The game is kinda meh from what I’ve seen? Any positive impressions?
I’ve heard nothing but good things about gameplay. But it runs like shit on most systems. A RTX 3080 at 1440p ultra can’t get 60 fps in cities.
Still downloading for me, but I see more than one review saying it takes a long time to get good. I’m keeping my expectations low.
EDIT: Glad I was warned it starts slow. It does get better if you stick with it.
EDIT 2: It entertained me for a week. It’s no Skyrim, or even Fallout. I would have been pissed if I’d paid for it.
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Starfield really does look and run great.
Run great? Absolutely not.
I get 120fps in Elden Ring at medium, 2070, 64gb ram, i9-12900k.
Just got done with Armored Core, rock solid 144fps at medium all the way through, never a blip.
This runs at 30fps on lowest settings. It runs like absolute crap. It’s incredibly jarring to go from games that are gorgeous and well made with high performance to this thing running like something 20 years ago. Absolutely zero optimisation.
It will get a seriously negative response from the average pc user when user reviews start hitting due to this performance.
So it’s more Destiny than No Man’s Sky.
Best comparison I’ve heard (by Gopher, if I recall correctly) is Outer Worlds, but less silly, and bigger by several orders of magnitude.
Yeah Outer Worlds was awesome but very limited. So limited that it almost felt linear.
The most positive I’ve heard is that it is a by the numbers Bethesda rpg game. It doesn’t try to be anything more. If you liked fallout 4 and skyrim odds are you’ll like this.
What if I liked FO3 and New Vegas and hated FO4?
FO3 was kind of a disaster in terms of narrative and roleplay. And the established world building.
Then wait a few months and check some of the in-depth reviews before investing your time. Bethesda’s most well known for its looter shooters with RPG styling.
I imagine this will follow in similar footsteps. It’ll be well designed, well armed, but it’s not going to be an RPG where your decisions have lasting impact. But hopefully I’m wrong
Then you have good taste in games.
What if I liked Fallout 76?
Nobody’s perfect.
They got rid of the dialogue wheel and went back to a list of options (influenced by character background / skills), so at least there’s that, I suppose.
Then you are objectively right
Can you give a link please?thx
Fuck off and look yourself
EDIT: stay mad lmfao
Name checks out
Completely
Would be awesome if someone made a mod that would make this the main loading screen
Check megathread on sidebar.
Why I was down voted to hell wtf? We can t demand link on a piracy sub?-?
I just readed the rules wtf . no link on a piracy sub . for me there is no interest in it if I have to research my torrent myself .
DODI-REPACKS.
Not sure why these assholes here are acting like this is reddit where the sub could be shut down. The dude runs his own instance…
“Cracked” meaning having replaced a dll file
They don’t even replace the DLL file for you! After you run the RUNE installer, you have to copy the emulator yourself
You can just click the checkbox for “Copy crack to install directory” to get the installer to do everything for you.
I’m not sure why that isn’t the default.
Exactly; this just needed an emulator like goldberg
Bethesda games usually don’t go for heavy DRM stuff (beyond the basic steam DRM), because it impairs modding (especially injection / nonofficial modding, stuff like SKSE for skyrim)
I have to applaud Bethesda for this decision, it is something that is very nice for the end user.
It really is a big move, since it likely cost them millions in early sales.
I probably would have bought it already if I couldn’t find a crack, but now I can pirate and wait for a nice sale.
I’m sure I’m not the only one.
Tbh what you’re doing is exactly what I did too with Skyrim. Downloaded a crack played for probably 1k hours and then bought it just to play 1k more
Doom Eternal has Denuvo.
It had denuvo but the game shipped with a denuvo-less exe so it was “cracked” day 1 lol.
Mighta been the 2016 doom but regardless it was funny lol
It was developed by ID I believe, bethesda only published the game.
And is developed by ID software, not Bethesda Game Studios. Bethesda the publisher has different tactics when it comes to games not developed by BGS.
Im not pre-ordering piracy either.
Im waiting for the reviews.
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The review embargo was lifted with the start of the early access, meaning that all the regular review channels that received review copies have already posted their content.
Reviews hit yesterday, check your preferred gaming sites
That’s not “pre-ordering”. Go write the reviews
Go watch people actually play it in twitch or steam or YouTube. See if you like it. Why wait for someone else’s opinion?
And also, the “early access” is just a way to get people to pay more for the game in the first week.
By all reasonable standards, the game has been fully released.
“Pre-ordering piracy”… What does that even mean?
Did starfield not have denuvo drm. I thought most Bethesda games did.
None of them do. It would fuck with people’s ability to make mods for them.
Not necessairly (well, goodbye to Starfield Script Extender in that case). But I think it’s more that Gamebryo can’t integrate Denuvo lol
It would also be unplayably slow. Bethesda games aren’t known for performance even without Denuvo slowing them down.
