Seriously this is a lot of fun. It is absolutely a Bethesda game through and through. Not sure what people were expecting. I’m glad it’s not like No Man’s Sky because that game bored the shit out of me almost immediately.
Thoughts?
I’m having a blast as well. I’m getting sidetracked by all the random side missions and activities that I’m 16 hours in and still haven’t really completed the first main storyline mission. I had to figure things out that would have been taught to me during that mission apparently.
My only issue is resources and modding. Carrying all that crap around on the off chance I need it is killing my carry capacity.
Otherwise I’m just blasting through space and enjoying the dialog and pickpocketing/stealing everything I see. Good times.
For the first time ever in a Bethesda RPG I’ve decided I won’t go stealth and I won’t pick up every crappy item to be permanently overloaded. FREEDOM! Only 3 hours in but it feels great.
Wait so you AREN’T picking up every styrofoam coffee cup you find?
Same here. I spent four hours exploring the moon Kreen and haven’t even fought the crimson fleet mission. It’s amazing how sidetracked you can get.
Yeah, its weird
Like you can start gathering and collecting resources from the very beginning of the game, but 30 hours in and i still cant use any significant amount of it?
I mean, once I got past the whole “Here, take my starship and utility bot. It’s cool. I’ll just stay here with these miners who’re now hunted by a notoriously bloodthirsty merc group. Have fun!”… Sure. 🤦🏼♂️
That sorry excuse for writing is how you begin your groundbreaking game, Bethesda? Truly? 🙄
Eh, I really didn’t think about it too much, but not to spoil anything, but that decision does come back up later with consequences so it makes sense.
But also, when has Bethesda had great writing? This has def been the biggest gripe with them for a long time now, and it’s def not the strongest point of the game lmao
Yes, but I’m glad my expectations were lowered before I played it since it was hyped up to be more than just another open world Bethesda game. It’s fun for what it is and I really appreciate that being encumbered doesn’t reduce your run speed, it just makes your stamina (oxygen) lower as if you were sprinting. I’ve been able to realize my dream of looting absolutely every piece of garbage (that isn’t marked as stealing) and selling it when I get back to a city, whereas in previous Bethesda games I had to actually be selective in what I took.
It’s a great feature. Works incredibly well on low g planets when you’re far from your ship.
I’ve stopped hoarding resources though, it has got out of hand. Haven’t figured out where to store it all off ship. All the outpost storage at my current level seems pretty low.
I bought the Econohaul ship at New Atlantis ASAP to keep all my junk I may never even use. At over 2900 I’ve only managed to fill it about halfway so far.
That’s a good idea. I do need to hoard more crap!
This might be a bug….but you can use Econohaul to add stuff to storage, then switch to another ship and it all just stays in storage. You can’t ADD anything until you switch back. But there doesn’t seem to be any downside otherwise!
I wondered what would happen if you did that since most can’t hold as much. So the new ship just gets “overfilled”, as it were, but still works? Great tip! Seems worth having a ship with the highest cargo capacity as well as one with the best stats in all other areas, then.
The Lodge Basement has an Infinite Mass Storage Unit.
Thanks!
Absolutely loving it. Constantly getting sidetracked, missions, helping folk, I’ve even been enjoying surveying planets. Although I will definitely need the skills to make that quicker an easier.
No Man’s Sky was the biggest disappointment I’ve ever experienced as a gamer. Mining to build something to refine something you mined to make a part you need to mine something to fuel. So boring.
I really like the current state of nms, they’ve added a ton of content and patches since launch 7 years ago, but it’s not for everyone since there isn’t any one direction or goal. There is a central storyline, and every few months there’s an expedition which is like side mini-storylines to introduce new content and get cosmetics, but besides that you’re pretty much left to explore the galaxies as you please
I’m about 2 hours in and it’s ok. I’m not loving the combat or the constant use of the menus. Obvious I’ll give it more time yet.
Yeah it’s disappointing you need to fast travel to get everywhere, even to the other parts of the planet. It’s a little better using the scanner to fast travel instead of the map but it still feels lame. I’m still having a ton of fun though, about 20 hours in now.
