PODCAST - Starfield: Shattered Space (DEEP DIVE) 

You: Worrying about powers. Me: Always forget I have powers and die.

Gopher, dont apologize for pausing. We are here for you, if people just want to watch the traiker they can go find it on their own

I remember getting one of the first 1gb drives available back in the days and thinking that I would never ever need more storage. Now I'm using a 10tb drive as mass storage and I wish it was bigger.

I remember the days... Please insert disk 24 of 25 to continue, Error detected, please insert disk 1 of 25 to restart

You should play Thief Gold and Thief II, with both modded out. So immersive, even now.

Very first gaming pc I had was a Commodor 64. I played games on both cartridges and floppys on that thing.

Really wanna get my hands on that particle minigun

I am happy that I will be playing it in October. Spooky story during spooky month. Not too happy about what it will do to the mods I am using but still worth it. If anyone including Gopher wants to make the gun fights epic experiences use these three mods: Double enemy numbers, Bedlam- Dungeon randomizer and Ganymede -improved system encounter levels.

And before he starts the Deep dive, i start hearing "when I was a boy stories". Remember when you had to make games yourself by punching cards for a program in Basic to submit to a card reader? On the "handcrafted" comment.... It could be done, what they would need to do is have someone generate the landforms separately and then construct a couple of possible locations or quests in each. If it were done right then it might prove to be more enjoyable as no one suffers from Loadingscreenitis so much. Still they did mention the DLC size as equivalent to previous DLC's so.... Shivering Isles? It's probably just a water world with one landmass. For handcrafted planets, could you imagine teams of modders coming together to handcraft a star system... like Starfield: Britain? I think I need to get in and play around with the shipcrafting for my Va'ruun character in order to get the Vehicle module, though perhaps they'll have vehicle hiring LOL I only remember to use powers when I get confused about somethings, like I'll use the life-sight when I'm boarding a big ship and can't tell where the remaining vict.... people are. Loved the Marvin the Martian accent LOL.

I like your optimisum on the scale of hand crafted locations. I feel the same way

Ratchet and Clank had several entirely hand crafted planets you could walk around! They were about 50ft in diameter though :P

I drove around for about 30-45 minutes, back when the Rev-8 dropped. It was pretty fun. Then I got hit with a common issue were I couldn't exit the buggy, due to a conflict with StarUI. I got it sorted out, after finding a "workaround" online. It was fun for a bit, but I did think it would be better if I had some place NEW to explore. Because driving around three planets I knew very well, were still kind of mmuh.. The best thing about the Rev-8 (that I discovered last minute) was it DOES have a "PEW-PEW" tied to the head tracking. Good times. Edit Fixed grammar Also wanted to point out the "irony" of the car being referred to as a "Buggy". Both in-game and by Bethesda. I'm pretty sure it's intentional.

They damned well better have groats on Va'ruun'Kai.

Glory to the house of Quark!

My plan has been to play through the dlc with a character that has been a Varuun following besty of Andreja, who has only completed the corpo questline. Minimal superpowers and primarily a mele sneak-thief. I think the character is around the mid-30s level wise, but I haven't played the game for months, so idk. As you say, we'll see. I am interested to see how (or if) the dlc responds to devoted followers of The Great Serpent.

Love the thought of playing the game without some powers, or restricted when they get used. Would add some edginess.

Commerdoor 64 eith the trippy flashing lights on the load screen

@Gophers Vids... The entire experience is handcrafted, or at least a majority of it... Not only that, but you can leave at your leisure.. you're not "planet locked" or "mission-locked" or even "system locked" for that matter... So if you have business to take care of halfway across the Galaxy or wherever.. you can leave in the middle of a mission and go do what you need to do or whenever you'd like.. and come back later.

I remember all of that too

Beth starts their dlc around level 10 anyway

Sooo yeah. My view of this is "nope". I like the designed world but nope on the horror aspect.

I mean I've been doing well with all difficulty options to extreme. And I never upgrade powers.

I wondered when/if they were going to do the whole 'the walls between universes are weakening' trope. Makes sense in this universe moreso than many who've used it. Still gonna wait to buy it till after seeing if Gopher et all say it's worth it. I've got a baby character I had been playing till I decided to go back to TTW. Murphy, they're an ugly violent loudmouth who's going for the highest legal bodycount possible. Sick of playing pretty goody two-shoes who can talk their way out of everything. I just got a mod that gives 90 perk points at the start. Plenty to get to mid-power. Still have to complete the 'challenges' to unlock the perks. Personally I'd want the perk points to go away entirely, just level up through doing like in Oblivion with base stats tied to overall level like Skyrim, but it's not too bad as-is.

They knew they wanted that, but do you think the game would have been out?

Completely handcrafted I imagine the POIs are placed by hand, but I doubt they won{t use generation then modify them.

It was very clear that Va'ruun was pulled back from the spotlight in order to build mystery for a future storyline. They planned this from the beginning just like they said, but the first goal was to create a massive space game. If you saw the interview with the retired designer, there were huge systems that got cut because there just wasn't time in the schedule/budget to reach a high quality bar. Every time Bethesda adds something people say "Should have been there at launch" and they will continue to say that because they are ignorant to the realities of how things are made. You have a set amount of money and time, and whatever you create is what gets shipped or cancelled. Bethesda could have easily made a mass effect derivative game with big guardrails and no shipbuilding, but that wasn't the game they wanted to make, and I'm so happy we get to play the big-open space game. It can only get better from where it started.

I wait 10 minutes to load up a Starfield save.

I felt like you used the "detect life" ability too much in your playthrough. As a consequence you were shooting intervening walls a heck of a lot. Might actually help to limit it. First, get your sense of where the walls are in a new area and then detect life, and plan out your attack?

I'm going to be incredibly disappointed if Andraja isn't part of this DLC and has new dialogue, I'm hoping she is how we start the DLC, but she was not mentioned once in this sneak peak. especially if you had romanced her

it's one handcrafted Tile around the city of Dazra. the rest of the planet is most probably procedural but with PoIs that fit the lore of the planet

Do you not have an earlier lower level save from your main character? And just play from rhere.

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