Awesome thanks for this! Hopefully it's not exclusive as that would be rather stupid. Hate playing with huds ruins the immersion!
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Days Gone |OT| A Deacon of Hope
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Awesome thanks for this! Hopefully it's not exclusive as that would be rather stupid. Hate playing with huds ruins the immersion!
After playing for just an hour, I can see some parts of why it got lower reviews. It's really unfortunate, but even the basic control didn't feel good. Moving around and controlling the camera didnt feel good and I think that is crucial in open world game like this. People like to complain about the repetitive nature of open world games. Horizon, Spider-Man, Far Cry etc have pretty repetitive mission structure. But I never have a problem because the core gameplay of just moving around and combat feels great. Those repetitive structure are just opportunity to do more of what I like.
Even Red Dead with it's sluggish control, the way it lock aim to someone body and manually moving it up for a headshot feel precise and satisfying.
I'm still very early and haven't even play horde fight yet, but it will be though to force myself playing if I can't get used to the control.
Even Red Dead with it's sluggish control, the way it lock aim to someone body and manually moving it up for a headshot feel precise and satisfying.
I'm still very early and haven't even play horde fight yet, but it will be though to force myself playing if I can't get used to the control.
No issue with the controls, I didn't have issues with RDR either. I hate input lag as much as anyone but this feels fine.
I've been having a pretty smooth experience so far (about 5 hours in). Some texture pop-in while riding the bike, that's about it.
You can turn on aim snap in the options menu, it works basically the same way.
You gotta do it all in terms of missions, and get 75% it all collectibles. The one trophy to be on the lookout for from the get-go is the one for looting 500-something items from human enemies.
Managed to just play the opening bit before I have to go to bed. Looks and feels pretty good. Ran into 1 glitch that caused me to have to restart one scene but it didn't ruin much for me.
Coming from playing The Division 2 with its janky-ass teleporting enemies, the few enemies I faced so far feel like a step up. I think I'm gonna enjoy taking the stealthy approach in this game and got a few days to soak it in now. Let's see how it goes!
Coming from playing The Division 2 with its janky-ass teleporting enemies, the few enemies I faced so far feel like a step up. I think I'm gonna enjoy taking the stealthy approach in this game and got a few days to soak it in now. Let's see how it goes!
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Well... despite one texture not loading right at the first scene... this game is a looker. Played for 2 hours and... its exactly like Far Cry but with bikes (and boy do they feel good to drive).
Far Cry also gets pretty repetitive but it is fun as hell to play.
I think this game got a backlash for not having the day one patch. And I seriously despise this arrogant criticism for playing a game before it should be played. 1.04 was released before the game launch. Anything before this being criticized is ridiculous.
(I'm speaking for my experience in 2 hours. Not a single frame drop or bug found in gameplay).
Just one cutscene triggered Deacon holding his gun with one arm, my last gun was the AK 47, while the Cutcene was recorded with the pistol in mind. It was strange to hold one AK 47 with one hand while aiming, but not broken.
Far Cry also gets pretty repetitive but it is fun as hell to play.
I think this game got a backlash for not having the day one patch. And I seriously despise this arrogant criticism for playing a game before it should be played. 1.04 was released before the game launch. Anything before this being criticized is ridiculous.
(I'm speaking for my experience in 2 hours. Not a single frame drop or bug found in gameplay).
Just one cutscene triggered Deacon holding his gun with one arm, my last gun was the AK 47, while the Cutcene was recorded with the pistol in mind. It was strange to hold one AK 47 with one hand while aiming, but not broken.
Played a few hours tonight and I have to say I'm a fan. Not terribly surprised since I usually like open-world games. Certain things, like the item-collection and crafting feel pretty similar to The Last of Us.
I really don't like the "Detective vision". I feel like I have to use it almost ever 30 seconds to find out whats lootable. I at least wish you could off the piss colored filter every time you use it.
I did increase the sensitivity, but I still have problem simply aiming the head of a single freaker coming at me
yeah, I probably will try aim snap if I can't get used to the aiming. I really shouldn't have to.
Just out of interest, are you on a Pro? I'm usually pretty sensitive to input lag (found RDR2 almost unplayable) and it feels pretty minor to me on base PS4.
I'm sorry but patch 1.04 was dropped literally a few hours before embargo drop. It is completely unreasonable to expect reviewers to keep waiting for new patches that might fix things before starting their playthrough. In the two weeks reviewers have had the game, a total of four patches have been released and there will undoubtedly be more patches coming. There will never be a "right" moment to review the game, as long as publishers keep releasing a game before they've finished ironing out major technical issues. This one is on Sony/Bend.
