Okay, fair warning, do not play a drinking game where you take a shot every time Crimson says "basically"; you'll be dead within an hour. As for the DLC, I saw a breakdown suggesting that there were 3 Houses where one was basically(💀) Zealots-lite, another wanted to take a proselytizing route, and the third was the opportunistic middle of the road faction. Now, chances are whatever is masquerading as the "Great Serpent" doesn't really care for its followers, so feel free to pick whatever you think is best for the people there.
The only reason the lack of ship parts annoyed me is we actually see Va'ruun ships illustrated twice in the base game and in those instances they're clearly not Stroud, Taiyo, etc.
I recently finished the main quest and really liked it. I particularly enjoyed fighting against these Phantoms as a level 100+ Starborn. There is just something neat about two different supernatural beings with different powers and agendas unexpectedly encountering one another and clashing. No spoilers, but I'm really hoping there is a galactic war DLC considering the ending of the story. Not just based on your choice here, but also the tension between the UC and FC in the vanilla campaign. I feel like they let you join and get to know every side, only for a future DLC to make you pick one permanently. I think that's why we don't see any consequences for our choice. They introduced this new faction, but it's not time for war yet. It's coming. It is kind of disappointing they don't let you be evil. The whole point of being a Starborn is that we can be whatever we want in one universe and be something different in the next. BUT if there is a war DLC like I mentioned above, I suppose they don't want you to pick this option because it's premature. Edit: I was just thinking... when you visit the Va'ruun Embassy in the UC storyline you encounter weird flora which affects you, causing hallucinations. This is supposed to be flora from Va'ruun'kai. Did you see anything like that while on the planet. I don't recall ever doing so. I'm curious to do a fresh playthrough and really see what, if anything, the DLC adds to the vanilla campaign. I was in the middle of Andreja's companion quest and she hadn't come out as Va'ruun yet when I was on the planet. They did add unique dialog options saying something along the lines of "You let me become Promised and didn't tell me?" There must be more additions like that.
An interesting commentary on the DLC, yeah, I'm a sucker and will get it. You may be pining for new ship parts, but that's what Avon Tech and Matilija Aerospace are for, they've been sneaking Va'ruun tech out for months (hahah)!
I didn't even think about ship parts until the internet brought it up tbh xD We already had a shape and color scheme on the existing varuun crafts, so just make it snake-y and paint it black and name it "Varuun Whatever" you know
I enjoyed the main quest especially the decision you had to make rescuing the hostages at the secret base The reveal of what the experiment was actually about and what the speaker was doing with it opens up a lot of possibilities for future events because the research for how to create it again, still exist, even after the final confrontation
25:42 I caught something in dialogue when the guy building the Mourning device said that because I only grabbed one of the devices we still needed to connect to the power grid. So maybe if you grab two you don't even need House Veth'aal's help.
That last decision i had to do blind, i didn´t remember what each house stood for and there was no way to ask for a recap. Chose someone at random and hoped for the best.
It's a solid B for me. I agree on the ship parts. I haven't finished the main quest yet. I got far enough to figure out that Anasko is an arse hole. I took a break last night to explore the planet, and damn, scanning the critters was a pain in the ass. 3 biomes with variants of the same creatures was tedious AF. Overall I feel like we have more depth for the Va'ruun and even most of them don't care for the zealots.
Was also surprised there's seemingly no way to get on friendly terms with the Zealots like we can with the Crimson Fleet. Especially given some of the choices we can make at the end of the main quest and the politics of each faction.
Can't watch. Here's a thumbs up. I just got my Serpent's Embrace character into NG+ and built a ship/gathered resources to do Shattered Space. Not going to spoil it for myself.
"Bethesda's Lead Creative Producer of Starfield, Tim Lamb, recently spoke to Gaming Boulevard and provided more details on the type of updates players can come to expect with Starfield Shattered Space. According to Lamb, Bethesda has "introduced new ship customization options, which allow players to really tailor their vessels to their playstyle." Lamb goes on to say, "there are new tools and gadgets that will help players interact with the environment in deeper, more meaningful ways."" So was this just a lie? There is nothing resembling this in the expansion. I am primarily a ship-builder and was extremely disappointed by Shattered Space.
Coffee time! As I stated in discord, I was really looking forward to the hundreds of hours new ship parts for the builder would have brought in addition to the couple hours questing. The DLC is good for sure, but Bethesda dropped the ball on keeping the game alive. Great video, good review.
