NieR: Automata announced for PC, game shipping Early 2017 on both platforms

bakes0310 · 1 Apr 2018 at 06:49

On sale for £25 on PSN is the dlc for £11 worth it as well?

TriedandTested · 1 Apr 2018 at 10:29

bakes0310 said:
On sale for £25 on PSN is the dlc for £11 worth it as well?

Steam reviews suggests it's not.

eekfek · 1 Apr 2018 at 10:55

£16 on cdkeys atm if you want the base game.

bakes0310 · 1 Apr 2018 at 11:54

Sounds like a ball ache on pc though especially at super wide resolution.

bakes0310 · 1 Apr 2018 at 12:00

I'll buy it on pc and use the FAR mod too good of a price.

eekfek · 1 Apr 2018 at 13:10

It runs great ultrawide.

bakes0310 · 1 Apr 2018 at 20:18

Bought from cd keys, just finished downloading and getting the FAR mid to work with ultra wide. Will play this tomorrow for an hour or two.

TeraVirus · 4 Apr 2018 at 22:32

Apparently there's no patch from SE still... I'm going to hold out until it gets really cheap and unfortunately use mods to fix up what they refuse to fix. :/

heartburnron · 30 May 2018 at 13:44

Ok I know there are fans of this game on here so talk to me guys... I just played for 49 minutes - got killed just after the giant robot, was returned to the main menu, selected to continue, only to find that I need to replay the entire 50 minutes again! So what gives!? That surely can't be a deliberate design? Is there a way of saving progress up to that point? When/where/how? Great game so far although the visuals do look a bit jaggy round the edges (I have everything maxed aside from Motion Blur which if off).

Nate75 · 30 May 2018 at 14:49

heartburnron said:
Ok I know there are fans of this game on here so talk to me guys... I just played for 49 minutes - got killed just after the giant robot, was returned to the main menu, selected to continue, only to find that I need to replay the entire 50 minutes again! So what gives!? That surely can't be a deliberate design? Is there a way of saving progress up to that point? When/where/how? Great game so far although the visuals do look a bit jaggy round the edges (I have everything maxed aside from Motion Blur which if off).

The first save is after that boss I'm afraid. Think it took me 3 goes. It was easy in the end though when discovering how useful the dodge is.

It is a little off putting but stay with it, the game is brilliant. Check out FAR mod. I used this to put it into 'proper' HD. I think it runs in 720 otherwise.

ColdAsIce · 30 May 2018 at 14:53

heartburnron said:
Ok I know there are fans of this game on here so talk to me guys... I just played for 49 minutes - got killed just after the giant robot, was returned to the main menu, selected to continue, only to find that I need to replay the entire 50 minutes again! So what gives!? That surely can't be a deliberate design? Is there a way of saving progress up to that point? When/where/how? Great game so far although the visuals do look a bit jaggy round the edges (I have everything maxed aside from Motion Blur which if off).

Just stick it on easy until you get past the first boss. Then the game opens up properly with a proper save system and open world. Frustrating game design but don't worry you can change difficulty at anytime

heartburnron · 30 May 2018 at 15:25

Thanks for the advice guys. I've downloaded the FAR mod and will drop the difficulty level down to easy to ensure I don't have to replay the intro again. Looking forward to playing the rest of the game.

Amatsubu · 30 May 2018 at 18:24

Yes, it's deliberate and it's pretty normal to drop the difficulty for the intro section. You'r not losing much apart from the challenge as there aren't any difficulty-related achievements. You'll be able to save soon, just remember the game doesn't autosave so quicksave often.

Also, progress a bit through the story to unlock fast travel before getting into side stuff properly.

heartburnron · 30 May 2018 at 19:52

Amatsubu said:
Yes, it's deliberate and it's pretty normal to drop the difficulty for the intro section. You'r not losing much apart from the challenge as there aren't any difficulty-related achievements. You'll be able to save soon, just remember the game doesn't autosave so quicksave often.

Also, progress a bit through the story to unlock fast travel before getting into side stuff properly.

Thanks. I had a playthrough on easy and the 'auto chips on' thing - man talk about hand holding, with that turned on you basically just move and it does the rest for you - I even had the game dodge for me! Not complaining as just want to get to the game proper - I was climbing up the end boss when I had to leave the PC, came back and the window was down to a small rectangle - it crashed when I tried to get it back to fullscreen so I have to start again!

About this FAR mod - I'm getting the pop up at the top of the screen for every game I'm playing now and it caused one of them to reduce the game in to a small window when I was playing which is making me nervous - is there an easy way to disable the FAR mod when it's not in use?

Amatsubu · 30 May 2018 at 20:15

Weird, every game? It only works with Nier, are you sure you installed it properly?

Yeah, easy mode is a joke. Shouldn't be in the game.

About the crashing, seems that some people experience varying degrees of that as the port is a mess. I get none, fortunately, and most seem to be OK so hopefully it will be all right for you.

heartburnron · 30 May 2018 at 22:13

Amatsubu said:
Weird, every game? It only works with Nier, are you sure you installed it properly?

Yeah, easy mode is a joke. Shouldn't be in the game.

About the crashing, seems that some people experience varying degrees of that as the port is a mess. I get none, fortunately, and most seem to be OK so hopefully it will be all right for you.

Yeah it's every game. I just used the automatic installer from the thread in the Steam forums...

Amatsubu · 31 May 2018 at 10:11

I did the same and installed the texture pack, FAR only launches in Automata for me. It's installed into the game folder and shouldn't have access to other games, I don't really know what's going on:/ Did you use the latest installer etc.? I also remember there were multiple options during installation. Maybe try reinstalling or installing manually?

heartburnron · 31 May 2018 at 18:03

Amatsubu said:
I did the same and installed the texture pack, FAR only launches in Automata for me. It's installed into the game folder and shouldn't have access to other games, I don't really know what's going on:/ Did you use the latest installer etc.? I also remember there were multiple options during installation. Maybe try reinstalling or installing manually?

Figured it out - I didn't select the FAR mod from the installer - leaving at the default 'Special K installer' or something like that which was then applying itself to every game. I uninstalled then reinstalled ensuring I select only the FAR mod for Nier Automata this time. Sorted.

Amatsubu · 31 May 2018 at 18:25

heartburnron said:
Figured it out - I didn't select the FAR mod from the installer - leaving at the default 'Special K installer' or something like that which was then applying itself to every game. I uninstalled then reinstalled ensuring I select only the FAR mod for Nier Automata this time. Sorted.

Ah, that's what I thought as the installer is a bundle of Kaldaien's stuff. Glad it's sorted

I'd suggest installing the HD Texture Pack for FAR, makes many textures a lot better for a negligible performance impact.

heartburnron · 31 May 2018 at 18:40

Amatsubu said:
Ah, that's what I thought as the installer is a bundle of Kaldaien's stuff. Glad it's sorted

I'd suggest installing the HD Texture Pack for FAR, makes many textures a lot better for a negligible performance impact.

Thanks I did see that but wasn't sure if that was part of what I had already downloaded. I'll check it out. The game definitely looks far better than before although I wouldn't have said it looks anywhere near so good that I should be getting an average of 50 FPS at 3440x1440 with my set up but I suppose that's not uncommon with Japanese PC ports.

I must stick my best overclock on and see what difference that makes to the frames...