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Underwhelmed
Mar 7, 2004


Nap Ghost
I started over since I hadn't played it for the last week and a half in anticipation of the corrected patch, and got tired of waiting. I get past the first couple of story missions, up to the first story mission that involves driving out to the middle of nowhere to rescue someone. I decided there was no rush, so I tackle a couple of side missions on the way. A siege mission appeared in the house next door to the the yard where you have the first military encounter and going there triggers the applicable cut-scene, I get the "get out of here stalker" nonsense and continue on to the house of survivors already under siege. I start killing, and killing, and killing, and killing, and the fuckers just don't stop coming, and hordes keep passing in such close enough proximity to the house that they get triggered too.

After like 15 minutes of slaughter, the siege finally ends, except that it didn't count as an actual siege, because I didn't actually leave the event zone for the first mission. I move out of the circle, and then the siege proper starts. Then my last ax breaks, then a fat zombie shows up and I use my last bullets killing him, and then a goddamn feral shows up and I have no ammo, and no melee weapons left, and all 3 of the idiots I am trying to save don't have a weapon among them. All I could do was try and get back to the car, and well that didn't end well. So much for Maya.

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Underwhelmed
Mar 7, 2004


Nap Ghost

Rookersh posted:

Yeah no, I have no idea what you guys are talking about. The nighttime is amazing.

I played a bit on console, and night was just daytime but with more hordes to avoid. Here on the PC, nighttime is terror fuel central, where 7+ hordes patrol every road, your minimap becomes useless, every building becomes a deathtrap outside of the larger ones, and you can't even see. I use nighttime to train up my friends with low combat skills, drive around exploring/doing some surveying of nearby areas, checking my outpost ring, and maybe do some trades. Anything past that and I'll probably die.

One of my psychopath survivors had a quest to "go let out some steam" while she had no weapons. Went with Maya, accidentally fired my gun without a suppressor. 3 hordes in the area heard the sound and swarmed the area. I just ran off and let the survivor die, sorry lady, Maya is more important then you. After that incident, I learned very quickly to never, ever do anything involving zombies at night.

So how does one actually find expert tool users, or whatever for my specialist buildings? I built a workshop, but apparently until I find an "expert", I can't upgrade it to actually fix stuff. Do I just get one through the course of the story, or am I really being forced to randomly survivor hunt for one.

I got to agree on the night part mostly. On the console night was just a purple tint, now it is something that I look forward to ending because holy poo poo is it dangerous to go into buildings when you can;t see a loving thing. If they tweak the lighting properties to make actors stand out a little more when the light is shined on them, I think people would have less trouble with it.

On the Expert: There was a tool expert in one of the first batches of survivors I brought in from another encampment in the very early game. I don't even know who it was, I was just surprised to see all the advanced options open when I went to build shortly after I got back. There may be one in the story that is placed, but the nature of this game makes it sort of hard to tell what is fixed and what isn't unless you are really familiar with the game (I am not particularly)




Dezztroy posted:

Night would be way better if the flashlight pointed to where the camera is looking instead of where the character is looking.

It bugs me a little that I can't see where the light is actually coming from on my guy.

Underwhelmed
Mar 7, 2004


Nap Ghost

I Greyhound posted:

So I cleared my first infestation by forgetting to load my gun, getting mobbed, running the gently caress away. When I loaded the gun and returned, the screamers had despawned or at least ran far enough away to not count, so infestation cleared? :shrug:

I'm enjoying the game, but it's really janky in a lot of ways, movement, trying to stealth kill (still never done one, just shoved a guy in the back of the knee once, but I can't tell if that's me doing something wrong or what), clearing infestation without killing anything. Was it like that on the Xbox, as well?

You hold Left Bumper and then hit Y from behind, it really is easy, so if it isn't working it might be on something going wrong on your approach. You are in stealth mode/crouching right? (hold B) As long as you stay crouched, you should be able to saunter up to pretty much any normal zombie from behind and squash its skull provided another one doesn't spot you and start charging.

Underwhelmed
Mar 7, 2004


Nap Ghost

Doltos posted:

I'm playing through this for the first time and holy hell this game is incredible. So much fun.

How do you swap out a tired survivor if there's no one in the camp to swap with? Can I just make my survivor go to sleep?

Starting with a random chump, getting dropped in the middle of nowhere with jack poo poo for gear, and then having to walk a couple miles to even find a loving car to drive to an outpost before you even have the chance to begin making friends, all the while eating trucker pills, chugging coffee, and chewing through methadone like it is candy is what this game is all about.


Tommofork posted:

The game is really drat fun, especially when things are going horribly wrong, but I was really disappointed with Lifeline. I'm hoping they introduce a breakdown mode where you bounce between the two maps.

I would probably pay for it. I probably should expect it to be included with Lifeline, but these guys made a great game and I have no qualms about throwing money at them.

Underwhelmed
Mar 7, 2004


Nap Ghost

bitcoin bastard posted:

If they can get this down to $20 on Steam, and the visuals really are better, I'll buy it.

I'm going to buy it because I am impulsive and bad with money. Also I have about 3 games on my XBone that I actually play and I need to do something to keep small animals from nesting inside of it.

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