If the developer makes a weapon skin and sells it to you, it's not a paid mod. It's a microtransaction.

The reality is we’re seeing the decline of Bethesda and not in the sense of decline into bankruptcy but the decline into being a soulless shell company like blizzard.

Only Bethesda can break a game that is 9 years old.

The problem is Todd Howard resists change. He resists company size increase. He resists engine change. He resists innovation and yet he still wants to profit like a triple A company, hence microtransactions. He became rich and arrogant and is stuck in 2010.

If Bethesda taught me anything, then it is to NEVER auto-update any modded game you want to play.

Bethesda, Bethesda never changes...

What's going on with Bethesda? They're slowly coming to terms with the fact that they are a bottom of the barrel developer. They've known this but put it off for years by coming out with half games like 76, re-releasing Skyrim, destroying previous games with trash updates, and resurrecting paid mods. After all this time they were FINALLY forced to develop a real game and came up with one of the hottest diapers of the decade: Starfield. People, Bethesda has finally fallen, AND THEY DESERVE TO.

They’re selling a mediocre game, then selling you „paid mods” instead of updating it into an enjoyable experience.

The problem with Starfield is mods can't fix it. You're asking random people to completely overhaul the core of the game, the core isn't good. Its all copy-pasted layouts, boring maps, and shallow features. Modders NEED a good baseline to start from in order to make it good, Starfield just doesn't have it. Some parts are really fun about the game but they're overshadowed by the flaws. I don't think mods can save this one, bossman

Starfield just felt like a collection of missed opportunities. Example: an entire questline of being a space ranger and in the end we cannot arrest people and bring them to justice... whole thinmg just fell flat

"This was not an issue, BEFORE the update" Welcome to *anything* Bethesda

The issue at Starfield's core is honestly the fact that it takes place in a big empty world with only a thin layer of lore to give it depth. And even then, when you try to explore that depth, you find that it's about as deep as a puddle.

Bethesda killed FO4 to get you into the FO76 cash shop

The Fallout 4 error where you are completely unable to access your mod list I find totally egregious. Since the update this has been broken on my game and I can’t even access my mods to delete them. Adding insult to injury Bethesda has remained totally silent months after breaking the game. For a company as large as Bethesda to continue to push out these kinds of broken and buggy games and updates is beyond unacceptable and is a slap in the face to their customers.

What's going on is the same thing that's going on with every other major company. Chasing investor dollars instead of creating a quality product.

Fallout has had game-breaking bugs that have literally gone undressed for years. How are people still surprised by this?

Its really telling that more people are excited for remasters and remakes of classic games than new Bethesda content.

I can't even pause my game without it crashing to home menu right now. It's ridiculous. My second most played game of all time and I can't play it right now

The competency crisis is real and effecting every industry lol

Starfield had "very good to great reviews." The pre-release rush of hyperbolic reviews are HIGHLY suspect, given how mediocre the game truly is.

1:00 I remember seeing those same red exclamation marks when The Pitt for Fallout 3 was released in a broken state. Good memories.

After updating F4 I performed the roll-back patch to the initial condition. Most of the bugs, and performance issues have been fixed by modders anyway, now the game runs super quick.

Let's all be reminded that the excuse Bethesda gave as to why they weren't migrating to more prevalent game engines like UE, and instead sticking with their seemingly dated and easily breakable Creation Engine, is because it was "easier to fix, mod, update, etc.". Yet, their games still, to this day, have the reputation of being the most broken and bug-riddled, despite all the effort they seemingly are putting into them. Bethesda just being Bethesda, even after all these years. Let that sink in 😂

Bethesda can't help themselves, they just have to break their old games with so called "updates"

The fact physics are still tied to fps on PC is beyond a joke for a next gen update. I know there are mods that fix it, but in 2024, after a next gen update, I shouldn't have to mod a game to enjoy high fps.

Same as other triple A companies. The suits took over. The talent left.

As a long time Bethesda Fan, there's no way we get more than Shattered Space as a Starfield expansion, not only the optics on the game from the paid mods, but the lack of interest from fans and the fundamental limitations of the Creation engine will break the game in two.

Thank god i learned how to roll back on PC

Unless Bethesda can solve the number of load screens in Starfield, I have no intention of returning.

What's killing Starfield is not enough variation of POI's on planets. You can go to a location on one planet, travel all the way across the galaxy and find the same location on another planet. Same enemies, same dead bodies in exactly same positions and so on. Fix that and watch the player count increase. They took too big a bite with Starfield and now they are choking on it. It's a shame.

at 11:25 you mention that people who bought premium edition are getting the DLC "for free". no, they paid additional money to get all the DLC, so they paid for the DLC. just because they aren't paying 50 bucks for a single story expansion doesn't mean they are getting it for "free".

