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Had the sudden realisation that putting anymore points into persuasion is wasted at the moment when I can remove barriers such as lockpicking any lock. Literally just unlocked master locks before coming across a cave with about 30k of contraband in a master locked container.

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
He keeps going on about No Mans Sky though. So he can't really care about the RPG aspects,NPCs,etc - he wanted an exploration game with none of that. That is No Mans Sky. Yet he didn't like Fallout 76 which was literally that and had a huge map and no real NPCs(that was the emptiest game I played).
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He goes on and on about how the game is empty and hollow and then how he’s going to play NMS all day. He does it just for clicks, what a ****. Not surprised Neil falls for it. Clearly people miss that Starfield is story driven, it’s not for seamless exploration, like you say, if you want that play NMS. He’s also incorrect or has downright missed several mechanics in the game. Also, that’s about the fifth time it’s been posted, people need to read the thread.
 
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So I've been playing this for a couple of days and reached the giddy heights of level 5. Thoughts so far:

It's Fallout 4 in space, not Skyrim in space. The levelling is the Fallout kind.
I've been playing Bethesda games for twenty-two years, so most of it is the usual stuff in terms of working out what to do etc.
Some of the stuff is REALLY badly explained in-game. I should not need to go on t'internet to understand how to pick locks. Unless I missed something, it doesn't even tell you how to rotate?
The system for upgrading kit is way too complicated.
I kinda get why the planet maps barely exist: you're supposed to be using the tracker/analyser. Still weird though.
The personal weight limit is stupidly low, but it's great that companions seem to have infinite carrying capacity.
Big Bruno was a nice surprise. I think it took me about 100 rounds to put him down.

And holy **** but it's brutal on hardware. I'm running a 2080 and I've had to drop a lot of the settings from medium to low to stop the graphics card locking up. The CPU can handle it (9820 at 4.8GHZ), running at about 60% capacity, but anywhere in New Atlantis was killing the gfx about every ten minnute son medium. I stayed on Kreek for two hours without a problem, but New Atlantis caused serious issues. Even down in the The Well I'd be able to play a few minutes before the monitors went off, the sound continued for a few seconds, then the computer locked. It seems to be OK now, but seriously, "Low" on a 2080?
 
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CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
Buildzoid chimes on the CPU benchmarks. It made me realise the console CPUs have access to huge amounts of memory bandwidth,so that is probably why the game scales well with RAM speed.
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Wonder if its purely bandwidth if you went back a bench a 8700k against say a i9-7900x if the x299 system would perform a lot better. Had a quick look and unsurprisingly I cant find anyone who has done performance testing on a x299 system.
 
Tombstone said:
So, back to Starfield, I keep reading/seeing people say that if you are going to invest a lot of time in the game then the best thing to do is to power through the main story asap but people dont seem to elaborate on why they say that. Does anyone know why the main story should be done first as quickly as possible? I'm guessing its a NG+ thing?
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The answer I've had is if they said any more it would be major spoilers. I have seen that you don't need to complete it but don't know. I really hope I don't get spoilt on it.
 
Payment got taken yesterday and looking forward to the release here in NZ on Wednesday. I've taken the rest of the week off work, mostly to play, but there'll be garden work too.

I'm not expecting a mind-blowing game, and like all other Bethesda games, I probably won't complete it either, but if I can get about 20 hours of enjoyment out of it, I won't begrudge the money spent.

Besides, I got the Series X purely for Starfield and Hellblade 2. My hand is forced on this one.
 
I have to admit I am very disappointed with the first couple of hours of Starfield. Been looking forward to it for a long time now but my god is it boring to start of with.

Lift ride. Drill rock. Touch magic space rock. Shoot pirates. Loading screen. Shoot spaceships. Loading screen. Shoot pirates. Walk back to ship. Loading screen. Walk to train. Loading screen. Walk to constellation place. Loading screen. Floating magic space rocks. Loading screen. Walk to government building. Talk to man. Walk to train. Loading screen. Walk to ship. loading screen. Go to mars. Loading screen.

That is the first two hours. You could probably do all that in an hour but I spent ages having to add mods for DLSS, controller deadzone and to try and fix the overly saturated image (which I didn't manage to fix).

I have played every Bethesda game since Oblivion and so far this has been the most bored I have been at the start of any of those games (including Fallout 76).

The graphics are quite poor as well. Nothing spectacular and nothing that justifies the terrible performance on PC. Really disappointed so far. I hope it gets better.
 
Neil79 said:

Glorified looter shooter.. Yep! Skyrim WOW'd me, this hasn't :( I'm still playing it though, but meh
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Horses for courses I suppose. I enjoyed Skyrim for the 100-odd hours i put into it. Also enjoyed Fallout NV and 4, although I didn’t get anywhere close to completing them - just didn’t gel with those games as much as Skyrim (also didn’t complete but i lost my save and couldn’t bear to do it all again). The odd thing is, i would say I’m much more of a sci-fi fan than fantasy so I would’ve expected it to be the other way around.

With Starfield, for me it has the right blend of the elements I liked from Skyrim but with a really nice sci-fi theme so it’s hooked me. Really enjoying it so far.
 
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CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
Luckily I got a few months for free,so I have a few weeks to determine whether my New Potato setup(Ryzen 7 5700X and RTX3060TI) will run this OK! :cry:
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Surely it will? I have a 5700x but a 4070, how bad would it be though jokes aside if that 'slight' performance gain between us that you don't think is worth it turns out in reality to be worlds apart when it comes to actual gaming/what can run at X settings/res... :cry:
As you know what mine can achieve, jokes aside I'll be very interested to see what you get out of it in comparison to my experiences my brother ;)
Oh I went all the way down that rabbit hole earlier haha, and am replaying it now whilst typing this, ridiculous nonsense I love it, I still think the best one is the Preston one, although those Assaultron and Protectron ones are hilarious too, and the Shaun song :cry:
 
Calin Banc said:
I know the Witcher video, kinda agreed with him and kinda agree with him now, but I still find plenty of fun (until now anyway) doing what there is inside the game. That's about it in general, depends what you'd like from a game (especially when devs pumps it up like crazy) and what it really is. I do think it comes short of what it should be, it just ... Bethesda. Concepts of different elements, insufficiently developed, with the community picking up the slack and doing what they don't for free. A bit resembles with Bohemia and their ArmA series, but worse...


Considering how demanding the game is, better textures would have been fine.


If I play it at 1440p or 4k (downscaled to 1080p), those stats are smaller. But in this case I just turn them on if I need to check something.


Under utilization, apparently - aka bad coding. Seems plausible. They focused on AMD and that's that.



All upscaling is off, including dynamic resolution.



Is not me, is general. Usually it goes higher than that, is more like an edge case.
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Weird, I never go by those 'stats' anyway as they're usually complete bs as we've all agreed in previous posts... But yeah runs mint for me and many others on here :) Maybe try a clean install or rolling back the driver? As I say I haven't even bothered to try an update my drivers, I honestly forgot tbh since installing the card on the 26th of july...
 
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