Starfield: Patch 1.11 Highlights (May Update) 

love the look of that modular difficulty! I dont know if I'll go back to starfield but I hope they bring that forward into their future games.

I'm very happy about different difficulty options. I like playing on very hard for ground combat but space combat was to difficult so glad I can modify it all at once

Maps and upcoming ground vehicles are nice. Still miss a proper Survival Mode. One that includes fuel shortage, not just weather hazard configurations.

I was very critical (and played it a lot), but this is finally a real improvement !

They need to allow ALL ship parts to be available at your base. It is ridiculous to have to travel to every shipyard to buy different parts. I think once you visit a shipyard once, that should unlock those parts in your base ship builder

Props for the difficulty settings. It is a thing I now consider a most have for my purchases

Love your videos. So glad you are growing. You are one of my favorite channels now

Great video, I love those new gameplay options. Being able to make both me and enemies do much more damage is a great way to eliminate spongy health bars and it feels a lot more realistic. Also lower inventory capacity (I know, I'm crazy) but also make vendors have a lot more credits so you have somewhere to unload loot for credits. It modifies the gameplay loop in excellent ways and you can have a surplus of XP as well with other settings. Excellent patch IMO.

Speculation of the expansion point to House of Varuun and I just can't wait.

Perfomance is always an issue: my FPS is a slideshow during rain/fog events on Neon. But Exploration would turn the fortunes around on this game.

Some interesting space combat missions would probably bring me back. Ship design was one part of the game I actually thought was great but all spaceship gameplay just being dogfights in asteroid fields meant there wasn't much to do with my cool custom ship.

When the Shattered Space DLC drops everybody will buy it and play it. And everybody will hate it. As they buy it and play it.

The new difficulty modifiers reminds me of WotR. Across the board it looks like a nice update!

Ugh, that whole week of the 15th is packed: Prince of Persia, Ghost of Tsushima, Mullet Madjack, now Starfield update, I'm sure I'm even forgetting a couple of releases. Then the next week after that is Hellblade 2, then Selaco, sigh...

I rolled a new character and started in on the beta. Really enjoying it.

I honestly enjoyed my time with Starfield but just felt it didn’t have much replayability after taking one trip through. It seems like if they keep going in this direction it could be worth a second play, so that’s very cool!

i really liked starfield... waiting for the shattered space DLC! and some mods

I have seen the comparison before and I think it is apt. It feels like its going the no mans sky route. It SHOULD have been released in a better state but they didn't give up on it and it will be what we wanted.

looking forward to the update especially the vendor credit limit adjuster have subbed and pressed the bell hello from Scotland

I love this game! Thanks for the coverage.

Im still playing a few times a week ng7 and 700ish hours in... cant wait for the new stuff to hit xbox especially the ship builder decorations and hab builder, cred limit at vendors etc...

That's all cool, but I think I need more to get pulled back. I think, for me, the worst offender which is the easiest to remedy, is the lack of different "dungeons". Stumbling upon 1:1 copy-paste dungeons/bases-and-loot is... I just don't know what they thought, haha, d'fq 😂🤪😢 Most locations were also really meh. But the difficulty-system is a really good addition. I hope it actually works in a fulfilling way.

A most excellent update where am feeling the Bethesda energy flowing thru their miraculous creation. The new options settings are incredible reminding me of THE ELDER SCROLLS II DAGGERFALL. Love that we have gotten a survival mode of sorts with a hunger/thirst system with multiple choices along with being able to increase player/enemy damage input and output. Having the choice to add weight to ammo is also much welcomed along with the options of how to deal with loot where it can be a non issue if choosing to send loot to one's ship from anywhere and not at just some locations. Looking forward to what the future vehicle update brings when it is ready. Thanks for the exciting great video which was a nice surprise to the end of the week. Happy gaming and have a great weekend ☕

Thanks for the video. This patch is pretty reassuring. Open worlds in space tend to struggle to find their identity/niche. Most are just space truckers in space--erm... in SPAAACE. Bethesda seems to be the study most capable to crack the sub-genre.

I might give it another go after the update!

Really love this update, may jump back in once it hits console. What I hope to see with Shattered Space is fleshing out the space experience and the ship exploration. The star systems could certainly function like the planets, with POI shooter arenas that spawn (repeat themselves), and I love the Starstation shooter dungeons. Also a more fluid experience between said POI's while in space would do wonders for the game overall.

It was definitely a step in the right direction. A lot of "I wish we had X" were solved here for me. I'll probably come back with the DLC as well, to check it out, maybe try some other build

Custom difficulty is a great addition to BGS games. Love it in BG3 so would be nice to try it with Starfield.

I appreciate coverage of updates to Starfield. Because I'm keeping a loose eye on it with the idea to purchase it once they've applied post-release NMS style improvements and overhaul (although I don't need another NMS at this point, thanks). There's potential here still. Their pace is slow. I'm thinking I'll need to see healthy mod community and developer...appreciation.

