Does Bethesda really think adding manual travel between planets will make people care about this game?

I’d rather them make their Casino useful other than cosmetic. a blueprint of your ship and base builds when you go to a different reality so I don’t have to bounce back and forth between saves to rebuild my ship.

How desperate are we do dig up game coding that may/may not mean anything and we get excited because of coding that does nothing. Sad. 😢

Considering the current state of Star Field, an empty husk of a game with zero life to it, I’d say Betheada is pretty lazy

todd and bethesda are still stretched too thin with projects (and under the crappy supervision that is Microsoft) with Indiana jones, starfield w 2 DLCS and updates, TES6, parts of F3 Remaster, parts of the oblivion remaster, and the fallout tv show season 1 and 2, and maybe fallout 5 and a spin off fallout game, not to mention fallout 76 (that todd probably has to green lit some updates)

sure some projects are now finished and out of the way but they have a loooooong list still and dont have focus on their mainline entries no more

Like who was the genius that figured that we wouldn’t want a fully control over our ships

I don’t know why people complain so much about Starfield.
It’s one of my all time favorite games.

why are the planets pictures and cant land on them like no mans sky

F#@$ Starfailed! Give us a real Fallout game!

Proper space travel? I hope it is like Elite Dangerous.

Sounds like starfield suffered from leadership that was not qualified or out right failed in making a fun compelling game..this affects so many games i wish they could get it right tho bc the promise of what could be with starfield would have me playing only starfield

Even if they got rid of the loading screen to enter and exit your ship and certain areas on planets would be good. Make the npcs, city better and would make it at least playable

So instead of a loading screen while fast traveling in space it will be a more immersive loading screen while fast traveling in space.

Bruh just get on with elder scrolls

I LITERALLY JUST STARTED PLAYING NO MAN’S SKY! Darn you Todd! You made me experience 200 hours of Starfield and 50 of those hours were loadscreen between space jumps, landing, and taking off🤦‍♂️

Waiting for a bus that never comes

I forgot starfield came out until this video

This game is technically very good and complicated. You can leave an item on a planet in a specific location then return back and it’s still there.
A lot of people may want things put in a game but it’s not that easy without breaking what’s already there.

proper space travel eh? not really, there is so much space dust, the ships would be full of holes 😛 but oh well its fun to imagine anyway.

Actually they added collision to the planets in a undocumented change. There was also the weird bug where all the planets showed up with error messages after an undocumented change. There’s been signs that a space travel overhaul has been in the works for some time, this is just another point on that line.

Seamless planet to planet travel? Random encounters? They’re 1/10th of the way to No Man’s Sky (to be fair, NMS was also a rocky launch, but I feel like they put out updates infinitely faster than the much larger Bethesda).

If they gave Skyrim the same treatment they did for Oblivion remastered I would buy that so fast. Give the players what they want! One more way to buy Skyrim again! 🤣

Oh good they gonna fix the least of starfields problems

I feel like the loading screens help with stability. As someone with *thousands* of hours in FO4, you have to quicksave before you open any door because Creation Engine may just decide that new cell is too cool for you and you don’t deserve to play anymore and crash the game. I don’t have to do that in Starfield and crashes have been incredibly rare (YMMV, of course).

Starfailed was an experiment to see if they can do the bare minimum and get gamers to purchase add-ons to complete or fix the game.

bruce there was no rush to release starfield, the game was in development for almost 10 years lol

It’s worth remembering that Starfield is sitll running on the same engine as Morrowind.
Like the limitations of the engine are why a lot of modders gave up on starfield too.

Introduce a landing sequence where you enter the atmosphere dealing with heat and planetary weather, wind, lightening and of course the interception by attacking ships. Could you be intercepted when you are warping into another solar system while in warp, perhaps by starborn ships?

No man’s sky does it pretty well

Ill give it to ubisoft, star wars outlaws had a great transition from ground to space that starfield should be inspired to do. They used the loading screen as clouds and atmospheric transition to hide it being a loading screen

Not a dev but I understand there’s a lot of work that goes into games, but if GTA can do it 12 YEARS ago, and your “AAA”, first party, “console seller”, game studio can’t, then something is severely wrong.

