Starfield Update Tested - Exact Difficulty & Vendor Credit Increases, Survival Mode, Ship, & More
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- čas přidán 28. 05. 2024
- Starfields may update is live and it brought a bunch of new features. But what it doesn’t do is supply you with any real idea of how much it changes things. How hard is extreme difficulty - exactly? How much extra credits do vendors get? How much more healing will food provide? How do I change perks with new game plus? How does survival mode work? How do I edit the interior of my ship? Well, since I wanted to know for myself I set out to answer these questions. The results will surprise you
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0:00 Intro
0:32 Map
1:37 New Options
2:31 Player Combat Damage
3:48 You Know What To Do
4:01 Enemy Combat Damage
5:09 Player Ship Damage
6:09 Enemy Ship Damage
6:51 Ammo Weight
7:21Carry Capacity
8:04 Cargo Access
8:37 Vendor Credits
9:30 Medical Item Healing
10:20 Food Healing
11:35 Sleep Healing
11:58 Sustenance
12:53 Afflictions & Environmental
14:47 Ship Decorations
15:35 Dialogue Camera
15:54 Perk Respec
16:20 Optimized XP
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This. This right here is how videos should be done!!!
No ridiculous long intro
Short and straight to the point.
Amazing job and def you got a new subscriber!!
Thanks Daniel (great name btw).
I'll try to keep you on board!
Ditto!
@@Danticsgreat video, just subbed too, will keep following and eventually comes back when DLC releases 👍
I love being able to adjust all the various damage tabs to suit my playstyle, as well as furnishing my ships from scratch and land vehicles are coming soon too. 👍
I quickly tested this update a huge step in the right direction but I will hold off until the ground vehicle update to jump in again as exploration will be much much more enjoyable the big part of why I did not explore is how long it took to walk to places. throw in the few immersion mods I like from Nexus and it will be a fun time for a second playthrough .
@SoldierXXL Just use personal atmosphere until the vehicle update drops. It basically gives you unlimited O² for a time.
@SoldierXXL Also XL USERNAME GANG
@@xlH0RIZ0Nlx wait so THAT is the purpose of that power I could never figure out what its use was ahaha I feel dumb asf now !
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Fantastic breakdown Dan! I’m gonna send the Signal Crew this way.
Hey it's been a while! Hope you're well. Thank you!
Already here. Two of my favourite starfield info sources.
Those vendor credit changes are massive. For only a 4% XP hit, I’m taking it.
At least from time to time when massive amounts of inventory need to be sold. The time gained is worth the XP trade.
That and the map are pulling me back in. The rest is just icing.
Completely agree!
@@chibyniteI wonder if the XP bonuses are across the board for everything. So, say you increased difficulty across the board and turn on full survival settings if farming XP by crafting takes that XP bonus into account. You could just turn that all on when farming and then dial it back again when done.
You don't need it, try to activate only when you need to sell.
Started a new playthrough last night after not playing for months. Put 7 hours in for one sitting 😭
Sad
That’s going to be me when the update comes out on may 15 . I haven’t played in 4 months
@@thelvadam5113🤡
@@thelvadam5113😂😂 the game is definitely playable now
Never played it I stayed away from it , I just knew better , I've got that experienced intuition , 😄 , I've been watching the updates though it looks like it's getting enticing somewhat ,, I'm on series x ,
A lot of great quality of life changes
So... combat that is actually appropriately challenging (subjective) & no more planet hoping to offload all my junk/unneeded items, useful food & ship battles that are worth engaging in. Additionally, I can have a true "completionist" playthru without wasting valuable time searching for interesting quests/side-quests. Checked every single box for me. Now I'm even more looking forward to my next NG+ playthru. Thanks for the breakdown.
Forgot to mention the ships. I can finally personalize my ships. Actually personalize them. Instead of wasting time searching for quests I get to spend that time customizing my ships. Hell YEAH!!!
Thanks for watching! I can't wait for Shattered Space now!
@@pragmaticeagle4832 Yes, I'm going to do an upscale 2x2 captains quarters and also have always wanted a 1x3 or 2x2 workshop/science lab combined.
I think the side quests are the main game and the main story is the side quest lol
This video is god-tier! So excited for this update on Xbox. Amazing job.
I'm so glad Xbox players are getting some love! Hope you enjoy it in 60fps
I was waiting for someone to do this, thank you! Very high quality and detailed video, straight to the point with no BS.
Thank you. Hopefully you got something out of it.
i've been looking for this info for days, glad i came across it. also thanks for pointing out that it takes time to build up the vendors credits. i turned on the increase and went to multiple vendors and they only had their usual 5,000 credits and i turned it off annoyed since nothing had changed.
