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I got this for 35€, seems pretty good for that. Played it for 4 hours on hard which seems to be the right difficulty. Died once so far in a 6 difficulty bandit camp. Shooting is good, powers (I only have the force push) have a long cooldown. Havent done anything with vehicles besides traveling. Performance is pretty ok, getting 100+ fps on mostly ultra at 1440p on a 2080ti.
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Zzulu posted:What's the story? Your parents died and you were raised by the leader of the fancy high-tech settlement alongside her daughter, your best friend. Baddies from apparently the previous game are back, they immediately are all up in there wrecking poo poo. Your friend gets you, and you two make jokes while the baddies are murdering people literally on screen while you're having a breezy chat. You and your friend witness the famous Ranger Jersey fight a big mutant and get his head bitten off, where your friend makes a quip about how Jersey ain't regenerating from that (that's one of the powers you can unlock) and encourages you to take his armor. You shoot some mutants, there's a big mutant that shows up and grabs you in a cut scene, your mom shoots the mutants arm off with you still grabbed, and then your mom gets stabbed and dies by the final boss. Fortunately the baddies just....ignored you or something? So you get woken up by your best friend, and what a coincidence your mom happened to record holograms directed towards you, who she knows is now the Last Ranger, even though you just happened to come across Jersey getting his head bitten off and put his armor on, and also your mom has a plan called Project Dagger, which requires you to -- Caesar Saladin posted:talk to three guys and then fill up their bars with side missions. The story is loving atrocious and the game would have been better without the entire introductory scene. It's probably not as bad as an Ubisoft plot, but it's still terrible.
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May 15, 2019 07:22
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Hellsau posted:The story is loving atrocious and the game would have been better without the entire introductory scene. It's probably not as bad as an Ubisoft plot, but it's still terrible. The story is exactly what it needs to be to justify the overall stupid fun the game offers. Yeah, it's horrid, but I want my mindless murdergames to have crap stories. Maybe it helps me to cope with all the killing? No high art here, just keep on shooting and don't worry about it.
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May 15, 2019 07:32
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They over corrected for rage 1 story and somehow ended up at the same husk of characterization, you'll completely have forgotten it by a few hours in and can skip all the cutscenes.
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May 15, 2019 07:38
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Mel Mudkiper posted:I mean I dont mind the gameplay as much as the main villain being a general of a hivemind army who is a serious guy in big armor while you get a special suit and a special title that makes you uniquely important and your mission is to find hidden artifacts with your suit to fight back. I'm going to stand up for Warframe here. That's the story as of the moment you wake up, but it subsequently goes waaaaay off the rails.
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May 15, 2019 07:45
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Hellsau posted:Thread title candidate: Yeah, it's a GOON world shitguzzler, and there ain't nothin' you can do to stop us! Sounds too much like a "hey kids" attempt at viral marketing. But your idea is appreciated.
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May 15, 2019 09:52
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I've played a few hours so far and I'm really having a good time. The shooting's solid, the driving is fine, and the set dressing is fun. But, then again, I also really enjoyed Mad Max, so the basic gameplay loop of find town - go kill nearby duders to upgrade town - hoover up everything to make bigger guns works well for me. The story's pretty cliche but it's not obtrusively bad like a Far Cry game. There are also a few solid moments so far, like the big bad guy just chewing the hell out of the scenery every time he appears, or Walker's reaction to dangerous fetch-quests being essentially "Yes, I like to shoot guns, I will go shoot guns for you". I was pretty surprised to see people's complaints about the story be so severe given how it's greatest sin is just being a little rote. So far, at least. I do agree that they should up the amount of baddies roaming the wasteland, though. The dungeon crawls I've done so far have been pretty good, but getting from place to place can be surprisingly uneventful. I have run into a few packs of Goons fighting Mutants and one group of Goons playing grenade golf, and when that happens it's fun! I also wish there were just a few more bad guys lingering around fortresses to really up the chaos of causing a huge firefight. But I am playing on Normal, so maybe I should kick it up to Hard. The starter pistol being a total headshot machine reminds me of Halo 1 in the best ways.
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May 15, 2019 10:57
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bloodysabbath posted:This game sucks but the fact that it makes Chris Plante apoplectic makes me want to like it. I am not at all familiar with Plante, is he a bad reviewer?