Xbox got scammed out of $7 Billion

all they need to do is implement invisible load screens while in space, so easily achievable on paper if they take the time to do it

Todd Howard is a talentless hack. His only skill is taking credit for the work of others and making everything he touches painfully mediocre.

I really don’t get the hate, I think it’s a great game. Just stop being silly and moaning about Bethesda games. They are made, rightly or wrongly, with modders in mind. Just mod your game to hell and have fun. Just like you did for Skyrim because there’re no pc player alive that remember wtf the unmodded game plays like. Starfield is no exception, people just like moaning

Looking at the mods for Starfield, maybe Bethesda needs to let some of their employees go, and hire some of these modders to replace them instead.

wow been watching you guys ten years and this is the first time i’m hearin you’re computer science lads. how could i not have known this? love from a cs guy!

At this point I think I would prefer them take the DICE approach. Realize you made a bad game, take what you learned and move on. BF6 is shaping up to be really good. Big companies need to take losses to bring them down a notch and actually listen to their fans because that’s where the money is

me and my friend really enjoyed starfield. we like role playing

They should had add this when that DLC release.

The reason why Stsrfield has not been released on PS5 is because the game has not passed Q&A (Major bugs found in the ps release) on playstation, after Cyberpunk 2077 Playstation got much more hands on with major releases and It seems Starfield has major memory leaking problems, meaning it gradually looses frames if not restarted after 30-45 min.
The same problem that Oblivion had on PS5 consoles has only been fixed on PS5 pro unfortunately.
There are rumors that Bethesda doesn’t know what to do, to fix it, and therefore may consider scraping the PS5 port.
So major BEWARE if they decide to release it with memory leaked problems, makes the game unplayable on PS5, but will probably work fine on PS5 Pro.. but that doesn’t work, as Playstation needs parity.

You should just say that they’re bad at their jobs

Stop normalizing publishing unfinished games

STRIKING IRON WHILE ITS ICE COLD

I would love to ask Todd how come modders can make your game playable but you can only make a dumb ass ideas. It is just sad what a bad product.

1:50 random from a list of 5 repeating encounters 😂

There’s a few mods that let you ACTUALLY fly around in space, but I just want a mod, or official release, to be able to space walk.

To ACTUALLY go out my airlock and use my booster pack to stealthy fly to a pirate ship and take it over without having to dock first.

There’s hardly any zero-g combat and that saddens me.

lol no.

They’re just introducing a new loading screen that cuts out some of the other loading screens to make getting from planet to planet a bit more efficient. Which i suppose is good.

Microsoft should just redistibute bethesdas ips to other studios at this point…im against what microsoft is doing with the gaming industry but since they already own zenimax just give the Ips to other studios since bethesda clearly has no time to work on them all or the competance to make rpgs anymore

Good thing I’ve waited to play this game like I do with most games cus you actually get the best experience if you wait . While paying a lot less too

If starfield dont get multiplayer simular to 76 then its completely dead. The game has so much potential for a huge multiplayer experience and nothing

Do I need to mention leaving your ship to check out a space wreck? Maybe some missions that involve zero g in space?

Lame! Starfield should have the same seamless travels and encounters as starcitizen, elite, no man’s sky, and every other good space game ever created. Next gen, my ass!

Starfield suffered because of consoles. Yes PC can handle instant load times and even the Ps5 but the Xbox series S is very limited and held the game back. Same goes for a lot of bad releases, its very hard to still support that old hardware while designing a modern game.

I like starfield but I will never buy another Bethesda game again after buying this no even beta mess.

I *am* a game dev and Lawrence is 100% on the money
This is a direction problem, not a talent problem
They are clearly capable of making a videogame, they’re just not working on the right things

Ok ill be the one to say it . I don’t care about flying g down to a planet. I’m glad it’s automatic. If you want that experience, go play no man’s sky. I wish they would have done more with this game had such awesome e
potential. But too much chasing no man’s sky shit
It doesn’t need 1000s planets, just 12 fully built ones. Would have been fine doenst need space travel.between planets as low speed. It needs more quests. It needs terrormorphs to actually be common enough to be scary. More diverse ship weapons. And better space combat.

