You can't land on planets?

[Witch ~]

According to this tweet you just cant
https://twitter.com/i/status/1697305727998513551

Is this true? Whats the point then

[BBoaBrim]

The Tweet says nothing about not being able to LAND on planets. Of course you can land on them.

[zpc]

I guess people are slowly learning about how big space is, how small space ships are and what's all the fuzz about humans having such a hard time to reach mars.

It's pretty accurate. Play a real space simulation (e.g. X4) and see how long it takes to reach a planet.

Also yes, Starfield is not about simulating atmosphere entry. So this is not part of the game. The "point" is (if one needs one) that Starfield offers additional options by giving you a mobile home (= your starship). They could've just left that out and give you worldmap. I prefer the current state. Because obviously, they just couldn't deliver an RPG PLUS a fully fledged space simulation (anybody expecting that really has no idea about how much work that is).

Originally posted by BBoaBrim:

The Tweet says nothing about not being able to LAND on planets. Of course you can land on them.

Yep, Tweet and OPs post doesn't match. (I only checked the Tweet and replied to that -.-)

[Kashra Fall]

Just to put some light on this situation. Planets are LS away, you move at Meters, so yes it would be like you were sitting still trying to get to the planet. That being said, you can land on planets, but it is a cutscene/loading screen.

[󠁳⁧⁧RenokK]

Yeah, so in Starfield those Space Areas are more like little tiny hub worlds.
You can point at stations, press E to target and board them, or look at the planet lock it with E and open the map to select a landing site.

It's not like in NMS where you can freely fly between planets within a system. Would be neat if it were that way, but it isn't. But still a very enjoyable game.

[zpc]

Originally posted by 󠁳⁧⁧RenokK:

It's not like in NMS where you can freely fly between planets within a system. Would be neat if it were that way, but it isn't. But still a very enjoyable game.

To be fair - NMS also simplified planet landing (they had to in order to make an enjoyable game). I really do hope people don't think "yeah, that's how you land on planets"

[Witch ~]

Originally posted by Kashra Fall:

Just to put some light on this situation. Planets are LS away, you move at Meters, so yes it would be like you were sitting still trying to get to the planet. That being said, you can land on planets, but it is a cutscene/loading screen.

Originally posted by 󠁳⁧⁧RenokK:

Yeah, so in Starfield those Space Areas are more like little tiny hub worlds.
You can point at stations, press E to target and board them, or look at the planet lock it with E and open the map to select a landing site.

It's not like in NMS where you can freely fly between planets within a system. Would be neat if it were that way, but it isn't. But still a very enjoyable game.

What the hell? In no mans sky you can land on space.

[OzzTheBozz]

Not by yourself, you click the destination on a map and a cutscene will take you there.

[Nightwalker]

Only the die hards would want to land on a planet like you would in Kerbal Space Program.

Computers are really advanced in the future, they do it all for you. So just accept it as a lovely future. Self driving cars, self driving space ships.

[Witch ~]

Originally posted by OzzTheBozz:

Not by yourself, you click the destination on a map and a cutscene will take you there.

thats so lame?????

[Jᴧgᴧ]

No, there's no "landing" like you'd see in other games. Not even a simulated landing using your ship's current model. It's a loading screen teleport to a generated playfield, they didn't even try to mask it. Same goes for take-offs.

[skie]

However, the NMS found a pretty good way to manually land on the planet. Also, you can't get close to, for example, Atlantis and fly over it...

[Kashra Fall]

Originally posted by Jᴧgᴧ:

No, there's no "landing" like you'd see in other games. Not even a simulated landing using your ship's current model. It's a loading screen teleport to a generated playfield, they didn't even try to mask it. Same goes for take-offs.

They quite literally told you 3 months ago...why would they try to mask it?

[Nii nii nii]

you can land in No man's Sky ....

[Witch ~]

Originally posted by Jᴧgᴧ:

No, there's no "landing" like you'd see in other games. Not even a simulated landing using your ship's current model. It's a loading screen teleport to a generated playfield, they didn't even try to mask it. Same goes for take-offs.

whats the point of buying ships then? If thats even a thing

[Jᴧgᴧ]

Originally posted by Witch ~:

Originally posted by Jᴧgᴧ:

No, there's no "landing" like you'd see in other games. Not even a simulated landing using your ship's current model. It's a loading screen teleport to a generated playfield, they didn't even try to mask it. Same goes for take-offs.

whats the point of buying ships then? If thats even a thing

Roleplay the interior, see the exterior when you fly/fight, configurability with the ship, etc. Granted, it's basically a "hub" where you conduct inter-planetary stuff, but there's really not a whole lot to them in the end. Space exploration is essentially non-existent, and dogfighting is simplistic. Most of the game is on-planet from what I've seen.