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marvelharvey

Member
Oct 26, 2017
822
How do you save? I played for 90 mins, went back to the main menu and there's no option to continue, just New Game.
 

vestan

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Dec 28, 2017
24,612
How do you save? I played for 90 mins, went back to the main menu and there's no option to continue, just New Game.
There should be telephone boxes littered around the game world with a massive S on the top of them. Check your minimap and you'll find them.

Go to them and they'll allow you to save.
 

Branson

Member
Oct 27, 2017
2,770
Why did this release on a Wednesday lol. I was excited to play it last night and then I realized I still had 10 hours to wait. Now I'm at work and mad.
 

ezodagrom

Member
Oct 25, 2017
864
Portugal
How do you save? I played for 90 mins, went back to the main menu and there's no option to continue, just New Game.
Are there any big mistakes I should avoid making?

There is no autosave! You must use phone booths around town to save, so be mindful of this.

You should also save before substories if you want the best possible outcome. You can't fail any of them, but it's possible to receive differing rewards.
 

marvelharvey

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Oct 26, 2017
822

jett

Community Resettler
Member
Oct 25, 2017
44,653
Runs at a locked 60fps with 2X super sampling on a 4670K/280X.

I unfortunately got some audio crackling and what seems like frame pacing issues, but the worst is random one/two second stutters, I especially got several when I was first checking out the upgrade menu during the tutorial. Fucking bizarre.
 

AfropunkNyc

Member
Nov 15, 2017
3,958
Game is nice so far, but i have to put this on hold while im running through the asscreed franchise. I'm up to asscreed 4 and its taking me a half of a month for each games to complete. So yeah so far i like the game for the beat em up aspect, which is something i haven't seen much in gaming since the days of fisticuff beat em ups of the 90's and early to mid 2000s. Speaking of which! though the game is dated a bit graphically, the game feels like a throw back to old console gaming to me. I feel like i'm in the PS2 era of gaming again.
 

Prelude

Member
Oct 25, 2017
2,556
I was looking into the config folder to see if it mentioned anything about ps prompts, but I noticed that the audio.ini actually has additional settings.

MasterVolume="1.000"
MusicVolume="1.000"
SFXVolume="1.000"
SpeechVolume="1.000"

Kinda weird the game has no sliders for those considering how loud the music and certain SFX are compared to the rest of the sounds.

Edit: Ok, the game crashes if you edit them. The ingame master volume works in 0.100 increments, so who knows?
 
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lucebuce

Community Resettler
Member
Oct 25, 2017
22,891
Pakistan
Perhaps I was on the cusp of receiving that info... just about to get in the car with Nishikiyama and been to three phoneboothes already for story reasons.

Oh well, off to bed and I'll have another run tomorrow.
Lol. You need to use the phone booths to save. Weird that the game gives you an excuse to go to one but does not tell you what its purpose is.
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jediyoshi

Member
Oct 25, 2017
5,119
Recorded a performance video on a i5-7600k + GTX 1080



Weird disparity between what Rivatuner and the ingame counter report
 

vestan

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Dec 28, 2017
24,612
Well there it is. Fairly certain its already outsold (or close to outselling) the Wii U ports of Yakuza 1 and 2 (ok, low bar). Hopefully this means the game has sold well enough to get the rest of the series on Steam eventually.
Yup. Man, playing this at 3440x1440 is utterly insane. For a late PS3 game, it looks gorgeous.

Makes me wonder how 6 and Kiwami 2 would look on PC, really hope this and Kiwami sell well to justify SEGA bringing them over to PC.
 

Jazzem

Member
Feb 2, 2018
2,680
Unfortunately there is no option to disable Depth of Field, and it seems to not be a very high quality DoF setting either at 4k as it can often look pixelated. Not surprising as it was most likely made for a lower resolution. It's bothering me, hopefully a tweak can be found to disable it.

Yeah I immediately noticed that, desperately hoping for a tweak. I'm not a fan of the effect as it is, let alone when it's this low quality D:
 

shadowman16

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Oct 25, 2017
31,874
Yup. Man, playing this at 3440x1440 is utterly insane. For a late PS3 game, it looks gorgeous.

Makes me wonder how 6 and Kiwami 2 would look on PC, really hope this and Kiwami sell well to justify SEGA bringing them over to PC.

They should be great. Not to mention 6 and Kiwami 2 especially would really benefit some mods/tweaks. Kiwami 2 + original audio running at 60+ FPS would be glorious.
 

Massicot

RPG Site
Verified
Oct 25, 2017
2,232
United States
To be honest outside of resolution and ssaa, I barely see a difference with the texture filtering / shadow options on high or low (but this could partially be because I auto default my GPU to force texture filtering...).
 

vestan

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Dec 28, 2017
24,612
I have to admit though, the 21:9 implementation is god awful. It's Vert- instead of Hor+ which is weird considering that SEGA's twitter showed off 21:9 with Hor+.

 

Dreamboum

Member
Oct 28, 2017
22,852
I got it past the 60 fps cap, thanks Nvidia for wasting my time. I can't achieve 120 fps everywhere with my 970 so I'm keeping the vsync.


My issues so far: my game crashed after going out of pink street/audio crackling is very annoying/the frameskipping is wild when FPS is fluctuating, it's like everything is breaking down/The UI seems of a lower resolution for things like subtitles/water reflections has some weird ghosting but only for Kiryu

I don't know if I should wait a few days for this. It's still enjoyable but it's not rock solid even though my 970 shouldn't be obsolete for this game
 
Oct 26, 2017
3,201
Belarus
Some 4K ultra quality settings with SSAAx2:
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My main issue so far is the game keeps crashing several times on startup before finally launching. Also, I want to disable that goddamn motion blur, but I don't think it's possible now. And I should check if it's possible to remap karaoke buttons on arrows, those IJKL confusing as hell. Other than that, it works fine I guess.
 

