Being able to see the objects in the area even if you don't know what they are, considering you just flew down from a spaceship, makes sense. It's not a fog of war situation where you just arrived via stargate

I don't think detailed maps on planets break immersion. It's realistic that your ship would have scanned the surface prior to landing. So you should have a detailed map.

2:38 those are the edges of the map, not the available play area. The map doesn't show the whole area at once. You can go well past those edges and the map will just keep following you. You're always in the center of the map.

So hyped to play this game 10 years from now.

New POIs are what's most needed in the game, as someone who spent my time landing on random moons, planets it became evident very quickly. Its why unless its an outside base/Enemies i don't really bother going there anymore. No more Cryobase., Definitely NO caves, etc.

Maps are all right but all the POI's on planets are all the same. Just gets old fast.

Map shouldn't be emersion breaking since you would easily be able to scan and photo the environment as you came in for a landing.

Slower Than Light mod revealed that there is an actual sun in the middle of each star system. Fully animated with its own markers etc. I’m convinced space traversal was cut. I really want them to bring this into the game. Does not need to be elite dangerous level of space traversal. But the ability to just point the ship in one direction in space and hunt down ships, manually fly to other planets etc i’d be happy. Some people think that this is not needed in the game because it is “an RPG”. Nobody yet has game me a compelling argument that this is a bad idea.

The map is actually bigger than shown. As you move towards an edge more is revealed as the viewable area moves with you. How much bigger, I don't know as I have not tested the limits.

Next on their list, give me a reason to explore the large 100 system universe beyond the core worlds.... and not use fast travel to do it.

Less load screens is what we need. From system to system is fine but for the small things like entering your ship, a building, ect we need to make that more seamless. Even a short animation would be better than a black screen.

Honestly, I think the issues with Starfield are more fundamental than maps and quality of life issues. The core component which sets Bethesda games apart from other games is that one can point their character in a direction and then just go and see what's out there. One can see a mountain or a ruin or (broken freeway in the case of Fallout) and then just go in that direction and encounter things along the way, making both the journey and the destination exciting. Starfield doesn't have that. Points of interest on the procedurally generated maps are fairly redundant and don't result in any surprises. Sure, there can be tension if your health gets low, but that's the case in most all games. Even the more settled planets / systems aren't even well fleshed out. Where are the farms that serve New Atlantis or the mines? I'd have been amazing to see a mine where all of the humans are dead and terrormorphs infest the place. The most surprising place was an extraction rig infested with swarmers in the Eridani system. I had no idea that was there and stumbled upon it early in the game before I was ready for it. It was among the few good encounters. I can't say it's a bad game, and I genuinely like the environments and the stories, but a Bethesda game is about the exploration more so than anything else, and I honestly see no reason to explore in Starfield. I do wonder if that's endemic to space games since space is so vast and usually quite empty. It might have been a better strategy to have a handful of star systems with more crafted maps. As an example I love Neon, cyberpunk is a cool aesthetic, but I'd have loved a whole planet like that not just one floating city that I have no business returning to, apart from when I need to sell junk. I think if they made planets which reference various sci-fi tropes, Star Trek Federation planet, Firefly western world, Bladerunner planet, Xenomorph infested planet (with random encounter sprinkled around in other places for fun), and sure other outlying worlds that are near empty or containing small settlements; that'd have been a fun game where each planet could have been a mini skyrim. I'd like to try Starfield again some day but for now... Starfield made me get back into Elite Dangerous. Now I'm clearing out lawless settlements, collecting biological samples, and space fighting 'round the bubble. I'm not in any rush and I'm just in the game for fun.

Thanks for the explainer 👍🏿👍🏿 (needed it)

As additions go, they're OK, but it feels like they're just smoothing over the top layer of the game, whilst leaving the core completely untouched. The problem with the game isn't the visuals, or the maps, or not being able to place a potted cactus on a shelf in your ship, it's the mind-numbingly repetitive gameplay and cookie-cutter nature of the procedurally generated maps. Once I was done completing as many missions as possible I took the leap and started NG+, and that's where I stopped, because the reality of the situation sank in, and I realised that I now had to play through the same storylines all over again, and to what goal? To start NG++ and do it all over again? I dunno, maybe Starship Interior Decorator Simulator might be the next big thing after all...

A really good game destined for greatness by the looks of things.

This is enough to get me to shift STarfield over to the SSD and do my second play through. Thanks for the news!

Great, thanks for the update, I was a couple of months out of the game, but with these improvements it's time to go back in 👍

If you change paint on a single hab, does everything in your ship go into the inventory still?

Gonna give this a go again with the new update. For anyone who is familiarised themselves the new settings can you have the settings where human enemies can be dealt with easily like headshots for example, but enemies like terramorphes are difficult to take out?

No changes to fundamental game systems. I can see that players who didn't mind the game might play it again, but I can't see it attracting back the people who gave up because of those fundamental design flaws. I doubt those will ever be fixable.

Honestly the map change is fantastic and was a massive demand. Now you don't have to be wondering what every unknown marker will be so you don't end up wasting 20 minutes walking somewhere only to find that it is a cave or a landmark that you had already found.

