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Wow, I was wondering why there was no voice but subtitles in the couple youtube videos I watched...I have no words.
I have played 30 minutes so far and am finding absolutely nothing enjoyable. I'm going to give this some more time, but this is rough
THANK YOU. I thought i was losing my mind seeing all the subtitles and Colt having a conversation with silence
THANK YOU. I thought i was losing my mind seeing all the subtitles and Colt having a conversation with silence
its optional like in every other title, i either have her coming through my headphones or through the speaker, but i've set it to come through the TV at certain points.
Idunno about this game... I'm like 2 hours in and I'm just confused? Disoriented? I'm getting a massive amount of "quests" but there's so much aimlessness going on. I have no idea where I'm actually at at any given time, I don't know when a "reset" happens because when I died it seemed to be night time now? There's no real clear indication of time of day to follow the quests properly. I'm also desperate to have it mark my current location on my maps, it'd solve so many of my issues right now.
I'm honestly just confused and annoyed. I hope something starts to click soon.
I'm honestly just confused and annoyed. I hope something starts to click soon.
Still don't know how I feel about this game.
It feels waaaay more restrictive than dishonored or Prey because of all the loadout crap. Like if I can only use a handful of powers and weapons for each mission or objective, sure it's fun to work within limitations, but a lot of the appeal of Dishonored (and to a far lesser extent Prey) was just how madly you could break the game by stringing together 7 or so powers in quick succession. It doesn't feel like anything of the sort is here or even really possible here. And while exploration is fun, a lot of the time, by design, you just end up with dead ends or panels you can't unlock, where it feels like Prey would let you gloo gun all around the edges of the environment to get in. I haven't come across anything remotely as good level design wise as the clockwork mansion for example. There is a bit of visual homogeneity I think that plagues Deathloop a tad whereas their prior games I think had much more distinctive environmental art, and levels as a whole.
The aesthetics are killer, the soundtrack is great, the game feels great to play. The risk reward dynamics are wonderful. I just think maybe the execution is bungled a bit, especially with how excessively the game hands out hints and journal entries, basically spelling out a lot of the solutions. The most you can do I guess is disable objective icons but idk. Like this sort of just feels like Dishonored Lite with worse level design and with tacked on time loop mechanics. The environments are also not really varied enough from time period to time period to justify there being only four of them so far, idk.
I think overall maybe the game feels a bit overhyped by reviews. It's a solid game by Arkane and I'm overall enjoying my time with it, and the systems in concept are probably the most interesting they've done (though I think Mooncrash is maybe a bit better in execution --- tbh this just feels like a dumbed-down mooncrash), but its far from their best in terms of raw overlapping systems in moment to moment gameplay, or core level layout.
Edit: Colt and Julianna are fucking great though. Probably my favorite characters in an immersive sim.
It feels waaaay more restrictive than dishonored or Prey because of all the loadout crap. Like if I can only use a handful of powers and weapons for each mission or objective, sure it's fun to work within limitations, but a lot of the appeal of Dishonored (and to a far lesser extent Prey) was just how madly you could break the game by stringing together 7 or so powers in quick succession. It doesn't feel like anything of the sort is here or even really possible here. And while exploration is fun, a lot of the time, by design, you just end up with dead ends or panels you can't unlock, where it feels like Prey would let you gloo gun all around the edges of the environment to get in. I haven't come across anything remotely as good level design wise as the clockwork mansion for example. There is a bit of visual homogeneity I think that plagues Deathloop a tad whereas their prior games I think had much more distinctive environmental art, and levels as a whole.
The aesthetics are killer, the soundtrack is great, the game feels great to play. The risk reward dynamics are wonderful. I just think maybe the execution is bungled a bit, especially with how excessively the game hands out hints and journal entries, basically spelling out a lot of the solutions. The most you can do I guess is disable objective icons but idk. Like this sort of just feels like Dishonored Lite with worse level design and with tacked on time loop mechanics. The environments are also not really varied enough from time period to time period to justify there being only four of them so far, idk.
I think overall maybe the game feels a bit overhyped by reviews. It's a solid game by Arkane and I'm overall enjoying my time with it, and the systems in concept are probably the most interesting they've done (though I think Mooncrash is maybe a bit better in execution --- tbh this just feels like a dumbed-down mooncrash), but its far from their best in terms of raw overlapping systems in moment to moment gameplay, or core level layout.
Edit: Colt and Julianna are fucking great though. Probably my favorite characters in an immersive sim.
