"Power From Beyond" is just losing me

[Knavenformed]

I have to vent at this point.

The gimmick had been done better in an earlier game already, where it was both integrated to exploration and story missions.

Here in Starfield this is just the worst version of a fetch/radiant quest there is.
The rewards are "amazing" so I feel like I want to get them as soon as I can, but a session of fast traveling, and doing the same menial task over and over again for getting copy-pasted abilities feels quite underwhelming.

man, I wish I did all of the side factions before touching this lmao

[AncientFlames]

What??? You don't like going to an empty moon, walking for 30 minutes and flying around in a blank room for 10 minutes collecting sonic rings to get a new power? 15 times?

[bylandt11]

Also problem that you can't erase these missions from your list. Once you overhear some conversation by accident, a mission will appear, something like "go talk to somebody-you-never-heard-of about something-you-know-nothing-about.

[Gilmore]

Originally posted by AncientFlames:

What??? You don't like going to an empty moon, walking for 30 minutes and flying around in a blank room for 10 minutes collecting sonic rings to get a new power? 15 times?

It’s a 5 minute walk at most lmao. And it takes nowhere near 10 minutes to fly through the glowing things.

[Vultan]

Originally posted by Gilmore:

Originally posted by AncientFlames:

What??? You don't like going to an empty moon, walking for 30 minutes and flying around in a blank room for 10 minutes collecting sonic rings to get a new power? 15 times?

It’s a 5 minute walk at most lmao. And it takes nowhere near 10 minutes to fly through the glowing things.

Yeah that totaly makes it much better... not.

[MagicHp]

Originally posted by AncientFlames:

What??? You don't like going to an empty moon, walking for 30 minutes and flying around in a blank room for 10 minutes collecting sonic rings to get a new power? 15 times?

Exageration at its best ^^

You walk less than 2 minutes and you solve the 0 G room in 1 .

If you really need 30 minutes to walk there, you have huge issues or you are taking the longest way possible ^^
Same thing if you spend 10 minutes to grab 5 lights, the problem is you ^^

But yeah, we are talking about 5 minutes tops, not 40 minutes as you say ;)

[Devoras]

Well I just spent 2 hours walking around a planet going to all the unknown anomalies I could find and still didn't find the temple; this game really doesn't respect your time.

[Alyce nChaynes]

Originally posted by MagicHp:

Originally posted by AncientFlames:

What??? You don't like going to an empty moon, walking for 30 minutes and flying around in a blank room for 10 minutes collecting sonic rings to get a new power? 15 times?

Exageration at its best ^^

You walk less than 2 minutes and you solve the 0 G room in 1 .

If you really need 30 minutes to walk there, you have huge issues or you are taking the longest way possible ^^
Same thing if you spend 10 minutes to grab 5 lights, the problem is you ^^

But yeah, we are talking about 5 minutes tops, not 40 minutes as you say ;)

This is a matter for the smart people. The ones that been there done that a few times and it's simply relatable no matter of the time needed. I know it's not taking long at all and after beating game and do a skip story start it's even faster, BUT it does not make it any less repetitive, tedious and boring, because i already had shouts in Skyrim.

[cdarklock]

Originally posted by Knavenformed:

The rewards are "amazing" so I feel like I want to get them as soon as I can

I am still waiting to get something that doesn't suck. I have eleven so far and they're all just kind of meh. Like, what even are these for? When are they useful?

Originally posted by Devoras:

Well I just spent 2 hours walking around a planet going to all the unknown anomalies I could find and still didn't find the temple; this game really doesn't respect your time.

If you didn't have a quest to go to a temple on this planet, there isn't one, no matter how many anomalies you find. And if you do, you're supposed to go the direction the scanner glitches when you point it that way.

A lot of people seem to be missing this for some reason. They tell you to find the direction of the scanner glitch people just... ignore that. Then there's a dialogue option in your initial conversations with Vladimir where you can go "hey I see those anomalies all the time" and he tells you that's not gonna help.

[ArcadeVault]

Originally posted by Gilmore:

Originally posted by AncientFlames:

What??? You don't like going to an empty moon, walking for 30 minutes and flying around in a blank room for 10 minutes collecting sonic rings to get a new power? 15 times?

