**** Starfield ****

Maybe mods will eventually come to console, so I find hearing feedback from people playing the game with mods is kinda irrelevant. Don't get me wrong, if I had an option to enable a few mods to improve the experience I would, but unless the mods come out on console at the same time, which they won't, opinions on the modded game may conflate the reviews.

I also see a few bugs and Bethesda history issues and people are somehow ok with them, saying it adds to the experience, and it wouldn't be a Bethedsa game without them... granted it looks immensely better than anything else they've released before numerous patches, but I hate seeing those types of comments.

How are console players finding the 30fps? Watching the DF tech review, I thought it was very obvious between the PC/console footage (which he alludes to in the intro - "you'll know"). Trying to avoid spoilers for this (which to me includes "look at this random planet I found") is getting hard already! But knowing I've to put 2 full nights of gaming into it before it "gets good" is a big ask. I usually give 3-4 or upwards of 8 for some games before giving in.

The performance is surprisingly good for me on pc with a mix of med to high settings. As for the game itself I’m about ten hours in and I’m reserving judgment until I’ve played a bit more.

I have not tried it but this mod is supposed to be good for Nvidia users

It is similar to the PureDark mod but without the paywall. I'll try it this evening.

1080ti will run it but not at high settings or with high fps. But that card hardly owes you anything at this stage? Prices have come down from the madness we’ve seen in recent years, now is probably not a bad time for an upgrade, especially if you’re prepared to buy second hand.

I'm still on my 1080ti as well 😂 beast of a card, it's so hard to justify upgrading from it as everything is such horrible value these days. I assume Starfield with fsr2 will still run at reasonable fps on it though.

The music is lovely, Bethesda always nail the soundtracks.

Seems now after a few days after launch that they overall view of players is very positive.

Sales on Xbox and Steam seem to be very strong.

Looks like this game is going to be a huge success despite a lot of negativity directed at it before launch by mostly PS fanboys.

Smyth's came through and my Series X disc arrived today. Thank goodness I have fibre.

So after my previous post, I'm about 20hours in.

More I play. More I am enjoying this.

The shear scale and size of the hand crafted worlds is immense.

Multiple biomes on planets is cool.

Landed in Dublin for the craic, nothing left. Pity. Might have to make a mod for it.

The amount of quests available is absolutely massive. And the factions seem fully fleshed out. Really enjoying my space ranger role and outfit on Akila.

I'd wonder if menus will get tweaked in further updates. Haven't come across any barriers yet on planets and I've walked a fair bit discovering things.

Cool variety of plant and animal life.

Delighted with the speech options compared to fallout 4.

Digital lock game still annoys me.

Inventory still too small. At least the annoying fan has become my locker on the ship.

I'd like an option to not display spacesuit on the ship like on the settlements.

Made my first trip to Neon today, best to have a nap until it's night hours before you leave the ship - the whole walk to the elevator to main level is just so much more moody and perfect when it's dark and raining 🤣.

Also accidentally discovered you can mine asteroids by shooting at them with lasers, not that I can use the resources for anything right now cos I've been a bit lax with my skill point assignments.

I'd be way more interested in this game if I didn't have a load of other half finished games. Definitely looking forward to giving it a spin on GamePass.

Can you undo skill point assignment in the game ? Or have you to commit ? I know in Skyrim it becomes very difficult later on to level up skills that you've ignored since the start.

25 hours in-utterly addicted. Cant remember last time a non sports game hooked me like this...maybe red dead redemption 2. Im wasting hours on my first base flying back and forth buying more resources and tinkering with its layout. 25 hours in and I fell I have nothing done!