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MYeager

Member
Oct 30, 2017
820
My statistics page is just greyed out, I cannot click on it. But the save file says 20 hours play time when i have played no more than 5 hours.

Also has anyone had an issue with clearing objectives at a camp? I think the place is called Stilltown and I can get the collectables but I cannot do the 'eliminate all enemies', I have been around the camp with a fine-tooth comb and cannot find another soul in that place. I have even gone away and come back and cleared it again but the objective never clears.

Huh, when you use focus you should be able to see their outline even through objects. Try using a nano-turret and it might home in on the final person. I once grav-darted a guy into part of the environment and had to slam him in order to make the objective flip to complete.

The more I play of this game the more I feel like this game is a failure as both a sequel to Rage and a follow-up to Mad Max. I played the shit out of both of those games but damn this is never hitting the high points of either of them.

The shooting sections are just nowhere near as well crafted and fun as Rage's were and the world design is nowhere near as fun to just driver around and explore as Mad Max's. I don't think I'm going to finish this one, I might just go back and replay those two games tbh.

I think it's a great sequel to Rage even if it has a lot of the same negatives. The shooting sections in Rage followed some similar patterns, here I've been in three way fights at an Ark with a mech and a tank on different factions and the different abilities/weapons open up more options than the first. Mad Max's open world to me felt about as interesting as checking off a list of things, but with clunky melee combat.
 

AlterOdin

Member
Nov 6, 2017
82
Did they F... up the keybindings?
I'm a lefty and have WASD rebinded to TFGH. First the defibrillator is hard-coded to WASD, no big issue, it's a mini game, doesn't happen often, and got time to "re-adjust" to prepare for it.

But now I just got the hover-bike, and I seems that forward and backward are hard-coded to W and S, while left and right is my re-binded F and H. Cars works fine/as expected.
Am I'm missing something?
 

Protome

Member
Oct 27, 2017
15,677
I think it's a great sequel to Rage even if it has a lot of the same negatives. The shooting sections in Rage followed some similar patterns, here I've been in three way fights at an Ark with a mech and a tank on different factions and the different abilities/weapons open up more options than the first.
I've yet to really encounter anything as interesting as even the early levels of Rage personally. The abilities/weapons are pretty great though I'll give you that, it's kinda weird how poorly they roll them out.

Mad Max's open world to me felt about as interesting as checking off a list of things, but with clunky melee combat.
Sure, but at least there were things to check off and the driving was fun. Both things that Rage 2 fails at.
 

Casper

Member
Oct 25, 2017
2,031
Damn game just crashed all the way to the ps4 dash on me

Started this up, headed to a baddie cave... promptly fell through the world... =(

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TheMan

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
3,264
reaalllly glad I resisted the temptation to buy this. After renting for a few days I can say that as a package this game is just mediocre. Not great, not absolute dreck, but mediocre.

Actually I should say that the driving (and especially the racing) is baaaaaad. For a game that has such a focus on vehicles, car control and feel should have been a priority and I can't see how it was. I just can't believe that a team of people developed those physics, tested them, tweaked them, and then agreed that it was good. I seriously do not understand how that happened.
 

Deleted member 4372

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Oct 25, 2017
5,228
reaalllly glad I resisted the temptation to buy this. After renting for a few days I can say that as a package this game is just mediocre. Not great, not absolute dreck, but mediocre.

Actually I should say that the driving (and especially the racing) is baaaaaad. For a game that has such a focus on vehicles, car control and feel should have been a priority and I can't see how it was. I just can't believe that a team of people developed those physics, tested them, tweaked them, and then agreed that it was good. I seriously do not understand how that happened.

I asked myself the exact same question immediately after driving the cars in Watch_Dogs, the first one. Fucking dreck, especially considering Ubi tried to put Rockstar on blast for 'enough time visiting Los Santos' or some other horseshit. Like, no, Los Santos is where cars that feel amazing to drive exist, I'm fucking leaving Chicago never to return.
 

TheIlliterati

Banned
Oct 28, 2017
4,782
That's me on ps4 pro. 2 days 6 hrs playtime according to stats . I have defintely only done 8-10 hrs
I think the days can just be ignored. I started playing late at night on a Thursday and it said 0 days 1 hours, and then the next morning when I turned it on it said 1 day 1 hour. Seemed like it just literally ticks up how many days you turn it on. I beat it at 4 "days" 22 hrs, doing 90%.
 

medyej

Member
Oct 26, 2017
6,424
Starting my third playthrough. Me thinks I like this game.

