lichtmetzger OP , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

The shot wasn’t done at night, it was made during the day. You can clearly see sunlight in the image that shines onto the structure on the left.

First of all, your still shot is purposefully omitting the movement of the waterfall

That’s called a screenshot. How am I supposed to capture the movement of a texture in a still image? It also doesn’t make a whole lot of difference. The waterfall still looks like sewage even when it moves. Contrary to your claims, a real waterfall does not look like this, even at night or in the shadows. Why would the water be dark gray? It builds up foam when it falls down, so it’s white. There are numerous pictures out there on the web of waterfalls in shadows and they all look white. Just an example.

Your whole post reads like you somehow need to defend this game at all cost. I had a lot of fun with Starfield, but the technical issues are glaringly obvious. And there is no shame in admitting that. Especially, since this is just meant to be a meme for shits and giggles. ;)

This game isn’t perfect but one thing it is, is absolutely beautiful

I’m sorry, but that is not true at all. There are beautiful areas, like the Neon planet, for example. But there are also a lot of barren planets with barely any materials or assets on them and these look really, really bad.

I just fired up the game again and landed on a random planet in my area (Al-Battani 1-C): https://feddit.de/pictrs/image/61636515-af2d-4dc9-9337-1a16c854ea6d.jpeg

It’s just the same type of rock everywhere and the same type of hill everywhere. To me, this just looks boring and visually uninteresting.

Compared to that, the Neon world looks great:

https://feddit.de/pictrs/image/a291edb5-8dab-4542-90d7-5f7d572529b3.jpeg

Neon is probably what you had in mind. But you cannot say that the game is “absolutely beautiful” with these extreme jumps in visual quality. And this meme is an example for an area on the main hub world that looks bad, so even those aren’t always well-made either.