15 hours later. At the beginning of the main quest they asked me I wanted to join Constellation, so I said no - now I'm just a freelancer.
I shot somebody in a bar in Volli after they pulled a gun on me, which caused a riot - 23 civilians died, I have a 220k credit bounty.. so I fled the system.
Have done 25 side quests found randomly so far, no faction quests. Got a crew of 5 randoms. Upgraded ship so I can transport 6 passengers, too - I am Space Uber.
I haven't touched any of the crafting, outpost building or procedural content or quests yet (other than Space Uber). I have used the ship building stuff - it's great, I'm terrible at it.
23 hours into #Starfield now. Still haven't done any of the main quest or faction quests, all just side questin'.
My ship has had some... upgrades.
My character, Emily, sounds like an old woman as she's constantly coughing... I have about 8 diseases currently.
The reason I'm dressed like a CW superhero in the final picture is because I did a quest about a rich person who had a consume, bat cave and who fought crime.. They no longer have their equipment or ship, wooops.
@GossiTheDog Did you finish One Small Step, the very first mission? I probably could have left it partially done, but in some ways it felt like it was almost forcing me through it. Certainly the mining part was, since you need the ship. I'm 8 hours in and thinking about starting a new char to skip the first mission as much as I can.
@GossiTheDog That's basically how I played. I started the second mission, and don't have Vasco, but I didn't talk to Sarah to go anywhere. Hm, this may be start a new game to have the always-in-the-way Vasco, but who is helpful when fighting, or just stick with it as is.
I like not having the context. I've seen a lot of people complain about no maps, but I sort of like that too. Just throw myself in and explore, come what may. I also love playing early missions for the first time at lvl 100 😀
@GossiTheDog yeah, I'm only 12 hours in but I've already had to Google a few basic mechanics because they just never got explained or aren't obvious, for example how to access ship inventory. Plus it also seems we have a captains locker that was never mentioned....
@GossiTheDog I was stuck on the intro space battle because I keep t going in to photo mode instead of repairing ship because I was in scanning mode apparently? Oops.
32 hours into #Starfield now. I've seen some shit... was in The Hunger Games, went to a planet with just mudcrabs. Made 258k credits today, new record - can't pay off the Neon city bounty as they don't allow payments via remote terminals, which means I have to go back and face the music. (And yes, I've still done 0 main quest or faction quests).
Today's WTF moment comes from... me. I tried robbing a ship that landed while I was somewhere. I asked Vasco, my robot, to wait in the hull entrance while I picked the lock. Anyway, it started to take off so I dashed out the airlock.. and realised Vasco was still stood in the hanger.
Screenshot as Vasco disappeared into the abyss, haven't found him yet.
Now 40 hours into #Starfield on day 4. I've rented a hotel room for a week in Neon city (a 'drug rig' on an ocean planet), my goal is to earn 250k to purchase the penthouse here.
I've spent about 10 hours doing side quests and exploration here today, have also started stealing everything I can and selling it at the Trade Authority (aka the Thieves Guild). Have also developed a drug addiction, to add to my 13 diseases. Most importantly, got a sweet poncho.
53 hours in on #Starfield. Penthouse at Neon city purchased. Made another 100k too mostly just bounty hunting today. Ship has had lots of upgrades and looks a mess because I designed it. Crew of 6 recruited, 10 passengers for Space Uber.
@GossiTheDog The texture detail in this game is absurd, even on the humble (compared to your PC) Series X. I've been reading whiteboards and posters everywhere.
Found Vasco, took him to the beach, discovered I can jet pack onto my ship to snipe, went on a three hour side quest which started out Star Trek, turned into Quantum Leap, then went Aliens.
@GossiTheDog so the real question… is it good? I’ve been purposely averting my eyes from reviewers until I have free time to throw at it to find out for myself.
71 hours into #Starfield. I am now level 45, and have unlocked ability to pilot all ship classes and all ship building. My ship is a massive cargo hauler. Haven't touched crafting, base building, faction quests or main quest yet. I've done around 150 side quests and I unlocked the achievement for landing on 100 planets today.
300k in the bank and own 3 properties. Even paid off the mortgage on my mansion.
Basically I'm more successful in a video game after 6 days than real life.
80 hours into #Starfield. Built my first two outposts today and connected them together with cargo shipping links, and hired staff for them. Now have 10 staff on payroll for GossiEmpire :D
Today's WTF moment was a bounty hunting job where the target died as they got mauled to death by roaming aliens... watched the whole thing unfold using the scope on a sniper rifle. Still got paid.
@GossiTheDog I see we're running the same armor combo. I'm only 20 hours in though, so...I guess I don't have too many upgrades in my future on that end!
