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MCFC_ANDY · 20 Sep 2023 at 14:42

keef247 said:
Have you tried the trick of giving your companion a hardcore weapon? They have infinite ammo even if they only have 1 bullet... Costs YOU less in ammo in the long run haha!

no i havent, but thx for the tip

Removed User 345456 · 20 Sep 2023 at 14:44

MCFC_ANDY said:
no i havent, but thx for the tip

You're very welcome mate!

FWIW if you missed my earlier post...
DEFINITELY check this out, wether you agree with his love for the game, just stick with the video he unlike literally ANYONE ELSE I've seen review it, REALLY HAS put the time in and has unearthed MANY things people aren't aware you can do in it/story options/paths/stealth/skills, you name it!

Thank me later!

CaptainRAVE · 20 Sep 2023 at 14:53

Tombstone said:
Would be interesting to know the platform break down of that, how many bought on Steam and how many playing via Gamepass. I'm guessing something like an 80/20 split for Gamepass

Very, plus how many more subs they’ve picked up. Still some big releases to come on there too in the next few months.

Ayahuasca · 20 Sep 2023 at 14:58

CaptainRAVE said:
Up to 10 million players now apparently. Impressive.

It's a Bethesda game that was massively hyped, it was always going to get the numbers.

Anyway I'm done with it now, opinion hasn't changed much since I last posted my thoughts on it. An average game with everything taken into account, would put it around a 6/10.

Tombstone · 20 Sep 2023 at 14:58

CaptainRAVE said:
Very, plus how many more subs they’ve picked up. Still some big releases to come on there too in the next few months.

Yeah some good stuff on Gamepass at the mo, Starfield, Lies of P, Payday 3, Lamplighters League, Cities 2. No brainer to have gamepass at the moment.

VaderDSL · 20 Sep 2023 at 15:02

I didn’t realise the backpack, at least the skip backpack works slightly different if you bind an alternate key to jump. For some reason using the alt keybind gives you more forward momentum and less vertical momentum.

I thought it was rubbish when I watched the video, but it does actually work for some reason.

Starfield - The secret Boost Pack feature you probably didn't know about

if you're playing Starfield on mouse & keyboard, you'll definitely love this little hidden mechanic: the alternative boostpack.Want to support me? Become a M...

youtu.be

Calin Banc · 20 Sep 2023 at 15:07

MCFC_ANDY said:
the rewards are screwy, taking a pretty much worthless item as courier pays lots more than taking on half the crimson fleet, or delivering a few drones paid more than taking on an entire land army that pretty much exhausted my entire ammo supply, i checked the entire base after killing the guy with bounty, hardly anything useful, the bounty didnt cover the cost of the ammo by a long shot

Can't say that I have issues with the ammo. Just collect what I can get and is enough. True, I don't go pew pew pew all the time. One pew is enough.

Removed User 345456 · 20 Sep 2023 at 15:09

Ayahuasca said:
It's a Bethesda game that was massively hyped, it was always going to get the numbers.

Anyway I'm done with it now, opinion hasn't changed much since I last posted my thoughts on it. An average game with everything taken into account, would put it around a 6/10.

I know you love the banter, but jokes aside wether you dislike matey's opinion in the link I posted above, it might give you some other stuff to do you weren't aware of?

Removed User 345456 · 20 Sep 2023 at 15:10

Calin Banc said:
Can't say that I have issues with the ammo. Just collect what I can get and is enough. True, I don't go pew pew pew all the time. One pew is enough.

I find it's often pot luck wether a vendor has 'ships parts' though, it is annoying going to multiple planets/then doing the 48 hour wait trick to restock IF it's there at all :rolleyes:

Aegis · 20 Sep 2023 at 15:13

keef247 said:
IS it important to have 3 weapons on your ship? Or do you get to a point where 2 powerful ones justifies having a ship without 3 weapons? Or can you buy a 2 weapon ship and add a 3rd? I've yet to bother to test this out/reload a save haha

Entirely up to you - I only have one (3x Particle Turrets) - does equal damage to Shield and Hull and with some skill points, absolutely shreds.

Ayahuasca · 20 Sep 2023 at 15:14

keef247 said:
I know you love the banter, but jokes aside wether you dislike matey's opinion in the link I posted above, it might give you some other stuff to do you weren't aware of?

I'm not looking for anything else to do in Starfield at the moment, I've played enough to have a good feel for the game. It would have to be something really revolutionary to change my opinion of it.

