Bethesda Shares Starfield Free Lanes Deep Dive, Included in PS5 Version

I will be waiting for a discount regardless before I decide to buy it or not. I played it for a few hours on its release day when I had an Xbox Series X, but it was very choppy because of its locked 30 fps, so I could not judge it properly and deleted it and eventually got rid of that console.

@SoulofBashar its the only game ive played that started off as a 9 and then dropped to a 4 at the end of my playthrough 😂

@lazarus11
Thank you for letting me know that I should skip it. 😂

Now they just need to add atmospheric flying, which doesn't sound like a big deal but immersion takes a serious hit without it. Previously I'd get into my ship (watch a cut-scene) take off (watch a cut-scene) then try to fly towards a planet, which was only a jpeg floating in space. I'd then hit a loading screen, land on the planet. There was no entering the atmosphere like No Man's Sky, which is a great chunk of immersion and one of the most important parts of any real space flight. It's something people want to experience in a game focused on space travel.

I've only seen it through Mods. I'd hope they work on removing the invisible boundaries too. It's hard to explore a planet when you are walking or driving for maybe ten to twenty minutes and hit a 'Boundary Reached' message. On foot it took a while longer to reach that boundary, on wheels it was constant. I don't know if they ever increased the tile size, with land vehicles they need to.

I'd like to see how they handle this new free travel system, all I can imagine is it will pull up a world map when you reach said planet. Either that or lead right into a landing cut-scene. I don't know if they changed it but the last time I played it there wasn't even a cut-scene for entering the atmosphere. Just point A to point B. It looks like the free travel is from planet to planet within a select system and the rest might be through jump-gates. System to system isn't realistic unless people have thousands of years to waste. I watched the trailer a couple of times and maybe they are working on using cloud cover to cause deceleration and to load the data/planet. It's hard to tell.

@lazarus11 I know what you mean and I gave it every benefit of the doubt. Even with 30fps, no map, no fov slider, no ultra-wide support, countless other problems, they can fix some things with patches. Too many of the immersion breaking mechanics seem to be baked into the engine itself. I thought they'd push the capabilities of the Pro to create a more dedicated seamless experience, no such luck. Free travel is something most players expected day one, I know I did. That was three years ago.

@GirlVersusGame hopefully the load screens are not as bad , also a few major sidequests where broken , and i wish they'd gone deeper with some , the great idea was there ,its like they just thought nah thats enough , I dont wanna spoil anything but that dude in the room who you keep going back to talk to , I wanted more of that but it just ended, I also wanted a space dark brotherhood but there's none of that.

@somnambulance yeah pretty much , its like ooh what's this , oh is that it , anyway only a few more days and the great push square crimson desert debate will end....bring on the starfield debate 😂