Glad I could help! Funnily enough this was one of the first things I tested and made me think we needed a video for it. They really didn't explain it.
Putting a bounty board on the ship is a great idea as well, it helps with bugs as well as there are a few that are related to high bounties, have lost 1 character to this recently. I would however still pop an outpost on a level 75 planet and farm the bounties for gear and have a bounty board there as well, as well as a Constellation board, they need spreading over the entire system really and they do only have a limited amount to give then completely stop from my testing. I do find the FC bounties to be the best for gear though but they are luck of the draw and bounty boards to have a limited coded into them for range anyhow so I have learned from someone who is making a mod currently.
Once you get to where you can use mods you should check out Mission Boards Anywhere. It's a tablet that is in your weapon inventory, you can pull up all of the mission boards you have access to as well as a bounty board from anywhere in the game.
To add to Ship Decoration, there's also a new panel in each cockpit that you can click to activate Edit mode
I was disappointed that you can't use Edit mode to change the furnishings in a furnished Hab: I would have liked to clean up some of the junk they left lying around, or simply swap out the seat style for something more pleasing
Great video! I appreciate you going thru all the new settings options one by one and explaining them all. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful! Let's hope we have plenty more to look forward to in the DLC
The has placement/decoration of ships part alone is huge. Loving these updates!
Really awesome breakdown. Thanks so much! I saw this vid in my notifications and have been waiting all day to watch it after work. Really good info.
Thanks for the overview on everything a lot of huge changes that I'm looking forward to and this helped explain a ton ahead of time.
Cool, might actually be able to play the game I bought in Nov 2023 in mid-May 2024 thanks to the gameplay options this patch is adding. About damn time.
My favorite playthru of Skyrim was a modded version that had all the survival options on. I’m looking forward to trying that out in this game. I want to feel some difficulty and want enemies to not be bullet sponges.
This update just might get me back into playing this game. Thanks for sharing!
😊 thanks for watching! Hopefully they keep coming
Man... Thank you so much for this. Exactly what I was looking for.
Dude is that Donkey Kong 2 music... Wow. One of my fav tracks
I'm a sucker for DK2 music. I've been using it on my channel since it started. You're a man of culture I see
I’m going to wait for land vehicles
I would have felt sorry for you last week, thinking that it's never going to happen. I am still surprised. They are really laying on the "listening to player feedback" thick lately.
@@JeffreyBolesthere was a video with the devs where they worked on a land vehicle and it should be either in the upcoming big DLC or shortly after
I started a new game from fresh nothing yesterday. So far i like being able to adjust the game settings to suit my style. Extra carry weight and vendor credits for some sleep and food/healing options changed around to my liking. I'm around 3% over normal xp currently
Really excited about this update. This is a lot of what we have been waiting for
amazing video!! Exactly what I wanted to watch. A real breakdown of the settings.
Great overview, getting the percent effect was extremely helpful!
This is a great video!! Thanks for making it, I'm gonna wait until Shattered Space to jump back in, but it's good to see how much more they've already added.
I'm so pumped for the expansion!
This was very helpful, thanks!
Very well made video. I appreciate all the hard work that went into getting all this information. Keep up the great work. The future is looking brighter for Starfield.
Much appreciated! Makes my day reading this.
Incredible video, very well explained and shown every single detail of the new patch. Superb!!!!!
Glad you liked it!
Excellent breakdown, friendo! Very helpful and thorough. Thanks!
You're most welcome!
I'm immediately setting the damage so me and enemies deal maximum damage to each other. I always get a mod for that in Fallout and Elder Scrolls. It makes combat so much more fast-paced and frantic when you can kill enemies very fast, but if you don't they'll kill you just as quick.
Thanks! Excellent breakdown and just what I was looking for. I have loved this game since day one, and these upgrades make it so much better. I have always been a fan of mods that allow you to toggle different features on and off. I hope other games start including these types of settings.
Wow thank you so much for your support and kind words. I think the settings are very much needed but what really excites me is it seems like they are building extra support in the game in preparation for the expansion. Which I expect will bring with it a ton of content.
@@Dantics fingers crossed hoping you’re right 🤞🏽
Thx, short and to the point!
Very informative, you’re a legend thank you 🙏🏼
Thanks Ricky! Good to see you here.
