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If folks didn't see, Nvidia released a driver update in the last day or two as well that improved performance on their cards.

NMS at least has planets without buildings or signs of life, but they're certain types of planets (eg. lifeless/airless) There are definitely some that have far fewer ships going around too.

NMS is more expansive in some ways, but also fairly shallow in terms of some of the core mechanics. There's a lot of things to do like having a settlement or building a fleet and sending the fleet on missions, but again, it's a bit shallow. At the beginning you're largely focused on resource collecting to build a base, and unlock upgrades. Over time you can automate a lot of this and focus on other things. However, if you don't like the resource collecting to unlock things, you're probably not going to enjoy it.

I think the space flight and combat in NMS feels better. For whatever reason, in Starfield space flight and combat feels very slow to me. It doesn't help that the UI in the starship does this weird laggy update. The seamlessness of flying into a planet can be fun in space combat and the ships will follow you.

NMS has way more copy-paste assets. Starfield at least has grand cities and some unique set pieces or a few different options ,but every crashed freighter in NMS is identical. The buildings in NMS have a tiny bit of variance but they're all like 1-2 room buildings. All space stations and space ports are identical (just the core race changes). There are pirate space stations, but they're the same basic one but darker and they've moved the vendors inward a bit into tents instead of stalls. A little bit of this is baked into the story of NMS to some extent, but that doesn't exactly help it.

Title is a bit click-baity, but the core message is the game has seen a boost in users since it's recent update that was just before the starfield launch.

It's likely running native as they've been touting the ray tracing of their new gpu. They've pushed a number of games in the past to show off hardware updates or features, so that's probably what this is about.

Also, they didn't drop support for mac, they just focused on their own gaming API. They continue to get new games published.

Some of the benchmarks definitely pointed out that it was CPU bound in many areas (eg. the cities).

I think the HUB one mentioned that some of the forested planets were much more GPU bound and better for testing.

I'm on a tv so capped at 60fps, but I do see a power usage difference with FSR - 75% vs FSR- 100% that's pretty substantial on my 7900xt.

lol. that's a word I haven't heard in a long time. Yes, I definitely love doing a shit-ton of free labor for imaginary internet points. What is this clout and how is it going to help me? When does it unlock some money to pay my rent?

You think i'm indebted to you to do additional free labor because you didn't want to read the article or the blurb. I'm here to help build a community that isn't reddit by sharing stories that might have value to people. Doing that, means making posts and starting useful discussions.

For some reason, the f'n dregs of reddit came over who don't want to do work, but want to complain to everyone else to do it for them. In the past 4 weeks, I've been accused by commenters of so much stupid shit in the last 4 weeks. Today it's passing misinformation because you came into an article 24 hours after it was posted and wanted the title changed (despite that going against the posted rules). The other day it was bias because someone thought i wasn't posting enough news about a tech giant who wasn't generating news. I'm starting to doubt this will ever work because of some of the people here.

Absolutely, but the point is that they need to prove some core damage beyond the standard risks of investing. Many companies do absolutely ridiculous things, and lawsuits sometimes arise from that, but I haven't seen a ton that were successful. Maybe I just haven't noticed them.

I'm not saying that they shouldn't be sued (and that they shouldn't win), just that it's hard to see the US justice system let this go anywhere.

The loading screen is optional DLC. Definitely not a micro-transaction. Just very small DLC.

Like godot!

Here's a bunch of other dev related tools link.

Yeah, definitely sounds like an insane long shot. Stock prices haven't changed much for it, so I can't see that they have standing.

Because everyone else in here can read and they understand how time works.

This article has some new quotes and details. I know we have the other thread going, but this would get buried over there.

Even a painting is more fun.

Sure, but my point is that the article title is burying the lede by not pointing that out in the title. There's also like 4 articles posted that specific detail already.

Should be labeled as opinion piece, just to make it even more obvious.

title sounds like clickbait. it's so weird to use collapsing, when the real story is the covid era programs are expiring (as OP thankfully points out, thanks OP).

Dude's a troll (or just can't read) and it isn't worth engaging with him.

Wait until they find out about fan fiction. Hope they get hard reading it to each other on the house floor.

lol. some people just can't read. It's both in the article and in the blurb above. -- that it was confirmed, why it happened, and that it's working.

Wrong one.

pseudoephedrine is the meth-making one, and usually the one you now have to ask a pharmacist for.

Phenylephrine is the one they used to replace it, which many people knew didn't work and complained about it.