Starfield player proves you can fly manually to planets - but you can't land

Players wondering if they can manually fly to planets in Starfield have had their questions answered this weekend

[EvertonFC]

What a shite read, is this "videogamer.com" with a N4G skin?

[EvertonFC]

Basically this from the article ;

"Over the weekend, streamer (and Sony Santa Monica writer) Alanah Pearce did an experiment to see if she could fly from around the orbit of a planet – in this case Pluto – and make landfall by flying manually towards it, rather than use fast travel to pick a landing spot. She knew that it’d take a while of course, so she plotted a course and set her controller down before she retired for the night. (After finding a fix to stop her controller from turning off).
To her and to many fans’ surprise, seven hours later she found that planets seemed to be, in fact, a fixed texture in space, and passed right through as she approached meaning that she couldn’t actually make landfall without using Starfield’s menus. Of course, now players on the Starfield reddit are wanting modders to come to the rescue and allow players to drive their craft directly into planets"

[VenomUK]

Why is the sub-bedroom blog quality Videogamer.com and Dexerto and others referring to Alanah Pearce as a ‘player’? SHE has done nothing wrong, but they are doing it to obfuscate her industry role so her discovery is attributed to a regular player.

As a former IGN reporter and now a Santa Monica Studios writer she is at the very least should be called an Industry Insider, or Industry expert, or be referred to by her name - she has a high enough profile give her the respect and use her name. So why are some outlets ignoring this and calling her just a player?

A video clip when went viral that showed her claiming her spacecraft in Starfield was trapped in a ‘box’ orbiting a planet. This was a negative PR for Starfield. Alanah Pearce is an actual real life friend of Aaron Greenberg.

She then later happened to try a method that would take hours but enable direct flight. Two things about this, if direct flight is possible then Bethesda should have made travel faster so it’s more player friendly. Secondly, did Aaron Greenberg tell her how to do what NO other Starfield player had done - which led to her retracting her original claim and apologising?

[anast]

5 days ago from Reddit: "My gripe about this is even doing this its still kinda lame.. I sat in orbit of a planet and tried to just fly towards it to see if I could fly past it or near it... I didnt move an inch towards it.. On top of it, they couldn't even mask the loading screen like other space sims when you jump. it literally cuts to a black screen and then plays a cutscene. At least keep me in the cockpit and give me the illusion that im traveling."

[Vengeance1138]

Yet another "quality" article addition by Christopher lmao.

[fr0sty]

Lots of ad hominem going on here, but no attacking the point being made... I wonder why...

[repsahj]

You need 7 hrs to travel manually from earth to pluto.

[EvertonFC]

No, to orbit Pluto (kinda)

"Over the weekend, streamer (and Sony Santa Monica writer) Alanah Pearce did an experiment to see if she could fly from around the orbit of a planet – in this case Pluto – and make landfall by flying manually towards it, rather than use fast travel to pick a landing spot. She knew that it’d take a while of course, so she plotted a course and set her controller down before she retired for the night. (After finding a fix to stop her controller from turning off).
To her and to many fans’ surprise, seven hours later she found that planets seemed to be, in fact, a fixed texture in space, and passed right through as she approached meaning that she couldn’t actually make landfall without using Starfield’s menus. Of course, now players on the Starfield reddit are wanting modders to come to the rescue and allow players to drive their craft directly into planets"

[Eonjay]

This particular player is also a SSM employee...

[EvertonFC]

And

[Eonjay]

There is no and.

[LonDonE]

EXACTLY like daaang ponies be burning up like buy an x or pc and stop nit piicking

[fr0sty]

Too busy enjoying VR and more than one good game to care...

[VersusDMC]

She live streamed the whole thing so there is proof. And she has a video on her YouTube channel titled Starfield - It's amazing...so because she is a SSM employee we can safely assume it's not amazing?

[Eonjay]

I'm actually think its really cool and it shows how you can work in the industry for a platform holder while praising the work of devs on any platform. Its is positive for the industry and I wish more companies had employees who don't actively work to promote platform wars. I think thats the best part of the story.

[shinoff2183]

Lol great logic. Love it.

Not related but I thought about the time infamous and prototype devs made that bet about wife's lingerie or something like that

[Stanjara]

Garbage!

[Charlieboy333]

Deleted. I actually don't have energy for this videogamer.com bullshit right now.

[Vithar]

so what's the point? lol

[RupeeHoarder]

Just keep flooding us with unnecessary Starfield "news".