It’s a 5 minute walk at most lmao. And it takes nowhere near 10 minutes to fly through the glowing things.

And repeat it 24 times. And you defend that design? Its the most time robbing, most boring questline ever created. They literally changed NOTHING on the puzzle/room part... that would be a shame even for an indie dev studio...

[Dirt Nasty]

Originally posted by MagicHp:

Originally posted by AncientFlames:

What??? You don't like going to an empty moon, walking for 30 minutes and flying around in a blank room for 10 minutes collecting sonic rings to get a new power? 15 times?

Exageration at its best ^^

You walk less than 2 minutes and you solve the 0 G room in 1 .

If you really need 30 minutes to walk there, you have huge issues or you are taking the longest way possible ^^
Same thing if you spend 10 minutes to grab 5 lights, the problem is you ^^

But yeah, we are talking about 5 minutes tops, not 40 minutes as you say ;)

If it took 10 seconds to complete it still wouldn't be fun. If you want all powers to X you have to do 240 of them. I'm really excited to repeat the exact same thing 240 times without variation.

This might illicit some dopamine response for a rat in a maze, but for most humans this is an incredibly tedious experience. Useless tedium is the death of pleasure.

[It´sAllAimAssist]

I agree , the ingame lore and all was good , but the implementation. why did they make travelling across galaxies to find mysterious powers in ancient temples boring? it´s an awesome premise.

but there´s like 1 power that´s really adds something to the game gameplay and it´s the time slow thing the other are not super useful or fun to use imo.

[Devoras]

Originally posted by cdarklock:

Originally posted by Knavenformed:

The rewards are "amazing" so I feel like I want to get them as soon as I can

I am still waiting to get something that doesn't suck. I have eleven so far and they're all just kind of meh. Like, what even are these for? When are they useful?

Originally posted by Devoras:

Well I just spent 2 hours walking around a planet going to all the unknown anomalies I could find and still didn't find the temple; this game really doesn't respect your time.

If you didn't have a quest to go to a temple on this planet, there isn't one, no matter how many anomalies you find. And if you do, you're supposed to go the direction the scanner glitches when you point it that way.

A lot of people seem to be missing this for some reason. They tell you to find the direction of the scanner glitch people just... ignore that. Then there's a dialogue option in your initial conversations with Vladimir where you can go "hey I see those anomalies all the time" and he tells you that's not gonna help.

Well I have the quest, went to the landing spot. I didn't see any scanner glitches though.

[It´sAllAimAssist]

Originally posted by Devoras:

Originally posted by cdarklock:

I am still waiting to get something that doesn't suck. I have eleven so far and they're all just kind of meh. Like, what even are these for? When are they useful?



If you didn't have a quest to go to a temple on this planet, there isn't one, no matter how many anomalies you find. And if you do, you're supposed to go the direction the scanner glitches when you point it that way.

A lot of people seem to be missing this for some reason. They tell you to find the direction of the scanner glitch people just... ignore that. Then there's a dialogue option in your initial conversations with Vladimir where you can go "hey I see those anomalies all the time" and he tells you that's not gonna help.

Well I have the quest, went to the landing spot. I didn't see any scanner glitches though.

did you go to the correct landing spot? if you are sure you did you have to spin in a circle slowly , the glitch kinda pulses the UI but when you are far away from the ruins you need to be at it´s kinda long intervalls.
I missed it the first time I went to do the quest as well and had to reload and go back after I knew what I was looking for.

[Jeff]

I'm doing that NG+ grind at the moment and yeah it gets exhausting. Wish it was a little faster or shorter. I did 2 NG+ yesterday, each takes about 3 hours and some change. Not looking forward to doing 7 more but I probably will because maxing skills is what I usually do in these games.

[cdarklock]

Originally posted by Jeff:

I'm doing that NG+ grind at the moment and yeah it gets exhausting. Wish it was a little faster or shorter. I did 2 NG+ yesterday, each takes about 3 hours and some change. Not looking forward to doing 7 more but I probably will because maxing skills is what I usually do in these games.

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