Odyssey specs is another rod Frontier made for their own back. The expectation raised by Frontier was that it wouldn’t require higher specs to run. That seemed hard to believe when the content was revealed, so either Frontier were being foolishly optimistic or deliberately misleading.
Game Discussions Bethesda Softworks Starfield Space RPG
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Miscommunication because of missed dealine is my guess. They had the whole port to Console still on the road map after Odyssey release even when they realised how far from Optimization goal Odyssey was at that time. We still don't have a date for Horizon and Odyssey merge, and it's already 1 year behind from their initial plans.
Consoles seem like trouble for many games. Which is probably why Starfield also got delayed.
Source: https://twitter.com/BethesdaStudios/status/1536369312650653697?cxt=HHwWgsDTxf7vo9IqAAAA
Well with their wide range of character customazation, simply generic male and female voices wouldn't be enough.
UE5 presentations were done on consoles too, and were running really smooth...
It's not a new engine as opposed to UE5 where the renderer has been completely overhauled along with the lighting system, etc. Bethesda's "Creation Engine" is still the same pile of code that's sitting on top of the original Gamebryo, and was bursting at the seams for Skyrim, and got broken entirely for FO76. And if this demo is representative of the rendering abilities of CE2 then it's still exactly the same as before (light maps is an obvious giveaway). It's also not a new engine as compared to Decima, which in usage is superior in every way.
It seems UE5 is also built on the old engine, but perhaps with greater success.
A positive shout out to ED when talking Starfield:
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I hope Starfield's 1,000 planets are boring, actually
I'd rather play a Starfield with 10,000,000 planets than 10.
Yeah, "new engine" is Todd Howard nollocks. It's a new version of the old stuff, like all the others that were heralded as new.
With the scope that is a bit scary.
Starfield has more than twice as many dialogue lines as Skyrim
Starfield boasts more dialog lines than Bethesda's previous games
150 000 vs 110 000 vs 60 000 lines in Starfield vs FO4 vs Skyrim. And this article was from a year ago. So they could have added more or remove some.
… being able to hire npc crew (and all the little space game wishes that get answered along with, finally).
Sorry my brain is still playing catch-up.. all the dreams Ive had for elite are finally being tied up by this trailer. So satisfying.
I think the most surprising thing is.. I’m really looking forward to the fps. How satisfying did that jumping assault rifle clip sound.. didnt know I still had it in me. Could do that all day.
… It was quite a while ago now, but I definitely got sold by the Kickstarter sales pitches and had no reason to believe they were not coming to elite. Ahhhhh.
Sorry my brain is still playing catch-up.. all the dreams Ive had for elite are finally being tied up by this trailer. So satisfying.
I think the most surprising thing is.. I’m really looking forward to the fps. How satisfying did that jumping assault rifle clip sound.. didnt know I still had it in me. Could do that all day.
… It was quite a while ago now, but I definitely got sold by the Kickstarter sales pitches and had no reason to believe they were not coming to elite. Ahhhhh.
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One might rightly argue that we can still thank Braben for at least having the dream for such a game and attempting to bring something like it to market. Said another way, would Starfield had been made if Elite Dangerous never existed? Elite may have paved the way for a company like Bethesda to see value in this genre.
Yes definitely. Theres certain
Wat? Is more like Mass Effect. ED isn't a RPG. I mean you can role play, but there isn't really any story and what's there doesn't drive any of the gameplay. You could just read a book of it instead.
Personally, I start saving up the instant I buy a new computer. And I do a complete rebuild about every seven to eight years. By hardware budget has always been bigger than my software budget, because better hardware can make a good game great, but I’ve yet to see any amount of hardware improve a game I don’t like, so I’m rather picky about the latter.
This could be the off line version of ED that some backers wanted
Yes, I'm looking for SP games when I want to play them now. I'll never again fall for a MP game claiming it can be played "solo". Is just not the same and you have to make too many concessions.This could be the off line version of ED that some backers wanted
With RTX 4000 series beeing released this year, one need to shorten the cycle for hardware upgrade to 3-4 years, else will be left behind pretty fast.Personally, I start saving up the instant I buy a new computer. And I do a complete rebuild about every seven to eight years. By hardware budget has always been bigger than my software budget, because better hardware can make a good game great, but I’ve yet to see any amount of hardware improve a game I don’t like, so I’m rather picky about the latter.
This game already have RTX 2070 as a Recommended spec.
Specially if one aims for ambitious games like Starfield, Star Citizen, Elite Dangerous, Arma, where one deals with a massive worlds, instead of small linear ones.
My 1070 is already not good enough for Starfield, so i will need to get 3060ti to achieve the best gameplay quality for my 1080p gameplay.
For example Stalker 2 which is to be the first Open World and on UE5 game in it's series already have massive GPU recommended requirmenets:
- AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 8GB / NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8GB / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB
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There's a lot of claims about it being single player. If you can't see Bethesda doing an ESO/FO76 with it you should have gone to Specsavers.
And what if they do as long as there's a single player option.
It's real simple - if it's not SP I'm not buying it.
I really wish people would stop saying that. NMS is undoubtably a good game, although with an abysmal flight model and game mechanic choices I’m not fond of, but I started noticing repeating minerals, body parts, and terrain soon after I stopped needing to pay attention to the basic survival. It’s not for nothing that I call NMS’s proc-gen “Potato Head.”
Not that there’s anything wrong with that, considering the size of the NMS team. Compromises should be made. But I think EGS does a better job on their terrain despite being a two-person team, and NMS doesn’t even try to make space believable, while it took about four hours of careful observation for me to conclude that EGS was faking their orbital mechanics.
But I do agree that NMS looks prettier. I’m just not a fan of forced tutorials each time I start a new Ironman game, limited “save points” in single player games made after 1993, or how the game morphs into a management game later on. But gameplay will always trump looks in my book, which is why I’m glad there’s alternatives to NMS out there.
As for Starfield… whether their worlds are hand crafted, assisted by proc-gen, or completely proc-gen, I imagine I’ll get several hundred hours of Starfield minimum. Just need to remind myself not to buy it on day one… at least not without any evidence that Bethesda has learned it’s lessons about buggy releases yet.
Dont hold your breath
Good news is, modders will be able to start working immediately on it since it's still Creation Engine.