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Bethesda says most of Starfield's 1000+ planets are dull on purpose because 'when the astronauts went to the moon, there was nothing there' but 'they certainly weren't bored' (www.pcgamer.com)
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Sure Todd, lol

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[–] 2 points 3 years ago (3 children)

I don't want to have to beat the game in order to finally enjoy it.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    You don't need to. There are different possibilities for switching galaxies. The simplest ones would be to use portals which is accessible very early in the game.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Okay, but from my understanding, in order to change galaxies, I have to find a portal, figure however to use the portal, and then switch galaxies.

    For someone whose put in a few hours into the game multiple times as the game has been steadily updated, I didn't know about portals or even that switching galaxies was even a thing. So telling me I'm incorrect because it's NG+ COULD have fixed it for me is pretty disingenuous. How am I suppose to know that after going through 6 more galaxies that I can get what I wanted from the start?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Okay, but from my understanding, in order to change galaxies, I have to find a portal, figure however to use the portal, and then switch galaxies.

    As soon as you can use the space anomaly (which happens very early) you already have a possibility. But apart from that, sure, it still takes a bit of effort and is not an option available when starting the game. The latter would be a nice idea though.

    I didn't know about portals or even that switching galaxies was even a thing. [...] How am I suppose to know that after going through 6 more galaxies that I can get what I wanted from the start?

    By using an internet search engine of your choice.

    https://nomanssky.fandom.com/wiki/Galaxy_Centre#Travelling_to_other_galaxies

    But I get what you mean as this is not clearly communicated right from the beginning in the game and something to be discovered. So your best chance to know this, besides doing the story missions, is to talk to other players or by curiously clicking on some suitable links in the NMS wiki.

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