Starfield's new PC patch delivers the game we should have had at launch - Eurogamer

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• BloodSlut@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Hell of an article title for an update that pretty much just adds DLSS support and the ability to eat food from the environment.

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• bungle_in_the_jungle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Sigh. All these publishers are doing by rushing games out the door is training future buyers to not want to buy games on release.

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  • phillaholic@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sales figures keep going up so why would they wait?

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    • Caradoc879@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Exactly. It was on games pass and it was still the most profitable release Bethesda has ever had. Why put in real effort when you don’t have to?

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• ObviouslyASquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  DLSS doesn’t fix a broken game loop

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  • Bernie_Sandals@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How is the game loop broken?

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    • ObviouslyASquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Did you try to play stealth my guy. And how much fucking work do I have to put in, how much useless crafting do I have to do so I can just put a silencer on my gun common man if this doesn’t mean broken what does.

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    • Epicmulch@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Everyone says everything is “broken” now. The game loop absolutely works so it’s not broken Yet it is flawed.

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• Phanatik@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I doubt a patch nor mod support will motivate me to play this game. This is the most empty Bethesda game they've released when they could've had something special if they had any ambition.

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• cobysev@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So does this mean the game is finally ready for me to buy? Just waiting on a Steam sale and I’ll finally get to play this. Bugs or not, I’m not paying $70 for a base video game.

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  • Stovetop@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’d say probably not. Unless the graphics were the only thing holding you back, this update does not appear to have done anything to improve the gameplay loop, menu system, or story content.

    Compared to previous Bethesda games, it actually ran rather well at launch even when missing the features added by this update. But I’d say there’s quite a lot more that needs to be done to call it a good game, with graphics/performance being the lowest priority on the list.

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  • simple@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So does this mean the game is finally ready for me to buy?

    Nope. Worth waiting for a few more fixes and proper mod support.

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    • Bernie_Sandals@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yep, as someone who beat it several times, I agree with this. Its a great game, but is unpolished at launch like any bethesda game, 5 years from now it will have memorable gamer cultural references and a consistent modding/playerbase.

      With the love of using the game engine to create entirely new games that bethesda fans have, I’m basically expecting a Star Wars/Star Trek total overhaul mod within the next decade.

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  • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Id wait till post expansion and creation kit imo.

    Reletively speaking starfield is already a lot less buggy then other Bethesda game studio titles. Its just matter of fixing parts of the game some users didnt like.

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• Modva@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Think I’ll keep waiting a bit more. Give great mods time to get in.

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• kaiomai@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  But Todd told me it was optimized!

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• c10l@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The game we should have had at launch is one where my >100h save wouldn’t make it crash on load.

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• FluffyPotato@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Did they finally release modding tools? Bethesda games without mods are such a slog and Starfield was worse than any previous one.

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• c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Menus the game?

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