Nice coverage! It did actually answer many of my questions. I for one will pick options I can actually live with. Switching them back and forth to get benefits while reducing consequences is just not my thing. 😀
The video I have been waiting for, awesome. Game changing update, but I will wait for land vehicles and DLC before I go back to it
Great work
Thanks!
Every NG+ adds more damage to you and less damage output to a maximum of 100% against and 50% output at NG+10, so Extreme with these modifiers will just be insane.
It is good they allow you to change the damage for Ship combat but again it goes up as you go to NG+10 as well.
A guy on Reddit has posted it all in detail, a few months ago but it's basically as they say as you become The Hunter, the less powerful you become even though your Starborn powers go up if you go to all the Temples every time you enter the Unity.
Around the eleven minute mark, you're referring to alien stir fry's stat increase from the setting change, but you unintentionally, I assume, used alien stew in the comparison shot.
For future science endeavors you could use tdetect to stop npc aggro, the respective console Ids with placethere to put npcs where you want them, and forceav speedmult 0 to keep them stationary. You could then set variables like their armor, hp, and other resistances as necessary for testing purposes. Keep up the great work and thank you for doing these tests so we don't have to. lol
Thanks! That's actually some useful info. I just had a play around and it seems like I'm reaching similar results. Would have been helpful to test enemy damage though. But it does seem like the setting mostly improves their 'aggression' more than their actual damage.
Wow man, great video
Love your Starfield videos bro, keep up the good work 🔥
Thanks, will do!
These options are enough to bring me back to a new run while I wait for console mods… my mistake was trying to see everything while roleplaying too specific
Money focused sociopath mercenary is like the only personality that is consistently an option in dialogue across most of the quests I completed
Starfield never was a real RPG. It's more like a story-driven open world action shooter
It definitely depends on what missions you are doing. There are always crazy or disingenuous dialog options, but since I've started UC and Freestar the dialog options are a lot more heroic. Crimson Fleet has a lot more villainous dialog options.
@@xlH0RIZ0Nlx an ideal RPG would let you choose whether to be evil or good no matter the faction you're in, with repercussions to your action. Something as simple as "Talk shit with that faction and you either have to do more menial side quests with that faction as punishment while also going more in favor with a rival or enemy faction. The enemy faction could also be more aggressive and attack more or the opposite whether you choose nice or mean dialogue options.
Bethesda could but they won't
@fraizie6815 It doesn't really make sense for an evil character to join the UC, SysDef, or Freestar. These factions are basically quintessential good guys. And I've found plenty of dialog that was more renegade or antagonistic. The Starborn also call morality into question, it's not about good or evil its about who gets the artifacts first. How that's done is completely up to the player. The Hunter definitely seems more evil while The Emisarry more neutral or good.
@@fraizie6815 I think a menu telling you you're good or bad isn't very immersive. And it's nice not hearing the Lost Karma sound effect every time I steal something.
Thank you for this video. It's exactly what I wanted. Looking forward to starting again now I can get rid of bullet sponges.
Awesome video thanks 🙏🏽
Thanks for watching!
Do people like the fact that changing difficulty changes XP gains? I think I like it because I like the small reward for making things harder, but I can also see that people don't want to be punished for customizing.
I think it's dumb to add a penalty for customizing. It would be nice to hear from the devs the reasoning for that. They could have just left it alone and not impacted the players but I'm betting it's to keep us playing longer so they can say their numbers are higher than they should be.
@@Iamkstchow how does it keep people playing longer? By slowing down level ups? Most players don't stop playing when they hit a certain level.
They missed the chance to give Infirmary habs a game effect by allowing you to heal over time no matter your setting if you sleep in an infirmary.
My fav difficulty system is from GhostReacon Breakpoint.
You can get realistic where every shot causes you to injure and 5 shots or so would kill you, same for the enemy. You can also get very chill where you're basically a killing machine that can wipe out the entire camp yourself.
The good add-on to this is, you can play with others with totally different settings together. The only exception is the raid mode.
The current one we just got in Starfield is a welcome addition, but I still don't get why you would get punished or rewarded for wanting to customize your experience.
The drastic increase of carry weight is still small, but it's the step in the right direction and the best thing to come out with this update. And the cargo access!!!!
Just like that, Starfield got from 7.5/10 to 9/10. I really despised the limited inventory, since Oblivion. It's the biggest bug in the BGS games. So happy they god rid of it!
Also the maps.
I love the maps. It's the best feature for me.
Or take all the inventory XP buffs, clear the POI of enemies, then switch the inventory settings to max pickup and instant ship access to loot the undefended base now that you've wrung all the bonus XP out of it
Agree. I enjoyed or at least tolerated the carry limits, cargo access, and vendor credit level at first. But about 50 hours in I’m like “I’ve done this crap to much, I’m spending maybe 25% of my gameplay just storing, selling, going back to my storage area, selling, again and again”.
