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reinking
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reinking
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I am waiting for it before I jump back in.Still waiting on the expansion.....
Magic Carpet
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I Stopped playing around the 63 hour mark. The xbox app for PC says Last Played: N/A. I guess it gave up counting.
I was doing side stuff, haven't played in so long I forgot everything I was doing or what I have or where anything is.
If I get back into Starfield I'll have to restart from the beginning. Maybe a few months after the expansion drops.
I might as well recover the drive space for now. 127GB of install just sitting there.
Punished Miku
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Its pretty easy to jump in. Pick a quest from the menu and it points where to go.
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Starfield sees huge boost in Xbox players thanks to latest update
The latest major update adding new display settings, improved surface maps, and much more, has seen Starfield's Xbox player numbers boosted by 72%.
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Bit of a easy trick you can do if you want XP is turn both ship difficulty modifiers to extreme when doing quests and anything on the ground for an additional easy +12%. Then just pause and go back to normal for a ship fight.
Late to the party, but I got started with this last night, just put an hour in to get my character set up and get onto the ship. I picked an Industrialist because it had both of the persuasion and hacking abilities I wanted. For traits, I picked Hero Worshipped, Neon Street Rat, and Taskmaster.
Two questions:
01. Without really knowing the economy of the game or how quickly you can earn credits, I passed on having the large mansion available at a cost of 125,000 credits each week. I'm guessing you can buy something similar better down the line?
02. I know Neon Street Rat gains me favor with the faction on Neon, and results in increased bounties when I do something around other factions that the don't like, but it doesn't necessarily prevent me from being able to get side missions from every faction, correct? I don't typically run around causing random mayhem, so I don't see it being a problem.
Just wondering about these two aspects any other advice people have for a "new" player, before I commit more than 50 or so minutes to it.
Two questions:
01. Without really knowing the economy of the game or how quickly you can earn credits, I passed on having the large mansion available at a cost of 125,000 credits each week. I'm guessing you can buy something similar better down the line?
02. I know Neon Street Rat gains me favor with the faction on Neon, and results in increased bounties when I do something around other factions that the don't like, but it doesn't necessarily prevent me from being able to get side missions from every faction, correct? I don't typically run around causing random mayhem, so I don't see it being a problem.
Just wondering about these two aspects any other advice people have for a "new" player, before I commit more than 50 or so minutes to it.
Punished Miku
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1. You can get other places.
2. You can join all factions.
1. You can buy other homes but none that are like that mansion, which is actually the largest home.
2. None of the faction background choices truly matter aside from some uncommon to rare dialogue choices. Some, like the religious ones, barely matter at all to the point they might as well be considered wasted space. You can join all factions.
Thanks for the info, very helpful. Does the Mansion become burdensome to pay 125K a week for? Seems like the credits and the trait are better used on other things. The Neon Street Rat seems like it would be worth keeping? Also, there is no trait swapping option later on, right?
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Punished Miku
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I never did the mansion trait so I cant say, but that sounds like a lot.
I had Neon Street Rat. Its fine. Just a few unique dialogue options at times. Its minor and mostly for roleplaying.
You can find ways to rid yourself of traits (some have negative elements) but not gain new ones. New game+ you can reset with all new traits.
It’s not $125,000 per week. Honestly money is easy enough to come by where that amount isn’t a problem whatsoever so money shouldn’t impact your decision. Picking up and selling weapons generates a lot of income.
You’ll have more than enough options for housing if you skip on the mansion, it’s just that none are as big. It’s also true that as far as traits go, having yet another home is probably not as useful compared to something like Terra Firma or Extrovert which is active most of the time.
In hindsight, I would pick from the ones that offer known benefits, like a boost to combat on land, or give you an adoring fan, a house, or parents over ones that side with a faction or place. I don’t find the religion or faction based traits worth keeping.
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Punished Miku
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Any word on when the CK stuff goes live?
Xcell Miguel
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Today.
Patchnotes :
Starfield Update 1.12.30 - June 9, 2024
From new missions to the launch of Creations, experience the Settled Systems like never before with Starfield’s latest update, available now on Xbox and PC!
bethesda.net
Creation Kit :
Punished Miku
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Update is up. 18 GB.
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Melee weapons are definitely buffed. 226 damage wakizashi without even customizing yet.
Barakov
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Methos#1975
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Who at Bethseda decided that curated creations that you have to pay for disable achievements because that is beyond stupid.
mitchman
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So some of the other side mission lines, they're better than the main mission. But when they are done, there isn't a whole lot else.
Fredrik
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Creations: First impression is - too little, too late. Not much to get hyped over, yet. Most creators has left the game a long time ago now, such a bummer. But we’ll see if some return.