Lets not pretend that there aren’t Denuvo games without performance issues…
Unless I’m mistaken, Denuvo constantly encrypts and decrypts everything in the process’ memory, including executable code, in order to conceal it. There is no way to do that without massive performance overhead.
There are uncracked Denuvo games to this day that don’t have performance issues. Not everyone is incompetent in implementing it. That doesn’t mean I’m defending it (but Reddit/Lemmy will like to take any sort of non-attack as defense sooooo), I’m just saying that there are Denuvo games that don’t suffer performance issues.
Now imagine how fast they’d be without Denuvo.
True. I guess I thought that because “ghost wire Tokyo” and “redfall” do. But makes sense for a game like starfield to not
Yeah those games are only published by Bethesda, not developed. Their in house games never have DRM, unless you count steam.
Bethesda is a publisher as well which explains that
redfall
Best copyright protection for Redfall is that the game is shit and nobody wants to play it.
Which sucks, because Arkane was one of my favorite developers before the quality of their output fell off over the past five years. I loved the Dishonored games, and Prey is the single best immersive sim ever made. I was looking forward to DeathLoop, but it ended up being kinda meh, and Redfall has been so universally panned that I haven’t even bothered to try it.
I read that most of the people working there were kinda just hoping it would get canceled eventually. The game industry is so normal and fine.
Those aren’t BGS games. Bethesda that developes =/= bethesda that publishes. The latter likes DRM
Steam/windows store drm it seems.
Bethesda Game Studios games don’t have DRM like Denuvo. BGS and Bethesda Softworks are two different entities. ID, MachineGames and other Zenimax studios tend to have DRM, not BGS.
On the other hand, didn’t Denuvo come out after Fallout 4 launched? So what would they even protect, 76?
No, Denuvo was first used in Sept. 2014 and Fallout 4 came out Nov. 2015.
Why did you start with No?
“Didn’t Denuvo come out after Fallout 4 launched?”
“No, it came out a bit more than a year earlier.”
Ah. Well F4 didn’t have it on launch
WTF?! The game is not even released on steam yet? Are they cracking the preloaded version?
AFAIK the digital deluxe edition allows you to start playing 5 days early.
There is no “play 5 days early”. The game launched on 1st of September. But those who can’t afford to shell out 100 Euros have to wait 5 more days. Microsoft did the same bullshit with Forza. I didn’t like it back then, I won’t like it now.
Can confirm. Started playing this morning.
What’s your opinion so far?
Skyrim in space. Exactly what I was hoping it would be.
Except when I stole some dude’s sandwich, instead of being arrested he just said “Hey that’s my sandwich!” And then sighed, defeated
Definitely a better experience already than Skyrim
Are there any small pets or chickens for you to murder and get a massive bounty on your head?
Why would you want to play a Bethesda game 5 days early? The best time is several months after release, when the community has had time to fix the bugs.
There was a 5 day early access, at least on gamepass.
I have gamepass ultimate and it says I can’t play till the 6th
Have to buy deluxe. Timed exclusive bullshit.
Do you keep the game if you get the “Deluxe Upgrade” on GamePass? Or do you have to keep paying the subscription if you want to play?
No, not sure how they handle it. I think the upgrade applies to either a purchased version or Game Pass version, but if you don’t buy or sub, you wasted $35
I was playing it last night on steam. I needed a new GPU recently and it came with a code to download it. 🤷♂️
Which GPU did you get?
For me, I got a Framework 16 and the GPU module came with a code.
John…I’m watching you…
Thank you for sharing
Starfield and Friends
Stars are there…
I can hear it
We’re ready to party, we’re ready
I love that pirate groups still use ascii text art in their release notes. It’s like a little piece of the world that hasn’t changed in 30 years.
Somehow I expect hackers to do cooler stuff these days. I want hackers to release a Switch version of the game.
It can barely run on a gtx1070 man what kind of black magic do you expect a hacker to cast to make it run on a Switch
And still include cheesy mp3s playing too loud in retro-futuristic-looking installers
The track included in the Rune installer for Starfield was actually a banger
The music in the installers is the best part about installing cracks
I need to find out how to make these. Mostly just cause I like it.
On Linux, you’ll want to install figlet and toilet (both available in the debian repos)
Alternatively you’ve got this online frontend
If you really want to get weird with it you can also play any video in ascii art through libcaca and mplayer. Looks like this
I use
Arch btwEndeavour OS so don’t have Debian repos but I will definitely check them out. I especially like the fancy dark mode.I just checked and figlet at least appears to be in the arch repositories as well
Thanks, I will check it out tomorrow. I uave used pyfiglet in the past tbf so I figured it woukd be available either via the official repos or the AUR.
On Linux, you’ll want to install figlet and toilet
I know you’re 100% serious, but this sentence sounds so made up and hilarious
it’s typically just a kind of pixel art with monospaced fonts¹. any characters you see that’s not typically shown on your keyboard (e.g a filled square) can be found in a character selection program in your OS. anything else related to texts, templating and line breaks you can probably find a program somewhere on places like crates.io or gitlab or write something of your own without much trouble.
