Gave the game another try after the update and I’m actually enjoying it now. Gotten to the 2nd map and there are a ton of enemies fighting everywhere now. They really did increase the amount of NPCs you see around the map.
Wanted something moody/dark to play during October and this has scratched that itch.
Only played solo but I’d rate it as a 6.5/10 now. The original version would be like a 5/10 to me.
You might enjoy Alan Wake 1 but the controls aren’t for everyone. I absolutely loved it all the times I played but my friend couldn’t stand the combat.
The story is very mysterious and I can’t recall any gore at all in the game. The only kind of jump scares I can recall were from the combat when I didn’t notice an enemy snuck up on me. It’s something more easily manageable if you play on the easier difficulty as there is less of a threat.
The plot is really fucking great and has some of my favorite narration in a game. And it has a type of Eldritch horror story to it. You’ve probably already experienced it in that Alan Wake dlc for Control. You don’t have to deal with it in Alan Wake like you did in Control.
It’s all showing up on my Series X
There were two parts that made me dislike the quest line.
First it was how the quests kept making me run back and forth across the whole length of Neon core multiple times just to talk to a single person. It got so tiring.
The other part was the final stealth mission. That shit was the worst fucking stealth mission I’ve ever played in a Bethesda game. The stealth mechanics were completely broken in that place and it was only possible for me to stealth it by save scumming 60-70 times in that building.
I miss my PS4 because you could install a PS2 theme that came with the sounds
Sucks you can’t change it on PS5 yet.
October 3rd for anyone wondering.
Same here. This news has me fucking excited to play it.
Tried it on gamepass in the past but couldn’t stand the multiplayer component so I stopped playing.
Akila city is much worse than new Atlantis since it isn’t segmented into sections so you could fast travel to areas. Then I got to Neon and dealt with the Ryujin quest line that basically had me sprint the length of a football field to the other side of the city multiple times before I finished it because there was no fast travel in the city. I upgraded my stamina just for that place lol
And the whole morrowind comparison is BS since they seemed to forget that Morrowind gave you a map and a local map to chart your paths. Please be sure to call out those people for that.
Yeah lol. I think Trevor will sucker punch you if you run into him.
Nah this is all we got. It was so infuriating trying to talk about this at launch.
I got constantly talked down to with stuff like “uhh yeah there is a map lol. You can see the whole universe. What more do you need?” or they would say how that shitty topographic map is all you’d need.
It was also funny seeing people say to stop complaining because it’s like morrowind now. They completely missed that morrowind had a fucking local map for the towns too.
That would be great!
Placing stuff would be easier lol
Yeah :/ I’m just so confused at Bethesda for releasing a game in 2023 without those simple settings. I really thought this update was the one that would add it but nope lol.
Starfield has HDR support on consoles. Or at least Xbox does. I honestly find it a pain since everything is so dark and I can’t change the brightness without changing it on my TV settings.
Really sucks this updated didn’t have any settings for HDR like I originally thought.
Turns out I jumped the gun. This was only for some general bug fixes… They had the actual update info at the bottom of the page and everything above it was info about future updates. I fixed the title to address what they actually said in the post.
Now I’m more annoyed that they still don’t have FOV/brightness settings.
Hey turns out I was a fool and didn’t read the post right before posting here.
They said they will add these things in FUTURE updates. This one was only for general big fixes. Sorry for confusing people.
Correct. I am a fool. I edited the title to state the future updates will address these issues.
I saw the 4 gig update and assumed everything in that post was included.
Oh crap. You are right. I’m editing the title now. I had just launched the game after it updated and couldn’t find it.
I’ll change it to say future updates will address those things. Thanks for catching that.
I was finally able to play the game after the update on Xbox.
I do not see any of the settings that Bethesda said that was added with this update.
The display setting page still only has film grain/motion blur/depth of field as the options.
It does feel like they fixed some of my HDR issues on Xbox. Things don’t look as washed out now as it did before.
Maybe when mod support comes in 2024 they will have a mod for us on Xbox to fool around the command console with.
Holy crap I was trying to figure out why Sam Cole’s VA sounded so familiar. Thanks for helping me finally figure out why lol