-
Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.
RAGE 2 |OT| Newer Dawn
- Thread starter vestan
- Start date
one thing i forgot, i thought it was really odd that there isn´t even a sandstorm in the wasteland...in fact, the game has no weather effects at all which takes alot of potential atmosphere away
I'm going for Steam with potential refund.
What's the current limits on play time for these? Never requested one before.
Do cheats disable achievements / trophies or is it like evil within where you can use them at will?
you can refund games you haven't played for longer than 2 hours or bought less than 14 days ago if I remember correctly. i have refunded tons of games, mostly during sales.
Did it work for you? I tried the steps above and it still says unlocking in 8 hours.
EDIT: stealth answer again, lol!
Thanks a lot!
Watching the Giant Bomb Quick Look for the game, and Ben sums up my feelings on it.
"I don't know what it is, but I feel like we're kind of approaching the end of these kinds of video games. I feel like something needs to change, because I've never played Rage 2, but I've seen this. This is all so familiar to me, you know?"
Just feels pretty bland from looking at gameplay footage. What I am seeing here is not matching up with their marketing at all.
"I don't know what it is, but I feel like we're kind of approaching the end of these kinds of video games. I feel like something needs to change, because I've never played Rage 2, but I've seen this. This is all so familiar to me, you know?"
Just feels pretty bland from looking at gameplay footage. What I am seeing here is not matching up with their marketing at all.
Been watching the Cohh stream and it looks like he's doing story right now, but whatever section he's playing looks dark and the world looks sparse action-wise. Does this change or get mixed up during the campaign?
I don't even have our review copy yet. They sent it out on friday (on disc) to our editor-in-chief, after which he had to send it to me, which means I won't be getting it until tomorrow (release day) at the earliest because in my country mail doesn't get delivered on monday. This means I won't be able to have our review up until the end of the week at the earliest and I don't want to rush through it so it'll probably be later. Not sure if all publications got a disc (we're a smaller publication), but if they would've given us a code on friday I would've been able to put 20+ hours in the game already. I've read reports from other publications about getting their copies in either yesterday or today, so yeah... They should've sent it out a couple days earlier, or should've sent out codes. I bet reviews would talk more about exploration then and maybe even reflect it in their scores.
Is it possible to buy it on Steam, refund it after 1,5 hours or something, and then buy it from cdkeys if you liked it? You might have to play the first part again, but at least you save $30 if you end up liking it.
Nope, no Bethesda launcher required. I am not sure how it works on Steam when a game has a third party launcher and you want to refund it, but Rage 2 launches directly from Steam like any other game. I don't have the Bethesda launcher even installed.
Anyone else have tearing? GSYNC gear but its tearing.
Forced GSYNC on at NVIDIA Control Panel.
EDIT: Whats this crap I read about Win10 disabling the boost functionality of my monitor? Haven't played games in a long while.
Forced GSYNC on at NVIDIA Control Panel.
EDIT: Whats this crap I read about Win10 disabling the boost functionality of my monitor? Haven't played games in a long while.
Last edited:
So is there any way to unlock the Bethesda Launcher version early through a VPN or are we forced to wait?
Is that a regular NPC or in-game cutscene?PC version seems solid so far.
Only in the prologue but buttery smooth at 1440p ultra settings. Not a bad looking game either - some low res textures but pretty good otherwise.
The game won't even start for me on Steam, though I'd have a look at the steam forum and it seems to be happening to others as well
https://steamcommunity.com/app/548570/discussions/0/1651043958646790783/
https://steamcommunity.com/app/548570/discussions/0/1651043958646790783/
I wonder what is going on with unlocking the game. I have tried few different VPN connections now and Steam just wont connect to e.g. Australia via VPN. It keeps connecting me to my proper region, EU.
First time this has happened to me with early unlock.
Check which data center you have selected in Steam preferences?
Tested that just now, swapped it to South Korea. Tried few different VPN services.
No dice. Game just says to preload it.
Weird.
Are you logged in via the mobile app?
I had to log out of that before it worked.
Also - early days but I am enjoying this a lot.
exactly what i wrote, i call it "been here, done that gameplay" you don´t even have to play the game and you know exactly how it works.
the game is often far from frantic, you drive around slower than i would like to self contained outposts, the game is not coherent at all, there is no flow other than in the short shooting sequences, when these are over you collect shit in the outposts and drive to the next spot, the open world is bog standard and just there. this kind of open world games have to stop, the formula is beyond stale at this point.
there are even forced screens which tell you how much reputation you´ve earned after doing a side task which stop the game... this is completely shit when it comes to gameflow...you should never force screens on the player which stop the game...
and the fact that you don´t even unlock all the stuff at a good pace sucks. there are so much currencies and upgrade material that it feels like a free 2 play game which is designed to add playtime through keeping the player busy with,sorry to say it, nonsense.
problem is, the whole framework of the game doesn´t support that. it is a copy and paste-a-thon...you do one of each activity and you know them all, but they are all repeated dozens of times all over the map.
that they modeled this as a GaaS is a bad joke too, by the time the whole stuff drops no one will be playing this game anymore lol
Last edited:
Well shit. Just got this e-mail from Amazon:
Your Amazon.com order of "Rage 2 - PlayStation 4..." has shipped!
I forgot I preordered it like 6 months ago and lost interest in it long ago...
Your Amazon.com order of "Rage 2 - PlayStation 4..." has shipped!
I forgot I preordered it like 6 months ago and lost interest in it long ago...
Thanks for the tip, I didn't even think of that. Good to know for future.
I logged out of mobile app, restarted Steam few times with VPN connected and game is unpacking atm.
Oh actually, no. The voice packs can just be enabled. Gameplay related cheats though disable achievements.
That's most games though. That statement isn't a reflection of quality. I'm not defending Rage 2, but if it ended up being another iteration of your favorite IP, then most people won't care if it's like what came before. It's usually only when it's an IP they have no affinity for that "more of the same" becomes an issue.
Yes, you do need an account but you don't need the launcher. You just link the account and the bonuses get unlocked in the game. Yes, there are microtransactions, and several paid DLC coming out in the future.
Which can be said about a huge variety of games. There simply isn't anything really new in games at all, as most of it has already been done. But if a specific genre is a favorite or enjoyable, why is does that matter? It's the design of said game that matters, not that you played a game like this before.
Hell, name one first-person shooter that hasn't done something that another one has? Or any game for that matter? Sure, once in a blue moon we get something that's amazing and then it gets incorporated into other games and then it's no longer special.
Nope. Any keys that can be found on 3rd party sites are all Betheda Launcher keys. Only way to get the game on Steam is to buy it on Steam.
I think it is different in the open world department. If the traversal is not good (which seems the case with Rage 2), when you finally at the destination and it is more (or less) of the same, what's the point ?
No €35 Steam keys on cdkeys means I'll buy it whenever it's at least 33% off. I'm not touching the Bethesda launcher and I never pay €60 for PC games.
On that note, how do you get all the bonus stuff? I have the account linked, but nothing unlocked yet, no skin etc.
It was all over the place. The 8 I know of all got ours on Wednesday of last week. But then for the next couple days more and more got them. Most of those very early ones are reviews I have seen posted today as well. Even in the group of folks a number of us thought completely different things and I can't say any were rushed at all in that group.
Once you link the account, you're supposed to get a message in game that tells you what you got and a new mission that unlocks.