Trying The New Starfield Update - Luke Reacts 

As a player who played games with maps ever since the 90s, i am happy starfield players can experience this innovative system at the latest patch.

They haven’t moved. Just updated. I drive by the office in Rockville on my way to work every day! Since Starfield I yell “dammit Todd!”

Working at Bethesda must be pretty great. Dope ass office, get 10 years to work on games and they don't even have to be that great or impressive when they launch. Don't have to worry if bugs get through, as it's expected. Just seems super chill.

Starfield killed your computer? That’s not a bug! That’s a feature! 😃

I’m not playing Starfield until it’s been out for 7-10 years, once Elder Scrolls 6 is released and Starfield has every single update, mod and I can buy it for $5 at a yard sale then I will play it.

22:55 this is why they didn't give you a map. They didn't want you to realise how small, boring and empty the fishbowls were

Highest priority for me is exploration and discovery. Stumbling across identical POIs completely breaks immersion.

To me the problem with starfield is not specifically about having loading screens, the problem is not HIDING them, what if instead of looking at a black screen when entering a building we get an animation showing the protagonist getting IN the building? Or when you travel to another planet?

The two biggest issues the game has is lack of poi / exploration and the lack of planetary vehicle. The first is needed more than the second, but the second will be needed if they were to ever do the first.

Hey, go right ahead and be excited over a map and ship decorations - the moment you take off and get that loading screen, you're going to remember why you stopped playing the last time.

"see you in the starsss" LMAO bro

Hundreds of people working on this game for about half a year after the release and just now they have surface maps? The game is going to be so much fun now that we know all the boring locations we can load into.

Still no reason to re-install

I’m not cutting them much slack. The map option they did is exactly what they did for Skyrim. A top down generated view of the “world”. It’s something that was already built into the creation engine and they chose to not even put it in 😂 I’m holding out hope it’ll get better though

The game didn't kill your PC, your PC killed itself having to run Starfield. It just didn't want to live any more if that's what it was going to have to deal with.

The cities aren't even that big, why did it take them so long to make surface maps?

I can’t believe it literally killed your pc. Brutal for a glitch

Bethesda spent more time counting peanuts and adding it to the game then add meaningful content and better story. Now I see where their priorities lie.

As a survival mode enjoyer, im glad they added these difficlity options.

39:05 - 40:13 On foot traversal is probably one of the biggest improvements they've made to any of their gameplay systems. Fun, satisfying, allows for a sense of freedom, I love that you auto-climb a ledge when you jump to it.

I remember ATV offroad Fury when you approached the edge of the map it would give you a warning for a couple seconds and then when you reached the edge it would slingshot you back like you launched from a rocket. My buddy and I would spend hours just getting ourselves launched and wiping out as cool as possible. If starfield did that i might buy it afterall.

27:10 Absolutely Wild. AAA Games are not only killing the industry but your wallets and NOW your PC....lmao.

Are they improving the A.I at all? Or adding more depth to companions like giving orders? (Something that was in Skyrim over ten years ago)

FO76 was BGS pissing in the bed, Starfield was the poop that stained the mattress

The confusing part is they could have mixed in POIs that made sense to have spammed. UC Forward Outpost Base? copy and paste, it make perfect sense for them to have a generalist layout for it regardless of the planet for quick set up. But other locations should have been unique to make up for it. But with it being EVERY single one, it's just insane. I come back to play it in some mini waves (prepping a character for the expansion), so it's not AS bad, but the loop itself is still pretty bad. Getting the powers is crazy too. There's what, 3 or 4 okay powers, and the rest are just flat out trash? and every single time you have to do a "puzzle" that is not only extremely boring and sometimes glitches out on itself (spot disappearing right before you get to it over and over), but ALSO an un-skippable "cut scene" that takes forever, right into a load screen? lol

FYI @ 17:00 there is a lateral boost button for the jetpack. You're right, if you use the main jetpack button you don't go faster forwards. But there is a separate button that pushes you directly forward that 100% does make you go faster. The whole thing then about the game "not able to handle" you moving faster is misinformation.

For anyone still trying to play this (unless it patched out): if you rebind your boost to its own button instead of double tapping 'jump' 16:45 it will grant momentum. also, thanks for reviewing these patch notes!

I think penalizing players' XP gains for making the game more fun and less annoying is stupid AF. And I love how they learned absolutely nothing by implementing game difficulty as just making the same dumb enemies even more bullet spongey.

I would willingly add weight to ammo.

Wow only this much of a wait for a map! This games gonna be amazing in 30 years

Brotha I was just looking for this and you posted it hr ago lol. Appreciate you. 😂

Imagine a game where you play as an explorer getting maps, freaking maps, in an update.

There are no "sections" in new atlantis. You can jump down or go up with the train or the Elevator

just wondering, will there be a loading screen when entering a vehicle?🤔

3:04 "can we also just appreciate how beautiful..." -oh no he's gonna do it "the office is." -okay not what i was expecting lol

After playing NV Survival Mode i can see why people would put weight on ammo. It forces you to think about your playstyle and really pick your load out with thought. Couldn't carry all the guns and aid items i wanted so it forced me to play differently and more aware. Or atleast in NV it did. Havent touched Starfield since i beat it probably wont till they add DLC.

