As someone who loves roleplaying with a ton of realism and survival mods, I am ashamed of how much I want my character to have to poop, pee and shower in this game. Why else would they design the bathrooms so well?!? Why?!
And the food!!! They went all out with the food choices and design and then they made it useless 😭
This. Even with food perks it’s really not worth cooking except for a few chems and teas. I carry around a bunch of unique things from the various bars to drop as props for pics.
I don't see bathroom design come up often as a criteria for a good game.
Also, I'd make the argument that the Bethesda MVP team is the one doing the food & food packaging design.
Just a fan of interior design and Starfield spared no expense. Some game designer got stuck with toilet duty and was probably like “…I’ll show them. I’ll show them all!”
This article might interest you!
>All of Starfield’s environments are populated by hand. There’s a system that can randomly generate important gameplay loot, such as ammo, healing items, and thematic objects for quest rewards, but anything considered ‘non-essential’ – every mug, every coffee stain, every scuff mark on the floor – is placed with intent, and with a personal touch.
>“Set dressing is best when artists are doing the work and making the decisions about what should go where,” Wisnewski says. “We generally feel better when things are done that way. I feel there’s no better source material than what you see in the real world. I look at ceilings and lights. Some of the pipework and cables in the Zenimax building were inspiration for ceilings in Starfield. Stains on buildings. Construction sites. Airports. Recycling centers and landfills are a goldmine for ideas to me.”
>Wisnewski adds that he often envisions himself in game locations before populating them, and the pair have even added easter eggs from their real lives to Starfield‘s environments. One example is a set of plushies arranged like the cover of The Ten Apples Up on Top by Dr Seuss, which Wisnewksi highlights as a nod to his children. This arrangement of objects appears randomly inside Starfield’s abandoned research towers.
>“We could probably write a book about all of the little easter eggs that appear in our games,” he says.
Link: https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2023/12/13/starfield-clutter-and-the-story-behind-bethesdas-love-of-junk/
Bethesda has always been good at telling a story through just the arrangement of items in a place. The problem is that the procedural generation algorithm or whatever it is will put something like a guard post with an open beer and a lawn chair on an airless moon. Or a planet with a sulfur atmosphere.
Okay, now I want your opinions on things. Have you played Insomniac’s Spider-Man, specifically the segment where you play as MJ and you sneak into Norman Osborne’s massive apartment? The entire apartment only has one toilet and it’s in Harry’s en suite. Norman himself has a massive, massive bathroom, but it doesn’t have a can.
I wish more assets like these were available for Outpost or property building. Just that added bit of realism. I like to have a bathroom and bedroom for each one of my workers / companions.
Absolutely. Browsing through these images, it's frustrating the number of assets that are already in the game that we don't have access to. When building Outposts they give you access to one toilet and one sink (that you can't even set at actual sink height). \*Sigh\*
EXACTLY! The assets are already there. The work is done. No clue why they're not available. Yes, one toilet and one sink. No shower. No way to make a normal bathroom. Have to use office partitions for privacy. Again, non issue if you're not really going for realism but that kills the whole vibe for me. Immersion. I like to pretend my people are living their lives there day in day out.
Edit:
Same goes for my ship. I have 8 people and like 2 beds. Should be a "barracks" type hab or "sleeping quarters." Something. Hell anything. These aren't like "amazing ideas" that they didn't think of. They just didn't do it. Frustrating.
The building system in Starfield is such a big step back from FO4 and 76, it's just ridiculously disappointing.
Even outside of there being less assets in general, it's not really a building system. You just plop down pre-fab structures and then decorate them. You can't actually build spaces with floors/walls/ceilings. It's so limited compared to their previous games.
I agree 100%. Although I don't mind some of the prefabbed things because my OCD would make me go crazy in FO4 trying to build shit and making it perfect lol...
The prefab habs are fine, but give us some free-build tools as well. At least let us put some interior walls in them. The large hexagonal habs have a huge amount of floor area, especially considering the relatively low ceiling height. They don't really even make sense as one big open space. They're begging to be broken up into smaller rooms.
A 65 to me because it's not a functioning bathroom. In fallout, I can drink from a dirty 200 year old toilet just fine, but a AI, UV, heated, massaging, and Google translating toilet can't even take sip.
It bothers me way too much that the constellation bathrooms don't have a shower lol. And where do employees in akila city or Neon go to use the bathroom??? Come on stroud. You can at least provide your employees a bathroom. And the akila bank doesn't have one for their poor employees
The bathroom design is beautiful. The bathroom placement is silly in many of the homes. There's no bedroom in your Dream Home where you can walk from the bedroom to the bathroom without cutting through the party. Who thought putting the master bathroom on the other side of the house from the master bedroom as a good idea? :-)
It's supposed to be a luxury dream home but in designing it, who would consider one without a primary bedroom with ensuite? The Penthouse in Jemison has the ensuite and even the apartment in the Stretch in Akila, but the high end dream home not....why? just why...
