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    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

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    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.

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        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)

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      I love that the installer has a cracktro, that’s the real good stuff.

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      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.

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      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.

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

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        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?

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

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        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.

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          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.

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            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).

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    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.

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      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.

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          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.

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

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          And horse armour.

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

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            At least they don’t tread modders like Rockstar, well at least not yet I guess.

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        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

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      They don’t even replace the DLL file for you! After you run the RUNE installer, you have to copy the emulator yourself

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        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.

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        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.

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        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.

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      I was playing it last night on steam. I needed a new GPU recently and it came with a code to download it. 🤷‍♂️

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            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?

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              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

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    “Pirates? I’m sorry, I can’t hear you over the gazillion sales we’re about to make.” —Bethesda, probably

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      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.

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    Eagerly waiting for the videos of every Starfield’s fade-to-black screen transitioning back into Skyrim’s opening

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        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.

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            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.

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            Awful shortsighted of a comment from a self-proclaimed “Techmaster” lol

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        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.

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    Hol-eee shit. My GTX 1070 doesn’t meet minimum requirements…and it just won’t boot? Oh wow.

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        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…

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          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.

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            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.

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          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.

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      Gamers nexus had gtx 1070 in their starfield performance review, so it can work on a 1070. 30fps on low settings I think though.

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      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.

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        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.

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        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…

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          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.

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    Did starfield not have denuvo drm. I thought most Bethesda games did.

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        True. I guess I thought that because “ghost wire Tokyo” and “redfall” do. But makes sense for a game like starfield to not

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          redfall

          Best copyright protection for Redfall is that the game is shit and nobody wants to play it.

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            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.

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              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.

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          Yeah those games are only published by Bethesda, not developed. Their in house games never have DRM, unless you count steam.

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        Not necessairly (well, goodbye to Starfield Script Extender in that case). But I think it’s more that Gamebryo can’t integrate Denuvo lol

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          It would also be unplayably slow. Bethesda games aren’t known for performance even without Denuvo slowing them down.

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              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.

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                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.

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      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?

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      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.

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          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.