Days Gone |OT| A Deacon of Hope

Samuel Tolbert · May 5, 2019

I was really excited at how the story had picked up after the first act, but performance is continuing to get worse. I'm now dealing with framerate drops, freezing and textures completely failing to load. Hope there's some other patches coming in the future because it's borderline unplayable right now.

Equanimity · May 5, 2019

Orochinagis said:
I like the detail where most of the areas get lights you fix the energy generator.

I realised this change when I passed through crazy willie's garage last night.

More_Badass · May 5, 2019

WhiteNovember said:
Leaving the camp without any available missions, just to get an instant call to come back to the camp as soon as you leave it, is really silly.

I mean, 99% of the time, you're leaving camp to do a mission you selected

chrominance · May 5, 2019

LifeBrandRobot said:
Oh man I didn't know that side quests were missable. I missed one of the Visit Sarah's grave missions because I did a story mission that took me to another area and by the time I was able to free roam again the mission had disapeared... Real bummer cuz I had been doing everything up to that point.

I had to look this up. Sure enough, I JUST missed the cutoff for this mission.

Goddammit, I thought games were done with this arbitrary cutoff bullshit. Did I just fuck myself out of the True Ending?

Soupman Prime · May 5, 2019

Was me yesterday, kinda fucked up my own escape so just tried it. I'm gonna assume this is just one of the smaller hordes, maybe smallest.

Almost increased my trust to level 2 so I'm gonna have to decide if I want a shotgun or will stick with the assault rifle I have.
Will go to crossbow soon because someone said it's great once you get a perk.

Djost1kk · May 5, 2019

I love the game but I'm starting to have a gripe with the amount of cutscenes during main missions. Don't get me wrong, I love them, they are really well done with solid acting and voice, but it's just ridiculous sometimes. I feel like so many of these moments could've been done in game and without taking control from the player. People hate RDR2 but this game got many things right, including perfect balance between gameplay and cinematics.

Dancrane212 · May 5, 2019

Performance in the Southern

militia

area is tanking for me. Had two different instances of objects popping in front of and killing me in the bike.

LonestarZues · May 5, 2019

chrominance said:
I had to look this up. Sure enough, I JUST missed the cutoff for this mission.

Goddammit, I thought games were done with this arbitrary cutoff bullshit. Did I just fuck myself out of the True Ending?

Nah you're good.

BarryFishFinger · May 5, 2019

The Gold Hawk said:
I am getting really concerned for Deacon's state of mind.

I've heard him shout "runner" on like ten occasions and have only ever seen one.

He constantly calls out "Sniper ambush" when I'm driving...and not being ambushed. Or long after I have killed the sniper ambush.

Earlier today I was looting a car and he kept saying his "Need to clear out the nests" dialogue lines, immediately followed by the "I'll be back later to clear out those nests" dialogue lines. There was no nest. The nests are gone Deacon. It's okay, they can't hurt you any more.

Ha, I had this. Deacon shouted "BEAR!" so I started looking around and an old, slow single freaker lurched into view.

FelipeMGM · May 5, 2019

Dancrane212 said:
Performance in the Southern

militia

area is tanking for me. Had two different instances of objects popping in front of and killing me in the bike.

it's way worse than in other areas for me too, though is not so much objects popping or textures no loading, but the framerate getting constant slowdowns

SixelAlexiS · May 5, 2019

Traxus said:
I tried it last night and I think it makes the camera automatically center as you turn the bike. No idea why it's called backup camera.

But I have it off and it center automatically anyway if I don't use the right stick... mmm, I have to test it.

BTW other than the rubbish human AI (such a shame, they are totally blind and clueless), one big issue is the lack of a button to watch behind you while running, both on foot and on bike.

On foot it would be incredibly usefull while you are chased by freakers (especially the horde, I died a lot times by being stuck cause I didn't know where I was going), but you are already full of usable buttons so other then use the right touchpad I don't know how it could be done (not by pressing it but only touching it).

On the bike, instead, you have triangle and L3 that have no scope, it was really that hard to put the option there?

