Starfield preload is some week in the future (August -1st)

twilo99 said:
AMD all out

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There are Starfield chairs now as well, PC marketing is definitely ramping up


I wonder when they'll show screens from the PC version… It's slightly odd to see the exact same screens for Xbox and PC version on Xbox and PC store. There are no UI button icons shown so it could be either version I guess, one version is wrong.
 
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I have to ask. Anyone who got a code with the purchase of AMD product and DID activate it on the AMD reward ( after installing the software to check ). did anyone get a code or could link it to Steam ? still showing me nothing
 
Fredrik said:
There are Starfield chairs now as well, PC marketing is definitely ramping up


I wonder when they'll show screens from the PC version… It's slightly odd to see the exact same screens for Xbox and PC version on Xbox and PC store. There are no UI button icons shown so it could be either version I guess, one version is wrong.
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I like the white one
 
MidGenRefresh said:
It's white on the front and navy blue on the back. It's just one variant.
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Ah ok. Two tone, tings! Nice! Might make a good replacement for my aging Corsair chair. This one has some nice details. Blue and white leather is always a classy combo! I have seat covers like that in my car. I don't think they are real leather though.
 
Been playing Skyrim this week, and man I can't wait for starfield even more so now.

Did they confirm if we can be only humans ?

I'd love to be a space orc….
 
I'm so looking forward to the disaster it's gonna be on the Series S. Obviously I'll play it for reals on my pc, but I'm honestly more excited to see how terrible it is on the S. 30fps at 720 and zero footage tells me it's gonna be Cyberpunk levels of absolute bullshit.
 
Winter John said:
I'm so looking forward to the disaster it's gonna be on the Series S. Obviously I'll play it for reals on my pc, but I'm honestly more excited to see how terrible it is on the S. 30fps at 720 and zero footage tells me it's gonna be Cyberpunk levels of absolute bullshit.
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It's being touted as 1440p by Mr Howard (probably dipping into the 900p range)
 
Fredrik said:
There are Starfield chairs now as well, PC marketing is definitely ramping up


I wonder when they'll show screens from the PC version… It's slightly odd to see the exact same screens for Xbox and PC version on Xbox and PC store. There are no UI button icons shown so it could be either version I guess, one version is wrong.
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They've possibly been showing PC all along and Series X will look worse in reality. MS/Bethesda are not to be trusted.
 
Murdoch said:
It's being touted as 1440p by Mr Howard (probably dipping into the 900p range)
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I genuinely feel sorry for those who only have the S. I expect it's going to be playable on the X, but there's no way it's not gonna fall over and die like a dog on the S. I got it downloaded and waiting to go on. I can't wait to see how bad it is.
 
Feel Like I'm On 42 said:
They've possibly been showing PC all along and Series X will look worse in reality. MS/Bethesda are not to be trusted.
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Possibly, yeah. But I don't think MS want the bad PR after launch, I think it's more likely that we've only seen the XSX version.
It's about time they start showing it off properly on both platforms. 3 weeks left.
 
Just realised I had enough ms reward points for a $10 Xbox gift card. Just put it towards and purchased the premium upgrade. I'm ready.
 
RPS37 said:
Seriously it's almost the 12th over here and nothing.
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It says "preload after 08/09/2023", nothing says it's this week, it's only something assumed by many because the 9th of August was this week.

Next week is also after the 9th.

Don't worry, there will be a preload, we just don't know exactly when.
 
Oh snap $420 for an S? Damn I got lucky and bought it when Verizon did a deal for customers for $150.

I'm gonna preload it today
 
Feel Like I'm On 42 said:
They've possibly been showing PC all along and Series X will look worse in reality. MS/Bethesda are not to be trusted.
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That sounds a bit overly negative. Did they lie with Skyrim gameplay reveal and how it looked on 360? Or Fallout 3 and 4 for that matter?

That being said, I do wish they would have clarified if the Direct footage was Xbox or PC, they never did. We only know Ryan from IGN played XSX version. I would hope the XSX is capable of what we saw in June, at 30fps.
 
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Stafford said:
That sounds a bit overly negative. Did they lie with Skyrim gameplay reveal and how it looked on 360? Or Fallout 3 and 4 for that matter?

That being said, I do wish they would have clarified if the Direct footage was Xbox or PC, they never did. We only know Ryan from IGN played XSX version. I would hope the XSX is capable of what we saw in June, at 30fps.
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well after 76 all bets are off imo
 
I'm always paranoid about my SSD anyway, thus I generally do preloads like a few days before the launch. No need in putting 100GB towards my TBs written unnecessarily (As you can see I have PTSD from the days with TB written was very low on SSDs). :messenger_tears_of_joy:

August 29th or the 30th is probably a good day for this one. Last minute patches for the early access players should be in by then.
 
DaGwaphics said:
I'm always paranoid about my SSD anyway, thus I generally do preloads like a few days before the launch. No need in putting 100GB towards my TBs written unnecessarily (As you can see I have PTSD from the days with TB written was very low on SSDs). :messenger_tears_of_joy:

August 29th or the 30th is probably a good day for this one. Last minute patches for the early access players should be in by then.
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Don't worry about SSDs.
I have several in my PC, the oldest is a Samsung EVO 830 128 GB, it's more than 11 years old, it's been on for almost 11 years, it wrote 41 TB and it's still rocking.
I'm using it as a cache drive for an HDD so it writes a lot, no issues.
It's "Wear leveling count" in CrystalDiskInfo says it has 63% life remaining.

