It’s a guy playing the beginning of the game, it’s filmed in vertical with the phone :) Will most likely be taken down very soon.

I didn’t watch the intro, just skimmed through the gameplay parts, looks really good.

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    Only thing holding me back from pre order is PC performance and just performance in general. Imo Bethesda games on PC don’t play well. So I have been holding out hope reviews before release can tell me. PC ports have been terrible this year :)

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      I’m in a similar situation. I want to see how (if?) it runs on a steam deck before I decide where to buy it. Otherwise I’d have already pre-ordered it.

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        Same boat here. I’ve been mad interested in Starfield since it was announced, but my Deck is now my primary gaming device. I need to make sure it can be modded to a stable 30FPS before I buy it.

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          I don’t even get a stable 30fps playing BG3, so I am kind of pessimistic that Starfield will run on the deck. I hope so, but I’ll play it on the Xbox if I have to.

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            Baldur’s Gate isn’t a Bethesda title. Bethesda games are historically some of the most moddable there are, so I’m cautiously optimistic.

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          Personally I’m waiting to see if it’ll run on the Deck as my excuse to buy one lol

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        I’m guessing if it ran well on Steam Deck they would have already announced that. Unless Microsoft told them not to.

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          I’m sort of in the same thought process, especially since they were asked and they gave a “we’ll discuss that later” style response. I have an Xbox for my kids and I pay for whichever version of gamepass that lets you stream games, so push comes to shove I can do that.

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      It’s not going to be a port AFAIK. Bethesda always made games focusing on PC and modding, and with a decent performance.

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        Let’s not pretend that just because Bethesda started out as a PC developer that it means the games run well. I still can’t get a stable frame rate on Fallout 4 in all areas, shit I still can’t get a stable frame rate in Oblivion due to the game’s own optimization being a bottleneck. Their games are very moddable, but their huge amount of content and dynamic mechanics have clearly made it difficult to optimize.

        Hopefully the game will run decently, but I doubt it’ll be a totally seamless and smooth experience, though I’d love to be proven wrong.

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          Well, I said decent, and not good or amazing for a reason. Their games aren’t the pinnacle of optimization, but also they are far from the shitty ports out there, specially given how massive their games usually are.

          That said, I would never preorder a game. I’m confident that it will be good, but I will see that when it’s released.

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          Bethesda is hamstringed by their game engine, that is just an engine whose roots stem all the way back to gamebryo

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            Still, I prefer “poor” (bethesda games don’t not perform that poorly, really) performance with lots of system driven interactions and absolute modability like almost no other games out there than “good” performance.