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Post by Energizer Bunny 211 on Aug 26, 2024 20:05:47 GMT
I AM ABLE TO PLAY STAR WARS OUTLAWS!!!! *Sorry for all caps....I'm just really excited
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Post by DragonKingReborn on Aug 26, 2024 22:14:12 GMT
This Youtuber had a 'middling' view of the 4 hour hands on, and isn't finished yet, but it seems like his view - currently - is edging more positive.
Of note that wasn't apparent to those with the preview, Vess' outfit changes are not purely cosmetic. They provide - after a time - bonuses to stats.
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Post by DragonKingReborn on Aug 26, 2024 22:15:53 GMT
And for balance...
This guys opinion was largely negative for the preview and doesn't seem to have changed. I haven't had a chance to watch this one yet - but I will - just linking it because it appeared in the recommendations.
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Post by Energizer Bunny 211 on Aug 26, 2024 22:36:26 GMT
One thing Im not fussed on is the Aspect. Either 21:9 aka Cinematic Mode (which sure, gives it a Movie Theater like appearnace- whixh I like foe the Cutscenes but it looks weird for the ganeplay. It puts Kay too far out there ane cuts down on the vertical FOV with letterboxing. OR FULLSCREEN which gives a very 4:3 appearance and brings Kay's back too close to the camera. The PC's back seems to fill your view in contrast and cuts down the field of view for everything else. Cant see very much. I wish they had the proper 16:9 aspect that everyone is accustomed to like in Horizon or Ghost of Tsushima or even ME OT. I need to play around with the aspect ratio and FOV Sliders (if possible). And of course wgatever thr case I will get used to it with them. And for a few minites of my gameplay...Kay and Nix were purple. They looked like the animations with no textures, but that chnaged during a Citscene or in different.lighting. I figured out that it had something to do with the Acccessibility Settings for Colour Blindness....Not sure what I clicked but whatever I did fixed the issue and I started exploring....and once I did I😍😍😍🤩🤩🤩 I wonder if there is a FOV slider to help find a happy medium when using either aspect. I will defonitely do a Deep Dive when Im back in the world on Wednesday....So far though what little I saw of the environment and world building was impressive.
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Post by saandrig on Aug 27, 2024 7:10:19 GMT
Played for about 4 hours last night. Finished the prologue, roamed a bit on the first large map.
I'll start with the bad - the speeder SUCKS Whoever designed the KB/M controls (no idea if it's better on controller) should be tarred and feathered. The thing is a nightmare. Two main issues:
- you can turn with the keyboard, BUT there is also turning with the mouse at the same time. The keyboard way is fine. But the mouse can give you a lot of issues. It has a separate bar that appears in the middle of the screen and it doesn't re-center itself automatically. Which means if you move the mouse to turn, the speeder will keep turning until you move the mouse back to the center. And I mean the exact center, otherwise if you overshoot the mouse movement, you will end up turning to the other side endlessly. Kinda annoying to keep an eye on another bar while moving at high speed, avoiding obstacles, etc. It does allow you to make some super sharp turns, but is very annoying.
I should double check the settings to see if there is a way to make the mouse be just a look around option and not a speeder control option. Or just not move the mouse much while on the speeder.
- speeder movement keys. They are a bloody puzzle. First time I tried to outrun some enemies and pushed the forward (W) key - Kay stopped in one place and refused to move no matter how much I pressed the W key. She actually went slowly backwards a bit while doing loud revving with the speeder engine. Dafuq? After some I may have figured the issue a bit. The movement keys are not set properly and each W, S or Ctrl can be both a brake and accelerator. But the game doesn't tell you that. And doesn't really indicate which one is the Brake or the Accelerator in the current moment.
So I can spam the W key, but remain in place with a revving engine, I press S and the speeder jumps forward, W stops it again, then suddenly W again makes it move forward. I press S or Ctrl to stop, but the speeder doesn't stop. Then the brake button makes you boost, the accelerate button is the brake, except once you get moving everything is accelerate and there's no brakes at all, just faster versions of boost until you hit it enough times that it reverts and then both triggers are brakes. And then you sit there revving the engine and can't move at all for a while, or get stuck with both buttons making you go in reverse...It's infuriating. Again - maybe it's simple and I can't figure the idea (was late in the evening) or there is another setting that fixes the dumb thing (there is a lot of Accessibility stuff in the game).
Edit - the issue probably is 'Change hold actions to press' toggle in the Accessibility settings. Which is unfortunate, because I prefer it as turned On, but it makes the speeder horrible.
