• KᑌᔕᕼIᗩ@lemmy.mlOP
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      1 year ago

      It’s truly amazing what can happen when they don’t cut quite so many corners and release the minimal viable product.

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      1 year ago

      I’m only a few hours in, but aside from the usual weird NPC behaviour this engine is known for I haven’t encountered any actual bugs so far.

      • Dubious_Fart@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        yeah, the game stinks of gamebryo, but… I’ve only had one crash so far… Who would have that that all it would take to make a less buggy bethesda game was the entire QA department of one of the biggest companies on the planet.

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      1 year ago

      Most recent RPG game from Bethesda. This studio got very famous for their Elder Scrolls and Fallout games, hence the widespread hype.

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        1 year ago

        Hey that’s the game with all the bugs!

        I wanted to look at Starfield on Bethesda’s website, but the site bugged out loll

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      1 year ago

      Hey, I work in QA (not in the video game field though.) However, I can tell you there is a difference between “QA missed” and “deadlines required prioritizing other fixes.”

      One implies that the employees are bad at their job. Which is almost certainly not the case. I haven’t played Starfield (or even clicked through to your link lol) but presumably this is something blatantly obvious. And I’m sure the QA team was frustrated letting a glaring known issue through.

      QA finds issues but it’s up to development teams to fix them, and strict deadlines will always hamper delivering a flawless product. But deadlines are driven by management and until the industry changes (i.e. don’t preorder games) we’re going to keep seeing these problems.

      But as a QA professional, please don’t blame us ✌️

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        1 year ago

        It’s blatantly obvious and makes the game look like shit. This should not a low-prio bug, this should be a showstopper.

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            1 year ago

            Yeah I don’t buy it. This is not a new engine they just developed, or some obscure complicated feature. This is one of the core functionalities of the game engine: render the game world onto the screen. And it’s an engine they developed in-house. They have been working on this game for years and years, and all that time no one noticed that output of the rendering engine is incorrect and everything looks washed out?

            In the current state, the game should not have been released at all. If this is something that was fundamentally unfixable they should have pulled the plug and cancelled the game.

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              1 year ago

              Is it possible you only watched the first half? From 3:30 onwards the video digs into why it’s hard to push a release date.

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      1 year ago

      The NMS like gameplay is like a tiny part of it. It’s a story heavy RPG first and foremost. Sure, you can do a lot of NMS style stuff, like gathering resources and scanning wildlife on a thousand planets, but that’s really not why you should get the game. You should get it if you want a massive space RPG in the style of Bethesda. And yes, this time Bethesda actually made a proper RPG.