Sadly, it is exclusively fast travel between planets . You can land on an infinite number of (large) procedurally generated zones but there are invisible borders.

As far as exploration goes, No Man’s Sky has it beat for seamless experience and base building. As far as equipment/story/factions/style points though, Starfield hands down.

DANGIT!!! I really want to fly a spaceship!!!

Even in Starmaster, for the Atari 2600, could we fly a spaceship. Take that Bethesda, that's from 1983!

I mean, is there any space-battling at all? Like X-wings versus Tie Fighters?

Yeah there’s space battles, the ships are heavily modular (many good upgrades are locked behind skills) and you can target specific parts of enemy ships to disable them. I think the most fun way is to hit the engines and board them though. Shooting your way through the corridors of larger ships after taking out their wingmates is pretty satisfying.

You can buy, upgrade, capture, and keep quite a few ships.

Personally I think the game is pretty great.

I had to switch to Xbox, lol. My PC needs some upgrades.

That's what I'm sayin', Kane. I'll get it for Xbox as well, if it looks like I'll enjoy the game. And then hopefully, ES6 will still be on the current console generation and not the next one.

I'm kinda thinking I should finish the Mass Effect series first, though.

This game is amazing and it's going to take me forever to finish the main quest. I can't stop myself from surveying every planet or moon I land on. I've barely scratched the surface of outpost building, but I have been tinkering more with Starship construction. My next goal is to look for a hab piece with a workshop.

The ships are basically mobile bases, so outposts can wait, lol.

Nice!

Glad you're enjoying Starfield, Kane!

It's the "take me forever to finish" that has me worried.

It’ll take me forever just to get my pc good enough to run it, so I guess I’m going to miss out on this one for quite a while.

That's probably just a Kane thing. I have a full time job and a three year old, so play time is limited. I also have been taking long breaks every so often during the main quest to explore worlds, do side quests, and check out factions.

I also am always on the hunt for resources to improve my gear or upgrade ships.

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I think I'm getting closed to the end of the main quest and venturing into the Unity. I'm curious to see what a new universe has in store for Indira!

I love designing ships but haven't gotten super invested in it yet (ship building is expensive). I have a couple ships I liberated from Pirates, and one or two from quests. So far I've only made one from scratch - I wanted something small, and compared to most ships in the game it's basically a very well armed shuttle with a grav jump range of 30 light years. Perfect for going from mission to mission, but useless for resource gathering (cargo space is minute). I'll post some pictures of the two ships I bounce between.


I did experience one nasty bug, but it really only affected stuff I probably wouldn't use again. You can get a penthouse apartment in New Atlantis by completing one of the faction quest lines, and I had begun to decorate it an store/display belongings there. But New Atlantis gets attacked during the main quest, and apparently the entire city is reset afterwards, including the Penthouse (I think it affects it because the Penthouse doesn't have it's own worldspace). Annoying, but after a few minutes of frustration, I figured it was stuff I'd never use again anyway.

Outposts continue to be something I'm not super interested in, especially since ships can basically be mobile bases. I think when I unlock some of the perks for outposts, I'll take a closer look at it. Finding a good planet to set up a home on is a feat in and of itself. Too many options!

Indira has completed the main quest and traveled through the Unity (huge spoilers in the next part)

Okay, so you got the game in September and it took you three months. That sounds pretty decent, Kane. Because I'm sure you did other things (side missions, etc.) as well as crafting your perfect space ship. 🚀 Would you say you rushed through the Main mission(s) or took your time?

Another question: Does this game borrow any ideas from Starcraft (assuming you ever played that game).

I also made a new character and started over before the third act, so there was technically two runs in there. But I did not rush. At. All. In fact I took my sweet time - I can't help but survey each planet/moon I landed on and it can take an hour or two just to do that. I also played a couple faction questlines and did plenty of side and misc quests


The main quest is plenty long and there are four other major factions. Plenty to do! And the main quest doesn't rush you, which is a nice change of pace. You can kick it off, and then tell Constellation you've got some personal things to do and skive off into the galaxy.


And there a a ton of misc and radiant quests.


I've not played Starcraft - isn't it an RTS series?

Ah, so you rolled a second! How come you hardly post any character pictures? Kidding. If I (when I...) get Starfield I'll definitely dazzle y'all with my guys & gals.

That's good. Yeh, I'd find myself not rushing either.

I guess SF could be considered RTS. I never played it myself, but a friend of mine loves Starfield. In that game we also build our own spacecraft though, that much I know. Why I asked.

I had to switch to Xbox (PC couldn't cut it) and it's a cumbersome to get screenshots off of it.



There are more spoilers behind the second spoiler box below, major to gameplay and the story.

So Santa Claws got Khajiit an Xbox Series X as a bit of an after Christmas present! I signed up for the GamePass thing to try out Starfield, so I’ll be posting more impressions after I spend a bit more time with it.

Santa Claws!

Wanna see some pics, for sure.