Starfield Beat Me 

It's okay. There's no secret that Starfield looks like one of those infomercial products: it feels amazing at first; but the more you use it, the more reasons you get to regret buying it.

I developed a reflex where I add a year or two to the release date of any AAA game and concider tthat being the actual relsease date. Everytime the game is cheaper, less buggier and with more content.

I remember that one time in Logan's Dawn where you couldn't get that one room in the Pitt DLC to load in properly and you managed to just roll with it by saying it was a combination of mental trauma and hallucinogenic gas exposure. So if you say Starfield is too much of a strain for your ability to convincingly improvise through *I believe it*

Honestly, I would say just Roleplay Cyberpunk for us, Rycon. Get a mod to mute V, and just voice his lines out. Make an awesome theater play for us all. But anyway, whatever you might plan for us, I wish for you the best with it. I will be eager to wait for it.

That's super valid, and it's important that the creative process stays fun. You made the right call. 👊

Her saying “You kidding me” fits here.

If only cyberpunk didn’t have a voiced mc, there’d be so much potential for a Rp.

Starfield beat me too, man. It beat me too.

Shame that the bugs have finally gotten to you Rycon, I was really digging the story you were telling and honestly it was making starfield a lot more appealing to see that people could still make their “own” story in the game. Is it possible we will ever see the rest of this story? Even if it’s not a summary of where you planned to take it?

It is equaly unfortunate and funny that this happened.

All good dude! Totally get it! I’ve been playing baldurs gate and that’s been really fun to roleplay if you’re looking for something new to use. Not super “cinematic” though

I wondered if this might happen. But kudos to you for trying, Rycon. I definitely didn't have the stones do that myself. I'm staying casual with my play through until I can mod it, lol. Are you going to keep playing Starfield on your own? Or are you stopping completely?

It's frustrating enough when you're just trying to play the game, but when you're trying to record footage for an immersive viewing experience, it gets so much worse.

I think that Pirate forgot that he's in Starfield not Rouge Trader.

Tha absolute gall for Bethesda to charge 70 USD for this mess of a game is absurd. These bugs are completely unacceptable and should never have been let through on launch.

I really don't blame you at all, rycon. i stopped playing starfield only a few weeks after release and i haven't looked back since. it's such a shame considering the potential, but what can you do. it's not your job to make bethesda's game playable and fun.

Starfield beat me into submission a couple times. I uninstalled and wont reinstall till survival is a thing

Have not seen that bug, but on Xbox we have a bug, which has been occurring after the last update. Finishing a mission undocking from space stations, walk to your pilots seat press (A) to sit in pilot seat, and nothing, character freeze for a second, you try again to sit in pilot’s seat , same result. So not only can we not travel from planet to planet, without fast travelling, but now we can’t even sit in our pilot seat.😢Oh Bethesda why.

And Howard was surprised about the game awards

Oh man, I was so looking forward to Starfield, i mean deaign my own ships, fly through space, in a big bethsday rpg. I was exeted to see what the would do with a completely new story! And then it was like i was play a fallout 4 mod. I gave up after my second save got borked. I couldnt leave the building i was in without crashing in the first, the second died when the Key didnt exist.

Glad I never buy stuff until long after most bugs are fixed either by the devs or by modders. More than one reason for that. But has been a thing for nearly 30 years now. Rarely buy anything 'new' or full price when it comes out. Was just sick of getting 'THIS' kinda thing.

