Everything is a Fast Travel Loading Screen

[PaulGR]

Everything is locked behind a Fast Travel loading screen so far in the Tutorial before reaching New Atlantis.

You can't travel and land on a planet yourself freely?

All I do is navigate menus and teleport to cities/outposts instantly. Where is the space traveling? Where is planet landing? Climbing a simple ladder is a teleporting loading screen. Even the cities are split into different parts/sectors that you teleport to via train. There's no big city to see. Everything is UI navigation. Not space exploration.

Does it get better later on? Or is that it?

[Crusader (Banned13x)]

That's the gameplay loop. Looks like a nightmare for no-fast-travel purists like myself. Now I'm forced to apparently. I don't really understand the point of piloting a ship; the areas of space between planets are just enclosed air combat arenas in-between the fast-travel loadscreens.

[VonFIDDE]

Yup breaks immersion right away, but they choose a crap engine for it so.. they did what they could.

[EmZ]

Its funny because even entering your ship needs loadingscreen

[Gergorian]

so glad you pointed this out. I was playing BG3 when it hit me, this is just loading screening s and cut scenes .... omg, have I been lied to all along?

[PaulGR]

Originally posted by Crusader:

That's the gameplay loop. Looks like a nightmare for no-fast-travel purists like myself. Now I'm forced to apparently. I don't really understand the point of piloting a ship; the areas of space between planets are just enclosed air combat arenas in-between the fast-travel loadscreens.

I very rarely utilize the fast travel option in games. Though the issue so far is that EVERYTHING is a teleporting loading screen in Starfield.

You teleport to a planet via a menu, then open another menu to teleport to the landing zone. You practically do no space traveling at all. Everything is a cutscene initiated through a menu.

I thought this was supposed to be about space exploration. Not a UI navigation simulator.

[Avoca]

I think it's a step in the right direction. It ain't perfect but it works.

[Ser Alexander]

My problem exactly. Can't actually land on a planet yourself or fly to a new planet. I've progressed enough to realise that "planets" are just a set of curated missions with a bunch of loading screens. Highly disappointed.

[PaulGR]

Originally posted by Ser Alexander:

My problem exactly. Can't actually land on a planet yourself or fly to a new planet. I've progressed enough to realise that "planets" are just a set of curated missions with a bunch of loading screens. Highly disappointed.

It feels like you are teleporting from mission to mission like the CoD campaign. There's no open world like Skyrim or F4...

[PaulGR]

Originally posted by EmZ:

Its funny because even entering your ship needs loadingscreen

Ikr. Even the cities are not unified. New Atlantis is split into sectors you have to fast travel to.

[Darktalker]

It reminds me of Elder Scroll Online, everything is behind a loading screen,

[Nomad]

More elitist QQ garbage.

Play the game and enjoy a casual experience for once. Quit pretending like they wont have a survival mode planned. Theres clearly water and food. Gamers are so spoiled now they cant wait and see whats next.

[Tiasmoon]

Originally posted by Gergorian:

so glad you pointed this out. I was playing BG3 when it hit me, this is just loading screening s and cut scenes .... omg, have I been lied to all along?

Have you ever wondered what happens to you when you dream?

Your mind is on a loading screen.

Originally posted by Ser Alexander:

My problem exactly. Can't actually land on a planet yourself or fly to a new planet. I've progressed enough to realise that "planets" are just a set of curated missions with a bunch of loading screens. Highly disappointed.

You can do that, tho. I've landed on the moon and earth. Havent checked out much else yet since because im always overweight I cant fast travel untill I reach the ship, meaning lots of travel time.

But Idk if there's heavy limits on the systems you can fly to, if you were referring to that instead?

Also I managed to skip half the Sol system mission by flying to Neptune before the story pointed me there.. lol

[Tiasmoon]

I agree that space flight feels way too limited tho. I dont know why they didnt make it more freeform like for example Starfleet/klingon academy, or even Rebel Galaxy. The spaceship flight stuff does feel kind of pointless right now.

[BluD]

nope this is what the game is. completely broken immersion. game isnt a space game at all, as space is nothing but an illusion in this game. your ship will never get any closer to any planet no matter how long and how fast you travel towards it.

[lieutenantduran]

Originally posted by Nomad:

More elitist QQ garbage.

Play the game and enjoy a casual experience for once. Quit pretending like they wont have a survival mode planned. Theres clearly water and food. Gamers are so spoiled now they cant wait and see whats next.

the game lacks the main tenants of elderscrolls and fallout.
you spawn in, and you walk in some direction, coming across caves/tunnels/a bombed out nukacola factory, theres always a deathclaw or a vampire, or some little storyline or theme, from there you might find a book, or a bloody message scrawled out, showing where treasure or a vampires lair might be located, theres always something pulling you in a new direction, within the static map,

no loading screens within the world. only when you go into some sort of interior,

this game lacks the elements that made fallout and elderscrolls the hits they are.

every world is as sparse as the "glowing sea" with procedurally generated content.

whats worse is behind all these loading screens are takeoff and landing cutscenes, who wants to watch those 99999 times?