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yes, shame they decimated half the city to sidestep the "burden" of crafting a hub comparable to the scale of new atlantis. whats more, the inevitable conclusion to this sequence only further hinders the sense of scale - but i digress so as not to spoil anything. at least there are plenty of bits to encounter outside the walls themselves

My theory is that in every universe, you arriving at the Lodge around the same time, is because it’s a fixed point that needs to happen.

My favorite part is when you try to play the game like an RPG triggering the hero John Starfield to suprise you by grabbing your watch and proclaiming "Your story is dumb, didnt you know, I am the only *star in this field!* " Then flicked his shades turned to look at an imaginary camera(thus breaking the fourth wall) and said " wake the F up! We got some stars to field i marked the first one on your watch!" Then drop kicked me through the unity causing me to loose all the value i built up in the game to vanish as my game to CTD and "sweet little lies" to begin playing as soon as the papyrus CTD warning popped up. Best game ever! 11 funko pops out of 10!

Finally someone with a brain

This guy is really cool, I like his vids

Overall this DLC isn't bad. I've been desperate for more detail and info on House Va'ruun so that's great. No big change in gameplay; it's more of the same but with a design aesthetic that feels more magic than scifi. I do wish Bethesda would have accompanied this DLC with a general game patch that updated things like the inventory and menu interfaces to something that wasn't so incredibly drab and barebones.

Bro, you were so spot on and I love it. Your review are so good because it's an honest review, giving critiques where they are needed but not venom filled ranting for no reason, and you also give praise where it's due. I think a lot of people were hoping for Shattered Space to be like Far Harbor, self included, but It's somewhere between Nuka World and Far Harbor for me. I would put it above Nuka World (as a reference point) but it's lacking the in-depth quality of Far Harbor. I really want them to make another DLC that continues off of this DLC to either expand it or have it affect the greater universe as a whole. Even if they make a completely new DLC all together, I want the DLC to not only have a self-contained story but also to be well fleshed out enough to also affect the wider universe as well. I'm definitely enjoying Va'runnkai and my affect on the world and story. At first, I felt more at home on Akila City, but now, it's definitely Va'ruunkai. I agree with you, 100%, that Bethesda peaked in story with the UC questline, by far. For me, it's a toss-up between Shattered Space, Ryujin, and Crimson Fleet, I love these 3 stories. The Freestar Collective one is still lacking as per the usual.

This DLC has made me sad man

While not as fleshed out as I would have hoped, I have enjoyed Shattered Space. But it could have been so much more. Very little extra in terns of loot, city seems very empty, the other planets only have one type of makeshift camp where the loot is exactly in the same place, and the woeful lack of Andraja is the story is a missed opportunity. And perhaps it was just my experience, but I had a fair few graphical glitches, not experienced in the main game.

Your Andreja cut aways had me laughing. Spot on review as always. They missed a ton of opportunity leaving her just acting like you're on some random moon. Especially with her companion line.

I really enjoyed Shattered Space. It looks stunning, the new outfits and spacesuits are awesome, the music is great, and in my opinion it has some of my favorite quests and writing in the game overall. However, reflecting on my time with it, I do feel it's overall an underwhelming experience as an expansion. I'm primarily talking in terms of new content such as such as new armors and weapons. While there are new armors and weapons in this expansion, I have found no uniques whatsoever. This is super disappointing for me, as I feel a key aspect to meaningful exploration is meaningful loot. Another big issue I have is the final act and ending. I'm not gonna spoil anything, but long story short? It feels rushed. Despite the main story being around the same length as most BGS expansions (Far Harbor's main story is around the same length, for example), it *feels* short. I think if 1-2 more hours were added to the main story, it would've satisfied me and probably other players who were disappointed with the length. Now this is just me theorizing, so my word is not gospel. I have a feeling this expansion is way under budget in terms of development. It feels like BGS had more planned but had to cut stuff, so they didn't over budget and miss deadlines. This could explain why aspects of it feel half-baked. Another thing: for quests and their choices and consequences, there is actually quite a bit going on - much more so than a lot of the side quests in the base game (Excluding the faction questlines, of course). In the main story, you can actually lose out on a possible crewmate if you make certain choices. Many of the side quests outside the main story also have some meaningful choices and consequences that I felt were more impactful than much of the main story. I'd say that's a positive with Shattered Space. But overall, I feel this expansion will satisfy most players who are already into Starfield. However, it's not gonna sway the opinion of those who don't care for it. It's definitely not gonna sway the opinion of those who dislike it.

