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Starfield players looking for how to fix a bug that breaks guns figured out changing their character's gender is a solution.

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[–] Cylusthevirus@kbin.social 71 points 1 year ago

THIS IS THE FUTURE LIBERALS WANT /s

[–] LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Brb, starting on HRT so I can regain my 2nd Amendment right.

[–] Ertebolle@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gives a whole new meaning to the word "deadname"

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 year ago

Be gay, do crime.

[–] tal@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Pistols

The Pink Pistols are an LGBTQ gun rights organization in the United States and Canada. Their motto is "Pick on someone your own caliber".[1]

Pink Pistols enrollment up.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm vaguely curious what gets re-initialized by changing gender to fix this.

[–] Cavemanfreak@lemm.ee 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Apparently it's nothing to do with changing the gender, only opening the character creation screen. So you can open that screen and then just close it, and it should work again. Weird bug though!

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The article says that the console command to swap genders also works.

I haven't experienced it so I have no clue.

[–] schmidtster@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wonder if that pseudo opens the screen.

[–] Blamemeta@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

It runs the change character script, which resets animations.

[–] 520@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

It might alter some of the same variables causing this bug.

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

It probably triggers a write of the character data which ends up overwriting some bad value that is actually causing the problem.

[–] turtlepower@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

You haven't experienced swapping genders? All the cool kids are doing it.

[–] WolfhoundRO@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

This is why you don't use global variables, kids!

[–] MissGutsy@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If starfield works like every other Bethesda game, the game can't actually change the gender directly, it instead remakes your entire character, which will reset whatever is causing the bug

[–] JPAKx4@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago
[–] Mathazzar@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I had a bug caused by the shipselling bug where each time I went through a load screen my gender and appearance randomized. So I can't even begin to guess how all the noodles are connected.

[–] Crayphish@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

man that bald english dude has to be losing his damn mind rn

[–] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Poor Vin Diesel

[–] WolfhoundRO@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That baby face or something like that

Bethesda. Bethesda never changes. But seriously this has to be one of the odder bugs I've seen in a Bethesda game.

[–] Quentinp@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh that's not going to cause any conspiracy theories at all lol!

The article links to a story about some YouTubers who went on a rant about the optional pronoun feature, so yeah, I could absolutely see this getting blown out of proportion.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 points 1 year ago

Confusing your rifle for your gun, again, men?

lifts weapon this is my rifle.

Grabs crotch this is my gun.

One is for fighting, the other's for fun.

[–] Blamemeta@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So animations get fucked up, and you can fix them with racemenu? Sounds about right, anyone with loverslab experience could tell you that.

[–] Naz@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Loverslab Starfield confirmed

[–] Blamemeta@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

You jest, but it has an entire section dedicated to it. And just look at the size of this thread. https://www.loverslab.com/topic/217203-sex-mod-framework-development-discussion/

Cyberpunk had a bug where you couldn't draw weapons or something similar.
The fix was to pay a hooker.