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Post by AnDromedary on Feb 13, 2023 23:22:37 GMT
If you have an amazon prime subscription and don't have a problem registering yourself on the Square Enix website, you can get a really ugly cloak at the moment :
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Post by DragonKingReborn on Feb 15, 2023 19:52:46 GMT
Oh god. My eyes... What the hell are they thinking with these 'special' items..? Why would anyone want this? The pre-order stuff looked awful, as well.
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Post by sjsharp2010 on Mar 30, 2023 17:49:29 GMT
Well the reviews were having me lean away from trying this, but I might give it a shot next month. I actually finally got a PS5, so it’s a good time. I’m not sure I trust my 2080ti to handle it if it’s as poorly optimized as I’m hearing. Well if you have a 2080 you should be fine as m y2070 is handling it fine on medium. I haven't cranked it up t ohigh as ity's running a troughly 50-60 fps on m ymachine whic ha tleas tfor m e gamepla ywise is enoug hI don' tneed super high framerates jus ta fun game.
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Post by sjsharp2010 on Mar 30, 2023 17:53:33 GMT
I haven't played a lot yet (only did the prologue and just left the main city for the first time. My impressions so far: - I like Frey more than I anticipated. When I heard "modern day New Yorker" and heard some snippets of dialogue from the middle of the story in the previews, I was afraid she'd be one of those pseudo-influencer Brooklynites. But it turns out she's a down-on-her-luck squatter/homeless person in Manhattan who is mired in petty crimes and troubles with street gangs. This is perfectly ok and I can sympathize with her attitude much better this way. And yes, she swears a lot and sometimes her modern day attitude is a little too exaggerated to make her stand out in this fantasy land but all in all it's ok. As someone who has lived in NYC for several years now, I don't think she's entirely unbelievable. - Similarly, I was very afraid that her interactions with "cuff", her talking armband would be cringy as hell. and yes, they are cringy sometimes but here as well, I gotta say, they are far less annoying than expected and I do find myself smiling at some of their snarky banter. - While I am sold on those two major characters, the setting is nothing to write home about, I can already tell. I just don't like settings with one central city for all the NPCs and just monster infested wastelands everywhere else. It isn't believable that an isolated city like that could even sustain itself at all and it's also just boring world design. I hated the concept in Anthem and I don't like it here either. - Gameplay is fun so far, though I am not sure it'll be varied enough for this large open world with all it's collectibles and such. Looking at the skill tree, I don't see much variety coming in over time either. I think I may just follow the story at some point if it gets too boring. But we'll see, for now, it's fun and flows well. - Where the game really falls apart a bit is in its tech aspects and visuals. Don't get me wrong, the world looks nice over all and the designs are cool enough but from a purely technical view, it's not exactly overkill. I mean, I have seen graphics like that for quite a few years now in games that run with 60-100FPS on my hardware. Meanwhile Forspoken averages at 51 FPS with some dips into the frigging 30s on 1080p with settings on medium to high and no raytracing with my RTX2070. That's just bad optimization. Even worse, something seems to be wrong with the LoD streaming in some cases because some of the textures in game look like they are out of the 90s. The "Family picture" texture has already become infamous on the internet and it's not the only one, I had a floor, where I honestly couldn't tell if it was supposed to be wood or mud. Apparently higher quality textures do exist in the PS5 version but for whatever reason, they are not loaded in the PC version. Not sure if this is a simple bug or a feeble attempt by the devs to keep performance on some sort of acceptable level. In any case, optimization on PC is non-existent and I am really hoping for an eventual patch for those textures at least. So yeah, all in all, I did go in with a healthy does of skepticism but I my first impressions of the actual content are pretty positive. If you are thinking about playing on PC however, I recommend you wait for a patch to fix the worst of the performance and visual issues ... if it will come.
P.S.: Oh yea, forgot to mention, I had to laugh out loud when I equipped the preorder gear for the first time. Who designed this shit? Razer? Yeah whilst it's a nice lookin g cloak i tlook oyt of plac econsidering th eworld Frey is in. Whilst it does give a nice stats boost I kind o fstopped using it because of how ou tof place i tlooks.
