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shikamaru317 on 07 March 2023
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Ryuu96 said:

Can likely rule out Starfield Direct for that week then so if it's not next week then it's likely the last week of March at minimum.

I personally don't think we will see it until April at this point. With Starfield release rumored for late June, they can safely wait until April 2022 to polish the game as much as possible ahead of the gameplay deep dive, and still leave May and most of June for a marketing ramp up and have an early "launch" trailer at their E3 showcase. I'm sure they want to polish the game as much as possible before showing it again, they probably don't want Digital Foundry roasting them for technical reasons in their analysis of the footage like they did last E3, where they complained the lack of screen space reflection in interiors, outdoor shadow quality, lack of sub-surface scattering on character models, lack of global illumination, and framerate drops below 30 fps.

Hopefully Bethesda has used the last 9 months since E3 to improve on some of those areas, if possible. At the very least a 60 fps mode that runs 50 fps or higher needs to be present when they do show it again imo, even if they have to reduce the resolution significantly via a dynamic resolution scaler or just a significantly lower set resolution to pull it off, a 30 fps shooter on console in 2023 is frankly not acceptable to a large number of people, the bare minimum these days is a 50+ fps mode that works well on a VRR screen. I also hope they have added some of the other things DF complained about last E3, while I doubt they added global illumination as it is just too hardware intensive even if you use a pre-baked solution instead of RT GI, it would be nice if the outdoor shadow quality has improved since E3, character models have received sub-surface scattering on their skin to allow realistic light reactivity, and cube map reflections have been replaced with screen space reflections (RT reflections definitely aren't happening, but SSR is a happy middle ground between cube map reflections and RT reflections).

Last edited by shikamaru317 - on 07 March 2023