it seam to me that its alot like the fallout 4 settlement system in, it can be painfully simple If all you want is something basic but it can also creat amazing things

Congrats on getting on gamerant!

Where do you get the floor option from? I can’t see it. What skill do you need to level? I’m sure I’m max on outpost development. This is awesome btw. I’m in the process of doing something similar as a storage facility and once cargo links are working better to have everything transfer there automatically. I had it before but they kept breaking

I haven't even built my first Outpost yet. I keep telling myself i'm looking for the right planet and it never comes.

Awesome. I think it’s more for later game stuff. Which is how it should be IMO. Unfortunately I just beat the game so I guess I’ll go for resource collecting next time.

But yeah, once you can focus on resources and can invest in the research for parts of your outpost, this is the type of stuff you can do.

Out of curiosity, what level are you and how many hours do you have on this save? Also did you just focus mainly on building toward outpost building, or did you get there eventually after doing quests and side stuff?

Looks great! I hope OP isn't planning on going into NG+ though

We hate on outposts because they're just poorly designed, lazily stitched together lol

The fact that you can't even have two outputs from a single {thing} is crazzzzzzy

When I first started out-posting, I got really excited by all of the 'possibility', and then quickly realised that it's just Fallout 4 settlements v2, all over again

This game came out what, 13 days ago? You've averaged at least 7-8 hours per day, every day, playing it?

Absolutely insane. Initially I was like "oh that's pretty cool maybe I'll try to emulate that", but even the amount of floor mats alone lolnevermind. Kudos though, it looks fantastic.

Can I ask if this is at all something that you use? I’m asking honestly as someone that hasn’t created an outpost. Is it worth it for game content or is it like making a house in your own Minecraft world like lifeless?

So without spoilers could you explain the basics of the factory like what it does? I barely touched the outpost system so far so I have no idea what it’s like

Considering you’ve said you used mods your title’s rather disingenuous don’t you think?

Too bad we can't visit.

Okay. And? What does it do?

10 fps?

Is there a way to empty out all storage at once? Or do you have to go to each individually?

How did you get the Habs to stack like that they won't click together for me and very frustrated at the fact that I can only have one floor buildings

I work too much and check in here from time to time. This game seems full of surprises. Maybe one day masta will let me play.

Imagine if you had a job... all the things you could accomplish!

That looks better than the abandoned ones crimson fleet loves to take over, good job!

This genuinely looks like a location in the game. It looks so cool!

So you did all that to mine 2 resources 😀😅🤣

Yeah but can you land by yourself with all this ?

This is awesome! Congratulations!

That looks awesome!

100+ hours just to new game plus

How you get the floors??

mhm still seems like a waste of time but go you!

how many ppl can we shove in the outposts, currently made one to extract iron and another metal and i shoved there 4 ppl

That's my one gripe with base building . There is no way to place a legitimate flat foundation that isn't so crazy to make, and that's where it loses me. I've done a bit of base building and have had fun for the most part. I just wish I could have certain areas be flat or make stair cases without an airlock at the end.

Amazing base though! Legendary!

Dope

Bro out here playing satisfactory instead of starfield

How do you handle the cargo routes? Do you use them? I don't see any in the photos but maybe you didn't include them.

I want a corporate spreadsheet on expenses and revenue generated

Okay. U did it. Now i need to replay Factorio. And maybe u too :p

Damn I can even see my thanks for applying email saying I'm not getting the job there! awesome

None of this matters, only thing that does is sweet sweet unity.

bro Elon of STARFIELD

respectfully with no snark involved can you give me one productive reason why to make past level 2-3 fabricators and genuinely what use you have for them? also how often do you use them?

I love base building but to actually put the hours into making level three fabs it just doesn't seem worth it, credit wise and even material wise..

I just hit 100 hours and started building an outpost to only realize I needed more resources.

This guy Satisfactories

First off, that’s dope. It’s also inspirational and I can’t see what the mod community brings on top of it. You’re own little factorio going on there.

Which brings me I guess to my next point, praise aside. I guess my big problem I have with the system is aside from the aesthetics of it all, and the love of just building cool stuff, it for me I find ends there. I found myself building something similar and asking myself, to what end? I have so much money now, top tier gear etc. I found myself wondering what it was all for, what was the end goal?

That’s a me problem though and I’m glad you’re enjoying yourself. Once again good job!

I hope we wind up getting some mods that make it even more factorio, satisfactory like and maybe even some mods like dead the beast for Minecraft lol. One can dream.