Imagine you're Peter Jackson. You're on the set of Lord of the Rings. You're filming the scene where Gandalf, Sir Ian Mccellan, dies. It's a dramatic moment. Tragic. Then. Everytime he goes to shout his iconic line, "YOU! SHALL NOT! PASS!", Ian does his "spaghetti skeleton, fold through the geometry of reality" gag, and you have to cut, and take it from the top, because this fucking GOOFBALL isn't here to make a damn movie, he's here to just turn his whole skeleton into spaghetti and stretch out like he was at the center of a black hole, and if that RUINS your shot, literally DAYS worth of filming, he doesnt fucking care... You can't *NOT* do the scene. This is IMPERATIVE to the film, there's no avoiding it. But, also, nothing you do is gonna stop Ian from folding his body around, and through, reality. There's no trick of the camera you can contrive to avoid getting a shot of his arms twisting together like a double helix and extending like noodles through the roof of your film stage, as his legs stretch through the walls and his fellow actors. That's this. But instead of the distinguished works of Tolkein, with the phenomenal talent of actors and artists that transformed words on a page into tangible reality; it's Tod Howard's latest entry into a long career of barely functional video games held together by gum, tape, and spit literally over two decades old, overworked video capturing and editing software, and some chap from New Zealand trying to hold all *that* together with his creative integrity, and rapidly dwindling patience. In short; This was never a matter of "if", but "when" we'd have to say farewell to Starfield for a while. For the record, there's a *lot* of space sims out there *like* Starfield, so, if there's a professional or personal interest in continuing things with a similar "feel" to it, there's an open market to choose from. Out of curiosity, have you ever considered incorporating the bugs *into* the narrative of the character's perception? Something like a "WOAH! Woahwowah! D-Did you... What the fuck happened to that guy, did you see that? Just me?!" because, I'll admit, Starfield is the one game where you could fold that neatly into the narrative.

Bugthesda. Bugthesda never changes.

Mate, it's totally understandable. Most of my first run of Starfield I was surprised by how few bugs I ran into compared to Skyrim, but you eventually do find them, and they are quite a bit worse than Skyrim's occasional floating mammoths or teleporting NPCs. I'm hoping this game still has enough interest to get modders to create an "Unofficial Starfield Patch" once the creation kit comes out, like we got for all the other games, but I guess we'll have to see. At this point I doubt the modding scene will ever be as good as Skyrim's, but there's still a lot of cool stuff you could do with this game with a script extender and the right people pushing the envelope. Hope to see you back in the starfield if that day ever comes. Kia kaha, Rycon.

I don't even have any major bugs but the emptiness and boringness of the game got to me. Totally understandable, man.

I saw the same bug on Reddit! Good old Bethesda, fix one bug to make another!

Holy Mother of Pearl, wtf was that?

I'm sorry that this happened to you, but if it's any consolation, the game let *you* down, not the other way around. Starfield may not have worked out, but I'm still glad you made these videos; I got to be introduced to a creative writer, editor, and roleplayer. Your talents will shine through, irrespective of the medium that you choose to use. Keep stoking that creative spark, okay? I'll keep an eye out for your next project!

Give the game 10 years and hope the modding community cared enough to fix it by then. Cause most people don't care enough to touch the game and went back to Skyrim and FO4 to mod.

I could see that your PC was struggling with the Graphics and that there was lost of frames. I don't know your setup but this game IS Brutal at 4K and Recording at that setting must have been a struggle. I personally have a RTX 4090 with i7 10700K and maximum at get recording at 4K is 80fps and my CPU is running at 80 celsius and 95-100% Usage on my GPU. Looking forward to you replaying this in the Future Rycon

I'd sooner say that starfield LOST with all these bugs... I was thinking about getting it and making an RP series in it as well but with these kind of stuff? Imma save my money! I can tolerate some loading glitches in Star trek online (even managed to incorporate them into my characters story as he survived Tal Shiar Experiments) ... but this..... IDK how I'd work around this

Totally get it. I was limited to the console so I didn't have PC commands that you had so getting around bugs was entirely impossible. This is why I couldn't get past the 1st episode of my role-play series! It was very disappointing to say the least considering I was also planning for the best. So no apologies necessary! Your work beats all the other role-play work out there so I'm glad this hasn't stopped you from continuing the charge. Great work as always. On to the next adventure!

What you mean to say is that at most points this game fail to immerse, impress, or inspire any real feelings of accomplishment or influence on the world.

It seams like a movie set with a disastrous actor forcing the director to cut again and again

Well, good news is that the Frost Dev team is actually working on a similar overhaul for Starfield. PANPC is out, too. But... it's a long way off for the Frost/Dust mod.

