** Official Days Gone Thread **

Game is absolutely huge. No idea how many hours I have on this. Anyway to tell on the PS4? The in game day count says 810 game days so far though.
 
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MOOGLEYS said:
I picked this up and it started ok but now I’m 2-3 hours in tbh I wish I hadn’t bothered. It’s a rough game with lots of annoying niggles. It’s also pretty boring with awful gun play. Every human enemy is pretty much a machine gun sniper. I’m hoping it gets a bit better so will give it more time but so far it’s a bit meh tbh.
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Trade it in mate I got 40 quid for mine only lost a tenner it does not get any better.
 
banbom44 said:
Trade it in mate I got 40 quid for mine only lost a tenner it does not get any better.
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It’s a digital one so no trade in. I’m enjoying it a bit more now it’s still not anything special and I doubt I will put hours into it but some bits have been good.
 
1.06 patch came out which caused the game to crash. My PS4 is not set to update when off so luckily I am on 1.05 still.

1.06 has been pulled but if you already have it installed, according to reddit you need to reinstall to get back to 1.05 if you have crashes on 1.06.
 
Scort said:
Some things that have annoyed me though:

The game frequently changes your weapon - so if you're trying to be sneaky with the crossbow, then decide to throw a rock - the game will happily equip a bloody gun after the rock is thrown; forcing you to have to pick the crossbow again! This has caught me out a few times now, and you really have to pay attention to that bug/feature, or you'll end up blowing your stealthy approach.

The AI is pants, utter pants - and they fall foul of one of my pet peeves too - they are psychic!!! You can be in the dark, hiding in a bush, and take out one of their buddies - only to get near pin-point shots raining down on you from their mates. The 'freakers' aren't as bad - but interactions between them and enemies can often be comical - using rocks to draw them in, they can almost be standing next to an armed guard before either notices each other :D

It's just not as polished as you'd expect from a Sony flagship title to me, which is quite a shame - I can see me persisting, but it's likely to be a game that I play in dribs and drabs; as it'll bet repetitive and dull pretty fast.
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Yes the weapon switching thing can be a pain but it does seem better since the patch, I still sometimes cannot select a throwable item though.

I actually haven't experienced any AI problems, nothing like you have, not even once, weird!
 
MOOGLEYS said:
It’s also pretty boring with awful gun play. Every human enemy is pretty much a machine gun sniper. I’m hoping it gets a bit better so will give it more time but so far it’s a bit meh tbh.
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It's not really meant to be a hardcore shooting game, I know the aiming is quite loose but I think it's supposed to be. I personally find the AI OK, if they see you they'll keep laying fire down in your last know location, if you creep away they certainly don't automatically follow you if you're out-of-sight.

banbom44 said:
Trade it in mate I got 40 quid for mine only lost a tenner it does not get any better.
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No offence but if you have already traded it in how do you know it doesn't get any better? Seems like half the gaming press has done the same, given it a little time and decided it's **** too soon.
 
justbeats said:
Yes the weapon switching thing can be a pain but it does seem better since the patch, I still sometimes cannot select a throwable item though.

I actually haven't experienced any AI problems, nothing like you have, not even once, weird!
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Yeah, I noticed the patch (1.06 iirc) seems to have improved the daft weapon switch issue, or at least, made it a bit more tolerable. It seems that performance has also improved a bit, the camera movement seemed noticeably more responsive on the PS4 Pro.

That fun an games with AI, happened at a camp near a railway - I appreciate that doesn't exactly narrow it down :D I cleared out a a logging camp last night, and a bunch of 'raiders' turned up - they were deaf as posts; as I was able to run up behind and stab them, without them noticing :p Sadly, crappy AI never seems to get sorted in games - I guess it's simply too much work to improve on it :(
 
justbeats said:
No offence but if you have already traded it in how do you know it doesn't get any better? Seems like half the gaming press has done the same, given it a little time and decided it's **** too soon.
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Yeah the whole game just gets better and better as you progress. I just unlocked the last area, having a blast with this. Some of the late game hordes are insane.
 
justbeats said:
No offence but if you have already traded it in how do you know it doesn't get any better? Seems like half the gaming press has done the same, given it a little time and decided it's **** too soon.
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I don't know about that. We all like different things at the end if the day.

