Starfield

[Nerevarine]

I really wish Bethesda made the decision to actually take off and land on planets, like you can do in Star Citizen. It is truly amazing, and one needs to see it in action to understand it.

So far, the closest competitor to Starfield seems to be The Outer Worlds. I think in terms of explorability, bethesda wins but story and writing, Obsidian hands down be better.

 

[Desmond]

So far, the closest competitor to Starfield seems to be The Outer Worlds

Star Citizen too, has better exploration with realtime take-off and landing from/on planets.

The Outer Worlds nailed the exploration and writing IMO but sucked in gameplay mechanics since it was for the most part a junk picking simulator, plus there was ammo everywhere. At one point I had collected around 12000 ammo without even buying more and that lasted me the rest of the game. But storywise it was pretty good and characters were pretty memorable. It's not anywhere close to New Vegas though.

 

[Desmond]

Also, don't forget about this.

 

[gameranand]

I really wish Bethesda made the decision to actually take off and land on planets, like you can do in Star Citizen. It is truly amazing, and one needs to see it in action to understand it.

So far, the closest competitor to Starfield seems to be The Outer Worlds. I think in terms of explorability, bethesda wins but story and writing, Obsidian hands down be better.

I thought Star Citizen is not released. When did that happen?

 

[Desmond]

I thought Star Citizen is not released. When did that happen?

It's kind of in early access and will probably remain like this for a long time.

 

[omega44-xt]

I thought Star Citizen is not released. When did that happen?

Its in alpha, I think, yet to reach beta, forget official release.

 

[gameranand]

I was once interested in that game but after I followed it for 1 year, I was kinda sure that it'll never release.

 

[Nerevarine]

I got back to it again and it runs okayish now. When I joined during invictus week (F2P week), the servers were crashing constantly. Its a bit better now.
I also upgraded RAM to 32 GB, runs much better.

 

[Darth Vader]

Star citizen is snake oil scam product. Do not mention in this thread, its an insult to Starfield or any other game that is actually getting a release.

 

[omega44-xt]

Star citizen is snake oil scam product. Do not mention in this thread, its an insult to Starfield or any other game that is actually getting a release.

Agreed. It has been in alpha/beta for so long that its almost feels like a scam to me. They do generate a lot of hype & raise enough money to keep them afloat, time will tell what happens to them.

 

[Cyberghost]

 

[omega44-xt]

Hopefully the initial bugs & glitches will be squashed before the 6th. I'm still looking forward to playing it on 6th.

 

[Desmond]

I think I will wait a while and see how they are planning on adding mod support before planning on buying.

 

[Nerevarine]

I think I will wait a while and see how they are planning on adding mod support before planning on buying.

Dont forget unofficial patch to fix all bugs lol

 

[Desmond]

Does it have any significant bugs? I know Bethsoft games are notorious for it but I haven't really watched much gameplay of this one.

 

[pkkumarcool]

It is very hard on the gpu even 4070ti gets only 60-65 fps on high settings at 1080p.
3060 getting 30fps only on native.

 

[Desmond]

Does it support DLSS? There are a few mods that enable DLSS for this game IIRC. This might allow you to squeeze out a bit more performance out of it.

 

[omega44-xt]

DLSS vs FSR, I doubt there's performance gap but DLSS is said to have a slight visual advantage (not noticeable for most).

I'm appaled by the performance numbers of this game.

Surely the below benchmarks were from a relatively intensive area in a forest, but still, my 3070 can't do 60fps at 1080p medium. These are w/o FSR which is by default enabled on game's presets, which is a shitty move as well.

 

[Desmond]

Reminds me of Fallout 4's performance at launch. I kind of expected this, which is why I didn't buy this game on day-1.

If we wait for a year or so, someone will probably make a mod to optimize meshes and textures to help us squeeze out some performance.

 

[omega44-xt]

Reminds me of Fallout 4's performance at launch. I kind of expected this, which is why I didn't buy this game on day-1.

If we wait for a year or so, someone will probably make a mod to optimize meshes and textures to help us squeeze out some performance.

I have the itch to play it tomorrow, let's see how it goes on my i5 12400 + 3070.