Who cares about flying 6 min in space to go to a moon?
I want actual game play. Nit shutty nms stuff

Just do what no man’s sky does with infinite planets 😂

“Proper spacetravel” – coming from Bethesda, that could mean we get new paintings to hang on the walls inside our spaceship

Bethesdas silence is doing more reputation self harm than they should be if they just owned up to the mistakes and said don’t worry we’re on it we hear you and we’re gonna fix it (just like cdpr did) and now all this damage is perm and being handled horribly

Hell yeah, love using rocket money

The thing is, while I think most people sympathise with this idea that Bethesda should fix their game in the 2 years after release, there’s really no historical precedent for that. This is their MO, and we have to stop giving them so much leeway on it.

Wasn’t Bethesda using the term ‘keep is simple stupid’ in their game design. If that’s the case it will explain the overt use of loading screens.

That amount of cope on that subreddit is just sad.

Bethesda seems to have gotten used to releasing unfinished games and then expecting modders to fix it.

Bethesda has absolutely abandoned Starfield, the last year all the updates since the dlc have been pitiful. Such a big studio with all this talent and Whimmzy and they can’t do anything but make a buggy car to explore empty planets with empty caves and empty mining camps you’ve seen 100 times. Not to mention the cut to black every 5 seconds.

As someone who has about 500 hours into Starfield. 1- really sick of how people are always bashing on it. YES I know its issues, but story and quests I think are better than Fallout 4 and the game was more polished, but Fallout 4 has the better open world. 2- they made a more realistic interpretation of space where there’s not a lot out there, there are big empty planets and big empty distances. It the problem with the engine and type of game they wanted to make with the type of setting and world/worlds they went with. I did not ever think that I needed to be able to fly from one planet to the next, or have a cutscene for landing on the planet that I would have gotten annoyed with. There are other games that do that and thats not what they wanted to do. Either have a loading screen, or have the same animations for landing and flying to planets are the same irritation.

Bethesda has gotten complacent in their game design. After a decade of re-releasing Skyrim, they Just don’t want to innovate. Look forward to the elder scrolls 6 still requiring a separate load just enter towns and then another load screen to enter your individual buildings

They’re lazy, incompetent, or both. It’s really that simple. Modders figured it out, there’s no excuse for Bethesda. Time to stop taking 6-hour lunches, and hire some competent developers.

The fat guy is forcing a laugh every 5 seconds, it’s unlistenable…

People are in a sci-fi mood right now. Starfield came out at the perfect time… and still failed. At least the Fallout tv show did well.

Yeah Bethesda was used to working on games on multiple consoles and making them …proficently ill be generous…. I wonder if some acquisition changed the ethos from being platform agnostic into focusing releasing “premium day one titles” for a games as a service platform. I’ll be honest Bethesda lost me at Fall Out 76 which well proceeds the 2020 buy out of Zenimax, but they haven’t exactly won me back since becoming a Microsoft entity. I do find it funny that a ps5 version is the hope that gamer will get what they were promised, but only time will tell if they pull a CDREd and completely botch a release only to stick the landing half a generation later.

Wouldn’t matter to me. Great now I can manually fly from one empty planet to another. How many loading screens will I endure by the way?

Its easy to infer that much if bethesda us now old and lacks ambition and will to get out if their comfort zone.

Yeah fast travel really destroyed the feeling of space in Starfield, but it was the only way to get around.

BETAs sold as AAA Fullpriced $80 games. Its definitely a time to be alive. Not sure what time, but some time!

That stuff wasn’t in Starfield already?

Starfield is so frustrating. When Im not playing it, I think Ill try it again. But then I play it and im reminded how unengaging this game is for me. And then I kinda wonder if mods will make it better but then I run out of interest in this game before I get to download them. And I love space games!

