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Lets talk about physics of the speed of spaceship (self.starfield)
submitted 1 year ago by whiskers to c/starfield@lemmy.zip
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In reality, there is (almost) no force to reduce speed in space.

It was quite unituitive to me in the beginning that when I boost the spaceship, it works lke a car on earth rather than a spaceship. I'd have liked the spaceship to continue to gain speed when either the boost was applied or you continue to throttle the engine. They could have kept a fuel limit to keep the speed in check.

What are your thoughts on this? Would you have liked this to be more based in reality or prefer the familiar car based speed/acceleration that's in the game?

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[-] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

I mean, you can also hear sound in the external space view. The Expanse also had sound in space, and it's trying to be "harder" sci-fi.

The sounds within the craft in Starfield sound great, and admittedly it would be weird to have the external view fall silent, however more accurate it would be.

It's a game, and there will always be tradeoffs for ease of play and general entertainment value.

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