Courier 7

The Fallen
Oct 26, 2017
432
At work. Pumped to play as soon as I get home.

Anyone have insight on whether I should start a new game on normal or hard? I've browsed some reviews (Playstation ones at the time) and some state combat can get a bit too easy. Though on the other hand, I hate HP sponges. Am I better off just starting on normal?
 

Nzyme32

Member
Oct 28, 2017
5,245
Crap... Double booked so can't enjoy Yakuza till later.

Hope it is as good as I am anticipating. I think the only crap things I have seen so far is the HUD elements not scaling to high resolutions well and 21:9 looks like it is using the zoomed approach that cuts part of what would be too / bottom of 16:9 image rather than just expanding out.. that is if I've heard and seen correctly
 

lucebuce

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Member
Oct 25, 2017
22,891
Pakistan
the game freeze/stutter like crazy to me, cant tell its the game issue or my pc :(
It's not you, I'm getting the same issue. It's weird because v-sync is on and the in-game frame rate monitor is showing that it never dips below 65 FPS (hovers around 75 for the most part) so I don't know what the issue is.

Perhaps I should try limiting the FPS to 60.
 

Mugen

Member
Oct 28, 2017
1,439
Stockholm, Sweden
I unfortunately got some audio crackling and what seems like frame pacing issues, but the worst is random one/two second stutters, I especially got several when I was first checking out the upgrade menu during the tutorial. Fucking bizarre.
I have got similar problems, with 3570K, 16GB RAM, GTX970. Tried turning down shadows and locking to 60 fps but not much improvement.
 

KainXVIII

Member
Oct 26, 2017
5,282
soooo how's this run on a 970
Gtx970/i5-3570 reporting here - 60 fps locked at 1080p with ultra settings and 2xSSAA.
4xSSAA is too much for this videocard in some cutscenes sadly.
PS - but i skipped most of cutscenes though, so this results mainly for gameplay..

5.1 surround sound is soo good, especially after playing ps3 yakuza games in headphones lol
 

kafiend

Member
Oct 25, 2017
1,249
Game only recognises around half of my button presses on a Xbox one wireless controller. Pretty frustrating.
 

vestan

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Dec 28, 2017
24,612
At work. Pumped to play as soon as I get home.

Anyone have insight on whether I should start a new game on normal or hard? I've browsed some reviews (Playstation ones at the time) and some state combat can get a bit too easy. Though on the other hand, I hate HP sponges. Am I better off just starting on normal?
The combat is only stale if you make it out to be. It can be a satisfying and rewarding experience if you are creative and actually go out and upgrade your abilities. The game has enough styles to keep combat interesting, provided you don't get comfortable with a single style.

To answer your question, yes you should start on normal.

 

lucebuce

Community Resettler
Member
Oct 25, 2017
22,891
Pakistan
At work. Pumped to play as soon as I get home.

Anyone have insight on whether I should start a new game on normal or hard? I've browsed some reviews (Playstation ones at the time) and some state combat can get a bit too easy. Though on the other hand, I hate HP sponges. Am I better off just starting on normal?
Enemies don't become HP sponges, they just become more aggressive and the heat moves don't do as much damage. I'd recommend starting with Hard and if you don't like it, drop it down to Medium. There's no achievement tied to game difficulty with the exception of playing the game on legend difficulty but you have to end the game once to unlock it anyway.

The combat is only stale if you make it out to be. It can be a satisfying and rewarding experience if you are creative and actually go out and upgrade your abilities. The game has enough styles to keep combat interesting, provided you don't get comfortable with a single style.

To answer your question, yes you should start on normal.
Also, there's an item that allows you to cancel a hit into another style and another that drastically reduces the amount of "in-game time" it takes to change stances allowing you to out manuever the enemy and pull off some sick looking stuff.
 

Butch

Member
Oct 27, 2017
3,438
Locked 60fps and 1080p (4xSSAA), shadows high everything else ultra where available. i5 4690k + r9 390 + 8gb ram.

Haven't played a lot tho, but it seems like a really good port. Story has me hooked already.
 

Courier 7

The Fallen
Oct 26, 2017
432
The combat is only stale if you make it out to be. It can be a satisfying and rewarding experience if you are creative and actually go out and upgrade your abilities. The game has enough styles to keep combat interesting, provided you don't get comfortable with a single style.

To answer your question, yes you should start on normal.


Enemies don't become HP sponges, they just become more aggressive and the heat moves don't do as much damage. I'd recommend starting with Hard and if you don't like it, drop it down to Medium. There's no achievement tied to game difficulty with the exception of playing the game on legend difficulty but you have to end the game once to unlock it anyway.

Also, there's an item that allows you to cancel a hit into another style and another that drastically reduces the amount of "in-game time" it takes to change stances allowing you to out manuever the enemy and pull off some sick looking stuff.

Thanks for the info! Tuning difficulty mid-game is perfect actually. Also, that gif is just making this wait longer. Stylish!
 

HypedBulborb

Banned
Oct 31, 2017
1,921
Wow, the stutter is getting worse and worse, now it's at the point of being completely unplayable.

No idea what's going on here, feels like every time I restart the game it's getting worse.

Even the menus are stuttering like crazy.