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Man, I'm on Chapter 3 at the moment and I just skimmed through some guy's speedrun of it out of curiosity. Realized I have not been nearly ballsy enough with this game and I also learned I could double-jump? He made crossing streams look so easy with it (not to be confused with crossing the streams, which would be bad). I just got to the weather station and I wish I had taken my trike with me because I apparently gave up super easily on it when I saw the rough terrain surrounding the river.
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It's not the water itself that made me leave the trike behind, it was the shoreline I was on that had what seemed at the time to be impassable rock. There was a narrow path through the rock that I missed.
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Apr 17, 2020 17:09
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Can you drive to every facility in the game, assuming you find the route? It just might be the long way around?
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Apr 17, 2020 20:33
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DalaranJ posted:The game engine procedurally flattens paths that are more popular. Wow, actually flattens? I thought it'd just convert grass into dirt and maybe downsize or remove some rocks.
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Apr 17, 2020 20:47
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Are there any suggestions as to how I can enjoy BT sections/areas more? I avoid or delay doing anything to do with BTs as much as I can because each one is such a slog. I was gaining confidence in my ability to read the odradek and treat the areas like invisible obstacle courses I could run through but now it seems like there's BTs that move around? So it's killed the tempo again.
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Apr 20, 2020 21:11
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rabidsquid posted:its actually pretty easy to just deliberately get caught and then clear the area, although i feel like that also took a lot of tension out of the game. just make sure you have a lethal assault rifle or two and some grenades in your truck and stop outside the BT area, then go in and wait for the catcher and get caught and clear it. Clear it permanently?
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Apr 20, 2020 21:52
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When you are given the nuke to deliver to South Knot are you able to go directly to the tar lake and throw it in without stopping at the distro centre to meet Fragile? Also, the game turns into a WW1 shooter out of nowhere? Oh, Kojima.
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Apr 27, 2020 02:14
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:"Give me back my BB" will be seared into your head before it's all said and done Speaking of BB, is it a speed freak / adrenaline junkie? I get likes most reliably and frequently when I'm going top speed on a trike or doing double jumps or on a zip line.
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Apr 30, 2020 04:50
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Man, that first hike up the mountain sure is something. Pretty disappointed I couldn't hook the Mountain Knot facility up to the network so I could start setting up some ziplines back down but on the way I picked up some lost cargo for the Robotocist. Hooked her up and then built some zip lines to the Weather Station at least. Now to connect the doctor hopefully. Not sure if I want to connect them first and circumvent Mountain Knot or go get a certain someone and bring them. I assume that's going to trigger a chapter end story event. Also, I feel like it was a missed opportunity that I didn't bring any floating carriers with me. Probably could have done some slick hoverboarding down a few slopes.
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May 1, 2020 15:13
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Love watching these serious cutscenes with Norman Reedus in a baseball cap and lime green sunglasses. Also, kudos to me, I used the Pythagorean Theorem to calculate the hypotenuse for figuring out if two ziplines were close enough to each other to connect. Haven't touched that equation in many years!
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May 2, 2020 03:06
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Yeah and with your rangefinder you know what you're committing to with each piece of equipment you put down.
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May 2, 2020 06:06
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CJacobs posted:At first I was a bit annoyed that the map doesn't show you the distance from Sam to whatever object you are hovering over, especially while building zip lines... And then I realized I could just use the rangefinder on the binoculars and look at the spot for the next one with my own eyes to see how far away it was and I was like That is what the map shows. My issue was that you can't plot the distance between two points that aren't Sam. skooma512 posted:Wandering the trenches of the Western Front in a baseball cap, sunglasses at night, glowing future poo poo all over me, a tower of boxes on my back, a baby in a jar, all while chugging Monster Energy Drink. Love that one of the upgrades you get from the Doctor - a doctor - is the Monster Energy Drink canteen.
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May 2, 2020 13:42
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If it were some made up drink it wouldn't be as weird.
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May 2, 2020 18:39
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When my backpack cover is nearly destroyed, what am I supposed to do to repair it? It says in the private room that any attachments to the cover will be lost if I switch out for a new one and I thought I had removed the attachments but nope, all gone. So what is process here?
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May 3, 2020 06:11
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I know the game likes to have its chapters named after characters but this one really should have been called I want My BB Back, BB Back, BB Back, BB Back, Higgs. Edit: how many of these WW1 battlefields are there? Seriously turning me off the game. Lobok fucked around with this message at 15:05 on May 3, 2020 |
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May 3, 2020 13:48
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Midjack posted:There are three Nightmares of War. Cool, thank you. Figured as much anyway after the second one (which is WW2 yes, of course!) and the name of one of the later chapters.
