General Videogame Thread

[SebastianBlue]

I have been using this since almost the start of the game.

Spoiler

I found a mission in Akila City when the main quest takes you there. It is called 'Defensive Measures'. If you go down to The Rock from the City Entrance, then take the left hand path down the side of the building, you will find Davis arguing with a girl. The final part ' Leader of the Pack' rewards the gun.

Nice! And thanks for using the spoiler box!

I have been using my heavily modified old hunting rifle (range 130), as well. It’s actually marked as my favourite weapon in the stats.

I am just hoping there is a higher tech, even longer range sniper rifle later down the line. No spoilers if anyone knows of one, though, I want to discover it on my own.

 

[yatesy94.]

Feel a bit overwhelmed in terms of the combat. I'm thinking I might just go on easy and then I can just shoot everything in my way. I jumped into it thinking I wouldn't have to overthink things.

Probably doesn't help I always go into games that are visually great so I usually overlook these things. Something like Deathloop I really got into.

Come back to my original post after you've finished lol...seriously stick with it one of the best games of all time. Infinite is brilliant too try that one it's a bit more varied and less linear.

 

[citytill1die84]

Yes, you need several strategic ‘quick save’ points to do it (or I did at least).

I also grav drived out after each battle to get repaired at Jemison

Did it :) so easy when u can Grav away lol

Cheers

 

[SWP's back]

The Razorleaf?

First thing I did when I got it was to go to a shipbuilder and I upgraded everything and got my cargo to 1060 which is an absolute godsend

I struggling to get a decent enough reactor anywhere (I’m level 19 if that makes a difference to what we’re offered)

 

[SWP's back]

By god, Bethesda added native DLSS 3.5 support to Starfield in the first update (ignoring the launch patch), along with FOV slider and Brightness/contrast controls!

Starfield Updates and Mod Support – September 13, 2023

Thank you to all of you playing Starfield and your support. We are absolutely blown away by the response and all you love about the game. We’re also reading all your great feedback on what you’d like to see improved or added to the game. This is a game we’ll be supporting for years and years to...

bethesda.net

Edit: Nevermind, despite the new GeForce Game Ready Driver updates referencing performance enhancements for Starfield, and Bethesda’s Starfield update notes referencing adding DLSS support, they apparently meant it will be coming in the future.

I would say it was an overeager reading comprehensive mistake on my and many other thousands of Nvidia GPU owners, but I think Bethesda were a bit cheeky with the wording of the patch notes.

I’m new to the PC master race having only bothered to buy a decent PC when I got into Sim Racing on VR. I’m currently on full Ultra settings and getting 100fps plus every time I glance at the counter, would DLSS actually benefit me at all if my monitor is 100mhz?

 

[SWP's back]

I think I commandeered that ship, which was the half the size and was lower overall level, when I was around L13.

With that one, I saw it landing at an outpost on a planet I was on, stalked to the landing zone, killed some of the Spacers that came out, ran inside to the loading bay, boarded, killed everyone inside, then took the ship back to New Atlantis to register and then heavily modify.

But you can damage ships in combat enough to disable them (very low ship health) and then go close to them, target, and then use the board option, where you have to do the killing and takeover to hijack the ship.

Have you seen that it’s much cheaper to register a ship from your own in game menu than at a spaceport?

 

[SWP's back]

@ultimateharold new track in 12 hours, Oulton Park International. First time the Vee has been there so no one will have experience over you on that track set up. I’ve stuck a practice lap up on YT, bets of luck.

 

[SebastianBlue]

I’m new to the PC master race having only bothered to buy a decent PC when I got into Sim Racing on VR. I’m currently on full Ultra settings and getting 100fps plus every time I glance at the counter, would DLSS actually benefit me at all if my monitor is 100mhz?

You are among the few that manage it, congrats! I know a few with top end i7s and brand new 4090s that can only get a steady 60 FPS on Ultra, with some dips below.

I have done some tweaking for my 3080

DLSS wouldn’t improve performance that much for you in regular play, especially if you are using Vsync for your display (you should be) which will restrict the frame rate to your monitors refresh rate.

But you would likely see an improvement in rendering and some performance benefits in resource intensive instances like big set piece battles.

I have a 100hz ultrawide monitor myself but, unfortunately, I have never gotten close to 100 FPS without going all the way down to low, at least on my ultrawide. My system isn’t cutting edge, but it is well above the recommended specs for Starfield (i5 12500x, RTX 3080ti, 16 GB DDR5, High TP Gaming SSD, etc.). Some of it is the render resolution, as I can get near 100 FPS just playing on the 16” UHD laptop screen. But, for comparison, I can run Jedi: Survivor on Ultra and sustain 100 FPS regularly on the ultrawide.

It’s just a Bethesda trademark poorly optimised game. It’ll improve with updates and native DLSS support.

 

[SebastianBlue]

Have you seen that it’s much cheaper to register a ship from your own in game menu than at a spaceport?

That trick only works if you have invested skill points in Commerce and I haven’t.

I have also seen some reports that it may have been “fixed” in the first patch.

 

[SWP's back]

You are among the few that manage it, congrats! I know a few with top end i7s and brand new 4090s that can only get a steady 60 FPS on Ultra, with some dips below.

I have done some tweaking for my 3080

DLSS wouldn’t improve performance that much for you in regular play, especially if you are using Vsync for your display (you should be) which will restrict the frame rate to your monitors refresh rate.

But you would likely see an improvement in rendering and some performance benefits in resource intensive instances like big set piece battles.

I have a 100hz ultrawide monitor myself but, unfortunately, I have never gotten close to 100 FPS without going all the way down to low, at least on my ultrawide. My system isn’t cutting edge, but it is well above the recommended specs for Starfield (i5 12500x, RTX 3080ti, 16 GB DDR5, High TP Gaming SSD, etc.). Some of it is the render resolution, as I can get near 100 FPS just playing on the 16” UHD laptop screen. But, for comparison, I can run Jedi: Survivor on Ultra and sustain 100 FPS regularly on the ultrawide.

It’s just a Bethesda trademark poorly optimised game. It’ll improve with updates and native DLSS support.

I’ll double check again as FPS isn’t something I normally fixate on but I’m sure it’s always over 100 when I look.

I do have a 4090 and i7-13700 32GB DDR5 (basically when I had it built I just told them to give me whatever the ‘current’ highest specs were that they could).

My monitor is a 37” ultra and whilst it’s not 4k or HDR, the graphics have been very smooth and pretty thus far but yeah if DLSS helps it look better then I’m in.