Pirated, played for a bit, uninstalled. Trash game is trash.

it's ok, I hear you...we hear you. this was not the game I thought it would be.

i regret asking you if you were gonna play it, i have as well and it was a complete disappointment.

I ran into the same issues. I dropped about 40 hours on Starfield, even with mods I wasn't gelling with it. I'm hoping by mid-year we get the survival update, DLC timeline and some great modded game overhauls.

Alright, first off, that was funny as all hell. That's like someone got shot by a ludicrous weapon from an Ian M. Banks novel (random strangers, search for The Lazy Gun via your search engine of choice, you won't be disappointed). "He's so good with a pistol, he doesn't send his targets to the Shadow Realm, he brings the Shadow Realm to _them_!" Secondly, I am going to miss this story, but I also understand where you're coming from. I don't know if Starfield will ever get a proper DUST/FROST equivalent, but you could do a lot with an Alternate Start mod that lets you opt into the main quest later ("If you want to start the main questline, go to this city and check the Job Board for a mining gig..." type of deal), along with more patches and a proper Unofficial Patch once the mod tools get released. In the meantime, however, someone made a mod kinda like DUST or FROST for Skyrim, called 'Shattered Skyrim', which might be worth your time to look at if it's not on your radar already.

Mr. Rycon, first, I want to say I'm sorry you cannot continue this roleplay. I truly enjoyed it and will miss it. You did a good job...no, a great job. But frustration with a game is something we all understand, I'm sure. Hopefully, I'll see something new from you soon. Your play style is like nothing I've seen before and I can't tell you how enjoyable it is to watch YOUR story unfold. Thank you, Sir, for introducing me to a new way to play.

It sucks so much that we have so many BIG game companies that are more concerned with quantity and speed than they are with quality and bug control. Worst part is the droves that still buy those games without paying attention to reviews or the community. The gaming community is so starved for a GOOD open world sandbox space exploration game.

Bugs in a Bethesda game? Never

There are some cool ways to play Starfield. Gotta say that it wears thin much faster than what you’d expect from Bethesda. Starfield needs to be patched up and maybe mods will take it into a solid experience. Thanks for trying Rycon!

Non star field related Question I've been wanting to ask for a while, But this seems as good a spot to ask as any. Would you consider doing a play through, either a soft roleplay or let's play of BG3?

Wow that's weird. I found Starfield the least buggy BGS game so far. Literally played it to death from launch and never had bugs like that. The worst bug I got was the phased time power not ending which was annoying. Hopefully one day you can play it the way it should be :)

3:10 I’m watching someone else RP a different game and he just uses glitches like these as a “mental break down” in character. Maybe that could help? 🤷‍♂️

Honestly it did beat me as well Thank u for this update !!! I was admittedly looking forward to a new starfield episode but I understand why ur calling it 🤷‍♂️ I’m gonna play it again when shattered space comes out and then when at least another year of mods are out before I think I can fully enjoy it…. Now imma just head back to my Skyrim Nolvus Hey on the plus side fallout London is coming out soon !!!!!

Dust for new vegas frost for fallout 4 so Void would be best mod name for starfield. Well that would be something to play if hold in same style as dust or frost mods.

I'm sorry about the glitches bud. RP whatever you want, quite frankly, though I'm still gunning for Outlast 3 XD

You got about as far as I did before getting bored sh*tless. I don't blame you, it's just not a good game. Space travel is replaced by menus and loading screens (compared to Star Citizen and No Mans Sky), the enemies are bullet sponges, there's a huge lack of weapon variety, the planets are barren save for like one outpost on the entire rock, you can't have a "bad-guy" companion or an "evil" playthrough (I wanted to play as a raider and ignore the main story - turns out you really can't, and the companions are all generic good-guys), and the AI is atrocious, very reminiscent of Oblivion (which in 2023 was not a good thing). It's sad, it could have been a great game had they cared enough to make it one.

That's a shame. I was enjoying the story quite a bit, even though Starfield itself is dogshit. Maybe you could give Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines another go sometime in the future? I remember that series ending abruptly too, even though it had a ton of potential.

