To all SSC Station occupants
Thank you for the donations over the past year (2024), it is much appreciated. I am still trying to figure out how to migrate the forums to another community software (probably phpbb) but in the meantime I have updated the forum software to the latest version. SSC has been around a while so their is some very long time members here still using the site, thanks for making SSC home and sorry I haven't been as vocal as I should be in the forums I will try to improve my posting frequency.
Thank you again to all of the members that do take the time to donate a little, it helps keep this station functioning on the outer reaches of space.
-D1-
Lets try and put this thread back on topic, well nearly back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuM_1xSQCFw&t=11s&ab_channel=AdamSavage%E2%80%99sTested
In 6-12mos we should really start to see some decent modding and with all the planets, weapons, ships its a customization paradise I think this game will get huge and have a life span much longer than skyrim. I might also try my hand at the creation engine (or whatever it will be called for SF) and create a SSC Station somewhere in space for people to uncover 🙂 I know it comes out in a few weeks, but I will resist the urge to play until after I get my new PC... maybe by then we will see if Bethesda has the modtools ready for the public. I heard somewhere that they will actually have team members working on this toolset for some time, which would make sense since there seems to be speculation that their might be some sort of paid mods type of store .... as long as they don't limit free mods I don't care.
Lets try and put this thread back on topic...
Hmm...
The player joins a group called The Constellation, which he described as "NASA meets Indiana Jones".
Will probably be this time next year before I get to try the game as I need a new computer or an Xbox.
10 thing you probably don't need to know about the game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wusQbTl7mfw&ab_channel=gameranx
Performance review of the game and an interesting comment regarding the open world nature of the game, in that it is not as open world as they claimed.
That is correct about the 'open world' aspect.... yeah its close. And I am on the fence on my feelings about this... its like NMS, you can explore every planet on foot but why would you? So much quicker in a ship and even still it takes a long time to traverse a planet in NMS. So in Starfield, even though they are getting some crap about this I think they were trying to save us the pain of finding nothing 😉 And keeping the 'nice to see' spots as landing zones or discoverable areas.
I haven't played the game yet, but I have watched a lot of videos on the game. And I do think modding will help with this and modders actually already fixed this imaginary wall on the maps to make it seamless. But I think once we get the mod tools in 2024 for the PC this game is going to blow up with content and enhancements.
More action and having space feel lived in would be nice.... and more things/interactions you can do with the crew so you get attached to them and maybe even include death for crew members (if its not there already). Starfield is going to be a game that is around a long time and cannot wait to finish my new pc so I can play this one.
Their are vehicles in NMS which can be driven around and which as I have said before is a bit of major oversight for Starfield as it's makes any travelling from a base camp of ship impossible to do.
I see the ship mods are starting to appear and has anyone done a Cobra Mk 3 yet which would give a proper Elite rather than the over rated ELITE Dangerous.
Stumbles back into SpaceSimCentral after years in cryo....
Hey all, long time no see. Hope you're all good 😀
I've been playing this for a week or so now, and definitely have mixed feelings. It's good to have a space game, of course. And there are space sim elements to it - there is some piloting, and space combat, and the feeling of the ship being a "home" and a real place. And there is some basic exploring too (in the sense of picking systems from a star map and going there). It's just missing a certain...something. The space elements just make me wish the space part of the game was Elite: Dangerous.
And the ground/quest elements are good, and some of them are funny/engaging/interesting. I got quite absorbed in the Neon city quests (maybe I should be playing Cyberpunk, hah)! But again - a certain something is just missing to me. The big inhabited cities (New Atlantis, Neon, Akila) feel a bit like being in a Disney theme park. And it really just feels a whole lot like Skyrim. Same generic dialogue, same way of engaging in conversation, same random items everywhere, same sound effects sometimes.
Having said all that, it's very polished, a lot of love has gone into it, and there are many cool elements. So think I'll keep going!
auryx
You look good through a crosshair.
Welcome back Auryx.
I will be waiting a little while to play this just because I think when Bethesda finally comes out with the modtools that the modders will make space more engaging and possibly the surface travel. Plus they will be coming out with an expansion so I am sure they might surprise us with some new functionality in there somewhere.
My son is playing Cyberpunk now and loves it, I was waiting to buy it so I can buy it and the expansion after all the reviews hit and it looks amazing. I think between these two games you can spend thousands of hours with them and the mod content so lets see what the future brings.
Hello Auryx, yes these long duration trip in cryo can be a bugger, I know myself. 😀
I look forward to playing the game when ever I get a computer or console that can play it.
Thanks guys! Good to see you again 😀
You look good through a crosshair.
The game seems to be getting a bit of a kicking in the Steam reviews for anyone who has payed it, is it not living upto the hype or is just fanboy frustration ?.
