Starfield autopilot spotted that players hope will give more time for crafting

Starfield fans think they've found definitive proof of an auto-pilot feature in Starfield.

[343_Guilty_Spark]

Smooth sailing

[Rocketisleague]

Isn't loading screens between everything auto pilot enough??

[Fishy Fingers]

Not sure what that even means but i think the point being while in space you could do other activities in the ship (craft resources, weapon upgrades, interact with companions etc) while you have auto pilot engaged rather than be in the cockpit all the time.

[Rocketisleague]

Ah I see - eh, judging from the other space games - thats a design choice normally? Not sure if bethesda will do the whole space flight thing? Does it take long to fly some places(minutes?) I doubt its gonna be a sim like some others, (star citizen, hidden dangers), probs more like NMS? Unlikely to be a heavy physics engine (outer wilds)?

[Fishy Fingers]

Feel like you should just go watch the deep drive mate https://www.youtube.com/wat...

[Rocketisleague]

I...have watched it. In only backs up what I thought? Even boarding an enemy ship is a loading screen right? You don't get out of your ship like outer wilds or star citizen? Right?

One especially important thing about bethesda show cases - if they don't show something - its because its embarrising for them to show. This datesa all the way back to oblivion

[Fishy Fingers]

Again, I'm struggling to see any relevance loading screens have to the article or them being "auto pilot enough??"

This is about when in space, not just take off and landing

[Rocketisleague]

And when in space...does it take longer than a.minute of flying to something? I don't get it? As far as I can see its small scale? You don't fly planet to planet? Please tell me why autopilot?

[StrykerOfAurole]

@Rocketisleague Aren't loading screens SO last gen? I did used to use loading screens as a time to grab a quick bite of a snack or whatever, but since consoles finally decided to stop torturing us, and I've had an SSD and then NVME drive in my comp as soon as possible... Point is, what loading screens? If it lasts for less than 5 seconds like most current gen games, I'm not sure what you're trying to complain about. They only exist on Switch now.

[Rocketisleague]

Just stating facts. Why would you need autopilot in a game with no long distance travel? It has loading screens instead of that. Where other space games have...long distance travel. For example, no mans sky allows you to fly around solar systems, elite dangerous has no loading screens at all. It allows you to travel between star systems manually, unlike no mans sky which has a loading screen. Even no mans sky's black hole is a disappointing loading screen

Then there is star citizen, the realistic one. Where breaching an enemy ship is exactly what you'd expect in real life... no loading screens. You get out your ship and fly in whatever hole you made in the enemy ship. Or you dock with them.

Bethesda are going the way of all of the games, which is fine. Just what are you expecting out of it? No mans sky? Star citizen? Its a Bethesda game set in space. It has all the quirks Bethesda games have. I mean they haven't had a city that you couldn't enter without loading screens since morrowind. Likewise you can't enter the atmosphere of a planet yourself. Something that has been around for a long time now.

Even in morrowind you could jump halfway across the world directly into a city. That was gone from oblivion onwards and into fallout, changing the entire gameplay of course.

[jwillj2k4]

Auto pilot means you get to walk around the ship in space. I highly doubt the ship is progressing through space in real-time though since it’s essentially a point and click game when it comes to travel.

[Christopher]

Maybe it's just me, but I'd think autopilot is more of a quick travel mode than anything else, so might not give you time to do things but just get you to known points of interests rapidly but advance the in game calendar/clock as appropriate.

[dumahim]

Maybe slow quick travel. They're probably not going to just let you fast travel anywhere right from the start, so this autopilot thing is just how you're going to get to new locations the first time.

[Christopher]

I think if you go to the starmap to select a destination and autopilot is selected it will just take you there. If you don't have it enabled, it will likely just mark it for your target location. I don't see the point of having it otherwise just slowly autopilot itself to a destination because that's a waste of time on the player and you can craft at any point while in your ship, so can do it when you land/before you take off/etc.

[StrykerOfAurole]

Or like, just craft? Vapor-read. Someone got paid to type out words that are loosely affiliated with a game. Really wish we had about 1/10th of gaming articles that we currently have by getting rid of all these "articles" that are just absolutely pointless, substance-less dreck.

[franwex]

Cannot wait until these people get replaced by AI and be forced to work in a field that actually benefits society.

[Profchaos]

More time for crafting I'll be honest crafting in every game feels like a chore and i don't find it enjoyable in Bethesda games I do the bare minimum so I hope it's no worse than fallout 4 was I can tolerate that mostly just let me scrap my items get my space caps and buys space guns

[anast]

This game is going to be load screen heavy.

[Reaper22_]

That's not a bad thing. It's a humongous game and gamers have waited years to play it. So a few seconds won't really matter.

[anast]

I am not so sure. There has to be a point when games move to current gen. tech. and loading screens have always been the least fun part of gaming.

[BrainSyphoned]

So people are hoping that space is so dull they can play an inventory management game for fun. Of course when you have nothing left to craft and you are traveling the same areas safe enough to ignore everything in a menu screen will be be bored as fuck and quit.

[rippermcrip]

So the alternative is people were gonna have to stay in the cockpit and manually fly for an hour to another planet or something?

[raWfodog]

My biggest question is whether your character can wear anything else besides a spacesuit. Every scene they show features a spacesuit on your character, even when everyone else is wearing normal clothes.