Wow, impressive. Is it because there is no way to 'reset' outposts and bases and the like? I haven't finished yet so I don't know if that becomes an option. I'd probably redo a lot of these bases just for the fun combat with different weapons etc.
 

antitrop

Member
Oct 25, 2017
12,584
I did pretty much everything there was to do (except Convoys) in about 25 hours and I would play it for another 25 more if there was still more to do, but I'm not going to restart another playthrough.

I can't go back to the more basic combat at the start of the game after having fully experienced what this game feels like with everything unlocked and upgraded, but I do still have the urge to play more.
 

Fliesen

Member
Oct 25, 2017
10,253
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... That "kill 1337 goons" trophy sure sucked ass. So did the "blow up 30 sentry drones" (or whatever)

Anywho - after having platinumed both, Days Gone and Rage 2, i feel like i had a better time, overall, with Days Gone.

I already wasn't really invested into Days Gone's story, but Rage's was even worse. Like, the story missions were shit, the campaign was shit, the characters were shit. The final mission is shit.

It's all saved by having really really decent gunplay and an upgrade system that just won't stop (albeit being super convoluted).
Also, like 80% of the guns (anything beyond the assault rifle, shotgun and maybe rocket launcher) and 50% of the powers (the grav ball is only really good as a 'trampoline', the shield ... i've never used that one) are rather pointless / obsolete.

"So, where's my Andrew W.K.?" out of 10
 

Valcrist

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Oct 25, 2017
9,690
Will there be some kind of Focus upgrade or something down the road that shows me where storage chests are? I'm tired of spending a long ass time in every area I kill things in to finish the checklist.
 

Dan L

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Oct 28, 2017
6,177
Regina, Saskatchewan
Will there be some kind of Focus upgrade or something down the road that shows me where storage chests are? I'm tired of spending a long ass time in every area I kill things in to finish the checklist.
in the one project tree you get the ability to get a radar popup for the chests and ark chests. would be nice if you could show them in focus as even with the radar some can be a pain to find.
 

AcridMeat

Member
Oct 26, 2017
1,667
I also was wondering where the Andrew W.K. was while doing the derby race.

Also fuck that derby race, why do the cars handle so weird? Why is it all off-road vehicles but going off road / taking any shortcut leads to a crash? I also got a motorcycle again last night and ended up flying off a bridge because I'd hit a bump in the geometry of the bridge.

That said, still love the gunplay. Super satisfying. Can't wait for DOOM Eternal.
 

Rei no Otaku

The Fallen
Oct 25, 2017
3,339
Cranston RI
I don't think I've ever been so torn on a game before. Whenever I'm shooting dudes I'm having a blast, but the second that stops I don't want to play the game anymore.
 

Dr. Ludwig

Member
Oct 31, 2017
2,520
the person in charge of hiding storage containers are up on crimes against humanity right?

They're too well hidden for their own good. I just don't understand why a waypoint doesn't popup while in focus mode. I don't care much for the immersive, exploration aspect of it. I just wanna get to a base, kick some bandit asses then get out yet the game makes the resource gathering aspect so goddamn tedious.

So baffling, the game is constantly shooting itself in the foot. I want to like it as a dumb, shameless shooter but it's not even that.
 

Slayven

Never read a comic in his life
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Oct 25, 2017
93,045
They're too well hidden for their own good. I just don't understand why a waypoint doesn't popup while in focus mode. I don't care much for the immersive, exploration aspect of it. I just wanna get to a base, kick some bandit asses then get out yet the game makes the resource gathering aspect so goddamn tedious.

So baffling, the game is constantly shooting itself in the foot. I want to like it as a dumb, shameless shooter but it's not even that.
could have tossed a bone with a upgrade that would highlight them in focus mode. There is one outside the ark where you get the blackhole effect that is just a fuck you to the player. It is in a spot no sane person would go.
 
Apr 8, 2018
1,806
Finished the story about an hour ago. Overall, I found it pretty disappointing and I really wasn't a fan of the whole "get to level 5 with each partner to progress the story" stuff. I know without it the story would be way shorter, but it just felt like a cheap way to expand the length of the campaign. I remember Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell doing something similar and I hated it there.

Combat felt pretty good of course. The world also felt pretty alive too which was nice. I've seen some complaints about the driving too, but I honestly found it pretty okay. There's tons of side stuff as well, but after finishing the story I really don't feel like going around to do more of it. I feel like what I played to progress through the story (which felt like a sampling of pretty much everything) was pretty meh. The combat and upgrades just isn't enough to keep me going personally.
 
