- oleorun ( @oleorun@lemmy.fan ) English255•1 year ago
I really felt cheated that no one was insulted, no rants were frothed, no theories conspiracied in this nfo. All we got was relevant information and kindness.
I’m kidding obvs
- li10 ( @li10@feddit.uk ) English109•1 year ago
Bland release notes.
I wanted some spicy ✨bipolar ranting✨
- violetraven ( @violetraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English2•1 year ago
Not even transphobia? But how will I justify my Vtuber hatemail now? /jk
- Chickerino ( @Chickerino@feddit.nl ) English231•1 year ago
- machinaeZER0 ( @machinaeZER0@lemm.ee ) English26•1 year ago
Starfield and Friends
- Fat Tony ( @FatTony@lemm.ee ) English1•1 year ago
Stars are there…
- CluelessDude ( @CluelessDude@lemmy.zip ) English9•1 year ago
John…I’m watching you…
- KevinDeRodeTovenaar ( @KevinDeRodeTovenaar@feddit.nl ) English8•1 year ago
Thank you for sharing
- JasonHears ( @JasonHears@feddit.nl ) English150•1 year ago
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.
- EuroNutellaMan ( @EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English20•1 year ago
I need to find out how to make these. Mostly just cause I like it.
- Wilker ( @Wilker@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English13•1 year ago
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)
- Mara ( @mara@pawb.social ) English10•1 year ago
I love that the installer has a cracktro, that’s the real good stuff.
- nova_ad_vitum ( @nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca ) English10•1 year ago
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.
- violetraven ( @violetraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English7•1 year ago
Chiptune/tracker/keygen music will all hold a special place in my heart.
- LoudWaterHombre ( @loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English5•1 year ago
I really like the chip tunes, but I think they are not creating them anymore in the authentic way
- azerial ( @azerial@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English1•1 year ago
Oh my too!
- ayaya ( @ayaya@lemdro.id ) English68•1 year ago
To be fair it’s the exact same bypass as any other Steam game. Any steam emulator would work.
- Blxter ( @Blxter@lemmy.zip ) English7•1 year ago
- harmonea ( @harmonea@kbin.social ) 28•1 year ago
Bethesda the publisher does things differently than Bethesda the developer.
As a dev, they know their modding communities keep their games alive long, long past their expiration dates and will fuck with them as little as they possibly can - this takes them from games to household names to legends that everyone knows.
As a publisher pushing products that aren’t intended to be modded, they drink the koolaid.
- Qualanqui ( @Qualanqui@lemmy.nz ) English3•1 year ago
I disagree about the publishing side somewhat, every now and then the publishing team hits a home run. Like I’ve been playing Ghostwire: Tokyo recently which is published by Bethesda and it’s a pretty good game, and let’s not forget Prey which was an awesome game also published by Bethesda.
So tbey do get it right sometimes.
- harmonea ( @harmonea@kbin.social ) 9•1 year ago
I didn’t say they don’t make good games. I said they drink the koolaid.
Context matters, and in the context of this thread (whether or not Bethesda games often have Denuvo) that means the anti-piracy “DRM is neat” koolaid (vs them avoiding DRM for self-developed games so they can be modded extensively).
- roon ( @roon@lemmy.ml ) English3•1 year ago
WTF is/was this comment? It’s killing me lol
- Blxter ( @Blxter@lemmy.zip ) English2•1 year ago
Lol it was this “https://lemmy.zip/comment/2283511” /\ Did starfield not have denuvo drm. I thought most Bethesda games did. ", I tried to delete it but obviously not lol.
- Blackmist ( @Blackmist@feddit.uk ) English63•1 year ago
I would think that it’s cheap availability on GamePass and likelihood of frequent updates would make for a muted response to this one.
Plus I don’t think it was protected to start with for modding purposes. People will be flying around in Thomas the Tank Engine by the end of next week.
- ColeSloth ( @ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ) English23•1 year ago
For these reasons, I’d rather buy Bethesda games. As a company, they aren’t assholes. I’d hate for them to get bought out by ea or something like all the rest.
- Blackmist ( @Blackmist@feddit.uk ) English46•1 year ago
Yes, that would be terrible for them to be bought by somebody like MS.