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May 15, 2019 11:38
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:I am not at all familiar with Plante, is he a bad reviewer? I'd say quite the opposite https://www.polygon.com/2019/5/14/18623122/rage-2-environment-building-impressions-bathroom
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May 15, 2019 11:57
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:I am not at all familiar with Plante, is he a bad reviewer? he makes bad hot takes (shadow of mordor is just like torture in iraq and he hosed over some stem dude who landed a probe on asteroid because the dude has dumb shirt that was bad. . as hard as i was on him upthread, i get his issues with the game and it is personal poo poo and i get it. that being said i found parts of the article eye rolling as some one has disfigurements they can't surgery away and it sounds more like his insecurities showing then anything else. plus he hates most violent games anyway and looks for reasons to dislike them. Gnome de plume posted:I'd say quite the opposite https://www.polygon.com/2019/5/14/18623122/rage-2-environment-building-impressions-bathroom quote:Broadly speaking, Rage 2 is a nasty, cynical, and at times repulsively violent open-world shooter.  funny thing is its alot less gory then i assumed it would be. Sandepande posted:The story is exactly what it needs to be to justify the overall stupid fun the game offers. Yeah, it's horrid, but I want my mindless murdergames to have crap stories. Maybe it helps me to cope with all the killing? No high art here, just keep on shooting and don't worry about it. pretty much. the story is as dumb as the first rages, possibly better in someways. so i am not really shocked that the story is poo poo. there are cool little environment story/Easter eggs though. like i like that some of the goon squad wear old authority armor from the first game.
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May 15, 2019 12:05
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The shooty bits get really good at times. I wish those times lasted longer, but that's really the only thing that bothers me. This type of FPS is my favorite and I will forgive the driving that goes in between. The story I do not care about any more than I did about the original Doom or Duke 3D's. Worth the money? Sadly there are not enough of these, so yea to me it is.
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May 15, 2019 12:13
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Hamburger Test posted:The shooty bits get really good at times. I wish those times lasted longer, but that's really the only thing that bothers me. This type of FPS is my favorite and I will forgive the driving that goes in between. The story I do not care about any more than I did about the original Doom or Duke 3D's. yeah. id say the open world encounters are better than in mad max or at least more frequent but its far from perfect. its definitely not a far cry type deal where you can find encounters all over the open world. hopefully they can patch/add more stuff.
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May 15, 2019 12:18
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You can find encounters all over the open world: there’s at least three enemy factions who you see fighting each other all over the place. The only thing is there’s like, 4 or 5 enemies per encounter and that’s over real quick. More, larger random encounters would be cool. For what it’s worth I am enjoying the poo poo out of this game. The story etc is what it is - there to prop up the action and not really worth thinking twice about. That’s fine. The action is the star of the show and I loving love bouncing around the place tearing guys to shreds. As a PSA - it’s not immediately obvious that your nanotrite abilities have perks - one of which is to decrease the cool down, usually significantly. This makes the combat even more frenetic because your shatter and slam are up every 15 seconds or so. Game has a few issues - Pc controls are a lil awkward, needed to tweak them a bunch to make it comfortable. The UI in the menus is pretty bad. The perk trees for skills and weapons are hidden behind screens behind screens for no real reason. It’s just little things though, and it didn’t stop me playing the game for nearly 10 hours straight yesterday. I am an adult honest.
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May 15, 2019 12:32
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Managed to grab all the guns, and so far they all feel pretty good, though some need upgrades to get anywhere decent. The firestorm revolver in particular can get very slight homing on its shots, so you can actually hit things at a distance making it go from a pain in the rear end to use to a decent all around weapon save for anything with a healthbar. The grav dart laucher is probably the only one I have a problem with, and that's that it feels like its better suited to being a slower semiauto gun rather than automatic. if I could shoot stuff once and then toss them I would probably like it more than this weird dart smg thing. You can however shoot barrels with it and then toss those at a enemy so that's fun. Also you can take each type of car back to settlements once each for car parts so remember to do that.
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May 15, 2019 13:45
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So far the sewer level has been the most enjoyable for me and that's kind of a crazy thing to say about a video game. I think it's mainly because it was a long series of fights, which the open world hasn't really been able to dole out to you and where the combat can really show itself fully.