Completely missed this as I have not been paying any attention to the game but it look like it may be getting land vehicles as in one, something that should have been their right from the start, even more damming when you consider that Precursors had them back in 2009.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ObHRMHtTMY&ab_channel=BethesdaSoftworks
Look like some new DLC for the game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNM1HFzQC8c&ab_channel=BethesdaSoftworks
It looks pretty good I haven't played this at all yet was going to wait for the expansion to come out and a little more patches.... mods will get better now that tools will start to roll out, but I do kinda hate the fact their will be paid mods unless we are getting something of quality. Looks like Nexus will get a lot more users soon because of this creation club. But they have been adding to the game and fixing it that I have read in the patches over the past few months.
So I broke my own rule of not buying any triple A game as I have bought this with only a 40 percent discount, and so far I'm really enjoying it. Granted it a Bethesda soft game which seem to have their own quirks, but so far it's not done anything weird.
MSI Afterburner say it running at a consent 60 FPS and it looks really good, it was only when I checked the setting I realised it was all set to low, but what the hell, it looks greats and runs, so I'm going to leave on the low settings.
One thing I have noticed is that their lots of loading going on even with it running from a m.2 drive it still noticeable.
Years ago someone started a thread about what would be you ultimate space game, IIRC my answer was a combination of Frontier and Traveller and you know what, I think Starfield maybe getting close to that.
I haven't played Starfield yet even though I have that expensive version that included the DLC. I was waiting for patches etc.... but from a high level I think your right @Pinback it does give you that experience most of us gamers are looking for, and if they can weed out the bugs and work on immersion I think they will have a solid hit people will play for a long time. Its going to be tough for Bethesda to work themselves out of the hole the reviewers have put them in because the most are negative.
I think as long as they keep pushing patches and maybe give a FREE content update to the masses I think they can win back the user base and make sure that they work on the backend to allow modders to do what they do best and let them improve the game as well. They do have something here its just whether they are willing to go the Hello Games route and do what needs to be done to make a epic game.
The game dose seem to have got a lot of hate from players, but I wonder if it has more to do with the
clunky interface, endless loading screens and rather slow burn game play where you are not lead around the game world.
So far in my 12 hours of play I have only explored two systems but have enjoyed running around and seeing what can be done.
Space combat is a bit on the basic side but has been fun none the less, one thing of note about it, is that their is no radar
but rather a central hud with some arrows pointing off screen to targets with the current target has a blue dot above it.
The whole thing looks like it was made in unity, rather than coming from a game with a reported budget of over $300 million
Also something of note is that the game is missing a trading system, so no buying low selling high, although their are transporting goods missions
if you can figure out how to upgrade the ships cargo hold.
I found that buying the buggy is a must as it makes getting around the planet a lot easier, just don't try using it the city's.
Going to keep going and see if I can work out how the ship building/ upgrades work.
I have some vacation time coming at xmas, was hoping to spend this time playing a game a little.... was debating playing this or Star Citizen, I don't know about either them I thought about letting bake more before diving in. I have Rebel Galaxy Outlaw I need to finish 😉
But SF should be a great game if Bethesda sticks to their original plan of working on it for 5-10yrs in that time they can definitely iron out the quirks and improve mechanics in the game and truly make it an 'explorers' experience. That's why I been waiting to SF and SC for so long been waiting for them to get it to where I will truly spend hundreds of hours in.
If they create a new DLC or expansion I hope the bulk of it is really flushing out the immersion, like you mentioned.... why does this space game not have a trading system... I didn't know that but woah almost every space game has this in some fashion 🙂
Strange not having an trading goods system in the game, their are course plenty of trader you can sell your stolen items to or buy from but no economics. My guess would be that they did not want player making too much money in the early game.
Think I may have figured out the ship upgrading, seem you can do some basic upgrades but to do any more you need to invest skill points into the ship building perk. Also I found out from a youtube vid that said you should do the first Vanguard mission as it open up some more options in the ship builder.
Think I may be getting hang of the interface after about 20 hours of play. but the more I play the game, the more depth the game has, but it dose not tell you anything beyond the basic of playing the game and some times it feels like I'm playing a game from about 20 years ago.
Did the first Vanguard mission which is an Aliens take but did not get access to all the ship bits, so I guess I need to do something else.
A lot of the video I have watched seem to be out of date as some of them are talking about exploits which have now been patched out, also noticed my frame rate drop down to the low 40 in some of the more busy arears.
Wish their was a marker for which guns you are carrying when buying ammo as their is lot of different types of ammo.
Been over to the Freestar collective planets which has been based on the firefly TV series. ????
75 hours in and I'm loving the game, not by any means perfect as the space part feels like you flying between cubes but not bad.
Finally got to grip with the ship builder as well and it a pretty good system once you get used to it.
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