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Starfield’s Planets Are Covered In Thousands Of Dead Creatures

www.kotaku.com.au Why Starfield’s Planets Are Covered In Thousands Of Dead Creatures

Starfield's planets are covered in the remains of many dead creatures, but what happened and how did they get there? Let's investigate.

"Just upgrade your PC"

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Highlights:
Starfield's open world is made of procedural copypasta.
Prey species can't or won't escape predators.
Predators effortlessly wipe out their own food supply, yet somehow haven't gone extinct.
- I watched some predators kill their prey and then just left it. Didn't even have an animation to eat it.
  
  Right? Just update the behavior to stop and eat after killing one. Have the herd run away.
  
  25 years in the making!
- Describes the ai present in every sandbox or open world game ever
  
  STALKER had a very neat AI ecosystem. Everything (including humans) is quite aggressive so they all keep each other in check without overpowering the other. Even the weather was aggressive.
  
  There are random YouTubers who have designed more sophisticated ecologies with functional feedback loops.
  The problem is though is that random chance will eventually result in some species going extinct, so either you have to spawn new ones in to replace them, and so have a check for loss of population, or just allow that to happen. The current implementation though is entry level first year student developer sophisticated.
  
  Red Dead Redemption 2 would like a word with you…
- I watched a massive alien war happen. Roughly 3 bigger animals attack a horde of 12 critters. Then, another 3 vs 12 battle happened nearby, followed by ANOTHER 3 VS 12.
  This kept happening for at least 10 minutes as everywhere I went, there was animals fighting and a trail of bodies being left.
  
  That's pretty dope. I hope at some point there's ground vehicles to speed up ground exploration (since we can't actually fly the ships........)

well for me i'm mostly just seeing barren lands that ain't worth exploring
- Or undiscovered temples surrounded by alien looking monoliths, surrounded by science and industrial complexes.

Make us whole

Yeah they need to dial the predator/prey action down a bit. But it hasn't been that weird IME. I mean you're on an alien world with alien flora and fauna, that's the remarkable part not that there are a lot of creatures fighting.

Do you guys not have ~~phones~~ $2000 to upgrade your PC?

I would have had no complaints about this game if it was released a decade ago. Two decades ago even then I would have significantly more time to waste on it and be more forgiving, on top of it being legitimately state of the art.
- You'd be more forgiving of a game decades ahead of anything released at the time? Yeah, no shit. Y'all really need to chill on the ridiculous hyperbole. Starfield has a lot of problems, but it's unmistakably a modern game.
  
  Even a decade ago i would laugh out loud every time i saw these dead ass expressionless npc's and their clunky ai. Gta 5 released 10 years ago. But a small indie developer like Bethesda can't be bothered to make their games better
  
  It is not a modern game in any way. It's just Fallout 4 in space, which was Skyrim with retro futurism.
  It's once again a giant shallow pond.
- If this game was released 1,400 years ago, I'd have no complaints also.

Of course it’s a flop, it’s Bethesda. Not particularly known for their quality control

Gotta find something to complain about don't we? If it isn't hyper realistic, and has zero bugs, super interesting, and smart AI, must be trash...
- Well yeah. It isn't an indy title so you would expect them to do something.

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