• JasonHears@feddit.nl
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    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.

  • Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    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@discuss.tchncs.de
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      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.

      • Gamey@feddit.rocks
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        1 year ago

        You forgot Fallout76 and their own shitty launcher, well and the fact that Microsoft bought them already...

        • leftzero@lemmy.ml
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          1 year ago

          And horse armour.

          And all their attempts at turning modding into a walled garden they could control and profit from.

        • Krackalot@discuss.tchncs.de
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          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.

      • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
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        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

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      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.

      The performance is absolute crap I think everyone should pirate it just to send a message. Like holy crap it's awful.

    • TheCaconym [any]
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      1 year ago

      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)

      • Yuumi@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        I have to applaud Bethesda for this decision, it is something that is very nice for the end user.

        • TechnoBabble@lemm.ee
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          1 year ago

          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.

          • Yuumi@lemmy.ml
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            1 year ago

            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

        • SoloboiNanook [comrade/them]
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          1 year ago

          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

    • totallynotfbi@lemm.ee
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      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@lemm.ee
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        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.

  • ayaya@lemdro.id
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    1 year ago

    To be fair it's the exact same bypass as any other Steam game. Any steam emulator would work.

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      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.

      • WhyIDie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 year ago

        I was legitimately impressed at how well AC6 runs on my machine. FromSoftware's come a long way from the original PC release of dark souls 1

        • Awoo [she/her]
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          1 year ago

          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.

    • mranachi@aussie.zone
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      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@lemmy.ml
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      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@lemm.ee
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        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@lemm.ee
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        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@programming.dev
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          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.

    • Serinus@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      The four day head start thing being bullshit was a good point. But yeah, I'm not likely to pirate an executable any time soon.

      • BeeCoffee@discuss.tchncs.de
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        1 year ago

        Time and money consuming, new hard drive, install windows, install the exe and check if that wasn't a malware, or a VM, GPU pass trough, install win and starfield

        • Serinus@lemmy.ml
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          1 year ago

          Yeah, this is probably the way I'd go about it. Dedicated hard drive, separate/no network access, no access to other files. Who cares if it is malware if it can't get to anything.

  • BurnedDonutHole@lemmy.ml
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    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.

    • 7Sea_Sailor@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      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.

    • bookmeat@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Go watch people actually play it in twitch or steam or YouTube. See if you like it. Why wait for someone else's opinion?

      • TechnoBabble@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        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?