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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j-PV-sSbXs
https://www.techspot.com/news/94963-starfield-players-cannot-actively-pilot-their-ships-planet.html

Everyone assumed No Mans Sky where you seamlessly go from Orbit to Surface, pick any spot to land and do your business.

Nah.

Pick a landing zone in a menu from orbit, loading screen time, land at location with cutscene :l

Players cannot just fly from space to their landing spot in an immersive way. From orbit, you pick a location to land, and then the game transitions to that area without actually flying there. So, planetary navigation is more like fast travel. Starfield is not a seamless universe. According to Howard, space and a planet's surface are two separate "realities."

"People have asked, 'Can you fly the ship straight down to the planet?' No," the Bethesda boss told IGN in an interview (below). "We decided early in the project that the on-surface is one reality, and then when you're in space, it's another reality."

this is because they refuse to let go of that horrible game engine they use isn't it