Looking forward to ship decorating

When you move ship modules around, does it still fill up your inventory with junk?

This is all fine but doesn't address the biggest issue for me, which is the repetitive nature of the locations / POIs you find out in the environment. Without addressing this the actual game play experience is mostly unchanged and I don't seem myself coming back just to see the same repetitive locations now on a map

Oo the survival mode stuff gots me excited!

Still waiting for actual mod support then ill revisit after 6 months of letting the modders cook

very nice! Going to go back to it

Is there a way to totally protect against status effects? I got my thermal to protect to 85% but not 100, it is so awesome to have this but I would like to change suites for each environment. but even at 85% if I am taking a while in a map, it still Sur comes to the effect.

I love how the maps of interior spaces you explore are similar indesign to the DOOM 2016 and eternal maps.

The new loading screens are amazing! It's like i'm really there!

Impressive update. I'm actually looking forward to it.

I dont see this as immersion breaking, rather more inline with scanning technology. I should be able to see items with a scanner, or imagine that my ship scanned the area prior to landing, in this advanced time and not really know the details until I actually explore it.

thank you so much for coving all this new information in great detail, much more helpful then other content creators, best regards, Cheer's

Can I adjust ir reduce the amount of loading screens?

I love this game. I put over 360 hours into it. I will be coming back for the DLC and land vehicle.

Oh man i've checked and I subscribed to OA on 28 December 2015, 8 and a half years subscribed. Time flies.

I might take another look at it once the modders have had a year or so with the creation tools. Doesn't seem like they're going to change anything that will make any real difference otherwise.

Weren't these part of the previous patch, not the latest one? What did I miss?

The xp adjust accordingly when you change combat difficulty, Nice , now i like that 👍

Can we choose where doors and ladders are placed in ship builder now??

The gameplay options are excellent, tweaking a lot of settings makes for much better mechanics. Also higher fps on Xbox is great too, I’ve been enjoying this update today.

Did they fix Vasco's eternal laser audio? If not, it can stay abandoned on my end.

I like the customizable difficulty. I've already set the damage to both player and enemies deal a lot of damage so engagements are deadly and short. More common to get injured and harder to get those removed. And so on

Sure would be nice if this game turns around someday and becomes the game I dreamed of before it released. Not sure it can, but at least they are trying.

You still can’t put doors and ladders where you want them inside the ship

Well, color me impressed. I'm certainly going to at least give it another go, even though I don't expect anything groundbreaking.

When I don't have to fight through 90 different loading screens and/or they strip out fast travel, maybe.

These updates seem pretty good - will probably check them out when the DLC drops as I'm busy with other games atm. I like that at least with new ship modules you can start from a "bare" module and place things just like in outposts. A little bit torn on all POIs showing on "uncharted" landing map, but taking into account time required to jetpack out to farther POIs, I think BSG made the right decision in terms of respecting players' time. It is interesting that BSG seem to have changed their minds regarding ground vehicles.

They was nice enough to release it before they were actually finished with it.... but even then it was already a masterpiece "since day 1".. These updates are polishing finishers , it's only gonna get better.

Had like 2 minutes where i thought you were discussing star citizen

Will wait for ground vehicles, some sort of radio would be nice too, more random content when walking long distances and removal of the loading screen when entering or exiting ships.

Like the new map system, I hope a feature or mod added for a perk to allow local area maps to display minable recoreces after scanning a planet. Def save me several hrs hunting a mining spot for the most recoreces on one spot.

Combat needs a huge overhaul

That ship (pun intended) has very much sailed. The issue with the game is systemic and would need a complete overhaul to work.

My favorite developers can’t even make games anymore so I’m making my own in unreal. F*** Bethesda

Wow, the new map really does break the illusion about how big the cities are.

I am wondering if there will be a 'design the internal ladders' type of update for the ship designer, that is one aspect that can be quite annoying at times and being able to design the internal ship 'map' would be awesome!

Can player decide where to put doors and ladders between cabin modules now? Otherwise it would still be a nightmare to traverse in large ships...

Dare I ask if they sorted any of the bugs that popped up in the beta, particularly with claiming ships? Also, it's surprising how much turning dialogue camera off helps.

those ''improvements'' are cool but should have been there at launch to be honest.... i don't know if it's enough to bring me back , i'll wait a bit more

XSX player here.. I beat the game ONCE when it first came out. Obviously lots of criticisms. Never felt like jumping to the next universe and doing it all over again. But NOW.. with the changes that have been put in over the months, and especially if I can do a NG+, I'm definitely considering going back, respec'ing and starting all over. I really don't have much to lose, and everything to gain. I definitely didn't 100% the game. I only did like 30-40% of side missions, didn't get all collectibles, secrets, etc. So yea.. for me, it would be like starting a brand new game and starting it the way it SHOULD have been when it first released. Now that the update is live, I'm looking forward to starting it again tonight!

I started a new save recently after beating the game around launch, but it lost me after a couple of weeks. I'll be back to try it again once the land vehicle and/or CK is out. I see the game's potential and overall I still like it, but it needs help. It's kind of tough going between playing Starfield and Cyberpunk 2077 as I was doing recently and comparing the depth of the experience or just the quality of the writing and acting or the density and detail of the city environment.

