Shtatus

I write this under YouTube videos that keep referencing it in their “Upcoming Space Games” lists.

Seems like an outright lie for the past…decade or so.

Why the ship of course. We can get up and walk around inside in the new corvettes.

You can walk around the interior, customize the interior and seamlessly EVA.

This goes beyond anything I could have expected.

Holy shit. Owlcat is really stepping up to the plate with this one. After Larian Studios they are probably the 2nd best cRPG maker today, but they’ve never done an Action-RPG before.

Having played 40k:Rogue Trader I know they can handle the material, I am strangely confident about that, it’s the gameplay part I worry about.

It looks great, I just wish there was more to do with it.

In my opinion, I think the best Starfield 2 would be a prequel from the early age of space flight while people were living in space, but still before the invention of the grav drive.

• It should all take place in the Sol System mostly on space stations, asteroid facilities, moon bases, capital ships, ect.
• Be about political factions, corporations, scientists, space criminals, smugglers, raiding pirates, ect.
• Focus on the ship experience including in-system flying, ship/crew management and EVA mechanics. The ship should feel like a working vessel.
• Create a living solar system with both scripted and radiant generated events at scale from player encounters to system wide events based on the current state of the solar system and the players interactions.
• Faction reputation system, with each of the factions controlling “towns” and “settlements” throughout the system.
• Implementation of traditional space game elements such as bulk cargo hauling, blockade running, escort missions, science expeditions, station raids, ect. Previously included mechanics should be revamped to make them more interesting.
• Harsh environments should require different suits and the player should have a special locker on the ship to keep them on board, Upgrading the suit should be part of the core gameplay.
• Streamlined, but present water/food/fuel mechanics, as well as an in-depth wound/injury/medical system.
• A main story about a freelance ship just trying to get by in the solar system. Taking on jobs, contracts, mercenary work. Bringing on a companion means getting their help working around the ship and unlock different stories and quest-lines.
• No galaxy ending event in the main story, instead have a game just about what it’s like to live in the world of Starfield. (although during some very exciting moments.)

$220 invested since 2015 myself. I think I was just really depressed at the time…

All of this for what will end up just being a video game.

Nothing world changing, no lives will be saved, no problems solved, nothing will be different. There will just be another MMO on the market slowly dying off as people lose interest.

It will be amazing if its lifecycle lasts longer than its development.

Big talk from hillbilly white trash.

But is their company ran by a laminated faced cunt? Big hurdle these days.

I think it’s about time this stuff is called out for being thinly veiled attempts at intimidation.

It seems like every US brand under Stellantis has completely lost their minds.

Jeep has become all around terrible while becoming more expensive at the same time and it looks like the same thing is happening to Dodge.

Starting price is now $58,000.

They ditched selling the accessible models for the luxury market and they do the most cheap and trashy thing possible.

It’s incredible how stupid millionaire CEOs can be.

All I did was make a scene by arguing with a bunch of circle jerking divas and the power tripping mods got me banned.

I disagree, if anything I think Starfield was Bethesda not going far enough.

They created a new setting and added a couple of new mechanics, but they cradled it in the same tired formula that they have been doing for decades.

I had hoped that since it was a new IP, this would be the moment they would take a chance and try something new. Try a new approach to quest design and world building, don’t just make the game bigger but make the experience in it more varied with more interesting interactions. Instead it felt like new coat of paint on an old house and when they got called out on it, they became defensive.

I broke my heart when they said the lesson they learned was to stick to the same formula and when they tried to do it with Shattered Space, people hated it even more.

I hate to say it but it seems like Bethesda already peaked.

Professors who study dead languages, I could live off being the world’s foremost expert on the language for at least a decade or two.

8…I’ll write a book!

Well at least this gave me a smile today.