The game gets blurry on PC. We can't completely turn off the Depth of Field option. There are some workarounds. DLDSR helps. Tweaking the "Lens and cinematic effects" option to Medium or High clears it up a bit. Another that I haven't yet tried is tweaking a file in documents/Mygames/outlaws
Graphics settings.cfg
Open in notepad and look for [“streamer dedicated”] = 64
Change it to:
[“streamer dedicated”] = 4096
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Now, the good things I saw in 4 hours.
The game is very pretty, even with the bluriness from DoF. Runs quite well, but there is a memory leak that may require restarting every few hours, depending on your RAM and VRAM.
The Star Wars vibe is strong. NPCs, ambient dialogue, etc. Feels well crafted.
You can tweak the difficulty of the reloading, puzzles, lockpicking, etc, and make them as easy or hard as you like. I made the blaster autoreload instead of doing the silly "hit the sweet spot" mechanic. Didn't have too many firefights yet, but they felt ok.
The stealth is easy to get used to. Nix is quite vital to create distractions and the enemies are not too tough to avoid for now.
Finding clues in the world is fun. But some seem easily missable. I am not sure if you need to find the clue in order for the mission to appear on the map or you can stumble upon it while exploring and without the clue.
The first map is not too big, which is a plus. If you can figure the speeder controls, I guess roaming around can be quite fun too. The map will update with things in your relative proximity, which is helpful.
I think I'll like the Faction mechanic. I got friendly with one and robbed the gullible suckers blind I am totally hunting the Stealth upgrades first. Seem more useful.
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Post by SofaJockey on Aug 27, 2024 15:47:40 GMT
Had to wait until Ubisoft+ kicked in.*
Enjoying it so far. It's typical Ubisoft. Pizza not steak. But tasty pizza.
* I prefer to take a month of U+, enjoy a game, then switch it off again until the next Ubi game. That means I sub around 3/12 months in a year.
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Post by Kappa Neko on Aug 27, 2024 18:28:43 GMT
I assume that ultra wide cinematic camera will just be normal full screen on my ultra wide OLED. So that's neat. Not watching reviews. Usually too many spoilers. I'll buy this game on discount anyway even if the average rating is a 7 or something. I'll only skip it if everyone says it's terrible. Doubt that. If the atmosphere is great that's about all I need to have some fun for, say, 20 bucks. Good story would help but even if it's not great I can let be with it. So far my thumbs are still messed up and I wouldn't be able to play right away even if I wanted to. Made the mistake of starting a base build in No Man's Sky a few days ago and my thumbs are super sore again after feeling almost normal. Just two hours fucked them up real bad and ruined my healing progress. Sigh. If I just fly around and avoid using my thumbs, it's fine. But that excludes all real time action combat games right now. No Fallout London for me. No base building in any game. Certainly no Outlaws. Well, at least I've got a big backlog of point and click games I might finally play! Enjoy the game, guys. Use spoiler tags and I'll happily read your impressions.
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Post by Energizer Bunny 211 on Aug 27, 2024 21:05:36 GMT
Sorry to hear about your injury. Hope you heal soon!
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Post by saandrig on Aug 28, 2024 7:02:51 GMT
Sorted out the speeder issues...mostly. It was that setting for "Hold to press". Also could turn off the mouse steering in the Controls. Which made speeder control as it should be, but there is one unfixable annoyance - the camera keeps re-centering itself while you drive. Which would have been fine if it did it in an angle with a good forward view. Instead it drops down to the ground and centers on Kay's ass. Which might be a nice view, but you can't really see what's in front of the speeder - is it a chasm, is it a rock, Kay's ass doesn't tell!
You can use the mouse to change the view, but it constantly fights with you to keep re-centering itself too low. Really kills the driving vibe.
The game is still blurry, but it seems to be a bug with the settings. Hopefully they fix it soon.
So, I went on side questing. Explored the map up and down. Finished a lot of tasks, some hard, some easy. Got upgrades, bought gear and materials. Changed my Reputation to Good with everyone on Toshara. Got hunted a few times by the Empire.
So I strongly suggest everyone to do the main mission "False Flag" as early as possible. And don't side quest too much before it. You can check if you are screwed by visiting any ship mechanic NPC. If they are marked as "Temporary unavailable", you are still good. If they are marked in red as "unavailable" without the "Temporary" tag, you won't be able to do the "False Flag" mission anymore.
I am actually having fun with the game. I know it doesn't sound like it But it has a bit too many launching issues.