DirtyLarry · May 5, 2019

For Those Experiencing Slow Down / Framerate Issues
Just to share what I shared earlier in the thread, for myself, who almost always plays a game from resuming on my PS4 Pro, that is what seems to kill the framerate for me. if I quit the game completely everytime and launch it from scratch, I experience almost no slow downs or framerate issues. It is not ideal since the game takes a good amount of time to load initially, but it has been worth it to alleviate most of the slow down issues I have seen. And I do not believe it is a placebo effect either. The more I resume the worse things get. No resuming and I only see it now and then.

In regards to playing the game itself, I am at least 10 hours in and although I have been trying my best to avoid this thread as there is a decent amount of unmarked spoilers in it, I do know based on the comments I have read here I have hardly begun even playing the actual game itself. I had a real issue stopping everywhere I saw initially and just fucking around. Now I am just starting to focus on Story Missions to move things along. I wish I took this approach right from the beginning, but I do think the initial fucking around has made me more adept at killing, so it has not been a total loss. I just know I am not even probably at 15%, and that is pretty insane.

LetalisAmare · May 5, 2019

Is it just me or does Skizzo look like Deacon?

TheBeardedOne · May 5, 2019

bryanee said:
Is it just me or does Skizzo look like Deacon?

I don't think so

semiconscious · May 5, 2019

WhiteNovember said:
Leaving the camp without any available missions, just to get an instant call to come back to the camp as soon as you leave it, is really silly.

yep. had this happen the very first time i left the second camp. i assumed it was tucker just bustin' balls :) ...

WhiteNovember · May 5, 2019

More_Badass said:
I mean, 99% of the time, you're leaving camp to do a mission you selected

Happened 7 or 8 times at least, that I left the camp and was called immediately (without having active missions). May not be the norm, still annoying and unnecessary.

semiconscious · May 5, 2019

bryanee said:
Is it just me or does Skizzo look like Deacon?

is it just me, or does flashback deacon sometimes look like a very early (gallipoli/mad max) mel gibson? :) ...

Nintendo · May 5, 2019

bubumiao said:
How about a comparison to Mafia III?

Doesn't Mafia 3 allow you to do missions in any order? There's no mission structure and progression IIRC. You just takeover regions in any order.

Deleted member 4494 · May 5, 2019

The performance issues you get by the end of the game (~40 hours, at the

4th camp

area) are pretty bad. I'd say there is a serious memory leak at play, as performance seems to degrade over time played (though from a complete restart, you get back to bad performance reasonably fast in this area, so there is also something to do with the state the game is in at that point). You're looking at a lot of hitching, FPS drops (which are probably just micro-stutters), and the occasional 1-2 second full-stop hitch. Sometimes I thought the game was just going to crash on me, and it did, but only once. I really hope Bend / Sony can sort out those issues; I love this game, and have already finished it and am working on the platinum, so I'm accustomed to it, but it really blemishes a great product..

For reference, was playing on a PS4Pro.

semiconscious · May 5, 2019

Spoo said:
The performance issues you get by the end of the game (~40 hours, at the

4th camp

area) are pretty bad. I'd say there is a serious memory leak at play, as performance seems to degrade over time played (though from a complete restart, you get back to bad performance reasonably fast in this area, so there is also something to do with the state the game is in at that point). You're looking at a lot of hitching, FPS drops (which are probably just micro-stutters), and the occasional 1-2 second full-stop hitch. Sometimes I thought the game was just going to crash on me, and it did, but only once. I really hope Bend / Sony can sort out those issues; I love this game, and have already finished it and am working on the platinum, so I'm accustomed to it, but it really blemishes a great product..

For reference, was playing on a PS4Pro.

this & the loading times seem to be the game's major problems, technically. i''m still early in, but've already come to dread upcoming cutscenes, knowing just how long the loading times can be :) ...

Blackleg-sanji1 · May 5, 2019

k0fighter · May 5, 2019

Spoo said:
The performance issues you get by the end of the game (~40 hours, at the

4th camp

area) are pretty bad. I'd say there is a serious memory leak at play, as performance seems to degrade over time played (though from a complete restart, you get back to bad performance reasonably fast in this area, so there is also something to do with the state the game is in at that point). You're looking at a lot of hitching, FPS drops (which are probably just micro-stutters), and the occasional 1-2 second full-stop hitch. Sometimes I thought the game was just going to crash on me, and it did, but only once. I really hope Bend / Sony can sort out those issues; I love this game, and have already finished it and am working on the platinum, so I'm accustomed to it, but it really blemishes a great product..