- Krackalot ( @Krackalot@discuss.tchncs.de ) English11•1 year ago
While you’re absolutely right to point out they have already been bought by Microsoft. I think we can all admit MS has had an unbelievably better track record with acquiring studios than EA.
- Celediel ( @Celediel@slrpnk.net ) English15•1 year ago
Pretty low bar you’ve set there…
- Gamey ( @gamey@feddit.rocks ) English39•1 year ago
You forgot Fallout76 and their own shitty launcher, well and the fact that Microsoft bought them already…
- leftzero ( @leftzero@lemmy.ml ) English10•1 year ago
And horse armour.
And all their attempts at turning modding into a walled garden they could control and profit from.
- Gamey ( @gamey@feddit.rocks ) English1•1 year ago
At least they don’t tread modders like Rockstar, well at least not yet I guess.
- DragonTypeWyvern ( @DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe ) English20•1 year ago
My only beef with them is their complete disregard for QA but, in the end, they’re right.
We’ll do it for them.
Well, and watering down the social commentary in their Fallouts to an absurd degree.
Can’t wait for Fallout 5 to say “AKSHUALLY, it was all China’s fault and capitalism is based and Vault Tec was justified. Join the Brotherhood or die, trash.”
Triangle For Enthusiastic Yes Square For Nod Silently
- unonessun0centomila ( @unonessun0centomila@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English3•1 year ago
Yes. Paid mods never existed.
- argv_minus_one ( @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) English14•1 year ago
As is Bethesda tradition.
- redditReallySucks ( @redditReallySucks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English59•1 year ago
“Cracked” meaning having replaced a dll file
- totallynotfbi ( @totallynotfbi@lemm.ee ) English8•1 year ago
They don’t even replace the DLL file for you! After you run the RUNE installer, you have to copy the emulator yourself
- TechnoBabble ( @TechnoBabble@lemm.ee ) English7•1 year ago
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.
- redcalcium ( @redcalcium@lemmy.institute ) English52•1 year ago
WTF?! The game is not even released on steam yet? Are they cracking the preloaded version?
- adaveinthelife ( @adaveinthelife@lemmy.ca ) English54•1 year ago
AFAIK the digital deluxe edition allows you to start playing 5 days early.
- dustojnikhummer ( @dustojnikhummer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English27•1 year ago
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.
- argv_minus_one ( @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) English24•1 year ago
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.
- wheresmypillow ( @wheresmypillow@lemmy.one ) English21•1 year ago
Can confirm. Started playing this morning.
- Frog-Brawler ( @Frog-Brawler@kbin.social ) 26•1 year ago
I was playing it last night on steam. I needed a new GPU recently and it came with a code to download it. 🤷♂️
- TechnoBabble ( @TechnoBabble@lemm.ee ) English2•1 year ago
Which GPU did you get?
- TehPers ( @TehPers@beehaw.org ) English6•1 year ago
For me, I got a Framework 16 and the GPU module came with a code.
- Hyperi0n ( @Hyperi0n@lemmy.film ) English14•1 year ago
There was a 5 day early access, at least on gamepass.
- ScoobyDoo27 ( @ScoobyDoo27@lemm.ee ) English2•1 year ago
I have gamepass ultimate and it says I can’t play till the 6th
- HiT3k ( @HiT3k@beehaw.org ) English4•1 year ago
Have to buy deluxe. Timed exclusive bullshit.
- TechnoBabble ( @TechnoBabble@lemm.ee ) English2•1 year ago
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?
- HiT3k ( @HiT3k@beehaw.org ) English2•1 year ago
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
- argv_minus_one ( @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) English50•1 year ago
“Pirates? I’m sorry, I can’t hear you over the gazillion sales we’re about to make.” —Bethesda, probably
- reluctantpornaccount ( @reluctantpornaccount@reddthat.com ) English23•1 year ago
*Already made. They’ve got like 200k+ $100 deluxe version sales already, the base game hasn’t even officially launched
- Cethin ( @Cethin@lemmy.zip ) English15•1 year ago
The extra cost “early access” stuff just encourages piracy. I’m paying for gamepass, so I’m already paying for access in four days. I’m still tempted to pirate it. It’s probably going to be a better product than dealing with Xbox crap on PC, but I could also play now.