I’m hoping I’ll get used to using the menus all the time. As for the combat the space combat is kind of awesome but the enemies are so spongy even with headshots.
I totally agree about the bullet spongyness. I was planning on doing my first playthrough vanilla but I might have to make an exception and use a mod for this.
The enemies being spongy is kind of expected, and even a good thing, in a game like this, I think. For your weapon upgrades and damage perks to feel impactful, you can’t be killing enemies too quickly at the start. And it also incentivises you to find ways to avoid combat if you’re not planning on building into weapon/damage upgrades. I get that it can feel immersion-breaking for some people (though not for me, thankfully), but I think it’s pretty important on a mechanical level in RPGs.
The game’s menus are nowhere near good enough for how much we are forced to use them. Theyre really disruptive and clunky to the normal flow of the game. In context, interfaces have been a weak point for BGS, I was hoping they would have gotten it right this time.
Like, overall, the gameplay is fun to me but I dread when it switches to ‘Fallout 4 UI Simulator’.
I’m having too much choice paralysis. 😵💫
I will spend hours just wandering aimlessly looking for things to do end up with 20 missions and not want to do any of them because along the way I learn something new that’s possible and seek to check that out. I’ve just been bouncing around 3 or 4 star systems going between Mars, New Atlantis, Neon and Akila and feel like I’ve barely scraped the surface.
It’s fun to notice the tropes, though. Its like they just took everything from sci-fi they thought was cool and shoved it into one game. You’ve got the Star Trek planet, the Cyberpunk planet, the Firefly planet, a faction that’s basically Starship Troopers, the NCR Rangers from Fallout (everyone thought they were so cool), evil corporations filled with snappy dressers… I’m sure there’s gotta be a derelict ship or station that has a terramorph infestation that is going to be basically Alien/Aliens (and I can’t wait to find it). As a huge sci-fi fan, I appreciate the hell outta this game for the nerdgasm it gives me.
I love No Mans Sky, and still play it regularly today.
I am also really enjoying Starfield - I am glad they are different games as I wouldn’t want what would amount to playing the same game, slightly differently skinned.
Overall, really enjoying it. I have seen complaints that basically amount to “its another bethesda experience” which isn’t necessarily wrong, but I do enjoy their games in general.
I am approximately 15 hours into the game
I wish I could get into NMS. Yeah the seamless planet to space transition is cool, but I found the game pointless. I haven’t played in awhile maybe it’s better now.
There have been a lot of updates over the years to add content, all free
I just wish they would put out an update to the core gameplay loop. There’s all these interesting things to do but I can’t get to that point because collecting resources seems never ending and its incredibly boring. The gunplay is absolutely atrocious as well.
Yeah I always find that comment weird. I love Bethesda games so it’s not terrible that they still follow the same format and in this case the polish was nicer than normal.
It’s like saying hey look at this new Tarantino or Wes Anderson movie coming out, ugh I am so tired of them doing the same thing every movie.
I’m 17 hours in so far and really enjoying the game. For a short moment at the beginning I was a bit annoyed because I couldn’t find the last resource to scan on a planet to get 100%. But the next day I said screw that and continued the main quest and I’m having a blast since then. The game is exactly how I imagined it. The only thing I wished was that they would used small cutscenes more to hide loading screens.
I can’t find the last resource on the Moon. Guess I need better scan equipment or something.
There may be a cave or something where it generates, if it’s a rare material.
Thank you
Try looking in caves. Sometimes the necessary resource is only found in a cave. Or at least that’s what it seems like.
This is me on Neon’s planet. Apparently there is fauna to scan?? I just found the sea creatures and started scanning them.
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I’m nearly 50 hours in already (and haven’t played at all today, yet 😎) and having so much fun with the game, barely even touched the main story because I’m so fixated on rebuilding my ship constantly
I opened the ship edit screen and just backed out haha, Im not ready!! although I did end up going back in to make the starter ship all black. Also do you know if you hijack and steal another ship does it just sort of stay in inventory? or can you like assign crew to live in it or something
You need to dock with the ship and pilot it somewhere that lets you modify your ships. Then just go into “view and modify ships” to change your home ship if you want to use something else.
