mercenar1e
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im in the same boat and it feels good lol
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Dying Light IOTI A dead island on the mirror's edge.
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im in the same boat and it feels good lol
DeathGlobe
Member
I'm enjoying it alot sadly no one has joined my game for co op
SolidChamp
Banned
Who knows.
From my understanding of it, they felt as though they were doing enough that was different to redefine the IP.
By all accounts, though, this sounds like just a slicker, more polished Dead Island. A sort of "do over" while they pass the old IP off to another dev.
For all of it's faults, though, Dead Island was an ambitious game. It was fun when it worked.
The only good thing about Dead Island was the first act on the beach.
SolidChamp
Banned
I'd say you're good to go without even playing DL yet.
I wasn't sure how the parkour element would flow with the game, and if I'd like it.......
Also, any news on PS4 vs Xbox one?, is it safe to assume PS4 is the better version to get?
RedAssedApe
Banned
A little confused by the online options. Can anyone just hop into your game at any moment if you make it public like souls games or watchdogs or something? And are oh her players there to help or hurt u? Also...zombie invasion...is that like other players or just an horde like l4d? Haven't started the game so just trying to see what I should set this to.
?? what $20 PS4 train if there's one I'm on it!?
Gamestop pricing glitch apparently
BlitzerRadic
Member
You'd get pissed because your scam didnt work?
FeiRR
Banned
I've played about an hour or so on PS4. Game performance is great. I haven't noticed tearing and it's really smooth for a 30 FPS title (I have an impression it performs better). Lighting is great, graphics aren't anything special (quite low poly to be honest) but doesn't harm immersion much.
As somebody who doesn't like zombie games in general (Dead Island was incredibly boring for me), this one is very interesting. You feel the danger instead of just mowing through dead bodies. Parkour is satisfactory too, after the initial phase of adjustment. So far it's been linear but I've just reached the point where you can start co-op so I'll play with friends from now on.
All in all, no regrets for buying. If you're afraid about performance issues on PS4, don't be.
As somebody who doesn't like zombie games in general (Dead Island was incredibly boring for me), this one is very interesting. You feel the danger instead of just mowing through dead bodies. Parkour is satisfactory too, after the initial phase of adjustment. So far it's been linear but I've just reached the point where you can start co-op so I'll play with friends from now on.
All in all, no regrets for buying. If you're afraid about performance issues on PS4, don't be.
This is bothering me, too.
However, last night I spent a good hour watching various Twitch streams to see if it was worth a buy.
I watched about 10 streams which all featured daytime gameplay and it seemed like a slightly improved version of Dead Island (of no interest to me). There was one nice improvement when a guy was fighting some normal humans, and the combat was like an evolution of Condemned: Criminal Origins. It looked difficult and genuinely good, despite very slightly dodgy AI sometimes.
But the key thing for me was when I FINALLY found some footage of night time.
Night time looks fucking amazing. It was like being chased by police in GTAV. If the police were free-running crack fiends.
The zombies aren't scary visually but are super strong and super agile. They have vision cones on your radar - you can 'sneak' past them and make efforts to stay out of sight. Your radar quickly fills up with hundreds of them. It was a lot like what State of Decay should have been.
If they see you they'll alert all the others with a massive scream, and even on 'Normal' difficulty you will be dead if they catch you. You have to run like shit to escape them and try to get to a safe zone.
This alone convinced me to buy the game. Imma be trying to survive the night ALL THE TIME
The person I watched was having to pull out all the stops with his free-running abilities to stay one corner, one step, one wall ahead of the zombies, who were on his tail the whole way. When he finally got to the UV lights of the safe zone, he spun around and there was a deadly zombie literally three feet behind him. The streamer was screaming in exhilaration
yup, The resort map was pretty good and the only good one in the game. It was really "open" and got many different locations you don't feel repetitive in that map because there is many things to do. then you go to smaller crappy city and the awful liner sewers and the small/one path forest.
Just played around with in in PC, it's pretty good so far, was crashing all the time but DLing the latest nVidia drivers solved it.
Also guide: http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/guides/dying-light-graphics-and-performance-guide
Also guide: http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/guides/dying-light-graphics-and-performance-guide
Inceptional
Member
Sikamikanico
#1 Dad
Urge to get home and play...rising.