They surely have. Maybe a Vu Ruun version of the vehicle or something. Each house should have had an armor suit and ship. That would have been great. Microsoft is ruining Bethesda plain and simple. The players have gotten thrown into the trash for the shareholders.
A little let-down? I found it quite satisfying slamming the door on plans to start another war. The Great Serpent never told anybody to start a war. Anasko confirmed he had never spoken to The Great Serpent. Nor his father. Nor Jinan outside of that first contact. So why? Why another war? I'll tell you. Power and ego. Nothing more. So nope.
I’ve only reached the point in the expansion just after the cave initiation with the Great Serpent and you meet the High Council for the very first time. That’s where I am just taking my time. So honestly I don’t have any real flushed out opinion other than to say I’ve enjoyed the intro on the Oracle Space Station to Shattered Space. Though I’ve heard a gauntlet of opinions from all over RUclips and seen some streams of what others have thought about it. Including one fairly popular and very opinionated game streamer who’s stream I watched though was overly negative and negative to Bathesda (I don’t think highly of Bathesda either) who just ran speed ran thru the Spacestation with the. It’s negative facial expression at everything, barely picked up anything and said it all sucks. I quit that stream mid watching and set his channel for RUclips to never recommend it again. His channel is dead to me as a gamer and his opinions. Yeah this DLC has all its haters and more. But I’m just enjoying the game and taking my time with the new DLC.
I was underwhelmed by it, my main gripe is this expansion does not add anything substantial to the base game. No new skills or gameplay mechanic. The story itself was a bit boring. 6/10.
Having now finished the main quest and most of the side quests, I would say it’s disappointing as it does not add much new (reskin weapons, versions of spacesuits and a couple of new weapons and a potential new recruit for your ship which unfortunately is one of the least interesting characters you meet) and considering the cost it’s relatively small compared to some DLC in the past which almost adds a new game! In any event it was ok. There was a nice twist in the main story and it does develop House Vu’ruun. Worth it? Maybe to some but not to others. I was really hoping for a unique ship or something. Overall glad I got it but it is pricey for what it is. Final thoughts, having had little interaction with Andreja on my current play through, will having been to her home world and been involved in all this have any impact on her dialogue and behaviour towards you? Also does it not seriously affect Andreja’s storyline? What do we think?
It kind of makes sense that house varuun would take captured equipment from the settled systems and make their own improved version of it. Similar to the Japanese in the 80s how they took other peoples technology and made it better.
I don't know how you grinded this in 8 hours. I have more than 20 and just now starting on the father and son issue. there is another part you didn't mention. did you do the cave one to talk to Anasko? That one was kewl. It was like you were running through his brain with all the nerve endings and nerve electrical. The power station I think has multiple endings. I didn't have the flood issue and I think it may be because I challenged the entity on that issue. I didn't get 2 vortex's. I took the one and destroyed the last power source assuming it would kill them since they needed the power to the pods to survive. I took out the power to the dam. I did run into a small group of spacers in the poi right next to them that set up shop and weren't there when I went to the dam at the start. They also seemed to have slightly different gear which I used loot to grab. I'm just at the point where you are asked to kill the son. I didn't tell him exactly I would. I think it was the 3rd option I want to say? when I walked out of the room, they guy also expresses he didn't want the son dead as well. That is where I will pick up the game again today and see for sure if the pirates did in fact have slightly altered gear. From what I'm getting is most of the houses were already behind the scenes looking for a power grab and 2 at least are no better than the zealots.
I've done all of the main story and 3 or 5 side quests. I was really hoping for an alternative where we didn't have to kill his son. Maybe I did miss it
I'm enjoying it , other than the typical Bethesda bugs and glitches . I had to quit out of the game because I needed to do something else . But I also needed to quit because I was completely stumped . I'm standing in front of two blue dots . One is for a button and the other is for a computer . And no matter what I do nothing happens . If it is just a typical Bethesda glitch , then reloading my save should fix it . If it's me just not understanding what they want me to do then I probably will never get past it . I for one would like some spoilers because Bethesda doesn't really do a very good job of giving us directions .
While I personally cannot provide advice on "Starfield"-specific quest stuff, I would like to think that Reddit's r/NoSodiumStarfield would be the place to look for answers to questions like yours.