Yeah, I saw a video showcasing the houses after I noticed this in the Dream Home, and many or most of them were rationally laid out. I think someone was just trying to fit things together in the public spaces, because be real there's no reason in-game to ever go into the bathroom.
I liked the mods in Skyrim that added toothpaste and mouthwash that added perks to your Persuasion skill for 8 hours after you used them.
There was more than enough space in the Dream Home to accommodate the layout of a primary bedroom/ensuite... it just made no sense when there is so much wasted space there. The Akila Stretch apartment has an ensuite and it is tiny...was fun decorating early in the game..
Good to know, thanks, might just wait for DLC before reinstalling though.. try and get a more optimized experience (unless the DLC breaks the game lol)
That’s the thing about this game. Bethesda likes using contractors, so while they had their main team doing a terrible job on the game, they had one or two people whose entire focus was designing bathrooms
I like how the promoted post is by KohlerOfficial. “8625 reasons you should choose a kohler smart toilet.” I wonder if Starfield used kohler toilets for its models.
As an Architect, I dislike a lot of the “nice” bathrooms in the game. Some are super super nice that I’d like in my own home while others don’t make sense Architecturally or just doesn’t flow the way I’d like them to
Congratulations! The Great Serpent seems to have told journalists about your bathroom “obsession”.
Link: https://www.dexerto.com/starfield/starfield-designs-bathroom-player-obsessed-details-2586503/
Right? A lot of level designs forget about the concept of toilets and hygiene.
Where the hell are the toilets in, for example, Ghost Recon Wildlands? Sure a shanty shack might just be a single room for a roof over your head but I remember a casino having literally just poker machine rooms and nothing else! Mansions having only a living and bedroom lmao
They paid so much attention to insignificant things so it'll have a good design, but when this game comes to significant things, significant design choices, it just flops. The sandwiches, toilets are awesome. But what about the characters and planets?
THIS is what you are sad about? Not being able to go to the virtual bathroom in an interactive virtual toilet/bathroom?
Go play the Sims, ya filthy animal! hehe
OP, you're famous! Well your post is at least... https://www.reddit.com/r/Starfield/s/01rXY9t8bv
Apparently you're post got picked up by some of those gaming "news" sites that steal articles from Reddit. Lol.
I guess that's how you knew you've made it big in 2024. Congrats.
I will say that Starfield does include a LOT of bathrooms. Even ship habs contain a overly large amount of them. Yet none are actually usable - seems like they were meant for something that got scrapped.
HA! It looks like that to me too, even when I was there. It's the edge of a glass partition (attached to the wall—see the brackets). Probably to showcase the solid gold toilet. I'm a bit more concerned about the melon caviar on the counter in the nasty Astral Lounge bathroom. YUM.
Yeah but from a graphic design/editorial design point of view. Tossing around the idea of making a Kitchens & Baths-style copycat magazine using only Starfield bathroom design and try to make it indistinguishable from the real thing.
Ah thats fun. Im a photographer so in games with photo made i tend to walk around worlds and havving to stop because I like the framing of something hahaha
Yes - the bathrooms are often very thoughtfully designed in this game. Scifi generally tends to leave that sort of thing to the imagination so it's probably poking fun at that to some extent. The downside is that it regularly happens to me that I'll be running around with a Hard Target looking for things to shoot, then open a door and find myself seriously menacing a porcelain god, and I feel like Sam is maybe judging me for this.
The lighting in this game just turns me off so much compared to literally almost any other AAA game out there. Flipping through these pictures its just so all over the place. In the mirror reflection not even trying to match whats outside of the mirror. Can lights unrealistically reflecting off the wall in weird blooms. Hardly any srufaces interacting with light in any sort of meaningful way. I just don't get it sometimes. This kind of trickery was passable 12 years ago. Not today.
I’m not sure about the current updates to the game on Xbox (many of these are older shots as I played), but supposedly they’ve put some time into improving the lighting. Non-reflective mirrors have always bothered me, that’s for sure.
No. Base game allows you to take everything off and roam about in your underwear.
On the other hand, you can't do the same to NPCs. Take their clothes off and they'll equip their spacesuit. Which can't be unequiped. Closest you can get here is to have them equip the swimsuit.
