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

Also helps to come out with a game so popular you can bank on it for the next decade

Watched twitch streams out if curiosity. This is a bathesda game in every way. Which is fine, but it feels like we’re being told it’s not. And it is.

But it IS still the least buggy Bethesda game yet, that I believe. If all people got to complain about is lack of some HDR shit, theres not much to complain about.

I've only found a few bugs so far: One enemy floating in air, and followers who aren't good at following.

"it just works"

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 ✌️

As a developer who works with great QA people. I can guarantee you that the QA team were not the issue here. Where the developer's time was prioritized and what fixes where even allowed to be patched would have been a direct result of leadership decisions

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HDR is broken (or all colour grading)

I've been in the SpecialK discord all of yesterday messing with stuff and went to bed.

Now I wake up and find that not only did they (SpecialK devs) fix the 8bit pipeline problem, but it paves the way for real HDR in all Direct3D12 games.

You have until launch day to return pre-orders and I was considering it, but we might have fixed HDR/black levels now.

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

PC?

It's not an exploration game really at all. Think RPG with space theme.

Apples to oranges i hear

Starfield is Fallout 4 set in space. No man's sky is exploration in space. I prefer the latter.

It doesn't.

Basically the space flight mechanic is somewhere between Mass Effect: Andromeda and CoD: Infinite Warfare.

You use your galaxy map fast travel to go anywhere and can only fly the ship around each small "instance."

Planetary landings are restricted to POI's or you can land on some random spot, but the planets are broken up into chunks so you can only walk around so much before having to go back to your ship for another fast travel moment.

It's been that way for a while now.

When online patching became a thing most games studios quickly figured out they could push the game to press in whatever state, then work on fixing the bugs in between code complete and GA, and simply push those fixes as a launch day patch.

And commercially, it makes sense. The greatest the game is on the shelves, the earlier the investors see ROI. It's just a shame if this calculated gamble backfires and the degree find way too many bugs to fix in the window between code complete and release. That's when you get Cyberpunk 2077...