Maps are great, I actually thought vehicles would come in this patch so I was unpleaseantly surprised when I actually played the patch, it was sort of fun for a few hours but then I ran into my original gripe with the game: exploration. If and When an update tackles exploration and the generative content, I'll give it a try, but it's nice to see they've been listening and are taking steps to make the game better.

That map looks so neat. I wonder if it is possible to turn camera around during dialogues with new QoL improvement or is it locked like it is in a normal mode.

I'm not sure if they already added this, but I want the option to respec your character. Modular difficulty options are nice!

Really hope they'll do watercrafts. It has always been a pain in the behind to scan fishes & co. with nothing but a jetpack. Or at least fix swimming/diving in Starfield.

Finally a really good update. Still likely won't play until there's mod support, but this is definitely the right direction.

Think about whether to play now or wait for more patches. It feels like a lot of things have been fixed, but there is still a lot of work to be done.

Ooh, the custom difficulty seems nice, maybe I will give the game another go when the vehicle update comes out.

I am pretty interested in this update, I will definitely be getting back into Sf because of it. As it is right now I don't quite like starfield but I can see the potential it has. Some gameplay issues still need to be fixed, like the ability to stealth cortez mission and also the melee needs to be fix, as well as many of the locations need revamped but this is a step in the right direction for me.

It would be cool if they can turn it around, still not interested in diving in yet, though. It might be a few years for me personally; once the mod scene get’s into full swing. Thanks for the overview on the update.

Raising enemy damage is wonderful. I min-maxed until combat became a joke.

I ended up having to sell my Xbox series S but I put more time in the Starfield in just about any other game. And seeing how they updated the map makes me want to buy it for my steam deck now

Need more exploration excitement on planets, thats #1 imo

Minimizing ship damage on both sides would make it worth considering other weapon types. As is you really just need to pump 24 pips of power into max range particle beam auto-turrets and keep a partially powered set of manual auto-beams to concentrate fire on anything that gets close. Ships are too fragile by default to bother doing anything else as hitting enemies as they spawn(before their shields can charge) makes things even faster.

Separating the ground combat from space combat difficulty modifiers is a step in the right direction, though I would have preferred the space combat to be better balanced. Some of the space combat is insane on very hard, Starborn enemies that keep scaling to your level can get to ridiculous power levels, and the final UC Security mission if you went undercover is impossible without cheesing the fight.

Good show sir

Like Mort, I really enjoyed the game. Stepped away after 100 hours. Waiting to jump back. Happy to see the devs giving the game some love.

The gameplay tweaks being there in the base game is HUGE. I always mod the balancing of these things in fallout and skyrim and it can take several slots of a load order and a lot of trial and error to get it just right. On the combat side of things, I hate that 90% of the games equates difficulty to you dealing less damage and the enemy dealing more damage. My preferred take is: static hp pools (only better armor matters, your hp for the whole game is determined by the "endurance" stat only), lethal headshots, everyone dealing a lot of damage + bleeding and crippled mechanics. I also play mainly on survival. Having things like sustenance and afflictions of all sorts, specially environmental afflictions, is big in making exploration more interesting, specially in barren planets where the only manner of engaging with the environment is by actually making it hazardous. Also, food healing is bs, it takes me back to skyrim and its cheese wheels as substitutes for healing potions. Ive also put some thought on the whole " lackluster exploration" side of things, and I arrived to the conclusion that in order to make liminal spaces more interesting you could simply implement a fuel mechanic for system to system travel, like in mass effect. Fuel can be acquired in cities and can be mined from planets, so if you need to go somewhere 5 warps away and dont have fuel you can warp 3 systems away, land on a random planet and mine x minerals to use for fuel to continue your journey. Jumps inside the system itself costs no fuel. Hopefully this turns into a mod in the future.

if we go into new game + do we have to farm over all weapons and suits again?

I will believe the vehicles to be real when i see it, no modders could do it quite right in the creation engine

Accessibility options are becoming the, "We don't know which you'd like, so here, you bloody do it!!" setting.

Hopefully the vehicle is out in June/July and they don’t make us wait until the fall. That would be a tease that is not welcomed. IMO, they need to start showing they are working on exploration improvements next…which is the BIGGEST issue by far with the game.

In a few years time RU-vid gamers will be posting their, "I replayed Starfield, it's GOOD!" "We were wrong about Starfield!" videos, but that's just because the state of AAA gaming in a few years time will make Starfield look like a masterpiece. I tried the game twice on Xbox gamepass, and once on PC gamepass, and it's not for me. I am glad they're patching it, and that people actually enjoy the game though.

This is a solid update. Actually makes me want to play on my Xbox.

Wait, does the ship customization update allow me to place where doors are placed? That was my biggest problem with the system at launch.

Does it still tip all your furnishings in the cargo bay if you change ships? Bit hard to decorate if they haven't fixed that.