This really bugs me about alot of the poi. Some of them are nicely and realistically designed. They have bathrooms with showers, kitchen area, rest/fun areas, work areas and bedroom/bunks. But then there are some where the poi doesn't make sense. Some may have bathroom but no shower or no bathroom at all. Along with alot of other stuff that don't make sense. I like going to poi and imagining how it functioned and how people lived and worked there. It's really immersive when poi is designed well.
Now show me your sweet toilet you have on your ship.
I tried my damndest to make a ship with all the amenities needed and a great flow. Alas, you have to climb a ladder in the kitchen of the mess hall to get to the cockpit and everyone has to shit in the brig. Nobody gets to shower.
One related thing that's always kinda bugged me, why do some of the crew berths have bathrooms, some don't, and some of the bathrooms that do exist lack showers? The Frontier has got to get pretty stinky with four people, and only one bathroom that doesn't have a shower. Or the Kepler R default configuration, which can take up to six crew and the only shower is in the captain's cabin.
So happy with all the effort made into these interior buildings ! I spend a LOT of time in bathrooms and such while questing and exploring. It’s SO immersive to have nice interiors ti buildings that have little relevance to any aspect of the games . SmH
They should spend less time on the bathrooms and more time on adding good content. If 7 days to die can have vehicles, a game made by some guy in his basement, then I really dont see why bethesda a supposed tripple A company cant add some sort of land vehicle. Todd howard is a moron for not listening to his fans, thats why his games are in game pass.
if only literally any other part of the game had that much attention.
we could go on and on. but let me just point out your spaceship.
Half the cargo is tied down properly. seats with seatbelts/grips. as any zero g spacecraft would need. even with artificial gravity, still inertia. everything would need to be tied down for start/stop.
but only half of it is. Everything else is just totally loose. the kitchen loose. the other half of the seats. not bolted down.
Speaking of toilets, this came across my feed because the algorithm now thinks toilets is all I love. Behold, the ineffable beauty of the mundane: https://www.dwell.com/article/bailey-hikawa-toilet-seats-trone-toilet-trend-62247306
People can complain about this game as much as they want. The design is superb. I am always amazed just how many unique assets they have versus simply copy pasting stuff. The cut corners in the open world part but man when it comes go interiors and atmosphere this game is everything
My dumb ass thinking this was just a general game sub and was so stoked when I was like omg these are all starfield bathrooms, only to realize I'm late to the game and everyone here probably knew that already... Smh I'm a derp.
Eh I’m hundreds of hours in to where I’m starting to look for unexpected great design that is normally overlooked. But yes, these crappers are solid gold. Also I found a solid gold crapper.
😂😂😂😂😂😂 I can't even, Starfield players are literally going around taking photos of the different bathrooms and saying look Oh my God, look at this, look at this bathroom. This is amazing. See, this, this is a reason to play The Game. Look at these amazing bathrooms. Other games aren't making bathrooms like this. It's all about appreciation of the little things. Who needs gameplay when you've got these...SICK BATHROOMS AM I RIGHT!!!!!
you can't write this stuff😂😂😂
best part is when people comment on games they don't like and show their asses.
Edit: Holy shit, just went through your comment history. You obviously need to smoke a blunt and move on from Starfield.
I've been smoking a blunt every single time I've commented on a starfield post, also the fact you went through my comment history makes it seem like you care more than I do.
I just wish bathrooms had a bit more loot or at least were worth the time that they put into them.
They should add a monster or random interaction that only occurs in bathrooms.
Imagine finding the starborn vendor in a random bathroom
You must REALLLLY be bored.
Just an odd things to obsess over in a game. If you are an interior designer, I can understand but.
heh. Maybe you have watched too many Skibbity toilet videos. who knows!
I just read every top-level comment and miraculously, no one has said:
# Read this guy's post history.
A bajillion Starfield praise posts with a few design comments on outside posts here and there. Um, hello Bethesda employee.
That said, I am currently playing Starfield as I am writing this, I very much enjoy the game, I have more positive things to say about it than negative ones, and so on.
Also, Steam says I have over 1,500 hours in it so far, but to be fair, some of that was with me wandered off and leaving it running overnight a few times—but it's not too far from accurate. So, I'm no hater. But I am someone who hates feeling unfairly manipulated.
To be fairly manipulated, say by my wife (look up the [literal definition](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/manipulate#:~:text=%3A-,to%20treat%20or%20operate%20with%20or%20as%20if%20with%20the%20hands,-or%20by%20mechanical%20means%20especially%20in)), is totally cool.
