Starfield has been cracked

I really felt cheated that no one was insulted, no rants were frothed, no theories conspiracied in this nfo. All we got was relevant information and kindness.

I'm kidding obvs

Bland release notes.
I wanted some spicy ✨bipolar ranting✨
Not even transphobia? But how will I justify my Vtuber hatemail now? /jk

I love that pirate groups still use ascii text art in their release notes. It’s like a little piece of the world that hasn’t changed in 30 years.

I need to find out how to make these. Mostly just cause I like it.
- it's typically just a kind of pixel art with monospaced fonts¹. any characters you see that's not typically shown on your keyboard (e.g a filled square) can be found in a character selection program in your OS. anything else related to texts, templating and line breaks you can probably find a program somewhere on places like crates.io or gitlab or write something of your own without much trouble.
  ¹ a monospaced font is a font where every letter and character has the same spacing from each other, and are the easiest to do ascii art. (ascii is just one character table, but you can also gather unicode chars all you want)
I love that the installer has a cracktro, that's the real good stuff.
- I bopped to that shit for ages.
I pirated a cracked version of Adobe Acrobat Pro recently. First thing I had to crack in years. It had a sketchy crack installer , with music and everything. Like it was back in the 90s. Of course it worked perfectly lol.
- Chiptune/tracker/keygen music will all hold a special place in my heart.
I really like the chip tunes, but I think they are not creating them anymore in the authentic way
Oh my too!

To be fair it's the exact same bypass as any other Steam game. Any steam emulator would work.

- Bethesda the publisher does things differently than Bethesda the developer.
  As a dev, they know their modding communities keep their games alive long, long past their expiration dates and will fuck with them as little as they possibly can - this takes them from games to household names to legends that everyone knows.
  As a publisher pushing products that aren't intended to be modded, they drink the koolaid.
- WTF is/was this comment? It's killing me lol

I would think that it's cheap availability on GamePass and likelihood of frequent updates would make for a muted response to this one.

Plus I don't think it was protected to start with for modding purposes. People will be flying around in Thomas the Tank Engine by the end of next week.

- Yes, that would be terrible for them to be bought by somebody like MS.
- You forgot Fallout76 and their own shitty launcher, well and the fact that Microsoft bought them already...
- My only beef with them is their complete disregard for QA but, in the end, they're right.
  We'll do it for them.
  Well, and watering down the social commentary in their Fallouts to an absurd degree.
  Can't wait for Fallout 5 to say "AKSHUALLY, it was all China's fault and capitalism is based and Vault Tec was justified. Join the Brotherhood or die, trash."
  Triangle For Enthusiastic Yes Square For Nod Silently
- Yes. Paid mods never existed.
As is Bethesda tradition.

"Cracked" meaning having replaced a dll file

They don't even replace the DLL file for you! After you run the RUNE installer, you have to copy the emulator yourself
- You can just click the checkbox for "Copy crack to install directory" to get the installer to do everything for you.
  I'm not sure why that isn't the default.

WTF?! The game is not even released on steam yet? Are they cracking the preloaded version?

AFAIK the digital deluxe edition allows you to start playing 5 days early.
- There is no "play 5 days early". The game launched on 1st of September. But those who can't afford to shell out 100 Euros have to wait 5 more days. Microsoft did the same bullshit with Forza. I didn't like it back then, I won't like it now.
- Can confirm. Started playing this morning.
- Why would you want to play a Bethesda game 5 days early? The best time is several months after release, when the community has had time to fix the bugs.
I was playing it last night on steam. I needed a new GPU recently and it came with a code to download it. 🤷‍♂️
- Which GPU did you get?
There was a 5 day early access, at least on gamepass.
- I have gamepass ultimate and it says I can’t play till the 6th

“Pirates? I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the gazillion sales we're about to make.” —Bethesda, probably

*Already made. They've got like 200k+ $100 deluxe version sales already, the base game hasn't even officially launched
The extra cost "early access" stuff just encourages piracy. I'm paying for gamepass, so I'm already paying for access in four days. I'm still tempted to pirate it. It's probably going to be a better product than dealing with Xbox crap on PC, but I could also play now.
Sixteen times the details

Eagerly waiting for the videos of every Starfield's fade-to-black screen transitioning back into Skyrim's opening

Wonder if the cracked version crashes when starting a new game like the steam version does...

Kill any overlay apps like MSI. Process Explorer can crash it too. Just kill everything. Had this issue with FO76.
- Devs: "it works fine on my machine". At this point games should just come with their own OSes. Or hardware. Hell, ship 'em like arcade boxes.
- No overlays running, still crashes. I'm seeing quite a few people reporting this online, both with AMD and Nvidia, and of course Intel cards don't work at all on this game.

Who the hell are they expecting is going to play this game? Only trust fund kids?
- Adults with jobs?
Gamers nexus had gtx 1070 in their starfield performance review, so it can work on a 1070. 30fps on low settings I think though.
The 1070 is the official minimum requirement.
- 1070Ti
- fr: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxgaming/comments/166xnai/starfieldjustmademygpucatchonfire/
If you've got windows 10 try updating to 22h2 (no, really; a consequence of Bethesda being acquired by Microsoft, I suspect), and update your GPU drivers.
That got it running on my 980ti, so it should also work with the 1070.
Been trying to run it on an rx480 and it hiccups and crashes so much lol

Did starfield not have denuvo drm. I thought most Bethesda games did.