@GossiTheDog had this happen multiple times now: I land at or close to a bounty target and it dies from unrelated causes … still got paid every time. At least once it looked like this was set up on purpose or as part of the systemic design: the target was in an abandoned facility and was killed by eclipse clearing out the same place. Interesting moments, nonetheless.
86 hours into #Starfield. Did the Freestar Rangers questline today. Space cowboy ranger fantasy life complete. Only thing I didn't like is you basically take down the remaining Browncoats - Firefly fan forever.
Tomorrow I plan to finally go to New Atlantis properly and join the Vanguard and get my United Colonies citizenship. Left myself sat outside MAST.
I'm level 51 and did over 250 quests before touching the factions as I am insane. Some of the Xbox achievements I've unlocked, only 0.0004% of players have. Basically I'm an idiot. #Starfield
@GossiTheDog level 26 here. I’ve mostly avoided space battles, but I have a date with destiny that seems to be a difficult orbital battle. So, I’m doing Ryujin side jobs to make credits so I can upgrade my ship to win that battle.
96 hours into #Starfield. I return to the real world tomorrow, so I finished off my holiday on one random planet for four hours - built two outposts, saw jungles, forests, swamps, deserts, beaches and ice caps.
Found a house on a private island. Helped some outposts deal with wildlife woes, dealt with multiple pirate landings and then retired to my ship. Saw some alien crickets that spit fire, and giant moths that both walk and fly around, swarm together - and shoot lasers from their eyes.
120 hours into #Starfield. I joined the pirate faction and completed the quest line - now pirate king.
Have established several outposts and now a multi-millionaire mining facility owner. Also run an underground Aurora drug production operation and store the contraband in the outposts.
Have 8 crew on ship and 15 staff at outposts. All of the crew are named characters I picked up in side quests. Still haven't started the main quest.
Btw I agree with many of the criticisms of #Starfield in the reviews I’ve read.
My take: while Skyrim is a power fantasy - before you even leave the tutorial area you’re taught magic etc - Starfield is a pleb simulator.
It dunks you on a planet that looks like a car park as a miner, and depending on the background you picked you probably can’t even sneak or lockpick. You’re given crappy weapons and set free with essentially no skills.
@GossiTheDog my challenge with the game is trying to understand why Bethesda doesn’t tell you more about the powers you have.
It’s not that it takes ten hours to get good, you start with most of the powers you need (yes there’s a bit I won’t spoil in the middle) - but it takes ten hours to discover all the functionality you have because Bethesda decided to just let everyone find it on their own.
@GossiTheDog I’m thinking of stuff that exists from the very beginning. All of: hand scanning, fast travel, ship combat, even outpost building.
All of those seem to have additional functionality (or apply in places and ways you might not expect), and very little is exposed to the user. You just have to mess around and find out.
I am still super early in, but it reminds me of those old school western RPGs where you throw 40+ hours to learn what not to do, and then go start the whole thing again to ‘do it right’
@GossiTheDog Starfield felt like the spiritual successor of Morrowind to me, more than Skyrim or Oblivion. Where Oblivion had a real story-based intro and Skyrim has a clear main quest you feel like needing to progress. In contrast to that Morrowind and Starfield just throw you out and leave you to your vices a lot more - which I personally loved!
@GossiTheDog For me it's like Skyrim. Having storylkine and quest is fine. But it's maiunly just a massive area to dick around it. I've created a Chef with alien DNA so i can't even benefit from the food i make :D But i've had a great time planet hopping looking for cans of putine or buying up all the bourbon so i can craft all the recipes.
It's a great chillout game. Skyrim\Fallout in space. What's not to like. I think some of the reviews expected too much. For me it's a make what you want of it sort of thing. Like building an outpost or house is ultimately "pointless" in that it brings you nothing but it's fun! And nice to craft a bit of story around your playthrough.
I think people forget that games can just be fun and that dicking around the uinvierse doing pretty much what you please is pretty fun for the none vocal majority.
145 hours into #Starfield. I've gone to a religious centre and they've cured me of being an introvert trait so I can adventure with companions now - Andreja is my new BFF. Paid off my mortgage so now I only have the Spaced trait left to resolve (more health on the ground than in space as I never acclimatised).
Quite far into the main quest now, my crew are gradually becoming Constellation and my ship friends are now running farming and mining outposts I've built instead.
Finished the #Starfield main quest. Didn’t take the obvious option.
Level 70 with 1.7 million credits in the bank, 5 houses, 10 ships, 20 staff, 6 outposts. Done 369 (nice) quests so far. Still have Ryujin Industries faction to do. Have 41 of 50 achievements unlocked.