I’m like 30+ hours in and it’s all I’m thinking about at work rn. That doesn’t always happen, few games hook me like that. Halo 2/3 from MS/HS, probably Skyrim to an extent, ESO (forever and always apparently, cause I’m still playing that amongst Starfield), and now this. And it’s all aspects. I want to build my ship, I want to do my outposts and crafting, I want to explore planets to find needed resources, gear, and weapons, I want to finish the main story, and the side quests (and I’m actually agonizing over which side I want to go with). Menus are weird, but it barely detracts. If anything it helps me get where I need to go quickly, the travel to objective feature is awesome for someone like me who couldn’t find New Atlantis at one point because I forgot which system it was in.
I’m debating bringing my Xbox with me to a friend’s house for a weekend trip so we can play there.
I’m definitely bringing it, who am I kidding?
Im having a lot of fun, running around the planets trying to find new locations, I want to start building bases because I have so many followers I cant assign to stuff
Also has anyone else been having a flickering screen issue on PC? I turned off film grain but that didn’t seem to help.
Edit: figured it out. Turning off FreeSync fixed the issue. Not sure why it was causing an issue but whatever.
Like the whole screen going black type of flickering?
No it’s like there is a strobe light on. Constant flashing. I can’t figure it out.
I’m loving the game for it being finally a Bethesda game in a setting I actually enjoy.
And, No Man’s Sky tickles a completely different itch for me.
Agreed. Most fun I’ve had in a long time. And I own like 400 games lol
Question to those who may know: I swapped my crew habitat for one of the 3x1 habitats last night, and noticed afterwards that the new habitat did not have a research station. I tried switching it to the engineering version of the hab, but no luck. Anyone know how I can get it back?
I had this all down pat yesterday because I looked up a guide just on what all the pieces look like on the inside and what extra shit they have that the game doesn’t tell you on the build screen, and now I can’t remember which one it said had all of the things in it… 😩
One of the 2x1 hab modules has basically everything in it, while the rest have nothing, and it’s not available to buy at every port.
There’s one that’s literally called “all in one” IIRC.
Yeah; but that’s not the one that has everything. 😮💨 It has a nav table, a bed and some crew seats. The “workshop” hab has the weapon, suit and fabrication table, while the “science” has the pharma lab, research lab and a galley. With those two, you should have everything as far as extras go that do anything super useful.
I’ll have to try some other ports out! I’m still pretty early in the game, just thought I had missed something somewhere lol. I’ll add glad hab back onto my ship!
Try going to different shipyards as each have different habs to choose from, this also includes different planet cities’ landing zones where you can talk to a technician.
There are habs, for example on Mars’ moon Demios’ shipyard, that are specifically for research.
Awesome! I was wondering what I was missing. So you buy your different stations and whatnot at vendors, and that’s not in the build screen, right? I assume there’s some kind of fabricator that I can also buy and add to my ship, but they don’t really do a great job of explaining any of that haha.
Sort of. So like when you land at New Atlantis, there is a terminal to your right when you are walking away from your ship and into the city. There is usually a guy standing here with a hard hat and a vest on. He’s a ship technician or something like that title. If you speak to him, you can select the option to view/edit your ship and in that menu, you can make edits to your ship and that’s where you will find the different fabs to choose from.
When you are on the habs, do take note that on some of them, you can cycle to the left and right to access more options. So like a 1x3 hab has the option for an All in One access, the next is a Research hab, the next is a science hab, the next is armory, and so on and so forth.
Each city will have a technician like this you can speak to and make these changes. But you can also go to shipyards like the one on Mars’ moon Deimos where a space station is in orbit and talk to the guy to either buy new ships or make changes to your ship just like the technician from earlier.
Keep in mind that every city and space station shipyard have different options to choose from. So you may like the habs from Deimos but you like the landing gear selection in Neon.