¹ a monospaced font is a font where every letter and character has the same spacing from each other, and are the easiest to do ascii art. (ascii is just one character table, but you can also gather unicode chars all you want)
I love that the installer has a cracktro, that’s the real good stuff.
I bopped to that shit for ages.
I pirated a cracked version of Adobe Acrobat Pro recently. First thing I had to crack in years. It had a sketchy crack installer , with music and everything. Like it was back in the 90s. Of course it worked perfectly lol.
Chiptune/tracker/keygen music will all hold a special place in my heart.
Oh my too!
I really like the chip tunes, but I think they are not creating them anymore in the authentic way
Does this mean I can pirate it early? 😮
It’s up on IPT already
What is IPT?
IPTorrents, a private BitTorrent tracker.
Shhh
Yes, but it’s huge, over 100GB. BG3 all over again!
Something is available, whether or not its safe is another story.
I got nothing to care about. I can nuke my drives at any time and not feel the loss. Plus Dauphong has never let me down.
Alrighty well feel free to reach out, I’ll be heading to bed in a second here but magnets are just so interesting it’s worth discussing
Nothing popped up when scanning it. Not even the crack being flagged as a crack.
Game runs like ass tho. Everything but my GPU meets recommended. I still have a 1660 Super. Get anywhere between 30 and 60 with low settings, depending on where I am and what’s going on. First game in a while to just cripple my shit. 😩
It’s running well for SWIM but the hardware is a 5800X3D and a 3080 so it would be a shame if it didn’t.
Some areas are another than others though, classic Skyrim
It’s weird how being in a small room gets me about 32 fps, but then going outside into a forest I get 60. Usually it’s the other way around, with interiors being the faster zone. 🤷🏻♂️
I’ve seen some others getting similar results on a 3080 with the same CPU (Rysen 5 3600X) I have though, so now I’m not even sure upgrading my hardware would make a difference and it’s probably just classic Bethesda optimizations.
Eagerly waiting for the videos of every Starfield’s fade-to-black screen transitioning back into Skyrim’s opening
Well, that was quick!
Thats nice. One question tho is rune codex now? Since I saw on elamigos that rune/codex refere to the same people
Imma wait for the fitgirl repack
fitgirl repack
Looks like it’s already out.
yass already have it seeded
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If you’ve got windows 10 try updating to 22h2 (no, really; a consequence of Bethesda being acquired by Microsoft, I suspect), and update your GPU drivers.
That got it running on my 980ti, so it should also work with the 1070.
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Did u try adding it as a non-steam game directly on Steam and not using Lutris? I’ve tried both on my EndeavourOS PC and find that for whatever reason, it runs much better via Steam vs Lutris.
Or it’s a consequence of the fact that all earlier windows 10 (non enterprise) versions are end of service.
I highly doubt it’s done intentionally. 21H2 probably misses a feature or they just didn’t care about 21H2 because why should they.
It’ll burn your house down
It runs like absolute crap. I have a 2070 with i9-12900k and 64gb ram and get 30fps on the LOWEST settings. That’s it.
I run Elden Ring at 120fps and just got done with Armored Core that ran at 144fps rock solid medium settings all the way through without a single blip.
The performance is unbelievably atrocious.
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Yeah it runs rock solid. I get the impression FS must have good employee retention and have very good methods for building employee skills, so over time they’ve only improved. On top of hiring and acquiring some of the best staff that must have existed in other Japanese studios. No idea how they actually treat the employees, could be like shit because it’s Japanese work culture, but something about them is producing content that is consistently a cut above everything. They’re getting up there like Rockstar in terms of quality but based in Japan instead of the UK.
Who the hell are they expecting is going to play this game? Only trust fund kids?
Adults with jobs?
I’m an adult with a job, and I don’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of affording the recommended system requirements for this game any time soon. RX6800XTs do not grow on trees.
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Steam system requirements say RX5700 minimum. Recommended is RX6800XT, which was ludicrously expensive last I checked. Also I need a much newer CPU.
In this economy, that’s gonna be a no from me.
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Dude, the 1080 came out in 2016, that was just… oh.
We knew the game would be demanding when MS announced 30FPS only on both consoles. And this time it isn’t a CPU bottleneck
Been trying to run it on an rx480 and it hiccups and crashes so much lol
Gamers nexus had gtx 1070 in their starfield performance review, so it can work on a 1070. 30fps on low settings I think though.
The 1070 is the official minimum requirement.
1070Ti
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I’ve never had a problem with them.
RUNE cracked Baldur’s Gate 3 recently.
Imagine cracking a game that’s already on gog lmao
Your comment and username have made my day so far.
Glad I could brighten your day, friend :) Thanks for sharing
Which is DRM free…
Rune is. A lot of people don’t like IGG, but I’ve never had a problem with it. You gotta be good at dealing with ads and such though.