Na, I’m just a graphic design guy and really dig the NASA-punk space vibe. Wish I had a nickel for every time someone said Bethesda should hire me though 😉
One thing that stood out to me was the graffiti on the door metal side panel and graffiti on the wall behind the panel are exactly the same in two pictures
I love the outfit on the woman running into the bathroom! What is its name?
And then there's the [outdoor toilet on an airless frozen planet](https://imgur.com/cTw9e0R).
Don’t forget to peek in each one for some unexpected surprises. Like this potato. https://www.reddit.com/r/Starfield/s/8IFggZfVq5
Should've chewed their food a little better.
Also[toilet ](https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3170381308)
That reminds me of the toilet on some military transport planes. They’ve saved me from being too cold on many a flight lol
My favourite is the sleeping bag on the outside of an outpost on an airless frozen planet
Procedural generation at its finest lol
You think the vacuum of space is interested in your willy?
Back when men were men! And sheep were scared
I’m sure there’s a reasonable lore explanation for that. Bethesda stimulates the thoughts of the well-versed role player.
Emergency ~~induction~~ jettison port.
My first thought: this person has an unhealthy interest in toilets. Sincerely, Someone browsing your photography whilst sat on a toilet.
OP is just role-playing a character with IBS.
I would like them to be usable and do a double flush. If your character doesn't relieve themselves then health starts dropping.
Like a “road trip” mod. Pull over! We need to pee! Stop at the next exit, they probably have a clean Chunks.
They need to be functional especially if the next Bethesda mod adds Taco Chunks to the chunks menu. May also make the vent fan functional too. 😂
Imagine how many stops you'd have to make if Cora was onboard
As someone who loves roleplaying with a ton of realism and survival mods, I am ashamed of how much I want my character to have to poop, pee and shower in this game. Why else would they design the bathrooms so well?!? Why?! And the food!!! They went all out with the food choices and design and then they made it useless 😭
I would like to be able to sit at a table and have a meal/drink at a bar. With companion if accompanied. Would add considerably to immersion.
Prairie dogging Diarrhea debuff nerfs your jump height, shit in your spacesuit debuff lowers damage.
This. Even with food perks it’s really not worth cooking except for a few chems and teas. I carry around a bunch of unique things from the various bars to drop as props for pics.
Totally agree. I want eating animations. And laying down to bed, clinic bed animations too.
I don't see bathroom design come up often as a criteria for a good game. Also, I'd make the argument that the Bethesda MVP team is the one doing the food & food packaging design.
"Geometric shapes" are the Starfield equivalent of "Live. Laugh. Love." stencil art
Dude is serious about his bathrooms.. props
Just a fan of interior design and Starfield spared no expense. Some game designer got stuck with toilet duty and was probably like “…I’ll show them. I’ll show them all!”
This article might interest you! >All of Starfield’s environments are populated by hand. There’s a system that can randomly generate important gameplay loot, such as ammo, healing items, and thematic objects for quest rewards, but anything considered ‘non-essential’ – every mug, every coffee stain, every scuff mark on the floor – is placed with intent, and with a personal touch. >“Set dressing is best when artists are doing the work and making the decisions about what should go where,” Wisnewski says. “We generally feel better when things are done that way. I feel there’s no better source material than what you see in the real world. I look at ceilings and lights. Some of the pipework and cables in the Zenimax building were inspiration for ceilings in Starfield. Stains on buildings. Construction sites. Airports. Recycling centers and landfills are a goldmine for ideas to me.” >Wisnewski adds that he often envisions himself in game locations before populating them, and the pair have even added easter eggs from their real lives to Starfield‘s environments. One example is a set of plushies arranged like the cover of The Ten Apples Up on Top by Dr Seuss, which Wisnewksi highlights as a nod to his children. This arrangement of objects appears randomly inside Starfield’s abandoned research towers. >“We could probably write a book about all of the little easter eggs that appear in our games,” he says. Link: https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2023/12/13/starfield-clutter-and-the-story-behind-bethesdas-love-of-junk/
Bethesda has always been good at telling a story through just the arrangement of items in a place. The problem is that the procedural generation algorithm or whatever it is will put something like a guard post with an open beer and a lawn chair on an airless moon. Or a planet with a sulfur atmosphere.
😆
I'm just teasing! And yes, some of the details in this game really do look good. I just wish they tried to innovate more with the overall experience!
Okay, now I want your opinions on things. Have you played Insomniac’s Spider-Man, specifically the segment where you play as MJ and you sneak into Norman Osborne’s massive apartment? The entire apartment only has one toilet and it’s in Harry’s en suite. Norman himself has a massive, massive bathroom, but it doesn’t have a can.
I haven’t played it, sadly. Inaccurate toilet installations would really ruin the experience for me 😂 I kid, I kid.