No offensive at all but its reviews like these that really show how far down the quality of AAA games has gone and how complacent and completely void of spines games are. First off i enjoy starfield but am in no way delouded enough to pretend that the quality of this game is anywhere near the levels of previous Bethesda games or of other expansions that cost around the same price point... do you honestly think this garbage is on the same level of dlc like Blood and wine Icebourne Shadow of the erdtree Phantom liberty The entirety of hell divers Hell it is pathetic when compared to the expansions of skyrim! 3 reskinned weapons A reskinned suit No additional input from Andreja at all ya know how actual varuun companion? The main quest is like 5 hours long, no new ships at all, a city that is already being shown up by mods and the fact that you think npcs patrolling around a city is something "insane" honestly shows how low your standards are.. again its your opinion but damn does it suck sharing a hobby with a bunch of idiots who think this dlc is actually anything worth praising.. sick of watching the quality of a hobby we all share completely dip because of a bunch of smooth brains with low as hell standards. You deserve better as a fan of this game man especially for $30 grow a spine and demand better from this billion $ company or at least the shell of it..
The DLC is not working for me, it just doesn't start for me. I bought it with the original game. I've seen that other people are having this problem, but so far I've found no solution that has worked to fix it. I'm on PC if anybody has found a solution.
Okay, fair warning, do not play a drinking game where you take a shot every time Crimson says "basically"; you'll be dead within an hour. As for the DLC, I saw a breakdown suggesting that there were 3 Houses where one was basically(💀) Zealots-lite, another wanted to take a proselytizing route, and the third was the opportunistic middle of the road faction. Now, chances are whatever is masquerading as the "Great Serpent" doesn't really care for its followers, so feel free to pick whatever you think is best for the people there.
@@XoRandomGuyoX Hilarious 😂!
The only reason the lack of ship parts annoyed me is we actually see Va'ruun ships illustrated twice in the base game and in those instances they're clearly not Stroud, Taiyo, etc.
I recently finished the main quest and really liked it. I particularly enjoyed fighting against these Phantoms as a level 100+ Starborn. There is just something neat about two different supernatural beings with different powers and agendas unexpectedly encountering one another and clashing.
No spoilers, but I'm really hoping there is a galactic war DLC considering the ending of the story. Not just based on your choice here, but also the tension between the UC and FC in the vanilla campaign. I feel like they let you join and get to know every side, only for a future DLC to make you pick one permanently. I think that's why we don't see any consequences for our choice. They introduced this new faction, but it's not time for war yet. It's coming.
It is kind of disappointing they don't let you be evil. The whole point of being a Starborn is that we can be whatever we want in one universe and be something different in the next. BUT if there is a war DLC like I mentioned above, I suppose they don't want you to pick this option because it's premature.
Edit: I was just thinking... when you visit the Va'ruun Embassy in the UC storyline you encounter weird flora which affects you, causing hallucinations. This is supposed to be flora from Va'ruun'kai. Did you see anything like that while on the planet. I don't recall ever doing so. I'm curious to do a fresh playthrough and really see what, if anything, the DLC adds to the vanilla campaign. I was in the middle of Andreja's companion quest and she hadn't come out as Va'ruun yet when I was on the planet. They did add unique dialog options saying something along the lines of "You let me become Promised and didn't tell me?" There must be more additions like that.
An interesting commentary on the DLC, yeah, I'm a sucker and will get it. You may be pining for new ship parts, but that's what Avon Tech and Matilija Aerospace are for, they've been sneaking Va'ruun tech out for months (hahah)!
I didn't even think about ship parts until the internet brought it up tbh xD We already had a shape and color scheme on the existing varuun crafts, so just make it snake-y and paint it black and name it "Varuun Whatever" you know
I enjoyed the main quest especially the decision you had to make rescuing the hostages at the secret base
The reveal of what the experiment was actually about and what the speaker was doing with it opens up a lot of possibilities for future events because the research for how to create it again, still exist, even after the final confrontation
25:42 I caught something in dialogue when the guy building the Mourning device said that because I only grabbed one of the devices we still needed to connect to the power grid. So maybe if you grab two you don't even need House Veth'aal's help.
That last decision i had to do blind, i didn´t remember what each house stood for and there was no way to ask for a recap. Chose someone at random and hoped for the best.
Same here! A great way to decide the fate of a an entire race!
