Starfield Launch Details, PC Specs & More

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• Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I will say once more. Do not preorder video games. It could be shit, it could be buggy, but what it won’t do is run out of copies. Wait until the reviews are out, or even a bit after it launches if you can. If you’re anything like me you have hundreds of games you haven’t played yet so what’s an hour or a day in the grand scheme of things.

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  • Sneptaur@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s a Bethesda game. It wouldn’t feel right if it were bug-free.

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    • pancakes@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It wouldn’t feel right if it didn’t have the exact same bugs as the last 4 Bethesda releases.

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    • Redditiscancer789@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      A news article was released today that said starfield is the least buggy Bethesda game to date. Fluff but man that sure puts some expectations out there to live up too.

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  • Neato@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It's also on Gamepass. You can play it instantly for a much lower cost to make sure it works. Then buy it if you still want later when it goes on sale.

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    • Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Doesn’t work on linux

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  • pikmeir@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I was burned too bad with Cyberpunk 2077 that even though Starfield seems to be all right, I’m waiting until after reviews come out before I pick up a copy. That just means I wait a few more days to reduce the risk of more pain.

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    • Lethtor@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Cyberpunk also seemed alright, even the reviews were glowing. Well, we all know how that turned out

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    • DulyNoted@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Man I wish I could even get a consistent impression out of anyone. I’ve been scrounging for pre-release footage but Beth is being weirdly tight lipped about this one.

      100% a wait for the reviews situation, the less they show off the more I worry they’re hiding something. Just a reminder to everyone, Fallout 76 was the last game they released…

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  • CitizenKong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I agree completely and would like to add especially if it’s a Bethesda game. I can still remember waiting for half a year for Skyrim to be playable on PS3 after buying it on launch day.

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  • ComradeKeen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m normally with you but the opportunity to play it on a long Labor Day weekend was calling my wallet to soon

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    • jwagner7813@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This is part of the reason why they chose the launch day

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    • oryx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Same, and with Game Pass it was just a $30 upgrade. The only stuff I pre-order is stuff I know I’ll like anyway - mainly Destiny expansions and TES/Fallout/Starfield. I’m gonna buy it anyway, why not pre-load it and play immediately?

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    • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s how I’m feeling… Reviews are coming in pretty positively. Can you pick it up on steam and play now?

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• Reygle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  REMEMBER: NO PRE-ORDERS. Safest bet is to wait a year after any Bethesda release to give modders enough time to fix the game.

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  • ilikekeyboards@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The earlier you buy the buggier the next release is.

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  • rab@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Or pirate it until they fix it, that’s my plan

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    • Cold_Brew_Enema@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Lol stealing a game with the intent to pay for it later?

      Press x to doubt

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  • DulyNoted@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Am I crazy or has there been almost no pre-release coverage of this game?

    Oblivion and Fallout 3 are two of my all-time favourite games (I’ve played the others as well but those 2 stuck with me the most) but I just cannot get hyped for this game. It’s like a black box with people’s hopes and dreams, and it feels like people are just hyping themselves up by imagining what could be inside it.

    I couldn’t imagine pre-ordering this game in particular. Beth has been so quiet I’m worried it may just be a total flop.

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    • Odo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Bethesda put out a long video around Summer Game Fest that spent 45 minutes showing most of the gameplay systems in the game. It was honestly a bit overwhelming.

      Reviewers are quiet because the NDA is still active. It should end sometime today (Aug 31).

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Alpha Centauri +4.37LY

  Man, this is some BULLSHIT. Why do the Alpha Centaurians have to wait so long?

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  • vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Stupid speed of causality.

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    • tal@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      We still haven't established whether some form of warp drive is doable or not. Even if you can't move faster than light, if you can distort spacetime around yourself sufficiently in the right way, you can maybe get a functionally-similar effect.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive

      The Alcubierre drive ([alkuˈβjere]) is a speculative warp drive idea according to which a spacecraft could achieve apparent faster-than-light travel by contracting space in front of it and expanding space behind it, under the assumption that a configurable energy-density field lower than that of vacuum (that is, negative mass) could be created.[1][2] Proposed by theoretical physicist Miguel Alcubierre in 1994, the Alcubierre drive is based on a solution of Einstein's field equations. Since those solutions are metric tensors, the Alcubierre drive is also referred to as Alcubierre metric.

      Objects cannot accelerate to the speed of light within normal spacetime; instead, the Alcubierre drive shifts space around an object so that the object would arrive at its destination more quickly than light would in normal space without breaking any physical laws.[3]

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  • radix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Digital downloads only. The throughput is fine, but the latency is terrible.

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  • BloodSlut@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    BGS telling us how they really feel 😔

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  • dan1101@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They barely know anything about the game at this point, they won’t expect it for several more years.

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• Jyek@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s finally happened … my 1070 is finally below minimum requirements for a game I want to play. Guess this will be an Xbox only game for me because I am not paying the insane prices for GPUs.

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  • ayaya@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    GPUs are at pretty reasonable prices if you buy used. The 3060 Ti is $237 and it beats the 4060.

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    • beefcat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Intel’s GPUs are an insane value now that they’ve got a lot of the driver kinks worked out. Some DX11 games still don’t run as well as they would on equivalent Nvidia or AMD hardware, but most newer games are using DX12 or Vulkan nowadays.

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    • Thade780@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Depends on where. In my country there are assholes that still want the equivalent of 300USD for a 2080ti.

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    • Jyek@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s assuming I have $237 laying around to play a game id also need to spend $70 on.

