Mark Darrah @biomarkdarrah One more weird one to try if you are getting stuck on start: * Go into the settings (Triangle on PS4, Y on Xbox) * Leave Settings * Try starting now.
So I had a couple of freezes that never ended and also twice my sound cut out completely. Other than that, flying is crazy, but I think I'm getting used to it. Finished the story missions, now time to freeplay.
After the mess with the Stronghold I thought maybe go freeplay instead, that work pretty well last weekend (apart from sometimes not getting xp). But no, this time it's disappearing mobs and world events that don't resolve, so again no drops.
Freeplay ruined the last sherds of good impressions I had after Mathias' mission. I played for an hour, even easy mode is obviously set for 4 people in mind, and I wanted to be on my own. I decided to get out and get my rewards, maybe unlock storm. But no, no matter how long I held F the game refused to get me out. So I quit and decided to try one more time. I went into my javelin and a couple of seconds into the loading screen the servers threw me out. I'M DONE.
I still liked the flying and fighting, but what's the point if I can't get anything in return and the sheer amount of scars thrown at me is so ridiculous, I fly right away, since I don't stand a chance.
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Tried some free play. Killed some things. Looted some things. Went back to Fort Tarsis...
Wait.
No, I didn't. I held the "F to End Free Play" button, progress bar filled... nothing. Tried again. Nothing. Wow.
Went back to the point where I started. But the "door" there is just window dressing.
There was no way out.
Alt-F4.
Loot gone, XP gone.
Back to games that actually work.
I ran into this problem during last week's demo as well.
I noticed though that if I restarted the game, went back into Freeplay, and was able to exit it properly, all my loot from the previous (failed) Freeplay session(s) showed up.
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Another thing. World events seem to have an action radius. If you are too far away, the game will not acknowledge you completed the event even if you do.
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Never lose loot? Maybe that system works if you can reconnect to the game session you were in. If not, the loot is lost (at least in the demo build). Does not matter if Freeplay or Stronghold. Happened once today, and three or four times last weekend.
Never lose loot? Maybe that system works if you can reconnect to the game session you were in. If not, the loot is lost (at least in the demo build). Does not matter if Freeplay or Stronghold. Happened once today, and three or four times last weekend.
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Server shut on me today during freeplay, I got back to Tarsis, entered freeplay again, exited right away and loot was there.
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Managed to play a stronghold with friend, was fine. Went in to free play, there was an event with yellow arrow on map before loading so went right for it, convergence I think it said, both of us kicked to where you start when you have to walk to your jav. Invited her again, convergence still there, loaded it up, got in there, it was gone. Went in to the well, killed the mobs, kicked back to where you start when you load in. I do hope they get it right for release.
Today I did all three missions and the stronghold with a friend that played for the first time. Tried out the Storm after choosing Interceptor last week and liked it. Playing with an actual friend mde the game more fun.
I'm still not planning on buying the game, because I feel it will be too grindy and so far the world doesn't really interest me. If reviews from press and players indicate that the story is actually good and the game not slow paced when it comes to progressing, I might try it. I don't think it will happpen, since the game looks very much designed to please loot addicts and not lore/story addicts.
What would really pull my interest is when the world would be filled with Chiliad Mystery-like easter eggs. Or those mysteries they do in Fortnite. The Destiny puzzle that lead players to a real life location. That kind of stuff. Ready Player One style.