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I have been moderately interested in Starfield and anticipated it would follow the pattern of other Bethesda endeavours. Which is to say it takes a while post-release for they and their mod community to get it to a state I am at all interested.

Are we there yet?



No, its bad. Genuinely bad. This was the first Bethesda game I actually found bugs on day 1 for. I've played all their other games on launch and its never been this bad for me. I usually rarely spot bugs, I don't know if I just have the right hardware or what, but it just never happens to me.

The other problem is they did a major update, which broke a ton of mods. Then with their own mod store, they made it so only paid mods are considered "savefile safe" for enabling of achievements, which means every other mod I find that isn't a paid mod has a descriptiong along the lines of "I AM NO LONGER MAINTAINING THIS DUE TO BETHESDA WANTING TO PAYWALL SIMPLE FREE MODS JUST TO LET YOU SAVE WITHOUT ACHIEVEMENTS" or something like that, I've seen a few completely different mod authors just abandone ship completely.

This is probably their worst goof ever. I'm genuinely angered enough that if the next Elder Scrolls flops I may have to write off one of my all-time favorite game development studios.

I love Bethesda, but they're falling off real hard, and the only difference that could be affecting that is Microsoft in my eyes.

Just think. Starfield could have been a Game of the Year game. It was not.

It also only has one single DLC.

I love the game, its just not looking like it will ever meet its potential. I read on reddit a commend that I agree with, the only thing that could save Starfield now is a "Directors Cut" release.


Skyrim on day one came out with a game breaking bug in the main quest, and it crashed a lot too. Starfield's problem is that it's a very boring procgen hell.


They cut out a ton of content, they should have left most of it in. There's more problems beyond just procedural generation. All the companions hold the same views. Even the bounty hunting group feels incomplete.




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