I find different materials spawn in different habitats. I give it a few mins close by the ship then fly to a different habitat. E.g. hills, mountains, desert.
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It get worse when you are trying to find mineable resources to place outposts.
There is a limited number of outposts you can build, so really you need to try and find points with as many different as possible within the build radius.
I managed to find one with 4 yesterday not even common ones.
But 3 is a good target to aim for.
If you get scanning upgraded it helps, but honestly a lot of the time it's just a case of skipping around the surface with your scanner open trying to find those spots.
Im aiming to setup a chain of outposts with the end outpost producing everything, automatically, but it's taking me a long time, I've spent days now and I've not even done the 11 basic productions yet.
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Exactly this, ignore the resource map, you want to land on the line between two biomes. Linnaeus IVb for example, hills and craters should net you an outpost with 6-7 resources including iron, aluminium, helium, water etc
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The game really unlocks after the first main mission playthrough and completion.
Pacing is difficult to judge, it's worth going at a pace so you get to enjoy the game on the first playthrough but cognisant that when you complete Universe 1, and rather than stay, choose to enter The Unity and go into NG+, you get to do it all again albeit with differences. If you invest significantly in the initial Universe, you may not want to progress the game although you keep your level, skills and powers.
Pacing is difficult to judge, it's worth going at a pace so you get to enjoy the game on the first playthrough but cognisant that when you complete Universe 1, and rather than stay, choose to enter The Unity and go into NG+, you get to do it all again albeit with differences. If you invest significantly in the initial Universe, you may not want to progress the game although you keep your level, skills and powers.
Regardless,
You prob want to progress the main quest to where you unlock the powers.
It's worth doing enough side content to reach level 30-34 with some of the main quests done. This means weapons available to buy and quest rewards (which scale with level) are at a decent stage for the 2nd half of the game.
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You also don't need to use the scanner although that's what I did. You can start to place the outpost beacon and run around with it in your hands. In the top left corner it'll show you all the resources within the beacons radius. Then all you need to do is check there's good sized veins and fine tune placement.
The resource map is useful as often biomes join where the map shows the resource change. Makes it easy to find where it switches between, types to land as close as possible I found.
The resource map is useful as often biomes join where the map shows the resource change. Makes it easy to find where it switches between, types to land as close as possible I found.
I've not experienced any. How much RAM you got ? What SSD is it on ?
I've got 32GB DDR5, and it's running on a PCIe 4 NVME.
I wondered why I had a load of crap in my cargo hold again. Thought I'd gotten confused at a vendor again and ended up buying a load of stuff instead of selling stuff.
I agree.
For some reason i can't stop playing it though.
That is why 3/5 imo is harsh. If a single player game hooks you to keep coming back for more, that has to mean something and factor into the score.
For me, had the space section been much better, together with better characters/story, it would have been no less than a 9 out of 10.
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Doesnt seem to work.
yeh, it would be 3.5 (7/10) at least from me actually.
I just keep switching between thinking "hm, this is a chore/boring/badly designed" to "oh, that was quite fun/cool". I do the same with the graphics as the gameplay. One minute, i'm like "wow, that looks brilliant", and the the next I'm like "what, that looks like ****".
Really is a game of two halves!
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Does the pack actually have boost? They don't all have it.
And are you actually wearing it or just carrying it ?
Yeah, it can be inconsistent. That's why my score went from a 8.5 to 8.
Also they keep using the exact same caves/outposts over and over again in different planets. Geez, make a few more designs man..
They made most of the terrain procedurally, but not sure why they didn't do it with caves and outposts too. Especially with ships and outposts being modular.
I just can't be bothered exploring planets much because running across a mostly empty landscape to find the same stuff gets old quickly.
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Ok, I am giving up on this outpost production building.
Basically run into what I am pretty sure is a bug, fired up a spreadsheet to map out all my extractors and links, to discover my extractors are no longer doing anything, I cannot see any good reason why other than a bug.
Solution online seems to be you need to delete and rebuild them and the power, that is just way too much effort right now I am giving up.
Back to doing quests I guess....
To be honest, and admittedly I have packed the hours in, due to a quiet job, but I am already starting to loose interest in the game all together. What is there is nice but they need to add some purpose to some of the content they added. They really need to fix this bug with your extractors stopping as that is going to take hours to go around re-building them, for all I know, will then bug out again at some point, no thanks.
Basically run into what I am pretty sure is a bug, fired up a spreadsheet to map out all my extractors and links, to discover my extractors are no longer doing anything, I cannot see any good reason why other than a bug.
Solution online seems to be you need to delete and rebuild them and the power, that is just way too much effort right now I am giving up.
Back to doing quests I guess....
To be honest, and admittedly I have packed the hours in, due to a quiet job, but I am already starting to loose interest in the game all together. What is there is nice but they need to add some purpose to some of the content they added. They really need to fix this bug with your extractors stopping as that is going to take hours to go around re-building them, for all I know, will then bug out again at some point, no thanks.
I'm pretty much done with the game too now, I found it to be an average to above average (depending on where you were and what you were doing) game, a 7, maybe a 7.5 title. It just didnt create enough of a pull in me, even after a few dozen hours, to actually make me want to play. I never at any point sat at my PC and felt "oh I must play Starfield !!" , the upshot of that was that when I went two days without playing it , the urge to play it just wasnt there. I didnt miss playing and it was an easy game to walk away from because it was just average. Sort of like when theres a so-so tv show and it doesnt bother you if you miss an episode or two.
Mods will no doubt continue to improve it but by then it will naught but a memory for me and I'll have moved onto other things. At least it was on gamepass so didnt impact the wallet