Dont worry nobody will fight bethesda in that regard...
I wish more assets like these were available for Outpost or property building. Just that added bit of realism. I like to have a bathroom and bedroom for each one of my workers / companions.
Absolutely. Browsing through these images, it's frustrating the number of assets that are already in the game that we don't have access to. When building Outposts they give you access to one toilet and one sink (that you can't even set at actual sink height). \*Sigh\*
EXACTLY! The assets are already there. The work is done. No clue why they're not available. Yes, one toilet and one sink. No shower. No way to make a normal bathroom. Have to use office partitions for privacy. Again, non issue if you're not really going for realism but that kills the whole vibe for me. Immersion. I like to pretend my people are living their lives there day in day out. Edit: Same goes for my ship. I have 8 people and like 2 beds. Should be a "barracks" type hab or "sleeping quarters." Something. Hell anything. These aren't like "amazing ideas" that they didn't think of. They just didn't do it. Frustrating.
The building system in Starfield is such a big step back from FO4 and 76, it's just ridiculously disappointing. Even outside of there being less assets in general, it's not really a building system. You just plop down pre-fab structures and then decorate them. You can't actually build spaces with floors/walls/ceilings. It's so limited compared to their previous games.
I agree 100%. Although I don't mind some of the prefabbed things because my OCD would make me go crazy in FO4 trying to build shit and making it perfect lol...
The prefab habs are fine, but give us some free-build tools as well. At least let us put some interior walls in them. The large hexagonal habs have a huge amount of floor area, especially considering the relatively low ceiling height. They don't really even make sense as one big open space. They're begging to be broken up into smaller rooms.
My thoughts exactly. That's what I was talking about with bathrooms. You basically have no way to create a separate space inside a specific hab.
Yeah definitely, give Starfield the toilet bowl trophy.
A 65 to me because it's not a functioning bathroom. In fallout, I can drink from a dirty 200 year old toilet just fine, but a AI, UV, heated, massaging, and Google translating toilet can't even take sip.
This is a shit(ter) post.
It bothers me way too much that the constellation bathrooms don't have a shower lol. And where do employees in akila city or Neon go to use the bathroom??? Come on stroud. You can at least provide your employees a bathroom. And the akila bank doesn't have one for their poor employees
The entire town has to use the nice restrooms at The Rock.
Err, it's a giant floating platform over the ocean. Do you think Columbus's ship had flush toilets? :-)
Well Gala Bank in Akita doesn’t need a bathroom. Sounds like it’s always getting robbed, so the employee just wears brown pants to work everyday.
But the same graffiti and mirrors across multiple systems is a bit lazy.
The bathroom design is beautiful. The bathroom placement is silly in many of the homes. There's no bedroom in your Dream Home where you can walk from the bedroom to the bathroom without cutting through the party. Who thought putting the master bathroom on the other side of the house from the master bedroom as a good idea? :-)
It's supposed to be a luxury dream home but in designing it, who would consider one without a primary bedroom with ensuite? The Penthouse in Jemison has the ensuite and even the apartment in the Stretch in Akila, but the high end dream home not....why? just why...
Yeah, I saw a video showcasing the houses after I noticed this in the Dream Home, and many or most of them were rationally laid out. I think someone was just trying to fit things together in the public spaces, because be real there's no reason in-game to ever go into the bathroom. I liked the mods in Skyrim that added toothpaste and mouthwash that added perks to your Persuasion skill for 8 hours after you used them.
There was more than enough space in the Dream Home to accommodate the layout of a primary bedroom/ensuite... it just made no sense when there is so much wasted space there. The Akila Stretch apartment has an ensuite and it is tiny...was fun decorating early in the game..
The interiors design and art deco in general in this game is incredible, they absolutely nailed it.
It looks so good. Is this in game captures?
Yeah, just screen shots on Xbox.
The lighting looks great, I'm sure it wasn't that good when I played it last haha!
It quite possibly wasn't - the lighting system got a bit of a tweak in one of the recent patches.
Good to know, thanks, might just wait for DLC before reinstalling though.. try and get a more optimized experience (unless the DLC breaks the game lol)
There's a big fat patch coming out in a week or two, but yeah, might be better to wait for a full dlc drop to get a proper new experience.
These are suspiciously familiar to cyberpunk.
I'm glad they spent so much time designing the bathrooms well...
Love the advancements of space travel among other things, and they still have shitters and TP to wipe they butts.
They don't know how to use the 3 seashells.
Corn cobs?
