I never had much issue with it at the beginning. But after some upgrades it's really fun, I never really fast travel and the bike is a big reason.
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Days Gone |OT| A Deacon of Hope
- Thread starter Nagito
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I had that happenig at a different point in the game. Closing and restarting the game fixed it.
I've only upgraded my gas tank.
Took me some time to get used to it but now I'm zipping through congested tunnels without hitting a thing.
How far am I along?
I just got the DNA machine from Sarah's old workplace and the doctor at the camp was murdered.
Yeah, that sequence was awful. Later flashbacks are interspersed with gameplay so that mission almost certainly almost certainly had the gameplay sections removed for some reason. I'm guessing that it may have been how the game started and that section was a glorified tutorial. Maybe it got cut because it felt too much like the opening of the TLoU and they just wanted to get to the "two years later thing" faster?
Thankfully that was the only case of something like that I"ve seen* and I'm well into the third camp.
*Except for one someone else in the thread pointed out earlier- there is an odd cut the first time you return to your watch tower with Boozer where it cuts from outside the gate to inside the tower and Boozer has new bruises on his face. Seems like there originally might have been a gameplay segment in the yard outside the tower.
oh cool, so I guess I should really treat this as an endgame activity
Yes.
30 total.
Around 75% done.
When O'Brian took off his helmet I was floored! I felt the same about not seeing Sarah at the Lost Lake camp. Maybe she's at her old workplace working on the cure?
Where do I find recipe for proximity bomb? Guides say Berley Lake campe, but I find other recipe instead or it's not showing up.
Nah, that's off base. Although I could see why you'd draw that conclusion.
If Mad Max was like 80% empty, 15% okay content and 5% great content, Days Gone is like 60% empty, 15% okay content, 25% great content
At least in pure gameplay/design terms. It's a way better game.
I say this as someone who really liked Mad Max.
The whole area feels really game-like and not very natural.
I understand the comments about the story picking at Camp 3 now. Once you have actually likeable characters it actually picks up.
Liking Deacon more as the game goes on too. Pre-release he definitely came across as a generic angsty boy but instead he's clearly a little unhinged and super awkward.
Liking Deacon more as the game goes on too. Pre-release he definitely came across as a generic angsty boy but instead he's clearly a little unhinged and super awkward.
Weird. Did you completely update/patch the game before playing first?
the game autosaves every now and then. just load to before.
this game is a lot of just boring busy work.
I'm just spent hours driving from A-B to do some nominal gameplay bits. Then back to camp to report
then repeat. And more repeat.
fuck me. They couldn't have designed this any worse if they wanted to. That's days gone the game. Its just a lot of boring busy work. Like this game is fucking lousy. It's long because its just filled with the absolute D-tier open world shite. They also don't give you missions in a list to attempt. You gotta wait for xyz mission to show up/camp. The inability to fast travel so they make you listen to boring innane conversations.
Bad mission design. Bad open world. Does not respect a gamer's time.
I'm really not loving this. Am I near the end game? I want to finish it and be done with this.
I'm just spent hours driving from A-B to do some nominal gameplay bits. Then back to camp to report
then repeat. And more repeat.
drive schizzo to mine. Watch them force you to walk slowly. Only enemies in the mines are some zombies you easily dispatch with the combo melee weapon. (Took like 20-30 minutes)
drive boozer everywhere
chase boozer when he's drunk (took forever and so fucking stupid)
follow misc thing here
Drive to some camp or another
drive to do mission. drive back to report.
drive to hunt thing. drive to return hat boot etc el
drive boozer everywhere
chase boozer when he's drunk (took forever and so fucking stupid)
follow misc thing here
Drive to some camp or another
drive to do mission. drive back to report.
drive to hunt thing. drive to return hat boot etc el
fuck me. They couldn't have designed this any worse if they wanted to. That's days gone the game. Its just a lot of boring busy work. Like this game is fucking lousy. It's long because its just filled with the absolute D-tier open world shite. They also don't give you missions in a list to attempt. You gotta wait for xyz mission to show up/camp. The inability to fast travel so they make you listen to boring innane conversations.
Bad mission design. Bad open world. Does not respect a gamer's time.
Fuck me it was comical... deacon killing heaps of people to activate comical cutscene which is interrupted by a bunch of guys coming in who I chopped down for more comical cutscene with the goofy priest
I'm really not loving this. Am I near the end game? I want to finish it and be done with this.
Yep, many MANY cutscenes and transitions feel like they were originally meant to be gameplay. So many truncated and cut sequences.
Bend definitely overstretched themselves with this game - good on them though
Bend definitely overstretched themselves with this game - good on them though
If the game keeps going like this it'll be in my top three open world games of this generation, just behind Horizon Zero Dawn and RDR2.
I really like the power curve / skill progression in this game. It's slow and you gradually feel more powerful in a really satisfying way. Shooting is awkward with the lame weapons you start out with, but that's perfectly fine because it makes getting better weapons and skills more meaningful as you progress. I'm doing head shots left and right now with single taps from my trusty assault rifle. Combat is gooood.