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Yeah if you're playing with headphones immediately disable controller audio from the options, Dishonored 2 had something similar for the heart.
The weapons animations are so damn good.
The weapons animations are so damn good.
What QA has to do with it?
A: AI is bugged!
B: No it isn't. Devs made it like so on purpose
A: Those lazy QA!
Only negatives I have for the game so far is that the saving kinda sucks and the enemy AI is just dumb as fucking rocks.
I think I'm going to turn off the PvP aspect and just go with AI. It's not particularly fun. Waiting around and/or creeping and then just shotgunned out of nowhere with no ability to fight back. I don't think I've seen my attacker yet though one time a turret did get her. The thing is, this is probably the most tolerable it'll ever be since all the serious PvP players will develop tactics and grief.
Is there any way to have any idea where the invading player is? For that matter, how do they see you?
Generally really digging everything else.
Is there any way to have any idea where the invading player is? For that matter, how do they see you?
Generally really digging everything else.
I swear for damn near every problem its the QA getting thrown under the bus for no good reason.
It's like Majora's Mask but with arkane combat (and level design)
Are the visual settings not working for anyone else on PS5? I set to Ray Tracing mode and the game is still running in Performance mode (frame rate and all).
Yea this happened to me too, started freezing up for a few seconds at a time. Hasn't happened since then, but my visual settings seem to be bugged.
Yea this happened to me too, started freezing up for a few seconds at a time. Hasn't happened since then, but my visual settings seem to be bugged.
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Julianna mentions via radio that she tracks Colt, so maybe she has a waypoint over him or something like that? I still haven't played as her so I don't really know either.
This game feels decidedly like a run-based shooter first and an immersive sim second. Which is kind of a bummer, because the combat feels really cumbersome and hectic when there are multiple enemies. I love the hook and the style and the characters, but I'm not sure about the gameplay. Especially with random invasions hovering around to potentially fuck up runs. Dishonored is one of my favorite games of all time, but this doesn't feel as polished or as fun.
Btw, is it possible to enter Frank's club without giving up your powers? I just spent 45 minutes looking all around it thinking surely there was an alternate path.
Btw, is it possible to enter Frank's club without giving up your powers? I just spent 45 minutes looking all around it thinking surely there was an alternate path.
.Most of those doors can be hacked. Check both sides of the doorframe (above).
Oh no, I was just joking.
Lol nah, hopefully you like it as much as I do, enjoy!
Is this game on Playstation 5 making anyone else sick to their stomach? I swear, immediately upon taking control, swinging the camera around turns my stomach. The lack of FOV is pitiful, just dial down graphic details/resolution if it cant handle good FOV and graphics. Maybe I should try it at 30 FPS.
I've played a good 8 hours across yesterday and today and have yet to see Julianna once, despite definitely being in online mode for pretty much the whole time (on Steam). I'm kinda annoyed! My friend had three invasions in his first 4 hours and I want to see that stuff - it sounds neat and like it would add some welcome tension to things.
Question, I did the arsenal lead for the Sepulchral Breteira sniper rifle and I died 3x and reset the loop. Is it gone for good?
Really enjoying the game overall, but I'm getting increasingly frustrated with 1. the PC port and 2. the multiplayer mechanic.
I have not had a single fun invasion yet. I think it's completely absurd that Juliannas spawn in on a built-in honeypot that you have to interact with whether you intend to fight or flee, meaning that it's less of a game of cat and mouse and more you getting forced into walking into a ready-made sniper alley whether you want to or not. Why is the invading player's best move hiding and camping? Not only that, but the netcode seems to be just awful—I haven't had a single fight with Julianna that hasn't looked like the other player was on a 56k modem.
I'm hoping it clicks for me eventually because it's the aspect of the game I was most looking forward to but whoof
I have not had a single fun invasion yet. I think it's completely absurd that Juliannas spawn in on a built-in honeypot that you have to interact with whether you intend to fight or flee, meaning that it's less of a game of cat and mouse and more you getting forced into walking into a ready-made sniper alley whether you want to or not. Why is the invading player's best move hiding and camping? Not only that, but the netcode seems to be just awful—I haven't had a single fight with Julianna that hasn't looked like the other player was on a 56k modem.
I'm hoping it clicks for me eventually because it's the aspect of the game I was most looking forward to but whoof
Just got a major soft lock. Marking spoilers for the end of the tutorial/Wenjie/Ubiquity lead:
- I did the quest where you kill all the Wenjies and learn about Residiuum. Then I did the thing where you get the Infusion ability. Colt died, I restarted
- However, the Ubiquiti lead was still open. It said I should go kill the Wenjies. It seemed weird to do it again, but I had fun the first time!