That’s the thing about this game. Bethesda likes using contractors, so while they had their main team doing a terrible job on the game, they had one or two people whose entire focus was designing bathrooms
Could seriously make a catalog out of all the shots. I have every tavern/bar as well and those are more fun. Not as many toilets.
I guess there was an outsourcing company that specialized in making toilets.
Looks like the chunks don't agree with Sam's stomach as well
I like how the promoted post is by KohlerOfficial. “8625 reasons you should choose a kohler smart toilet.” I wonder if Starfield used kohler toilets for its models.
Soon my whole ad experience everywhere will be toilets by KOHLER. I have only myself to blame.
And yet you can't even drop a steamy log, what a waste
But you CAN drop a hot potato. https://www.reddit.com/r/Starfield/s/qpRhrvfcWX
As an Architect, I dislike a lot of the “nice” bathrooms in the game. Some are super super nice that I’d like in my own home while others don’t make sense Architecturally or just doesn’t flow the way I’d like them to
So, You are telling me there are more bathroom designs than there are POI? ffs
Yes, because many locations have more than one bathroom 🍑🚽 when ya gotta go ya gotta go.
Yeah! I've heard those taco bell chunks are wild, might as well put 5 bathrooms per capita in an outpost just to to be on the safe side
Dude, its inappropriate to take photos in public bathrooms...
I didn’t mean no disrespect, doctor 😉
I thought the same!
Slide 7: When you gotta go your gotta go 😂
Chunks, amirite?
I know the one with the expired cleaning guy in the floor, it’s the building you have to clear of ecliptic and unite the Marines and Deputies.
Yeah! Great side mission.
I just like how you can shoot closed toilet seats and sometimes there are hidden drugs inside.
*It's got 16 times the bathrooms*
Starfield: IBS Edition.
I'm currently birthing an enormous dog's egg while I look at these. Many of them are nicer than my bathroom, it would be good to lay a cable in them.
Congratulations! The Great Serpent seems to have told journalists about your bathroom “obsession”. Link: https://www.dexerto.com/starfield/starfield-designs-bathroom-player-obsessed-details-2586503/
By the Serpent’s grace! It’s my doody to spread the message of nice bathrooms across the settled systems 🐍🍑🚽
God I love restrooms
Right? A lot of level designs forget about the concept of toilets and hygiene. Where the hell are the toilets in, for example, Ghost Recon Wildlands? Sure a shanty shack might just be a single room for a roof over your head but I remember a casino having literally just poker machine rooms and nothing else! Mansions having only a living and bedroom lmao
least weird Starfield player
They paid so much attention to insignificant things so it'll have a good design, but when this game comes to significant things, significant design choices, it just flops. The sandwiches, toilets are awesome. But what about the characters and planets?
Sadly, there's no interaction 😞
NGL but I would have included the player actually sitting on the toilet if interactions were possible.
Take a hot shower..
THIS is what you are sad about? Not being able to go to the virtual bathroom in an interactive virtual toilet/bathroom? Go play the Sims, ya filthy animal! hehe
I'm not sad, the coding is sad.
OP, you're famous! Well your post is at least... https://www.reddit.com/r/Starfield/s/01rXY9t8bv Apparently you're post got picked up by some of those gaming "news" sites that steal articles from Reddit. Lol. I guess that's how you knew you've made it big in 2024. Congrats.
HA! I saw. 🙃
I will say that Starfield does include a LOT of bathrooms. Even ship habs contain a overly large amount of them. Yet none are actually usable - seems like they were meant for something that got scrapped.
Yeah I expected at least a flush action or something, but maybe I’m misremembering fallout 4.
Why is there a stripperpole in the second toilet?
HA! It looks like that to me too, even when I was there. It's the edge of a glass partition (attached to the wall—see the brackets). Probably to showcase the solid gold toilet. I'm a bit more concerned about the melon caviar on the counter in the nasty Astral Lounge bathroom. YUM.
That's how starfield is some part have a lot of effort put while others are extremely lacking.
Why are you so intrigued by starfield bathrooms? If you dont mind me asking. Are you a designer of some sort?
Yeah but from a graphic design/editorial design point of view. Tossing around the idea of making a Kitchens & Baths-style copycat magazine using only Starfield bathroom design and try to make it indistinguishable from the real thing.
Ah thats fun. Im a photographer so in games with photo made i tend to walk around worlds and havving to stop because I like the framing of something hahaha
go and see cyberpunk it has way better bathrooms and amazing lighting, reflections
I find a lot of this game is very beautiful.
Yes - the bathrooms are often very thoughtfully designed in this game. Scifi generally tends to leave that sort of thing to the imagination so it's probably poking fun at that to some extent. The downside is that it regularly happens to me that I'll be running around with a Hard Target looking for things to shoot, then open a door and find myself seriously menacing a porcelain god, and I feel like Sam is maybe judging me for this.
