Commissar SFLUFAN Posted September 1, 2023 Share Posted September 1, 2023 1 minute ago, stepee said: to be fair, the premium upgrade is the cheapest option there and it gives you early access :P However, that's technically not a "version" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Best Posted September 1, 2023 Share Posted September 1, 2023 One says gampass +$31 is that it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted September 1, 2023 Share Posted September 1, 2023 1 minute ago, best3444 said: One says gampass +$31 is that it? Yes, if you have Game Pass, then the $31 Premium Edition upgrade will grant Early Access. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Best Posted September 1, 2023 Share Posted September 1, 2023 14 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said: Yes, if you have Game Pass, then the $31 Premium Edition upgrade will grant Early Access. Thank you. I was confused and didn't want to waste money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedarkstark Posted September 1, 2023 Share Posted September 1, 2023 2 minutes ago, best3444 said: I was confused This will be the quote engraved on your tombstone. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Best Posted September 1, 2023 Share Posted September 1, 2023 Just now, thedarkstark said: This will be the quote on your tombstone. Lol very true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted September 1, 2023 Share Posted September 1, 2023 Captain Rahn Solo reporting for duty. EDIT: Captain Solo successfully bullshitted his way out of his first fight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted September 1, 2023 Share Posted September 1, 2023 7 hours ago, Dexterryu said: That's possible. Skyrim was OK-ish for me. Didn't care for Fallout either. I think the main issue with Bethesda games is that they build worlds but skip the narrative world building... That's the difference between Witcher 3/Mass Effect/Dragon Age Origins/Elden Ring vs Skyrim. Those worlds have lore, history, etc... that make them a world vs a map. There is plenty of lore in an Elder Scrolls game, they're all in books you find in the world and some are quite lengthy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Best Posted September 1, 2023 Share Posted September 1, 2023 Bought and downloading. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spawn_of_Apathy Posted September 1, 2023 Share Posted September 1, 2023 1 hour ago, best3444 said: @skillzdadirecta I'm on gamepass and there are three different versions to get. Starfield premium edition $99.99 Starfield Standard edition $69.99 Starfield Premium edition upgrade $31.49 Which one do I get for the early access? Nothing in these descriptions say anything about playing early? seems you already got your answer. Premium edition if you want to buy the full game with early access or the premium upgrade if you wanted to just play it on GamePass but get all the premium stuff, like early access. Some people got salty about the upgrade, but I rather like the idea. In the past if you wanted the premium edition stuff you’d have to just buy the $80-$120 version even if you already had GamePass. And some games don’t even let you buy the upgrade if you just got the standard edition. You’d have to buy the whole game again. So I like the existence of upgrades. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Best Posted September 1, 2023 Share Posted September 1, 2023 1 minute ago, Spawn_of_Apathy said: seems you already got your answer. Premium edition if you want to buy the full game with early access or the premium upgrade if you wanted to just play it on GamePass but get all the premium stuff, like early access. Thanks man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodger Posted September 1, 2023 Share Posted September 1, 2023 Already had my first crash. Least buggiest Bugthesda game ever my ass! Well it made it farther than Skyrim in the PS3 which first crashed for me during the opening cart ride. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Best Posted September 1, 2023 Share Posted September 1, 2023 1 minute ago, Dodger said: Already had my first crash. Least buggiest Bugthesda game ever my ass! Well it made it farther than Skyrim in the PS3 which first crashed for me during the opening cart ride. Sucks to hear. Other than the crash, how are you enjoying it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xbob42 Posted September 1, 2023 Share Posted September 1, 2023 The lighting or gamma or HDR or something seems totally busted for absolutely everyone. Either that or someone made the worst artistic decision in the history of media, because the entire game looks super washed out and gross. Areas that are supposed to be pitch black are like a gross sickly green which looks abysmal. It's like the piss filter from the Fallout games but even stranger. Performance kinda sucked with FSR, but using the DLSS mod I'm well above 100 at seemingly all times so far. There's an FOV fix for anyone that needs one in the Steam forums. Just making a text file and copying in a line. Game itself seems... very