Today's game is some more Starfield. I neglected the Main quest for a bit to go off and join a faction along with decking out my Crew. I found the Adoring fan, immediately he was the first addition to my crew. Love the guy and i'm so happy to have him back. I also had Sarah join the crew just to fill out the slots.
At the bar in New Atlantis, i picked up two other people as well. The first is Simeon Bankowski. He used to be some sort of Field Weapon's Tester for the UC Military. He decided he was tired of going off to deserted planets to test weapons and retired. That's when i found him and hired him.
The second one is Marika Boros. I didn't pry too much into her past though and just hired her (responsible practice, i know). She's had a big problem with sleeping the bed in the Captain's Quarters. I mean, i rarely use it so okay i guess. But it's still a bit creepy to sleep in someone else's bed.
I've been spending a lot of time in New Atlantis doing diplomatic work after joining the Vanguard and fighting off a terrormorph invasion. After a long questline, i walked out of the building, and just stopped to chill. I wandered up to this tree, and man. Say what you will about the gameplay but this game really gets it's graphics right. The whole game feels really prettily made, at least from what i've seen so far.
I ended off for the night by finally picking up the main story and going to the moon. Or, well, a space station orbiting the moon. I play in first person, and it was really cool to see the scale of it upfront. I'm a sucker for Sci-Fi things with massive scale, that's part of what made Star Trek one of my favorite series growing up. They really had some moments that showed off the scale of ships.
There was one last thing i wanted to show off though and that is that i discovered the ship builder and bastardized the Frontier. It's now 3x as long and as a result of the extra mass i had to give it a better engine. I don't think this thing counts as the "Classic" it was anymore. I'm loving the stupid ship builder because despite all the regulations i can make the stupidest looking ships ever and no one can tell me no. At some point i want to just try and make a horribly long one and see if it will let me.
I'll be honest, they fucked this game over hard in my opinion.
It really does feel like they separated everyone into teams, and none of the teams spoke to each other once. They all just delivered their chunk of the game without connecting pieces together.
Base building was a nightmare, and that's the primary reason I downloaded it in the first place.
Then I finished the main quest and spoilers ahead for anyone who cares
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The concept of "well now you're out of the universe so let's go to a new one right at the start of the game again but this time a few things might be slightly different" was fun until all my hard work figuring things out with the bases got erased by "and by the way literally everything except your experience and abilities has been reset and you can either choose continuing the ability tree and maybe solve some mysteries of who built everything or you can care about the current universe but you can't do both"Kind of killed literally every desire I had to play the game. Especially when they patched the easily accessed chests that at least gave me a shortcut to some things.