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May 15, 2019 14:52
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I like this game because I was kinda wanting for a nice little open world game but for strange and mystical reasons my overdrive bar doesn't fill so I can't use it. It works when the game activates it for me in weapon introduction sequences, but not anywhere else. Edit: Oh and I did try one of those Overdrive booster items you can make (by accident) and it didn't do anything either. TheLastRoboKy fucked around with this message at 15:09 on May 15, 2019 |
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May 15, 2019 15:06
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Shoehead posted:So far the sewer level has been the most enjoyable for me and that's kind of a crazy thing to say about a video game. I think it's mainly because it was a long series of fights, which the open world hasn't really been able to dole out to you and where the combat can really show itself fully. One of the bandit dens was a town they took over called Strongbox and that was great, just constant goons in small packed areas. We need more of that in this game.
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May 15, 2019 15:15
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The way I’ve been dealing with bandit camps is just rush headlong into the fight, run like a madman shooting all the way. Then go back through after everything is dead to look around/grab the collectibles. If you stop to grab a chest here or a container there it kinda breaks the rhythm. Also, the Shrouded charging stations are awesome for prolonged fights, as they just keep coming until the charger thing is destroyed which takes a couple of minutes. I’m still missing a couple of guns I think, need to get up to the north section and find those arks. I was trying to mainline that but predictably have been sidetracked at least 18 different times.
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May 15, 2019 15:41
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Btw. in case it wasn't mentioned, changing the time of day in screenshot mode changes it for the actual game which is kind of nice.
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May 15, 2019 16:25
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AirRaid posted:The way I’ve been dealing with bandit camps is just rush headlong into the fight, run like a madman shooting all the way. Then go back through after everything is dead to look around/grab the collectibles. If you stop to grab a chest here or a container there it kinda breaks the rhythm. Sprinting around like a maniac going ham with shotgun blasts and techno-Force pushes has been my go to strat for every encounter thus far, and it is always fun AND effective.
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May 15, 2019 16:32
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Crowetron posted:Sprinting around like a maniac going ham with shotgun blasts and techno-Force pushes has been my go to strat for every encounter thus far, and it is always fun AND effective. The shotgun is a powerhouse. And if you need more hitting power, one tick up the scroll wheel is the rocket launcher. My go to ability has been Slam though. Double jump into the air, and ground pound multiple guys at once. Also I can’t remember who it was who was worried about the KERCHAK cocking sound of the shotgun but it is loud and awesome. Not sure what was up in that one video but it’s super satisfying in game.
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May 15, 2019 16:43
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If you have vortex you can toss it in front of you and dash into it to give yourself a ton of distance and air, works great with slam. Also I managed to unlock a tank and wow, every single vehicle that's not the pheonix is real lame. Its pretty much what you would expect from a tank but i have cruise missiles on my car so eh, kinda irrelevant. I also figured out how non bullet ammo works, basically there is set spawns for just general special ammo, and it picks a kind at random when you get to the location. This means that not getting any other gun after the rocket launcher means you only find rocket ammo, making it a very good argument to just skip out on a few guns. It's pretty much the standard level of jank I would expect from this game, I actually caught the game changing ammo on me after the game crashed trying to do a mission multiple times. Speaking of crashes the area at the top of the map lags and crashes a lot even on low for my computer, and its a decent midgrade computer, so be wary of that.
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May 15, 2019 16:51
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Zoig posted:If you have vortex you can toss it in front of you and dash into it to give yourself a ton of distance and air, works great with slam. Something to be aware of, there is apparently a height from which the game insta-“falls” you, and doesn’t let you save with a double jump or slam. Even if you’ve initiated a Slam, you’ll just fall and die. Haven’t tried this since I unlocked the less-fall-damage perk, will investigate tonight. Hopefully it just removes the limit, there’s some pretty impressive drops you could dive off in this game.
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May 15, 2019 17:07
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drat it, I'm having this issue where the game just refuses to launch. I've got all my drivers updated and run the Bethesda launcher as an administrator but the Rage 2 exe either never shows up in the task manager or does but the game never launches. 