The reviewers I tend to trust / go to all seem to mirror the same thoughts in that it actually starts well enough but gets worse the further you get into it mostly for the repetitive nature of the activities?also the hordes get introduced much later in the game from what I understand, or you aren't equipped to handle them until late game? Which is odd as it's been the driving force for the games advertising since it was announced.
 
kinger8938 said:
I don't know about that. We all like different things at the end if the day.

The reviewers I tend to trust / go to all seem to mirror the same thoughts in that it actually starts well enough but gets worse the further you get into it mostly for the repetitive nature of the activities?also the hordes get introduced much later in the game from what I understand, or you aren't equipped to handle them until late game? Which is odd as it's been the driving force for the games advertising since it was announced.
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The game has numerous hordes over each section of the map that you can tackle at any point you like. You can see how many on the map screen for each section.
 
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kinger8938 said:
I don't know about that. We all like different things at the end if the day.

The reviewers I tend to trust / go to all seem to mirror the same thoughts in that it actually starts well enough but gets worse the further you get into it mostly for the repetitive nature of the activities?also the hordes get introduced much later in the game from what I understand, or you aren't equipped to handle them until late game? Which is odd as it's been the driving force for the games advertising since it was announced.
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The game has numerous hordes over each section of the map that you can tackle at any point you like. You can see how many on the map screen for each section.

The hordes all over the map are out at night, normally going towards water, during the day they are hibernating inside caves which you can find.

Story based hordes are late game though

Edit: whoops double post, no idea how I managed that
 
Witcher1980 said:
The game has numerous hordes over each section of the map that you can tackle at any point you like. You can see how many on the map screen for each section.

story based hordes are late game
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Weird, they made it sound like you couldnt really handle them or even find them until like 20 hours in. So I take back that complaint (having not played it etc) :)
 
Scort said:
Yeah, I noticed the patch (1.06 iirc) seems to have improved the daft weapon switch issue, or at least, made it a bit more tolerable. It seems that performance has also improved a bit, the camera movement seemed noticeably more responsive on the PS4 Pro.

That fun an games with AI, happened at a camp near a railway - I appreciate that doesn't exactly narrow it down :D I cleared out a a logging camp last night, and a bunch of 'raiders' turned up - they were deaf as posts; as I was able to run up behind and stab them, without them noticing :p Sadly, crappy AI never seems to get sorted in games - I guess it's simply too much work to improve on it :(
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I'm guessing they have a LOT of bugs to iron out and will be doing so for some time, the AI stuff will probably be last, or like you say if at all...
 
kinger8938 said:
I don't know about that. We all like different things at the end if the day.

The reviewers I tend to trust / go to all seem to mirror the same thoughts in that it actually starts well enough but gets worse the further you get into it mostly for the repetitive nature of the activities?also the hordes get introduced much later in the game from what I understand, or you aren't equipped to handle them until late game? Which is odd as it's been the driving force for the games advertising since it was announced.
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I'm surprised by this tbh, it starts slow but gets better especially as the story unfolds. I just never know when to trust review sites any more, Metro Exodus was given glowing reviews but it ran like a bag o **** for me and many others, the AI was terrible (spotting you in pitch black for example) yet, the reviewers loved it.

*shrug*
 
It remember saying to someone after one of the early trailers that it'll inevitably turn out that Sarah was involved in the development of the virus, even though she was a botanist.

Turns out that was totally on the money. It's a shame they went with the totally obvious...
 
justbeats said:
I'm surprised by this tbh, it starts slow but gets better especially as the story unfolds. I just never know when to trust review sites any more, Metro Exodus was given glowing reviews but it ran like a bag o **** for me and many others, the AI was terrible (spotting you in pitch black for example) yet, the reviewers loved it.

*shrug*
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I'm not sure I think I metro was mixed enough, but I still picked it up and regretted it pretty much right away :D

It's all just opinions at the end of the day
 
kinger8938 said:
I'm not sure I think I metro was mixed enough, but I still picked it up and regretted it pretty much right away :D

It's all just opinions at the end of the day
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Metro exodus is awful the first introduction and gameplay great. Then it slides down a massive hill where AI hits you from 1000m with a shotgun or they just bounce around everywhere just felt off putting enough for me to stop playing. The odd visual quirks too where you can see its a console port.
 
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Metro exodus is awful the first introduction and gameplay great. Then it slides down a massive hill where AI hits you from 1000m with a shotgun or they just bounce around everywhere just felt off putting enough for me to stop playing. The odd visual quirks too where you can see its a console port.
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On a good note they added the option to lower motion blur for Metro Exodus on consoles which makes it slightly more playable.
 
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