Played to about 200 hours through 2 characters, then gently set Starfield aside. But now I’m back, baby!
For real? I can't wait to completely nerf my carry weight!
I find the ability to carry 30 weapons, 6 spacesuits, about a dozen different types of space rock.... Unimmersive, to say the least!
& finally, ammo has weight!!! 😂
@@skyriminspace You're a masochist.
I really enjoyed this video im sending a sub❤❤❤
Quite a significant improvement. I hope they continue to work on the game.
I’m definitely going to be adjusting those afflictions, food and healing sliders.
Also, need to say: I've wanted this aspect in Fallout 4's survival mode and will be excited to see if this customizable difficulty carries over to ES6 and FO5.
I'd been avoiding leveling the powers part of the game because it made me way too OP. A legendary beowulf and inflictor was all I needed to clear baddies. I think powers will be useful on extreme difficulty. I like these changes. I like that I'll have to research chems and foods as well to give me the buffs i need to survive.
I love the survival aspect it gives good reason for some of the skills
The hit and ragdolls are incredible
Great vid mate ✌
Glad you enjoyed!
i love every single new addition. Hopefully the cars will come soon
It's probably an oversight that you can fully disable "Combat Affliction Gain" (-3% XP) and "Environmental Damage & Afflictions" (-2% XP), but still choose the hardest setting for "Affliction Treatment" (+6% XP), "Affliction Prognosis" (+5% XP) and "Environmental Damage Restoration" (+4% XP), whichs nets you overall +10% XP without drawbacks.
The new setting for "Environmental Damage Restoration" can actually be good for "Bloodied builds" (if you are familar with Fallout 76) as you can now lock your health bar in a state to always benefit from the Wanted trait and Cornered legendary weapon effect. Without this option this was not possible as with the default setting you automatically heal Environmental Damage.
Great vid! Curious tho if putting all that work in decorating your ship gets completely wiped whenever you upgrade it at all, or choose another main ship.
I'm glad to see what should've been in from release
Great video breakdown! The only thing I want and need to adjust is,extreme because I like being able to handle the toughest enemy situations except SHIP COMBAT RENDERS ME BUT HURT 90% of the time! I’m SOO happy that now I can possibly even out the ship combat ratio so I can maintain extreme difficulty without having to keep switching to normal or even easy sometimes! My one and only legendary battleship encounter ended in sheer disaster, as I couldn’t even handle it switching difficulty to very easy made little to no difference! Hopefully this is remedied now. 😳🤦🏻♂️🙄/👌✌️🤲☝️😉
I have over 3500h under the hood, I just LOVE this game ( best thing since Las Vegas and Mass Effect ...) and now, with this fantastic update, I start a new game from scratch, ( last chain of NG+ I was lvl 249... and I turned ALL to "extreme" - the feeling is like of a different game, you need to plan everything in advance, no rush, carefully investment on skills... in few words, a lot of sweat :p
I felt that way too playing through Mass Effect on legendary
Now I know what to do with my upcoming vacation weeks!
Nice update 👍
Great vid, thanks for the detailed breakdown of the new options. Curious to know if "Cargo Access Distance" impacts resource access at workbenches. For example, if I use the workbenches in the Lodge, can I still use resources from my ship or do I need to have the resources in my inventory?
Assuming you have the ship cargo space needed you could just turn ammo weight on, carry capacity to reduced and cargo access to everywhere and you will have a net xp gain and be able to pick up whatever you want.
Exactly
Something that would be interesting to know: Are there any food/drink items that give more than the 30 minutes of fed/hydrated status effect? I already read somewhere else that the nutrition skill can increase that, but what about special meals you can craft through the gastronomy skill? Maybe something to try out.
Thanks, that was VERY INFORMATIVE.
Glad it was helpful! Good to see you
This is how the game should have been in the first place
We're heading in the right direction.
Excellent work, nice detail!
Thanks for watching!
I wonder if they'll do something about stealth indoors vs outside
If you have a stealth build it seems like you are literally unseeable outside....
But inside you are literally seen very fast.
You can put bounty clearance terminals in your ship now! That’s it! YES!
If you have an xp crafting farm this is great, when mass producing items just jack the 75% xp boost along with sleep and any other booster you can think of, I was making over 570+ xp per stack
Good video, I was able to locate exactly the information that I wanted to know. I like your style.