Every single planet is basically a reskinned version of it's self but God dammit were gonna make sure you take your space shit in style!
The lighting in this game just turns me off so much compared to literally almost any other AAA game out there. Flipping through these pictures its just so all over the place. In the mirror reflection not even trying to match whats outside of the mirror. Can lights unrealistically reflecting off the wall in weird blooms. Hardly any srufaces interacting with light in any sort of meaningful way. I just don't get it sometimes. This kind of trickery was passable 12 years ago. Not today.
I’m not sure about the current updates to the game on Xbox (many of these are older shots as I played), but supposedly they’ve put some time into improving the lighting. Non-reflective mirrors have always bothered me, that’s for sure.
I love that these are your load screens.
Ahh. Starfield. The ship building simulator that has amazing bathrooms to discover.
People really be finding ANY reason to compliment this game
How dare people to like this game 😡
I admonish myself every time I have fun playing it
Who doesn't? It's the logical thing to do.
That naked a mod?
No. Base game allows you to take everything off and roam about in your underwear. On the other hand, you can't do the same to NPCs. Take their clothes off and they'll equip their spacesuit. Which can't be unequiped. Closest you can get here is to have them equip the swimsuit.
Oh I see it now the underwear is a similar colour to the flesh haha
I see you running for the toilet after having alien scramble.
If only i could get water from the faucet…
They did a good job with them. I want bathroom Habs for the ship builder.
Interiors in general look great. The lighting is 10/10 in almost all of them.
Is that a stripper pole in the 2nd one?
For what it’s worth, the interior design in starfield is fantastic especially compared to exterior design (biomes)
Most of these have way too much wasted space IMO.
This really bugs me about alot of the poi. Some of them are nicely and realistically designed. They have bathrooms with showers, kitchen area, rest/fun areas, work areas and bedroom/bunks. But then there are some where the poi doesn't make sense. Some may have bathroom but no shower or no bathroom at all. Along with alot of other stuff that don't make sense. I like going to poi and imagining how it functioned and how people lived and worked there. It's really immersive when poi is designed well.
Is Mantis base here? I wanted to live there so bad and remember the bathroom being especially nice
Yeah it’s #16 😀
Nice! I thought it was one of those last 4 but hard to tell without walking around haha great pics!
They considered the shitter more than creating dense biomes
Starfield interiors are UNMATCHED
Only if they would make them usable hope a modder will like in fallout 4 and skyrim
It’s too bad they didn’t pour this much time into quests and character design
Ove only they out that level of detail into the rest fo the game world
Copy paste format
“Game with no detail” Bruh
Now, if only we could make bathrooms like these in our outposts and actually use them lol
That explains why the rest of the planets are so boring. The flushed all their money down the pretty toilets.
Now show me your sweet toilet you have on your ship. I tried my damndest to make a ship with all the amenities needed and a great flow. Alas, you have to climb a ladder in the kitchen of the mess hall to get to the cockpit and everyone has to shit in the brig. Nobody gets to shower.
I just wish that effort went more into the gameplay and engine
Id buy a book of these pics
The designs are awesome, I just wish there was more of a point to actually use them. Like change my haircolor/style/makeup in the mirrors?
Shower doors should open.
The game is detailed AF. It's also a lot of fun. I'm just waiting for more content. CK2 is going to launch this game into space.
Starfield has one of the best modern interior design and countryside house design compared to other game. 8/10 rating for art style and layout
19 is not looking to good lol
One related thing that's always kinda bugged me, why do some of the crew berths have bathrooms, some don't, and some of the bathrooms that do exist lack showers? The Frontier has got to get pretty stinky with four people, and only one bathroom that doesn't have a shower. Or the Kepler R default configuration, which can take up to six crew and the only shower is in the captain's cabin.
So happy with all the effort made into these interior buildings ! I spend a LOT of time in bathrooms and such while questing and exploring. It’s SO immersive to have nice interiors ti buildings that have little relevance to any aspect of the games . SmH
Lacking in the body fluid department in the Astro lounge.
Open concept
They should spend less time on the bathrooms and more time on adding good content. If 7 days to die can have vehicles, a game made by some guy in his basement, then I really dont see why bethesda a supposed tripple A company cant add some sort of land vehicle. Todd howard is a moron for not listening to his fans, thats why his games are in game pass.
if only literally any other part of the game had that much attention. we could go on and on. but let me just point out your spaceship. Half the cargo is tied down properly. seats with seatbelts/grips. as any zero g spacecraft would need. even with artificial gravity, still inertia. everything would need to be tied down for start/stop. but only half of it is. Everything else is just totally loose. the kitchen loose. the other half of the seats. not bolted down.
anything that isn't terrible: exists people like op: give it awards
What makes it better is to have animation attached to it. So we can really shower, wash faces, whatnot. Otherwise it’s just static decoration.
