Your Most-Wanted Starfield Feature Is Actually Your Worst Nightmare

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The most-requested feature might actually be a huge mistake. Since launch, many players have complained that isn't quite as fully-featured as they had hoped based on its trailers. While updates have taken steps towards fixing that, like by adding more detailed maps and planet rovers to , there's one major feature that's still missing, and doesn't look likely to be coming anytime soon.

However, as some fans argue, this much maligned omission might have actually been intentional, because the alternative would've made for a miserable gameplay experience. Other players, however, hold that there are potential ways of integrating it without causing too much strife.

The Rev-8 may be the most exciting Starfield addition since launch but this mod makes driving the vehicle around planets even more fun.

As much as the player base seems to want it,free-roam space travel in would be incredibly boring, points out Hella-Shot on Reddit. The vast majority of space, even in a fantastical science fiction universe like 's, is well and truly empty. It would take much longer to get from point A to point B than with the current fast travel system, and the majority of that time would be spent staring at absolutely nothing as the player drifts from planet to planet, praying for a pirate raid or a sudden hail to break up the monotony.

While some players would subject themselves to this ordeal once or twice, just to experience the increased immersion of a truly open-world form of space travel, most would find it too bothersome to keep up in the long run. They'd end up returning to fast traveling everywhere before long, completely invalidating the existence of free-roam space travel in in the first place.

But as other players like maxx1993 point out, it's not so much the lack of fully real-time, open-world space travel that players object to — it's the fact that the entire process is usually relegated to a loading screen. They point out that other games have addressed the monotony of space