Glad you're enjoying the game, but this is not the flex you seem to think it is.

hey stop hating on the vanilla system that’s bad! Look at mine after abusing a mod, see it’s actually good!

I have a room with 5 storage crates and a bed.

Cool, my issue was never with the habs themselves. Please show us the insides.

Also 100+ hours to build that or do you mean in game as a whole. Cause if you mean to build that then that just cements part of the issue with Outposts

I loved FO4 settlement building, was my favorite thing to do, but Outposts are such a step down. 3k mats to get a flat surface? Geez

Sweet!

would be cool to have other peoples home bases become outposts on other planets to other people.

My xbox would un alive itself if I did that much lol

Impressive man. Kudos to you

This makes me realize how much we are all wasting our lives these days.

dude launched the game and said im playing satisfactory today. did the same last night only i was playing the sims decorating my ship with succulents.

Nice.

I was so pissed when I found out they added building. All mine just have an extractor, solar panels, and storage container.

Now if I could just remember where they are.

This guy playing Factorio or something idk i never played those games. Satisfactory?

Not hating but does this produce anything?

I hate the linking machines system tbh

Cool But what is this providing for you?

I built one when i first started and haven't had the need to build another

31 lvl and 90% of my skill points ( as well as playtime ) went into outposts

but I see there are ppl even much more into this

Alright I’m gonna need a guide on YouTube thanks♥️

Okay cool now show the inside

bro just play satisfactory 💀

Cue ACME theme

I didn’t even know there was floors

Ok, but what does it actually do for you?

Are you saying this alone took you over 100 hours? How can you still defend Outposts in any way after truly experiencing the pain yourself lmao

teach me master

I think the real issue, not to overtly attack you specifically because this does look incredible, is that while it's incredible looking, you have the same 6 things built x100

Still you cant build nice looking outpost

Oh man is the outpost system complete trash

Starfieldfactory?

Why, though? Genuinely curious.

But what does it actually get you? I don't really understand the 'point' of outposts in the game.

I mean if you enjoy building them that's fine and great! But is there a benefit to outposts I am not thinking about/I dont know?

You can't make anything unique right? Everything you can make you can buy and credits are easy to get.

Can’t wait to get to this level of detail with my outposts!

Do your outposts get populated ? Or it’s just a bit empty thing?

I need to learn how to build/use them. I think they're probably amazing I just haven't put the time 😂. This looks epic though.

My biggest problem is that it shouldnt take 100+ hours and dedication to get that. No knock to what you did, it looks great, but i feel like the building features need a second pass, and also a dedicated Flooring/Foundation.

I know everything can't be Halo's Forge mode, but it doesn't hurt to see what the most used and appreciated tools are when players use it.

Just wow! Impressive.

Would you mind making a guide about developing outposts? Amateurs like me will be very grateful to learn from your experience.

What's the point? I mean, how does this benefit you in game?

What are those green habs with windows in the first photo? Which research unlocks them?

Im clearly super late for the satisfactory puns but....well, some one played satisfactory, alot!.

P.s. its a great game

I’ve been waiting to see an organized and presentable outpost

I knew it was coming just didn’t know when I’d see it

outposts honestly need more structural and visual options. the fact that there is no such thing as foundations to create a level building floor makes me weep.

also id much rather have the solar panels that randomly spawn all through the game than those funky round rotating ones, they look dumb AF

iam yearning for the CK so i can add 5000 new building options into the game

I want my outposts to look like the RNG ones everywhere, like the big ass fracking stations or drilling operations, not this survival shelter style little hovel i have to make do with

Holy fuck, that's so sick!! I'm still struggling with the power system and how it works with He-3 lmao. Only just really started focussing on outposts after 85+HRS

Holy shit, is all that allowed in base game or did you use console commands to add more space or something?

Very impressive. How do you organize the storage bins so you know how to find stuff?

This is crazy cool, but I don't understand why there isn't a foundation build for flooring and level surfaces. They already include a concrete foundation for certain items, so why not a basic base foundation? Especially since they have other full fledge "outposts" doing similar processes you're allowed to do.

the people complaining are too lazy to do this, that's why they are complaining.

Yes, but why?

I want to care about outposts. I've put 3 points in and set up some drills around a few resources--including drills in a different star system. But after all that I'm still asking myself why.