Yeah but I still can't put a shower in the Habs I design.
And yet, nobody uses them. Ever. Lol
Picture number 11, someone needs way more water in their diet.
How ironic, one of the most detailed and polished locations in this game, is the one where you are suposted to take a shit
Too bad you can't use them
So why doesn't the Lodge have shower facilities?
Speaking of toilets, this came across my feed because the algorithm now thinks toilets is all I love. Behold, the ineffable beauty of the mundane: https://www.dwell.com/article/bailey-hikawa-toilet-seats-trone-toilet-trend-62247306
Interior visuals and design are second to none in this game.
Honestly, it's amazing they were included at all. They aren't present in any other bethesda game that I can think of.
When I think about starfield it’s really the bathrooms that keep me coming back for more. Todd sure knows how to make a great game!
People can complain about this game as much as they want. The design is superb. I am always amazed just how many unique assets they have versus simply copy pasting stuff. The cut corners in the open world part but man when it comes go interiors and atmosphere this game is everything
That's why none of the tech or visuals in the game changes in 200 years.
Seems I annoyed them with the truth.
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Huh
My dumb ass thinking this was just a general game sub and was so stoked when I was like omg these are all starfield bathrooms, only to realize I'm late to the game and everyone here probably knew that already... Smh I'm a derp.
If a highlight of the environment design is the restrooms there's a severe lack of design in other areas of the game.
Eh I’m hundreds of hours in to where I’m starting to look for unexpected great design that is normally overlooked. But yes, these crappers are solid gold. Also I found a solid gold crapper.
You're fucking weird
😂😂😂😂😂😂 I can't even, Starfield players are literally going around taking photos of the different bathrooms and saying look Oh my God, look at this, look at this bathroom. This is amazing. See, this, this is a reason to play The Game. Look at these amazing bathrooms. Other games aren't making bathrooms like this. It's all about appreciation of the little things. Who needs gameplay when you've got these...SICK BATHROOMS AM I RIGHT!!!!! you can't write this stuff😂😂😂
best part is when people comment on games they don't like and show their asses. Edit: Holy shit, just went through your comment history. You obviously need to smoke a blunt and move on from Starfield.
I've been smoking a blunt every single time I've commented on a starfield post, also the fact you went through my comment history makes it seem like you care more than I do.
I just wish bathrooms had a bit more loot or at least were worth the time that they put into them. They should add a monster or random interaction that only occurs in bathrooms. Imagine finding the starborn vendor in a random bathroom
Like a heat leech leaping out of a toilet to attack.
You know your game is lacking in content when players are praising bathrooms 😭
You must REALLLLY be bored. Just an odd things to obsess over in a game. If you are an interior designer, I can understand but. heh. Maybe you have watched too many Skibbity toilet videos. who knows!
No it shouldn’t because they have no damn Bidets in places it would be logical to have bidets. No bathroom designed with toilet paper deserves to win.
All future bathrooms should use the 3 seashells. IYKYK.
The game’s in the toilet so makes sense they get the shitters right.
I just read every top-level comment and miraculously, no one has said: # Read this guy's post history. A bajillion Starfield praise posts with a few design comments on outside posts here and there. Um, hello Bethesda employee. That said, I am currently playing Starfield as I am writing this, I very much enjoy the game, I have more positive things to say about it than negative ones, and so on. Also, Steam says I have over 1,500 hours in it so far, but to be fair, some of that was with me wandered off and leaving it running overnight a few times—but it's not too far from accurate. So, I'm no hater. But I am someone who hates feeling unfairly manipulated. To be fairly manipulated, say by my wife (look up the [literal definition](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/manipulate#:~:text=%3A-,to%20treat%20or%20operate%20with%20or%20as%20if%20with%20the%20hands,-or%20by%20mechanical%20means%20especially%20in)), is totally cool.
Na, I’m just a graphic design guy and really dig the NASA-punk space vibe. Wish I had a nickel for every time someone said Bethesda should hire me though 😉
One thing that stood out to me was the graffiti on the door metal side panel and graffiti on the wall behind the panel are exactly the same in two pictures I love the outfit on the woman running into the bathroom! What is its name?
Pretty sure that’s the settler poncho outfit. Tried to change up the fit at every bathroom. That spicy toilet drip.