I felt like I was playing an abridged version of Morrowind, elder scrolls 3. All the houses felt like dark elf houses, and the petty squabbling between them felt like a mirror image of that exact same game. I enjoyed myself playing shattered space, but couldn't help but feel all the similarities with Morrowind.

Ever since the expansion released, my game broke (Series X). I can't save anymore. Everytime I try to save, the game crashes - even if I'm using my older saves so the issue can't be save bloating. It almost seems like the Form ID bug is back or something else entirely. As of this moment I am unable to play the game, eventhough I'd like to. However, great video!

I think we can all agree that this DLC should be lower like $15-20. $30 is quite steep.

Hopefully one day they'll let us have a vehicle builder so we can make some sort of cool mobile base, and let us transition into another tile by reaching the edge of one tile (I'd be fine even if it will be another loading screen). Might make for a cool gameplay of exploring a planet's surface for science or for good old rare mineral or something.

Was looking forward to your take on the DLC. I haven't started the new content yet, but I started a new character for this DLC, and It's a little disappointing that it is seemingly so underwhelming. I hope we don't have to wait another year for another small DLC like this.

Imagine paying $30 dollars for a barely 10 hour quest line.

I played with mods my first actual run through mostly just better health and materials but because of the bug with the amulary I couldn't travel to unity so I ended up using console commands to travel ive got to unity 16 times and aside from constellation it's the same I find it kind of not worth it. I recently got the Genesis starwars overhaul and am just playing through as if it's a good starwars game lol

I really wanted to like both the game and the DLC but the experience feels so soulless.

There is a no point in choosing side at the end... it's just mass effect 3, but done way worse and less interesting.

People seem to like to dogpile on games now in a hate storm online when a good percent of them never even really tried a game and will post comments like "it's just crap" etc, without giving real criticisms of it. For me when I see a game I am interested in I both ignore reviews and comments on it until I tried the game and made up my own mind about it, than I will see what others have to say about it. This way I don't become biased from other peoples opinions online which is a very common thing now.

Great and honest review mate 👍

Couple things to add, the armillary does not get used up after you go through it as at the end credits it will say your partner choose to go through it later, so in the game it is clear more than one can go through it, how many is not clear though and they can go through at different times. If you side with the emissary least in my case he choose to stay behind which perhaps made him the pilgrim? I think it puts the player back at the same time in new universe because it was the start of your quest for artifacts and you have a choice to do it again or not. Its not clear when the others come through and they seem to have some collect themselves. The biggest question for me is who built the temples and the artifacts in the first place? This is what I really want to know. They are clearly built before the rise of humanity on earth.

Kinda feels llike expanded cut content to me.

I really love your videos man. Thoughtful and creative, very well done. keep it up.

I bet my last dollar if Starfield was on Playstation Shattered space would be a 10/10 it would be a 98 on metacritic it would game of the year i guarante it...all these fake hates are for clicks, you literally got this clown Luke Stephen gave the dlc a bad review because he didnt get a review code from Bethesda 😂 he literally said that man

Unfortunately there is a bug currently that makes companions speak way less than they should, that includes Andreja. I didnt have this in my playthrough and Barrett who I brought with me had something to say about almost every side quest and most main quests of the dlc. Felt very much like the same amount of comments from him as in the main game main quest

Great review mate!

the first new bethesda dlc/game that i forgot that existed and my friend on steam that have the game hate starfield so he will not play the dlc Edit: so its a fallout 4 dlc on starfield kinda deal.... oh well i think a Cyberpunk 2.0/No Man Sky the game is now what people wanted it to much to ask for the billionaire company

There were many great quests and Ideas in Starfield. But then Todd said "lets have 1000 worlds" for no reason whatsoever. I think the game might have been truly great if he'd just kept out of it.

You know, it may sound weird to some people, but if you roleplay and try to immerse yourself in some scenarios, the game can be more challenging and engaging. When I go to Akila I usually leave the spacesuit and the jetpack in the ship, this makes dealing with the wildlife and the shaw gang more thrilling. Also makes sense you dont need a spacesuit to go on a safari on a breathable planet. I used to mod skyrim to make things like preventing the character to jump or eat in the middle of battle, among other mechanics. Some self imposing challengings in the name of immersion can make your game more engaging. If there's a scenario where Im being hunted in a cave I wont use jetpacks.

I really wonder what a Starfield 2 would look like?

Thank you for the spoiler free review. When might we look for the spoiler heavy deep dives? Just trying to see how much time I have!

Andreja Needed to be way more involved here. Making comments and dropping History/lore. Akin to dragging around a Mass Effect Character.