I think the game needs some hype and positivity to pull in some new blood to make it worth investing time building stuff. Not sure how they could do that. Could do good on Switch 2 if they could get a port to run well-enough. Not sure about PS, does anyone there want to play it, all I hear is negativity?
Anyhow, I will try some combat with my late game melee build. It was already easy so I assume I’ll be OP after the update. I’m kinda stuck at the end in the big starborn space fight before the big fight. I have the razorleaf now at least so maybe it’s time to try again.
I think the game needs some hype and positivity to pull in some new blood to make it worth investing time building stuff. Not sure how they could do that. Could do good on Switch 2 if they could get a port to run well-enough. Not sure about PS, does anyone there want to play it, all I hear is negativity?
Anyhow, I will try some combat with my late game melee build. It was already easy so I assume I’ll be OP after the update. I’m kinda stuck at the end in the big starborn space fight before the big fight. I have the razorleaf now at least so maybe it’s time to try again.
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Just a reminder you can go in the game settings now and tweak multiple aspects of difficulty.
If your melee is overpowered, you can decrease your damage for an XP boost. If you're stuck on a ship fight, you can tweak that too.
P.S. Thirst and hunger seem to be working now. They weren't before. Finding food is easy, but it can sometimes be easy to get dehydrated without drinks.
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FoxMcChief
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What a difference a few hours makes. The creations mods just keep on coming. I’m going to start messing around with them!
Punished Miku
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Make sure you have all the achievements you want first.
FoxMcChief
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Dude. They’re just pop up notifications. Why care? Want me to tell you that you have a huge dick and are the king of gaming?
Bro, yo dick is huge and you are the king of gaming!
FoxMcChief
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I’m 40 years old, have a great paying job, my wife makes way more money than me, have sex regularly, own a 4 bedroom home, have 3 kids and 4 pets. I don’t care about video game achievements or trophies.
Punished Miku
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That's fine lol. I was just was saying. I'm level 97 and my last achievement is hitting level 100, so I might as well.
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What are some of the good ones you've seen so far?
soulbait
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Damn dude, save some real world achievements for the rest of us.
FoxMcChief
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Next big goal is an RV.
Actually, I’m trying to kill this gopher fucking up my lawn. I set up a few spike traps I got from Amazon. Crossing fingers.
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FoxMcChief
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adamsapple
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I’m barely scratching the surface.
holy shit. That actually fits in very well lol.
Can't wait for more weird shit to start popping up.
FoxMcChief
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Thic
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Also, there’s a MOD called Cheat Room. I don’t think it’s necessary really. You can’t take anything out of it.
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Yeah, it's like a dev room for just trying stuff out. Kind of pointless, for people to just fuck around in.
FoxMcChief
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My wife just asked if I’m going to spend more time messing around with MOD’s, or playing the game. Only answer I could think of was, “yes.”
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Whats that one called? I didnt see it yesterday lolThic
FoxMcChief
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Game changer right here.
FoxMcChief
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The cape is a jetpack!
FoxMcChief
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Thic Civilians, or something like that. It was there day 1.
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Damn, these creation things are pretty awesome.
Aguero9320
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I just hit 2 days played yesterday. Absolutely loving it. There's so much to do - I haven't even touched much of it yet (ship building, outposts, crafting, research, smuggling, bounty hunting, trade runs etc) or really done much of the main quest. I've been mainly doing side quests and collecting the stuff from Vlad (vague to avoid spoiling). I really enjoyed my first battle in zero gravity. Was struggling a bit with ship combat until I accidentally managed to disable, board and then steal a much better ship. Also been working a bit on completing some planet surveys to sell the data.
First game in a long time that I'm thinking about when I'm not playing it. I'm not going to really touch creations until I've finished the game and got whatever achievements I get for doing that - I don't chase them, but I do like to sometimes look back on my play history.
I hope they keep building on this - they have an incredible foundation for a long running space adventure. Such a shame that they didn't wait a few more months to release it, and also that the fact that it was an Xbox exclusive drew the fire from the warriors, because it's absolutely worth playing (for fans of Bethesda RPGs at the very least) and seems to be getting better and better.
First game in a long time that I'm thinking about when I'm not playing it. I'm not going to really touch creations until I've finished the game and got whatever achievements I get for doing that - I don't chase them, but I do like to sometimes look back on my play history.
I hope they keep building on this - they have an incredible foundation for a long running space adventure. Such a shame that they didn't wait a few more months to release it, and also that the fact that it was an Xbox exclusive drew the fire from the warriors, because it's absolutely worth playing (for fans of Bethesda RPGs at the very least) and seems to be getting better and better.