My system drive is a 1TB PNY NVMe, it's been on for 3.5 years and wrote almost 70 TB (it has many games on it that get updated frequently), yet, I don't really care about it.
It has written more data in less time than the EVO 830, but it has 8 times more space and more spare to use, its remaining life is 83%.

Meanwhile, an EVO 850 250GB started to corrupt data two years ago so I removed it, yet it did not write that much, it was mostly a game SSD with only big games on it that were not changing a lot.

I feel my data is more secure with SSDs than HDDs, I had more HDDs fail than SSDs over time.
 
Speaking of SSD, I had an issue with updates for Redfall when they released several large updates one after another, Games did not span across internal and external, and I would have out of storage messages.
For a 125 GB game how much free space should be left on a drive for updates?
 
You are lucky. I've had many SSDs die when used in heavy write scenarios, but like I said the old TB written guarantees were a lot lower than they are today. Sometimes as low as just 400 or 500 times the capacity which can really get eaten up in a hurry with large media file transfers.

But it really is something that only effects the cheapest QLC drives today, and even those have 500 or 600TB thanks to modern capacities. Old habits die hard though, I feel guilty downloading and deleting 100GB files needlessly. :messenger_tears_of_joy:

But I completely agree that this is not a relevant issue and hasn't been for a good decade now. That's where the PTSD comes in.
 
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Xcell Miguel said:
Don't worry about SSDs.
I have several in my PC, the oldest is a Samsung EVO 830 128 GB, it's more than 11 years old, it's been on for almost 11 years, it wrote 41 TB and it's still rocking.
I'm using it as a cache drive for an HDD so it writes a lot, no issues.
It's "Wear leveling count" in CrystalDiskInfo says it has 63% life remaining.

My system drive is a 1TB PNY NVMe, it's been on for 3.5 years and wrote almost 70 TB (it has many games on it that get updated frequently), yet, I don't really care about it.
It has written more data in less time than the EVO 830, but it has 8 times more space and more spare to use, its remaining life is 83%.

Meanwhile, an EVO 850 250GB started to corrupt data two years ago so I removed it, yet it did not write that much, it was mostly a game SSD with only big games on it that were not changing a lot.

I feel my data is more secure with SSDs than HDDs, I had more HDDs fail than SSDs over time.
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It's been my biggest worry about my PS5 and Series X; on the Series X alone I've basically wiped the drive with downloading and uninstalling games probably over 50 times; it's like how many times do I do that till it starts failing?

My PS3 40 gig hardrive still works, and my 360 20gb still works after being used through hell and back, I would hate having to think of using my consoles as being on a time limit/usage limit which was pretty much the biggest concern I had with SSD in the past. So it's reassuring to hear your SSD is still kicking after that long and that much usage.

May your SSD drive live on 🫡
 
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Magic Carpet said:
Speaking of SSD, I had an issue with updates for Redfall when they released several large updates one after another, Games did not span across internal and external, and I would have out of storage messages.
For a 125 GB game how much free space should be left on a drive for updates?
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10% drive space free minimum, preferably 20% if you want to be super safe.
 
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Agent_Nobody said:
It's been my biggest worry about my PS5 and Series X; on the Series X alone I've basically wiped the drive with downloading and uninstalling games probably over 50 times; it's like how many times do I do that till it starts failing?

My PS3 40 gig hardrive still works, and my 360 20gb still works after being used through hell and back, I would hate having to think of using my consoles as being on a time limit/usage limit which was pretty much the biggest concern I had with SSD in the past. So it's reassuring to hear your SSD is still kicking after that long and that much usage.

May your SSD drive live on 🫡
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You've got a ridiculous amount of room. Even if you go with 500TB (which is probably really low, a lot of 1TB drives can be 1500 or 2000TB written. I don't think Seagate ever gave a number.) Take half away for extra safety and you still have 250TB left. Then we could divide it by 10 (say you plan on using this console for 10 years) that's 25TB a year, or 2TB a month and change. That's like 20 100GB game downloads a month, haha. The APU will probably go bad before the SSD.

But, I hear you, I think about it too like I said. That's just old school fear of SSDs. I have my console set to install to my expansion drive by default, you could do that with a PS5 as well, hit the expansion drive the hardest so you can replace that easy enough.
 
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MidGenRefresh said:
Game was barely functional. It was a proper scam at the release.
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Ah, got it.

Well, I don't think we have to worry too much about it. I'm pretty sure Xbox is well aware of how important this one is. Now I don't mean to say there won't be bugs, hell, any game nowadays seem to have them. Even the indies, sheesh. But I think it will be OK. Xbox did give them a whole lot of extra time, remember how it was supposed to come out much, much earlier?

I'm not gonna worry. I'd like to believe they learned from the Redfall situation.
 
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This is going to be such a monumental release one where you remember for years where you were when it releases etc
 
Bring that tasty Preload into my Series X. In from Second One for the clusterfuck. 😄🍿

No really, it's 'the most ambitious Bethesda Game EVER'. So I guess the scope of bugs must be equally ambitious. 🫠

We making bets about the size of the Day One Patch? I say 56GB.
 
The radio silence is a bit weird. We are less than 3 weeks away from release and there are 0 marketing or previews or any new footage.
 
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