None of them do. It would fuck with people's ability to make mods for them.
- True. I guess I thought that because "ghost wire Tokyo" and "redfall" do. But makes sense for a game like starfield to not
- Not necessairly (well, goodbye to Starfield Script Extender in that case). But I think it's more that Gamebryo can't integrate Denuvo lol
Bethesda Game Studios games don't have DRM like Denuvo. BGS and Bethesda Softworks are two different entities. ID, MachineGames and other Zenimax studios tend to have DRM, not BGS.
On the other hand, didn't Denuvo come out after Fallout 4 launched? So what would they even protect, 76?
- No, Denuvo was first used in Sept. 2014 and Fallout 4 came out Nov. 2015.

Well, that was quick!

And even it's cracked from I won't be able to play it thanks to my old as system and my lack of will to purchase a new one untill it dies.

Haha I was thinking along similar lines, my R5 1600 is either going to take to it with it's usual shrug while it rolls up it's sleeves or just explode, it still punches way above it's weight so hopefully it won't explode but she's getting a bit long in the tooth.

The four day head start thing being bullshit was a good point. But yeah, I'm not likely to pirate an executable any time soon.

Does this mean I can pirate it early? 😮

Yes, but it's huge, over 100GB. BG3 all over again!
It's up on IPT already
- What is IPT?
Something is available, whether or not its safe is another story.
- I got nothing to care about. I can nuke my drives at any time and not feel the loss. Plus Dauphong has never let me down.

They fast as fuck. Another W for the pirates.

- Imagine cracking a game that's already on gog lmao
- Which is DRM free...
I've never had a problem with them.

Thats nice. One question tho is rune codex now? Since I saw on elamigos that rune/codex refere to the same people

Can anyone give me a full guide on how to get this to work on Linux(Arch btw), since I have absolutely no clue on how to do this stuff.

It's super easy. I just added it as a non steam game in my library and it worked. It also works on Lutris using a default wine context. I've been playing it and I'm on EndeavourOS (Arch)
- Did you run into a case where a RX5700 was detected as unsupported?
There are endless guides already written out there, just search for "Lutris" or "Bottles".

Awe as a dev this kind of bums me out a little. I wonder that they used for DRM. Those sales go directly to the devs in way of raises and retention.

Granted this is not EA where i worked, but if you enjoy the game, i encourage you to buy it.

Also NOTE: I DO NOT SUPPORT DRM, just the pay checks of the devs as i was one for quite some time.

You realize this is a forum, actually a whole instance, that centers around piracy, right?
- Yeah! You also realize this is a group full of intelligent people right? It's the whole reason why i chose this instance.
Totally agree on the paycheck. However we need to stop acting like piracy is bad only. Buy the things you really enjoy and support the creator(s).
Back in the days a friend suggested i buy Skyrim and i was like: "Uuh not sure if i want to spend that kind of money on a 2yo game". But since he was quite a fan, i pirated it. Soon after I bought the LE version and today it is still my most played game.
NGL: i also pirated many things of which i never bought the original version. But because of the bay i also bought some things i most likely wouldn't have without.
- Yup.
  I was vaguely interested in Dark Souls for years, but every time I tried, I bounced right off it. I went through a cycle where every year or two, I would pirate one of the souls games, try it out, give up on it after an hour or so, and do it all over again the next time I was sufficiently compelled to give the series another shot. This happened until several years ago when I tried Dark Souls II, and for some reason it finally clicked. I played my pirated copy of Dark Souls II for about 10 hours, before a random crash corrupted my save file.
  After that happened, I immediately bought the game on Steam and proceeded to play it for the next month and a half, until I eventually beat it. I've since purchased every souls game plus Elden Ring on Steam, and recently imported a copy of Bloodborne GOTY edition after spending $700 on an exploitable PS5, just so I could play it at 60FPS. None of these legitimate purchases would have ever happened if I hadn't been able to repeatedly pirate Dark Souls for about five years.
- I don't think piracy is bad lol i do think mega corporate publishers have bad practices for sure. Like cool, the one i worked for is publicly traded. Awesome. Every action is greed motivated. I hate that.
  Every time i loose hope in games i just play undertale and ignore the world. >.>

Is there a torrent somewhere....?

resources in the Megathread link pinned to the community can lead you there.

Anyone know if save game files from the cracked version (aka Steam version) can be transferred to the GamePass version?

I don't know why you'd want to rent the game if you've already got the cracked copy, but I would be surprised if the save files were any different between the two platforms.
- Because it's a supported copy that I know is getting the latest patches and I'm already paying for it...? Also, as long as I can transfer save files, I could use them down the line on a sale copy on Steam for Steam Deck or whatever else.

Can you give a link please?thx

Check megathread on sidebar.
Fuck off and look yourself
EDIT: stay mad lmfao
- Name checks out
DODI-REPACKS.
Not sure why these assholes here are acting like this is reddit where the sub could be shut down. The dude runs his own instance..
Why I was down voted to hell wtf? We can t demand link on a piracy sub?-?
- I just readed the rules wtf . no link on a piracy sub . for me there is no interest in it if I have to research my torrent myself .

I got installed the game, when i start it steam opens up and give a "no license" prompt

I forgot to tick a box that copies the crack install dir

Install the crack on top of it

Can't play because nvidia. So great