For reference, was playing on a PS4Pro.

I know they really wanted to push the PlayStation 4 hardware but maybe they were a little too ambitious in the end? This should be a real treat when replayed on PlayStation 5.

Smokey_Run · May 5, 2019

Spoo said:
The performance issues you get by the end of the game (~40 hours, at the

4th camp

area) are pretty bad. I'd say there is a serious memory leak at play, as performance seems to degrade over time played (though from a complete restart, you get back to bad performance reasonably fast in this area, so there is also something to do with the state the game is in at that point). You're looking at a lot of hitching, FPS drops (which are probably just micro-stutters), and the occasional 1-2 second full-stop hitch. Sometimes I thought the game was just going to crash on me, and it did, but only once. I really hope Bend / Sony can sort out those issues; I love this game, and have already finished it and am working on the platinum, so I'm accustomed to it, but it really blemishes a great product..

For reference, was playing on a PS4Pro.

Its why I kinda slowed down about 12-15 hours into the game. I'm hoping a patch comes along to somewhat fix it.

Zem · May 5, 2019

The saving system in this game is absolutely fucked

Dirtyshubb · May 5, 2019

bryanee said:
Is it just me or does Skizzo look like Deacon?

Honestly at first I was wondering if they were supposed to be brothers when he was first introduced so your not the only one who saw similarities.

Azurik · May 5, 2019

Just rode

over the pass into the 4th camp

Still love the game despite some small issues here and there. Story is picking up and graphics still impress me. Deacons character has opened up and made him a lot more interesting for me. All in all the game is a solid 8.5 in my books and I do not understand some of the "bad" reviews.
I'm having a lot of fun with the game and always look forward to my next session with it

Katana_Strikes · May 5, 2019

Wow another

area down south

Keep just keeps going. That character you meet briefly at the new camp was great and funny. Hope we see more of him ha

Hasney · May 5, 2019

DeathyG · May 5, 2019

Blackleg-sanji1 said:

lmao

How I feel playing Days Gone.

Angeal78 · May 5, 2019

Just finished... The true ending is just... Wow... I hope Sony support Bend and Days Gone 2.

TheZynster · May 5, 2019

Why am I not surprised they used a song in sons of anarchy in this game lol

Loudninja · May 5, 2019

Traxus · May 5, 2019

DirtyLarry said:
For Those Experiencing Slow Down / Framerate Issues
Just to share what I shared earlier in the thread, for myself, who almost always plays a game from resuming on my PS4 Pro, that is what seems to kill the framerate for me. if I quit the game completely everytime and launch it from scratch, I experience almost no slow downs or framerate issues. It is not ideal since the game takes a good amount of time to load initially, but it has been worth it to alleviate most of the slow down issues I have seen. And I do not believe it is a placebo effect either. The more I resume the worse things get. No resuming and I only see it now and then.

You might be onto something. I started running into cutscenes audio/video desyncing around the 3rd camp and I'd been using Rest Mode entirely since the beginning of the game. Turned the PS4 off/on and the issue seems to have gone away for now.

Freezasaurus · May 5, 2019

Traxus said:
You might be onto something. I started running into cutscenes audio/video desyncing around the 3rd camp and I'd been using Rest Mode entirely since the beginning of the game. Turned the PS4 off/on and the issue seems to have gone away for now.

I can vouch for the framerate thing. When you start running into choppy framerates, rebooting the game seems to fix it.

leng jai · May 5, 2019

Freezasaurus said:
I can vouch for the framerate thing. When you start running into choppy framerates, rebooting the game seems to fix it.

That seems to work for about 10 minutes but then the riding goes back to being a stuttering mess. The on foot gameplay is mostly fine so must be the FoV and streaming causing it.

Hasney · May 5, 2019

After finishing the game and playing for that long, rebooting only lasts about 5 minutes before being chuggy as all heck again.

This is becoming semi-frequent

Freelance7 · May 5, 2019

I was thinking of getting this game, but I have a regular PS4 so I am afraid it would run like shit.

Freezasaurus · May 5, 2019

leng jai said:
That seems to work for about 10 minutes but then the riding goes back to being a stuttering mess. The on foot gameplay is mostly fine so must be the FoV and streaming causing it.