- So I went back to control and killed all the Wnjies again. Then it told me to go get the Harvester again.
- I picked up the Harvester again and it marked "The Final Wenjie", but the marker was like.... inside Colt, so I couldn't get to it.
- So I went to the menu, but then II couldn't use circle to leave. I could navigate the menu to my heart's content, but I couldn't leave it
- I had to "Close the Software" to get out and lost my ~30 mins or so of play.
- Major bummer. And I don't know what to do about the Ubiquiti lead still being open!
Fucking love how last night took me 2 hours to get my sound cut in and out fixed and trying to finally play tonight now have major stuttering lmao I hate this atm
I've only played for 15 minutes and I'm in awe at how good it feels to play on PS5. This is an insanely positive first impression. And now that the overall structure of the game is better articulated to me via the reviews, I'm so excited to see this game unfold. Wow this game feels magical to me upfront.
I think you are right, as when Im getting invaded (occured once in like 6 hours), there was no lag. Each time I invade, lag is crazy. Its deff. p2p and not server based, my previous comment makes no sense ;D
on another topic, I killed everyone on the coast in order to find these damn gifts for the shotgun, when I finally found the last one the quest failed before I could unlock its door :( Im guessing its time based, which there was a timer or something.
I'm surprised I haven't heard more about it here so I might be unlucky, but here is my error/bug log for today on PS5, maybe 5-6 hours played:
- 1 console hard crash
- 1 game hard crash
- 2 fail to restart from rest mode, prompting recovery
- 2 hung up on menus or nothing clickable, forcing game restarts
Stepped outside once when MP activated and got killed 10 feet from the gate by a player 3 times in a row that I could never even see and stabbed me from the back. Immediately turned that shit off. This makes Dark Souls invasions look cute. Maybe I'll try it again post-game when I'm geared to stand a chance.
Otherwise, 4 visionaries down. As a huge Hitman fan I thought I'd take it slow and set up opportunities and stealth it all and I did that for the first day, but man, the combat is so EASY and I suck at FPS games that I'm just run and gunning through the stages and even visionaries. With a good weapon and some good perks feels easy to just blast your way through.
I'm assuming that this is because, like a rogue, after you beat it there's NG+ runs that get harder and have better loot? I was a little worried about Deathloop not having difficulty level options because I am terrible at FPS games and I am terrible at Rogue games, so I'm glad it's really easy so far, but I wouldn't mind more of a challenge later on.
Otherwise, 4 visionaries down. As a huge Hitman fan I thought I'd take it slow and set up opportunities and stealth it all and I did that for the first day, but man, the combat is so EASY and I suck at FPS games that I'm just run and gunning through the stages and even visionaries. With a good weapon and some good perks feels easy to just blast your way through.
I'm assuming that this is because, like a rogue, after you beat it there's NG+ runs that get harder and have better loot? I was a little worried about Deathloop not having difficulty level options because I am terrible at FPS games and I am terrible at Rogue games, so I'm glad it's really easy so far, but I wouldn't mind more of a challenge later on.
Yo I know I'm going to get shit for this, but the way the maps are structured (NOT GAMEPLAY) but the loop traversal reminds me of Wolfenstein: Youngblood in all the best ways. You're scouring those same maps, learning them like the back of your hand - and events can be triggered that have impact later in the day, it's madness. I slowly kill everyone and then explore, and it's been grand. 9ish hours in, we got to break this loop!
I haven't played that far so I might be wrong, but I think the 'challenge' is more about learning the maps/world enough to kill all 8 visionaries in one loop than it is about mechanical challenge in that way.
Idk, its weird, more like the speed coupled with the FOV is weirding me out. I think its mainly the sprint, though. I tried 30 fps and it was alright, but sudden twitch movements still just feel waaay too fast for the FOV.
Also may be getting used to it instead, its not as bad
I'm so sorry to the couple guys I invaded tonight.
First cat and mouse was amaaaazing.
Second one was just me camping, so I'm sorry.
Don't go back for your gubbins until you kill the Warden. :)
First cat and mouse was amaaaazing.
Second one was just me camping, so I'm sorry.
Don't go back for your gubbins until you kill the Warden. :)
Yea I'll give that a try. Doesnt seem like a twitch shooter like CoD lol. So i can probably do with slightly slower aim speed
