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[adamsapple]

Is anyone playing the game with film grain enabled (to the max?)

I've legit wondered if there is any actual benefit to having it on, other than imitating a retro movie film effect.

I can see a case where the grain can hide aliasing but this game has very good IQ already (minus the take-off VRS puddle in Atlantis). There seems to be no legitimate reason to have it enabled in this game, to me at least.

A friend of mine who never owned a console before and never played an open world game bought this today and an Xbox. I'm curious to see what he thinks of it and if it's like my first experience playing Morrowind or Oblivion.

To a layman, this is probably gonna be a huge epic experience, especially if they don't have any previous experiences with Skyrim and the like.

 

[DownLikeBCPowder]

Check this out.

This is cool and makes me think they could have done this - but my immediate question is where did he start? Was he at Io and flew to Jupiter, then flew back? In other words, could he have flown to Jupiter and landed on Jupiter or was he still locked into only landing on Io because that's where he started? But if it was that simple, I feel like they would have done it.

 

[DownLikeBCPowder]

Its great! That seems to be what Bethesda RPGs have always been about, I just had no idea..

Indeed, some of them are some of the best games around/ever made IMO. Not perfect in every way, but perfect for me in what they do.

If you can deal with the lack of some QOL features in Morrowind, you have one of the best games ever made ahead of you. Just replayed it in the past year, still so excellent. I play it pretty much vanilla, but use something called "OpenMW" to upres/scale UI and basic visual features, but of course there are a million mods.

 

[Gambit2483]

I draw up designs on paper/tablet freehand when I’m figuring things out, then move into CAD software as necessary for the final specs.

 

[Darchaos]

70 hours into the game, all other games has stoped to exist. For fuck sake, i have even dreamt that i was playing when i was asleep......fuck you Bethesda and youre fucking game for doing this to me!

That uc quest, yes, just yes. Well, time to sleep, play in the dreams, wake up go to work and then home and put on some coffe and play for real again.

 

[FoxMcChief]

I’m gonna watch this tonight while I survey a few planets that are tied to some activities.

 

[LaughingStock]

I’m still super duper early, despite spending 103 hours in Starfield.

Is there a point where I can kick everyone out of my ship and I can do some fucked up piracy without having my companions judge me.

I’d like to murder 1000’s of people for their ships and money, behind all their backs.

You can unassign them from your ship. While landed go to the ship menu, crew. But as far as I know they provide bonuses to your ship. Your ship won't be as effective if you're solo.

 

[ebevan91]

Is there a mod out there to keep my companion from changing into their casual outfit so much? I'm on an abandoned ship right now and it keeps going into zero gravity and Sam keeps changing in and out of his space suit every time it happens and it's incredibly immersion breaking.

 

[Rex_DX]

Been working crazy hours since launch. Have Starfield preloaded.

I have the next three days off and was going to binge it.

Turned on my PC to finally start playing and loud "pop."

PC won't start now. Fml.

 

[twilo99]

Been working crazy hours since launch. Have Starfield preloaded.

I have the next three days off and was going to binge it.

Turned on my PC to finally start playing and loud "pop."

PC won't start now. Fml.

Power supply first … that would be an easy fix

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

Turned on my PC to finally start playing and loud "pop."

PC won't start now. Fml.

sounds like PSU committed sudoku

 

[twilo99]

 

[Rex_DX]

sounds like PSU committed sudoku

Yep. Hoping it's that easy. Grabbing my power supply tester back from my friends house tomorrow.

I don't see any blown capacitors on the mobo but sometimes they blow and you can't tell.

Hoping to hell it wasn't the 3090. Anyway we have a thread for pc stuff so I wont derail with tech stuff here.

Just what fucking timing man. Enjoy the game for me.

Also thanks to twilo99 for the response.

 

[Pedro Motta]

I'm done with the game, definitely not for me.

Got tired of going through menus just to change a weapon in a middle of a fight. AI is a fucking disgrace, no challenge at all. UI and the traversal system are by-product of a very sad game designer that had no love in his life. LOADINGS LOADING LOADINGS.

The shooting is awful. No impact at all, controls like shit on XSX.

Surround sound is all borked up, characters in front of me and sound comes out the rear channels, or rear channels are super lowd and central channel is so low we can't barely hear the NPCs.

Landing on a planet always to have the same 4/5 markers at the same distances everytime, repeated caves and factories.

At one point I thought, what the fuck am I doing with my life playing this.

 

[twilo99]

sounds like PSU committed sudoku

Seppuku?

 

[DownLikeBCPowder]

I'm done with the game, definitely not for me.

Got tired of going through menus just to change a weapon in a middle of a fight.

Are you not using the hotkey setup? Or is it hard to use on console? I have 11 weapons hotkeyed on PC and swap often.

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

Got tired of going through menus just to change a weapon in a middle of a fight.

Uhh, you know you can favourite weapons right? you can equip 12 things to the d-pad...

Seppuku?

yes

 

[Chuck Berry]

 

[Rex_DX]

Seppuku?

I also thought this but didn't want to say anything.

 

[Punished Miku]

Some great pics.

 

[adamsapple]

Bethesda moment # 89.

 

[Chuck Berry]

Some great pics.

Thanks man

 

[Gambit2483]

 

[adamsapple]

Is that the Fortress of Solitude ?

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

Bethesda moment # 89.

 

[Chuck Berry]

Is that the Fortress of Solitude ?

Nope just some random good ol Life shit to scan

 

[Punished Miku]

Reminder to not just go off the damage number when picking a gun. Just picked one I was ignoring that was like half damage. Turns out the fire rate is like x4.

