because 1) the figure in the headline is only the most extreme value they found. 2) the image generated by your GPU is only one perspective of the entire 3D environment. maybe in order to download the area you’re also downloading objects that don’t need to be displayed on your screen yet. And 3) cloud streaming videos are also heavily compressed.

because it takes more data to generate the image than the image itself, especially in highly detailed and dense areas.

Since OP likes open world games, in the later Bethesda RPGs like Skyrim and Fallout 4 you can have companions. not the same level of interaction as Bioware-like parties, but it’s something.

also not really an open world game, but in Midnight Suns you’re a mystical hero in a party with some of the avengers, other marvel heroes, and even some villains. there’s a lot of personal interactions with all the members between missions.

hey now, war is supposed to be fun, not disturbing.

unless you keep the offline installers.

https://x.com/GOGcom/status/1844752098145038435

was it a genius idea if it was never needed in the first place?

you got deadlines or something?

true but also old reddit is awful to navigate on mobile.

then there are companies like yelp who disable their mobile site and make their desktop site as shitty as possible on mobile to force you to the app.

even without the loading screens it would still be terrible. get a quest, go to your ship, take off, travel to other system, land, exit your ship, walk to destination, reverse all that to turn the quest in, rinse and repeat. it’s just a tedious experience.

the best part of Bethesda games is just being able to wander around aimlessly in a pretty environment, likely stumbling upon little easter eggs or side quests along the way. none of that exists in Starfield.

Cyberpunk was buggy, unoptimized, and kind of unfinished, but the fundamental game design was sound.

Starfield on the other hand is broken at its core. The Bethesda RPG experience just does not translate to the open worlds space map they built the game on. So they can’t take the cyberpunk approach because they’d have to build an entirely different game from scratch.

but surely the long term plan is to kill off NCP.

I’m guessing this will roll in the features of Nvidia control panel as well. so now we will basically be forced to install their tracking shit for basic feature support.

Tencent buying into 40% of the company didn’t get you financially secure?

yeah same with me, except it’s just me and my wife. i think i just got service back.

might just be an inaccurate headline, I don’t think we know the exact order of things or when Verizon identified the issue.

I have no service at all, can’t get any kind of outgoing or incoming whatsoever. SOS only.

my wife and I both have iPhones. I have no service at all, hers seems to be fine.

exact same phones yeah.