Anyone else think Starfield takes place too late in the games timeline ??????

[chris23162]

I mean come on this game should have taken place during the colony wars instead its all over so we miss out on weaponized aliens and mech combat. Like talk about telling us the game is set at the most BORING point in the games own lore without outright saying it.

Seriously they need to spend the next year or two fixing all the bugs then shattered space had better be the colony wars electric boogaloo or the game is seriously going in the wrong and boring direction.

[Starbug]

Agree. I wanted to shoot the winning bullet of the colony war.

[Galenmereth]

It would've been boring to have yet another sci-fi game set during a great war. This setting, in the aftermath of it, is significantly more interesting. The war is great background lore to build a lot of interesting quests and other stories on top of, like they have. But if it wasn't there, humanity finally branching out into the galaxy would've seemed too "easy".

[chris23162]

Originally posted by Galenmereth:

It would've been boring to have yet another sci-fi game set during a great war. This setting, in the aftermath of it, is significantly more interesting. The war is great background lore to build a lot of interesting quests and other stories on top of, like they have. But if it wasn't there, humanity finally branching out into the galaxy would've seemed too "easy".

There is nothing interesting though it's shown in a walk around museum, there's a memorial and it's mentioned in a few quests it's basically not even part of the game.

[Mountain Man]

I personally like the fact that it's a time of relative peace, and the player can have his own personal adventure without the fate of the universe riding on his shoulders.

[Ankua]

Ya, it should have started towards the end of the wars so all the most frightening things have yet to occur. A reason for an economy. A reason for letters of marque (piracy approved by your liege). This would make it more interesting with several fleets of privateers. And instead of only bounties we would be given merc campaigns involving several missions and objectives to attain. Procedural cities of vast destruction (our dungeons).

Orbital bombing and marine drop missions.

[Spawn of Apathy]

On the one hand, maybe yes, but maybe we get that experience in one of the new game + alternate universes. Where either the war is still going or new has begun. This could cause the universe to be quite different as some quests or factions may not even exist, replaced by some completely different. And there would be more space battles all the time. Maybe this already does happen in the game. I haven't done all the NG+ yet. But knowing Bethesda if they did do it, it wouldn't feel like an idea they went all in on. Most of the game world would be unchanged.

On the other hand I can see why they didn't. A galaxy at peace is a lot easier to make than one at war. A major one being we need less explaining on being able to join any faction and completing their quest. Bethesda might have to make the hard decision to force the players to choose and not letting them 100% the game in a single play through. Choices lock you out of factions and quests, depending on how you play.

[Boe Jiden]

Feels like a half finished fever dream.

[BSNB]

I suspect the next starfield will take us to x years before this game.

[alfaunicorn81]

It's a 2021 supposedly released title, so yeah.

[Fannidan13]

Necroposting because I'm having the same thoughts...

One of the factions you fight in the Ranger questline is literally veterans turned mercenaries from the colony war (which was 20 years ago by in-game lore) but many of those guys are relatively young, so that doesn't line up. Same with a few of the UC personnel for the Xenohunter questline. They were also vets from the war. The two main powers are still at odds with one another and are still reeling after 20 years of negotiated peace, outlawing xenotech and mechs altogether and also running a successful enforcement campaign so not even criminal elements continue to use them... it does not make sense. All the surrounding environmental storytelling and the washy timeline makes me feel like the game was originally going to take place closer to 5 years post war.

I can only guess that due to time constraints or problems in programming vehicles and functioning mechs made them (the devs) ultimately abandon it and push the timeline further down.

[Neo]

Maybe one of the future expansions will be set in the past, who knows. And you don't know what the expansions have in store for the future of the lore timeline either.

[Emphoise]

Originally posted by Fannidan13:

The two main powers are still at odds with one another and are still reeling after 20 years of negotiated peace, outlawing xenotech and mechs altogether and also running a successful enforcement campaign so not even criminal elements continue to use them... it does not make sense.

Why ? 20 years is not that big. You can find longer conflicts and cold wars in human history

[Caolán_The_Wolf]

definitely, colony wars or collapse of earth wouldve been much better stories to go through than mcguffin fetch quests to become space dragonborn.

[Emphoise]

Originally posted by Caolán_The_Wolf:

become space dragonborn.

The comparison is odd. Yes they have similar in game powers, but : how many dragonborn are there in Skyrim ? How many starborns in SF ?

[Ǥɾᴧᴤʆᴧᵯᴧ]

There is not just one indication that the situation is unstable. There are 2 NPCs in NA who hint that there will be war again. One of them is Nilesh Sherazi with the olive seed.
https://www.ign.com/wikis/starfield/Olive_Branch_Walkthrough

And then there's the woman who wants to tear down the FC embassy.

It is at least possible that the player will find himself in a war again and hopefully lose his penthouse and his house in Akila. And then find themselves in a reconstruction situation, similar to Fo4.
But ok, those are my own wet dreams.- terrible wording, but pure intention.