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Gibbo said:
Hi there

Anyone pre-ordering gets that order and price honoured, irrelevant of what happens to the rate, so pre-order in confidence and hopefully by next weekend you will all have your nice new shiny AMD card. :)
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I preordered a 6700XT and it arrived shortly after you said it would, thanks.
 
Brackish said:
That's where I intend to use 1080p and when I get a new TV I can upscale to 2k and see what I prefer.
Are you waiting for your game key? My reward code was accepted and AMD have not issued me a game key yet.
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Everyone is waiting. Apparently the keys won't be made available until the game is released. Or maybe a short while before, so people can download the game just before it releases. Premium edition keys should go live 5 days before the game is released as that's one of the premium edition extras, but I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't happen and AMD sends out "Ooops, sorry, we messed that up" instead.

I'm not bothered. I paid for the card. The game is just a bonus. If the key is late, well, never mind. If the key never turns up at all I won't be that bothered.

thesnowdog1971 said:
Yup, but this IS Bethesda that we're talking about here lol. We'll have someone releasing a Mod soon(ish) after it launches to fix what's bound to be a broken game on launch day :cry:
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But Starfield is all new and won't be like that! :)

I hope it's as moddable as previous Bethesda games (apart from FO76, which was an obvious mistake). Modding is part of why those games have been such enduring successes.

Bethesda bugginess (Bugthesda) has been a bit different to usual bugginess, IMO. It's part of the charm. Send enemies to the moon! Potions to make better clothing to make better potions to make better clothing and round and round until you're over 9000 in everything! Mash a gun and a bomb together...and you have a machinegun that fires 100 nuclear bombs per minute! It's silly bugginess rather than game-breaking bugginess. I watched a video a while ago in which someone (probably The Spiffing Brit) gleefully abused exploits in Skyrim to complete the game armed only with a fork.
 
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Angilion said:
Bethesda bugginess (Bugthesda) has been a bit different to usual bugginess, IMO. It's part of the charm. Send enemies to the moon! Potions to make better clothing to make better potions to make better clothing and round and round until you're over 9000 in everything! Mash a gun and a bomb together...and you have a machinegun that fires 100 nuclear bombs per minute! It's silly bugginess rather than game-breaking bugginess. I watched a video a while ago in which someone (probably The Spiffing Brit) gleefully abused exploits in Skyrim to complete the game armed only with a fork.
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Hmm.. I'm but so sure about that. They tend to include some irritating and on occasion game breaking bugs, too.
 
Dirk Diggler said:
Hmm.. I'm but so sure about that. They tend to include some irritating and on occasion game breaking bugs, too.
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arthmoors unofficial patch pack will fix it right up, if he and his team are still doing mods for bethesda games.
 
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Angilion said:
(apart from FO76, which was an obvious mistake).
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Have you played it more recently?

It's not actually that bad now, I never played it anywhere near launch date and I did hear it was pretty terrible, but I enjoyed it and thought it was pretty decent.

Also opinion aside it was commercially very successful for Bethesda, that's coming from the horse's mouth in a recent Starfield interview. I'm guessing because of the monthly premium subscriptions.
 
BUDFORCE said:
Have you played it more recently?

It's not actually that bad now, I never played it anywhere near launch date and I did hear it was pretty terrible, but I enjoyed it and thought it was pretty decent.

Also opinion aside it was commercially very successful for Bethesda, that's coming from the horse's mouth in a recent Starfield interview. I'm guessing because of the monthly premium subscriptions.
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I stopped playing it when I realised it was a "free to play" business model (despite not being free) that was based on promoting addiction for profit. That hasn't changed. I'm not surprised it's commercially successful. That business model works.

As a game, I thought it was "not actually that bad" early on. The gameworld making was excellent. The game itself was inherently flawed by trying to mash together PvP, multiplayer co-op and single player in a game engine and game design specifically for single player, but it was "not that bad" once they fully separated the PvP and the single player dominated (which happened organically because that's what almost all Fallout players actually want). Apart from base building, which was awful. Worse than vanilla FO4 base building, which was very bad. The lack of mods was a massive downgrade from previous Fallout games. But it was the addiction business model that killed it for me.

That and the forums, where I got a centuries-long penalty for mentioning the existence of an exploit in FO4. Not how to use it, just that it existed. It's public knowledge, of course. That puts never-ending points on my licence to have permission to play any Bethesda game, ever. A couple more such penalties and I'd have a millenium-long ban. Without any warning, without any knowable rules, nothing.

Not a good way to get money from me.
 
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Good news.

Got a reponse from OCUK customer services they confirmed the card was fauly when testing so they are going to organise a replacement to me hopefully by the end of the week.

So soooooooooooooooooo relieved they also found fault, and that it was not some very wierd and obsure compatibility issue, I didn't think it would be either, but you cant help but stress when it's a £700 item.
 
Got my RX 7600 today, lovely little card! Despite the reviews saying the cooler is abit flimsy, i can say mine is on solid and no movement. Only a tiny bit of a flex of the cooler in the middle where the plastic is thinnest.





 
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BUDFORCE said:
Good news.

Got a reponse from OCUK customer services they confirmed the card was fauly when testing so they are going to organise a replacement to me hopefully by the end of the week.

So soooooooooooooooooo relieved they also found fault, and that it was not some very wierd and obsure compatibility issue, I didn't think it would be either, but you cant help but stress when it's a £700 item.
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Really happy for ya. That must have been quite stressful. Good luck with the new card.
 
BUDFORCE said:
Good news.

Got a reponse from OCUK customer services they confirmed the card was fauly when testing so they are going to organise a replacement to me hopefully by the end of the week.

So soooooooooooooooooo relieved they also found fault, and that it was not some very wierd and obsure compatibility issue, I didn't think it would be either, but you cant help but stress when it's a £700 item.
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I HATE buying new hardware because of this lol

Especially when building a new rig. I ALWAYS cross my fingers when turning the PC on for the first time in the hope that it'll POST lmao :cry:

And things will be worse than usual when I build my 7800X3D and DDR5 machine, because these things can take 5 minutes or so to POST for the first time!!!

I'm just glad that we have lights and/or LCD displays on motherboards these days so that we can work out what's going on! :D
 
Jay85 said:
Got my RX 7600 today, lovely little card! Despite the reviews saying the cooler is abit flimsy, i can say mine is on solid and no movement. Only a tiny bit of a flex of the cooler in the middle where the plastic is thinnest.





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The Pulse's hit a nice spot aethestically between the "higher-end" or some might say overly blingy cards, and some cheapo end of the range that can look well, a bit crap.
 
Apex said:
The Pulse's hit a nice spot aethestically between the "higher-end" or some might say overly blingy cards, and some cheapo end of the range that can look well, a bit crap.
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Yeah i feel the same way too, it looks the part until you look closely then you realise its a cheap plastic cooler but its designed in a way that looks good and rather classy tbh.

Got my card installed into my little side project now, all working! Was a breeze tbh, no issues with installation, no time to mess about with the card yet though i do wanna try overclocking it somewhat.

Redeemed my Starfield code as well so waiting on the key now like everyone else. Happy days!


 
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