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Starfield Bug Forces Players to Change Gender to Fire Guns (www.404media.co)
submitted 9 months ago by Ertebolle@kbin.social to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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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 9 months ago

THIS IS THE FUTURE LIBERALS WANT /s

[-] LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world 58 points 9 months ago

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

[-] Ertebolle@kbin.social 15 points 9 months ago

Gives a whole new meaning to the word "deadname"

[-] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 19 points 9 months ago

Be gay, do crime.

[-] tal@kbin.social 11 points 9 months 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 9 months ago

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

[-] Cavemanfreak@lemm.ee 32 points 9 months ago

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 9 months ago

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 9 months ago

Wonder if that pseudo opens the screen.

[-] Blamemeta@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago

It runs the change character script, which resets animations.

[-] 520@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago

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

[-] 4am@lemm.ee 8 points 9 months 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 9 months ago

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

[-] WolfhoundRO@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

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

[-] MissGutsy@lemmy.world 24 points 9 months ago

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 9 months ago

Prgramng!

[-] Mathazzar@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months 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 9 months ago

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

[-] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Poor Vin Diesel

[-] WolfhoundRO@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

That baby face or something like that

[-] Computerchairgeneral@kbin.social 16 points 9 months ago

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 9 months ago

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

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

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 9 months 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 9 months ago

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 9 months ago

Loverslab Starfield confirmed

[-] Blamemeta@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months 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/

[-] InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 10 points 9 months ago

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

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