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Starfield players looking for how to fix a bug that breaks guns figured out changing their character's gender is a solution.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm vaguely curious what gets re-initialized by changing gender to fix this.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Apparently it's nothing to do with changing the gender, only opening the character creation screen. So you can open that screen and then just close it, and it should work again. Weird bug though!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The article says that the console command to swap genders also works.

I haven't experienced it so I have no clue.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wonder if that pseudo opens the screen.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

It runs the change character script, which resets animations.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It might alter some of the same variables causing this bug.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

It probably triggers a write of the character data which ends up overwriting some bad value that is actually causing the problem.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You haven't experienced swapping genders? All the cool kids are doing it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

This is why you don't use global variables, kids!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If starfield works like every other Bethesda game, the game can't actually change the gender directly, it instead remakes your entire character, which will reset whatever is causing the bug

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I had a bug caused by the shipselling bug where each time I went through a load screen my gender and appearance randomized. So I can't even begin to guess how all the noodles are connected.