Only had one crash the entire time. Still lots to do to get the remaining achievements.
@GossiTheDog@clifmo@tezoatlipoca atm there are no really good mods, most of them only little paintmods. Normally I play high modder, but for now (180h) I play also with 0 mods.
My next walkthroug will be after creation Kit was released - with really good stuff 😊👍
Got married in #Starfield to a religious lady who took me to a moon in the middle of nowhere and got me to dig up the skull of her childhood pet she had murdered, and she gave it to me as a weapon.
Even in video games, I make terrible choices. (I said thanks and that I would treasure it... I quietly put it down the toilet in my captain's quarters).
@GossiTheDog I mean, I got video game married to a woman haunted by the memory of getting her whole crew killed in war and then she got murdered by a guy in a stealthsuit.
Took my #Starfield wife to see the Opportunity rover on Mars, surveyed a planet for Constellation (took me 3 hours as I forgot fish existed at the coasts), then showed her my outpost.
I forgot one thing, after a month I finally finished the first quest I started in the game - finding a home for a few hundred space travellers on a planet. I forgot I had agreed to basically enslave them to a corporation, dropping them off was awkward. Whoops.
@GossiTheDog I've been putting off that one too. I want to boost my social skills to the max and use precognition and see if there is some way to solve the quest in a really bonkers way.
@GossiTheDog That was SUCH an unsatisfying questline. They even dropped the hints for a good ending, but then there was no way to execute on it. If there'd been a way to go dig up their original charter on Earth, prove they had the legitimate claim, and then negotiate trading half the planet for setup assistance, everyone could have won and it would have made sense.
@GossiTheDog@AGTMADCAT I feel seen, thus far I've skirted this weird edge of space ship pirate who engages with corporations and then when I'm mad at how they handle things or what they asked me to do I end up playing vigilante avenger for the less fortunate and powerful.
@GossiTheDog You can give them a hyperdrive so they can pootle around and find their own spot, but I didn't find that satisfactory when there seemed to be foreshadowing for a better solution which then didn't pay off.
3 achievements to go! Finished Ryujin Industries quest line. My heart rate got to 120 during the final quest.
Made the right decision waiting until so late in the game to do that questline as I was maxed on things like stealth, persuasion, pickpocketing, hacking etc.. plus had equipment with silencers etc. #Starfield
After 467 quests and 144 activities, over 200 hours, I’ve only had one quest bug and one crash to desktop. They did a really good QA job.
The bugged quest is in Neon city, where I have to meet a gang member in a bar but the door upstairs is locked. It’s because I left the bar while an NPC was unlocking the door.. and they didn’t factor in a player doing that. Oops.
Now 250 hours into Starfield, level 122. Playing in survival mode, 45% XP boost in exchange for the game being tougher in theory - although in practice, since enemies are no longer bullet sponges I'm finding combat easier.
Spent the last two days pirating ships, stealing them, selling their goods, raiding settlements and selling contraband. 2.6 million credits in that time. Not long until I'm the Hero of Canton!
I've got a whole fleet of ships in this game, but this one - the worst looking one - that I made is my favourite. It has a cargo hold 400k deep, like 21 landing gears otherwise it won't take off, and it makes no sense... Also loads of space for smuggling. #Starfield
@GossiTheDog Wait, should I be trying to "cure" my traits? I had an opportunity to lose the Neon Rat trait the other day and I skipped it because I think it's been helpful in some conversations.. I haven't seen a negative to it. At least, not yet..
@GossiTheDog watch out how much you stash in that penthouse - apparently a late main quest mission "resets" the city, which often deletes everything you've stored there 😬
@GossiTheDog I loved the Crimson Fleet questline, but was a bit disappointed, I couldn’t betray both UC and Delgado at the end. I wanted to play this as an opportunistic pirate, who plays along both factions until she finds Kryx’s Legacy and simply disappears. Did I miss something? Sided with the pirates in the end.
@GossiTheDog did you start with the Frontier or did you buy another ship?
I quickly ran into the ship class limits. Haven't figured out how to change that.
@GossiTheDog okay, so not only the engine, reactor and boosters are a limit, but my pilot skills. What if I hire a pilot?
I currently hired a weapons specialist and am not sure if he does anything in a space fight. DonI have to tell him what he's supposed to do? 🤔
@GossiTheDog Did you get your robot back? This might help:
1- Open your Quest Log and go to Activities.
2- Look for the Task labeled 'Retrieve Your Companion'
3- Set this task as active.
4- Return to your game, and you'll now see an objective marker indicating your Companion's location
5-- Head to that marker where you will reunite with your missing companion or a crew member.
Source: How to Find Lost Companions & Crew Members in Starfield
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