Removed User 345456 · 20 Sep 2023 at 15:15

Aegis said:
Entirely up to you - I only have one (3x Particle Turrets) - does equal damage to Shield and Hull and with some skill points, absolutely shreds.

Sooooo can I buy a 2 weapon ship that has the blank slot for the 3rd weapon, then add it to it via upgrades? Or if it's X weapons it's X weapons for life?

Aegis · 20 Sep 2023 at 15:15

keef247 said:
I find it's often pot luck wether a vendor has 'ships parts' though, it is annoying going to multiple planets/then doing the 48 hour wait trick to restock IF it's there at all

Make sure you grab the salvage after a space battle - got 60+ ship parts in the cargo hold and I got 'em all for free - gonna have to start selling them soon.

Aegis · 20 Sep 2023 at 15:16

keef247 said:
Sooooo can I buy a 2 weapon ship that has the blank slot for the 3rd weapon, then add it to it via upgrades? Or if it's X weapons it's X weapons for life?

Any ship has as many (or as few) weapons as you care to equip it with (up to three distinct groups and power levels permitting of course).

Removed User 345456 · 20 Sep 2023 at 15:16

Ayahuasca said:
I'm not looking for anything else to do in Starfield at the moment, I've played enough to have a good feel for the game. It would have to be something really revolutionary to change my opinion of it.

Genuinely, did you look at that vid, I know he bums it hard, but there is so very good info in there to enlighten quests most people wouldn't of even realized go 'that deep' or were a thing, along with highlighting things like the stealth meter/takedowns thing, I hadn't even heard of this nor seen anyone else mention it for example?

Removed User 345456 · 20 Sep 2023 at 15:17

Aegis said:
Make sure you grab the salvage after a space battle - got 60+ ship parts in the cargo hold and I got 'em all for free - gonna have to start selling them soon.

My ship seems to just explode very easily haha, I'm being very careful and going the long way round to avoid battles at the moment, but I did gloss over the option to get the free 2 ships early on so might do that, I've just been kaining the main story and collecting all the temples tbh haha! But I'm very keen to look into the side stuff, just genuinely liked the flow of the story tbh.

Ayahuasca · 20 Sep 2023 at 15:18

keef247 said:
Genuinely, did you look at that vid, I know he bums it hard, but there is so very good info in there to enlighten quests most people wouldn't of even realized go 'that deep' or were a thing, along with highlighting things like the stealth meter/takedowns thing, I hadn't even heard of this nor seen anyone else mention it for example?

Doesn't sound like anything that would make the game much better. Stealthing around dead AI that is easy to take out anyway and doing even more, go here, load screen, speak to this person quests?

Aegis · 20 Sep 2023 at 15:20

keef247 said:
My ship seems to just explode very easily haha, I'm being very careful and going the long way round to avoid battles at the moment, but I did gloss over the option to get the free 2 ships early on so might do that, I've just been kaining the main story and collecting all the temples tbh haha! But I'm very keen to look into the side stuff, just genuinely liked the flow of the story tbh.

I found I had to up my damage pretty quickly and pretty hard to avoid getting wiped out - my shield is around 990-ish I think at lvl 40 but I rely more on mauling the enemy fast enough to not get into trouble than tanking their damage.

Removed User 345456 · 20 Sep 2023 at 15:20

Ayahuasca said:
Doesn't sound like anything that would make the game much better. Stealthing around dead AI that is easy to take out anyway and doing even more, go here, load screen, speak to this person quests?

Yeah fair enough I get that, just didn't know it even had that option to play it that way, myself?

Did you watch it all the way through? Was more the variety of quests/who you can work for/what it ends up like, that I meant, i.e. like they're own independent main stories/like a main plot in themselves? The one that goes on about talking your way into conning some company etc for greed and to rip off a product or whatever was quite intriguing for example?

Ayahuasca · 20 Sep 2023 at 15:21

keef247 said:
Did you watch it all the way through? Was more the variety of quests/who you can work for/what it ends up like, that I meant, i.e. like they're own independent main stories/like a main plot in themselves? The one that goes on about talking your way into conning some company etc for greed and to rip off a product or whatever was quite intriguing for example?

Yeah, doesn't sound all that intriguing to me and certainly wouldn't change the game fundamentally. It's nice there's some extra stuff for people to explore but overall it's just an average experience (imho).

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