zgolfz85 said:

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turns out staying up late every night and playing this game right before bed isn't conducive to healthy sleeping patterns

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Same. The game is endless and most missions are short. Easy to just keep going and all of a sudden it is 3am.

flintdragon said:

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zgolfz85 said:

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turns out staying up late every night and playing this game right before bed isn't conducive to healthy sleeping patterns

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Same. The game is endless and most missions are short. Easy to just keep going and all of a sudden it is 3am.

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the rabbit holes are endless

Got in a fight with Thanos last night. Think I'm going to have to figure out the strategy there.

Found my first Bismuth ore last night and was immediately attacked by some prismatic crab creatures.

So then I climbed to the top and I guess there's plants that immediately kill you? I have had an instant death happen to me twice now.

AgBQ-00 said:

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Got in a fight with Thanos last night. Think I'm going to have to figure out the strategy there.

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I've found two different frost based field bosses that completely wrecked my ***** One of them I landed a few hits but it wasn't optimistic. The other one just one shot me, and I have 13 frost resist armor and 10 points into health, so im guessing I'll come back to that ****er.

brief look at the new update

More in depth look at the latest update. If you are wanting a harder experience, there are now difficulty settings. Normal is what we've been playing. Hard and easy have been added. ETA: Also added keyboard button mapping etc it looks like.

Just finished Chapter 6. Boss was maybe the easiest boss yet. The chapter was surprisingly very quick. I had done most available missions that were available during my Chapter 5 timeline.

I'm still holding on not upgrading my equipment. I haven't changed a single weapon or armor in a LONG while and only upgraded it to the point where it requires abyss artifacts.

I've wandered into some territories where I probably will need to upgrade damage but not there yet.

spent last night basically doing housecleaning stuff with the new update and all the new storage. Being able to craft and cook from storage is awesome! Went and got the special cooking tool for my house on Howling Hill and all the new storage options. If anyone runs out of storage after maxing out the new additions, they are just being pack rats to the extreme.

Dispatches now give you the option to do a repeat mission or one time dispatch when you set it up. Got myself a hawk for a pet now too.

Weird bug. Im to the part where you play as Damiane and Kliff is temporarily locked out. I used the new bird feeder and tamed a bird. When I took it in, the game switched me to Kliff, I fell through water, and thrn the game crashed.

Cromagnum said:

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Weird bug. Im to the part where you play as Damiane and Kliff is temporarily locked out. I used the new bird feeder and tamed a bird. When I took it in, the game switched me to Kliff, I fell through water, and thrn the game crashed.

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I was wondering if damiane and oongba or whatever his name is are optional or required for certain parts. Now I know I guess

First time to play with the new patch and I unlocked the crescent skybridge. Fought the Crowdude in the dark, which was pretty fun, but I almost died because I didnt realize they remapped food/healing items to tilde from f3. I kept tapping F3 and nothing happened.

Okay, so bird pets are way better than dogs. I kind of like having a sparrow on my shoulder or a bigass eagle.

This game is just so absurd at times.

"Destroy the supply wagon". Ok, I kill all the guys around it, I get through the door.

I see a big ass supply wagon. That's where the red X is trying to get me to go. There are warhammers and weaponry around it, let me just bash this bad boy and let's dip. Oh. Ok, you cant attack it. Ok, let's shoot it with fire arrows....oh...no? Well, there are barrels all around here, lets try and explode those with an explody boi?

Still doesnt work...hmm... ok...the solve to the puzzle is to use focused flashing light on a bail of hay in the bed of the supply wagon.

Im really enjoying it and its a great game, but it's stuff like this that earns it the sub 80 metacritic score. Some of the puzzle solves are just so stupid.

Kliff to Brown Dog when he doesn't loot fast enough, after I just killed an entire castle.

yeah depending on how much work I feel like putting in to solving a puzzle, sometimes I just shrug and look up the answer.

so the bounty that got messed up for me fixed itself yesterday. Found him lying dead on the fast travel point down the road from the fort.

flintdragon said:

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yeah depending on how much work I feel like putting in to solving a puzzle, sometimes I just shrug and look up the answer.

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again with the crescent skybridge. did all of the puzzle fine....didnt work....had to climb halfway up the circular "device" and punch it.

so ridiculous.

The worst puzzle I've ran into so far is the giant cube with lasers pointing out of different sides of it. You cant brute force that one because you can move it the wrong way and make it unsolvable until you fully reset it.

This game is like a fidget spinner. It gives you something to do, but it's not really meaningful, and it's a shame. With a little bit more effort, this game could have been something special.

All of the armor and weapons seem to have the same base stats, so finding or earning them doesnt really mean much, it's all about sockets and abyss gear (which am sure of it will be just another useless grind requiring hours of effort, like everything else), and the rest is purely cosmetic.

I dont know how many (or I guess I do, ALL of them) "rumor" missions I have been on that are basically "fast travel, talk to them, fast forward, now you have more Greymanes!" OK. You made me play for 10 more minutes, but that was not that fun.

My boy Yann had a quest (I suppose the tutorial for "trading") where we traded black pepper to make "tons of gold", except for the fact that after a 10 minute horse ride from outpost, to outpost, I made maybe 300 camp funds from the difference. Thanks Yann.

Almost all of the "quests" are just the same thing to different places. I do think this game is important to gaming in terms of the massive scale, but I would rather have half the map and a more memorable experience. It's almost like this entire game is just marketing material for Pearl Abyss' Blackspace engine.

I'll keep spinning, but I can see where eventually I just burn out and quit the game because making a game require hours to beat, which ultimately is just an amalgamation of all GOTY games since RDR2, but half-baked in pretty much all facets, just because you can doesn't make it a good game.

It's the ultimate time killing game. So much to do but none of it is actually very good.

I finished up the story line today. still feel like I rushed the game even with 200+ hours in the game.
will probably go for my first ever 100% game with this one. I really want the platinum trophy for it.

AgBQ-00 said:

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I finished up the story line today. still feel like I rushed the game even with 200+ hours in the game.
will probably go for my first ever 100% game with this one. I really want the platinum trophy for it.

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All side quests too, or just main chapters?

finished a majority of side quests, but just finished the main chapters.

that area gives me the weirded out heebeegeebees after finishing that story portion. Do not like going through there even afterwards.

Nothing wrong with that! It is quite fun.

Anyone on PC want to opine on whether I should stay mouse/keyboard or switch to a dual sense controller? I've only played the intro, but the combat feels clunky. Might just be I need to switch

I struggled with the controls in the intro (I'm on PS5).

I'd wait till you have some fights and explore a bit before you give up on it. I didn't really feel comfortable for a couple of hours.