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Starfield Thread - now with Shattered Space horror expansion

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What i find infuriating is the utter lack of actual pretty clothes in the game. Hell the only person i saw wearing a skirt had not even pumps but freaking flat boots!
I agree. It makes sense that spacers will wear function clothes, but the game is very clear that most people don't actually go into space, so it makes no sense for them all to be dressed like they're an extra from Equilibrium.
I don't think any game does shoes all that well though, because the moment you start adding thick soles or heels, you have to change the way your character walks, which is probably a lot of work.

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What i find infuriating is the utter lack of actual pretty clothes in the game. Hell the only person i saw wearing a skirt had not even pumps but freaking flat boots!
I agree. It makes sense that spacers will wear function clothes, but the game is very clear that most people don't actually go into space, so it makes no sense for them all to be dressed like they're an extra from Equilibrium.
I don't think any game does shoes all that well though, because the moment you start adding thick soles or heels, you have to change the way your character walks, which is probably a lot of work.

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Is worse than that tho. Lack of heels is a thing but even if i dont want to wear heels that day if i want to dress fancy i wear laced sandals dresses that shows legs or with sides of the torso. Or even a little bit of cleavage.
Proble is the game even for common clothes makes everyone wear gender neutered crap looks like sleepwear
 

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Imagine playing this on Normal jfc I can only imagine how face roll the combat is
I suck at shooters so for me it's good :lol:

tho I did beat FO4 on survival where even at high levels you could still die in one hit, not looking for this kind of experience for my first playthrough tho
 
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Imagine playing this on Normal jfc I can only imagine how face roll the combat is
games like fo4 and death stranding must be mind-numbing for people who play on lower difficulties. games journalists probably played sf on easy and thought it was shit
 

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you are forcing me to read your shit which has nothing to do with the game
Even that is a your choice. You could ignore me and not reading my post instead you chosen to read dont blame it on me! :D
just shut up

You really hate women don't you? Maybe spend less time in shitty Bethestard games and go outside and touch grass? You are really angry when women respond to you. Of course, probably 95% of 'women' on this forum are trannies because the only thing more common on the 'Dex these days then an angry neckbeard who gets no pussy, are mentally ill males who think they are women.
 

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Is worse than that tho. Lack of heels is a thing but even if i dont want to wear heels that day if i want to dress fancy i wear laced sandals dresses that shows legs or with sides of the torso. Or even a little bit of cleavage.
Proble is the game even for common clothes makes everyone wear gender neutered crap looks like sleepwear
There is like a skirt suit sold in Neon and a recolor of it. I think the boldest you can go in this game is wearing a wifebeater.
 

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Proble is the game even for common clothes makes everyone wear gender neutered crap looks like sleepwear
I picked the christoid background and one of the items you get from the chest is a robe that looked like it could be religious garb but it's just "streetwear". I looked it up and the euphoric fedora background gives you a poncho.

https://gamerant.com/starfield-sanc...new-atlantis-raised-universal-chest-contents/
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https://gamerant.com/starfield-hous...w-atlantis-raised-enlightened-chest-contents/
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the atheist priest looks exactly as you'd expect, at least

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Zed Duke of Banville

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When you take off all your clothes, your companion will react to it. Well, Sarah does, at least. "Wow, you must be freezing."
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This isn't new. They do this Skyrim and Oblivion.
Morrowind already had NPC comments for the player-character being completely naked, but this relied on the PC not having any armor/clothing equipped, because it used, for the conditional statement, the total value of clothing/armor being worn by the player-character, including rings, belts, amulets, shoes, and headgear. For Oblivion, Bethesda created a new variable indicating whether the player-character had any piece of clothing/armor equipped that covered the relevant body areas, since these were now covered by a single piece rather than separate pieces of armor/clothing as with Morrowind, Daggerfall, and Arena.

A futuristic sci-fi cosmos where humans remain the only rationally ensouled creatures is implicitly Christian. Sure, you can make your Type 1 they/them body sway and sashay like a girl; Todd, like God, permits his children to choose sin and death if they so wish. Deus vult, Todd.
TEUS VULT

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They should really stop making FPS rpgs. They suck.

1. Get new loot, it's a cool gun.
2. Shoot new gun at dude in a t-shirt
3. Dude dies after fourteen full mags
4. Throw away gun, uninstall game


Typical FPS RPG content. The problem is that standard RPG mechanics like high HP and armor don't work with FPS games. Nobody wants to shoot a gazillion flesh tank enemies except consoomers.

Proper FPS RPG combat difficulty should come from options, tactics and AI. Not just numbers go up.

But those are difficult and don't make money. It's the reason why FPS AI hasn't improved significantly since FEAR/Half Life 2.
Metal Gear is like that, phenomenal games. I just don't understand how that's going to work in an rpg. Because there's no really building of your character properly in an fps rpg. Unless you build for stealth gameplay, everything is going to feel bullet spongey. You just don't feel the proper impact of character building in an FPS rpg.

There are no great games that are FPS RPGs (besides New Vegas which still has VATS and the combat is the worst part.) They are two different styles of games that don't synergize.
Worked just fine in Deus Ex. And although you played most of it third person, jedi outcast/academy. You can still have enemies where it makes sense to be bullet sponges (vehicles, robots, power armor), you can have enemies that (visibly) dodge projectiles, or deflect them with abilities/gadgets. The only barrier is dev imagination, and possibly enemy AI.
 

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I'm kind of digging the New Game+ loop. Because you lose all your gear, you have to gear up from the beginning, which makes a lot of loot useful early on.

But the ship you get sucks, no bed, no crafting tables, tho it's super fast. I switched back to the Frontier, that ship has grown on me.
 

Zed Duke of Banville

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I've been trawling back trough the thread and the character models are next level ugly

Why didn't Starfield go bold and do something graphically akin to this post? It would have looked fresh and taken the aforementioned developmental leap. It just looks like all veteran developers (looking at Toddler/ Cain, Boyarsky (Outer Worlds) are just jaded now and looking to make a quick mega buck.
Brofisted your post, but on the subject of character faces, it's important to remember that the unique, interactable NPCs are generally far better designed than the procedurally-generated, non-interactive NPCs that exist only in order to fill space in settlements.

These are probably the nine most attractive women for which I have suitable screenshots, who are not necessarily the nine most attractive women I've encountered, much less in the entire game:

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Granted, the supposed existence of technology that allows for complete facial alteration would realistically result in women being far more attractive than is the case in the game.

Though it seems that one of the writers or artists dislikes plastic surgery:

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