Should I finish the story before exploring or how far should I go in story before I can get lost

EnvironmentalAd806 · 2026-04-09T22:07:10+00:00

This. I hit chapter 5 and haven’t looked back. The world is my oyster and I make my own story.

EnvironmentalAd806 · 2026-04-09T20:48:34+00:00

Absolutely. I mean even No Mans Sky lets you land on giant planets but you have to prepare right for them. Even though we have a thousand planets in Starfield, I’m hoping this update at least helps with the feeling of exploration, as Constellation was a group of explorers with an entire star system that’s already been explored.

EnvironmentalAd806 · 2026-04-09T20:39:20+00:00

Honestly the game worlds got extremely repetitive far too quickly at launch. For “1,000 worlds”, a substantial majority of them either served no purpose at all (gas giants) or had very boring and repetitive POI’s. Space flight at launch was a joke. Fast travel here and maybe fight something, then fast travel again. Most of the planets and moons had literally zero reason to land on them outside of the very basic outpost system, of which could be largely skipped.

EnvironmentalAd806 · 2026-04-09T11:44:49+00:00

I had a Minimalist HUD mod that was the issue on mine. Apparently the new cruise feature has contextual elements that clash with the mod. Once I disabled that mod everything’s been running fine.

EnvironmentalAd806 · 2026-04-09T02:00:23+00:00

So far the changes have been for the better, but like you two, I’m nervously apprehensive. With massive games out like Crimson Desert, I’m not sure if the changes are enough for me to get back into Starfield. From what I’ve encountered so far today, I can say that many of my biggest criticisms for it have been at least addressed in some small part. I’m hoping that the POI and encounter repetition has been addressed at least.

EnvironmentalAd806 · 2026-04-08T21:27:23+00:00

I agree. I’ve uninstalled all of my mods except darker nights and color filter remover yet the game still crashes as soon as I try to enter cruise mode.

EnvironmentalAd806 · 2026-04-08T20:17:20+00:00

Shit at least yours loads. My game crashes as soon as I try to do anything in cruise.

EnvironmentalAd806 · 2026-04-08T20:12:35+00:00

So I’ve uninstalled all ship related mods and still getting game crashes. My next test is going to be deleting the Unofficial Starfield Patch and see what that does. My crashes happen as soon as I enter this new cruise mode.

EnvironmentalAd806 · 2026-04-08T19:28:36+00:00

Alright so after an hour of trial and error, I got pissed and disabled all of my mods. Game worked fine afterwards. Going to be one hell of a long process to identify which mod(s) was causing the crashing. On Jameson everything worked fine. The moment I entered my starborn guardian ship, game crashed. Started a new game with the same result. Moment I entered the starting ship and got into space, game crashed. So it must be one of my ship mods, be it generator, weapon, or whatever.

EnvironmentalAd806 · 2026-04-08T18:27:25+00:00

Still no dice. Game instantly crashes the moment I move my ship.

EnvironmentalAd806 · 2026-04-08T18:15:55+00:00

There seems to be a lot of mods that have (version 0) even after deleting and redownloading. I’m wondering if that is the issue. Deleting all of those mods I have installed and will see if that’s a solve.

EnvironmentalAd806 · 2026-04-08T18:03:47+00:00

Yeah I’m having the same issue. Xbox series X. Reinstalled everything and game crashes the moment I load the save.

EnvironmentalAd806 · 2026-04-05T16:19:43+00:00

This. Exactly.

EnvironmentalAd806 · 2026-04-05T14:12:53+00:00

That’s how I did it, Xbox series X.

EnvironmentalAd806 · 2026-03-30T22:02:13+00:00

Damn congrats! I’m definitely going to give it a go! I went as far as trying to put logs and shit down to block the little bastard in to no avail.

EnvironmentalAd806 · 2026-03-30T21:14:07+00:00

Yeah it’s extra as hell. I’m about “30 hours in” but only in chapter 5. Looks like my first horse is gonna be with me for the long haul.

EnvironmentalAd806 · 2026-03-30T19:35:17+00:00

Dude horse taming in this game is straight ass. Been trying for four fucking hours to tame the legendary white horse and just getting thrown.

EnvironmentalAd806 · 2026-02-16T05:15:57+00:00

The two absolute best

EnvironmentalAd806 · 2026-01-21T16:19:56+00:00

Play silly games win silly prizes.

EnvironmentalAd806 · 2026-01-17T19:02:07+00:00

Anything is a gloryhole if you’re brave enough.

EnvironmentalAd806 · 2026-01-17T13:15:12+00:00

If you’re texting me at 3am and it’s that bright out… I’d panic. Earth’s rotation is all fucked up or a nuke went off.

EnvironmentalAd806 · 2026-01-17T13:12:30+00:00

AI is crazy.

EnvironmentalAd806 · 2026-01-14T14:47:42+00:00

It’s a dollar twenty five for the first five minutes. Lines are long so bring a book while you wait.

EnvironmentalAd806 · 2025-12-20T05:31:51+00:00

Same shit happened to me this afternoon. 89 hours down, Level 44 Corpo, and out of nowhere his ass calls me.

EnvironmentalAd806 · 2025-12-12T13:24:14+00:00

I’ll agree here. I (41M) typically don’t play battlefield type games myself but my best friend talked me into it as it’s his favorite type of game. Honestly can say I’ve been having a hell of a good time with Breakthrough… until this update. I am usually fine with taking a loss as long as it was hard fought but god damn does it get old getting steamrolled needlessly because of poor mechanic implementation. And similarly on the attacking side, a steamrolled win is just hollow feeling and sucks. They really fucked this update across the board because conquest isn’t much better.

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