I cheesed the fuck out of this. Destroy one ship, grav jump out, heal shields, repair hull if necessary, go back into the fray. Rinse and repeat.
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that mission is really hard if you play it early, theres not really anything else in the game like it - best tactic is to get right under the big ship and turn off your engines, you can power up your weapons and enemies can barely touch you. going upside down worked well for me too
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So, on Friendships/Romances in this game, I gotta say so far (and I think Iāve done 90% of the main quest) it falls short of other games that youāre bound to compare it to, like Mass Effect or Cyberpunk 2077.
When Judy decided to leave Night City in my first playthrough of Cyberpunk 2077, I felt legitemately gutted, and I felt super invested in my friend quests and making sure everyone survived in the Mass Effect games.
Romancing Pan Am in Cyberpunk 2077 also felt a lot more real than any of the awkward flirting moments in this.
Iāve felt sort of detached in this. When staying at the Lodge or going to the Eye showed up as an option I knew I was chosing between characters, but when I lost Sam, I truly didnāt feel all that bad..
None of the character relationships feel all that real to me in this game. I believe it is because the friend quests are just something that happens after youāve made enough decisions that the characters ālikedā while in the background. It feels very passive.
I feel like the friend quests couldāve been spread out over the course of the game instead, with some moments being integrated into the main quest. If I was going on quests that were deeply important to a character over a longer time period, and sharing intense moments and experiences with them over time while having involved conversations about what was happening, as you do in Cyberpunk, I mightāve felt differently.
I also feel like the conversations being these typical Bethesda convos where weāre just standing upright in front of eachother face to face, instead of something more organic has an effect as well.
Talking while sitting next to eachother in cars, by campfires, and so on just hits differently (Cyberpunk again).
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Iām also playing The Witcher 3 these days, specifically Blood and Wine, and itās so gosh-dang obvious how good blocking and staging and direction and scene-setting contribute to the engagement in a scene of dialogue or expositionā¦ itās frankly bewildering that games in 2023 are still doing this āstare at talking NPC in medium closeup with no dynamism whatsoeverā approach.
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I realize that BGS want to do a lot of the little conversations organically, so they can happen whenever, making this more difficult, but I feel like it couldāve been solved. One idea might be to have the conversations play out while grav jumping. Like you go into the grav jump cutscene, and then it cuts to the character approaching you where youāre sitting in your pilotās seat, and you have a convo while grav jumping (which I assume isnāt literally instant).
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I was big into No Manās Sky around 2018-2020 but fell off hard after Iād felt Iād experienced most of what the game had to offer (at the time). This has led me to not want to do any stupid scanning in Starfield. I am very much not interested in scanning all these things, especially as you have to get each flora/fauna multiple times.
So Iām following the main mission and getting distracted every ten minutes by a side quest or treasure or something. Iām trying really hard to not pick everything up but my brain just wants all those dead mercsā guns.
Iām having fun with it and I accept that Iām going to be in this world for probably hundreds of hours. I havenāt done any ship or outpost buying/building and I am not really in a rush to do so. I also havenāt used the workbenches/research station nonsense, though I acknowledge that these will come in handy further down. Iām not super interested in weapon moddingā maybe things havenāt gotten hard enough to need it yet.
I do hope some of the cumbersome menu paths get tweaked a bit, and for some QOL updates down the road. Iām on XBOX so no mods for me. For example it would be cool if when youāre in the lame terrain map and you see various white hexagonal quest markers, you could click one to change to that quest. Little stuff like that.
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