Calling it horrid is honestly too kind.
Granted I’ve been spoiled with my Strix 3090OC/12900K which was consistently able to crank out high amount of frames at 4K and ultra settings out of the box for any title I threw at it but I knew that couldn’t last forever.
Starfield seems exceptionally poorly optimized however and runs like dogshit even after abandoning ultra or even high settings.
I’m looking at an average fps of around 40 in mundane indoor settings.
This would be less egregious if the game at least looked amazing and had all the bells and whistles like ray tracing etc.
But it looks awful even on ultra, some of the textures look like they’re meant to be an easter egg as a throwback to the original Doom.
Scaling the resolution barely makes a dent and it also doesn't help that I can't access the most useful mods because MS fuckery with the Gamepass edition.
On the XBSX it’s even worse, it would be funny if it weren’t for the fact that it’s so sad that MS still isn’t able to produce an XB exclusive that can hold a candle to Sony’s exclusives.
And don’t get me started on the actual gameplay/story experience.
I too am a big BGS fan, since back in the Morrowind days and I too am one of the few Andromeda fans (there’s dozens of us, dozens!), but this one feels underbaked even for BGS’ standards.
In particular the opening of the game, as if they forgot to replace the placeholder storyline and gameplay with the actual story.
After my first 4 hours or so I was still waiting for the game to really start to the point that I was convinced the game had glitched on me and skipped the beginning or something so I looked up a let’s play only to be dumbfounded that my game was working as intended.
All in all it’s such a weird game to me, like it’s a beta or something.
I play an hour here and there every once in a while, hoping to be hooked and see what others seem to be seeing, but if anything it makes me want to repurchase No Man’s Sky on Steam (had a copy way back when for the PS4 but lost it during a move).