Bethesda so far. At the very least all the art assets are high quality enough for me to read all the text, which is something I always enjoy. There's also some real good item models of all the stuff you pick up, like a boxed beer with a little straw on the side, like a juice box. Gunplay has been very middle-of-the-road. Ship combat was like some Fischer-Price shit despite the inclusion of manually diverting energy to and from systems. Manual space flight is absolutely useless as we all already knew, but despite all this, it's not painful to play like Fallout 3 was. I got distracted a couple hours ago and have just been watching my wife play Fall Guys while I left the game open. Time to get back to it, I want to know what this NG+ shit is that all the reviewers were so secretive about. (And no I don't want to be told.) I do love mysterious bullshit, so that part has been compelling for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodger Posted September 1, 2023 Share Posted September 1, 2023 3 minutes ago, best3444 said: Sucks to hear. Other than the crash, how are you enjoying it? So far so good. Gonna go stealth route, because stealth is always OP in Bethesda games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted September 1, 2023 Share Posted September 1, 2023 44 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said: There is plenty of lore in an Elder Scrolls game, they're all in books you find in the world and some are quite lengthy. Yeah Elder Scrolls games have literally thousands of years of lore. People use all of the lore when they are building characters for strict roleplaying. The Lore in Elder Scrolls game is EASILY on par with what's in The Witcher and Dragon Age games. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Best Posted September 1, 2023 Share Posted September 1, 2023 10 minutes ago, Xbob42 said: The lighting or gamma or HDR or something seems totally busted for absolutely everyone. Either that or someone made the worst artistic decision in the history of media, because the entire game looks super washed out and gross. Areas that are supposed to be pitch black are like a gross sickly green which looks abysmal. It's like the piss filter from the Fallout games but even stranger. I was reading reviews about this very issue. They say to turn HDR off. Is that possible especially on the Series X? 9 minutes ago, Dodger said: So far so good. Gonna go stealth route, because stealth is always OP in Bethesda games. Great to hear. I'm not a stealth gamer so I'll choose something different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted September 1, 2023 Share Posted September 1, 2023 I'm playing as a smooth talking gun-slinger 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Best Posted September 1, 2023 Share Posted September 1, 2023 3 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said: I'm playing as a smooth talking gun-slinger What's your opinion on it so far? My game is finally downloaded but I'm in bed trying sleep. I'm like a kid on Christmas eve. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted September 1, 2023 Share Posted September 1, 2023 14 minutes ago, best3444 said: What's your opinion on it so far? My game is finally downloaded but I'm in bed trying sleep. I'm like a kid on Christmas eve. I'm liking it a lot so far but it's giving me STRONG Mass Effect vibes. Like a LOT so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Best Posted September 1, 2023 Share Posted September 1, 2023 1 minute ago, skillzdadirecta said: I'm liking it a lot so far but it's giving me STRONG Mass Effect vibes. Like a LOT so far. Well that's a great thing for me because I loved the Mass Effect games. Does it look washed out like xbob said above? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted September 1, 2023 Share Posted September 1, 2023 13 minutes ago, best3444 said: Well that's a great thing for me because I loved the Mass Effect games. Does it look washed out like xbob said above? it does a little. First thing I noticed when i booted it up. The space stuff looks better but the lighting is off. Hopefully they can fix it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xbob42 Posted September 1, 2023 Share Posted September 1, 2023 1 hour ago, best3444 said: I was reading reviews about this very issue. They say to turn HDR off. Is that possible especially on the Series X? No, that doesn't help, nor does toggling auto HDR or another person's suggestion about changing dynamic range output from full to limited. Further, I'm now in a different area where the piss filter is now a windex filter and the shadows have a nasty blue tint. I think it might actually be some sort of demented artistic choice by someone clearly in need of an immediate lobotomy... But I hold out hope it's just a gamma issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Best Posted September 1, 2023 Share Posted September 1, 2023 7 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said: it does a little. First thing I noticed when i booted it up. The space stuff looks better but the lighting is off. Hopefully they can