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It's a guy playing the beginning of the game, it's filmed in vertical with the phone :) Will most likely be taken down very soon.

I didn't watch the intro, just skimmed through the gameplay parts, looks really good.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Filmed his TV using his phone in portrait mode. Just as Todd intended it to be.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Already down as well. Anyone downloaded a backup?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

And gone lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks! It looks freaking awesome. I wish we didn’t have two weeks to wait still

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Looks basically as expected from the official trailers! Cool to see more backgrounds; I think I’m going to go with Explorer but it’s gonna be hard to choose.

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

Only thing holding me back from pre order is PC performance and just performance in general. Imo Bethesda games on PC don't play well. So I have been holding out hope reviews before release can tell me. PC ports have been terrible this year :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm in a similar situation. I want to see how (if?) it runs on a steam deck before I decide where to buy it. Otherwise I'd have already pre-ordered it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Same boat here. I've been mad interested in Starfield since it was announced, but my Deck is now my primary gaming device. I need to make sure it can be modded to a stable 30FPS before I buy it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Fallout 76 runs at 45ish fps, I don't think Starfield will get a clean 30fps. Maybe the Rog Ally.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Personally I'm waiting to see if it'll run on the Deck as my excuse to buy one lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't even get a stable 30fps playing BG3, so I am kind of pessimistic that Starfield will run on the deck. I hope so, but I'll play it on the Xbox if I have to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Baldur's Gate isn't a Bethesda title. Bethesda games are historically some of the most moddable there are, so I'm cautiously optimistic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm guessing if it ran well on Steam Deck they would have already announced that. Unless Microsoft told them not to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm sort of in the same thought process, especially since they were asked and they gave a "we'll discuss that later" style response. I have an Xbox for my kids and I pay for whichever version of gamepass that lets you stream games, so push comes to shove I can do that.

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

It's not going to be a port AFAIK. Bethesda always made games focusing on PC and modding, and with a decent performance.

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

Let's not pretend that just because Bethesda started out as a PC developer that it means the games run well. I still can't get a stable frame rate on Fallout 4 in all areas, shit I still can't get a stable frame rate in Oblivion due to the game's own optimization being a bottleneck. Their games are very moddable, but their huge amount of content and dynamic mechanics have clearly made it difficult to optimize.

Hopefully the game will run decently, but I doubt it'll be a totally seamless and smooth experience, though I'd love to be proven wrong.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well, I said decent, and not good or amazing for a reason. Their games aren't the pinnacle of optimization, but also they are far from the shitty ports out there, specially given how massive their games usually are.

That said, I would never preorder a game. I'm confident that it will be good, but I will see that when it's released.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Bethesda is hamstringed by their game engine, that is just an engine whose roots stem all the way back to gamebryo

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Still, I prefer "poor" (bethesda games don't not perform that poorly, really) performance with lots of system driven interactions and absolute modability like almost no other games out there than "good" performance.