General video game discussion

[Tea Cozy]

Is there much to recommend from Starfield? I've not really heard much positive about it, even from fans of other works from the Todd factory

I played a heavily-modded version of it I enjoyed.

One of the mods let me travel between planets in a star system, and put the ship on autopilot. One of the new official updates will introduce similar features, with the added bonus of allowing your ship to be intercepted while on autopilot. Today’s deep dive showed a PC running to the pilot seat with a klaxon blaring in the background. I’m excited for that.

Other mods I installed improved the vanilla POI system which is a part of the game I think is rightly criticized. This new update will improve that too.

The ease of modding the game is a plus, IMO. Xbox and PC users can mod. Probably PS5 too in April. Don’t think PS5 users can. And not all the Creations are paid. Many are free.

As for the writing, it can get silly like in Elder Scrolls, but has interesting parts…like Elder Scrolls.

 

[Gradine]

I played a heavily-modded version of it I enjoyed.

One of the mods let me travel between planets in a star system, and put the ship on autopilot. One of the new official updates will introduce similar features, with the added bonus of allowing your ship to be intercepted while on autopilot. Today’s deep dive showed a PC running to the pilot seat with a klaxon blaring in the background. I’m excited for that.

Other mods I installed improved the vanilla POI system which is a part of the game I think is rightly criticized. This new update will improve that too.

The ease of modding the game is a plus, IMO. Xbox and PC users can mod. Don’t think PS5 users can. And not all the Creations are paid. Many are free.

As for the writing, it can get silly like in Elder Scrolls, but has interesting parts…like Elder Scrolls.

Skyrim and Fallout 4 have Creation Club access on PS5; one would hope they would bring that over for Starfield when they port it formally to the system. In any case PS5 is the only way I'm going to ultimately be able to play it if I do.

I do feel like playing any Bethesda game anywhere close to launch is a bit of a trap, though. Enhanced/Complete editions have always added a lot of great features that I now consider essential to those games.

 

[Tea Cozy]

Skyrim and Fallout 4 have Creation Club access on PS5; one would hope they would bring that over for Starfield when they port it formally to the system.

Thanks for the info. I corrected my post.

I hope PS5 users can get Watchtower. It adds the ability to manage a fleet of ships. There’s a DLC-sized story too.

 

[trappedslider]

i'll note that sony has limits on creations for fallout and skyrim,i don't know if that same policy will extend to starfield

 

[Gradine]

Yeah I know paid Creations aren't allowed on the PS5 Creation Club, only free