I will say once more. Do not preorder video games. It could be shit, it could be buggy, but what it won't do is run out of copies. Wait until the reviews are out, or even a bit after it launches if you can. If you're anything like me you have hundreds of games you haven't played yet so what's an hour or a day in the grand scheme of things.

[–] Sneptaur@pawb.social 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s a Bethesda game. It wouldn’t feel right if it were bug-free.

[–] pancakes@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It wouldn't feel right if it didn't have the exact same bugs as the last 4 Bethesda releases.

[–] Lesrid@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If anything is moving backwards through the air, you know it was bolted on to code for Skyrim's dragons

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[–] Neato@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's also on Gamepass. You can play it instantly for a much lower cost to make sure it works. Then buy it if you still want later when it goes on sale.

[–] Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Doesn't work on linux

[–] sheogorath@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Duh, the reason there's Game Pass on PC is for people to stay on Windows. Microsoft saw the writing on the wall when Valve released SteamOS and scrambled for a way to keep people on Windows.

And it's working for me (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

Send help.

[–] Krotiuz@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

We need a LSW to run the Windows store on Linux as a pacakge manager

[–] rambaroo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No, MS wanted to compete with PlayStation Plus. Linux constitutes about 2% of users on steam. MS doesn't care about Linux gaming and steam OS is no where choose to being a threat to them.

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[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I agree completely and would like to add especially if it's a Bethesda game. I can still remember waiting for half a year for Skyrim to be playable on PS3 after buying it on launch day.

[–] pikmeir@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was burned too bad with Cyberpunk 2077 that even though Starfield seems to be all right, I'm waiting until after reviews come out before I pick up a copy. That just means I wait a few more days to reduce the risk of more pain.

[–] Lethtor@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago

Cyberpunk also seemed alright, even the reviews were glowing. Well, we all know how that turned out

[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

REMEMBER: NO PRE-ORDERS. Safest bet is to wait a year after any Bethesda release to give modders enough time to fix the game.

[–] ilikekeyboards@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

The earlier you buy the buggier the next release is.

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Alpha Centauri +4.37LY

Man, this is some BULLSHIT. Why do the Alpha Centaurians have to wait so long?

[–] vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Stupid speed of causality.

[–] tal@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We still haven't established whether some form of warp drive is doable or not. Even if you can't move faster than light, if you can distort spacetime around yourself sufficiently in the right way, you can maybe get a functionally-similar effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive

The Alcubierre drive ([alkuˈβjere]) is a speculative warp drive idea according to which a spacecraft could achieve apparent faster-than-light travel by contracting space in front of it and expanding space behind it, under the assumption that a configurable energy-density field lower than that of vacuum (that is, negative mass) could be created.[1][2] Proposed by theoretical physicist Miguel Alcubierre in 1994, the Alcubierre drive is based on a solution of Einstein's field equations. Since those solutions are metric tensors, the Alcubierre drive is also referred to as Alcubierre metric.

Objects cannot accelerate to the speed of light within normal spacetime; instead, the Alcubierre drive shifts space around an object so that the object would arrive at its destination more quickly than light would in normal space without breaking any physical laws.[3]

[–] Graphine@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That's the problem though. While antimatter exists, which has negative mass, it exists only in small amounts, and you'd have to have a massive amount of it to accomplish such a feat. We'd need to find a way to create it.

And don't get me started on the other problematic aspects of it, like space debris.

[–] vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

I love PBS Space-time

[–] sl3dge@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A LY isn’t a unit of time…

[–] Chailles@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Sure it is, hence why it's called a lightYEAR. It's the time that a year passes for one light.

[–] beefcat@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I am disappointed that some people don't seem to get this joke.

[–] DulyNoted@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Ohhh, so that's why he was called Buzz Lightyear!

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And a parsec isn't a unit of distance but that didn't stop Han Solo from completing the Kessel run in fewer than 12.

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[–] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's finally happened ... my 1070 is finally below minimum requirements for a game I want to play. Guess this will be an Xbox only game for me because I am not paying the insane prices for GPUs.

[–] ayaya@lemdro.id 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

GPUs are at pretty reasonable prices if you buy used. The 3060 Ti is $237 and it beats the 4060.

[–] Thade780@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Depends on where. In my country there are assholes that still want the equivalent of 300USD for a 2080ti.

[–] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

That's assuming I have $237 laying around to play a game id also need to spend $70 on.

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[–] Ertebolle@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don’t own an Xbox or PC, I’m going to wait until they decide milking money out of an old game > exclusivity and play with the future GOTY edition on a smart refrigerator or a Playdate or whatever other weird platform they repackage it for.

[–] Neato@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

You reminded me it's not on PS5. The PC my partner (who might be interested in this) plays on can't handle this. So...guess we won't play it. Oh well.

[–] PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Is it still 30 fps on Series X? I don't think that's acceptable for a first-person game in 2023.

[–] beefcat@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You say that, but Immortals of Aveum probably would have benefited immensely from a 30 FPS option.

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