I like sneaking around. Nix is fun to use. Combat is basic, but works and the action is actually fun to do (Kay is very much a glass cannon, minus the cannon part ). The side quests, rumors and areas are competently done, have world building, even if a bit annoying to navigate sometimes.
I would have liked some markers for all quest starters, because I got that FOMO on some of them. Every time I am in the city I stumble on a conversation or a datapad that adds another task. I suspect some of them require completing certain quests in order to become active, because I am sure I checked those areas beforehand. Side note to all - when you hear people talking, look for a nearby point to eavesdrop What before was an option to just "Lean" on a wall or at the bar, will now be "Listen". So don't just pass by, always check if the interaction of the chair, bench, bar, wall has changed.
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Post by Kappa Neko on Aug 28, 2024 8:35:12 GMT
Turns out that for some retarded reason the ship mechanics are tied to the main quest. You are supposed to unlock them by progressing the main story. But!!! If you side quest too much, you can unlock the ship mechanics before you got to that main mission. Which screws up the game and completely blocks any progress on the main story as you can't take off with the ship to space. So only way is to reload an earlier save before you got the glitch. Wow, that's a NASTY bug! Absolutely shouldn't be in the game. I hope by the time I get round to playing all that stuff is fixed.
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Post by dazk on Aug 28, 2024 10:46:09 GMT
I am glad I did not pre-order the game from saandrig comments. It seems like a game I will enjoy but at this stage I am happy to sit it out and wait for updates to happen and to kill time till DAVe and AC Shadows.
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Post by saandrig on Aug 28, 2024 13:16:13 GMT
I am glad I did not pre-order the game from saandrig comments. It seems like a game I will enjoy but at this stage I am happy to sit it out and wait for updates to happen and to kill time till DAVe and AC Shadows. Definitely a game to wait "on sale" for now. Maybe after all DLCs are launched.
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Post by DragonKingReborn on Aug 28, 2024 20:26:46 GMT
That's a shame - I could really do with a new game to play to tide me over until DAVe. Sounds like there is something good there, just not launch ready. I'll hold off for a bit. I am getting desperate, though. I downloaded Arkham Knight last night because I got bored with HFW:BS and just can't get in to DAI for the moment. It would be really good if BG3 Patch 7 came out early next month
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Post by Energizer Bunny 211 on Aug 28, 2024 22:08:29 GMT
I just finished the Prologue of STAR WARS Outlaws, and while the control scheme took some getting used to (it wasn't what I expected it to be like, Ghost of Tsushima, Horizon or Survivor for example) it's a bit different....But I didn't mind it. It's not horrible...I like the gameplay and story very much. I am very intersted to continue the story and gameplay and see where it goes... I'm sure I will continue to like it the deeper I get into it.
I played on PC on Medium Settings which are okay for me at this point in time. Sure, I've seen better even on my PC (Ghost of Tsushima on HIGH or Shadows of the TOMB RAIDER on High or JEDI FALLEN ORDER and Survivor on EPIC Settings)...But for now this will do and it looks okay. I"ve only had one slight, yet unecpected crash but it didn't harm my progress....so I'm not concerned.
I"m sure there will be forthcoming patches to fix whatever bugs there are....so far I really like and enjoy the game.
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Post by Energizer Bunny 211 on Aug 29, 2024 0:18:44 GMT
Wow.....I can't believe it. I knew I would not be able to support the ULTRA or even HIGH Settings (for now, and that's okay)...But I've just reached Toshara and here, I've actually had to not only turn all the graphics all the way down to LOW or OFF-- BUT I've actually had to DECREASE my resolution in order to get a playable frame rate. On the Speeder part into the hub that we have all seen...I was getting maybe 20 FPS, there was all kinds of stuttering even on Medium Settings. It was unplayable.
I've now got everything set to LOW or OFF and I've even decrease my Monitor's output from its native 4K to 1440p. I will play this for a while and see what kind of FPS and performance I get.
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Post by dazk on Aug 29, 2024 0:34:09 GMT
Wow.....I can't believe it. I knew I would not be able to support the ULTRA or even HIGH Settings (for now, and that's okay)...But I've just reached Toshara and here, I've actually had to not only turn all the graphics all the way down to LOW or OFF-- BUT I've actually had to DECREASE my resolution in order to get a playable frame rate. On the Speeder part into the hub that we have all seen...I was getting maybe 20 FPS, there was all kinds of stuttering even on Medium Settings. It was unplayable. I've now got everything set to LOW or OFF and I've even decrease my Monitor's output from its native 4K to 1440p. I will play this for a while and see what kind of FPS and performance I get. Does your PC meet Spec's Energizer Bunny 211 ?
