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

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.

that's just a reality of software development and hard set deadlines.

Strange, I'm about 12 hours in and apart from minor glitches like odd character movement every now and then it's been pretty smooth sailing. What are you guys running into?

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.

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)

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.