2023-09-08 20:57:51
I mean… just. I think people still want moon buggies.
Opinions on Starfield are divided, but two criticisms are fairly widely shared: On the one hand, the maps are not very good, and on the other hand, it is a little disappointing that there are no land vehicles to explore the planets.
In an interview with Bloomberg this week, Todd Howard responded to a question regarding the lack of ground vehicles by saying that the idea had been considered, but that the development team preferred to know “how quickly (players) see things” on the planets through exploration on foot. He also pointed out that, hey: you can fly.
“In a sense, you have a vehicle, meaning you obviously have your spacecraft, you can move around in space,” Howard added. “But on the surface you have a jetpack that you can upgrade, which is a lot of fun and a new experience for us. And obviously planets have different gravity levels, which makes this experience unique for many planets.
Jetpacks have a rich and important history in video games. Tribes, Titanfall, Star Wars Battlefront. The classic 1991 Super Nintendo game, The Rocketeer. Destroy all humans. The Giants: Citizen Kabuto, you know what I mean. And some have transformed the Starfield jetpack into a tool of war like no other, using it to transform into an invisible flying robot. ghost snipers.
Buggy rides aren’t always fun either. Every time I played Mass Effect, I cringed at the thought of having to spend All more time driving the damn Mako, and there’s something to be said regarding hitting a planet and being stuck on its two dusty feet. But it’s hard to see an open field and not want to at least do A little MTB. It’s telling that one of the first things we humans did when we finally reached another celestial body was try to figure out how to drive a car there.
I might see vehicles as expansion content. Maybe there will be a sequence with a monster truck rally on a low gravity planet, with a Truckasaurus flying around and spitting cosmic fire at everyone. Or they might build on the Western motif and have a roving band of space cowboys with cybernetic horses. Whatever Starfield has in store for the future, one thing is certain: The Bethesda games mod community is second to none, and the clarion call for space cars has been sounded.
Nothing this complex has appeared on mod sites yet, of course, but here are the best Starfield mods to date.
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