General Videogame Thread

Had an hour on it this morning still in the lab! I look everywhere shot a few pirates a few diffident weapons! Am always like this with new games that I know am going to finish it! Be a 12 month game for me this because am not like I used to be playing 6 hours day to late on!
 
Tricky_Trev said:
On Starfield, I feel like going for 1000+ planets and fast travel between them is massively inferior to going for say 100+ planets and being able to travel between them yourself. Even more so when 900+ of those planets are pretty dull really. More is not better. I was hoping for the best game I’ve ever played, hype was that high, but in truth it’s a 8/10 very good game. For me, anyway. Not hating on it, I am enjoying playing it. But I just feel a little underwhelmed at the same time.
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Yeah thing with me is I want clear everything possible so am still on kreet killing every pirates before leaving! Thing is if you leave the planet then go back are those pirates I killed will they be still killed?!
 
Tricky_Trev said:
On Starfield, I feel like going for 1000+ planets and fast travel between them is massively inferior to going for say 100+ planets and being able to travel between them yourself. Even more so when 900+ of those planets are pretty dull really. More is not better. I was hoping for the best game I’ve ever played, hype was that high, but in truth it’s a 8/10 very good game. For me, anyway. Not hating on it, I am enjoying playing it. But I just feel a little underwhelmed at the same time.
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Ye I’m the same, No Man’s Sky has that nailed down, surely it wouldn’t have been as hard to implement in this, the fast travel system is useful but to call it a space faring game is a stretch , yes you go into space, you can fight there and then that’s it really, I like NMS whe you can fly into and skim along the planet. Like you say less planets maybe but more interaction.
 
A little tip to get your upgrades moving along. Pick a shitty gun, find an upgrade you can put on it, do it, then take it off. This will count for 2 upgrades. Do it as many times as you have resources. You can also buy resources in the shop just outside the spaceport if you are missing the odd thing.

I've ignored the jet pack upgrades so far though I have added extra oxygen. I'm just farming resources on the planets, wiping out pirates in the unexplored areas and aiming for base building upgrades. The idea is to get a mining facility going and get loads of cash. Oh yes. Then I'll buy a better ship, upgrade it and then explore.

10 hours of gameplay in and I'm having fun. Instillations are a bit samey, either good people who ask you do go collect something or full of badies. Whatever you do, don't open any door with a living creature behind it. Got hammered by a level 46 critter. One hit. Boom.

It's not No Mans Sky, and I do miss actually taking off, landing etc etc but it feels more together somehow.
 
Had to take a break from Starfield. Absolute time thief of a game, absolutely loving it. Get the argument about the travelling but as I didn't go into it expecting much on that side of things I'm not disappointed. The faction storylines are absolutely brilliantly written. Completed a tiny fraction of the main story and I'm 22 hours in. Skyrim and Fallout on steroids. Perfect for me.
 
BimboBob said:
A little tip to get your upgrades moving along. Pick a shitty gun, find an upgrade you can put on it, do it, then take it off. This will count for 2 upgrades. Do it as many times as you have resources. You can also buy resources in the shop just outside the spaceport if you are missing the odd thing.

I've ignored the jet pack upgrades so far though I have added extra oxygen. I'm just farming resources on the planets, wiping out pirates in the unexplored areas and aiming for base building upgrades. The idea is to get a mining facility going and get loads of cash. Oh yes. Then I'll buy a better ship, upgrade it and then explore.

10 hours of gameplay in and I'm having fun. Instillations are a bit samey, either good people who ask you do go collect something or full of badies. Whatever you do, don't open any door with a living creature behind it. Got hammered by a level 46 critter. One hit. Boom.

It's not No Mans Sky, and I do miss actually taking off, landing etc etc but it feels more together somehow.
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I think you and I want very different things from the game, but I am glad we are both generally enjoying it!
 
SebastianBlue said:
I think you and I want very different things from the game, but I am glad we are both generally enjoying it!
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In reality I'm just exploring and working out what's what. Done a few gun upgrades, level 2 booster, sold a load of shit.
Have also completed a few side missions. Grav drived out into the wilds, died a few times to space pirates and beat a level 60 giant creature on some far distant planet by hiding up the ship ramp. It was too big to follow.
Found a spaceport that had ships for sale. 350k will get you a doozy!
Will explore close to hand in the morning. Maybe even a story mission from the lodge.
 
lee_wsm said:
£10 a month is doable

I’m running

Fanatec Csl dd 5nm with Fanatec McLaren gt3 v2
Logitech gt pro pedals
32 inch 4k monitor
Gt omega rig

So not the most basic but also not anything too special
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It's a shame you have to pay to host an iRacing server for messing about but I understand why, I'm gonna sub to the basic too so if you want to join some rookie stuff let us know.

Be interested to compare DD settings, I find it much faster with lower feedback but much easier to make mistakes when it's turned down.
 
BimboBob said:
A little tip to get your upgrades moving along. Pick a shitty gun, find an upgrade you can put on it, do it, then take it off. This will count for 2 upgrades. Do it as many times as you have resources. You can also buy resources in the shop just outside the spaceport if you are missing the odd thing.

I've ignored the jet pack upgrades so far though I have added extra oxygen. I'm just farming resources on the planets, wiping out pirates in the unexplored areas and aiming for base building upgrades. The idea is to get a mining facility going and get loads of cash. Oh yes. Then I'll buy a better ship, upgrade it and then explore.

10 hours of gameplay in and I'm having fun. Instillations are a bit samey, either good people who ask you do go collect something or full of badies. Whatever you do, don't open any door with a living creature behind it. Got hammered by a level 46 critter. One hit. Boom.