Are you in the Southern region of the map? I've noticed more framerate dips there than in the North.

leng jai · May 5, 2019

Freezasaurus said:
Are you in the Southern region of the map? I've noticed more framerate dips there than in the North.

Started getting really bad once I got to the third camp. Maybe it's also because your bike gets faster so the streaming lags behind even more.

Orangecoke · May 5, 2019

hi guys, I just spent some time killing a horde NE of Carlos' resort (I already killed him etc). It never gave me horde complete notification, and now based on Google I think it was a story horde. So what happens if you destroy a horde but not during the mission it's part of, when that mission comes around?

TheZynster · May 5, 2019

Orangecoke said:
hi guys, I just spent some time killing a horde NE of Carlos' resort (I already killed him etc). It never gave me horde complete notification, and now based on Google I think it was a story horde. So what happens if you destroy a horde but not during the mission it's part of, when that mission comes around?

It still would've said you completed it most likely there are some stragglers still around and depending on the time of day they could be in their home cave which you have to find or if you are out at night they should be nearby just kill anything

jroc74 · May 5, 2019

Yautja_Warrior said:
Well they weren't kidding when they said the world comes for you.

I was just clearing out a bandit camp and a fucking mini horde rocks up behind me, clearly out for a morning run and decided to join the party. Lets just say things went to shit very fast lol

Even though it was slightly annoying to get unexpectedly murdered, I can't really fault the game for having such a random thing happen. It's one of the things I love about the game to be honest and it makes it stand apart from most open world games.

Worse that's happened to me is clearing a bandit camp, get down to 2 left, and 2-3 wolves decide to join the party.

They killed the last 2, got the camp clear message, but then had to deal with the wolves.

I was better off without the wolves.

Orangecoke · May 5, 2019

TheZynster said:
It still would've said you completed it most likely there are some stragglers still around and depending on the time of day they could be in their home cave which you have to find or if you are out at night they should be nearby just kill anything

I mean I scoured the area around the horde area (it's out in the open) like crazy, waited till daytime, blew stuff up to see if it attracted any back to the area. There's none left there. This is bizarre.

Hasney · May 5, 2019

leng jai said:
Started getting really bad once I got to the third camp. Maybe it's also because your bike gets faster so the streaming lags behind even more.

That makes sense since I have the top engine and nitrous now, so I'm betting everywhere

Psychotron · May 5, 2019

Holy shit I just had the game give me ten heart attacks, lol. I was driving along and decided to take out a deer. I did that and then ended up with a convention of different enemy types all coming after me. The first fight is with a fairly early game enemy type and the rest shouldn't be a spoiler. Forgive my constant fiddling with the weapon wheel, I wasn't expecting this shit.

Slim Action · May 5, 2019

Both times the game has thrown a mandatory horde at me in a mission I have had no warning, no chance to change my equipment, and completely the wrong equipment.

TheZynster · May 5, 2019

Psychotron said:
Holy shit I just had the game give me ten heart attacks, lol. I was driving along and decided to take out a deer. I did that and then ended up with a convention of different enemy types all coming after me. The first fight is with a fairly early game enemy type and the rest shouldn't be a spoiler. Forgive my constant fiddling with the weapon wheel, I wasn't expecting this shit.

Headshots do an absurd amount of damage to the berserk guys, it also stuns there run at you

henhowc · May 5, 2019

bryanee said:
Is it just me or does Skizzo look like Deacon?

looks like nathan drake dressed up like a wannabe gangster/rapper

00lsen · May 5, 2019

Orangecoke said:
I mean I scoured the area around the horde area (it's out in the open) like crazy, waited till daytime, blew stuff up to see if it attracted any back to the area. There's none left there. This is bizarre.

Had the same thing today, also with the sawmill horde a while back. I just assume it doesn't mark it as complete until you do the story mission

Also, this region doesn't have any horde as a part of its collectibles, so perhaps there isnt any info about clearing it at all

Dirtyshubb · May 5, 2019

Just got the trophy for completing the story, absolutely fantastic game.

It did have quite a few technical issues by the end but nothing game breaking or too bothersome really. Story, characters, music, world, graphics, atmosphere are all top notch though and I am really hoping that sony greenlight a sequel and Bend can expand to get some of the issues they had out of the way.

Imaging what Days Gone 2 would be like on PS5 is just mind melting and something I will be there for day one again.

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