Starfield’s Planets Are Covered In Thousands Of Dead Creatures

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• ono@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Highlights:

  • Starfield’s open world is made of procedural copypasta.
  • Prey species can’t or won’t escape predators.
  • Predators effortlessly wipe out their own food supply, yet somehow haven’t gone extinct.

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  • keeb420@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I watched some predators kill their prey and then just left it. Didn't even have an animation to eat it.

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    • SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Right? Just update the behavior to stop and eat after killing one. Have the herd run away.

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    • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      25 years in the making!

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  • quams69@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Describes the ai present in every sandbox or open world game ever

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There are random YouTubers who have designed more sophisticated ecologies with functional feedback loops.

      The problem is though is that random chance will eventually result in some species going extinct, so either you have to spawn new ones in to replace them, and so have a check for loss of population, or just allow that to happen. The current implementation though is entry level first year student developer sophisticated.

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    • ours@lemmy.film ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      STALKER had a very neat AI ecosystem. Everything (including humans) is quite aggressive so they all keep each other in check without overpowering the other. Even the weather was aggressive.

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    • LucidNightmare@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Red Dead Redemption 2 would like a word with you…

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  • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I watched a massive alien war happen. Roughly 3 bigger animals attack a horde of 12 critters. Then, another 3 vs 12 battle happened nearby, followed by ANOTHER 3 VS 12.

    This kept happening for at least 10 minutes as everywhere I went, there was animals fighting and a trail of bodies being left.

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    • iforgotmyinstance@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s pretty dope. I hope at some point there’s ground vehicles to speed up ground exploration (since we can’t actually fly the ships…)

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• Chickenstalker@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  > buying a game from Belial, Lord of Lies (Todd)

  > complaining it is half baked

  Truly a sucker is born every minute. Buy it with the knowledge it will be ok in 5 years or so due to mods. Or pirate it.

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  • CluckN@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You don’t understand, they programmed planet orbits in real time. Truly a gem!

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  • altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I wanna see Todd Howard and Peter Molyneux get together to make a game

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    • Chailles@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think people really overstate Todd Howard lying to compare it Peter Molyneux’s shit. Like we’re looking at Molyneux who said you could plant a tree and have it grow in real time or whatever. The same Molyneux who promised a “life-changing” award for winning a P2W clicker game (the award was royalties and early access to Godus, a game which they abandoned for what was essentially Godus: Subtitle, which was promptly abandoned soon after). And now his most recent game being something that involves “blockchain technology” where you can make money in real life by making money in game.

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• brihuang95@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  well for me i’m mostly just seeing barren lands that ain’t worth exploring

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  • Endorkend@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Or undiscovered temples surrounded by alien looking monoliths, surrounded by science and industrial complexes.

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• Grass@geddit.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I would have had no complaints about this game if it was released a decade ago. Two decades ago even then I would have significantly more time to waste on it and be more forgiving, on top of it being legitimately state of the art.

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  • ech@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You’d be more forgiving of a game decades ahead of anything released at the time? Yeah, no shit. Y’all really need to chill on the ridiculous hyperbole. Starfield has a lot of problems, but it’s unmistakably a modern game.

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    • steakmeout@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It is not a modern game in any way. It’s just Fallout 4 in space, which was Skyrim with retro futurism.

      It’s once again a giant shallow pond.

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    • BruceTwarzen@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Even a decade ago i would laugh out loud every time i saw these dead ass expressionless npc's and their clunky ai. Gta 5 released 10 years ago. But a small indie developer like Bethesda can't be bothered to make their games better

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  • Noscharhar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If this game was released 1,400 years ago, I’d have no complaints also.

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• finthechat@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Do you guys not have phones $2000 to upgrade your PC?

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• Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Make us whole

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• dan1101@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah they need to dial the predator/prey action down a bit. But it hasn’t been that weird IME. I mean you’re on an alien world with alien flora and fauna, that’s the remarkable part not that there are a lot of creatures fighting.

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• NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Gotta find something to complain about don’t we? If it isn’t hyper realistic, and has zero bugs, super interesting, and smart AI, must be trash…

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well yeah. It isn’t an indy title so you would expect them to do something.

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• Epicurus0319@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Of course it’s a flop, it’s Bethesda. Not particularly known for their quality control

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