When the game is feature complete is when I’ll consider buying it. It was sold as half a finished game at full price.

waiting for under water in next DLC

My NG+4 suit had the best single perk possible: all weapons are half weight, which means I no longer have normal weight limits as the vast majority of inventory are weapons, including for selling for money. Worth going through the unity multiple times to get the right attributes you want for a NG+ as it’s random each time.

only thing that might save starfield is some insane total conversion mod. basically another game all together

I totally forgot that I had this game until I saw this video..

Enjoying it again myself, reinstalled 2 weeks ago. Playing V Rising at the moment though.

They should have a "fog of war" for the map, so exploring uncovers areas. Could also tie the range that works with skills to give some of the exploration ones a bit more oomf.

I was going to come back for the DLC, but I’ve been excited for this update so far! Didn’t expect an update like this tbh. I’m glad Bethesda is doing something at least. I can’t believe people aren’t talking about the fact that Bethesda gave us the option to eliminate bullet sponges lol

If you could create blueprints of your ships, and then recreate them quickly in New Game+ when you have the cash then it would definitely make game much better in my opinion. if Starfield had this and all the stuff from the current patch at launch, then I think Starfield wouldn't be so mixed. On the map system, I think it's good. You just flew in from a spaceship so you should be able to know what is there in general from a birds eye view. After all, you did just fly in from your ship and had that birds eye view.

Just in time for the day one!!

The settings change might make me actually come back. I wanna be a space cowboy with a pistol that actually deals damage lol

The game is starting to look promising!

I'll reinstall it. Only because I loved the ship building aspect so much. I know I won't be playing it for very long, certainly not another 100 hours, but I'll get at least some enjoyment from something I already own. I will give absolute praise to Bethesda's difficulty options changes. The amount of control they give us is surprising and appreciated, even if I feel it's a little bit much. But hey, more options the better.

can you now get all the powers on your first play through as i couldnt as the temples would not spawn after trying multiple times even after completeing a play through so got rid of the brokethesda mess

if on an unexplored planet, launching a drone or something could explain the detail at a birds eye view.

The buff to XP gains is welcome. My personal complaint was that the leveling pace is too slow.

I want a detailed home building system on whatever planet I choose.. just a place to call home.

They said we get a run about where is it

I hope they will add some more loading screen...

It made gameplay better but it still has no vehicles and we still have to walk everywhere I noticed a problem with the new map. It's reset everywhere where you've been which sucks. You can fast-travel if you haven't discovered this yet.

Does Xbox have performance option?

Great to see some maps added but the game really should have been delaying to allow for them to be there in the beginning. This game was launched too early and no amount of fixing it after the fact is going to bring the masses back.

Tried it out on gamepass and was pleasantly surprised, bethesda needs to just wait longer to release or offer early buyers a discount since they have to wait for the game to get to where it needs to be. Now they need to add blueprints, if I start a new game I want to be able to rebuild my ships and outposts without so much time fiddling around. That and some variation in dungeons/pois and it will be a much better game.

Imagine a total conversion for Mass Effect during/after the first Contact War

Needs less restrictions wen it comes to ship building maybe a separate creative mode so u can build without a budget you could save the build and then apply it in the main story wen uve got enough credits

Dragon Age Dreadwolf is gonna release this year. And rn I'm still busy playing DD2. Beth will have to do more than this to pique my interest this year...

But is this worth getting back after finishing the game few times? Maybe after new DLC? 🤔

Hmmm, crazy thought time yo... new Map tile format. What other city themed game uses this method?? I.e. SimCity baser building mod anyone? (I'm no programmer though. I like hardware more. :p )

I heard they are selling nice cosmetics for your loading screens in the cash shop now.

Being able to adjust damage levels like this is a massive step. After all given this is a single player game being able to adjust the gameplay to your liking seems like an excellent decision

These are all wonderful changes - but they were never the biggest issues. The biggest issue is that the gameplay loop just get tedious.

Starfield needs to have an online cataloge of custom ships (like how they had in spore) where players can upload their builds that you can buy if you have the credits which matches how much it costed the uploaders to build said ship.

Good to know. When its 20$ or less itll be a good purchase.

8months, EIGHT. MONTHS! For BASIC FEATURES that should have been in the game from the beginning. Good lord Bethesda has fallen from orbit with their competency and drilled into the planets crust.

Please let there be VR support. Please Bethesda!!

that is not the edge of the map though... it moves if you move

This map reveal should have been done different like for example have a new map scanner that marks points on the unrevealed map parts with different signals. That would show you if there is something, what kind it is but not reveal what exactly and how it looks etc. But just going the simple route and removing with it everything that makes exploration interesting ... not good enough for me!

I can see why they left out the map features on launch, as now we have a map that reveals the emptiness of the restricted tiles we get. It makes the game even more broken to me than before. I now don't care even more about exploring each area I drop into, now that I know its cold, barren, empty........... just go back and cover ED please. This was great content.