It's been confirmed that the map is only showing a portion of the tile, as the player walks away from the ship, the map centres around the player to the point the ship becomes off the map. The tile that's generated is a lot larger than what's being shown on the land map

I dont understand why they cant do better procedural as Helldivers does it with every match (plenty of verticality and even caves now apparently). No mans Sky as well has great up and down on its maps so its weird that BATHESDA cant get it down when two indie companies have :S

Controversial take: the open empty planets had nothing to do with why I didn’t like Starfield. In fact, I thought it worked for it as that’s what most planets would be like. Bethesda games have always had some average-at-best gameplay and lots of walking, I just want the immersion. My problem with Starfield is that it’s trying to be two kinds of sci-fi at once, the “what-if” kind (2001: A Space Odyssey, Interstellar) and the “we’ve already explored it” kind (the expanse, Mass Effect). It has the aesthetic of proper space exploration and has sparsely populated planets that feel like you’re having a “one small step” moment, but has things like space cowboy planets and raiders literally everywhere. I’m fine with either of those experiences, but they contradict each other and it stopped me from enjoying it as either.

You can definitely move faster with a boost pack. There's a horizontal boost but it's only available on PC and only with mouse and keyboard. You have to bind an alternate keybind to the boost key in the menu to use it.

I love how you cover the best quality games.

Speaking of red dead 2 I had gone through that game again recently and honestly that game is truly something else. There were things happening that never even happened my first play though on release, exploring everything I could. Very surprised that game is what it is for its time

I played on launch and one of the first things I discovered was a strange rock formation and I thought "neat" and the next POI still in eyesight of the strange rock formation was literally the exact same strange rock formation.

With how slow improvements are coming (both official and from mods), I see myself replaying this in like 5 years. I'm not going to go back to keep playing my save, because I was at a point where I literally had to rush the game multiple times to see something interesting once.

To clarify, there aren't loading screens in New Atlantis exterior (except for the under-whatsitsname), there is a tram system that teleports you from one side to another and elevators that take you up or down and *those* have loading screens. Same with the Cyberpunk-City planet thing and it's sorta fishing/factory area. You can actually walk between all those travel points in a single continuous take. That's the funny part, you get a loading screen when you "fast travel" a few meters around in the same map. They just can't make it work any other way: the engine HAS to load a map if you use any exit even if it's the SAME map you're in. EDIT: Re: Jetpacks, the jetpacks actually increase your speed, at the cost of vertical speed, but it's a different key that is unbound and you have to manually set it. So, for all intents and purposes, it's a hidden feature for some stupid reason. Also it kinda sucks because you barely gain any altitude you pretty much use it and immediately have to touch down into the ground again. You only gain like a 25% increase of speed anyway. What the default jetpack jump mode does is, while it doesn't give you more speed, it saves on stamina as you can get your oxygen back while you're flying so you can go back to sprinting as soon as you touch the ground again. All this does, in the end, is annoy the heck out of me, I'd rather I could just sprint without taking breaks if I'm not in combat.

The question is, keep patiently waiting to play Starfield until it’s fixed fully hopefully by the time DLC comes out, or try after the May update

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Could anyone explain why they can’t just freeze objects in place when you walk away, and stop simulating physics only store their location in the world, and only restart physics on those objects when you come near? I really don’t get why that would be so hard to do.

It's insane to me that, even after the interviewer told us that we've been shown a lot, they still showed us MORE. Like wow, and the questions felt sooo natural, like Bethesda's really listening to us.

Did your patch not include the rover? I thought it was supposed to.

I just realized that the "bar" can't go lower than the center of the earth. Idk if that's a good or a bad.

Question is why wasnt all of this in the game at start. And yes thous random gen maps are way to empty.

No amount of Update will convince me to go back and play this game anymore. If Bethesda doesn't respect the customer then why should we.

That's starting to look decent. I got the collector's version with the watch, but based on feedback (and being busy with other games) I've never even launched it. Was still hoping it would eventually be worth playing and was concerned that might not happen when so many modders gave up on it. Fingers crossed. Thanks for the update.

I want to comment on the Jet pack and speed. Yes the jet pack may not actually make you go faster (though this was tested and it did) You need to rebind the secondary key to an alternate jump keybind. Then use that to use the jet pack... doing this made the jet pack move forward instead of just up and down. Even if it doesn't actually increase your speed (which I'm 100% positive it does using it this way) The benefit is endless sprinting. When you use the jet pack you regen stamina. So you can endlessly sprint across the planet. Though if you use the Jetpack overhaul mod.... you can move so fast that you cause your game to crash because it can't load everything fast enough (classic Creation Engine),

I wonder what mods it breaks..... BTW you can turn off the dialogue cam in FA4.

