One of the most infuriating parts of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Starfield is the space travel. I spent far too many skill points buffing my spaceships before realising that, aside from 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:dogfig൲hts that feel straight out of Star Trek, your meticulously-upgraded spacecraft is little more than an🌟other base you’✤ve built to craft on the go. Unless…
Starfield is very tutorial-light. It may not feel like it, with the stuttering pace of the opening, but there are so many systems to get to grips with in the game that explaining them all would take hours. Whether you’re 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:building your own spacecraft from scratch or just trying to use your base to mine minerals, you’ll have to do a lot of trial and error before you work out how things work and w🦂hat your limitations are. The same goes for sailing the stars.
Many players, myself included, lamented the lack of ‘proper’ space travel in the game. There’s a reason one of our guide writers spen🐠t four hours trying to fly from Mars’ orbit to the planet itself, only for the game to pull him uไp a kilometre short.
The only way to get from planet to planet is via fast travel. The same goes for getting from orbit to a planet’s surface, from a planet to a moon, or (perhaps more understandably) from system to system. Open the menu, navigate to the map, select the system, planet, and landing area you want, hold X, cutscene and loading screen ensues. Et voila, you have arrived at your destinatiꦿon. It’s tedious, boring, and completely fails to immerse you in the univers✃e Bethesda has created.
While ‘exploring’ Starfield, I often thought back to playing Skyrim, and the excitement of stumbling upon new towns, encampments, and caves along my way. From the moment you emerge out of the Helgen tunnels, you’re immersed in Tamriel. You see the animals and the streams, the people and the quests, you kill a chicken and fight off an entire enraged village. It pulls you in immediately, and a lot of that comes down to the fact you’re forging your own path on foot. You look at the mountains yourself, maybe you try to climb one. You follow a fox to some loot. You explore the world of Skyrim at your ow💫n pace, on your own two feet, and see the world as you would explore it in real life.
Conversely, Starfield immerses you in its story by sending you deep into a mine. It’s the opposite of what most people want to do in the game – I want to fly among the stars, not get a second job going down ‘pit – and it’s boring. It’s immediately followed by a big fight, which prepares you 𝔉for exactly what to expect with this game, and then you’re finally let loose to fast travel the stars. It’s incredibly underwhelming, and the less-than-stellar travel is the biggest disappointment in a dull opening.
However, Bethesda hides one key part of space travel: your scanner♔. You know that piece of equipment that allows you to check whether a pile of ore on a planet is Aluminium or Titanium? Yeah, you can use that in space. And when you do, a host of new options open up.
Pressing LB when piloting your ship to open your scanner. Now you can check what minerals𓄧 meteorites are made of before you blow them up to harvest them (yeah, you can do that too), but you can also see tags on visible planets in your system.
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Want to travel from Earth to the Moon – sorry, from Earth to Luna? Open your scanner and you can press X right from your pilot’s seat to initiate that fast travel sequence. This can go surprisingly far within a system, and is far more immersive than the usual menu-filled methodꦜ. Yes, you’re still travelling via loading screen, but it feels better to plot your course in 🔴real space than in a gamified menu.
You can also fast travel directly to your selected quest this way, by hovering over the blue quest marker which appears in the galaxy. Of course, you’ll need to abide by the usual fast travel rules requiring you to have travelled the route to the system before,🧜 but it still feels good.
Space travel in Starfield still isn’t great, but utilising your onboard scanner mak෴es it a little more immersive than t𒈔he menu method of fast travel that most of us have used for our playthroughs so far.