🛢️ OLD FARTS UNIVERSAL CAFE 🛢️

[Black Album]

Welcome one and all … to ... OFUC

Customer: Excuse me … but I can’t find any milk for my coffee
Barista: In space no one can … here .. use cream

A simple cafe for people to chat and be frivolous before, during and after the launch of the highly anticipated Starfield game.
This place is just a temporary hideaway if the rows and arguments of the main forum are getting you down and you need somewhere to “chill” for a short time. Please don’t try to continue any arguments from other threads here … it’s not that kind of place.

No … here should be somewhere to relax … tell a few funny stories, make up outlandish adventures of your planned gameplay, meet some new friends whom you may want to chat with at a much later date … or totally ignore when you head off solo into outer space.

There will be no daily mod reviews, no morning greetings from a genial host … no ladies in inappropriate garments serving you drinks … (in fact … it’s pretty much self-service although there is a night shift robot who hoses down any ooze emitting from the Slug-Creatures).
There won't be a theme or any kind of lead character playing the host and we won’t be adhering strictly to the “lore” because, tbh, my attention to the finite details of mythology has always been a bit of an “Achilles Elbow” for me.

Once the main airlock doors are opened and the game is released then I imagine that this place will implode and will be stored, in a jar, on a back room shelf where no one will ever see it again.
But until then … chat away (or don’t ) … I’ll be hiding in a barrel somewhere, probably fast asleep.

OFUC is open for business … everyone is welcome …
(Apart from dragons … they make far too much mess with all of that flapping and fire breathing)

Disclaimer:
The management take no responsibility for any incidents involving “the bucket”.
Go near it at your own risk.

A fully ripped-off franchise of Ilja's Forum Works Ltd. (all rights reserved)

[ABX-Audiophile]

34%

[curtyuiop]

Says ready to play now, but greyed out! xo

[Black Album]

Welcome Arsenal ...
Sorry we won't be chatting much in a few mins ... we'll say hi later ...

[curtyuiop]

Originally posted by Black Album:

Welcome Arsenal ...
Sorry we won't be chatting much in a few mins ... we'll say hi later ...

u bet, have a great time as well BA!

[grewston]

Im so old I give my hair individual names

[curtyuiop]

Originally posted by smr1957:

Originally posted by curtyuiop:

Says ready to play now, but greyed out! xo

Restart Steam

Thanks, i'm now in game!

[Black Album]

It's bloody verifying now .... come on ... just play, don't bother to verify ...
It'll be fine ... trust me ... I'm an expert

[ashe]

Originally posted by grewston:

Im so old I give my hair individual names

These are not scraps. These are the historic remains of a once great society of hair.

[bry50]

Walks in and pours a beer, hmm sure is quiet in here. Hope everyone is enjoying themselves. Steam says 4 more days then I can get lost in space

[Mephitic]

First impression - controls take a bit of getting used to... some actions respond to a click of the button, others are initiated when the button is held down. Which is which is a learning curve, but not insurmountable.

Performance for me on an aging area51-m laptop ( i9-9900K, 2080 Super, 64Gb RAM) is good, solid 60 fps in most areas, higher in some. Lowest I've seen is 38 but that was transient.

Color is good, sound seems a bit tinny to me but I'm not really complaining.

[CallaWolf]

I put a good 4 hours into it already, and took tomorrow off to play it (plus, it helps that it's also a 3 day weekend already). Play it feels really smooth. I am running the game on Ultra using a R7 5600X, RTX3080, and 64GB RAM, and the game runs beautifully.

I am getting used to the controls, even flying controls, on keyboard and mouse. Gameplay, I am liking it, but i haven't even scratched the surface yet so I am still trying to figure it out, but so far I am impressed

[bLaCkShAd0w]

Loving it so far. Performance is better than I expected so far.

Noticed bilagos config tool has made a comeback:
https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/157

And we already have an updated B.A.E.:
https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/165

I guess that means texture and mesh replacers are now on the table.

[Black Album]

I didn’t even get where I was supposed to be going to … because it was bedtime.

I just knew the universe was going to be like that … when will I learn not to go around touching artefacts on my first day on the job …. Seriously… I’ve just got there and was perfectly happy being a miner with my new cutter … best cutter I’d ever had … but no … “Ohhh look, an artefact … nothings ever went wrong when you touch one of them” …
So now … I’ll have to save the bloody universe from whatever crap is coming my way.
Hopefully, all the other factions will just take pity on me … let me save the universe by the weekend without getting in the way … give me a superduper new cutter with my name engraved upon it … and then bugger off and leave me alone.

Why is it always me who has to do things … I mean, if the universe actually did need saving in real life and word reached the Old Farts that I had been the man chosen for the job … well, I’m sure you’d all be sitting there saying “I’m not sure about this”.
Just because I’m the spitting double of Brad Pitt doesn’t mean to say that I have “universe saviour” listed as an attribute on my LinkedIn profile.
It took me 5mins to find which button was crouch and I only found the first weapon after the battle was over … not a good start.

And who on earth (or … who in space) thought it was a good idea to me of all people the keys to a spaceship that the baddies also want when a battered old heap of rust as a training ship would’ve been a better idea.

Ah well … gotta go … theres a universe needing saving ….

[Gonzo]

I'm still trying to move the mouse drivers to HIMEM to try and improve performance (gawd I must be old if I can still remember doing that 640K limit sucked) :D

[Black Album]

Just noticed … in passing …
We’ve got our first pinned topic now …. and so it begins …