Edit: I'm a good way into the camp 3 missions and the only bug I've encountered was a biker stuck in a tree, I couldn't touch him as he'd turned into an inactive object. I've also run into a couple of performance issues while riding the bike, but nothing major so far. Certainly nothing that's been detrimental to my overall impression of the game.
I really like the power curve / skill progression in this game. It's slow and you gradually feel more powerful in a really satisfying way. Shooting is awkward with the lame weapons you start out with, but that's perfectly fine because it makes getting better weapons and skills more meaningful as you progress. I'm doing head shots left and right now with single taps from my trusty assault rifle. Combat is gooood.
Edit: I'm a good way into the camp 3 missions and the only bug I've encountered was a biker stuck in a tree, I couldn't touch him as he'd turned into an inactive object. I've also run into a couple of performance issues while riding the bike, but nothing major so far. Certainly nothing that's been detrimental to my overall impression of the game.
Yeah if you go to "load game" you can choose from many many save slots and hop to one before this happened
Finished the game in one week (release day to next friday) and the platinum took one more day but I was careful to get most trophies before finishing the main story.
Absolutely LOVED the game, I consider it to be very close to a masterpiece, although there are a lot of things wrong with it, mainly the human AI, the bad framerates (on the pro) and a few other small things.
Deacon was a joy to play with, reaaaaaally good voice over buy Sam, he gained another fan, never heard of him before. He's getting very close to that Troy Baker level. :)
The story was fantastic, the setting was awesome, the gameplay loop surprisingly fun!
9.5/10 from me.
Absolutely LOVED the game, I consider it to be very close to a masterpiece, although there are a lot of things wrong with it, mainly the human AI, the bad framerates (on the pro) and a few other small things.
Deacon was a joy to play with, reaaaaaally good voice over buy Sam, he gained another fan, never heard of him before. He's getting very close to that Troy Baker level. :)
The story was fantastic, the setting was awesome, the gameplay loop surprisingly fun!
9.5/10 from me.
Oh, I see now. So it doesn'T matter which camp you cleared.
That wasn't a problem for me at all. Probably because of my +500 hours in TW3 lol
Some of the mission design has been really weird.
I just played two back to back where
Not sure what the point of that was but alright I guess.
I just played two back to back where
Addison radioed me to come to talk. I go back to Lost Lake camp and a 1 minute cutscene about just keeping an eye on Boozer happens. Mission complete, get XP. Next one, go to the farm to check on Boozer. He's farming, talk for literally 10 seconds. Mission complete. Get XP.
Not sure what the point of that was but alright I guess.
is that the clearing one of the infestation around the north west region of the 1st map?
looks like the cabin that is near a pond/lake area.
that area is enroute of the horde that travels between the cave, which is slightly west of that cabin to the powerline tower that is near the rundown nero camp by the north west corner
looks like the cabin that is near a pond/lake area.
that area is enroute of the horde that travels between the cave, which is slightly west of that cabin to the powerline tower that is near the rundown nero camp by the north west corner
yup. but you've spent time fast tracking nearby and then you had to drive to him. And then after, you gotta probably find some fuel, fast travel back and repeat.
The XP levelling structure of the game is just bizarre. You'll never really be able to level up by doing misc running around in the open world as creatures give you such low XP. Its reliant on the game giving you these things to do and then chunks of 2k-4k-6k XP.
It's on 1.07 and says it's the latest version.
To be more clear I got to an area with
some kid zombies on a roof
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Do trophies don't pop up on this game? I haven't seen a single notification but already have 42% trophies.
Thanks for the replies, I figured it out with the help of another poster here and got it all functioning again. Still something Bend should look at.
They do!
Probably because it's a campaign/tutorial mission... Once the story there unfolds (it's like, the first or second mission) it will be saved properly. :/
The game does do some weird things with the saves. I was going to fight a horde so I saved the game nearby. Died. Reloaded and they disappeared?!
Last night I had an autosave reload from a nero checkpoint with a speaker on, kicked me back to a half mile away. When I got to the checkpoint to try activating it silently again, the checkpoint was already activated. Had to reload a few auto saves back in order to reset properly.
I get the feeling that Sony's internal mock reviews scored this game a lot higher than it did once critics and fans got their hands on it.
It's a shame because the game is impressive in some ways. Sony Bend went from making a handheld Uncharted game to a massive open world zombie (wait, no, freaker!) game. The motorcycle feels great, the environments are beautiful, melee combat is fun, but man those NERO stealth missions are some of the worst forced stealth segments I've played. I wasn't a fan of the MJ sections in Spiderman PS4, but those are high art compared to these.
I want to Platinum it, and I am enjoying myself, but at the same time certain things just are so frustrating.
It's a shame because the game is impressive in some ways. Sony Bend went from making a handheld Uncharted game to a massive open world zombie (wait, no, freaker!) game. The motorcycle feels great, the environments are beautiful, melee combat is fun, but man those NERO stealth missions are some of the worst forced stealth segments I've played. I wasn't a fan of the MJ sections in Spiderman PS4, but those are high art compared to these.
I want to Platinum it, and I am enjoying myself, but at the same time certain things just are so frustrating.
