Starfield: Shattered Space Adding More POIs Was Nice, But New Locations Aren’t Enough To Fix The Game’s Biggest Problem With Repetition
approach to points-of-interest, or POIs, has been a point of contention since it initially launched. Currently, has a number of handcrafted POIs which are then randomly placed on planets. Their loot and enemy placements are then randomly generated to make them feel more distinct. However, as many players have discovered, these POIs end up feeling incredibly repetitive, even with the loot and enemies being switched out each time. They never feel unexpected, mysterious, or challenging, as players approach them the exact same way every time.
In fact, the POIs end up being one of the worst parts of , especially as players have found that the same data slates, dead bodies, and lore entries are popping up across multiple POIs. attempted to fix the problem with new POIs, but it wasn't enough. However,there is an obvious solution to POI problem that could make all fans happy.
introduced a number of brand-new POIs for players to discover, thus somewhat increasing the fairly limited pool currently in the game. These new POIs are a worthwhile addition, especially as they reduce the sheer amount of repetition players experience every time they venture to a non-story-related planet in search of things to do. However, while everyone is grateful to have more content to uncover, new POIs are not enough to fix biggest problem with repetition.
More than anything,adding additional POIs to feels like a band-aid solution. It is a temporary fix that will momentarily remove the feeling of repetition until players have discovered all the new POIs and begin to see them over and over again. Adding new POIs doesn't fix the root of the problem, which is that doing the same content repeatedly gets boring, and the game is in desperate need of procedurally generated content.
As much as people languish at comparisons between and, it's hard not to feel that ' approach to POIs is handled far more efficiently, as players are always guaranteed something new, even if it is a variant of what they've
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