I may honestly check it out. Watched some gameplay vids last night and it looked like a blast. I’m especially intrigued by friendly fire always being on, as that was such fun gameplay addition but this is entirely baked into the experience
I’m definitely glad one of the call outs is, “I’m sorry”
I was about to throw orbital strike buoy and my teammate accidentally melee striked me causing me to drop it. Was confused since I didn’t even know that was a thing and as we were figuring out the orbital strike blew us to hell. And that’s how I got the AAAAaaah! achievement.
Fun times.
Fucking sick
Y’know, I distinctly remember the friendly fire being the thing I didn’t like about the first one. It was initially very “Oh haha you killed me!” but then something kept you from getting to play again for a long time, and so it was hard to just shrug it off. I’m assuming it’s something somewhat different now.
It’s not as bad as the first one. Some weapons and stratagems are more prone to it (looking at you airburst radius that always seems too big) but since there’s more of a height component you aren’t constantly getting shot by teammates. and because you aren’t confined to the same small area there’s less of a chance of stratagem strikes and hellbombs killing everyone.
There is a bit of a learning curve in terms of knowing the radius of certain stratagems and backblasts and arc range of some of the weapons, but once you get past that friendly fire incidents are much lower. That being said, if you run into someone else’s line of fire you are partially to blame as well.
From the vids I saw, a lot of it is early hijinks at first. Then when shit starts hitting the fan constant communication necessary so you don’t accidentally merc your homies
You won’t be disappointed, it’s a great game.
I never recommend games but this bg3 and outerwilds are my favourites
With all the talk I may have to break down and give it a try. Haven’t done an online shooter since medal of honor allied assault lol.
You won’t regret it. I’ve gotten so much fun out of this game so far.
You sold it to me!
Its fun! Running, explosions, bugs to squash…
Ragdoll hilarity every game too. Great fun.
Just bought it on PS5 last night… Playing Solo is VERY hard, at least at the start, as you get overrun by bugs/bots easily.
Today, playing online, a young Spanish kid was on the team who didn’t know English and kept talking on the mic and killing us (his teammates) and then laughing hysterically.
I then killed him and one of our team mates revived him for some reason.
After he came back he tried to hunt me down, but I killed him again, and then no one revived him and he left the game and then blocked me, lol
For democracy!
But did it really earned that much money, considering that Arrowhead was working on this game for nine years ?
8,000,000 x 40 is 320,000,000. So they’ve made a few bucks.
A lot of the cost in purchasing a game goes to the publishers not the developers though
I’m still sure the devs got a couple bucks. At least a pizza party.
Pizza party attendance is mandatory and fun will be dealt out democratically
Let’s hope Sony treats them well, it’s a huge success in their growing PC push.
The game really looks fantastic. I watched 2 minutes of it and got motion sick 🥲
You can disable camera shaking and some post process features such as motion blur, then it’s no different from any other shooter game in terms of motion patterns.
Compression and motion blur is not a good combo. I’m sure it would be way better if you played it yourself
I think it’s one of those games it’s absolutely designed for an HDR display and I just don’t have one so it kind of looks murky. It’s a good game but I wouldn’t say the graphics are particularly phenomenal, although the explosions look good.
How fun is this game without a friend group that also plays it? I’ve seen some clips, but most of the fun seems to lie in squad based gameplay.
It’s fun as a pickup with randos or playing with friends. As long as people try to talk that is
That’s about what I figured. I’m not that great with strangers, and English is my second language. I’ve tried other squad based games that rely on voice comms to be enjoyable, and I only really enjoy them when playing with a group of people I’m comfortable with.
You would be surprised how much you can communicate by just pinging stuff. I’ve had many missions with randos where a single word wasn’t spoken, but we were all actively pinging high priority targets and putting markers on the map for our intentions.
It’s really easy to have people join your game, or for you to join others. Also, it’s not terrible playing solo either. I’m really enjoying it both ways. Feel free to add me on steam (same name) if you’re on PC, or if on PS5 DM me and I can send you a friend invite if you want to team up and spread some democracy.
It’s playable but I wouldn’t recommend it, essentially not with the issue of toxic meta gamers vs casuals.
I have yet to encounter any toxicity, but I’m sure it’s out there somewhere. For reference, I’m lvl 40.
So this is sci-fi, not mythologic?