Holy crap man I've never seen a game brick a PC and it not turn back on like that before, my jaw actually dropped.

21:26 *loads in a second* "gotta love them load screns" lol

i think they just need to alt F4 half the planets maybe that would give the game room to maybe be able instead of seemless planet travel break the planet into like a dozen or so chunks like this but instead of having to get in your ship and reland in a another one you can jsut go to the border to load in the next plane, some what atlas does it with theyre servers

They need to add new enemy types, different POI and new music tracks to the game. Plus some actual mature themes for this mature game would be good too. Currently it is technically outdated and too safe and sterile.

You didnt show gameplay for the survival mode settings or ship customization they added

The jetpack speed thing isn't necessarily true. There was a second jetpack keybind that you could use that would boost you horizontally... but tbh I don't even know if this was intended or just a useful bug.

I hope we can put doors and ladders where I want inside the shop.

I think this is a great update. Super excited to see it out of beta.

i dont understand what a land vehicle will do for anyone. there aint shit to explore, theres 3 copy and pasted POI where you land. vehicles just gonna let you get the invisible wall faster

Space... space never changes

About the vehicle i don't know how it would work as most of the time the terrain is not made for a vehicle. I have tested with the jetpack, i can go at about 50km/h, but well you need to boost it and it takes time. With all the rocks, trees, mountains, holes, the buggy will be a nightmare and you will be probably much slower and get stuck everywhere.

BF 2042 had to add a scoreboard. Now, Starfield added an in-game map. Modern gaming truly is breaking boundaries.

It almost sounds like an XMP OC issue. It might be worth running a pass of MemTest to make sure all your Ram is good? You do have a lot, and I doubt that in a gaming setting that it is ECC Ram.

The fishbowl maps could have used a fog of war style shadow on the edges but they didnt. They also could've used a fake run-on land mass thats not actually there, in order to hide the fact that its not a small map.

can it run on pc now without dropping to 30fps?

16:29 this is wrong. if you rebind or add another keybind for the jump then the jetpack does actually give you a big horizontal boost that makes you go much faster.

I know we always say it, but if Bethesda did 10 planets with the same amount of space as you get when you land now but packed it full of Interesting stuff to find and enemies and creatures to kill… it would have been way better! With seamless space travel and flight also

Yo if your computer is fried thank God you showed me this before I ever booted that game up again

So that May 15 update is not going to have a land vehicle?

I had a computer that would short something in the motherboard every time it went to sleep and would kill power like what Luke experienced as a way of preventing damage

The city isn’t in different sections. It’s one big zone but it has a loading screen because Bethesda chose to use a tram to take you up and down, which is where the Loading takes place. But check it out, you can jump from the top level to the bottom with no loading, try it for proof.

I got 4 days into the game just to be met with constant instant crashing on fast travel, Bethesda essentially told me to f off after i tried to get support so I stopped playing.

TES VI ship customization could be cool. But I think what makes the most sense would be settlement building. Let us build our player homes to how we desire maybe we can build a settlement for other NPCs to live at too. Kind of manor lords but less complex.

The real question is... Will choices have actual consequences?

Does this update have 16 times the detail?

Besides the maps, I'm also glad they fixed the camera angle for the dialogue. They got it right in Skyrim where the camera was always natural to where you were standing and not zoomed in too much into their uncanny faces all the time. I've always wondered why they did it well in Skyrim and then completely changed the camera angles in Fallout 4 and Starfield at launch..

I just started it back up and now im having lip sync and weird stutter issues 😅 but frames are wayy better

'lets try the new update for starfield" *KILLS YOUR COMPUTER*

Honestly the biggest thing they NEED to do for ES6 is make Creation Engine 2. Stop updating the old engine where the cracks have been showing for years. Performance would also be WAY better if they did this.

Even the PC was so bored it just shut itself off.

Lead paint 25:24 is unwanted because it blocks wifi spectrums, not your health???

Remember with RDR2, you needed to hunt and fish. Also, they wanted it more realistic to the period. Closer to larger cities, you had encounters 20 seconds. Further away from civilization, yeah 2.5 minutes.

You know the easiest way to make running on planets not suck? ENEMIES! Literally just spawn in a bunch hostile wildlife! BOOM, immediate improvment.

One week after the release, a guy made a mod that removes the crosshair and lowers your gun immediately after firing in the third person. It has been 9 months since Starfield came out, and those two simple features have not been added to the game. Bethesda, everybody! 🎉

Not addressing the ladder problem in ships with this update is WILD.

Calling it now, surface vehicles will be barely faster than running, just with no stamina cost.

Is mod support still coming ?

There are different jet packs. There is one that significantly boosts your speed laterally.

12:32 Wow you can change the Alien DNA. Amazing reason to get players back 😅

Guilty... I add weight to my ammo, and on other games I make mods where all things reflect real counterparts weight. I like survival sims basically.

Loving Starfield ❤️

My dude, frame gen locks off vsync in every game

you dont have too use the rail system in the city you can walk all through the city without fast traveling

Added a city map like half a year after players learned the locations....