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  • Raxiel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Same, for the GPU that is. I don’t have or want an Xbox so I guess I won’t be playing it for a long time. Not that I ever play Bethesda games at launch anyway.

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  • cosmicrookie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I run most of my gaming through GeForce No Can’t afford to replace my 1070 and streaming the games seem to work fine for now.

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• Ertebolle@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Don’t own an Xbox or PC, I’m going to wait until they decide milking money out of an old game > exclusivity and play with the future GOTY edition on a smart refrigerator or a Playdate or whatever other weird platform they repackage it for.

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  • Neato@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You reminded me it's not on PS5. The PC my partner (who might be interested in this) plays on can't handle this. So...guess we won't play it. Oh well.

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  • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There was a weird window where Skyrim was like $6.

    Then Skyrim legendary went to $20.

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• PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is it still 30 fps on Series X? I don’t think that’s acceptable for a first-person game in 2023.

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  • NuPNuA@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Why? If the game has been targetted at 30 though development and everything built around that it should be fine.

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    • PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You really believe that? Have you played New Vegas at 30 and 60 fps? Go ahead and try it out. I’ll wait.

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  • beefcat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You say that, but Immortals of Aveum probably would have benefited immensely from a 30 FPS option.

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    • lustrum@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Even more from a 40FPS option.

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  • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s not going to get better unless companies start making consoles with 1-2 year life cycles (which won’t sell, because at that point, you may as well be swapping parts out of your PC of Theseus).

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    • Callie@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Or they stop pushing for high graphical fidelity and ultra realism

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• Suavevillain@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m pretty hyped for this game. I love space RPGS and haven’t had something cool since Mass Effect.

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  • Aermis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is Bethesda. There’s no way it’ll be anywhere near as refined as mass effect.

    But that means this will be more fun. I love me some Bethesda bug chaos. And mods.

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  • CoderKat@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I also love space RPGs. SWTOR was pretty great. It’s an MMO, but it has good single player. The Knights of the Fallen Empire/Eternal Throne DLCs are basically single player games and they’re really good quality. The KOTOR games are also really great, if a bit older and KOTOR2 was basically unfinished and requires mods to make it even feel 80% finished.

    Outer Worlds was okay. It certainly does in some ways feel similar to Fallout in space. But not quite as good and I don’t recall being aware of any serious modding scene.

    But huh, I thought there’d be more, but I’m struggling to think of space RPGs with a feel like Mass Effect or Elder Scrolls. I’m really looking forward to this, too, cause despite being a buggy mess, I love Bethesda games and I also love sci fi (especially in space).

    Not an RPG, but I also love Stellaris. It’s a strategy game, but really scratched that hyper advanced sci fi and space exploration itch.

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    • AustralianSimon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I really liked the Mass Effect Series, it’s no Freelancer or Freespace but if it even feels a little bit like what No Man Sky was doing it should be good. Fallout series and TES proves it will be buggy but fun.

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  • cosmicrookie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I asume you’ve tried Elite Dangerous. Why didn’t you like that?

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    • turmacar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Personally I love Elite Dangerous, but have still only spent ~50 hours in it.

      It’s a fantastic flight sim. But IMO it’s just not as captivating as a purposefully created narrative. It’s good for different reasons. I know they’ve added ground/walking stuff since last I played. I know you can discover alien stuff and wander alongside the ‘story’ in the game. But it’s closer to FromSoft style reading text descriptions and forum posts to follow the story than it is playing an RPG.

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    • jon@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I played the original Elite on the BBC, and then Elite 2 & 3 on the Amiga. Elite Dangerous on the PC was just plain dull by comparison.

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• ALERT@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  how so you know that Todd Howard lied? he opened his mouth.

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  • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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• dangerflakes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Console details?

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  • AProfessional@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Own an Xbox Series…

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• tyrefyre@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  SSD Required? Wat

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  • AngryMob@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes. Now that all the consoles have ssds, devs are going to design their games around them. That means asset streaming is the norm. Amd that means hdds will cause massive pop-in and stutters.

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  • JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Honestly if you don’t have an SSD save 50$ and get one. Especially for crappier pcs it’s the most significant upgrade you can do and not even for gaming. 10 years ago SSDs were somewhat niche. They were expensive as well. Now I won’t even touch a computer without one basically.

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  • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It is not at all sustainable to game on HDDs anymore. They are still good for slow cold storage, though.

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    • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It wasn’t sustainable 5 years ago.

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  • BlinkAndItsGone@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s probably not 100% necessary; even Jak & Daxter: Rift Apart, which leans heavily on DirectStorage-type loading speeds to switch between worlds on the fly, can be played off a hard drive, tests have shown. But any PC built in the last 5+ years really should have an SSD.

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    • beefcat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      “Playable” and “good experience” don’t necessarily mean the same thing though. Those rift transitions in R&C are rough on anything less than a decent NVMe SSD. Though there may be some room for improvement, as even high end NVMe drives struggle to handle these transitions as gracefully as the PS5.

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• Hello_there@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ssd required?

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  • LUHG_HANI@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    SSD has been a best practice requirement for a long ass time anyway. SSDs are cheap now.

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    • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Bought a Samsung nvme M2 that was 2 TB for like $90.

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    • beefcat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I just bought an 8TB chonker last week for $340. It comfortably fit my Steam library of 19 years with room to spare.

      A year ago this same drive was still averaging ~$650-$700.

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  • LoafyLemon@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It shouldn't be a surprise. Games load assets on the fly to save memory, which would be terrible on a hard drive.

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    • Redditiscancer789@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not great for an SSD either since they have finite read/writes too.

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