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AcridMeat

Member
Oct 26, 2017
1,667
Do you have to do a task for the doctor before you can start unlocking projects? I'm already like level 9 on his version of upgrades and I still can't unlock any of them. I just met him, but have an objective across the map.

Assuming I have to do that, but it's a pain in the ass to get over there. I would love a fast travel...
 

Fliesen

Member
Oct 25, 2017
10,253
Do you have to do a task for the doctor before you can start unlocking projects? I'm already like level 9 on his version of upgrades and I still can't unlock any of them. I just met him, but have an objective across the map.

Assuming I have to do that, but it's a pain in the ass to get over there. I would love a fast travel...
Will there be some kind of Focus upgrade or something down the road that shows me where storage chests are? I'm tired of spending a long ass time in every area I kill things in to finish the checklist.

Do Loosum Hagar's first quest immediately!

It'll unlock the project tree that gives you a tracker for:
Loot chests.
Ark chests.
Spy Drones.
Data pads.
Feltrite 'nodes'

A tracker not being a visual aide or a dot on your minimap, but rather a proximity sensor kind of thing. They're different unlocks, but they're the same tracker. So eventually, you'll be in situations where you know you're standing super close to something, but you have no idea whether it's a chest, a spy drone or useless feltrite...
 

Fliesen

Member
Oct 25, 2017
10,253
Correction: It's Kvasir
Woopsa, my bad. Important correction! Thanks!

Also, to whomever is going for the platinum: If you find an outpost with a lot of goons (the 'punk' type enemies, not the 'space marines', nor the 'mutants', nor the weird robotic ones) maybe use that one to farm those enemies for 30 minutes or so. (clear most of the camp, reload your last autosave, rinse repeat)

Farming goons once you cleared the entire map is a huuuuge hassle.
 

AcridMeat

Member
Oct 26, 2017
1,667
Do Loosum Hagar's first quest immediately!

It'll unlock the project tree that gives you a tracker for:
Loot chests.
Ark chests.
Spy Drones.
Data pads.
Feltrite 'nodes'

A tracker not being a visual aide or a dot on your minimap, but rather a proximity sensor kind of thing. They're different unlocks, but they're the same tracker. So eventually, you'll be in situations where you know you're standing super close to something, but you have no idea whether it's a chest, a spy drone or useless feltrite...
Well fuck, glad he's the last one of the 3 I went to...I'll get on that mission first thing next session.

I also noticed I was level 3 with the Mayor but it didn't give me any points to use in her tree when it finally unlocked. Is that intended? Are my 9 levels with Kvasir going to be void when that tree unlocks? That's like 27 points of upgrades.

Also randomly getting the hoverbike/plane thing helped a lot with traversing. I do wish they at least allowed fast travel between the towns.
 

Fliesen

Member
Oct 25, 2017
10,253
Well fuck, glad he's the last one of the 3 I went to...I'll get on that mission first thing next session.

I also noticed I was level 3 with the Mayor but it didn't give me any points to use in her tree when it finally unlocked. Is that intended? Are my 9 levels with Kvasir going to be void when that tree unlocks? That's like 27 points of upgrades.

Also randomly getting the hoverbike/plane thing helped a lot with traversing. I do wish they at least allowed fast travel between the towns.

cmiiw, on any of this

When you level up with one of the 3 'hero' characters you get 3 Project Points. You can spend these on any of the 3 trees (if you have unlocked said tree). Unlocking 2 projects within a tier of a tree unlocks the next tier. So if you've already spent all your project points in the "Kill & Destroy" tree, you won't have any to spend once you unlock the other.

the other currencies are Nanotrite boosters - which you get from Ark chests (and which you can buy with cash from merchants) - those are used to unlock the perks that improve individual nanotrite abilities (your force powers...)

Then there's car parts - which you can buy, or which you'll get for returning vehicles to any town. Those upgrade your Raptor

Then there's weapon core mods - which you can buy or find in ark chests.

Then there's upgrades to your throwables, one of each you'll find at the general merchant in the NPC towns.

You unlock upgrade tiers to your nanotrite abilities and your weapons with feltrite.

... And then there's these 3 weird resources that you can use to upgrade HP, weapon damage or ... uhm ... focus power?

The game's upgrade system is a mess.
 