Im a lil disapointed they didnt use this opportunity to flesh out the base gane. I know in all their games that half of the DLCs are meh, or iffy, while the rest are great. But i think this shouldve been the really great ones

There were never any testing space battles, I loved building a ship then didn’t really get to test it out much

In the 3 dataslates you can find on Anasko's desk in the Scaled Citadel, you can hear Jinan Varuun in the crucial moments of his storyline. I have strong beliefs on what it means for the lore and what The Great Serpent is, but I don't want to spoil anyone if they haven't listened to them yet. The massive disappointment for me is the lack of ship parts.

The 3 criticisms i have with this DLC: 1. No new fully fledged followers 2. The existing ones like Andreja barely interact with the quests 3. ZERO new ship parts Everything else felt good to me, map size, density of content, exploration and even the size of the main questline.

Vanguard questline is my personal favorite followed by the Crimson Fleet stuff. Kaiser should be a recruitable companion. He might very well be my favorite character.

The reviews on Steam are tragic, people complained about there being no Handmade content or large exploration focused areas, and then when they get that, they complain! I’m loving it so far, great story and world.

My first playthrough I rationalized that the Unity makes of you what you already are. It makes those who are evil worse, and those who are good are given a purpose. My first playthrough my character was a law abiding, caring guy who fell in love with Sarah. He lost her, then went through the unity again to find her. I then stopped my game there. Im gonna start up a new play through though and have this one be ruthless.

I wonder if some of the other Starborn, the unnamed ones, are actually us.

It's clear that this game was not designed for specific types of players that prefer min-max gameplay or goals or achievements (e.g. INTJs). Expecting this game to be something else is only going to lead to disappointment regardless. Yes this game has flaws, Bethesda-style bugs especially, but I managed my expectation and enjoyed as much as I could, then move on. Players that unilaterally claim that this game is bad, should reconsider why they even bought this game in the first place and what they expected out of it. And aggregate review systems have their inherent flaws (ad populum). It is more reliable to look at the type of game and how it caters to certain types of people.

You can get every power in every universe. If Barrett survives, he has a quest that gives you the parallel self power, and if you don’t build the armillary right away after collecting all the artifacts, Vlad will be able to keep directing you to temples until you find all of them. Temples only become “findable” when you have their corresponding artifact in your inventory.

I think most of the confusing plot holes get patched up if you consider each new universe as a new timeline instead. It really does function more like a time loop rather than a multiverse when you really break it down. Every companion has the exact same backstory in every “universe”, the political state of the galaxy is identical at the start of each ng+, etc. the only time when it feels like a true multiverse is when you get the unique variant universes, like kid constellation, or the one where the lodge is full of different versions of yourself.

What I I’ve so much about that game is it’s somewhat of philosophical allegory for existence in real life. Aristotle’s truth vs necessary is always in effect. So much of what is true is an entirely subjective matter

I came to the conclusion that we are all the starborn. It's the only way it works they all seem to know where we are at any given time. Every time we star a new universe we can change our characters looks and traits. It stands to reason that the unity is outside of time but we always end up back at the beginning of our journey. Every time we create a multiversal constant based on our actions. We've just gone through the unity so many times we forgot our true selves. It even explains how the "other" starborn are just as clueless as you they are you. That's my take on it.

You really just explained exactly how I feel about the game in better words than I ever could. When you learn about the Colony Wars, The Serpents Crusade & the terramorph outbreak on Londinion, it all sounds so much more exciting than collecting artifacts. Also the Starborn being the main antagonist feels underwhelming as they never really feel like a threat to humanity. Starfield does a lot of things right but the main story is massively disappointing to me & I think the lack of intelligent alien life is a missed opportunity.

If Starborn Aiza can teach another version of himself how to build the Grav Drive, then I don't see why Starborns wouldn't be able to travel further back in time. After all, Dr. Victor Aiza died in the main story's universe, yet apparently he ascended in another? How did Starborn Aiza become Starborn in the first place? He'd need a grav drive to do that. Something he invented that costed decades of his life, resulting in his death. Are we also to assume Starborn Aiza immediatelly searched for the Pieces as soon as he got off the evacuation shuttle from Earth in his universe? He would have been super old by that point Theory: Starborn Aiza is from the present day post establishment of the Settled Systems. He went back in time through Unity and fast-tracked humanity's discovery of Grav Drives in that universe with a version of himself that was born much earlier, a.k.a only person he knew would agree with his borderline world-ending plan

The battle between Emissary vs Hunter seems more like an argument for Order vs Chaos. Or Control vs Freedom. And in the case of Unity, both can be seen as either good or evil