- neutron ( @neutron@thelemmy.club ) English6•1 year ago
Sixteen times the details
- I Cast Fist ( @ICastFist@programming.dev ) English40•1 year ago
Eagerly waiting for the videos of every Starfield’s fade-to-black screen transitioning back into Skyrim’s opening
- iturnedintoanewt ( @iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee ) English27•1 year ago
Hol-eee shit. My GTX 1070 doesn’t meet minimum requirements…and it just won’t boot? Oh wow.
- argv_minus_one ( @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) English11•1 year ago
Who the hell are they expecting is going to play this game? Only trust fund kids?
- ddkman ( @ddkman@lemm.ee ) English7•1 year ago
Like have you seen hw prices lately? The prices of these class of card simply crashed through the ground. 1070 are very cheap, the rx470-480 is barely sellable trash. A lot of time had passed since the 10series…
- argv_minus_one ( @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) English8•1 year ago
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.
- dustojnikhummer ( @dustojnikhummer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English4•1 year ago
We knew the game would be demanding when MS announced 30FPS only on both consoles. And this time it isn’t a CPU bottleneck
- ddkman ( @ddkman@lemm.ee ) English3•1 year ago
But the 5700 is not an expensive gpu to buy second hand. Cpu asks for an ancient 6core or a 2nd gen ryzen. These aren’t unreasonable specs in 2023. Time has moved on. Sorry.
Mind you I have an ancient 6core and a 1080 class card.
- thehellrocc ( @thehellrocc@beehaw.org ) English3•1 year ago
Dude, the 1080 came out in 2016, that was just… oh.
- Kit ( @Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English4•1 year ago
Adults with jobs?
- argv_minus_one ( @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) English7•1 year ago
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.
- mranachi ( @mranachi@aussie.zone ) English7•1 year ago
Gamers nexus had gtx 1070 in their starfield performance review, so it can work on a 1070. 30fps on low settings I think though.
- leftzero ( @leftzero@lemmy.ml ) English6•1 year ago
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.
- lud ( @lud@lemm.ee ) English5•1 year ago
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.
- iturnedintoanewt ( @iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee ) English2•1 year ago
Yeah, I think it’s probably having to do with how Wine/Lutris emulates the Windows version, that makes it think it’s an older version. I’ll try on a real Windows partition…
- devious ( @devious@programming.dev ) English3•1 year ago
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.
- Double_A ( @Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de ) English6•1 year ago
The 1070 is the official minimum requirement.
- HellAwaits ( @HellAwaits@lemm.ee ) English5•1 year ago
It’ll burn your house down
- vagrantprodigy ( @vagrantprodigy@lemmy.whynotdrs.org ) English27•1 year ago
Wonder if the cracked version crashes when starting a new game like the steam version does…
- beirut_bootleg ( @beirut_bootleg@programming.dev ) English3•1 year ago
Kill any overlay apps like MSI. Process Explorer can crash it too. Just kill everything. Had this issue with FO76.
- milkjug ( @milkjug@beehaw.org ) English6•1 year ago
Devs: “it works fine on my machine”. At this point games should just come with their own OSes. Or hardware. Hell, ship 'em like arcade boxes.
- vagrantprodigy ( @vagrantprodigy@lemmy.whynotdrs.org ) English5•1 year ago
No overlays running, still crashes. I’m seeing quite a few people reporting this online, both with AMD and Nvidia, and of course Intel cards don’t work at all on this game.
- Techmaster ( @Techmaster@lemm.ee ) English1•1 year ago
Is anybody on earth stupid enough to buy an Intel GPU?
- ObiGynKenobi ( @ObiGynKenobi@beehaw.org ) English4•1 year ago
Anyone who wants AC Mirage and Nightingale? Anyone who supports disrupting the duopoly that, driven by corporate greed, has effectively priced the “budget card” out of existence over the last decade? Those 2 are just off the top of my head.
If I was in the market for a GPU, I’d probably buy Intel Battlemage on principle. At least then I can criticize the current state of the GPU industry without being hypocritical.
