Current Events > ITT: I play Days Gone (ongoing spoilers)

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gna647 posted...

bad zombie game

play resident evil 2 remake instead

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Alright, I did some quests and saw O'Brian is turning into a freakish albino mutant (???) or something. He really jumped to get into that helicopter on egress, so things ain't looking too good for the NEROs. Surprised they even let him out in the field.......although seeing the type of things NERO's been studying in the field, maybe I shouldn't be.

Also killed another horde in some cave. It was a little one, so I just used a few molotovs and Chicago Chopper to cut 'em down. Should try out some of these MGs instead of snipers to see how fun they are.

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Liked the game more than I thought I would.

I also found fighting the hordes more fun than I thought I would too. (Though the first horde I found got glitched out of existence when they entered a four foot radius around me, and the game counted that as a win for me)

Apparently it's not getting a sequel, so that sucks.

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Yeah the final twist is amazing. I hope they change their minds.

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Beat a horde on some railroad tracks earlier by just massacring them with a machine gun. Damn fine bottleneck, that. That said, constantly having to scrape together jank for napalm 'tovs is kinda annoying, so I've been making do with attractors + regular molotovs + pipe bombs. Also unlocked a few more missions (apparently from fighting hordes?) to finish some questlines, though the resolutions aren't always that developed. Lisa goes to Lost Lake and hangs out? Maybe?

As for the sequel news, it'd be kinda cool to see another one, provided they iron out the kinks. It falls prey to "open-world fetch quest" syndrome, where 90% of the missions are kinda lame and the MC is constantly talking to himself since there's no one else around. I also got a good laugh at how MC can't swim more than three feet without drowning, especially in the last mission, where he went all the way to Wizard Island...in the water! (And don't tell me used those logs either. I won't accept it.)

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getting really frustratig to think a gun battle is over only to have animals spawn in from nowhere and carry on harassing you.

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Yeah, I literally got ambushed by SEVEN runners the other day while doing a marauder camp. Just crazy how these randoms spawn into the area. Giving me old-school RDR cougar vibes.

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Hmmmm, I think I did everything with this game that I'm gonna do. Doing some random hordes isn't that interesting to me. Let's do a farewell pic dump.







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im keen to fuck skizzo up. bitch gonna die.

iron mike i want to punch in the face too. too soft for his own good.

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Wow, I wish I'd used those motorcycle saddlebag ammo refills earlier. You can get 'em for a flat 400 credits (per use?) and it's often cheaper than spending 800 on individual refills. Hell, my Chicago Chopper with all its upgrades and ammo perks takes 600+ to refill on its own, and that's without factoring in more expensive stuff, like MG ammo.

Anyway, now that I'm confortable enough with horde stuff, I might just clear the rest out of idleness.

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Wow, just saw a wolf solo a cougar. Not even a mutated wolf or anything!

EDIT: Actually, the cougar won...and then I hit it with an axe...so...a winner is me.

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Hey little thing, let me light your candle
'Cause, Freaky, I'm sure horde to handle now, gets around





Looks like I've taken out about half the hordes so far. Lots of gigantic ones in the south, but as mentioned, guerilla tactics seem to work pretty well. After awhile, they give up the chance and trudge back to their stanky caves, giving some opportunities to kill more easily. It's a shame that that impassable mine cabin up here didn't do anything useful, though -- the zombies stood on the roof instead of walking by the window. =(

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One thing that was annoying is if you so much as breathe on a tripwire you go flying off your bike and it takes a ton of damage. Only happened a couple of times but ugh.

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You mean the clothesline traps marauders set up? Or those little tiny ones tied to cans? Never ran over the latter, but the former can be vicious, unseating you and taking all the health off your ride, too. Don't think I've ever hit one that DIDN'T completely wreck it, in fact.

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The first one. If you slow down and barely touch it you still go flying.

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Oh! Congrats on completing the game, I missed checking the topic yesterday.

That twist with O'Brian is why I'm really hoping they do a sequel. There's a lot they can do with Nero as the big bads. Especially since they made their soldiers basically unkillable in this game.

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Shotgunnova posted...

Wow, I wish I'd used those motorcycle saddlebag ammo refills earlier. You can get 'em for a flat 400 credits (per use?) and it's often cheaper than spending 800 on individual refills.

Shoot, I wish Id remembered to tell you that lol >_> its a useful hint


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I was thinking the opposite -- making NERO the anti/heroes for civilization, even though they did some dickish stuff early on, like leaving refugees to die (admittedly, they didn't have enough choppers, but could've warned them at least) and sequestering themselves somewhere. Honestly, I thought we'd find a NERO base up in the mountains at some point, but it never came to pass.

Still, not really sure how NERO could be seen as a friendly group... Maybe if the sequel had a splinter faction working with Deacon. It'd be kinda cool to exit areas in a chopper, though, just like in MGSV!

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Okay, I did enough hordes to unlock all the weapons and mag upgrades. Probably gonna call it quits here for real this time -- no NG+ or anything. It's been fun, y'alls.



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Shotgunnova posted...

Lots of gigantic ones in the south

the northern hordes were intimidating at the start. now they are almost cute with camp 5 weapons. the red horde bar empties so quick.

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It's been kinda annoying trying to find stuff for napalm molotovs -- those are the best damn things for hordes if you can approach quietly, use an attractor, then melt 'em. Chemult College had a lot of gunpowder in it, though, so that was helpful. I think I found four Gunpowders and many Growlers for the task.

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The best horde experiences I had were the ones I started fighting by accident

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I did a horde by accident at a gas station a few days ago, but it didn't register as completing it. That's the first attempt where I realized I wasn't safe just because freaks can't climb ladders (they climb up a certain part of a wall instead). Ended up having to do that place over -- in full! -- again and finally got it. Killing freaks as they scale to the roof actually made things ten times easier.

