Starfield: Official REV-8 Trailer
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Starfield’s latest free update is here and is bringing a highly-requested feature: the REV-8 land vehicle! Now is your chance to explore new frontiers (and r...

But it’ll probably be better known as the Mako Mk.2 by anyone who played Mass Effect 1, because holy shit its the Mako.

  • SkyNTP@lemmy.mlEnglish
    103·
    3 months ago

    Wake me up when a game about exploration actually has exploration in it. Loading screens, fast travel, shallow space content, minimally consequential space ship building…

    Sure, in this game you “go places”, but you go places to be there, ignoring all the excitement of what has to happen to get there and what happens along the way. That’s not really exploration. That’s just a level select screen.

    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

      Yep.

      They genuinely took everything that made people love their previous games, and removed it.

      They replaced hand crafted with random generation.

      They replaced rewarding exploration with vast empty landscapes peppered with repetative, boring duplicated PoIs.

      and they replaced interesting dungeons with literally a handful of pregenerated ones that get plopped and replopped over and over again.

      and it all builds up to…what? finding artifacts that give you totally-not-space-magic, with the same boring FMV every time, almost all the spells of which are generally useless… and an ending thats just a NG+ with very mild changes for the first few times you do it.

      and do it you must, because you are expected by them to beat the game at least…what was it? 10? 20? times? to get the best suit and ship.

      but you must do it on the same character, because you’re not allowed to change your perks, stats, or anything, to make it even remotely more interesting.

  • DarkThoughts@fedia.io
    7·
    3 months ago

    But it’ll probably be better known as the Mako Mk.2 by anyone who played Mass Effect 1, because holy shit its the Mako.

    You mean the Scarab from Elite Dangerous. I hate the fact that it just pops into existence though. No vehicle bay, let alone the existing bays, since they never planned for this beforehand.

    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      is that supposition or have you gotten the patch and seen that it just poofs?

      cause if it just poofs, thats just so. hilariously. jankily. bad.

      Like, the kind of thing you’d accept from a mod.

  • xmunk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    71·
    3 months ago

    Eh… we need a serious overhaul to base building and NG+ (specifically, I think the reliance on resetting the universe to progress is fucking dumb).

    These are what I await.

      • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        91·
        3 months ago

        Land vehicles are just a haphazard stopgap fix for their incredibly poor design. Remember, Todd Howard was proud that the planets are impractically empty and big. He is proud of you having to spend 20 minutes to walk, with nothing at all in between, to destinations far away for no other reason than to scan the same anomaly you’ve seen 360 times before, or to encounger a PoI that you’ve explored 827 times before.

        They forget that people like to walk and explore in Fallout, Oblivion, and Skyrim, only because the worlds are hand crafted, lush, and full of nooks and crannies full of interesting things.

        Starfield is bland, empty, with only a handful of prefabbed locations that randomly spawn, that are the same down to the placement of debris every. single. time. you. encounter. them.

  • alkaliv2@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

    Genuinely excited for this. I enjoy the scanning and landmark points but getting to them was a chore at anything over 500 meters. With this I’ll be able to survey planets faster and hopefully escort some of these random injured NPCs back their base/ship more quickly. Maybe even take Andreja out on the Paradiso volleyball court like they did in the trailer at 0:54. Nice work devs and editing team!

    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      6·
      3 months ago

      Its betheda. even patches break mods. a whole DLC will absolutely break all kinds.

      Is the DLC free or are they charging? I havent followed Starfield since seeing this video today, and last i checked there were rumors that the first DLC pack was gonna be free to everyone because of how shite the game is.

      edit

      Nevermind, finally found an answer. Its free to premium edition owners.