Bethesda got more hype from tv show coming out then anything they've released this decade. Total Joke of a company nearing the no return point.

If their Oblivion Remake was planned to drop in spring-fall25 that would put it squarely in front of the Skyblivion remake and directly competing with the community that had been working on it for around 10 years now which I find is very disrespectful to the people that worked so hard to bring an old game to a modern and maybe younger part of the community that has a ton of potential as it is.

GoG allows you to rollback your update and decide what version of the game you want to install. Get the gog version if you want to enjoy a less painful mod experience.

Every empire will inevitably fall.

I don’t want to see an Oblivion remaster unless it’s being made in the ES 6 engine.

We get this video like once a month

When it comes to Starfield, I got 3 major problems: Quests, Writing and Immersion. Taking aside the main quest line and UC Vanguard, New Atlantis is full of uninteresting quests. Get a coffee, flip on some switches, pick up some sensors, escort an NPC to his home and so on. Not really engaging. With the writing it really bothers me that everyone talks to me like we are best friends and that every NPC tries their best not to offend me. Very distracting. I rather have Emil Pagliarulo in Fallout 4 selling me a useless charge card and calling me a r3tard. And immersion, well, Bethesda usually is very good at world building you can get immersed in but with Starfield it always feels like once you start getting immersed into the world, you suddenly get dragged into 2020 the video game. That was a constant thing, switching from Toddfield to 2020field, very distracting since I never experienced something like that in a Bethesda game. I did play the game once and want to replay it but every time I try, I get confronted with these 3 problems and drop it to play Fallout 3, NV and pre-update Fallout 4. I'm still a Todd fanboy but I doubt I'll bother with Shattered Space. I guess I'll see what reviews say. Not a good sign when you are losing your fanboys, Todd.

People are not coming back to Starfield unless they make it an actual game. The NPC interactions are so fucking empty, I felt no reason to care about the story or characters.

According to Todd Howard... I wouldn't trust Todd Howard, after they just released Microtransactions in Starfield, before the DLC that people have already paid money for. "Waiting for that thing you paid for? Well, here's something else you can buy while you wait!" has to be one of the sickest moves ever done by a company to its customers... I feel sorry for the people working there, if this is the level of greed their boss openly show to fans. I'm really suprised they made the Creation shop before the Shattered Space DLC. Shows you their priorities. And probaly also why nobody is playing the game anymore.

Glad that they made a horrible update vs letting fallout London come out

Tl;dw: Not a lot; things look generally bad, no new announcements.

Can they just stop realeasing "next-gen-anniversary" updates to these games? Everytime they do, they fragment the modding Community, making things harder for beginner modders like me to navigate modding.

Did forget they brought out Microsoft probably not solo Bethesda fault.

People have moved on from Starfield. Only a few are excited for the DLC, some arr waiting to see if its worth it, and most already see Starfield as a failure and fear it shows what the next Elder Scrolls will be like

I really hope they sort out the last gen update.

Something going on with current workers they hire for their projects. They just don't do it with the same amount of quality anymore.

starfield had so much potential if bethesda wasen't prideful on their outdated game design

bethesda: how do you like your pizza with pineapple or kiwi toppings?

Think about it. Fallout London dropped. Bethesda updates fallout 4 breaking the game and doesn't fix it. Now players won't be pulled away from their live service title which is more likely to generate more revenue. Especially since, as you said, it is in a better state right now.

I’m hoping Shattered Space fixes things too. Bethesda can just read KZfaq comments to find out why Starfield didn’t connect. Lame quests, lame stories, lame choices, lame companions (except Andreja), nothing crazy and memorable - unlike Fallout series. I really hope the fun comes back to Bethesda. Thanks for the updates.

After the next gen update, all my mods in the mod page don't show in the "downloaded" section. They still work and are in the load order but I have too manually search for them

I wish they'd get on with updating fallout 4. I keep finding new bugs that never existed and it's almost unplayable.

Bethesda is just loosing it. They definitely don't understand their fan base, but talking about modders getting real development jobs and than shitting into the modders garden applauding themselves for year another broken promise. Honestly I am glad Bethesda sabotage themselves so Fallout Series fans can see them in their full Glory before being fooled.

I have a gripe with how limited the criticism of FO76s current situation was, the most recent major event was a mess and would crash and kick people who were on teams for hours (which is the only safeguard given to assure you can access a world again aside from a System friend being there), and for both PS4 and Xbox the final event opportunity was not possible to complete because the timing for the event items expired an hour BEFORE the event. Not to mention how prevalent the black screen crash is entering a new area/ fast traveling.

