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My main gripe with the universe of starfield is that it works on fallout logic, as in, everyone acts as if telephones and cameras don't exist, despite being 300 years in our fucking future without any tech loss.
That "don't you guys have phones?" Blizzard meme is ironically spot on here. They don't. Communication only happens face to face while out of a ship.
The other thing is how a lot of the game runs on "nobody cares". Alien ship showing up on orbit? Nobody cares. Another alien ship showing up and attacking you? Nobody saw it, nobody cares. Alien space magic? Nobody cares. Alien space magic being used to wreak havoc in a big city? Not a word on it, instant amnesia after the attack.
It actually makes sense in Fallout since it's post-apocalyptic. Yes, the apocalypse happened hundreds of years earlier, but most people still live in squalor while only a privileged few have high tech stuff. Starfield, though? The "apocalypse" took like 50 years to happen and everyone escaped Earth. There's no excuse for widespread telecommunication to not exist.