Game Discussions Bethesda Softworks Starfield Space RPG
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I just look for the trail of Pepsi bottles and discarded sandwich trays...
More than I'm enjoying lock-picking mini-game and being rewarded with a sandwich.
Open Scanner, press G, look for the peculiarly flat terrain. That's the ocean.
Well, Valles Marineris isn't modelled. I think it's on the planetary map, but when you land it's not what you'd expect. No Olympus Mons either.On the other hand, my experience with coastal zones hasn't been too negative.
In fact, I am led to believe that the geography might actually match what I see from orbit.
On one occasion, I remember that I tried to land on a narrow peninsula, and when I was on the ground, the sea was actually found on three sides of the local (square) instance.
Given the limited size of an instance (3-5km?), however, I wonder whether it was just a coincidence, or the planet was really that small that I could identify such a narrow feature from orbit.
In any case, being on a peninsula was a pleasant surprise.
Haven't managed to land on an instance sized island, yet.
Member how people disliked the flatification of terrain with the new gen in Odyssey? The extremities of terrain generation are the salt - you just have to be careful that it's not openly mathematical noise - that would be too obvious. Procgenning too easily serves same-looking slop - the edge cases are the interesting ones. And often I feel the biome borders are the more interesting LZ in Starfield as well. I have never found islets on a coast - only in the (handcrafted?) landing zones of story missions. Like the smuggler-collector First Cavalry dude in the Freestar chain. And Sunny DiFalco's villa is on an island, no? (I was there at night...)
Just show me the way to the beach. We can figure out the rest later.Haven’t played it often enough for it to get old yet.
Is it me or are we landing further away from the sea than when the game launched?
It's the pixel hunt, sometimes you're watching the surf through the canopy, sometimes it's the other side of the invisible wall.
Looking at my triple biome from Nov 2;
I'm stood in a tropical swamp (not mentioned on LZ description) the coast on the left and my ship on the frozen plain on the right.
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Not for me. Every time I've chosen to land at the coast the sea is there, it just seems further away than I remember when the game launched.
In that respect, Earth is even worse.
It doesn't matter whether you land on the Himalayas, or inside a Pacific trench: it's always a sandy and rather flat desert.
En SF hay una mayor variedad de ecosistemas, más realistas que en NMS, también hay planetas o lunas muertas. No sé cuánto más puedo encontrar, pero ayer aterricé en este planeta con un ecosistema que no había visto antes.
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You must live in a posh area, it's White Lightning bottles and syringes here...
The only trash to be found on any of our beaches is the detritus left from both world wars...in this case, the boilers from a WW1 German destroyer after the skipper scuttled it there in 1919
The one on the left was refloated and salvaged in 1920...
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Hi All
I've just downloaded Starfield, it came as a freebee with an ASUS mobo I've just bought.
No in game support for a Joystick then it seems.
Jack
I've just downloaded Starfield, it came as a freebee with an ASUS mobo I've just bought.
No in game support for a Joystick then it seems.
Jack
No, but it wouldn't really make much sense anyway, given how the ships function mostly as fast-travel mechanisms. I haven't missed my joystick while playing SF, not at all. It's just not that kind of game.Hi All
I've just downloaded Starfield, it came as a freebee with an ASUS mobo I've just bought.
No in game support for a Joystick then it seems.
Jack
Landed at a coastal area, because we were talking about it and my current character hasn't done much exploring. It turned out to be a nice little planet.
When I landed I saw this:
Using Photo mode I located the water nearby:
Saw this when I reached the coast:
Some local fauna were upset with my presence:
When I landed I saw this:
Using Photo mode I located the water nearby:
Saw this when I reached the coast:
Some local fauna were upset with my presence:
Fun fact: the skybox in SF appears to be the sky as we see it from Earth.
I am not sure how it works yet, but I've noticed that in space, or on planetary surfaces with no atmosphere, where many stars can be seen, it appears to be mirrored (left/right), while on planets with an atmosphere, at night, it is correct, and by correct I mean that the stars have the right apparent magnitude and even colour.
I expect the skybox to be static and the same throughout the whole of the settled systems, since SF is not about scientific accuracy, and most players wouldn't appreciate it anyway.
Nice easter egg, all in all.
I am not sure how it works yet, but I've noticed that in space, or on planetary surfaces with no atmosphere, where many stars can be seen, it appears to be mirrored (left/right), while on planets with an atmosphere, at night, it is correct, and by correct I mean that the stars have the right apparent magnitude and even colour.
I expect the skybox to be static and the same throughout the whole of the settled systems, since SF is not about scientific accuracy, and most players wouldn't appreciate it anyway.
Nice easter egg, all in all.
On the subject of legendary drops; the items I'm getting from random boxes in the middle of nowhere are still on par with the end-of-dungeon steamer trunk science containers.
Just wandering around opening boxes might be the most efficient method of legendary farming...
Just wandering around opening boxes might be the most efficient method of legendary farming...