Earth........really?

[Dave]

I just got a quest that sent me to earth, to a point of interest. From what i gather there are multiple "hidden" quests for multiple points of interests.

The rest of the planet is a barren desert with rocks. No ruins, NOTHING except for some point of interests that somehow surviveved while everything else was turned into rock and sands

I can AGREE that in reality most planets are barren and devoid of life, so 1000 barren planets.......ok, i can live with that

But the single most important planet, the one 99% of people will visit, to be so poorly made, no effort, just a procedural wasteland is really disappointing

They could ahve made 999 planets procedurally generated, baren wastelands......but the single planet earth......they should have put a little effort in that...and they didn't

This is a HUGE black mark on this game.....something maybe some modders will fix but.....very very disappointing

[VYM]

Originally posted by Dave:

I just got a quest that sent me to earth, to a point of interest. From what i gather there are multiple "hidden" quests for multiple points of interests.

The rest of the planet is a barren desert with rocks. No ruins, NOTHING except for some point of interests that somehow surviveved while everything else was turned into rock and sands

I can AGREE that in reality most planets are barren and devoid of life, so 1000 barren planets.......ok, i can live with that

But the single most important planet, the one 99% of people will visit, to be so poorly made, no effort, just a procedural wasteland is really disappointing

They could ahve made 999 planets procedurally generated, baren wastelands......but the single planet earth......they should have put a little effort in that...and they didn't

This is a HUGE black mark on this game.....something maybe some modders will fix but.....very very disappointing

If you'd actually play this game and visit MAST museum you could find full history about universe, factions, planets and what happened to Earth before posting your BS.

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by VYM:

If you'd actually play this game and visit MAST museum you could find full history about universe and what happened to Earth before posting your BS.

I can't speak for the OP, but when I visited the museum it wasn't open for me to actually go in and learn anything. I was told it was locked behind some mission when I asked about that here.

[Zalzany]

Originally posted by Kaneda:

writing some idiotic lore to cover for your laziness and outdated engine is once again enough to placate the toddbros and have them defend these decisions

Dude they wrote the lore first then make the earth in game to match it. Just because you don't get how things work and kind of simple don't mean the devs are too sigh..

[Piderman]

Originally posted by Kaneda:

writing some idiotic lore to cover for your laziness and outdated engine is once again enough to placate the toddbros and have them defend these decisions

Story is usually written before assets are put together, so its actually the other way around, minus that "idiotic" part.
But yes, they should have put that engine finally to rest, you can tell how some things in Starfield are cleary what they are because of engine limits.

[Zy Soua]

Originally posted by Rivaldman:

Everyone saying the lore has provided what happens to Earth. Do you really think that kind of excuses can cover the sloppiness within the game world design?

I mean Earth literally lost it's magnetosphere and atmosphere according to the lore. Because of humans. Because of what they did with grav drives. Sloppiness? I don't know. Is 130 years enough to make Earth a lifeless desert radiated by the solar radiation? Maybe not. I just don't have enough scientific and theoretic knowledge to tell

[MIND ЯEWIND 2]

water sticks to spinning ball

[OldTyde]

To anyone saying earth being pretty barren is lazy design choice via lore, its a fun fact that without oxygen, anything made of concrete crumbles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdt85jgRHt0

[Tiasmoon]

Originally posted by NeuralReal:

Originally posted by Dave:

Earth........really?

its only a box

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3dZl3yfGpc

From one of the greatest movies of all time

[Rivaldman]

Originally posted by OldTyde:

To anyone saying earth being pretty barren is lazy design choice via lore, its a fun fact that without oxygen, anything made of concrete crumbles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdt85jgRHt0

So everything crumbles and the Shard remains. Good one!

And everything on Earth is made of concrete. Good one!

[Sid1701d]

Heck there wouldn't be any reason to leave for the stars if Earth didn't have a problem, like most sci-fiction movies, but it seemed like Humanity was already living in the stars when Earth started loosing its atmosphere, from the part of the lore I hard about. The moon is really cool though I landed on the moon and it has a lot of Iron on it, so I set up a Outpost on the Moon, I am going to setup another one on Earth, because even though it lost its atmosphere it still has resources to exploit, mise well be us natives doing it.

[Tiasmoon]

*devs dont put a lifetime's work into creating ruins on par with the detail in the rest of the game*

Originally posted by Kaneda:

writing some idiotic lore to cover for your laziness and outdated engine is once again enough to placate the toddbros and have them defend these decisions

Man, if only we have people like steamuser Kaneda in game development. Then we would surely have flawless games.

[Rivaldman]

Originally posted by Zy Soua:

Originally posted by Rivaldman:

Everyone saying the lore has provided what happens to Earth. Do you really think that kind of excuses can cover the sloppiness within the game world design?

I mean Earth literally lost it's magnetosphere and atmosphere according to the lore. Because of humans. Because of what they did with grav drives. Sloppiness? I don't know. Is 130 years enough to make Earth a lifeless desert radiated by the solar radiation? Maybe not. I just don't have enough scientific and theoretic knowledge to tell

whatever the justification is, the devs are simply trying to find whatever it takes to prove
the minimal possibility of resulting in the situation of Earth the game designs.

The flat truth is: the Earth in game.

There can hundreds of factors that cause hundreds of different Earths in the game, but this is what we have: emptiness.

[Alcohol Bear]

Agreed! I landed on Earth and it was truly barren. No ruins or nothing.

[Fraktal]

Read the lore. Earth descends into World War 5 over pronouns. Thus the desert.

[Grimreaper]

Read the lore, understand, and still agree with OP, more should have been done to Earth - It is after all the cradle of mankind, and for sure the kind of technology in this game lore would support some sort of preservations or even ruins....