 

[Chuck Berry]

Reminder to not just go off the damage number when picking a gun. Just picked one I was ignoring that was like half damage. Turns out the fire rate is like x4.

Yeah even random greys off higher levels yield some pretty good stuff. Pay attention if you’re still using some legendary equivalent you got 20 hours ago.

 

[adamsapple]

Reminder to not just go off the damage number when picking a gun. Just picked one I was ignoring that was like half damage. Turns out the fire rate is like x4.

Honestly, I'm speccing the semi-auto with short scope way, headshots galore.

 

[FoxMcChief]

Why do I always try to make third person work, only to revert back to first?

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

Yeah even random greys off higher levels yield some pretty good stuff. Pay attention if you’re still using some legendary equivalent you got 20 hours ago.

Yeah gear is essentially how you level up in the game, using old gear means you aren't really leveling up aside from adding points to skills.

 

[Gambit2483]

Why do I always try to make third person work, only to revert back to first?

3rd person is only good for "outside" in Starfield...you know this, we know this..

 

[Punished Miku]

3rd person is only good for "outside" in Starfield...you know this, we know this..

If I had only 1st or 3rd I'd be so much less comfortable. Each one excels at different times.

 

[adamsapple]

Why do I always try to make third person work, only to revert back to first?

Third person is ok for planet exploring, but for combat first person all the way

 

[adamsapple]

Just some odds and ends.


- Dark Brotherhood hand print found amongst assorted funny post-it notes on my ship.

- This fuckin' ship is just a slab of meat

- Is it just me or does this NPC look like Emilia Clarke ?

- I love my Normandy SR-3, from certain angles it looks like a giant dick with two huge balls at the back.

- Andreja's final commitment mission has some really scenic views.

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

I'm done with the game, definitely not for me.

Got tired of going through menus just to change a weapon in a middle of a fight. AI is a fucking disgrace, no challenge at all. UI and the traversal system are by-product of a very sad game designer that had no love in his life. LOADINGS LOADING LOADINGS.

The shooting is awful. No impact at all, controls like shit on XSX.

Surround sound is all borked up, characters in front of me and sound comes out the rear channels, or rear channels are super lowd and central channel is so low we can't barely hear the NPCs.

Landing on a planet always to have the same 4/5 markers at the same distances everytime, repeated caves and factories.

At one point I thought, what the fuck am I doing with my life playing this.

Yeah I get all that mate, despite all that I'm enjoying the game still.

No one at Bethesda is getting a job at Apple any time soon. The UX is fucking terrible, laughably so. The game itself flies in the face of that and is awesome.

If only they could drop Respawn into the FPS and menu systems. Even simple things like switching between scanner mode and opening doors is a stupid annoying thing to even have to do once, let alone dozens of times in one section.

 

[Topher]

A few updates to the War Eagle....

Still a work in progress......but man is this fun...

 

[Punished Miku]

Master level locks are pretty brutal sometimes.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Bethesda moment # 89.

I actually found a glitch similar this, wish I had thought to save it but I was just looking into the sky and I think it locked onto a ship or something but an inventory came up and I was able to take several items from the sky.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Master level locks are pretty brutal sometimes.

They physically hurt my brain. I have to stare at it and swear a few times.

 

[EviLore]

Master locks ("They're called WHAT? In 2330? How dare you" -Sarah) are fun I think, one of the better designed systems.

 

[Dirk Benedict]

Master locks ("They're called WHAT? In 2330? How dare you" -Sarah) are fun I think, one of the better designed systems.

Better than the simplistic lockpicking of Fallout. Rotate, flick, rotate, flick, Eureka! BORinggg.

 

[Antwix]

I thought lockpicking was boring and tedious at first but once I started doing the expert/master ones, I started to actually enjoy them a lot. I've gotten pretty good at them.

 

[Dirk Benedict]

I thought lockpicking was boring and tedious at first but once I started doing the expert/master ones, I started to actually enjoy them a lot. I've gotten pretty good at them.

Yeah. I had a love-hate relationship with those locks, but, now.. it's like a fun little mini game in between all the Space traversing.

 

[LaughingStock]

Oh well, everyone is mad at me because i joined the pirates. Boo fucking hoo. I hate how bethesda does these kinds of moral choices. There's no nuance.

Is there a mod out there to keep my companion from changing into their casual outfit so much? I'm on an abandoned ship right now and it keeps going into zero gravity and Sam keeps changing in and out of his space suit every time it happens and it's incredibly immersion breaking.

There's this one. But it didn't work for me.

 

[Punished Miku]

Master locks ("They're called WHAT? In 2330? How dare you" -Sarah) are fun I think, one of the better designed systems.

For sure. Its a big improvement. I'm nearing max rank in security. A few I've had to start over on once or twice.

 

[reinking]

Okay, so I found a random event that was kind of cool. I was just messing around on a random planet and came across an abandoned outpost. I heard someone yelling for help. When I found where the voice was coming from, I got ambushed by pirates.

I understand why this game is so divisive. It can be very boring at times, then there are those other times where it just nails it.

 

[Buggy Loop]

Check this out.

OMG those dumbasses at Bethesda. The systems are there for it, why didn't they allow this from the get go? Almost all complaints would evaporate.

Mods will make it reality but wow, that's an incredible feature to hide under the carpet.

 

[FoxMcChief]

Master locks ("They're called WHAT? In 2330? How dare you" -Sarah) are fun I think, one of the better designed systems.

Yeah, they’re fun little puzzles.

 

[Revolutionary]

Bethesda moment # 89.

Least buggiest Bethesda game btw


On that note, I'm convinced that Stealth is bugged in this game. I've maxed out all possible Stealth-related skills and it's still complete dogshit.