fix it. Fuck. 3 minutes ago, Xbob42 said: No, that doesn't help, nor does toggling auto HDR or another person's suggestion about changing dynamic range output from full to limited. Further, I'm now in a different area where the piss filter is now a windex filter and the shadows have a nasty blue tint. I think it might actually be some sort of demented artistic choice by someone clearly in need of an immediate lobotomy... But I hold out hope it's just a gamma issue. Ugh. This is terrible news for me since I'm a graphics whore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xbob42 Posted September 1, 2023 Share Posted September 1, 2023 On the plus side, or I guess neutral? You can tell who important NPCs are based on the quality of their facial animations. What I assume are important NPCs get what looks like a full mocap treatment. I'm talking L.A. Noire style facial animations (without it looking like a weird movie file being played over a face shape which is what L.A. Noire always looked like to me) with properly stretching nasolabial folds, lips that move quickly and in all the right shapes as a character enunciates, including nice circular shapes, raised eyebrows at the right moments that don't look animated by a weird puppeteer, sometimes even pauses in the facial animation followed by a very slight flick of the eyes in a certain direction as if to say "you know, those bastards out there." Looks very cool. But then 2 feet away there's George who looks like a reskinned Skyrim character masquerading as if he belongs. A shopkeep with 10% of the resolution to her face with clearly unmocapped everything. And people still stand around kind of awkwardly most of the time, though not as bad as ol' Fallout 3 where if you watch footage of the intro it's like way creepier than it was before if you just watch how people animate and look at you. The lack of consistency bothers me, but the fact that at least some characters got a real VIP treatment shows Bethesda might be learning! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted September 1, 2023 Share Posted September 1, 2023 Didn't realize there was color-coded loot in this. I got a couple of purples, a couple of blues and an orange legendary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Vic20 Posted September 1, 2023 Share Posted September 1, 2023 Starfield DLSS 2 & XeSS Mod Is Now Available For Free, Replaces FSR 2 Integration WCCFTECH.COM Starfield has just entered its early access phase and the first mod to add DLSS 2 & XeSS support is already out for gamers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spork3245 Posted September 1, 2023 Share Posted September 1, 2023 I would like to thank you guys for paying $30+ extra to beta test this for a week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spork3245 Posted September 1, 2023 Share Posted September 1, 2023 https://www.techpowerup.com/313089/intel-arc-owners-left-in-the-cold-with-starfield-as-advanced-access-begins Oof. Game doesn’t seem to run properly (or at all) on Intel Arc GPUs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Vic20 Posted September 1, 2023 Share Posted September 1, 2023 2 hours ago, Spork3245 said: I would like to thank you guys for paying $30+ extra to beta test this for a week. YOU ARE WELCOME! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Best Posted September 1, 2023 Share Posted September 1, 2023 I am at the hospital due to my illness and have Starfield downloaded and ready to play when I get home. I hope I enjoy it. Post impressions guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodyHell Posted September 1, 2023 Share Posted September 1, 2023 17 hours ago, skillzdadirecta said: No you have to pay for early access but at least you'll have the game downloaded. I downloaded the game last week. It's only 35 bucks to upgrade from the gamepass version to the version with early access though. Wait, you can upgrade the gamepass version? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodyHell Posted September 1, 2023 Share Posted September 1, 2023 14 hours ago, best3444 said: Well apparently you're on point with Starfield, too. I hope I enjoy it it because $100 is steep for me. Why would you pay 100$ for it? edit: you didn’t. but again, if 100$ is a lot for you, why wouldn’t you just wait 15 hours ago, Brian said: Look at that, Microsoft can release a decent Triple A title I mean, they’ve released multiple great ones this generation already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bacon Posted September 1, 2023 Share Posted September 1, 2023 If Starfield is actually good and I can ignore crafting and gathering(with or without mods), I'll try it when they release the Ultimate Edition with all the DLC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodyHell Posted September 1, 2023 Share Posted September 1, 2023 3 hours ago, Spork3245 said: I would like to thank you guys for paying $30+ extra to beta test this for a week. I had a bunch of cash from the rewards program I spent on it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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