It seems like any game or feature that does not make lots of money does not get dev time for post launch support.
See fallout 76 getting a lot of support after the TV show got new people to play. Combat is finally getting properly rebalanced

there’s a lot of the game’s ancient design I could forgive if the quest writing and paths were better. So many felt like an elevator pitch for an interesting quest idea that just never got fleshed out. But just everything about the game felt like the concept of an idea, like major cities that are smaller than college campuses or amusement parks, and definitely less populated.

These things don’t matter because there’s no where worth exploring with a buggy or starship.

This game made it seem like it was a Role Playing Game. Which it is not….

The only way to fix Starfield and I mean the only way.

Fix Empty!

They can’t fix their awful main quest unfortunately

I love this game. I don’t know why people keep whining and bitching about the load screens. They’re only a second or two. They don’t bother me. It’s perfect as far as I’m concerned but I can’t wait for these updates.

Starfields mechanics are so disconnected from each other it’s insane. From what I remember there is a quest in starfield that has a functional hidden load screen, you’re standing next to the pilot in the cockpit when the ship takes off and exits atmosphere seamlessly (might be misremembering tho)

My guess is the reason we got so many loading screens is that at one point some load screens were going to be hidden transitions but they couldn’t decide which ones since different teams were responsible for each part of the journey.

Mindblowing that fallout 4 from 2015 handles almost every shared mechanic better

The Mods Screen on console sucks. Whenever you update a Mod, it automatically is moved to the bottom of your Load Order. I updated multiple at once, not knowing this initially, and it made my game unplayable since the entire load order was fucked.

I really don’t get it, I saw Starfield and thought “that’s fallout in space” and I don’t understand why anyone thought any different. People really thought Bethesda was going to make the most immersive space sim ever made when that’s just not what they do. How long has star citizen been in development and it’s still more broken than it’s not, but Bethesda, who is known for making janky ass games was just going to knock it out of the park. It is nice to know new stuff is coming, and I’m excited to see what comes of all this.

Starfield has 1 enemy type: itself

Nexus Mods shows 95 million mod downloads for Starfield. That’s a big number. But I honestly thought it would end up around where Fallout 4 is in 2nd place on the platform. So on one hand, the interest in mods is high when compared to the entire gaming industry, but for a Bethesda game, it’s a rather modest showing. But some of the mods look really high quality.

Travel from one barren procedurally generated planet to another

bruh if Bethesda can make you fly your ship in space (WITH COMBAT) using the creation engine then they can easily add spaceship flight in planets. my guess as to why they didnt do it was because they ran out of time, but now that the game is out they can add it post launch

i think the engine is fine, its simply Bethesda being Bethesda

Surprise Alanah !

I don’t understand the Starfield hate. While it has its shortcomings, overall, the game is good

“disappointment engine” lmao

Starfield really felt like they tried to get a functional skeleton and then hope for modders to add the real meat… Sadly for Todd and the company, starfield died because its boring and uninspired.

Proper veteran sci-fi writers for Starfield, jettison Emil Pagliarulo.

Looking forward to picking up Starfield for 20$ at some point.

I can not express how much I do not care about anything Bethesda does anymore. Almost of their games are horrible now

Starfield was supposed to get two dlc per year. So far missing a few of those…

I’m more concerned with the amount of loading screens

This is awesome. One day Starfield will have all the features of No Man’s Sky.

There are paid mods that are literally just qol changes. Rather than just making those changes in the base game, they would rather sell you any slight improvement. It’s just sad to see what Bethesda has become

So like now an empty game has empty spaces to travel? Cool story bro.

I think starfield is a pretty perfect example of modern bethesda’s lack of vision. They seem so obviously to have all the ingredients for making amazing, revolutionary products, but then they just… don’t.

