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Minimum Specs:

  • OS: Windows 10 version 21H1 (10.0.19043)
  • Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 2600X, Intel Core i7-6800K
  • Memory: 16 GB RAM
  • Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 5700, NVIDIA GeForce 1070 Ti
  • DirectX: Version 12
  • Storage: 125 GB available space
  • Additional Notes: SSD Required

Recommended Specs:

  • OS: Windows 10/11 with updates
  • Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 3600X, Intel i5-10600K
  • Memory: 16 GB RAM
  • Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080
  • DirectX: Version 12
  • Network: Broadband Internet connection
  • Storage: 125 GB available space
  • Additional Notes: SSD Required

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[–] 115 points 3 years ago (10 children)

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.

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  • [–] 42 points 3 years ago (5 children)

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

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  • [–] 25 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (13 children)
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    [–] 37 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Alpha Centauri +4.37LY

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

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago (1 child)
  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago* (3 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]

    The local velocity relative to the deformed space-time would be subluminal, but the speed at which a spacecraft could move would be superluminal, thereby rendering possible interstellar flight, such as a visit to Proxima Centauri within a few days.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    A LY isn’t a unit of time…

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    [–] 36 points 3 years ago (6 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.

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    [–] 25 points 3 years 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.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (3 children)

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

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    [–] 13 points 3 years ago (2 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.

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    [–] 11 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    I'm pretty hyped for this game. I love space RPGS and haven't had something cool since Mass Effect.

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    [–] 8 points 3 years 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.

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