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Shotgunnova posted...

That's the first attempt where I realized I wasn't safe just because freaks can't climb ladders (they climb up a certain part of a wall instead).

For one of the mission hordes I got glitchy-stuck on the outside of a window frame on a building and just slowly picked them off for like an hour lol

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Shotgunnova posted...

I did a horde by accident at a gas station a few days ago, but it didn't register as completing it. That's the first attempt where I realized I wasn't safe just because freaks can't climb ladders (they climb up a certain part of a wall instead). Ended up having to do that place over -- in full! -- again and finally got it. Killing freaks as they scale to the roof actually made things ten times easier.

Sometimes you have to track a few stragglers down. That happened to me once or twice and it was annoying.

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I looked for stragglers and couldn't find any, so I just gave up. Usually you can find some growling or something, but hordes can scatter with enough time, so I guess that's what happened.

Shablagoo posted...

For one of the mission hordes I got glitchy-stuck on the outside of a window frame on a building and just slowly picked them off for like an hour lol

I've only seen them glitch out a little at that one gas station, where they couldn't properly climb from this pit onto the highway. Molotov fodder!

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Shotgunnova posted...

I did a horde by accident at a gas station a few days ago, but it didn't register as completing it. That's the first attempt where I realized I wasn't safe just because freaks can't climb ladders (they climb up a certain part of a wall instead). Ended up having to do that place over -- in full! -- again and finally got it. Killing freaks as they scale to the roof actually made things ten times easier.

Iirc I had trouble with that horde.

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Could be. The horde was in the southernmost area, I believe, and that's about when I started noticing all the weird glitches happening.

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Hmm, I still kinda want to play this game for some reason, even though I have a big backlog. Maybe I'll christen my new laptop by doing a DG game script or something. Mandatory missions should appear with yellow icons, right?

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Maybe try the arcade mode? I've heard it's pretty fun, and you can play as the other characters.

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Is that the survival DLC?

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Nah it's the challenges tab in the main menu. I think survival is just a difficulty mode.

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Ahh, I see it now. Doesn't look like it's part of the main game, though, so I'm not too interested.

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I might get it on pc. I bet it looks amazing.

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Now that I'm replaying, one thing I hated then and hate even more now is the mission naming scheme. They're just phrases from dialogue, and considering the dialogue isn't that great, most missions have stupid names. Literally a mission named "I Tried to Hit That Once" and "I'm Good With That" and "Where's My Damn Rings?". Lazy as hell. Some end up okay, like "Shadow of Death" or "Nice and Bloody," but then there's crap like "About Boozer's Arm" or "Trying to Help the Camp". Fire whoever thought up that trash.

fan357 posted...

I might get it on pc. I bet it looks amazing.

Yeah, it'd probably look great on PC.

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Yeah the game has some strange issues that arent even really issues. The mission titles like you said are lazy. Also when Deacon is talking on the bike he often SCREAMS his dialogue and everyone else speaks normally. Also sometimes Deacon withholds important information from other characters and then tells them later for no reason.

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Oh yeah, the loud-ass Deacon yelling. I figured it was because, on a motorcycle, it'd be hard to hear over the engine and crappy muffler, but players don't really get a lot of that, so it just ends up being an ALL-CAPS moment out of nowhere. Don't remember too many info-withholding parts, though. I think there was one I remembered about halfway through the game, but forgot it again. Pretty sure he blabbed about O'Brian pretty quickly to his friends...

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The most egregious one I can remember is Obrian telling Deacon only classified people would have been evacuated. Deacon freaks out and leaves. Several missions later Deacon remembers that she was very high ranking in her field. He calls Obrian again to tell him this. Feels like there was a disconnect somewhere.

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Oh yeah, maybe that's what I was thinking about. He knew she worked at Cloverfield and could've survived because of her background, but it took him forever to work it out in his biker brain.

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I wonder if they were planning on recording Deacons dialogue twice depending on how fast you were riding like in Spider-Man. They probably ran out of time/money.

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It's a damn shame that the sequel got nipped in the bud. Sure, Days Gone was a little rough around the edges, but it showed a helluva lot of potential.

I like the way he says good after he fills his tank

2019 GOTY......come at me!
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ive finally gotten all camps to level 3.

missed a few IPCA techs so i cant build the stun gun

its going to be a massive annoyance to revisit every dam site again

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got the taser. its shit but its done.

been plowing through hordes with chicago chopper and mg55. dont even need grenades or napalm farming.

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Is the taser infinite ammo or something? I got it, but I think I'm missing a few IPCA techs, too.

Godshammer666 posted...

I like the way he says good after he fills his tank

He should've had a separate line for when he pumps gas into BB's tank. "Sorry, little fella" would've done.

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Oh TC. I meant to ask, how did you like the quest "Just Doing My Job"? It was the one where you have to rescue Captain Kouri's friend from a mine full of marauders.

The sudden horde at the end of that mission nearly killed me. But I loved that they did that. It was unexpected.

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I enjoyed that mission, but died to the sudden horde when it dropped in. I had that perk that lets you see enemies in your spirit vision (or whatever it's called), so I had no one to blame but myself. Speaking of which, though, the spirit vision usage really seems to be a letdown most of the time. If a sequel ever comes around, I'd hope they leave off the Witcher/Arkham-style tracking nonsense and make spirit vision better instead.

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ive cleared all the hordes, infestations and camps. it became real easy once you unlock the mg55 to gowith the chicago chopper or idpup.

tried a new game plus for the new sniper rifle, its not that great. eas a pretty good game, but i wont be playing the whole game again.

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