I’m just happy to still be here. I love StarField

I mean the only time I will come back is when they add survival, but that is if I am in the mood to play it again

Cant wait for Starfield to be release

They never needed this in the first place, gamers are just whiny children.

please stop being nice to the kazillion dollar company

I mean if you guys won’t call Bethesda lazy, I absolutely will. They were lazy with Skyrim on so many levels, and they were lazy again with Starfield. A lot of things just got relegated to “fuck it, we’ll do it this way” and cue modders doing it better in almost every way almost immediately.

Believeeeeeeee lol oh Todd 😂😂😂

5:55 the only way i can play oblivion remastered is by putting all settings to low download a mod that optimises the game a bit more and delete a nividia related file even tho i have a amd gpu , like if i put the graphics to medium to high i get stable 40 fps without any ai stuff turned on but when i do that the game would crash after i loading into like areas 4-7 times the game would crash

Well then let it be known, we are just beta testers for Bethesda games now.

I’ve never worked (been paid) in the games industry,,, but I feel any of us could legitimately do a better job at managing the team..

8:16 Couldn’t they also make the glass opaque temporarily, cyberpunk does something like that occasionally

Spoole was right about everything but we chose to laugh at him lol (no mans sky disbelief)

5:07 I think they’re (Xbox) gonna let The Outer Worlds 2 (by Obsidian ofc) have the spotlight for a bit while Bethesda cooks with that time I hope. An update of a space game, although very different in gameplay- general audience will see them as competitors

Would love more space content/ gameplay: 🪐💫.
1. ‘Space-walking’ outside our ship / stations;
2. Twisting wormholes we can manually fly through;
3. Option for crew to fly the ship;
4. Option to leave orbit & New unique/ weird deep space POl’s – in the “blackest sea” between the stars (maybe Temples in space!);
5. Black holes!
6. Giant asteroids we can land on;
7. Space horrors!
8. New unique pirate factions! (both scary sadistic ones; & clever, calculated ones), etc.
9. Lovecraftian alien entities.
10. New full companions & romance options (with evil or neutral morality)

It’s definitely a decision to cut manual space traveling, just trying to pander to a casual audience

Why does it look like Elite Dangerous gameplay?

This is impossible, all the maps are split into 8km instances. This code must be referencing something else, like maybe a drone or a glider. Remember the train in Fallout 3 was just a helmet, they’re probably doing something similar here, they’re going to make something seem like it’s flying but it’s not really flying and it’s probably not the player ship.

Nothing will save turdfield

I’m still hopeful that BGS can somehow turn things around. Maybe it’s just copium… then again, people wrote off NMS when they also fumbled their game, at launch. HG went radio silent for over 3 months before starting to push out updates… and even then, it took them 2 years to actually get NMS in a proper playable state. Considering HG has a very small fraction of BGS’s resources and manpower, it would really be an embarrassment if they couldn’t muster up an overhaul that would address most people’s criticisms of Starfield.

Maybe if they spent the time on the gameplay experience and not the mod shop/garbage randomly generated planets, the game could have been decent

Starfields biggest issue was they didn’t have the guts to make this an online based experice

Theyre laying the ground work for a NEW liquid loading screen

Im playing starfield right now

What sucks is liking and mostly enjoying Stafrield and Dragons Dogma 2, then they get shite post launch support.
At least one game has some form of fixing attempts!

Midthesda doing mid shit as usual lol.

Starfield is overhated. It’s really not a bad game

Starfield does certain things really, really well? Is this like a Mandela Effect thing?

I don’t know why everyone keeps saying bethesda is a great studio.Bethesda is complete dogwater, their game schema is completely dated. Their characters’ faces are wooden. Their story and plot lines are so boring and completely disjointed. Starfield was an absolute waste of time and space, and this idea of the modding community “contributing” which is a psudeonym for fixing their game is completely pathetic and is an infuriating embarrassment. Screw Bethesda respectfully

starfield hate is insane, use some mods ive played 90 days of that ‘shite’ game and im 50 so no new gamer

Bruh, I can’t wait to lock in Cruise Mode as I travel between procedurally generated planets containing fat stacks of nothing to do 😂 lowering my % of in-menu time by .5%. I’m literally fishing for any excuse to play Starfield and just not getting it.

