Yeah I finished it in over 40 hours as I was having fun playing around with different powers and the AI never got smarter from loop to loop. They got more deadly weapons throughout the day cycle but that's all.
Deathloop 1.2 update improves NPC awareness, adds FoV and motion blur controls on PS5
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Don't know if I'll mess with FOV but being patched is nice. It's been a month since I touched it due to no fault of its own, just got busy and then didn't make time for it after, so this is a good excuse to get back to it...
Yeah, at some point it explicitly tells you that it does this in a tutorial popup. Killing Visionaries (destabilizing the loop) raises the difficulty/amount of enemies but also raises the rarity of their drops; dying lowers it again, and a full wipe lowers it even more.
Yeah, at some point it explicitly tells you that it does this in a tutorial popup. Killing Visionaries (destabilizing the loop) raises the difficulty/amount of enemies but also raises the rarity of their drops; dying lowers it again, and a full wipe lowers it even more.
It is not a thing. Loop stress just makes them more resilient and persistent and better equipped and makes reinforcements more numerous, but even at super high loop stress I could snipe someone mid-conversation and the person talking to them wouldn't notice if my shot was out of ear range.
The popup is actually kinda hazy on what loop stress does. Some people assumed it makes the AI smarter because otherwise why would the enemies be so dumb, right? Surely not just a buggy AI they'd patch two months after release. But no, enemies didn't become any smarter. Specifically, one of the devs on a french forum said it affects their reaction times, aim, fire rate, how many would fire at you at the same time, and for how long they'd search for you after noticing you.
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Is this actually a thing? I never really noticed and I beat the game.
I think I missed this because of how annoying and hard to read the tutorials in this game are. This is really the type of mechanic that needs to be conveyed to the player in a more transparent way than a throwaway popup.
From a Bethesda FAQ:
"There is no traditional difficulty selection in this game. The difficulty works off an internal "Loop Stress system" that is not outwardly visible to players. The better the player is performing (killing visionaries and not dying) the more difficult the game becomes."
"Increased Loop Stress ups the chance of an invasion, either by an AI Julianna or by another player, if the user has allowed invasions"
Hard to get a source on what exactly this changes aside from what's mentioned above but an adaptive difficulty element definitely exists.
https://bethesda.net/en/article/25B6vWZyVVaKIMhD2kE3os/deathloop-faq
Honestly that's about what I expected it would adjust to make it harder for the player, even if it's not the enemies being outright smarter.
"difficulty increase" yes, but not "AI gets smarter", which is what burgerdog was asking about.
Yeah, sorry, that bit got lost in the reply chain for me at first. I edited when I realized but you were too fast. :p
As you kill more visionaries in one loop, the more aggressive the ai becomes.
YESSSS
Going to try to hop back in later today! FoV slider is great too!
Great patch - does wider FOV affect frame rate?
They can't fix the input lag? Like, the devs play the game and think "yup, this input lag is GREAT!"
They can't fix the input lag? Like, the devs play the game and think "yup, this input lag is GREAT!"
it usually does yes as there is more stuff needed to be on screen at once.
The game uses dynamic resolution, so it will become lower res before the frame rate drops
They have thought their abysmal controller view stick controls have been "GREAT!" since Dishonored 1. They just don't care.
What's so bad about the PS5 controls.
I don't have the game but am interested again after this FOV update.
Does it have large deadzones?
I don't have the game but am interested again after this FOV update.
Does it have large deadzones?
The view stick moves the view up and down at about 1/4-1/8th the rate it moves the camera left and right. There are sliders to adjust X and Y sensitivity but they don't work.
Not only that, but if you are turning quickly left and start to look up slightly, it will basically cut your left turning rate by about 80% and start slowly looking upwards
It so blatantly broken it's amazing that they released it in that state let alone haven't fixed it months later.
I actually remember now that I saw a post on Reddit explaining this.
A shame that the game is held back by stuff like this.
So I deceived to take a leap and buy the game and hope the input lag wasn't game breaking. I'm not far into it and my opinion could change when I get in more gunfights, but right now the aiming is acceptable. Yeah, it slows down on diagonals and really shouldn't, but otherwise with a sensitivity tweak it's playable. It just has a weird acceleration curve like all their games. Luckily the actual input lag doesn't seem that bad (at 60FPS it's fine).
Really enjoying the intro so far. The graphics are stunning on performance mode. The other two modes run like crap with a 106FOV though. Sony needs to hurry up and implement VRR on the PS5.
Really enjoying the intro so far. The graphics are stunning on performance mode. The other two modes run like crap with a 106FOV though. Sony needs to hurry up and implement VRR on the PS5.
I knew there was something funky with those controls. Im playing with a dualsense on PC cause it has native haptics but im switching to M/K.
Upping the FOV by like 10 points on each side is perfect. Haven't noticed any performance issues and it feels more genre standard than the claustrophobic default.