Don’t worry rycon it’s slowly getting better and better especially with the may update added survival and much more fix’s a lot too

While I understand that wanting to give that cinematic experience is a vital part of this playthrough, I think you wouldn't even need the excuse of bugs being to prevalent, The game is boring.

It’s quite a shame,I played through this scene the other week and this never happened. Hopefully this series will return down the line and not end up in the void like Outer Worlds and Xcom. Looking forward to the other projects you have in the works

What a damn shame. You did such a brilliant job of bringing this game alive with your acting. I can sympathise, its pretty unforgivable that games are launched in this state. I don’t have Starfield as I don’t have a PC anymore and won’t be buying it until it is reliable and unless it is ported to PlayStation. Thanks for showing how good the game can be with a little imagination and a lot of talent.

That's a shame. As with all Bethesda products, gotta wait 5 years for the community patches to fix it. I own it and i'll install and play it one day.

You have far, far more patience than me. This game is a freakin disaster to play in my experience. Bethesda's worst game in memory.

I quit Starfield moments after I first played it for the first time. I found an absolute unforgiving bug that crashed the game while walking on the footpath in New Atlantis. I found a report about that bug and then all of the negative reports started flooding into my feed. I thought I could at least watch a story from you about Starfield but the whole damn game is a wash. Shame on Bethesda.

Please pick this back up, the game is much more stable now and your vids are great! You can see the amount of work that goes into them!

It's a shame things have turned out the way the did with Starfield. It has so much potential but there is so much that just takes you out of any immersive experience you want to achieve, I hope with time Bethesda can do something to fix a lot of the issues but seeing so many bugs that exist from the oblivion days still present is very disheartening. Think it's just time for them to accept they need a new engine because even a lot of the modders have given up on Starfield at this point.

I feel you, man. You could do Oblivion for the giggles

"It just works"

its fine we all know starfield had its issues...maybe its time to to back to a better bethesda product and do skyrim again !

Hi got a question, you don't need to answer if you don't want to but are you going to have a go at fallout London when the mod comes out? Hope you're doing well.

I gave up on the game after 25 hours and can 100% understand. Is is bad.

Dang it beat the legend himself? Man I was hoping for this series. It was going to be amazing

I was looking forward to Starfield, but Bethesda is Bethesda. So i and many others here can probably understand atleast a fraction of your frustration.

maybe you can revisit this games when modding pops off with the tools. or maybe if they just fix the damn bugs themselves. this game has so much potential for roleplay man. maybe one day you can do this kinda series again

I had quite a good time going thru Starfield's mission arcs. I sink some 260 hr in. But I don't feel like going back anytime soon 😁

I love this series. Hopefully there are more patches/mods to work out these bugs sooner rather than later. If that does become the case, I would absolutely LOVE to see this return. For now, rest your weary mind on these frustrating elements. I sincerely hope that you come out on top in the matter. I got your back amigo, we all do, can't wait to see more amazing content on this channel of legend.

may i humbly offer the idea of morrowind?

I really had high hopes for Starfield, but I gave up after insufferable number of loading screens and repetitive gameplay. My channel was based on Bethesda games and teaching how to mod them. It's dead now, thanks to Starfield. Time to go in a different direction...

I really don't understand what is holding Bethesda back. How could a team with so much potential budget, and such a long development time continually fail to ship complete products? I just do not get it, it fills me with zero confidence in the state Elder Scrolls 6 will ship in, worse than that to me though, the writing somehow continually spirals into C- tier.

I am done with bethesda. Sotty that you have to deal with bugs

Honestly I would love maybe another skyrim or maybe even oblivion roleplay series

Man, he had my name and everything! Can't blame you for wanting things to make sense in your serious roleplay series though

I feel a Mount & Blade 2 Bannerlord coming 😁

The only guy playing star field on RU-vid is giving up. Not a great sign

it's understandable, even without the bugs starfield is really bad, to try and roleplay through it would be tough in it self

Honestly the writing of the game feels incompatible with most serious attempts at telling a grounded story with human struggles and conflict. I don't want to make assumptions but dear god Bethesda writers, have one microwatt of real trauma or hardship inspiring your work, or read a story by someone who has, I beg you. Everything I've seen just feels like a frictionless slurry of tropes taken from better media.

a game breaking bug in a bethesda game? theres no way

Nolvus modlist on Skyrim, do a Vigilants of Stendarr build and go through Vigilant quest line. ;)

Maybe you should just upgrade your hardware. (Please read this in Todd Howard's voice lol)

I uninstalled it after the save bloat bugs persisted. You'd think they would have a fix for this by now...

