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Security in this game is kind of funny (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/starfield@lemmy.zip

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I'm crouched in an empty room, stealing everything. My stealth meter randomly changes to Detected so I stop for a while and wait for it to go back to Hidden. I steal the next item and get a notification that a bounty has been added. I'm still Hidden.

I finish looting and stand up. Suddenly: "You're under arrest!" A cop charges into the room and starts giving me a spiel. I unload my fully automatic Grendel into their chest at point blank range. Somehow this attracts less attention than quietly picking up comestibles did; no reinforcements arrive, and I remain free to wander around.

I come back to this room about five minutes later for an unrelated conversation. Everyone politely ignores the dead body.

I know this is all, like, just Bethesda game things, but for some reason this time it seems funnier than usual.

Also, minor companion spoilers:

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If all the companions get as mad as Andreja did every time petty theft escalates to murder, my ship is going to get real empty real fast.

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[–] Zoot_@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How often does petty theft turn in murder for you? lol

[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Basically every time I get caught!

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thats feels really unpolished… i remembers having to put actual effort into killing Nazeem without getting the entire whitenrun guard on my ass.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah... It's better than Fallout 4, but still has many of the same issues. For me, it's not that being totally OP was the broken part. Skyrim's stealth is near perfect (as far as real-time video game RPGs anyway), as was Morrowind and Oblivion's. Fallout 4 somehow fucked it up. When enemies are in caution mode which you end up entering even upon firing a silenced weaon, they still come right at you/shoot at you while simply playing voice lines as if they don't know where you are and maybe you still get the sneak bonus. It's totally random in my experience with FO4.

Starfield at least handles silenced weapons better, enemies don't immediately rush you or shoot at you when you're in caution mode, giving you time to get back to hidden. However, I have run into a couple spots where it felt janky as fuck. Like in the finale for the Ryujin faction quest line, there's a spot I had to get through a door that had a turret above it and a guard near the terminal that controls the turret. The guard near the terminal is like 2 feet from the terminal and facing the only direction you can possibly come at it from. Somehow, he wouldn't see me when I was right the fuck in his face, but would instantly spot me when I got behind him.