Yeah same, I had to reload a save when I realised I chose the one person that I hated lol
It's a solid B for me. I agree on the ship parts. I haven't finished the main quest yet. I got far enough to figure out that Anasko is an arse hole. I took a break last night to explore the planet, and damn, scanning the critters was a pain in the ass. 3 biomes with variants of the same creatures was tedious AF. Overall I feel like we have more depth for the Va'ruun and even most of them don't care for the zealots.
Was also surprised there's seemingly no way to get on friendly terms with the Zealots like we can with the Crimson Fleet. Especially given some of the choices we can make at the end of the main quest and the politics of each faction.
Can't watch. Here's a thumbs up. I just got my Serpent's Embrace character into NG+ and built a ship/gathered resources to do Shattered Space. Not going to spoil it for myself.
"Bethesda's Lead Creative Producer of Starfield, Tim Lamb, recently spoke to Gaming Boulevard and provided more details on the type of updates players can come to expect with Starfield Shattered Space. According to Lamb, Bethesda has "introduced new ship customization options, which allow players to really tailor their vessels to their playstyle." Lamb goes on to say, "there are new tools and gadgets that will help players interact with the environment in deeper, more meaningful ways.""
So was this just a lie? There is nothing resembling this in the expansion. I am primarily a ship-builder and was extremely disappointed by Shattered Space.
Excellent review. Thanks. I think it's a notch below Far Harbor and Shivering Isles but those is a high bar as far as DLC for any game goes.
I'm half way through. Been doing side stuff and wandering around. 7/10 so far. But if the climax is epic, that might rise.
Please come back and report! Personally I had a complete nerdgasm at the climax, no pun intended
Coffee time! As I stated in discord, I was really looking forward to the hundreds of hours new ship parts for the builder would have brought in addition to the couple hours questing. The DLC is good for sure, but Bethesda dropped the ball on keeping the game alive. Great video, good review.
They surely have. Maybe a Vu Ruun version of the vehicle or something. Each house should have had an armor suit and ship. That would have been great. Microsoft is ruining Bethesda plain and simple. The players have gotten thrown into the trash for the shareholders.
A little let-down? I found it quite satisfying slamming the door on plans to start another war. The Great Serpent never told anybody to start a war. Anasko confirmed he had never spoken to The Great Serpent. Nor his father. Nor Jinan outside of that first contact. So why? Why another war? I'll tell you. Power and ego. Nothing more. So nope.
I’ve only reached the point in the expansion just after the cave initiation with the Great Serpent and you meet the High Council for the very first time. That’s where I am just taking my time. So honestly I don’t have any real flushed out opinion other than to say I’ve enjoyed the intro on the Oracle Space Station to Shattered Space. Though I’ve heard a gauntlet of opinions from all over RUclips and seen some streams of what others have thought about it. Including one fairly popular and very opinionated game streamer who’s stream I watched though was overly negative and negative to Bathesda (I don’t think highly of Bathesda either) who just ran speed ran thru the Spacestation with the. It’s negative facial expression at everything, barely picked up anything and said it all sucks. I quit that stream mid watching and set his channel for RUclips to never recommend it again. His channel is dead to me as a gamer and his opinions. Yeah this DLC has all its haters and more. But I’m just enjoying the game and taking my time with the new DLC.
I was underwhelmed by it, my main gripe is this expansion does not add anything substantial to the base game. No new skills or gameplay mechanic. The story itself was a bit boring. 6/10.
Having now finished the main quest and most of the side quests, I would say it’s disappointing as it does not add much new (reskin weapons, versions of spacesuits and a couple of new weapons and a potential new recruit for your ship which unfortunately is one of the least interesting characters you meet) and considering the cost it’s relatively small compared to some DLC in the past which almost adds a new game! In any event it was ok. There was a nice twist in the main story and it does develop House Vu’ruun. Worth it? Maybe to some but not to others. I was really hoping for a unique ship or something. Overall glad I got it but it is pricey for what it is. Final thoughts, having had little interaction with Andreja on my current play through, will having been to her home world and been involved in all this have any impact on her dialogue and behaviour towards you? Also does it not seriously affect Andreja’s storyline? What do we think?
I was able to play with a character that was level 105 and mods and not anymore unstable.
It kind of makes sense that house varuun would take captured equipment from the settled systems and make their own improved version of it. Similar to the Japanese in the 80s how they took other peoples technology and made it better.
