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Just curious of how many players here have gone through the main story already to gauge how bad spoilers are at this point

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[โ€“] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I uninstalled after I got most of the artifact pieces and powers, first pass through. Just played the "good" (as opposed to criminal) storylines, never beat the main story. Am planning on waiting a year or so for mods or major DLC to give it another go.

I enjoyed it, but have played it a lot less then Fallout 4, and I don't really feel all that interested in doing multiple vanilla playthroughs, unlike Fallout 4.

One of the things that The Outer Worlds fell flat on for me was the perk system. There aren't really any terribly-exciting perks there that significantly affect gameplay.

That's not true of Starfield...but it is more true than for Fallout 4, and it really limited my desire to do multiple vanilla playthroughs. In Fallout 4 (and Fallout 76, though there one can respec), I had to make some tradeoffs that forced me into one of a set of playstyles. In Starfield, the combat is far easier -- I never bothered to get any combat perks other than two levels of Ballistic. The only place I ever seriously had to consider backing out and getting more supplies was the Mantis run, and I virtually never had a character get killed, even by the most-built-up major fights. That meant that there was no need to make tradeoffs in choosing perks -- I had a surplus of skill points. I didn't need to play, say, a stealthy character because I could just walk into an encounter, easily kill everything without combat skills, and continue on.

On top of most enemies just not being that tough, as with Fallout 76, most melee enemies are rendered trivial by obtaining a jetpack, because one can normally reach places that they cannot. In Starfield, one can get a boostpack early, and the maps virtually never have open plains without something to get on top of.

So playing through again to play a different spec didn't have much point. My character could already do everything I wanted.

The quests are more-or-less on rails, so there's not much reason to replay them, as one rarely can get significantly different outcomes.

One could do a "criminal" playthrough, but I didn't really want to take that route. Didn't really like playing as a raider in Fallout 4: Nuka World, didn't really want to play Crimson Fleet or gangs in Starfield. And even if one wanted to do so, that doesn't mandate a new playthrough.

Neither the ship-building nor outpost-building aspects of the game require multiple playthroughs, as there aren't meaningful decisions with tradeoffs to make. If anything, they discourage it. And there's not any real "point" to the ship-building or outpost-building other than maybe making a particular aesthetic one likes. Resource production is only really required to, well, build more outposts. One doesn't optimize outpost layout for base defense against attacks or to maximize production or whatever.

[โ€“] variants@possumpat.io 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

yeah for me I think I prefer starfield over fallout 4 now after putting in a lot of hours at this point but its true the perks dont really change the way you play other than just unlocking some neat things on some of them they arent that game changing overall. the one thing I do like is the NG+ as opposed to starting a new character from scratch thought, I always wanted to be able to redo the game with my current character and just keep developing them as I went. its sort of like that movie with Jet Li " The One" meats The Expanse haha

I hope they clean up the outpost stuff and have maybe more missions that involve actually using your ship, and a big DLC as good as far harbour was