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Stadia |OT| Talk About the Weather
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Charpunk ordered June 6, shortly after pre-orders went up. I also ordered June 6, a few hours after the event.
Thanks, saw someone on Reddit from June 10th. So much for order received. Shipping I get due to logistics but the code should have been very easy to do properly
Yeah people are bitching about the "first come first serve get your username" advertising.
Google gonna have a lot of complaints on their hands if day-one orders don't get their desired usernames lol
It was such a weird thing to market their service with and I don't think anyone actually cared that much... but a promise is a promise lol
Google gonna have a lot of complaints on their hands if day-one orders don't get their desired usernames lol
It was such a weird thing to market their service with and I don't think anyone actually cared that much... but a promise is a promise lol
The point is that unlike Destiny, Grid seems exactly what was promised, 4k/60 with high quality rendering, but this time with a mode rendering 40 cars instead of 16.
And I'm doubting that was due to some larger amount of effort put into the port compared to games that are disappointments like Destiny 2.
That's what their point was about; wasn't your post I was responding to so not sure how you can declare what the "point" is.
Lol, at work ATM so not a big deal but their communication had to be the worse I have ever seen for a launch
So if the reason the graphical port was done so much better in Grid than Destiny isn't "more work", what reason do you think it is? Netcode running locally wouldn't allow better graphics.
Well we are nearing two hour mark and still no codes for any one else here. Not there are even dozens of us lmao...
What do you mean better graphics?
What we were told was that Google worked w/ Bungie directly for 6 months on the port.. it is the premiere game for the service. What reason do we have to believe that it was lacking in effort? That was my only point.
Well we are nearing two hour mark and still no codes for any one else here. Not there are even dozens of us lmao...
I wonder if they are slowly rolling out codes to not kill the servers. Which would be amusing if they can't even handle the founders traffic.
Just got my hardware in a little bit ago and got everything set up, waiting on code to start signing into the app and testing it out.
No doubt about that, but we are seeing reports that codes are not being distributed on a first come first served basis, as it was promised.
Yup. Killed my buzz for the day, following on from the Destiny stuff yesterday.Well we are nearing two hour mark and still no codes for any one else here. Not there are even dozens of us lmao...
Wasn't even sure what name to pick 100%, had a few to try. Was mainly excited for that opening and rush to get one.
My point was that Grid is providing exactly the graphical level that was promised and would be expected on the hardware, and Destiny 2 isn't. Despite Destiny 2 being clearly able to run at ultra quality at 4k on Vega56 at 50-60fps in Windows. And Shadow of the Tomb Raider, same thing, it's running as Google promised, and has similar performance to Vega56 benchmarks in Windows.
That's the reason we have to believe Destiny was lacking in effort, despite knowing that at least 2 people from Google were embedded at Bungie during Destiny's port.
The whole thing with destiny makes absolutely zero sense. The only thing I can think of is they intentionally lowered the settings so they can run more streams per server since it's a free game that more people are probably going to be playing.
UK here - you beat me by a minute. Do you have a code yet? It's ludicrous that people who ordered DURING the presentation don't have their codes, controllers or Chromecasts yet.
User warned: ‘lazy devs’ rhetoric
It's honestly baffling, it makes no sense that the premier Stadia game that is guaranteed every founder will play would end up being upconverted 1080p at Medium quality. Makes me wonder if Destiny 2's rendering system was just so super-optimized for DirectX or something they couldn't get it running good in Vulkan. I really hate the "lazy developer" thing, it's rarely real, but in this case I honestly can't think of any other reason, since other games aren't having the same problems. I mean, if I were Google, I would have even delayed Stadia's launch if Destiny 2 was so bad.
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For now there's no way to play it free and I'm still skeptical that's going to happen any time soon. Makes no sense to flood your fledgling service with a bunch of freeloaders who may or may not be paying themselves back but they're a continuous drain on your profits even if they don't. Not to mention F2P service games tend to get people who play long hours compared to the more standard games.
For one; do we have actual graphical settings / perf analysis on Grid yet?
And do we even really have that for Tomb Raider?
I don't know much about either game and expectations vs. what we got TBH.. Destiny is way below expectations for sure though.
I just don't assume "lack of effort" as a reason.. that just isn't what we've been told nor does it really make sense. The engine could be using GPU features that other games aren't that don't perform well on Linux for instance, or just not work very well with Vulkan. Any number of issues could happen, just as some games might have been really easy to port (works great, little effort.)
But from what I've seen.. your bolded statement is false. True of 1440p, but 4k Ultra settings in D2 struggle to go much above 40 FPS from what I've seen.
Ordered 9:30am Pacific Time June 6th. Got my Stadia and was confused when I didn't see any invite codes or anything in there. Started setting everything up and it asks for a code.. Searched all thru the box again and found nothing. Then saw they're supposed to email you a code..... how were they not sent out already, and why weren't they just included in the dam boxes? lol. Man, this sux. Now looking thru here, seems like a lot of other ppl have that problem. :(
so anyone got his? how is the input lag??
mine suppose to arrive tomorrow can't wait to put it in test!
mine suppose to arrive tomorrow can't wait to put it in test!
You can be happy you got your hardware. I also pre-ordered day one and I won't have hardware for another two day. Don't have a code either.
The one person in this thread who has a code yet is at work and cant play.
I was basing that on benchmarks, I found multiple benchmarks of Destiny 2 running on Vega56 GPUs, they were all running at 50-60fps, the slowest I found was one at 48 (note, these benchmarks are from after launch - during beta the game ran far worse on Vega56). But again, that's at ultra, 4k, if they had that working they could have dropped quality down just a tad to get 60fps - heck, I don't think it would have been viewed as bad if it was running at ultra but 1080p upconverted. But that slider on DF is just damning when you see all the details just disappear on the Stadia side.
For Tomb Raider, DF's review mentioned it, said it was missing like one effect at the 30fps mode, otherwise it was Ultra. And that matches online benchmarks with Vega56, around 26fps at Ultra at 4k.
Brutal :(. I was shocked when I got the hardware this early. But also doesn't do me much if I can't use it and it just sits here teasing me, lol. This is SUCH a botched launch, it's insane. Hope you get yours soon!
The reason the code is not in the box is because some Founders boxes won't arrive for a week. Since the claim is you don't need special hardware every founder should be able to start on day one with just the code to create an account. But Google is now also fucking up the delivery of simple emails.
Stadia's the future... right? Are we sure that's not because they're still living in the past? xD
This cannot be real.
Ooohhhh. I mean, I guess that's a "good" reason. But then why not do all this stuff earlier, like a week before launch. lol
I had no idea any of those services apart from Skype were still around especially AIM and ICQ...thought those died back in the early 00s.Stadia's the future... right? Are we sure that's not because they're still living in the past? xD
Exactly. EVERY founder should have the hardware to play day 1 when their code arrives.