RU-vid why did you censor my comment? I'll try again, there's a lot of mods now that can make doing a roleplay actually fun and not so buggy. Unofficial starfield patch fixes well starfield a lot of strfield lol Starvival is your one stop shop for immersive game play, adds everything from ship fuel, ammo, repairs and maintenance. To complete overhauling Bethesda's mandatory nap and snack "Survival mechanics". Starvival also comes with other independent modules that lets you overhauls other aspects like the economy, companions (like needing to pay your crew a wage and keep their morale up) environmental and planetary effects it's adds atmospheric effects , sicknesses and afflictions are overhauled. The mod and modules are all tweakable in game to allow you to find your own balance. Star finance is another good one, you can actually interact with the economy by opening your own bank account. Buy sell stocks, rent properties so on. Clothing and suitwise I can't recommend anything by Zone79 enough. If your going the bounty hunter route useful brig and non lethal frame work so you can bring targets in alive. Those are a few suggestions to have a gander at in the future.

Funny how YOU can find reproduceable bugs yet Bethesda after EIGHT YEARS, well these are ...NEWS to them.

Ah, that sucks. But give Bethesda (*cough* modders) enough time and it'll be worth a revisit. If you're seeking a palate cleanser in the meantime I can thoroughly recommend "Last Train Home". Not for RP, but to reboot your storyteller brain.

Starfield? More like Starfailed. Am I right?

More and more AAA games are showing up half-finished. I haven't bought one in so long now since No Man's Sky and Cyberpunk 2077. Both were able to make amends and change to make amazing games, but why can't developers just see the writing on the wall and give these titles the work they need. The first step is to be honest with ourselves and not ask for an insanely expansive game of "100s of hours of content" or the "biggest worldspace ever". Just promise and deliver a great, engaging game and I'll be more than happy.

It's too bad about the bugs. This was my first time watching your videos and I have to say that you make the best rp playthroughs I've seen. So, I did subscribe just in case you start playing Starfield again. Until then I'll just have to watch your other videos. Well done, keep it up.

Well, given the whole plot is basically "timey-wimey ball + multiverse theory = game", a charitable sort would wave it away as the breakdown of reality approaching natural entropy. I stopped being charitable for Bethesda after releasing paid mods for Skyrim. But, you do you.

Completely and unequivocally understandable. Kinda figured the game bugs were becoming tiresome for your immersion style of RP. They're so game and flow breaking. No one blames you and whatever comes next for you will likely be brilliant as usual, Rycon.

Ok. I have a conspiracy theory. Every time there is a game that is said to be super buggy, I never stumble into anythig wortht mentioning. Skyrim, Fallout 4, Cyberpunk 2077, Starfield. So either people on the internet hacking the games and sell it as buggy mess, or it's me who always gets some VIP copies. All of those games were absolutelly fantastic to me, since day one.

Reminds me of GPU problems, but I really don't know what kinds of bugs others have in Starfield

Is this what happened to the fallout 76 playthrough with Akira? Would definitely answer some questions I've had.

You definitely have more patience than me. I gave up on Starfield after 20 hours. Bugs aside, it’s literally “Fetch Quest: The Game”

The game is sadly unfinished. So much potential but way too buggy graphically. I have a great machine and keep getting huge graphics problems-- some of which are new since their latest fix....

Sad that bugs get in your way, and Starfield just don't as good as it should be. The only thing Starfield impressed me is it is the first Bethesda RPG that I can finish without using console command in my 300hrs playthrough

Ohhh so that's why lol!! I guess like alot of us just have to wait after a few big updates and overhaul mods. Shelve the game for now and try again with a "new character" after the 1st dlc is out that's what I'm currently doing :) Looking forward to whatever is next