I don't know how you grinded this in 8 hours. I have more than 20 and just now starting on the father and son issue. there is another part you didn't mention. did you do the cave one to talk to Anasko? That one was kewl. It was like you were running through his brain with all the nerve endings and nerve electrical. The power station I think has multiple endings. I didn't have the flood issue and I think it may be because I challenged the entity on that issue. I didn't get 2 vortex's. I took the one and destroyed the last power source assuming it would kill them since they needed the power to the pods to survive. I took out the power to the dam. I did run into a small group of spacers in the poi right next to them that set up shop and weren't there when I went to the dam at the start. They also seemed to have slightly different gear which I used loot to grab. I'm just at the point where you are asked to kill the son. I didn't tell him exactly I would. I think it was the 3rd option I want to say? when I walked out of the room, they guy also expresses he didn't want the son dead as well. That is where I will pick up the game again today and see for sure if the pirates did in fact have slightly altered gear. From what I'm getting is most of the houses were already behind the scenes looking for a power grab and 2 at least are no better than the zealots.
I've done all of the main story and 3 or 5 side quests. I was really hoping for an alternative where we didn't have to kill his son. Maybe I did miss it
@@CrimsonFlyboydefinitely missed it. I didn't kill the son.
I didn't kill his son either
01:37 10 planetoids in total but 8 you can land on.
You're correct, I was speaking mainly about planets with life, but yeah, I should have said the other 6
All must serve
I'm enjoying it , other than the typical Bethesda bugs and glitches . I had to quit out of the game because I needed to do something else . But I also needed to quit because I was completely stumped . I'm standing in front of two blue dots . One is for a button and the other is for a computer . And no matter what I do nothing happens . If it is just a typical Bethesda glitch , then reloading my save should fix it . If it's me just not understanding what they want me to do then I probably will never get past it . I for one would like some spoilers because Bethesda doesn't really do a very good job of giving us directions .
While I personally cannot provide advice on "Starfield"-specific quest stuff, I would like to think that Reddit's r/NoSodiumStarfield would be the place to look for answers to questions like yours.
Its kinda underwhelming, especially since there is no new ship parts or adjustments to the core game.
No offensive at all but its reviews like these that really show how far down the quality of AAA games has gone and how complacent and completely void of spines games are. First off i enjoy starfield but am in no way delouded enough to pretend that the quality of this game is anywhere near the levels of previous Bethesda games or of other expansions that cost around the same price point... do you honestly think this garbage is on the same level of dlc like
Blood and wine
Icebourne
Shadow of the erdtree
Phantom liberty
The entirety of hell divers
Hell it is pathetic when compared to the expansions of skyrim!
3 reskinned weapons
A reskinned suit
No additional input from Andreja at all ya know how actual varuun companion?
The main quest is like 5 hours long, no new ships at all, a city that is already being shown up by mods and the fact that you think npcs patrolling around a city is something "insane" honestly shows how low your standards are.. again its your opinion but damn does it suck sharing a hobby with a bunch of idiots who think this dlc is actually anything worth praising.. sick of watching the quality of a hobby we all share completely dip because of a bunch of smooth brains with low as hell standards. You deserve better as a fan of this game man especially for $30 grow a spine and demand better from this billion $ company or at least the shell of it..
The DLC is not working for me, it just doesn't start for me. I bought it with the original game. I've seen that other people are having this problem, but so far I've found no solution that has worked to fix it. I'm on PC if anybody has found a solution.
Pc game pass or steam
I cant wait for Ascension to get patched up for the dlc. Im killing time till then.
Sadly for me i was so disappointed - I really wanted to be pulled back in... but its just as blah as the rest of the story lines in this game :(
Finally a decent craic review🤘
Did you play the Vanilla game Crimson? to get your game achievements?
I did indeed, I've got three left to get
Thanks for another great video. Think I'm gonna pass on this, at least until it's heavily discounted...
Does everyone have Anasko running around in the space port after the main mission? I have tried shooting him does nothing.
Even when you're trying to compliment the game it sounds like you're apologizing for it.
I wish Starfield was literally Skyrim in space. Just the setting of Skyrim fast forwarded 40,000 years in the future.
Might I suggest incorporating jump cuts to avoid brief pauses in speech.
Usually I would bur this was recorded quite late at night after I'd got done with the main story
Dark brotherhood, Not elves😂😂😂 after so lot of gaming, treet Ur self to good cup of coffee