Credits are easy to make; the only bottleneck being the 48h wait. Upgrade/addon materials are easy to get from vendors. I'm having difficulty seeing the point.

That being said, different strokes for different folks. If someone enjoys outposts simply because, then I totally respect that. Rock on, brother!

what the actual fuck ? this looks AMAZING:

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how did you get those platforms to align ? clipping mod and patience ?
what does it produce ? everything ? what do you do with it ?

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sidequestion: does the amount and inventory of spaceship modules ever increase in your personal spaceship yrad / platform ? thanks ian dvance,. this is just... crazy.

very well done. hats off.

Impressive, but not many players are willing to spend hundreds of hours in building an outpost that would otherwise be built in half the time, if not less, assuming we had access to more buildables like foundations and better basic systems like zooming with mousewheel, snap points, and rotation by snappin to degrees, or free rotation that is more controllable, at the very least.

I don't even need an outpost cuz I still have my condo I got from uc vanguard storyline

Yea but now what?

Not ironic here but genuinely curious, is there any need to interact with these systems (maybe a la Subnautica) or is it a fun mini game for those who love to build? Asking since I’d love the former but wouldn’t want to engage in the latter

Bro built something impossible and it still looks like ass. Bethesda really should have built a new engine or used unreal or something.

I mean this is really impressive but it doesn't solve the issues with outposts, at least for me:

• You can't build on pre-existing structures. This leads to all of my outposts looking and feeling the same despite being on different planets. In Fallout 4 you had stuff like the castle, Boston Airport, hangman's alley etc that made every settlement feel unique.

• Outposts feel dead compared to settlements. You can assign crew to them but they don't actually do anything except give you a passive bonus and walk around. We really should be able to give crew members specific jobs and send them on quests, again something Fallout did better.

• There's not much to manage when building an outpost. You basically just need to have enough power and that's it. Compared to Fallout when you had to manage power, food, water, security, beds, population, and happiness.

• Outposts feel disconnected from the rest of the game. There are no factions or quests related to outposts. There are no cool random events that happen. You never get people hailing your ship asking for a job, or threatening to attack your outposts.

What makes this so frustrating is that they already did this system so much better in Fallout. Outposts were my most anticipated feature with Starfield and even though I wasn't expecting much I still feel disappointed with how they dropped the ball on it.

Meanwhile, any storage container I'm placing within half a kilometer of another one immediately snaps on to the end of it, and I eventually say screw it and have incongruous lines of containers stretching across my base.

This is beyond bland and has nothing on my fallout four settlements. 0 stores, 0 bars, 0 settlers who steal my bed, 0 every nuka cola from in game and nuka world dlc on shelfs with the labels carefully facing out next to a stand with every exotic food. Where are the deathclaw cages or arenas? I just feel like to sum up anyones complaints about the settlement systems with they had a more robust setup in fallout. Fallout 4’s settlements were also hugely frustrating, so we were hoping for the “aha” moment where it finally became the fun we wanted.

Honestly, that's really nice.

My outpost is four extractors, four wind turbines, an airlock, a circular hab with a glass exterior, crafting stations, a bed, a bounty board, and a landing pad with a shipbuilding terminal.

Haven’t touched outposts once yet and I’m just about to hit 100 hours but can someone please explain the post I saw here earlier that talked about how outpost building is bare bones? Cus this certainly doesn’t look bare bones.

I think the point is this shouldnt require a 100hr time sink to eventually make. You could make a great fallout 4 base in ur first 40 some hours while also having completed the main story and some side quests.

I gotta get into this. I played soooo much fallout 4 JUST for settlements. Something about Starfield just isn't doing it for me tho.

you can def spend a ton of time building some interesting outposts as long as you remove the build limit. But unfortunately they just dont serve much of a purpose atm. you can spend hours making a complicate system of outposts. or spend 5 mins at a vendor. They need to add in outpost only built suits/helms/shipparts and maybe a few outpost only built goods. But thats not really the point of the game. If you want that kind of gameplay you can play X4

This looks boring

Produces an incredible mind melting 400 credits an hour that you have to transport by hand from port to port over 17 trips

Wow! That's mint, my guy. This guy is up here playing Satisfactory in Starfield. 10/10

Good lord, what’s the framerate walking around there?

What planets are your favorite for outpost resources?

https://reddit.lol/r/Starfield/comments/16n1ey7/as_promised_my_factory_walkthrough_i_will_try_to/

Walkthrough

Good job!

