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I know, gameplay is more important than tech, but for an AAA game it's kinda disappointing techwise. No 32:9 support, HDR is mediocre, no FOV settings, language cannot be properly changed,...
That's what happens when you've been using the same engine since 1997, and just slap a fresh coat of paint on it every few years instead of actually improving it like Unreal.
Hey look, elden ring doesn't have even 21:9 support, hdr was broken for a while at launch, and no fov setting
From software has always been pretty crappy from a technical standpoint.
I didn't see the Internet awash with complaints about it strangely.
Because their history is being so bad technically that elden ring was an improvement to what people were expecting.
And Bethesda isn't known for their buggy games lmao?
I mean.... have you played dark souls 1 without the community patch with k&m? Not only the controls, performance is... uf.
I never did play the PTD, I have heard it was very rough though.
First time a really playing Dark Souls was when the remaster came to PC, then binged 2 and 3 and played through all endings on ER when it came out and put 300 hours in, waiting on the DLC eagerly.
I also did mod elden ring quite a bit, including dlss+fg from the much hated PureDark, and the excellent seamless coop mod along with a 32:9 support mod.
Ultimately my point is people are nitpicking Starfield lmao
PTD was with the dlc man, the original DS was almost unplayable on release, some random internet person released a mod called DSFix like 30 minutes after it released on pc that unlocked the fps to 60 and improved performance in some places. Multiplayer was also pretty fucking bad, so bad that yet another mod released that exposed how the networking p2p graph worked internally where you could bypass the normal network to connect directly to your friends to be able to see their signals.
My point is that the reason why people weren't so critical of ER is because compared to other FROM games, it was quite the improvement. People expected much, much worse.
Maybe since it's been so long since Bethesda released Skyrim, people just don't remember the pure vanilla experience which is why they are being harsher with Starfield. That, and that Bethesda has way more funding for their games.
Is there HDR? Because I'm certain there's no option for it on PC.
There are no ingame settings, which is bad. But when you activate HDR in your Windows settings the game seems to use HDR. It just looks rather bad imho (black levels too high).