why tf are there no dune buggies

[ꙮ]

its a game about space exploration and there are no vehicles for exploring planets? WHYY??????

[Dark All Day]

Publicado originalmente por SpeedFreak1972:

Yes the mako was bad, however the Nomad in MEA was acceptable ...

Was it? Or was the nomad just the least of anyone's worries when they played Andromeda for the first time.

[SpeedFreak1972]

I said acceptable not good ... I mean don't expect Forza levels of vehicles

[rfiallo2]

I wouldn't be surprised if they're added as a paid DLC, but definitely agree that faster planet travel would shine a spotlight on how small the generated areas really are and wreck Bethesda's average play time numbers because new players will no longer be forced to spend hours slow walking between the same few locations on all of the boring planets.

[PeaceMaker]

Publicado originalmente por DARTHROB:

I wouldn't be surprised if they're added as a paid DLC, but definitely agree that faster planet travel would shine a spotlight on how small the generated areas really are and wreck Bethesda's average play time numbers because new players will no longer be forced to spend hours slow walking between the same few locations on all of the boring planets.

Yea, no doubt that the walking is just a part of padding the time out.

I find it strange though that the game literally stops the player at a `border`. We have game engines now that will just carrry on and on and on and literally let you go around the world.

The Dunia engine in the old Farcry does that. NMS does that.

Even Morrowind has a thing where you just go on and on. If you jump in the sea and swim, you can swim forever, the game never stops you.

But Starfield Devs couldn't even try?

So yea, no vehicles until they can figure that one out.

[Flanker1Six]

Greta Thunberg was a development consultant for SF. Walking is the ONLY ecologically responsible way to explore strange new worlds while killing everything that moves for XP. .)

[restarter]

i wouldn't mind a jetpack with a bit more horizontal travel but I get around pretty quickly. I don't really see a need for a dune buggy as the areas to explore aren't huge. Hit a few facilities or lifeforms and land in another spot.

[PortalShifter]

- Having vehicles would expose how small the "open world" areas on planets actually are, as you would hit the invisible wall that prevents you from exploring a planet very quickly in a vehicle.

- The engine can't handle it.

[HeyYou]

Publicado originalmente por PeaceMaker:

Publicado originalmente por DARTHROB:

I wouldn't be surprised if they're added as a paid DLC, but definitely agree that faster planet travel would shine a spotlight on how small the generated areas really are and wreck Bethesda's average play time numbers because new players will no longer be forced to spend hours slow walking between the same few locations on all of the boring planets.

Yea, no doubt that the walking is just a part of padding the time out.

I find it strange though that the game literally stops the player at a `border`. We have game engines now that will just carrry on and on and on and literally let you go around the world.

The Dunia engine in the old Farcry does that. NMS does that.

Even Morrowind has a thing where you just go on and on. If you jump in the sea and swim, you can swim forever, the game never stops you.

But Starfield Devs couldn't even try?

So yea, no vehicles until they can figure that one out.

In morrowind, you could swim forever, sure, but, if you added ANYTHING to those cells a good distance from cell 0,0, it would become REALLY unstable..... Which is why the various DLC's for Morrowind, and subsequent games, were in a different worldspace. Seems the game engine doesn't like it when you get too far away from the center of the universe..... I was actually hoping beth would have addressed that particular issue, but, seems not.

When surveying a planet, I would kill for a form of transportation aside from walking. Even horses were faster than walking in Skyrim.... Of course, horses won't work on a planet with no atmosphere, or, not a breathable one.... so, buggies it is. I expect that some modder will add a module you can put on your ship that will include some variety of ground transport, or maybe low atmospheric flight.

[Bobby Tables]

Because you don't need them .... ez

[Nemerlight]

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[SpeedFreak1972]

Publicado originalmente por Bobby Tables:

Because you don't need them .... ez

Well lets be fair you don't need the game period wanting them is a different thing ...

[Nuee]

Publicado originalmente por bortas:

Publicado originalmente por Doc Mitchell:

Even in the Middle Ages they had homing pigeons and crows.

Pigeons and crows don't have grav drives, though. Maybe they never invented a means of FTL-communication in the Starfield universe.

Maybe they couldn't have FTL communication from planet to planet (radio time to mars ranges from about 4 minutes to 21 minutes depending on planet positions) and star system to star system. But you absolutely could and would have comms that work on each planet itself.

The main star systems could also have courier ships that do nothing but jump back and forth between systems to send and receive data bursts of communications that would allow for mail in terms of hours rather than years to centuries.

[Lankester Merrin]

Why make the trip to the same-lay-out 'dungeon' any quicker?

[Brandybuck]

Publicado originalmente por bigdawgmann:

why tf are there no dune buggies

Dune buggies?!??! I want a unicycle! And I'm going to hold my breath until I get one, Todd!!! Aaaargh!!!

[Mooman]

Probably better to add a Speed Buggy to go with the other 'Scooby Doo' (Hanna Barbera) BS.

https://youtu.be/_v2FNOTKKY8?si=dmFpejdF8W2KT_at