowhere near the ridiculous (procedurally generated?) number in Elite, either.

It depends what you can do on them and how fun is the exploration. SC aims at much more than what it has been seen here.