Let it go Todd

SW Outlaws does the launch to atmosphere thing. I can’t imagine that little addition will be enough to make someone play a game

Starfield is the best 😊

Starfield’s problems go deeper than any one feature. The story itself is so linear, the choices practically non-existent – for christ’s sake, the majority of NPCs are essential! You can’t kill quest people!

why would they bother patching the dead game. stop stop it’s already dead!

Starfield for me would of been perfect if the story and world was more like mass effect but in a Bethesda style(don’t know if that be too much like skyrim with many races in space but i don’t care) space travel like “no man sky”. Then add on the Bethesda charm through all of that…instead i feel wr got the bear minimum

i think you can do planet to planet in no mans sky.

What about interplanetary communications? And the equivalent of phones?

Having to physically visit every quest NPC, even to inform them you have achieved the objective with all the loading screens is a massive time sink, boring and illogical.

remind me when they add fun.

It’s too late. Starfield died the same month it released lol. Anyone know the player count these days? I’m genuinely curious 🤔

Why would I praise a mod store when Steam Workshop ran perfectly already

I got Starfield as a gift with my CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D and don’t know I tried opening the game played it for maybe a few hours and I realized that I have outgrew Bethesda games at least for now I have tried older ones and didn’t make any difference. I hope it will change in the future.

I like your shirt Lawrence

Like I said when I completed the game a 2nd time; I’ll give the game another go whenever the absolute final update is.

Great vid!

It’s crazy they don’t mimic No Man’s Sky, they could make it more rigid for a moment like elite dangerous has the jump screen between systems.

Yo Lawrence, that shirt FUCKS!

There are a lot of cry babies in the comments today

Can they go back and make a real game as well

They don’t want to do no man’s sky

Wouldn’t surprise me if they’re waiting to add these most wanted feature, for a Special Edition upgrade or something.

Man I really wish starfield was a good game

I abandoned after my 3rd “prestige”. It moved too quickly and just got tedious

Starfield felt like scaffolding for something bigger and better that never actually arrived

Whoever watching this, you da star in my field ❤

Laughs as he visits his 125th planet in No Mans Sky keep trying Starfield one day you be a proper space game

The problem with Starfield is Microsoft. They bought Bethesda and then forced them to rush out Starfield. So we got a half baked game. Microsoft ruins everyrhing it touches.

I beat starfield but ill go back to fallout

Yeah that ain’t happening…

No mans sky dummy

“Proper space travel” when space is nothing but CGI And composite images.

Are people actually still playing this?

Too little, too late. Elite Dangerous , No Man’s Sky and Star Citizen have perfected space travel and zero g combat.

I dont care how unfair it is to compare Bugthesda’s half assed efforts to games that came first. Especially when both should have been in the game at launch.

I’ll believe it when I see it.
Until then, I call bullshit

I do want starfield to be great. There are so many systems that feel like they were planned to be bigger features that were never fleshed out, ship customising, base building, planet exploration and more.
I wonder if it was pushed out before it was really done.

if i split my brain between starfield and star citizen its almost like im playing 1 real game

Believe it when I see it

they wont get the traction they want until they add more POIs

“a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one”

I don’t even care about space travel. I just want to pull up a list and pick a plant. 2 clicks.

I feel like they bungled the core experience so bad that it just doesn’t feel like the best use of their time trying to change it now. Shattered space wasn’t a great expansion either. It just feels like a foregone conclusion at this point. Id rather they focus their attention on upcoming games to ensure they don’t mess up the core experience of those games as well.

I think you guys are missing the first set of quotation marks in your title. Awesome video as always! ❤️

I love how Bruce laughs when Lawrence says something witty. Love it, so nostalgic! I remember you guys before your funhaus days! Much love ❤️

goosefield

They can spend 2 decades making ES6 but they can’t be bothered to put space travel in their space adventure game until it’s already dead lol

1 minute ago?? Damn

Gamers are in a perpetual absuive relationships with Todd Howard and Peter Molyneux