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Bullett said:
On the other hand have you notice chum doing movie quotes? I've heard aliens and airplane so far.
Yeah I've heard one so far that I recognised from Airplane. A Wastelander said something along the lines of "Surely you didn't kill all those War Boys on your own!" to which Chumbucket said "He did, he did! And don't call him Shirley!"I've just done the mission you talked of above, and yeah things are turning a bit darker, but on the topic of darkness I've been really annoyed at the lack of a time advancing feature. There were two side missions that only took place at night, but because I'd done all the stronghold missions (therefore the time skip feature that comes with fixing the places up no longer worked) I had to sit and wait the whole bloody day before I could do them. I just booted the game up, put Max in a building and went off for a while, took bloody ages to turn night but got there in the end. Very annoying but not a problem now they're done. Probably just a couple of story missions left now.
Well, I think I'm done. A total of 75 hours the last 10 of which was cleaning up the few camps left and a number of achievements I wanted. It looks terrific on my mid range gaming PC and ran very well.
I know a lot of the critics have talked about make work and limited combat but this is pretty much the nature of open world type games. I actually wanted to do many of tasks and saw some game world driven stuff like camps attacked by different factions and on road battles that were really fun.
The hand to hand combat is simple but satisfying. I'm not into fighting games with loads of combos so dodge/parry/hit worked for me. If I had to be critical I thought the controls could have been more responsive not responding to a shiv command for example. The car combat is great a satisfying crash of metal on metal and well implemented but becomes way too easy once you get the the thunder poon.
They should also have made the griffa tokens harder to come by and made it very hard to max out max so you could build a character to your taste and had to think about allocation of points. Same goes for the car upgrades the restrictions are weirdly paced, chums repair skills being painfully slow for a good part of the game. I would like to have seen chum being an upgradable character in the style of max not an extension of the car. Also it would have given more motivation if the parts for car upgrades were in the land not just generic scrap. The did this with car bodies and one set of tyres so finding specific parts could have been more of a game 'forza style' really building a car to suit your play. Maybe have Chum salvage parts from defeated enemies whilst you defend him?
I didn't really get what the archangels were about and for that matter the collection of cars was pretty pointless. Sneaking up on a base got you spotted slightly later in an enemy car but then you had the problem that there was no harpoon or other weapons loaded up. My prefered method became pick off snipers and any flame weapons from a distance with the sniper rifle then charge in and harpoon the rocket towers and doors before making my way on foot.
Scrap is another one that needed a bit more balance. Early days it's hard to come by, as it should be but upgrades are cheap so there is a reason to keep collecting. Once you have a few allied camps plus clean up crew and scrap crew there is no motivation to collect more manually.
Intel seemed to make no real difference when attacking a camp or the boss fights. After the first boss fight it's very rinse and repeat and they all looked the same which is disappointing with the variety in everyday enemies and their cars.
I know that sounds critical but I enjoyed it overall. And for what I paid great value for money. 8/10
I know a lot of the critics have talked about make work and limited combat but this is pretty much the nature of open world type games. I actually wanted to do many of tasks and saw some game world driven stuff like camps attacked by different factions and on road battles that were really fun.
The hand to hand combat is simple but satisfying. I'm not into fighting games with loads of combos so dodge/parry/hit worked for me. If I had to be critical I thought the controls could have been more responsive not responding to a shiv command for example. The car combat is great a satisfying crash of metal on metal and well implemented but becomes way too easy once you get the the thunder poon.
They should also have made the griffa tokens harder to come by and made it very hard to max out max so you could build a character to your taste and had to think about allocation of points. Same goes for the car upgrades the restrictions are weirdly paced, chums repair skills being painfully slow for a good part of the game. I would like to have seen chum being an upgradable character in the style of max not an extension of the car. Also it would have given more motivation if the parts for car upgrades were in the land not just generic scrap. The did this with car bodies and one set of tyres so finding specific parts could have been more of a game 'forza style' really building a car to suit your play. Maybe have Chum salvage parts from defeated enemies whilst you defend him?
I didn't really get what the archangels were about and for that matter the collection of cars was pretty pointless. Sneaking up on a base got you spotted slightly later in an enemy car but then you had the problem that there was no harpoon or other weapons loaded up. My prefered method became pick off snipers and any flame weapons from a distance with the sniper rifle then charge in and harpoon the rocket towers and doors before making my way on foot.
Scrap is another one that needed a bit more balance. Early days it's hard to come by, as it should be but upgrades are cheap so there is a reason to keep collecting. Once you have a few allied camps plus clean up crew and scrap crew there is no motivation to collect more manually.
Intel seemed to make no real difference when attacking a camp or the boss fights. After the first boss fight it's very rinse and repeat and they all looked the same which is disappointing with the variety in everyday enemies and their cars.
I know that sounds critical but I enjoyed it overall. And for what I paid great value for money. 8/10
There is a handbrake. I had it bound to one of my mouse keys but it was pretty useless most of the time.
Yes, clean up crews and scrap crews (who collect when you are off-line) are good but taking down camps is the easy money.
In retrospect I'd only bother with collecting scrap from the little outposts or relics if you are a completist.
You only have to zero threat in the home region for each stronghold to unlock upgrades and overall threat for others.
Make sure you have a tough car before going to gastown region as the roamers are armoured up and relentless and camps repopulate so the snipers come back.
Yes, clean up crews and scrap crews (who collect when you are off-line) are good but taking down camps is the easy money.
In retrospect I'd only bother with collecting scrap from the little outposts or relics if you are a completist.