AcridMeat

Member
Oct 26, 2017
1,667
cmiiw, on any of this

When you level up with one of the 3 'hero' characters you get 3 Project Points. You can spend these on any of the 3 trees (if you have unlocked said tree). Unlocking 2 projects within a tier of a tree unlocks the next tier. So if you've already spent all your project points in the "Kill & Destroy" tree, you won't have any to spend once you unlock the other.
Oh for fucks sake. If that's true, I wasted a ton of points in the first guy (the pink general)'s tree for shit I didn't necessarily want because it was the only tree I had unlocked. I figured because I was like level 10 with him that is why I had so many points there.

This is such a fucking mess.
 

Ehsan

Member
Oct 30, 2017
27
Woopsa, my bad. Important correction! Thanks!

Also, to whomever is going for the platinum: If you find an outpost with a lot of goons (the 'punk' type enemies, not the 'space marines', nor the 'mutants', nor the weird robotic ones) maybe use that one to farm those enemies for 30 minutes or so. (clear most of the camp, reload your last autosave, rinse repeat)

Farming goons once you cleared the entire map is a huuuuge hassle.
Did you have any problem with spy drones?
I think they are huge pain in the ass.
hope someone make a map with all of the possible locations.
 

Soj

Member
Oct 27, 2017
10,692
Finished it on Nightmare difficulty with just over 2 days playtime (skipping most of the NPC dialogue).

Absolutely loved it, but certain aspects do seem strangely unfinished. Their roadmap might as well just say "The rest of the game."
 

flyinj

Member
Oct 25, 2017
10,941
It's crazy that they cut car combat AI entirely from the game. Basically, half the game is gone as it makes driving around almost entirely pointless as there are zero threats.

It's funny how they tried to make up for it with convoys that just need to drive straight. And random cars driving straight along roads that entirely ignore you. It gives the illusion that there is car combat, but it becomes pretty boring.

So much was invested in creating a world to support it, tons of different car weapons, and so many car varieties. But without being able to get the car AI done in time it was all for naught.
 

Fliesen

Member
Oct 25, 2017
10,253
Did you have any problem with spy drones?
I think they are huge pain in the ass.
hope someone make a map with all of the possible locations.
There's one on Powerpyx.com. But even following that one, i didn't have enough for the trophy.

The issue with the spy drones is:
Apparently each individual drone can spawn at 3 different locations, the intel you get is random (so there's no "Spy Drone 001 spanws here here or here", which means there's no way you can track which drones you're still missing by looking at the log)

Essentially, you'll have to resort to just visit every single marked spot on the map again (i don't think there's any at the feltrite meteors) and see if your tracker reacts.
And then it might just be some feltrite veins and you'll be super disappointed.

Oh for fucks sake. If that's true, I wasted a ton of points in the first guy (the pink general)'s tree for shit I didn't necessarily want because it was the only tree I had unlocked. I figured because I was like level 10 with him that is why I had so many points there.

This is such a fucking mess.

leveling up 'reputation' by clearing open world shit goes super fast though, and is also the most fun part of the game, don't worry. You'll be fine.
 

Phantom

Writer at Jeux.ca
Banned
Oct 28, 2017
1,446
Canada
Finished it on Nightmare difficulty with just over 2 days playtime (skipping most of the NPC dialogue).

Absolutely loved it, but certain aspects do seem strangely unfinished. Their roadmap might as well just say "The rest of the game."
That's AAA gaming for you. You're basically punished for buying early copies.
 

MrBS

Member
Oct 27, 2017
6,224
Game over with the map cleared. Hitting up random outposts with all your powers is a lot of fun. Whenever I was not clearing outposts I wasn't having fun. This game is mixed I can't really recommend :(
 

cowbanana

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Feb 2, 2018
13,671
a Socialist Utopia
Rage 2 EMEA is nuclear bomba priced at cdkeys already. Roughly €24 - if you can stomach a Bethesda launcher key. Personally I'm just waiting for a bargain bin sale on Steam at a later date.
 
Nov 8, 2017
13,098
Had a lot of fun with the game, but definitely needs a few patches.

