After around 6 months I have maxed out exploring Starfield, have scanned every star system and every planet............
..................or perhaps not, I'm missing one. There should be 1692 planets and moons to find but only have 1691. Have hunted around to find one not at 100% scanned but have given up- it's like looking for a needle in a haystack. Plus I'm two fauna missing at Beta Marae I and Misada III. These are Starfield bugs as Beta Marae should be found on wetlands and Misada should be in the sea but Starfield forgot to put them in the game! I could use a console command to find them but I'll leave it for Bethesda to sort out.
Started exploration with the other aspects of the game then more exploration and by Christmas just solely exploring. Most of the planets are barren of life so just resources and traits to find which became incredibly boring soon. There are only 31 traits to find and had found them all within 40 planets scanned. The most annoying part of resources was finding water. Often start on a water rich biome and loads of times took a few thousand metres of walking to find one. Far too late I realised I should have flew to the biome with the rarest element as water was just as common there! And it annoyed me to find almost like a sea of elements on the ground except for water. Suppose Bethesda thought no-one would build an outpost on a water base but it seemed unbelievable you can have an area full of Helium 3 and Yttrium scattered on the floor but no H2O!
The planets with flora and fauna were better and some worlds were hard to fully scan with fauna- a few I could only find in caves caused me a problem but far enjoyable than the barren worlds. Didn't take long for repeats of these- must have found loads of Terra Roots and Trilobite Scavengers around the systems but there were a few systems with unique fauna but seemed crazy that you had to either screenshot them or write them down as there was nothing in the game to go back in the settings to find them again. In No Mans Sky you could do this but not in this game.
Glad to have finished exploration on the game as it became very frustrating. Thought the game had 100 systems and around 80 systems in found it had 120 to find.... ' oh no, I've only done two thirds of the game'. Was enjoyable trying to change flora and fauna from blue scans to green scans but never want to do it again!