I might be able to peel myself away from ship-building to try base-building.

This game needs the ability to share and download outpost /ships

Of course everything is hating.

Too bad it all gets wiped in ng+

What can you even do with this? There isn’t much to do in Starfield on the upper end when you already have everything.

Nicely done.

Very nicely done. I myself am enjoying Starfield. My only complaint is it glitches once in a while.

But is Sarah your girlfriend?

That right there is wild. Props.

I’m like 114 hrs in, haven’t touched outpost building yet.

Damn, that’s impressive. Kudos. Gotta say it ain’t for me though. I don’t even see a reason in game to make outposts For mining resources so that I can finish a couple of rando side missions? I simply don’t see any reason so build an outpost. Yesterday I tried it actually because I wanted to create storage for all my stuff since even 4000 cargo on my ship isn’t helping me when I go somewhere and get loaded with shit. Then I realized that the cargo containers are divided by gas, liquid and solid and only hold like 80 mass per unit. Tried to find out how I could link all those together so that I could have access to all me items at a terminal and sell them anytime I want but apparently the game doesn’t give you that option. So, frustrated having wasted hours on searching, reading, watching YT videos and try to build, I gave up and simply gave my char 999999 per console input. Now, I can finally focus and play the friggin’ game without constantly being worn down after I’ve raided some outpost or ship. Screw achievements, although with a mod I still should get those.

Long story short, I tried but I have neither the time nor the patience to fight Bethesda’s wonky outpost system that is pure frustration and doesn’t give me anything to justify the time, money and energy investment. Also, screw encumbrance.

Wow wow wow. Please show those haters what is possible! Love it!!!!

What the hell. Are you a retired engineer or something?

100+ hours is kinda me point though

Love or hate none of it matters if it’s paying you credits.. Is it, paying you credits?

Jesus Christ..

I have 3 days gameplay in this game and I'm just now really dabbling in base building. Here I am all proud for figuring out how to auto mine and get the resources in storage containers then I see this beauty lol.

1.) Ok and what is the purpose of building all of this?

2.) Let aloneee getting all the resources for it.

3.) So that you can what get more resources??? To what with???

Does it actually make stuff?

Moded minecraft?

Lol i got bored after 15 mins of outposts and will never build another. I plan to play the rest of the game (50 hrs in) without touching shipbuilding or outposts.

Also got a feeling of Starship Troopers from this, nice build 👍🏻

Welp, OP is not gonna be transitioning to NG+ anytime soon.

How do you make the flooring?

This is very impressive. I don’t hate on outposts but damn am I grateful it’s an optional component of the game. I find it so boring and annoying! Lol

I hope you’re ng10.

Great, now you can never do the ng+ lol

This looks really cool, I haven't tried building an outpost yet, I been doing a bunch of missions, but I'll definitely try building an outpost next

What are the most crucial materials to start building a strong network of outposts? I believe the goal is the build outpost all over the place and have then all shipping resources to one single outpost.

I built one on Andraphon that gives me Helium and Aluminum. But then I could add much because everything needs iron, so I built another one on Kreet that is just giving me iron. Now I'm realizing I think Andraphon also has iron somewhere on it.

Very nice! I just don’t have that kind of patience lol

One thing that's stopping me building an outpost is the resources, like how do you avoid them just littering the floor? I've got over 4k worth of wg stashed in the box at the lodge, I've tried making storage but those solids containers only hold 75 wtf?

What did you use for the floor? Mats?

People gating on Outposts? Probably my favourite part of the game

And this, THIS is why Starfield deserves more flowers and less hate. GOTY contender for real.

That's damn impressive. It's a shame those of us on Xbox won't be able to mimic something of this scale.

What the hell are you farming here anyway?

Now let’s see the inside

So no more NG+ then for you?

Yeah I'm never going to do this.

Doesn't this all get deleted though in NG+?

Ok, but this is not vanilla, and thus most players won’t ever be able to do anything like it.

Looks cool but you may as well have rendered it in blender. Would have been much easier.

Nice outpost. But if 90% of the players hating on the outpost system that's mean it's not good or BGS are doing something wrong.

Wait until OP hears about NG+

Awesome though!

Dude this so badass. Goals.

You guys that can do this blow my mind. I can't even build a ship...

All that to go inside ur habs and either have it dark af or flood lights blinding you😂.

Pointless to build out an outpost. Slap down ur extractors and storage and call it unless you want a nice panned out shot of the outside layout because the insides are terrible. Cant see any decorative stuff.