Wow how significant a paid weapon camo pack, that only you can see, starfield is gonna be saved guys😭😭😭

I think ill die before tes vi is coming out

Just plain wasn't interested in Starfield at all, I played Fallout 4 for a SINGLE playthrough and didn't bother with '76, went back to playing Skyrim or New Vegas. People play the older games because they were actually good and able to be modded fairly easily, Creations set back the entire modding community in much the same way Nexus mods did with collections. Don't particularly want to suspect Bethesda of "conspiracy" with a mainline hosting site against modders but given the tiny window of when all that stuff went down, it is what it is. The modding community has "somewhat" recovered but mostly thanks to version rollbacks keeping the work that good people put in from going to complete waste. People want decent games, not mtx that is only there to please stockholders.

I play on PC and I have not experienced any issues.

what if the broken mods is a ploy to push people away from community made mods and to buy the bethesda mods.

Am I the only one pissed off at the fact that they couldn't atleast update the pipboy sorting in fallout 4 to be more like 76? I hate that i have to scroll forever in the aid or misc tabs to find food or drink or holotapes when they should have their own tabs to begin with same goes for the building and how they didn't even bother to give us a free cam like in 76. Makes no sense considering this was a next gen update and 76 is still running on a last gen version why does an upgrade have less features?

*me peacefully playing Mojave tunes waiting for either a remaster or just another west coast Fallout*

I find it completely deflating that Starfield’s engagement strategy was to just have players replay the main story over and over with minor changes. Actually, not minor, you have to completely reset ANY base building. Having to repeat the virtually same quests over and over so that I can get max ship upgrades at the complete cost of any base building (after 40+ hours of building) is just not worth it.

I’m so excited about the Dark Brotherhood paid DLC for Skyrim, the $5 I spent on the Thieves Guild was really worth it… Oh wait, that’s an even shittier alternate reality…

I hate that afaik there's still no statement about the "this operation could not be completed" issue with the mods menu

Im probably not coming back to Starfield. The dlc isn’t near enough for me. Add to that the whole creations debacle and it’s not looking good. Since they broke Fallout 4 I’m not interested in playing that either. 76 ain’t for me. I’m basically back to various fps games, the occasional bit of OpenMW or TTW and Rimworld is my main. If they announce a remaster I’ll be down for that. Otherwise I’m just filling time waiting for ES6.

I just finished a full Fallout 4 run with DLC and didn't come across one bug on Xbox Series X

To be fair, with the Starfield player count comparison, did the fallout series not also have some influence on player numbers recently?

They need to add more content to Fallout 4 every year instead.

Started playing Fallout 4 survival for the first time on my PS5....Keeps crashing. It's worse than when I played it on PS4 at launch.

For anyone experiencing the pipboy crash I identified a fix (more a workaround). Many may have noticed that when you access the pipboy it has a random chance of crashing. This isn’t actually random at all. But occurs when switching the menu’s in the pipboy while moving the left analogue stick at the same time. Mainly when switching to the map. When switching menu’s in the pipboy, make sure you aren’t moving the left analogue stick and you’ll be fine. The crashes will stop. It’s not perfect, but hopes it makes people realise it’s not a random crash and you have control over the situation :)

Imagine that an older game unplayable whilst newer games especially ones with micro's seem to be working pretty well, can't imagine why......

I was happy with Starfield when they released it. However when they released paid mini DLCs before they released the promised DLC that made me mad.

Bethesda need to pass the fallout & elder scrolls torch along.

I got fallout 4 a year and a 1/2 ago? And it's never worked on my p. C every time I get near sanctuary. It crashes no matter what the settings are at. No matter what mods I have to try and fix, it crashes

I think the core problem with Starfield is that when I think about the game, the first thing that comes to mind is not combat and story moments, but running, menus, and busywork. There's just too much crust between the juicy bits.

I bought the GOG version of Fallout 4 when it was released there. I am so happy I did. With all the "creations" ie. micro transactions they keep hammering into their games I'm probably not buying another Bethesda game again unless it's released on GOG.

The simple downgrade patch is a BLESSING, all you do is drag all the files in the f4 directory, click on the executable and that's it, your load order is saved. You can even keep the new content Bethesda added to the update. When it comes to modders it ACTUALLY JUST WORKS

Starfield has fundamental issues that they're likely unable to overcome with the engine. - Loading screen sims everywhere - Boring baren planets - Barely any POIs. - New game plus is frankly boring and removes everything you did prior to entering it. - Main characters are all awful. I got the premium edition cus I got over sold by Todd guilable idiot I am. Im not coming back for shattered space if everything else is still the same.

For Starfield, I think a lot of people are just waiting for big substantial mods now CK was recently released, more updates and Shattered Space to drop. I am one of them.

I’m still pissed the merged the mod menu and cc why did they do this?

I been having those problems as well especially if I look up in the sky all buggie and glitching hopefully fallout have update soon

On the one hand, yearly expansion/big DLC sounds great, and I'm not even talking about Starfield, but the potential it has for TES6 On the other, regular updates mean regular breakage of mods, more often than ever before. Bethesda needs to give players a convenient way to choose what version they wanna install and play, let players have multiple installations of the game even. Something like what Minecraft Launcher does.

what is the armor in the thumbnail pls ?

