• oleorun@lemmy.fanEnglish
    289·
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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

  • JasonHears@feddit.nlEnglish
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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.

        • Catasaur@lemmy.catasaur.xyzEnglish
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          On Linux, you’ll want to install figlet and toilet

          I know you’re 100% serious, but this sentence sounds so made up and hilarious

        • EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          I use Arch btw Endeavour OS so don’t have Debian repos but I will definitely check them out. I especially like the fancy dark mode.

      • Wilker@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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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)

    • Mara@pawb.socialEnglish
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      I love that the installer has a cracktro, that’s the real good stuff.

    • nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.caEnglish
      10·
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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.

      • adriaan@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        It can barely run on a gtx1070 man what kind of black magic do you expect a hacker to cast to make it run on a Switch

    • 7Sea_Sailor@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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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.

    • bookmeat@lemm.eeEnglish
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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?

      • TechnoBabble@lemm.eeEnglish
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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?

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

      • harmonea@kbin.social
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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.

        • Qualanqui@lemmy.nzEnglish
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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.

          • harmonea@kbin.social
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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).

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
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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.

    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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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.

        • Krackalot@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          142·
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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.

      • Gamey@feddit.rocksEnglish
        571·
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        You forgot Fallout76 and their own shitty launcher, well and the fact that Microsoft bought them already…

        • leftzero@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          And horse armour.

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

          • Gamey@feddit.rocksEnglish
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            At least they don’t tread modders like Rockstar, well at least not yet I guess.

      • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafeEnglish
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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

    • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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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.

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

      • toxictenement@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        I found an optimized ini file on nexusmods that has the game running real well and still looking pretty good. Good lord though yeah the performance is awful.

    • TheCaconym [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      552·
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      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.mlEnglish
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        I have to applaud Bethesda for this decision, it is something that is very nice for the end user.

        • TechnoBabble@lemm.eeEnglish
          6·
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          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.mlEnglish
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            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

        • _TK@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyzEnglish
          7·
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          And is developed by ID software, not Bethesda Game Studios. Bethesda the publisher has different tactics when it comes to games not developed by BGS.

    • totallynotfbi@lemm.eeEnglish
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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

      • TechnoBabble@lemm.eeEnglish
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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.

      • dustojnikhummer@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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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.

      • argv_minus_one@beehaw.orgEnglish
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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.

    • Frog-Brawler@kbin.social
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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. 🤷‍♂️

          • TechnoBabble@lemm.eeEnglish
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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?

            • HiT3k@beehaw.orgEnglish
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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

  • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
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    Eagerly waiting for the videos of every Starfield’s fade-to-black screen transitioning back into Skyrim’s opening

  • argv_minus_one@beehaw.orgEnglish
    49·
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    “Pirates? I’m sorry, I can’t hear you over the gazillion sales we’re about to make.” —Bethesda, probably

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
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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.

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

    • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      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.

        • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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          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.zoneEnglish
      11·
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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.

      • ddkman@lemm.eeEnglish
        7·
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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…

        • argv_minus_one@beehaw.orgEnglish
          7·
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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.

          • ddkman@lemm.eeEnglish
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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.

        • argv_minus_one@beehaw.orgEnglish
          5·
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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.

    • leftzero@lemmy.mlEnglish
      8·
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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.

      • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
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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.

      • iturnedintoanewt@lemm.eeEnglish
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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…

        • devious@programming.devEnglish
          3·
          il y a 1 an

          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.

      • milkjug@beehaw.orgEnglish
        6·
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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.

      • vagrantprodigy@lemmy.whynotdrs.orgEnglish
        6·
        il y a 1 an

        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.

          • ObiGynKenobi@beehaw.orgEnglish
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            il y a 1 an

            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.

    • Serinus@lemmy.mlEnglish
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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.

        • Serinus@lemmy.mlEnglish
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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.