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Post by Energizer Bunny 211 on Aug 29, 2024 0:50:07 GMT
Wow.....I can't believe it. I knew I would not be able to support the ULTRA or even HIGH Settings (for now, and that's okay)...But I've just reached Toshara and here, I've actually had to not only turn all the graphics all the way down to LOW or OFF-- BUT I've actually had to DECREASE my resolution in order to get a playable frame rate. On the Speeder part into the hub that we have all seen...I was getting maybe 20 FPS, there was all kinds of stuttering even on Medium Settings. It was unplayable. I've now got everything set to LOW or OFF and I've even decrease my Monitor's output from its native 4K to 1440p. I will play this for a while and see what kind of FPS and performance I get. Does your PC meet Spec's Energizer Bunny 211 ? Yes and NO.....I'm running a 10900K with 32GB DDR4 @ 3000Mhz and a 2080Super (8gb) FTW 3 Ultra Gaming. Mainly because of my 2080 Super I am sitting somewhere between RECOMMENDED and HIGH Requirements. my 10900K is a better or equal performing CPU to both the 10400 (recommended) or the 11600 (recommnded for HIGH at 1440p) but it's my GPU, the 2080 Super that is holding me back. But If I upgraded to a new 40 series card I might as well re build a whole new PC because my current hardware and CPU won't support the 40 series. And that is just a whole mess that I can't afford nor do I want to get into right now. SO I will play it as is however I have to.....Until such a time when I can afford to upgrade to a PC that WILL run it at 4K above 60 FPS.
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Post by dazk on Aug 29, 2024 0:57:50 GMT
Yes and NO.....I'm running a 10900K with 32GB DDR4 @ 3000Mhz and a 2080Super (8gb) FTW 3 Ultra Gaming. Mainly because of my 2080 Super I am sitting somewhere between RECOMMENDED and HIGH Requirements. my 10900K is a better or equal performing CPU to both the 10400 (recommended) or the 11600 (recommnded for HIGH at 1440p) but it's my GPU, the 2080 Super that is holding me back. But If I upgraded to a new 40 series card I might as well re build a whole new PC because my current hardware and CPU won't support the 40 series. And that is just a whole mess that I can't afford nor do I want to get into right now. SO I will play it as is however I have to.....Until such a time when I can afford to upgrade to a PC that WILL run it at 4K above 60 FPS. Bugger I was lucky to upgrade to a 4070Ti last year which for the moment at least seems to have future proofed me.
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Post by saandrig on Aug 29, 2024 8:10:03 GMT
Yes and NO.....I'm running a 10900K with 32GB DDR4 @ 3000Mhz and a 2080Super (8gb) FTW 3 Ultra Gaming. Mainly because of my 2080 Super I am sitting somewhere between RECOMMENDED and HIGH Requirements. my 10900K is a better or equal performing CPU to both the 10400 (recommended) or the 11600 (recommnded for HIGH at 1440p) but it's my GPU, the 2080 Super that is holding me back. But If I upgraded to a new 40 series card I might as well re build a whole new PC because my current hardware and CPU won't support the 40 series. And that is just a whole mess that I can't afford nor do I want to get into right now. SO I will play it as is however I have to.....Until such a time when I can afford to upgrade to a PC that WILL run it at 4K above 60 FPS. Umm, no, you shouldn't worry about it. Currently I use a 4090 with an overclocked 8086k (various reasons) and everything is smooth enough and very playable at maximum settings. Yes, the CPU is getting a bit slammed, yes, it can be better with a new CPU, especially the boost to the 1% lows. But I can play even Outlaws at 140+ FPS at 4k Ultra (with DLSS Balanced, Frame Generation On, and RTXDI off) or about 90-100 FPS with the RTXDI option to Medium. I'd say that's pretty damn solid and the game is still smooth, no hitching.
Your CPU is a bit better than mine for gaming if you keep it at stock settings, or up to 20-30% better if you overclock it and/or a game can use more cores/threads. So you definitely can make use of a 4000 series GPU without needing a complete system overhaul.
Now, for Outlaws:
Some settings should be turned completely Off in your case. Like Ray Reconstruction and RTX Direct Lighting.
If you are playing at 4k, use DLSS Performance. Make sure the DLSS setting is properly set to upscale instead of just applying an AA. Just read the description, there are several settings for it and one of them essentially doesn't do upscaling to the chosen preset, so avoid it.
