The game world in Starfield is gigantic. There are hundreds of planets we need to travel between. To progress faster, many players use the fast travel feature. However, one fan is currently warning against using fast travel excessively.
Why shouldn’t fast travel be used too much? A player reports in the Reddit forum that he initially used fast travel excessively out of conviction. He hopped directly from planet to planet and then immediately aimed for the surface of the planet to land.
But then he noticed that this way he missed a lot of game content. Therefore, he recommends using fast travel only when we are fast traveling from the surface of a planet to a location we are familiar with.
So we should get into the cockpit, lift off from the surface of the planet, and in space, use the X button on the controller to select our destination. After that, we should not land directly on the surface of the planet but take our time to trigger possible events.
The spaceships are an important feature in Starfield:
Many random events possible in Starfield
What do I miss because of this? There are several events that occur when we are in space. These do not involve battles with other spaceships, but interactions with people from other spaceships.
The user says that he has seen one of the best things that Starfield has to offer because of this. The cutscenes loosen up the gameplay. The game thus feels more immersive.
Among the random events is, for example, an event where we are informed that the insurance of our spaceship has expired. A user reports that he immediately attacked the other spaceship, which then saved themselves with a gravitational jump.
In another event, a player encountered a spaceship that had been traveling through space for 200 years to reach this solar system. It thought up to that point that the crew were the last living humans.
We have compiled more anecdotes for you here:
- No_Reply_GHoster: ‘Yesterday I came across a Sysdef ship that wanted to deliver a package to the Atlantis spaceport. Quick 7.5k credits.’
- sandchigger: ‘That’s right. If I hadn’t used fast travel, I would have never met grandma!’
- DarthDeimos6624: ‘I met a geologist who wanted rare minerals that I didn’t have, but she was talking to me about some things. The gravitational drive of her ship was old and worn out. It took a while to start up, and you could tell from her tone that she was embarrassed and felt very uncomfortable. Finally, it started up, and her ship jumped away in the middle of a sentence.’
Another user describes that he doesn’t always feel like having random conversations. Therefore, he sporadically decides whether to use fast travel excessively or to take his time for such random encounters.
What are your experiences with random encounters? Have you had them yet? Which ones did you like?
A player likely used the additional time saved through fast travel to fill his spaceship with potatoes: Player fills his cockpit with thousands of potatoes and the community finds it ‘beautiful’
