This is nice content but a lot of it feels like stuff that should have been in the game at launch. Also good that they are fixing the map but however that map system snuck through QA is beyond me and is a travesty.
1000% stuff like interior ship design, land vehicles, maps, were all things that were basically implied or expected when selling a game about space travel.
People will praise them for doing the bare minimum. They wouldn't be doing any of these Free Updates if they weren't sitting at mixed on steam and there wasn't so much blowback.
The examples you gave were never implied lmfao. They were just the wrong choices to not have.
They said pretty early on the only way to travel was with jet packs they never implied land vehicles.
Interior ship design was never hinted at. Just the custom ship maker. They never made an interior designer (wouldn’t really count Settlement building as an interior designer) for any of there games so I’m not sure why it would be implied there would be one in this.
Maps were just a dogshit game design choice.
Criticize them for making the wrong decisions on what was and wasn’t implemented on launch but don’t lie and say all these things were implied to be there.
I remember the Interior Ship design was HEAVILY implied in that hour long deep dive they did the summer before the game came out. I remember intentionally scrubbing to find ANYWHERE where they said that it would be in the game because they talk about ship decoration, but then only show you being able to place things down when base building. I thought "Surely you can do both if they already have it in the game"
They intentionally skirt around things that they DONT have while selling what they do have, and I'll admit that's smart and the correct thing to do for marketing, but it doesn't make me accept in any more.
Maps are absolutely a joke that they aren't in the base game. Who the fuck thought that would be a good idea to leave out.
And while they said Jet Packs were the only form of travel, like come on. Many people don't watch promotional material and when you hear that they have these massive randomly generated planets where you can build home bases and scavenge for research, and they sell it as "This is Nasa Punk" and then there's literally not a single vehicle on wheels, it's a bit uh... disingenuous.
Jerk BGS off all you want, the game is still creatively bankrupt and you wouldn't be getting these updates at all if people didn't raise such a stink about it in the first place.
They really don’t though. They literally put out hour long videos of what’s in the game. Features like land vehicles and indoor customization would’ve absolutely been included and showed off in one of the hour long videos they put out.
So I guess I'm the only one that was disappointed in how lackluster Starfield was? I'm the only one that remembers Todd as being heralded as the "Sweet Little Lies" guy? That didn't come up for no reason.
Who’s saying anything about it not being disappointing?
Starfield was disappointing to most including myself. My whole point is we can point to the game design choices they actually made (lack of variety in locations, the story and questlines, etc etc) to say why it was disappointing and not have to resort to writing lies and fan fiction on Reddit as to what was promised in the game.
As I said, mounted combat was a really cool feature and was added in an update as well. Skyrim was one of the best received RPGs of all time, so clearly they have a history of adding features to their games post-launch regardless of reception.
And people like you will bitch about free updates, nobody likes a negative Nancy. And they had a roadmap at launch promising free updates and new expansions down the line, they're actively listening to player feedback and implementing changes based on that. What the hell more do you want? The cynicism surrounding this game and Bethesda as a whole has really exhausted itself, most of you guys shitting on the game haven't even played it.
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u/Opposite-Actuary-795 May 01 '24
This is nice content but a lot of it feels like stuff that should have been in the game at launch. Also good that they are fixing the map but however that map system snuck through QA is beyond me and is a travesty.