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[-] oleorun@lemmy.fan 283 points 1 year ago

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

[-] li10@feddit.uk 114 points 1 year ago

Bland release notes.

I wanted some spicy ✨bipolar ranting

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[-] Chickerino@feddit.nl 252 points 1 year ago
[-] machinaeZER0@lemm.ee 29 points 1 year ago
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[-] JasonHears@feddit.nl 166 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Wilker 15 points 1 year 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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[-] ayaya@lemdro.id 75 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 72 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 14 points 1 year ago

As is Bethesda tradition.

"Cracked" meaning having replaced a dll file

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[-] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 57 points 1 year ago

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

[-] adaveinthelife@lemmy.ca 60 points 1 year ago

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

[-] dustojnikhummer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 1 year 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.

[-] wheresmypillow@lemmy.one 24 points 1 year ago

Can confirm. Started playing this morning.

[-] Nythos@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago

What’s your opinion so far?

[-] wheresmypillow@lemmy.one 26 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Saneless@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 year ago

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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[-] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 23 points 1 year 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.

[-] Frog-Brawler@kbin.social 27 points 1 year ago

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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[-] Hyperi0n@lemmy.film 15 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 49 points 1 year ago

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

[-] reluctantpornaccount@reddthat.com 23 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 year 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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[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 42 points 1 year ago

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

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

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[-] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

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[-] Blxter@lemmy.zip 24 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Entropy 87 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Blxter@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Rayspekt@kbin.social 43 points 1 year ago

redfall

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

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[-] Entropy 22 points 1 year 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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[-] dustojnikhummer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 year ago

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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[-] gamey@feddit.rocks 22 points 1 year ago

Well, that was quick!

[-] BurnedDonutHole@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago

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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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 20 points 1 year ago

Does this mean I can pirate it early? 😮

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[-] MaliciousKebab@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago

They fast as fuck. Another W for the pirates.

[-] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago

Is RUNE or IGGAMESCOM trustworthy?

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[-] Mixel@feddit.de 13 points 1 year ago

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

[-] cows_are_underrated@feddit.de 11 points 1 year ago

Can anyone give me a full guide on how to get this to work on Linux(Arch btw), since I have absolutely no clue on how to do this stuff.

[-] devious@programming.dev 14 points 1 year ago

It's super easy. I just added it as a non steam game in my library and it worked. It also works on Lutris using a default wine context. I've been playing it and I'm on EndeavourOS (Arch)

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