- TheOakTree ( @TheOakTree@lemm.ee ) English1•1 year ago
Awful shortsighted of a comment from a self-proclaimed “Techmaster” lol
- Techmaster ( @Techmaster@lemm.ee ) English1•1 year ago
Guess I found one.
- Blxter ( @Blxter@lemmy.zip ) English22•1 year ago
Did starfield not have denuvo drm. I thought most Bethesda games did.
- Entropy ( @Entropy@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English73•1 year ago
None of them do. It would fuck with people’s ability to make mods for them.
- Blxter ( @Blxter@lemmy.zip ) English12•1 year ago
True. I guess I thought that because “ghost wire Tokyo” and “redfall” do. But makes sense for a game like starfield to not
- Rayspekt ( @Rayspekt@kbin.social ) 40•1 year ago
redfall
Best copyright protection for Redfall is that the game is shit and nobody wants to play it.
- AtomicPurple ( @AtomicPurple@kbin.social ) 10•1 year ago
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.
- Holzkohlen ( @Holzkohlen@feddit.de ) English6•1 year ago
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.
- Entropy ( @Entropy@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English17•1 year ago
Yeah those games are only published by Bethesda, not developed. Their in house games never have DRM, unless you count steam.
- wolfshadowheart ( @wolfshadowheart@kbin.social ) 8•1 year ago
Bethesda is a publisher as well which explains that
- dustojnikhummer ( @dustojnikhummer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English4•1 year ago
Those aren’t BGS games. Bethesda that developes =/= bethesda that publishes. The latter likes DRM
- dustojnikhummer ( @dustojnikhummer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English8•1 year ago
Not necessairly (well, goodbye to Starfield Script Extender in that case). But I think it’s more that Gamebryo can’t integrate Denuvo lol
- argv_minus_one ( @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) English6•1 year ago
It would also be unplayably slow. Bethesda games aren’t known for performance even without Denuvo slowing them down.
- dustojnikhummer ( @dustojnikhummer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English2•1 year ago
Lets not pretend that there aren’t Denuvo games without performance issues…
- argv_minus_one ( @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) English8•1 year ago
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.
- dustojnikhummer ( @dustojnikhummer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English1•1 year ago
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.
- argv_minus_one ( @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) English3•1 year ago
Now imagine how fast they’d be without Denuvo.
- dustojnikhummer ( @dustojnikhummer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English14•1 year ago
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?
- BurnedDonutHole ( @BurnedDonutHole@lemmy.ml ) English21•1 year ago
And even it’s cracked from I won’t be able to play it thanks to my old as system and my lack of will to purchase a new one untill it dies.
- Qualanqui ( @Qualanqui@lemmy.nz ) English8•1 year ago
Haha I was thinking along similar lines, my R5 1600 is either going to take to it with it’s usual shrug while it rolls up it’s sleeves or just explode, it still punches way above it’s weight so hopefully it won’t explode but she’s getting a bit long in the tooth.
- Gamey ( @gamey@feddit.rocks ) English20•1 year ago
Well, that was quick!
- 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️ ( @Kolanaki@yiffit.net ) English18•1 year ago
Does this mean I can pirate it early? 😮
- Entropy ( @Entropy@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English6•1 year ago
It’s up on IPT already
- KevinDeRodeTovenaar ( @KevinDeRodeTovenaar@feddit.nl ) English5•1 year ago
What is IPT?
- matey ( @matey@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English5•1 year ago
IPTorrents, a private BitTorrent tracker.
- Zoidsberg ( @Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca ) English4•1 year ago
Shhh
- wolfshadowheart ( @wolfshadowheart@kbin.social ) 3•1 year ago
Something is available, whether or not its safe is another story.
- 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️ ( @Kolanaki@yiffit.net ) English3•1 year ago
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.
- wolfshadowheart ( @wolfshadowheart@kbin.social ) 2•1 year ago
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
- 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️ ( @Kolanaki@yiffit.net ) English1•1 year ago
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. 😩
- wolfshadowheart ( @wolfshadowheart@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
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
- 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️ ( @Kolanaki@yiffit.net ) English1•1 year ago
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.