Glad to hear it! What were you looking for?
@@Dantics It was the vendor credit increase amount, I wasn't able to find that out from anyone but you.
Excellent overview - thank you!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
So, what happens if you fully customize an empty hab on a ship, then modify your ship later. I would expect if you delete that hab, you get all the materials back in inventory. But do the decorations remain in place if you simply move the hab or add other habs around it?
After painstakingly decorating, I would hate to lose all that work just by adding a window or a new hab beside the custom hab.
Right now when we do any hab modifications including just adding a window, all auto-generated junk goes into inventory.
Has anyone tested this?
This game went from a 5/10 to a 7.5/10 and thats a huge improvement. Now we just need new story content!!
My primary system is currently in for repair, so it'll be a while before I can play again. That said, the only food buff I cared about was Persuasion (Booze and Pheramones) and EXP%, and I had to max out the Food skill tree to get any increase to XP at all. This update has rendered that +2~3% buff nearly pointless, while making Food Healing finally viable. I have mixed feelings. But as long as my Console created Super Cutter (Rapid Fire, Extended Clip, Titanium) still works, and I can still set my destination universe during the credits, I'll be fine.
...and now I wonder how many Mods this broke...
It's a single player game. Changing your difficulty shouldn't impact your xp either way.
"without exact health values i have to work with pixels"
May i introduce to you:
The "Getav Health" command
Anyways good video overall, i couldn't get the damage numbers of extreme through the method i expected would work (getgs) because the variables are changed and i couldn't find the new ones, so seeing the damage numbers extreme has was nice.
Although i will make a correction on the difficulty section, it is a flat multiplier instead of increasing health values.
You can see this yourself by looking at companion damage, which regardless of difficulty will always be the same, as its purely a multiplier to damage dealt to you and damage you deal to other things.
The damage number display does not take difficulty into account when showing the damage dealt, something i definitely noticed when i used setgs to increase damage dealt and received by 15x for fun
... and just like that all my questions answered. o7
Glad to see!
As an Outpost Farmer, I wish vendor credits were raised higher. I play on Xbox, so there’s no mods for us & to really get into & have fun with shipbuilding, you NEED to be an outpost farmer. It’s better than nothing I suppose. Not too sure if it’s enough to bring me back however. Probably will wait til later this year for Shattered Space DLC & land mobiles
Would've been nice to have these some of these options in game, via upgrades to ship, or player
while i fully support this update i must confess forcing players to chose if they get no xp from things when changing options is not ok, they should just allow players to choose what they want. Also no boundry is this 100% true? That would be massive
I like the game, but the vendor credit bottleneck and the low low value of food to health has been a ridiculous aspect of this game since the beginning. Can't wait for these updates on Xbox.
Does the internal ship designer allow you to pick where ship doors/ladders are placed between habs (when more than on option is available)? ❤
If they continue doing updates like these, maybe it will be enjoyable in a few years. I have sunk 82 hours in this and at NG+2. Still haven't found a reason to go back yet. Not even this update unfortunately. Looking forward for better starfield though.
Moral of the story. Turn everything up to the hardest setting before turning in a quest.
Exactly
Regarding the Enemy Damage setting, while the damage per bullet may be the same, it sounds like the damage *per sec* has gone up if they are firing more and hitting more, so I think the Enemy Damage label is still generally accurate.
Agree but I would have rather it say 'aggression' or something to really highlight the fact there is more to it than just a damage bump
Food buffs and debuffs are great but how often do you have to eat and drink?
I hope they add more outposts, caves, etc to the random generation. Maybe some derelict ships, stations, etc.
How do the decontamination and cellular regeneration skills interact with affliction recovery?
Apologies in advance if you answered this or covered it in the video, but I didn’t see it. In the updated ship building mode features, can you choose door and ladder locations now?
No you can't, you can only influence where they're not with portholes still.
Ohhhh this is looks like they finally finished the game.
I both love and hate using EXP gain rate as the cost for all these settings. On one hand, playing how I want will make leveling an absolute chore, but on the other, I feel it is completely fair.
No one judges you other than Bethesda constantly punishing you for anything you change what they didn't want you too. Mods, creations, playing Starfield in an enjoyable way...
loving this update but I wish we could do a full respec on NG+
Wondering if I will get to change traits without going through the Unity. I am at NG+ 10 and have now built outposts and ships and don't want to start over again.
Hope Starfield gets the love it deserves. I mean, it is not the best, but it has a lot of potential. I have a feeling that in a long term this game will be massive due to mods. Imagine the possibilities with a 1000 planets.