The problem with Starfield for me is not lack of content. The things I don't like about the game are pretty much here to stay because they're engine based issues or Bethesda based issues. They can add expansions and content, but the game will still feel outdated, and I doubt the writing or voice acting will get much better. It's hard for me to get engrossed in Starfield because there are too many things that are immersion breaking. Starfield is not a game where I look at the clock and am like, "Whoa, where did the last 4 hours go?" I never have that moment where I'm desperate to find out what happens next. I played it, got all the way to the final main quest, and then did an 83 hour playthrough of Cyberpunk after the Phantom Liberty release. Then, I started another Cyberpunk playthrough. Mid way through that playthrough I was like, "I guess I should probably finish Starfield." So, I did. Coming directly from Cyberpunk back to Starfield actually made my impression of the game way worse. I was literally playing the last main quest trying to figure how I managed to make it this far into it. I think the only reason I did was because I hadn't been playing anything else recently and there wasn't anything else I was interested in playing when Starfield came out. Bethesda was smart to release it before Phantom Liberty. If they would have repressed it after, I think things would have gone way worse for them.

Given that the Fallout 4 engine is, as of right now, held together by an Elementary School Glue Stick, and moldy masking tape, with the words SAVE OBSOLETE scribbled all over... I highly doubt they know what they're doing with YET ANOTHER Fallout game...

I tried playing without any mods and the stutters are still so bad, 3 hours later the save got corrupted.

Q? Has anyone experienced any issues with doing the "eye of the storm" mission for the crimson fleet? My game keeps freezing every time i try to run it. I can do any of other mission/quest but that one seems bugged

I was able to play a heavy modded xbox version for hours with wifi off. Now this update forced me keep it on and it crashes every 30 minutes

i would buy a new skyrim dlc for double the price before i bought a starfield dlc, and its not even a hard decision. im not crazy about skyrim either.

I played fo4 for a few weeks after the update on series s and was so relieved to finally be able to step foot in boston. I only had creations installed and didnt have many crashes when i set it to 60 it was smooth for the most part. Other than the consistent stutter i thought it was pretty good

My main issue with starfield was the whole losing everything but your skills on ng, no way to save blueprints of build or anything.

Not to mention the FO4 mod broke the only thing I was looking forward to, Fallout London

On console, I still crash in Cambridge. (Can't even buy the new free "handmade weapons". Which is really funny, if there is any weapons that should be crafted via the Chem Bench or even make a new "Weaponscrafting" Workbench it would be these weapons)

Just to clarify the Starfield issue with multiple new POI does not affect new unique POI with specified locations (I've created new ones on different esms without issue). I'm not really interested in adding to the POI pool, but unique hand placed new dungeons and POI (with environmental story-telling) are pretty fun to make they just take allot of time.

I generally support the idea of compensating mod creators, since I'm a mod creator myself and know how the lack of funding basically makes long-term maintenance impossible if you're not a die hard fan yourself. But there should also be a cap so that it doesn't become a revenue incentive. 5 bucks for big mods, 1 for smaller ones. Gamers are expected to pay more and more for hardware and software. I can't even afford a new GPU, which is among the reasons why I can't mod higher quality mods for the newest games. They just don't run, so I have to rely on GeForce Now.

Why would anyone want to buy Starfield and/or its pieces to get nickel and dimed when there's so much else you can be doing? Then when the legendary deluxe special complete edition comes out you can buy it and get everything for cheaper, plus the experience should be better.

In starfield i'm seeing proof that for whatever reason BGS is outsourcing some things. I suspected this when seeing easy fix bugs and Large bugs being ignored not by choice but because finding the outsourced Dev long after you've let them move on could be hard when they are from a foreign country which now leaves you a position of scrolling through 100s - 1000s of lines of code you've never seen before looking for what's wrong. HUGE Time Sink! The proof of this for me came when they released the "blank" ship Habs and there were Floaters leftover in the habs they overlooked when removing some interiors. If you had built the original Habs you would have the blanks already in stock from before the original interiors were added which would have been 10000 times easier/faster to port in. Not going to mention the middle finger from devs who had to remove the interiors but left Walls/doors that are no different than any other interior item. They never planned on us wanting blanks or interiors. Outsourced Devs would have deleted hab assets years ago after moving on. IMHO

My biggest problem with the next gen updates for Fallout 4 on console, is that every single time you switch your pip boy screens too fast while zooming out on the map your game immediately crashes. Had to redo so much stuff because of that glitch

If they not adding in ship mechanics like star citizen, adding alien civilizations and writing a good in depth story they might as well hang it up because that’s what customers want