I do wish they added a respec skill option somewhere. Most ppl are not going to play this game till lvl 300

I haven't played it yet, I bought it on sale and I'm waiting until Mort says it's good now. I am kinda looking forward to it, though. With the difficulty, if you wanted the damage to be balanced with no advantage for player or enemies, but you wanted combat to be more lethal and less bullet spongy, would you set Enemy Damage to Hard, and Player Damage to Easy?

I'm glad this game suffered some backlash, afterall, games nowadays are costing too much and are being sold with bugs and incomplete features too often. I hope that Starfield, as a Bethesda games fan, gets some "cyberpunk 2077" and improve to the point it becomes the success we were promissed it would be.

i think i would have loves this game if i was 15 years younger. seems like it has some neat ideas and good stuff to spend a lot of time in a virtual world doing, but me today, i couldnt get past the opening.

Does the map now have places listed such as shops? Or are the changes limited to the dimensionality?

I may have found Starfield incredibly boring at launch but since your video about what games you enjoyed that most people didn't I gave it another shot with a new character and playstyle. I'm happy to say that I'm having quite a bit of fun (about the same level as non-modded Fallout 4) and I've poured about 15-20 hours more in it. It's still far from perfect but and I still think there's some aspects that are downright bad but that's a start. I'm also happy to say that the implementation of DLSS made my game significantly more fluid (although it should be that way without DLSS)

The Difficulty options alone fix a lot of the issues with the game, that I had to do with mods. Really appreciate more and more devs moving away from the "you MUST experience the game EXACTLY how we want you to".

wake me up when we finally get a vehicle to explore with…

I just need the creation kit to come out so people can fix things. Like how small cities are, too many loading screens, etc.

I really hope they add some more chaotic companions. Getting stuck with Sarah for a while (because I'm dumb and didn't realize you needed to progress something) really ticked me off with how much stuff she hated even though it was technically good, just not lawful good.

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First Bethesda game I have no interest in returning to after my first playthrough. I hope these changes, the future expansion, and the release of the creation kit and console mods improve the game's life so I can see myself giving it another go.

i dont like giving todd credit but this is a good update

The difficulty options are a nice touch, and I'm very glad they did the maps. It was baffling to me how bad and useless the original maps were

Gronk!

This is a solid patch. With that said, I will not buy this game until they add flying within planets, saying that knowing that will potentially never happen.

Customizing the insides of the ship is cool but like base building I find it pointless since you’ll lose it when you start new game plus

It's a step in the right direction, but sadly it's just a step... Game needs many more before it gets to a decentish state for me

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And this is only updat 1 wow 🤯

I'm so glad they're finally starting to fix the game. Let's hope star field can become Bethesda's no man's sky

Still can't save a ship design/template?

When is it coming out tho

Unfortunately, despite whatever updates come, I think people are just gonna be unhappy regardless.

I NEED A MARS CAR

They still haven’t patched so that my custom built ship isn’t invisible.

When in may this is dropping?

can you still not mod weapons like in fallout or masseffect ?

This games going to be better than Cyberpunk when they get done with it. The bones are good!

Starfield.. interesting in theory

I haven’t played starfield yet, but I just want to say I appreciate you don’t join the pile ons. I’ll likely check it out at some point when it has dropped in price.

Some good changes and additions! I still don't think it's for me. I always played Bethesda games for the exploration and wandering around and that seems like the weakest part of starfield. But I hope people have fun with the new update!

I really want to try Starfield but not in the form it launched in. Do you think we are closing in on a "complete" experience or do we have a while to go yet?

They are.... cooking?

lol I just realised since you mentioned the update on map that I never really use it when I played the game. Well, looks like it's heading for the better, might play it again when the DLC drops. Thanks for update Mort!

Love the new maps. Don’t love the zillion icons showing in cities tho, feels kinda too Ubi for me. This game is going to be increasingly ridiculous as the mod scene heats up in the next 2 years.

Lowkey have been waiting for the map update. The game was very tough to play without decent maps.

free comment - may update.

I would love to get back into starfield, but its just empty. Like whats the point of farming resources just to lvl up to kill enemies easier to complete the game and then do it all over again in new game+? They need less procedural stuff and more hand crafted things to find and do.

did it finally adds ground transportation? if not then whatever

This game will need something akin to Cyberpunk 2.0 for me personally to be interested in playing it.

My game hasn’t updated?

Waiting for seamless exploration

Will probably never play this game but I still watched this video because it’s Mortismal.

When it comes to exploration I'm just wonder what people expect empty planets in space are supposed to have? It's a big rock (no, not literally a rock) floating in space, not a secret lab for alien research.

I feel like just for QOL people are gonna be maxing out their carry capacity from now on. I'm someone who actually enjoys the weight restrictions and inventory management that comes with a limited carry capacity, but from what I've seen, a ton of people do not share my opinion on that matter