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Post by sjsharp2010 on Mar 30, 2023 18:06:29 GMT
We’re going on a Tanta hunt Newly accessed area using Photo Mode to up contrast, colour saturation etc Same area with unfiltered/enhanced ‘gameplay’ visuals (slightly different spot, though) New area has new enemies, although like most of the games monsters, they are no threat individually or in pairs. The danger is in numbers. So Frey noped out hard when she emerged from a Refuge to see a scene ripped straight from the early nightmare fuel of The Walking Dead. Dozens of Break Zombies milling around along the path she needed to take. Did another Labyrinth with a new cloak as the reward and farmed plenty of Mana. I’ve nearly acquired all of the Purple magic spells. It prompted me to Google how/when other magics are acquired. Turns out it is tied to story advancement, with apparently one of the best spells - according to the article writer - not opening up until the main story is finished. Which isn’t ideal, and certainly not how I prefer to play, but it seems like the devs want the player to more or less focus on the story, and do the ‘open worlding’ afterwards, with all spells unlocked or available. Bit of a bummer, but it is what it is.Yeah it seems lik eit's been designed in such a way that it wants you t obeelin ethe story an dd othe side stuff afte r yo ucompletre the main story as I've noticed ther aer a fwe marked items on the map but can' tge tto them because there's a big unclimable wall in the way and such. Bad gam edesign I'll admit but if I have to wai tunti lI ge tthe requiresd spells or skills t oge tt owhere I want then so b eit. Bu tfor an openworld gam eatm I'm finding i tsomewha tlinea r at least up t oChapte r4 anyway whic his where I am atm.
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Post by sjsharp2010 on Mar 31, 2023 23:49:48 GMT
In the even tanyone is stil l intersted Forspoken's DLC "In Tanta we Trust" will be available on May 26th. Souns dlike it has an interesting premise involving time travel in that Frey teams up with one of the Tanta's to try to prevent the Break we expreience in the main game from happening in the firs tplace. Wil lprobabl ywait till I' mread yt orepla ythe gam ebefoer I pla yit given it's likely I'l lb efinished wit hthe game befoe ri tdrops given I'v ejus tstarted in Chapte r5 so approaching the midwa ypoint as I heard i thas 12 chapters
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Don eit comkpleted the game. Must admit interesting twist in that your companion cuff being the big bad
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Post by dazk on Apr 15, 2023 1:18:05 GMT
sjsharp2010 can you spoiler the reveal above I have been keeping up with this thread but not reading most of it butgiven the short nature of your post I couldn't help but read it. Other may not want to know that info.
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Post by sjsharp2010 on Apr 15, 2023 1:19:41 GMT
I've now put in about 7-8 hours of post story open worlding. I finally got the Float ability!!! Finding the Fount was a pain, but it is worth it. Frey actually grins like an idiot when you use it, although it drains her stamina pretty quickly. It seems that an unusually high percentage of people are actually completing the game. Nearly 18% have the achievement for finishing the final battle, which is more than I would have thought, although that could be a symptom of the main story not being a 30+ hour odyssey. Frey and Cuff also have plenty of post-story banter, which is nice. AnDromedary Did you find the store out in the wild? That...was a moment. Nope. I didn't really play anymore since finishing and I already uninstalled it because i needed the SSD space. Yeah I decided t ostop now I've reached theend too. I will probabl ywil lpla yagain late rin th eyea rt oexperienc the DLC and such and I ma yd osome pos tgam eexplorin gthen but like you I need the disk spac efor othe rthings now given how bi gthe gam eis. I'll probabl yd oa ton o f pos tgame exploration and DLC on my next run of it.
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Post by sjsharp2010 on May 2, 2023 14:43:05 GMT
Here's a trailer fror the upcoming DLC being released
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Post by DragonKingReborn on May 5, 2023 0:22:47 GMT
Not much of a trailer...more a gameplay sizzle reel. Still - the 'Tanta of Love' seems like the kind of lady that has 'love' tattooed on her knuckles. I'm guessing it is once burned, twice shy for Square Enix with regards to a trailer that reveals story/dialogue. The voice at the end wasn't Cuff, though...and I didn't recognise who it could be.
