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[–] [email protected] 289 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 250 points 2 years ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 167 points 2 years ago (7 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I need to find out how to make these. Mostly just cause I like it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

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)

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[–] [email protected] 122 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Im not pre-ordering piracy either.

Im waiting for the reviews.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Reviews hit yesterday, check your preferred gaming sites

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 2 years ago (6 children)

To be fair it's the exact same bypass as any other Steam game. Any steam emulator would work.

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

As is Bethesda tradition.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yes, that would be terrible for them to be bought by somebody like MS.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You forgot Fallout76 and their own shitty launcher, well and the fact that Microsoft bought them already...

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 2 years ago (2 children)

"Cracked" meaning having replaced a dll file

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 years ago (3 children)

WTF?! The game is not even released on steam yet? Are they cracking the preloaded version?

[–] adaveinthelife 63 points 2 years ago (3 children)

AFAIK the digital deluxe edition allows you to start playing 5 days early.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can confirm. Started playing this morning.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What’s your opinion so far?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Skyrim in space. Exactly what I was hoping it would be.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Except when I stole some dude's sandwich, instead of being arrested he just said "Hey that's my sandwich!" And then sighed, defeated

Definitely a better experience already than Skyrim

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I was playing it last night on steam. I needed a new GPU recently and it came with a code to download it. 🤷‍♂️

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (4 children)

There was a 5 day early access, at least on gamepass.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago (3 children)

“Pirates? I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the gazillion sales we're about to make.” —Bethesda, probably

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago

*Already made. They've got like 200k+ $100 deluxe version sales already, the base game hasn't even officially launched

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 years ago

Eagerly waiting for the videos of every Starfield's fade-to-black screen transitioning back into Skyrim's opening

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Wonder if the cracked version crashes when starting a new game like the steam version does...

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (18 children)

Hol-eee shit. My GTX 1070 doesn't meet minimum requirements...and it just won't boot? Oh wow.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

Well, that was quick!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Did starfield not have denuvo drm. I thought most Bethesda games did.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 2 years ago (8 children)

None of them do. It would fuck with people's ability to make mods for them.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (4 children)

True. I guess I thought that because "ghost wire Tokyo" and "redfall" do. But makes sense for a game like starfield to not

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 years ago (2 children)

redfall

Best copyright protection for Redfall is that the game is shit and nobody wants to play it.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

Yeah those games are only published by Bethesda, not developed. Their in house games never have DRM, unless you count steam.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Bethesda Game Studios games don't have DRM like Denuvo. BGS and Bethesda Softworks are two different entities. ID, MachineGames and other Zenimax studios tend to have DRM, not BGS.

On the other hand, didn't Denuvo come out after Fallout 4 launched? So what would they even protect, 76?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Does this mean I can pirate it early? 😮

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And even it's cracked from I won't be able to play it thanks to my old as system and my lack of will to purchase a new one untill it dies.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

They fast as fuck. Another W for the pirates.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Is RUNE or IGGAMESCOM trustworthy?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Thats nice. One question tho is rune codex now? Since I saw on elamigos that rune/codex refere to the same people

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