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  • Still, the seamlessness should be there, I don’t care how they mask it, but it should be there somewhat, again, this is 2023. It doesn’t even do simple fade to blacks, but full blown loading screens everywhere.

    Also, travelling with the ship mechanic is incredibly, frustratingly cumbersome. For example, let’s say you wanted to jump to Sol for the first time, in Starfield, you’d do:

    • Select and mark your destination through map screen.

    • Somehow exit the map screen (either mash B or hold B and tap B again to exit the menu, cumbersome)

    • Highlight your weapons with the D-Pad and mash down button.

    • Highlight GRAV and mash the up button.

    • Enjoy game stripping controls away from you.

    • Go back into map screen to mark surface spot you want to go to.

    • Hold X.

    • Voilà, you’re there, insantly.

    Why have an entire space mechanic, if you’re just gonna make it frustrating to interact with? Game is okay with teleporting you around at times, but not others as well. It literally disrespects your time, but not in a good way. Speaking of a game that disrespects your time well, it’s Elite, which the flow of events would be:

    • Open Galaxy Map with Y+Left D-Pad and select a destination.

    • Exit with tapping B, once.

    • Align your ship with the destination and throttle up.

    • Tap Y to initiate jump.

    • Enjoy being able to look around or (albeit barely) interact with your screens.

    • Open System Map with Y+Right D-Pad and select your destination.

    • Align the ship with destination.

    • Open Navigation Panel via X+Left D-Pad, select your target and enable Supercruise Assist.

    • Enjoy ship taking you there, feel free to interact with panels, photo mode, chat, etc.

    Sure, it’s a lot more complicated as it is a sim, but see that you don’t really do redundant actions and you’re in control most of the time. Also, no loading screens as the jumping effect will mask the system change, and the “dropping from Supercruise” screen will mask the second loading screen. Funnily enough, you’ll wait more but feel like it took less.

    I don’t want Starfield to be be Elite or Star Citizen, but it doesn’t even have the rudimentary systems in place. For example, I thought you were able to fly anywhere with your ship in the atmosphere and outside it. Just not seamlessly transition between those. That’d be “possible” to have as the game already does this technically. It just isn’t there for whatever reason.

    Also this basically breaks exploration as the wast majority of travelling you’ll do is via the menus and loading screens due to the exact same issues. I remind you this game was marketed as an exploration game with 1000 and whatnot.

    This is also the case for game play as well. There are just way too many loading screens. Especially weird when they already have airlocks which would mask vast majority of those perfectly.





  • I like the rolling release for just about everything. Since package updates are spread out, you can usually figure out which package broke what pretty easily if something ever breaks down…, which shouldn’t, because I still can’t recall instance of such catastrophic failure just by updating.










  • LOS heavily hinders feature set, though. I wouldn’t recommend to anyone that’s not a techie, especially with MicroG.

    Samsung features that’ll get removed are:

    • Camera. It’ll work in LOS but quality will be much lower without Samsung’s processing.

    • Standby time. It’ll last a lot less as LOS doesn’t kill background apps like OneUI does.

    • Any sort of audio video enhancement. Dolby Atmos will be completely gone. HDR enchantments won’t be there either.

    • Samsung DeX.

    • HBM won’t work automatically. On OneUI, if system detects you’re under direct sunlight and auto brightness on; it’ll boost the brightness above regular maximum. You can have this on LOS via LiveDisplay but it isn’t automatic afaik.

    • Phone will get hotter when it’s used while charging. OneUI both lowers charging speed and lowers performance (unless you’re in a game) while charging. LOS doesn’t. It might get uncomfortably hot compared to OneUI.

    • Noise reduction in voice calls barely work under LOS. This is especially true when calling on speaker, LOS is borderline unusable when there’s even a little bit background noise.

    Switching to LOS for a techie is fine, but recommending it to someone who you don’t know how they use their device isn’t great. If OP watches a ton of movies, OneUI will have much better experience. If all OP does is social media, LOS is completely fine.