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May 15, 2019 17:20
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Driving home from Redbox right now, I spent $3 and I’m gonna try to Platinum it in one night
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May 15, 2019 17:20
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Last lap of a race. Screaming into 1st place and I hit... something... that flings me back and I have to trundle in last. Thought it was some kind of mario kart trap? Nope. Just the frozen model of a driver glitched into the middle of the track.
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May 15, 2019 17:48
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May 15, 2019 18:03
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You'd think that with all the talk of the rhythm breaking of scavenging around places after you kill everything, the devs would have added some kind of quality of life thing where after you completely clear a base, you could just hit Concentrate for like 10 seconds and everything you could collect there just zooms straight into your inventory.
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May 15, 2019 18:14
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Al Cu Ad Solte posted:drat it, I'm having this issue where the game just refuses to launch. I've got all my drivers updated and run the Bethesda launcher as an administrator but the Rage 2 exe either never shows up in the task manager or does but the game never launches. Did you update your drivers? I had the exact same problem and that was the fix.
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May 15, 2019 18:15
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Qmass posted:storage containers Kvasir has a perk which gives you a lil proximity radar for those. Makes finding the dumb hiding ones WAY less of a pain. Related - sometimes you will see small pink padlocks on doors/shipping containers. You can shoot those to open the door. At least one Storage Container is behind one of those. Al Cu Ad Solte posted:drat it, I'm having this issue where the game just refuses to launch. I've got all my drivers updated and run the Bethesda launcher as an administrator but the Rage 2 exe either never shows up in the task manager or does but the game never launches. Zoig posted:Did you update your drivers? I had the exact same problem and that was the fix. 
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May 15, 2019 18:18
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Copied from the Steam thread:Mierenneuker posted:Apparently Rage 2’s DRM got cracked on day one, because the exe on the Bethesda launcher didn’t have DRM. So much for preventing piracy during the first weeks lol Serves them right for forcing that shitware on people’s PCs.
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Qmass posted:storage containers one reviewer mentioned that you might as well skip the storage containers until you get the focus upgrade that lets you see containers through walls, so i've just been grabbing the one or two ark containers per camp or w/e and skipping the rest until i get that. some of those containers are annoying to find without guidance e beaten
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May 15, 2019 18:34
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Anyone get the version of the game with the NBA JAM announcer?
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May 15, 2019 19:21
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You can buy announcers with in game money. I think it was 10k though.
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May 15, 2019 19:38
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Why did I think this was going to be an ID Tech engine based game?
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May 15, 2019 19:52
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Lambert posted:Days Gone is way, way better than this one. Lmfao no, and im not even saying this gsme is that great
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Hellsau posted:Your parents died and you were raised by the leader of the fancy high-tech settlement alongside her daughter, your best friend. Baddies from apparently the previous game are back, they immediately are all up in there wrecking poo poo. Your friend gets you, and you two make jokes while the baddies are murdering people literally on screen while you're having a breezy chat. You and your friend witness the famous Ranger Jersey fight a big mutant and get his head bitten off, where your friend makes a quip about how Jersey ain't regenerating from that (that's one of the powers you can unlock) and encourages you to take his armor. You shoot some mutants, there's a big mutant that shows up and grabs you in a cut scene, your mom shoots the mutants arm off with you still grabbed, and then your mom gets stabbed and dies by the final boss. Fortunately the baddies just....ignored you or something? So you get woken up by your best friend, and what a coincidence your mom happened to record holograms directed towards you, who she knows is now the Last Ranger, even though you just happened to come across Jersey getting his head bitten off and put his armor on, and also your mom has a plan called Project Dagger, which requires you to -- yikes
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May 15, 2019 20:16
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Qmass posted:storage containers See kvasir. You'll be able to Scan for them. This game gets better and better the more you play. Starting to feel like the reviewers didn't really give it a fair shake Edit: I'm going to update the op with tips later today, feel free to suggest some. Donovan Trip fucked around with this message at 20:36 on May 15, 2019 |
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Donovan Trip posted:See kvasir. You'll be able to Scan for them. I feel the same. It's actually quite entertaining and MUCH less annoying as the farcrie Add where you get mandatory stuff like the shotgun
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Rebinding focus to an extra mouse button.
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