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Post by sjsharp2010 on May 5, 2023 2:28:01 GMT
Not much of a trailer...more a gameplay sizzle reel. Still - the 'Tanta of Love' seems like the kind of lady that has 'love' tattooed on her knuckles. I'm guessing it is once burned, twice shy for Square Enix with regards to a trailer that reveals story/dialogue. The voice at the end wasn't Cuff, though...and I didn't recognise who it could be. Putiing m yreply isn spoilers jus tin case It may have been whoever it was who were attacking Athia prior to Frey's arrival that would be my guess as we know that it was an attack tha tcaused the Break. We do know the Tanta of Love is also Frey's mother hence why Frey has these powers and that the dragon was Tanta Cinta all along. We d oknow that Cuff wa sone of them and was turned into his form as punishment. Yeah I think they're only doing the DLC because i twa spromised given it is advertised as par tof the Deluxe vresion o fthe game. I ordered the Deluxe s o wil go in and play it eventualy. I just don' t know when yet.
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Post by DragonKingReborn on May 5, 2023 5:59:26 GMT
Not much of a trailer...more a gameplay sizzle reel. Still - the 'Tanta of Love' seems like the kind of lady that has 'love' tattooed on her knuckles. I'm guessing it is once burned, twice shy for Square Enix with regards to a trailer that reveals story/dialogue. The voice at the end wasn't Cuff, though...and I didn't recognise who it could be. Putiing m yreply isn spoilers jus tin case It may have been whoever it was who were attacking Athia prior to Frey's arrival that would be my guess as we know that it was an attack tha tcaused the Break. We do know the Tanta of Love is also Frey's mother hence why Frey has these powers and that the dragon was Tanta Cinta all along. We d oknow that Cuff wa sone of them and was turned into his form as punishment. Yeah I think they're only doing the DLC because i twa spromised given it is advertised as par tof the Deluxe vresion o fthe game. I ordered the Deluxe s o wil go in and play it eventualy. I just don' t know when yet. You're right, no doubt - they wouldn't release it if they hadn't sold pre-orders based on it. I doubt very much the sales prompted the DLC. Depending on the price point, I'm likely to get it. I really enjoyed it, and look forward to more story content. My comment about Cinta was mostly a joke about her being the Tanta of Love and spending the entire trailer killing fools You're spoilered comment is probably accurate, though.
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Putiing m yreply isn spoilers jus tin case It may have been whoever it was who were attacking Athia prior to Frey's arrival that would be my guess as we know that it was an attack tha tcaused the Break. We do know the Tanta of Love is also Frey's mother hence why Frey has these powers and that the dragon was Tanta Cinta all along. We d oknow that Cuff wa sone of them and was turned into his form as punishment. Yeah I think they're only doing the DLC because i twa spromised given it is advertised as par tof the Deluxe vresion o fthe game. I ordered the Deluxe s o wil go in and play it eventualy. I just don' t know when yet. You're right, no doubt - they wouldn't release it if they hadn't sold pre-orders based on it. I doubt very much the sales prompted the DLC. Depending on the price point, I'm likely to get it. I really enjoyed it, and look forward to more story content. My comment about Cinta was mostly a joke about her being the Tanta of Love and spending the entire trailer killing fools You're spoilered comment is probably accurate, though. Yeah it's not award winnin by an ymeans bu tit's a solid enoug hstory and game that I would pla yit again. Not yet mind you but mostl ybecaus eof other things right no wgiven Midnight Suns is about to launch it's last DLC and I feel ready to pla ytha tagain. Also Star Trek Resurgenc is also coming out on the same day as this DLC. For me right now I think I want to prioritize those. Especially Midnight Suns given how much I enjoy that game and haven't played any of the DLC's yet aside from Deadpools and I have to admit I'm looking forward to playing Storms given she's on eof my favourite X men alongside Wolverine who also happens to be in the game.
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