Turn the other RT settings to Low or Medium at most.
Set the other graphic settings at Medium at most. Turn down Motion Blur and Depth of Field.
Tweak the "Lens and Cinematic effects" setting to your preference. The High and Ultra give too much blur, but the Low and Medium ones introduce some aliasing. There is no real good option for it.
Test FSR3 Frame Generation to see if it improves things. I am not sure if you can combine DLSS and FSR3 FG in this game (haven't tested), but if you can - great. If you can't, well, you can decide if regular FSR (again at about Performance or Balanced) and FSR3 Frame Generation help, despite a bit of a blow to visual quality.
If there is still blur, you can try to go in Documents>My Games>Outlaws and use Notepad to open the file named "graphics_settings.cfg", look for the Sharpen setting (it's set to like 0.69999 as default) and change the 6 to a 9 to make it 0.99999.
Don't forget the System Requirements have your card in essentially the region of 1080p/High settings with DLSS Quality. Meaning that even at 1440p you have to use at least DLSS Balanced and Medium settings at most.
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Post by saandrig on Aug 29, 2024 9:00:43 GMT
Bugger I was lucky to upgrade to a 4070Ti last year which for the moment at least seems to have future proofed me. Show-off
But seriously, your card is very solid and will remain so for years to come, especially at 1440p and with techs like DLSS and Frame Generation.
Anyway, back to Outlaws:
I finally unlocked the Reputation Mission NPCs (no idea if those are infinite or with limits) and off I went to farm Reputation Usually I am not one for such grind, but it's real easy to do and the missions so far are varied enough. Plus I want everyone to love me! I had speeder chases, timed deliveries, farmer rescues, bandit invasions, spyware planting, etc. Some of those are even in space, which I actually begin to enjoy - it's fairly simple, pretty and relaxing. Already have the ship half upgraded and haven't even installed a hyperdrive yet (main story quest). There is also a pretty minimal amount of bounty hunting and enforcement things to do, which is good since we are trying to act as mostly smugglers/thiefs.
The Pykes are fangirling over me, so of course I robbed all their bases. Next are the Crimsons. There aren't any Hutts on Toshara, but I am almost at max Reputation with them too. They better hide their loot or I will clean everything in their Tatooine hideouts as well
I should look into upgrading the Speeder bike. I do a lot of traversing on it. Need moar speeeeeed
Unlocked as many stealth perks as I can and got some stealth gear. Now I am the silent terror to the Empire. Had a real funny raid on an Imperial base. They saw me, sounded the alarm, gave me a Wanted status, called reinforcements...but also had a panels in the same room that I can use to reset my Wanted level and turn off the alarm... Brilliant Imperial design So I shot some guards, ran into the room, hit the panels, go back out, kill more guards, go back in room to clear my name... Easiest base assault ever.
I moved the main quest a bit, just to be safe. There is still a crapload of things I want to do on Toshara before leaving. But I definitely need more tools (unlocked by main quests) to grab all treasures. I am not a fan of this Metroidvania thing in games. I am already here, give me the loot! I don't want to backtrack!
And again - Nix is great. Using his Nix mode is fun, even when just to troll random NPCs. Use the Nix mode, people!
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Post by Energizer Bunny 211 on Aug 29, 2024 13:54:47 GMT
So I went back to MEDIUM Settings and turned the fancy stuff (RTX/DI related) stuff to OFF, turned the DLSS to Medium and had it set to Performance and now everything works great. It was just the first Speeder part that really really dropped- not sure why because the rest of the game works great.
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Post by SofaJockey on Aug 29, 2024 21:58:08 GMT
I'm pretty sure the plot doesn't insist you go there, but speeding across the Jundland Wastes, I just had to go and search for some locations by eye. Tosche Station was the first...
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Post by Energizer Bunny 211 on Aug 30, 2024 1:30:39 GMT
I'm pretty sure the plot doesn't insist you go there, but speeding across the Jundland Wastes, I just had to go and search for some locations by eye. Tosche Station was the first... "The Jundland Wastes are not to be traveled lightly" Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi By the way, is Tosche Station featured in the game even as a landmark? I was wondering that the week leading up to Launch. They said they featured all these cool locations like the Dune Sea, the Jundland Wastes, Jabba's Palace.... "even the Lars' burnt-out homestead". So that got me wondering "well, what about Tosche Station? Luke was going to go there to pick up some power converters, and, according to Uncle Owen, "waste time with [his] friends". Since it was never actually featured in the movie- only in the deleted scenes- it would be cool to actually see it.
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