It's not No Mans Sky, and I do miss actually taking off, landing etc etc but it feels more together somehow.
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Would appreciate some advice on how to work toward becoming more adept at upgrading. Which skills to invest in etc….seems a bit bewildering to me to start.
 
Bloody hell it’s addictiv, I had to stop this morning I’m getting motion sickness with it, I hope that passes, I’ve had ot with other games like Quake and had to stop playing it! Done quite a few missions so now I think I’ll explore a bit, level 3 booster now and getting some decent equipment as well. I wish they had quick swap with weapons though.
 
Blue Maverick said:
Bloody hell it’s addictiv, I had to stop this morning I’m getting motion sickness with it, I hope that passes, I’ve had ot with other games like Quake and had to stop playing it! Done quite a few missions so now I think I’ll explore a bit, level 3 booster now and getting some decent equipment as well. I wish they had quick swap with weapons though.
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Have you assigned you're weapons to the dpad? You're right its like video game crack
 
Blue Maverick said:
Ye mate but you have to go into that to select I’d prefer like Y button that just cycles like in normal FPS
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Fair enough. Give it a bit of time and they'll definitely patch it when they've got relevant feedback. It's the best game from day 1 I've played. Definitely worth the extra few months wait. Menus do feel clunky at times
 
ultimateharold said:
It's a shame you have to pay to host an iRacing server for messing about but I understand why, I'm gonna sub to the basic too so if you want to join some rookie stuff let us know.

Be interested to compare DD settings, I find it much faster with lower feedback but much easier to make mistakes when it's turned down.
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If you’re just starting out, I hear Sambo iRacing on YouTube does some decent guides for the Rookie Formula Vee…..

Side note, it’s Week 13 of the season right now (the officials and Championship runs from week 1-12 and week 13 is basically mayhem as there’s no iRating or Safety Rating on offer or at stake).

Week 1 of Season 4 2023 will start around midnight UK next Monday night. If you do join up before then just practice and run the ‘Battle of the Littlewings’ in the Vee this week to learn the car. It’s more mad than the officials but worth the practice without damaging either of your ratings.
 
SWP's back said:
If you’re just starting out, I hear Sambo iRacing on YouTube does some decent guides for the Rookie Formula Vee…..

Side note, it’s Week 13 of the season right now (the officials and Championship runs from week 1-12 and week 13 is basically mayhem as there’s no iRating or Safety Rating on offer or at stake).

Week 1 of Season 4 2023 will start around midnight UK next Monday night. If you do join up before then just practice and run the ‘Battle of the Littlewings’ in the Vee this week to learn the car. It’s more mad than the officials but worth the practice without damaging either of your ratings.
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Funny you should say that, had been watching those videos. Didn't know about that no rating for this week, will give it a go later.
 
SWP's back said:
If you’re just starting out, I hear Sambo iRacing on YouTube does some decent guides for the Rookie Formula Vee…..

Side note, it’s Week 13 of the season right now (the officials and Championship runs from week 1-12 and week 13 is basically mayhem as there’s no iRating or Safety Rating on offer or at stake).

Week 1 of Season 4 2023 will start around midnight UK next Monday night. If you do join up before then just practice and run the ‘Battle of the Littlewings’ in the Vee this week to learn the car. It’s more mad than the officials but worth the practice without damaging either of your ratings.
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Won’t confirm nor deny the video I posted of your purported setup? ;-)
 
SebastianBlue said:
The modder released it (Starfield UpScaler for those that want to use it) after I posted.

Alas, it is more half DLSS, as although the graphics look slightly better, no one has found any performance boosts from it compared to normal native DLSS.

I installed it yesterday and played a bit and the biggest improvements seem to be occlusion rendering and the included ReShader helping with textures and pop-in. I am running on Ultra on a 3050ti (8 GB), performance overclock, high TP SSD, with Starfield realtime thread priority on my i5-12500H (16 GB DDR5), and am seeing solid 45 FPS, with drop down to 30 FPS in places, and 60 FPS when in non-taxing interiors. I may drop it to High and 67% Resolution Render (which becomes 50% Performance Balance when using the DLSS mod) to see if I can get a consistent 60 FPS.

It is definitely a Bethesda game in that it isn’t optimised well (Creation engine makes that very difficult), made worse by their exclusive deal with AMD, which doesn’t make much sense for their market, given ~75% of those playing Starfield will be on Nvidia GPUs and native DLSS3.5 would work wonders for game performance.

Still, better than nothing, I suppose.
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Update: I had to disable the DLSS UpScaler mod as it was causing all sort of performance and graphical issues. At first it seemed to marginally improve rendering resolution, with no real performance improvement (widely reported for those using the mod). But after five or so hours of play I started to see significant drops in FPS in areas I had previously had no real issues in, texture and asset pop-in, and—most frustratingly—render freezes, where a still image was displayed, whilst my character was still moving about in the world.

I tried hard restarting my computer and tweaking the mod settings but it didn’t seem to make much difference. Once I disabled the mod the issues went away, and I honestly don’t really miss the slight improvement in rendering; I just dropped quality settings to High and set the Render Resolution higher to get nearly the same effect.

Seems others have also run in to the issues, which the modder is looking in to.

Until the mod is improved (and DLSS 3.5 support isn’t behind a pay wall, as the free mod is only DLSS 2) I will give it a miss.

Really hope Bethesda update Starfield to includes native DLSS 3.5 support, especially given the vast majority of those playing on PC will be on Nvidia GPUs.

The AMD exclusivity deal makes less and less sense the more you scrutinise it.
 
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