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May 3, 2020 19:23
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Tormented posted:Good deal on Death Standing for PC. The reviews I saw/heard back around release ended up sounding super whiny about the early game and kind of ignorant once I played it myself. I mostly and really enjoyed the actual gameplay but there were parts of the entire experience I wasn't fond of. I'm no Kojima devotee so I knew going in that it was going to grate on me at points. I'm trying to be super vague here but no matter what I am glad I played it, though it is a tough game to recommend to someone else.
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I'm glad I did. Evo Devo wasn't covered by a zip line because I stupidly brought PCC 1s with me but I had a pretty comprehensive network covering what was west, south, and east of Edgar Wright. And the roads went from Mama to Lake Knot. Made a lot of story missions easy.
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May 8, 2020 11:52
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Timefall resistance uses chiralium as a resource, right? All the best resistance stuff is gold because of it. So I'm guessing the answer would be that it's not plentiful or easy enough to make everything out of it. For clothes the only people really are Sam and Higgs because nobody else is really spending any time out in timefall. Could assume that the clothes are replaced but we just don't see it, assuming the stars on his thigh are reproduced.
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May 12, 2020 18:53
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untzthatshit posted:The Chiral Artist gives you Chiral Boots as reward for some deliveries and the description mentions something about chiralium poisoning if they're worn for too long. It also mentions that some people are naturally resistant to chiralium poisoning (I'm guessing that's people with DOOMS). Oh yeah, you're right. Forgot about the poisoning. No, those boots don't have any effect that I noticed.
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May 12, 2020 19:36
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Freaking Crumbum posted:nah, they wanted her to have big perky boobs and a tight butt in her leather catsuit and that wouldn't have made sense if she was completely nude for the timefall bath Once that last fight was over I thought about the whole game and I was like "did I just play a weird take on Link's Awakening?" -the big ol' whale -beach/beaches -imaginary people -player's quest bringing about the end of the world Also, the remake came out last year. Lobok fucked around with this message at 20:46 on May 12, 2020 |
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May 12, 2020 20:31
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WaltherFeng posted:The barriers surrounding knot cities are actually air pressure walls. Like when you accidentally try to motorcycle through one at top speed.
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May 14, 2020 19:41
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GreenBuckanneer posted:HOLY poo poo On second thought, if the name hadn't been taken I suppose Sam could also have been named Link! And if I'm gonna really reach for similarities both have clear references to Mario games.
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May 29, 2020 14:35
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Intel&Sebastian posted:I mean you can sort of have that if you just speedrun the story mode and then do everything else afterwards. Yeah I think it could have introduced the exoskeletons and hover carriers first.
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Jun 10, 2020 17:48
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Blind Rasputin posted:How would you even get that done? Just walk around putting signs up at every distro center exit? You would need to complete deliveries to be able to leave the starting region so it certainly couldn't be even most distro centres or facilities.
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That whole rift area near the Collector and in the MULE camp is very inviting for trike jumps but very poor for actually making them. So many little bumps and rocks and uneven terrain that ruin your angle and speed. Went around or used bridges after falling in on two separate occasions.
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Stoatbringer posted:I did that with the BT that Higgs throws at you when you transport Mama. When it appeared she said "Run, Sam!" so I took that as a big Game Hint and just kept running and climbing up the hill, and it eventually disappeared. It just seems so odd that the game provides such a huge variety of weapons, most of which are pretty much useless in a fight. I didn't take the hint so I stuck around to fight it. Interesting thing about that fight is that you can go back inside the facility. Not only does it provide protection from the BT but you can use the terminal during the fight so I crafted myself enough grenades and weapons to take it down. I think I had to recycle some stuff down into crystals to have enough for all the crafting. But of course by killing it I ended up with way more crystals when all was said and done.
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I never built it so how does that road work in practice that goes through terrorist territory to get to Distribution Center North of Mountain Knot City? Never had a problem driving vehicles on roads through MULE camps but the terrorists are more hardcore and because of the trees it doesn't seem like there's much room for the road to rise above the ground for some protection.