(And even with patch 1.04 I still had Deacon going for an air swim making him completely unresponsive and having to reload the game yesterday)
I say that as someone who loves the game btw.
Yeah I have no issues with this I am just glad they are releasing patches fast even before the game was release.
Yeah I'm on pro. Not sure why that would affect the game. Anyway, I'm not even sure if its input lag or dead zone, or maybe aim acceleration. It just didnt feel good to control compare to other game.
Red dead is pretty bad, but that game pace is slow everything, and any time you need fast aim, you have the dead eye slowing everything down. So I can bear with it.
I have OCD, and I loot everything. That throphy will be super easy for me lol
The issue with that trophy is that when you try looting a body and you already have an inventory full of that item, it doesn't count. So you kinda have to throw away stuff sometimes just so you can loot bodies :x
Same here, after playing for a bit this was one of my biggest annoyances, using that to see lootable items and the brightness filter it throws up is annoying and even can obscure the lootable items you're using it to look for in the first place. They should have had the lootable items a different color icon and another tweak I would've like would have been to keep the icon on screen longer, it disappears so fast which makes it feel like why you have to constantly keep using it.
A lot of this could be solved as well if there was just like a shimmer-effect like other games have for lootable items so you aren't so reliant on having to use the vision for that purpose.
I'm honestly just struggling at this point, i'm mostly playing hoping for something exciting to happen
The only actual fun i had so far was a couple of hordes i fought and cruising through the woods at night while it rains,, everything else was a slog
Left my bike near an outpost. Turned the outpost power on and the bike ended up being near a speaker nowhere near the building itself. Swarm on top of my bike meant I literally couldn't reach the bike. Had to spend 45+ mins trying before eventually escaping on foot to the nearest outpost, sleeping, and returning which reset the swarm so I could reach the bike before they got to me. No way to teleport it to me or reset it as far as I could tell - game told me bike was too far away to recover even though I could see it... Just there.
Head to the next mission, game tells me I need to fuel the bike to start the mission even though its on about 50%. Spend 30 mins looking for fuel. Give up. Turn game off.
My last few hours with Days Gone in a nutshell.
Head to the next mission, game tells me I need to fuel the bike to start the mission even though its on about 50%. Spend 30 mins looking for fuel. Give up. Turn game off.
My last few hours with Days Gone in a nutshell.
I like all of your suggestions on how to potentially fix it. They could even make it where when you aim your weapon it shows the icon and then you can run towards it. I just hate this timed filter along with the sound every other minute, really dumb.
I've played 3 hours so far and quite like it. The sensitivity of the analog sticks is a little too much sometimes, and I also had trouble at the intro, when the initial bike would just turn right and left with the slight touch of the analog stick.
It's a solid 8/10 so far.
It's a solid 8/10 so far.
Sounds like a nasty bug, hopefully this won't be a widespread issue throughout the world. I'll see by myself tomorrow.
True. Reviewers shouldn't get review copys until the game launches.
I think they might respawns in random places (not 100% sure though) but for camps, nests etc they don't spawn extra but can pick up stragglers if you don't clear them out and leave for a while.
Came across my first horde and that was pretty tough since there were a tonne of freakers so I had to play it really smart and slow to get them near explosives to get rid of the bulk of them and then pick the smaller fragmented groups after.
And it seems like bodies don't disappear. I went back to an old area and the dead bodies were exactly like I left them!
How come the the review thread has twice as many posts as the game thread? Are more people interested in giving their opinion on a number than they are actually playing a game?
Can't wait to try later, was day one for me as soon as I saw it all those years ago, reminded me of madmax and I loved that.
The location looks great and the graphics look nice too, must admit that I'm not really a massive open world fan but the odd one does hook me in If I'm interested in the subject matter like madmax, farcry 3 and rdr2.
Can't wait to try later, was day one for me as soon as I saw it all those years ago, reminded me of madmax and I loved that.
The location looks great and the graphics look nice too, must admit that I'm not really a massive open world fan but the odd one does hook me in If I'm interested in the subject matter like madmax, farcry 3 and rdr2.
people like shitting on things they dont like
they made their mind up the day the game got revealed
Sounds great. Things like this add to the continuity and groundedness of a game world. Shame they didn't nail the narrative and gameplay progression/pacing structure of things, because the game actually appears to be doing some genuinely interesting things, especially with respect to the world, tech, weather, atmosphere etc.
Because Days Gone has a lot of haters. Look at all the previous Days Gone threads. Almost all of them went down the toilet after a few minutes. Still, it's a solid 7 overall. All good :)
Well the critics didn't received as well as some other game so people seem to be discussing that.
And here I thought I was crazy, I even tested 2 different controllers