The Sarcastic Dude
Banned
I'm part of the 20 buck GS glitch crew and will be joining in on the discussion once the DL finishes. Was only mildly interested in this game, but for 20 bucks, I couldn't pass this up.
Tricky I Shadow
Banned
Hmmm, I think we might have a sleeper hit here....
Watching the GB quicklook and none of it is synced.
Compression doesn't help it, I thought it looked fine the world is very dense with stuff everywhere.
Because she's a woman
This kind of shit really needs to go across the board. Films are still the worst offenders, though, hands down
Dead Island/Techland would would normally be a wait and see, but for $20 I jumped in. So far my impressions are pretty good. The graphics are nice, the framerate is surprisingly smooth (PS4) and overall the parkor and movement are done well enough.
Mini rant:
I do have one huge issue and that's the jump button being assigned to R1 button...absolutely awful. You can reassign it to R2 but that's even worse because then your attack is R1. It's one of the few things about consoles I really can't stand, the lack of configurable controls. They completely waste the face buttons in this game on things like "look behind" and "survivor mode" when those could easily be R1 and let X be jump, which makes much more sense really.
...rant over.
Anyway, I'm tired and will play more tomorrow, but so far it's worth the $20, we'll see if it holds up or would be worth the retail price.
Mini rant:
I do have one huge issue and that's the jump button being assigned to R1 button...absolutely awful. You can reassign it to R2 but that's even worse because then your attack is R1. It's one of the few things about consoles I really can't stand, the lack of configurable controls. They completely waste the face buttons in this game on things like "look behind" and "survivor mode" when those could easily be R1 and let X be jump, which makes much more sense really.
...rant over.
Anyway, I'm tired and will play more tomorrow, but so far it's worth the $20, we'll see if it holds up or would be worth the retail price.
I'm worried about this too and I really need someone with a highly critical eye to provide detailed thoughts. Edit: I don't think I've seen anyone realise it's 'not that great', but I've heard nobody be really, really super excited about it.
This doesn't make sense because, from watching streams, it's clear that you need to point your camera at where you wish to climb. Eg if you're sprinting away from zombz and need to quickly scale a wall, you need to aim at the top of the wall.
If Jump was mapped to X, you would have to remove your thumb from the face buttons, move the joystick, return your thumb to the face buttons, and press X again. Then you'd lose control of where you need to look if you needed to jump off elsewhere.
TL;DR you need your thumb to be looking whilst you jump. X for jump would break it.
jediyoshi
Member
That'd be awful for a game that prioritizes movement this much. If Mirror's Edge used face buttons for jumping, people would burn the game into the ground.
This is ridiculous.
This post makes it seem like you are avoiding it no matter what the people who bought it are saying.
Any chance you go ahead and say whether or not it looks like it's a locked 30?
As in rock solid? Not far enough to judge yet. We'll see. It seems solid early on but I'm not in the open world yet. That'll be the real test.
Summer Haze
Banned
This sounds fucking awesome. I just hope the performance is pretty solid on PS4.
Any impressions from PS4 players?
Awesome. Will wait for this to help decide whether or not to buy it. Thanks.
It looked bloody amazing. I planned to buy it at lunch today (two hours time) and download it remotely to PS4 after I watched that footage.
But... The longer I leave it the more I'm worried about how worthwhile it will be. What if it lapses into Dead Island mediocrity? Especially if I can't trade it in - Destiny was probably the worst purchase I've made in my life.
I'd really like PS4 players impressions, too. That's what I'll be getting it on.
CoolZombie
Member
Any X1 impressions?
Thus far my only recommendation is that people don't start coop until about 5 hours into the game.
My friend and I started coop as soon as we could, and ended up kinda running around like chickens with our head cut off, both trying to learn all the mechanics and loot and level and sidequest and collectathon and and and
yeah...
Spend some time getting familiar with the mechanics in this one before jumping into coop, because the parkour stuff mixed with the vertical level design makes for a rough quick turn around into fast coop funstuffs.
My friend and I started coop as soon as we could, and ended up kinda running around like chickens with our head cut off, both trying to learn all the mechanics and loot and level and sidequest and collectathon and and and
yeah...
Spend some time getting familiar with the mechanics in this one before jumping into coop, because the parkour stuff mixed with the vertical level design makes for a rough quick turn around into fast coop funstuffs.
It has some tearing. Mostly in unplayable cut scenes. Definitely not locked 30. Still had a lot of fun with it.