  • Even with a clean driver install, I was unable to avoid frequent stuttering. I'm running on an SSD, using an 8 core Ryzen @ 3.95GHz all core, and an RTX 2080, playing at fairly optimized settings (not maxed and with the more demanding settings tuned down at least 1 notch). I can get up to 90+ FPS at 1440p... but with constant single frame spikes to 100+ milliseconds in the open world. That's really, really noticeable while driving, and it happened all the damn time.
  • Menus are LOL performance
  • I had to abandon one of the late game missions because I accidentally went through a door I wasn't supposed to (the authority bases are mazes) and soft-locked myself from finishing the mission as a result. Had to quit and replay the thing from the start.
  • When I got the late game supertank, it disappeared after I parked it to go talk to an NPC in an area. Totally gone. No enemies around, I didn't quite and reload the game, nothing, I just went inside, talked to the NPC, came back outside, gone. I had to pay $500 to make it appear again when i needed it. This happened to other vehicles intermittently but it really stung for this one.

The upshot is that the combat is great. The open world not having 250 hours of content was a major plus for me because I hate games wasting my time with extraneous stuff and annoying level curves designed to keep you on the treadmill for huge amounts of time. I could have done with maybe 1 or 2 more 30-40 minute story mission, but I got ~13-14 hours out of the game and that's close to the sweet spot for a campaign for me.
 

ara

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Oct 26, 2017
13,001
Rage 2 EMEA is nuclear bomba priced at cdkeys already. Roughly €24 - if you can stomach a Bethesda launcher key. Personally I'm just waiting for a bargain bin sale on Steam at a later date.

Dang, that is a pretty good price. Should be low enough.

e: bought it. I can handle another launcher as long as I don't have to give them any personal information, and it looks like a regular ol' account was enough for redeeming codes. Will give the game a proper try after I've eaten something.
 
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Cocolina

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Oct 28, 2017
7,978
The more time I spend in this game the more I like it. If you're like me and enjoy AssCreed type map icon exploration it's a great game.
 

Jayveer

Member
Oct 25, 2017
333
Completed it the other day and I pretty much agree with what most people here area saying. The combat is really good and definitely the highlight of the game with all the fluff in between dragging the game down, not too different from the first Rage. But at least there's only one forced car race in this one I think there were more in the first game. Finding storage crates at the outposts is the worst part of the game, not sure why they thought we'd enjoy that, probably my own fault for feeling the need to check everything off. Like others have said, if this game was just arena after arena it would be such a solid game. Also the difficulty doesn't seem quite right, I played on Hard but it wasn't hard at all, makes me wish I started on Nightmare.
 

DirtyLarry

Member
Oct 27, 2017
4,112
I finally got to check the game out. Wish I did not wait so long but it is what it is. Money is kind of tight these days so I have to be prudent.
Really seems pretty damn good so far. I did have to rent it via GameFly, which meant I could only get the PS4 version, and super, super early on and it has already frozen on my twice. Once on a cutscene super early on in the beginning and once when just bringing up the menu. I thought with the latter it was just due to the incredibly laggy menus which I had already read about in this thread (holy shit they really are atrocious), but nope, it was a full stop freeze.

I wiped off the disk again as sometimes that is an issue with GameFly rented games (although I had already done it and it looked really clean), so just wondering if random freezing is a known issue on the PS4 Pro?

Otherwise as I said, really early on, but I wish I did not wait so long to check the game out. Perhaps this view will change the more I play, but so far so really good.
 

ara

Member
Oct 26, 2017
13,001
I'm also a couple of hours in so far and really enjoying it. Gunplay is incredible, quite possibly the most fun FPS game I've ever played alongside Titanfall 2. Better than DOOM for me, easily. Fucking fantastic hit feedback in particular - enemies get thrown back, smacked down and pushed around even with non-lethal shots (which was really lacking in DOOM), and whoo boy, killing shots are amazing. Ragdolls and exploding heads all around.

Everything else has been okay so far, nothing too dreadful. I'd say the one major complaint I can really agree with is that I wish they'd highlight loot when you're in focus mode or something. After the first couple of bandit camps I've stopped looking for every single money/feltrite loot box since it just slows the game down. I'll get every ark chest, the rest doesn't matter - I'll get the stuff I happen to see. Also the wooden ammo/supply/etc boxes' hitboxes are goofy as fuck.

Looting in general should be streamlined a bit to keep the fast pace up - ammo and stuff should be auto-looted when you're close enough and so on.

Story seems like nonsense, so I've just skipped everything right from the start.

Overall I'm having a blast.
 
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Sagroth

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Oct 28, 2017
6,836
Beat the game with a bit under 20 hours put into it. I enjoyed it overall, but I'm glad I didn't pay full price for it (Best Buy gamer's club ftw). Never bothered with a single convoy or spy drone, and feel like that was the right choice. Feel like this would be a good game for others to grab when it hits $20-30 or so on a sale.