Did a quick googling after your post and found this. The promo says "Early 2023" while the previous wording from Bethesda was "First half of 2023". No guarantee it's in the first quarter, but increased likelihood for sure
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Starfield gameplay revealed
- Thread starter Biosnake
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Considering they didn't show this during gameplay reveal, which is prime time to show off such features like NMS did back in the day, I seriously doubt we can seamlessly fly to and from planets. It's still Creation Engine and it has always heavily relied on zone instancing. There is hoping it's one of the things they want to get to working with extra time from small delay, but then they already will have their hands full with performance overall.
Every BGS game has been First Person, so I'm not sure why you expected different?
Absolutely not. I want 900 of those 1,000 planets to be barren rocks with no redeemable features or points of interest beyond maybe looking vaguely cool.
One of the worst things about NMS was basically every planet having critters and plants and a trading post. If everywhere is special, nowhere is.
Game Pass / Microsoft Store games have been fully moddable for a year or more, including all the existing Bethesda games on Game Pass:
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You just click a little "Enable Mods" button and you have full access, just like with a Steam release.
Now there's someone who gets it... I want ME1 style planets, bigger scale, better exploration and I'm gonna mod the ME1 Mako in, you mark my words :)
Eh, I've always been part of that "vocal minority" that didn't really like their past output and this is their first game where I'm getting tentatively hyped.
For the concept they are selling, the visual style, the sheer size and scope, etc.
Of course, they still have plenty of room to disappoint me in the long run, but count me reasonably well impressed about most of what we've seen so far.
mind blowing graphics? Damn, I'm bad at recognising sarcasm in Textform.
This. Would have had more impact rather than explaining everything which killed the flow.
Hopefully a video out soon on that.
If the game doesn't feature that by launch I'm 100% sure planetary landing/take-off will be priority #1 of moders.
The visual detail is actually incredible in this game. Either people didn't look at the 4K gameplay afterwards or are just acting in bad faith.Yes.
yeah, no- Nothing in those pictures is screaming "mind blowing graphics" for me. Good locking. Maybe I really need to see 4k uncompressed footage.
Can you show another RPG game on this scale and in this detail? I really want to see your scale as someone who considers my comments as sarcasm.
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Ahhh looks great! :D.
A bit unfortunate that it got delayed, because I want to get my hands on it sooner haha, but it's understandable. Although I am crossing my fingers for the launch still 🤣 . I think the initial months will still be somewhat turbulent heh.
Yeah, moreover that conversation is hyper-focused on the technical side at some times, whereas in general, I think most people would just cater to the whole visual presentation and whether it just has that: "Looks good" vibe.
Tale as old as time :p.
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Yep. Compare this to The Outer Worlds for example. The No Mans Sky comparisons don't surprise me, gamers see space and spaceships and think Wow NMS, much like any game with mountains is BoTW, I say this with the graphics quality being not even in the top 5 things I care about in this game.
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It really looks amazing. Especially with all those mechanics and the scale that will be included. Comparing this with your typical assassins creed open world games is like comparing a piece of paper with a book.
I feel like people are conflating art direction and visual fidelity. Art direction will be highly subjective, but material and texture detail in Starfield is pretty great, especially for the kind of game it is.
Don't get me wrong. Those pictures are looking good. But what I saw (yes, yes, compressed I know) didnt wowed me. I've witnessed 30 years of fabricated bullshots and promises in gameannouncements. Maybe am just to grumpy. when I see this game I think about Star Citizen and Elite Dangerous. Years old.
I would say the art style is awesome but the visual fidelity is nothing I get exited about. I want to see more gameplay material and espaccialy from a independent source.
Star Citizen looks insane, does it not? The difference is Starfield will most likely come out in the next 12 months, Star Citizen probably won't come out in the next 12 years.
Well Star citizen is still playable. (Not that im a fan of the game or the Alpha, beta politic in general). Starfield is a Bethesda game. Soo 12 months till release but how long till playable?
I loved most of the Bethesda games (expect F76) and hope that this game will deliver. Im sceptical about the used engine, but maybe im just too sceptical.
Can't wait for this. Glad it got delayed so they can polish it some more. But I loved exploring planets in Mass Effect 1, even the empty ones. I wonder if we'll get planets with weird stuff, like the planet with waves in Interstellar.
Seems a bit hyperbolic, but if that's the premise you want to go off, then I have nothing else to say that would change your mind.
Considering the scale of the game, I'd say its case is just fine.
Load screens aren't exactly a big deal anymore, but the demo implied they will use cinematic transition scenes to move between the different states.
I doubt zooming around the planet will be a thing, it's an extra level of tech that this type of game doesn't really need, but a buggy to drive around in would be nice.
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I think that most of the planets' surface will be empty spaces, and many will be just giant balls of resources (like most planets in real space?). Even earth's surface is mostly uninhabited.
weird dig. AC games have a lot of issues, but the graphics and world building is not one of them.
So, just to make sure I'm following this correctly, you think Starfield isn't visually impressive, and it mostly just reminds you of the visual standards of Star Citizen, one of the most bleeding edge and technically impressive games currently in development?
Are you a time traveller from the future? Which open world RPG does impress you visually at the moment?
I took it as more referring to the systems. That whole wide as an ocean, deep as a puddle thing.
I do think the graphics in this game are among the best i've ever seen, especially considering the scope.
I think that the showed media is nothing I got hyped about. and when asked about what similar game I was asked about I do think that is similar. Star citizen is the game that comes to mind. I was not saying that I see them in the same league. Just a similar style. This game still looks like it uses the Creation engine. This maybe left a bad taste for me.
No open world game impresses me visually at the moment. When I see Unreal Engine 5 games there is something special.
What the problem with this place that everything is just hype or hate?
For god sake is it so hard to accept that someone can have different opinion?
And I'm truly happy for you. Nor do I want to tell you that you are wrong.
i want to see the scope in action before I consider this as a factor.
The take off montage (same angle, different angles) is really not a good sign of that happening.
What impressed me is that i think this is a quantum leap for Bethesda in terms of visuals. When Fallout 4 was announced, i was pretty underwhelmed by it's graphics, but Starfield is looking so good in visual fidelity, atmosphere, lightining that it took me by suprise. My only concern now is how is it going to perform.
and now just imagine being able to pick up every item in the world in typical bethesda fashion.. oof how i missed that in 76. It just wasnt the same. :'cYes.
Only thing that bothers me is that it looks as though we have to wear a helmet most of the time. I like to see my character ffs.
If its not an option already I bet there will be a hide helmet mod in like a week after release.
yeap. PC is the way to go unless they offer "mod support" again on consoles.
I think it depends on the planet as not every planet will have suitable oxygen.
I think the issue is, your opinion is based on compressed footage, which you were open about. You also intimated that someone with a different opinion than yours must have been being sarcastic. Like others have said, for the scale and scope of this game, I think the graphics are great.
The performance of the footage we've seen is a concern, but I'm not sure what people were expecting from the graphics.