I have about 128 hours into Starfield, annnnd… you know how they give you a tutorial that’s on rail for the most part, then tell you “go there to do very important thing” and you see a squirrel, chase it, and suddenly you exposed corruption at the highest levels, found out where certain aliens come from, destroyed an entire faction, became a celebrity in a deadly game and people all over love you for the incredible acts of bravery? Then you decide to go where they told you and find out that no, the tutorial wasn’t over yet? That’s me. 128 hours of fucking with pirates, looting everything, helping everyone with the most weird requests and overall having a blast.
That said if you want Fallout in space uh, probably wait for a big sale. Also while it works fine on the Deck (much to my surprise) I didn’t play more than a few hours that way. It’s very cpu intensive.
From the responses it seems like it’s a divisive game. You either like it or don’t. I’ll probably wait until it’s on sale and modded tear it apart like you recommended. And it’s funny running a steam deck how pretty much every game (even ancient ones like 688i Hunter-Killer) works out of the box. Just enable Proton and play. Now if only Vortex worked as easily… So I’m not too surprised Starfield works. I watched an hour of gameplay and it looks like it has the scavenging, but I didn’t see any use for it besides the fill-spaceship-with-random-object meme.
You can craft stuff, upgrade weapons and space suits. Lots of things are just crap to sell, and here’s a thing I enjoy doing: I find a mission asking me to kill a pirate in a ship somewhere, go there, “convince” them to let me in their ship, then I “negotiate” a transfer of ownership. I land somewhere I can buy and sell ships, sell my new acquisition. ALL THE CRAP it had gets moved into my ship. I go sell dozens of note pads, singular playing cards, half eaten sandwiches and so on, all nearly worthless stuff but it adds up lol
I have about 128 hours into Starfield, annnnd… you know how they give you a tutorial that’s on rail for the most part, then tell you “go there to do very important thing” and you see a squirrel, chase it, and suddenly you exposed corruption at the highest levels, found out where certain aliens come from, destroyed an entire faction, became a celebrity in a deadly game and people all over love you for the incredible acts of bravery? Then you decide to go where they told you and find out that no, the tutorial wasn’t over yet? That’s me. 128 hours of fucking with pirates, looting everything, helping everyone with the most weird requests and overall having a blast.
That said if you want Fallout in space uh, probably wait for a big sale. Also while it works fine on the Deck (much to my surprise) I didn’t play more than a few hours that way. It’s very cpu intensive.
From the responses it seems like it’s a divisive game. You either like it or don’t. I’ll probably wait until it’s on sale and modded tear it apart like you recommended. And it’s funny running a steam deck how pretty much every game (even ancient ones like 688i Hunter-Killer) works out of the box. Just enable Proton and play. Now if only Vortex worked as easily… So I’m not too surprised Starfield works. I watched an hour of gameplay and it looks like it has the scavenging, but I didn’t see any use for it besides the fill-spaceship-with-random-object meme.
You can craft stuff, upgrade weapons and space suits. Lots of things are just crap to sell, and here’s a thing I enjoy doing: I find a mission asking me to kill a pirate in a ship somewhere, go there, “convince” them to let me in their ship, then I “negotiate” a transfer of ownership. I land somewhere I can buy and sell ships, sell my new acquisition. ALL THE CRAP it had gets moved into my ship. I go sell dozens of note pads, singular playing cards, half eaten sandwiches and so on, all nearly worthless stuff but it adds up lol