Same here! There were even times where the enemy AI was actually attacking lol. So much new information on ways abilities can be used outside of combat. I wonder why some of this footage wasn't included in the Direct. 

I hope Avowed gets its own "Starfield Direct" after the Summer Showcase. While Indiana Jones would be the bigger game in terms of popularity, it is a more straightforward game to present lol. Avowed needs that Starfield level breakdown and showing every aspect the game has to offer. Being able to re-spec and mixing and match your skill tree abilities, I wanna see that fleshed out!

Depressing.

Speaking to us privately, publishing, development and investment heads have said that continued high interest rates, oversaturated video game stores and cautious investors will result in more restructures, layoffs and closures.

One CEO of a public company told us: "If 2023 was the year of layoffs, 2024 will be the year of closures. Not just developers, but publishers, media, service companies... There are just too many unprofitable businesses in video games. We're looking at up to two years of pain."

"Too many games were green lit in 2020 and 2021," one publisher boss said. "We need to get to pre-pandemic levels in terms of the release schedule, and that's probably going to take two years. You can already see publishers signing fewer games. That's happening everywhere. The stores are saturated, not just Steam, and the games just aren't delivering the levels they were. "

Yeah. Makes one wonder why nobody before tried it. I mean Ark has capturing Dinos, but it is not exactly the same.

Just heard about Palsworld. Its on game pass so gonna check out what the hype is

Be aware that the Xbox version (and apparently also the Gamepass on Windows version) is crashing and buggy. Steam version has more patches. I hope the patches will arrive on Xbox soon, because... the game is fun in between crashes.

Thanks for the info. I'll go into this with lower expectations when I play tonight. Like a PUBG situation when it first came to Xbox

Things aren't looking good for physical discs on Xbox, first we heard that Best Buy may be removing them from stores, now this leaked memo suggesting that Walmart will begin closing out Xbox discs, starting with Starfield by selling remaining stock at a mere 3 cents and disposing of any unsold discs. 

It’s lots of fun.