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Todd Howard says they're working on 'other display modes on console' for Starfield (60fps)
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midnightAI
Member
Yes, that's what's wrong with Starfield, display modes /s
bender
What time is it?
Kuranghi
Member
Genuinely does anyone give a shit at this point? What a massive letdown this game was and is 
If you got a lot of enjoyment out of it then I'm not meaning to take that away from you, but it didn't provide even close to the excitement I felt with Skyrim et al when I first played those games, even after I accepted the games limitations and played it on its own terms.
If you got a lot of enjoyment out of it then I'm not meaning to take that away from you, but it didn't provide even close to the excitement I felt with Skyrim et al when I first played those games, even after I accepted the games limitations and played it on its own terms.
Topher
Gold Member
Wolfpact1983
Member
bender
What time is it?
Or maybe that's the best that BGS can do these days.
LordCBH
Member
Seeing how they couldn’t even release the next Gen fallout 4 with all the advertised features (like a working quality mode on Xbox), you may be right.
Actual footage of me in Helldivers 2
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
lol this is by far the most polished bethesda game they have shipped. aside from some CPU related issues in towns, the game ran just fine.
bender
What time is it?
I just think they've rested on their laurels too much and a lot and the things that you might have overlooked ten years ago (or twenty in my case) aren't as forgivable anymore. My favorite part of the backlash against Starfield is it's the same reaction I've had with everything that came after Morrowind. I was just ahead of the curve for once and I welcome my new found friends.
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
I dont know how they get 60 fps in towns but outside of towns, 60 fps should be doable if they drop resolution down to 720-900p like most other games do. Maybe they have improved CPU usage since.
Or maybe hes talking about a 40 fps mode.
Or maybe hes talking about a 40 fps mode.
Spitfire098
Member
Genuinely does anyone give a shit at this point? What a massive letdown this game was and is
Yes?
The game will continue to have updates, official mod support via creation kit comes soon (incl consoles) and there’s the DLC coming end year. Getting better performance for those who return to the title is a good thing.
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
But Fallout 4 is still way more fun than Starfield and you can see that from the reception after the show launch. People went back to it after playing starfield and found the old bethesda with all their flaws more engaging.
There is something just deeply wrong with Starfield and while it might be due to some Bethesda trademark jank, i think in a lot of ways it doesnt feel like a bethesda game. the sense of discovery for one is completely missing. Especially when exploring planets. there is no stumbling into a brand new storyline when entering a random dungeon. In this case, a cave or a space ship. The combat in Fallout 4 is so much more fun than the barebones almost perfunctory combat in Starfield.
I too have never really considered Bethesda games GOTYs like everyone else does, so its not like im a bethesda fanboy, but that bethesda magic of exploration in Elder Scrolls games and the sheer randomness of fallout is completely absent in Starfield. The dialogue trees alone are so poorly done. It was great to see your player speak in Fallout 4. Why remove that? its just not the same having one way conversations especially since there is so much more of it in starfield.
I dont know, Starfield didnt feel like a bethesda game to me. i wish it was, at least it wouldve been far more enjoyable than the forgettable mediocrity it turned out to be.
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ShaiKhulud1989
Gold Member
Because there is nothing to brake there lol. The game is so barebones that they will patch city maps half a year after release.
Content-wise it’s the most barebones Bethesda release since Redguard.
Pedro Motta
Member
JackMcGunns
Member
Yes, resolutions scaling for 60fps will be very welcome. Shattered Space and this will have me coming back.
bender
What time is it?
That's like saying having Chlamydia is more preferable than having Gonorrhea.
CamHostage
Member
40 sounds more realistic and beneficial (unless they can really optimize it in some unexpected ways. ) However, it's a fairly niche feature, I'm not sure why Howard would bother to comment on a "Oh, that's a nice surprise" type of addition.
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Pagusas
Elden Member
yeah, when its under 60fps things get bad with frame gen.
soulbait
Member
I think the biggest issue with Starfield is they went with "realistic space" versus "fantasy space". Look at their other games, Elder Scrolls is a complete fantasy game with different races and such to choose from. Fallout, while taking place on our Earth, its setting is an idealization of the future dreamed of those in the 50s-60s. So it is still fantasy and does not match our true future.
Starfield took what we know to be true about space now, and applied it to if we could actually travel the stars. And what we know about space right now is: most planets are boring, empty rocks. People complain that most of the planets are boring and empty: well that is how space is. Their choice to make the game more grounded sci-fi, made it boring. What made it even more boring is there was no need for space in the games. The main storyline could happen on a single planet, with the temples a such hidden around the world. Going to planet to planet was not needed for the story, because in the end it was all about humans. If they would have added other intelligent, alien races, then I think it might have landed a little bit better. The gameplay complaints would still be there that some people have, but now the space aspect is needed for the story. Instead we got human settlements with empty planets in between, when they could have all been different cities on a single map.
My guess is they avoided the aliens so it would not have been directly compared to Mass Effect, and they wanted a more grounded scifi experience.
I still enjoyed Starfield. I completed the game and I am looking forward to the expansion, but I did not feel like hoping right back into it once I was done.
Negotiator101
Member
Its obvious that the Shattered Space DLC will be somewhat of a soft relaunch of the game, I imagine that will come with many technical improvements which will almost certainly include a performance mode. I'm expecting a PS5 version as well for the holiday as they've got no first-party games this year, should sell very well.
ManaByte
Gold Member
NASA Punk was my favorite thing about Starfield.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
A 40hz mode would be nice.
Shut0wen
Member
Tbf the games been recycled 3 times, no mod has removed clutter in the game, its fucked with spaghetti code
James Sawyer Ford
Gold Member
The only thing not polished are the story, gameplay, animations, level design, UI, NPCs, weapons, and various gameplay systems
But yeah, not many game breaking bugs when your game at its core is broken
DanielG165
Member
Starfield is far and away the most polished title that Bethesda have developed, performance wise. Absolutely zero issues with performance during my multiple hours of playing it. 30fps on the Xbox consoles doesn’t correlate to “useless turd”. Regardless of personal feelings related to this game, its performance is the opposite of horrible.
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DaleinCalgary
Member
A decent game would be nicer
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
It's a good game, so already one step ahead of decent. Just needs a few more options.
hououinkyouma00
Member
It's a boring buggy game with trash exploration, trash gameplay, trash characters, and trash performance.
yurinka
Member
Maybe 60fps for the PS5 and PS5 Pro versions. They may have optimized some stuff while porting. They should optimize, to properly include it on Steamdeck too.
I don't see why this game doesn't run flawlessly well on Steamdeck, when games like No Man's Sky or Helldivers 2 run pretty well there.
I don't see why this game doesn't run flawlessly well on Steamdeck, when games like No Man's Sky or Helldivers 2 run pretty well there.
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Nah, it's fine. People overblow it as usual.
Topher
Gold Member
Just because you and I like it doesn't mean the opinions of those who don't are "overblown".
I played it on fairly beefy PC and thought performance was ok. Could definitely be better though. I can't see any reason for this game not to have a performance mode on XSX though.
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hououinkyouma00
Member
The beginning of Starfield had me excited because I genuinely thought it looked pretty good and it was running pretty well. Then once I got out of that intro it looked like ass and ran like shit.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Everyone's entitled to their opinions, but you can't deny that this games 'negatives' were overblown to a higher extent than most cases.
30 FPS or not, calling it a useless turd is just a tad big extreme, no?
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