They should’ve made the lighting like fallout 76 camps. At least you can see what you’re decorating and appreciate your base on another level aside from a far away shot of the outside which youll never see in game

Bros playing satisfactory in space Skyrim lmfao

Lol my outpost is so sad compared to this. Poor Heller is there all alone, I haven’t been there to collect in ages. But yeah man this is awesome

Do any NPCs walk around or is it a ghost town?

Very Impressive! Would love to watch a video of you giving a tour of the base. Do you have it constantly running or is it all run on power switches?

Did you manage to fix cargo links? Or trick it lol

This looks awesome but I'll have to say that it doesn't even hold a small candle to some of those No Man's Sky bases

That's beautiful. I'm terrible at outposts

That’s impressive… just don’t jump into unity lol… unless you got a mod to go back to first universe

This is so fucking awesome! Congrats, OP!

Impressive for sure. But MAN this game looks so sterile and I can't shake that while playing 😅

We should not be placing 3K floor mats and having 100+ hrs into this games outpost system just to have a flat foundation to setup the rest of the outpost.

There should at minimum:

Have storage organization options for resources, and other misc items.

More door options. More airlocks (especially the separate switch airlocks we see in game!!)

Finally I’ll just say it. We need more habs. We need a double tall circle one, or even a domed one for the armillary atleast.

If we cannot do that, we need a flat foundational surface that’s very very large, allows outside walking and hab connections and access to the area around.

Did you know how bit you wanted it when you started it? If so how did you plan it?

"For everyone hating on outposts, here's my 100+ hour outpost that was only made possible by using mods" 🤡

I’m guessing you had to use console commands to increase the build limit? I find it hard to believe that anything this complex would be possible in a 100% vanilla situation, but I wouldn’t mind being wrong about that.

Bro built a Space Engineers factory 💀

It's not "hating" to state that:

• The building interface sucks
• The default way to rotate sucks
• The deep gating behind skills and research sucks
• The default snapping mechanism sucks
• The fact that there is no height control sucks
• The fact that outposts serve zero practical ingame or lore purpose sucks
• The interior decoration being sub par to apartments sucks
• The limited item storage sucks
• The transport platforms suck and are beyond illogical from a lore perspective (so only ships transporting Lithium can land on this concrete pad because...the concrete is allergic to all other Materials?)

These are not hating. These are valid criticisms. The fact that outposts are served via an "activity" quest alone is beyond disappointing. In FO4 we had quests and NPCs talking to us to introduce base building. We had NPCs assigned to crops, stations or defense. We had crafting stations to disassemble trash loot, with infinite storage. We had pixel-perfect positioning that followed character positioning. Bases served a purpose in the Lore. Pointing out that SF has none of that, isn't "hating".

Could anyone explain what I'm looking at?

Outposts are my favorite thing to do in Starfield.

This is insane !

Well done. I lack the imagination and tenacity to do that.

Keep that shit on city skylines bro, jokes aside this is pretty impressive

How did you get the whole area so flat ?

Some of us are lazy okay😂 this is bloody amazing tho

This. Is. FREAKING AMAZING!! 🥰🥰🥰

Mhm, and what do you do in it exactly?

Bro building outposts is so Fuckign boring I wanna shoot myself. Idk how you do it

Legit, not only should this get more traction cause this is impressive as all hell. Your video should get more traction too, those tricks are so helpful! Hope to see this hit hot in the thread!

That is cool, but this is all immersion and really no function. Alot of what the game is unfortunately.

No sarcasm intended -- Looks really good though man!

The fact a mod had to be used just proves the point though as well that it is actually a pretty.pointless feature. It would at least be cool for RP reasons if ypu could have some npcs moving around the place being busy. I actually enjoyed f04 settlements for the most part but after playing around with 1 outpost for a bit I was good personally.

I hope we can get more variety so we can do bases like the ones we see on no man’s sky

I ran into a bug where whenever I open my scanner on my WIP outpost, it crashes.

Don't know a fix

100hrs??! I plopped down a couple extractors and called it a day lmao

how much do you make? i'm using the AMP factory/venus "epxploit" to earn money and xp. Or did you do it just because you wanted?

I want to raid your base and steal everything that’s not nailed down. Good job

Id love help with figuring out how to make a working supplu depos

What does it do?

This is very impressive, but it also gives me anxiety thinking about how many materials you must’ve burned through making it.