You only have to zero threat in the home region for each stronghold to unlock upgrades and overall threat for others.
Make sure you have a tough car before going to gastown region as the roamers are armoured up and relentless and camps repopulate so the snipers come back.
I never realised there was a handbrake, although on one occasion I did manage to somehow perform a nice handbrake turn which put the game into slo-mo for a few seconds. No idea how I did it mind as I used an Xbox controller the whole time. I see there's also a first person mode when you're inside a vehicle, press "V" (assuming you have a PC) and the camera will move to a space just in front of Max's face, so you can pan around and still see him, but you're inside the car. A novelty but not really useful, and I've no idea how you get that if you're just using a controller. A recent PC patch gave you the option to roll the car, it seems its mainly for when you're in the air as I tried to flip it off some cliffs and nothing happened.
I managed to complete it a few days ago after around 48hrs of gameplay and I enjoyed it overall. Although hardly an emotionally involving game the story did seem to pick up in the last few missions and did make me "feel" something, I wont elaborate though due to potential spoilers.
I managed to complete it a few days ago after around 48hrs of gameplay and I enjoyed it overall. Although hardly an emotionally involving game the story did seem to pick up in the last few missions and did make me "feel" something, I wont elaborate though due to potential spoilers.
Finished, finally! All story and side missions, and map icons completed. Only thing not done is the collectible cars as cba.
For a big name game, there sure are some glitches - loads of spelling errors in subtitles and lack of noise at times. My map also disabled more than once which made the game unplayable at times.
Really enjoyed just cause but I felt there was just too much to complete in those games, this is just right and despite incredibly repetitive bosses / challenges, I had a good time taking the influence levels down.
Now need something new to take my free hours up
For a big name game, there sure are some glitches - loads of spelling errors in subtitles and lack of noise at times. My map also disabled more than once which made the game unplayable at times.
Really enjoyed just cause but I felt there was just too much to complete in those games, this is just right and despite incredibly repetitive bosses / challenges, I had a good time taking the influence levels down.
Now need something new to take my free hours up
I've just started playing this yesterday, enjoying it so far.
I'm finding it a bit difficult to level up as I haven't found much scrap and my car can't compete with the number of raiders you find on the caravan trails.
Am I better to keep trying to destroy cars, or should I attack settlements and try to set up friendly crews to collect the scrap on my behalf?
I'm finding it a bit difficult to level up as I haven't found much scrap and my car can't compete with the number of raiders you find on the caravan trails.
Am I better to keep trying to destroy cars, or should I attack settlements and try to set up friendly crews to collect the scrap on my behalf?
Don't worry about taking down the convoys at the start but a tip is you can get Chum to repair mid battle and then chase the convoy again. Look for the cloud of dust. It only resets if you die.
Focus initially on the little camps but try and take down a pump camp or transfer camp asap as that will give you a steady stream of scrap. Focus on upgrading max as opposed to the car at the start as well. I'd focus on health and damage, don't bother with fuel until you get the flamers
Focus initially on the little camps but try and take down a pump camp or transfer camp asap as that will give you a steady stream of scrap. Focus on upgrading max as opposed to the car at the start as well. I'd focus on health and damage, don't bother with fuel until you get the flamers
Really enjoying this game. About fifteen hours in. Last night I saved my game on a save file slot for the first time. For some reason I chose slot 10, rather than slot 1.
I've just tried to fire up the game and it defaults to a black screen with the legend, "Verifying save files" and some music playing in the background. It's been like that for fifteen minutes.
I think I've borked it.
ETA:
I googled the problem and found the fix. Apparently, it is quite common for the game to hang on that screen. What you do is turn of the xbox and unplug the power lead. Leave it for a couple of minutes and restart. Did the trick for me. Phew!
I've just tried to fire up the game and it defaults to a black screen with the legend, "Verifying save files" and some music playing in the background. It's been like that for fifteen minutes.
I think I've borked it.
ETA:
I googled the problem and found the fix. Apparently, it is quite common for the game to hang on that screen. What you do is turn of the xbox and unplug the power lead. Leave it for a couple of minutes and restart. Did the trick for me. Phew!
Edited by Blib on Thursday 15th October 15:15
Playing this on rental at the moment, probably about halfway through after many hours. Really enjoying it! The graphics are fantastic (PS4) and its one of those games that can suck you in for hours with lots to do... altho the story just seems to be about trying to get a V8 in my car 
I've played the whole game through once already, but after I'd 'finished' it I spent several days just going round mopping up loads of little bits and pieces, there are hundreds, and then started from scratch again.
One thing that bugs me: the cars handles bloody awful!!!! Is there some long elastic band between his wheel and the steering rack, with a built in 3 second/random delay??? It is liveable most of the time, but during 'the big race' it is infuriating. I won the race first time out on my first game, but second time around I'm having no luck killing Stank Gum.
I play on PS4 and have tried everything to improve the way the car handles, but it is like a joke!!! Push the button one way, wait two seconds, the car starts to turn, and turn, and keeps on turning even when you have the joy stick creaking in defiance the opposite way!!!!
One thing that bugs me: the cars handles bloody awful!!!! Is there some long elastic band between his wheel and the steering rack, with a built in 3 second/random delay??? It is liveable most of the time, but during 'the big race' it is infuriating. I won the race first time out on my first game, but second time around I'm having no luck killing Stank Gum.
I play on PS4 and have tried everything to improve the way the car handles, but it is like a joke!!! Push the button one way, wait two seconds, the car starts to turn, and turn, and keeps on turning even when you have the joy stick creaking in defiance the opposite way!!!!
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