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Zonko_T.M. posted:Absolutely! I can't imagine trying to get a truck from South Knot to Mountain Knot without the road and having it survive the journey, and those big timed trips were the only way I got enough points to level up my Time stat. I meant the northern stretch of road, yeah. Wouldn't have guessed that would be the route. Looks like it only goes through a sliver of the terrorist camp. Ending up finding an image of it, though weirdly a complete road map is not the easiest thing to find.  The one through the marsh I didn't need or want. I really didn't bother with roads in the mountain region other than the sections immediately outside the distro centres, which were convenient and an easy source of lots of Likes. For getting around I used zip lines. But I also didn't care about five-starring everybody or going for the platinum. Also, I just learned that when the game first came out you couldn't dismantle vehicles and the only reason it was added was because players were griefing others by leaving vehicles as blockages in front of entrances and narrow paths, lol Lobok fucked around with this message at 20:51 on Jun 23, 2020 |
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There are people playing it but as often happens sometimes the discussion stays in the PS4 chat thread instead of the dedicated thread.
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v1ld posted:Came here to ask if it's better to play this when the online is very active and it sounds like yes is the answer. There's a minimum level of activity you want but I think there's a point at which it doesn't matter how many more people are playing. Your game isn't connected to everybody, just a slice of the player base, and not everything is 100% shared.
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Jul 15, 2020 15:55
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edgar_ posted:I keep thinking about this question as I play through this game for the first time. I read this piece a few days ago and can’t stop thinking about it. Nothing to add besides quotes that struck me We should expect some more familiar landscapes than we got but I was assuming that between the void outs and the timefall that there's not much left that would be recognizable beyond major geographic features.
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Pierson posted:So is there ever a reason NOT to be rocking a skeleton once you unlock them? In exchange for losing two S slots on your suit you gain a huge speed boost or an extra 100-200kg of carrying weight. Never was without a skeleton unless forced to be once I earned my first one.
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Jul 16, 2020 14:08
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Jolo posted:I think it's pretty difficult to showcase the satisfying thinking that is going on in the player's head while navigating a snowy mountain with a bunch of crap on their back. On the flipside, watching someone navigate the Tanker in MGS2 is immediately engaging and you can more clearly see the decisions being made and how they play out. This is a good point. Every footstep can be important sometimes but to watch a good player without knowing the mechanics of the game it will just look like them going from point A to B like in any other game. And to watch a bad player could make the game look like unfun bullshit (I suppose it could make Sam look drunk which might be fun, though).
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Frog Act posted:So do I have to take materials from hubs to build things with my PCC? I just unlocked the bridge and it requires 800 metal, do I need to carry that metal with me or will the bridge be built as long as I’m in the network of an area with those resources? Materials need to be brought to any structure you want to build.
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Frog Act posted:Hm, so things like bridges are probably going to be a bit out of my building wheelhouse for now since all I have is a backpack and my legs? Guess I need to figure out how to get a battery for this bike If you build a generator next to the bike it will be charged. You can then leave the generator there for the future or dismantle it but you don't get materials back for dismantling. 800 Metal isn't too heavy but as you level up you get more carrying capacity to make it easier. Also, the way in which the materials are broken down into different container sizes matters. The same amount of materials (or very similar amounts) can be done as a combination of S, M, L, and XL containers which can be carried on different parts of Sam's body to better manage weight distribution.
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Pirate Jet posted:Any tips on dealing with MULEs? I never know what to do other than pack a fully-loaded bola gun which I almost always wind up using all of, and I can never get the timing on the counter-scan jam... thingy right. The timing on that is tough, it's not just you. There's a Film Director who can provide something that helps you out for avoiding encounters entirely. For combat it's good to know how to take them down without guns or other weapons. As the MULEs get better tech that will get trickier but early on you can melee a lot of them without too much interruption. If there are any destroyed or low-value packages you have or see lying around, swinging those will take MULEs down fast. And you can make use of the slow-mo when you KO them to grab another package out of mid-air and keep fighting. The parry timing when using the strand is also pretty generous so that's always an option. And don't forget about your shoulder charge, which breaks an enemy's guard. Camps often have other Bola guns around somewhere so you can use those to save ammo on your main gun or if you run out.
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Macaluso posted:It's hard to really describe why it never felt boring to me. You literally are just walking from point A to point B, across big open fields and mountains, keeping your balance (which isn't super hard to do really) and occasionally running into BTs or Mules. But most of the game is just straight up walking long distances or trudging through snow. But it never feels boring outside of, for me, the Mules/terrorist encounters. I think a better term is hiking. Like is it fun to walk the same sidewalks of your neighbourhood everyday? This isn't that. It's hiking and climbing and exploring in beautiful, rugged, unfamiliar terrain. Much easier to understand the appeal of hiking.
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