You can switch difficulty anytime you feel like it. Whistle skill is pretty strong until you reach a point when a crit won't kill a machine.
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Horizon Zero Dawn |OT| The Land After Time
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You can switch difficulty anytime you feel like it. Whistle skill is pretty strong until you reach a point when a crit won't kill a machine.
You should really play Dragon's Dogma
But i'm absolutely with you that the combat is fantastic, and the best one in any (western developed) wrpg.I'll do it for you.
The_Hitcher89
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What's the use of this merchant in
selling trash?
Meridian
PLASTICA-MAN
Member
Stealth gameplay has changed and evolved from gen to gen. We can't have traditional stealth unless we stick to classical gameplay and tight environments. It is harder to implement stealth gameplay in open world settings.
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MeisaMcCaffrey
Yes, there are three more.
Did you fight a bellowback at the end? If yes then yea.
Ruthless_Barbarian
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You can trade the trash for resource packs with another merchant.
One man's trash is another man's treasure.
I have played Dragon's Dogma, I think this is much more strategic. Of course this game only allows one playstyle, vs. Dragon's Dogma you can be melee focused or magic user in addition to the bow.You should really play Dragon's Dogma
GraveRobberX
Platinum Trophy: Learned to Shit While Upright Again.
You can offlload your extra resources to it, in return you get their "trash" in turn to trade it into another Merchant who gives you boxes in turn
It's like remove your clutter, for less clutter, to earn more clutter again!
You should really play Dragon's Dogma
It's hard to compare between the two since one is is only about long ranged non magic weapons and the other has different classes.
imo Aloy plays better than ranger and magick archer.
now I want a mask like that
PLASTICA-MAN
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Kojima by Guerilla right now. Imagining what he can do with this engine and his team's talent in the future gives me shivers.
SuperBanana
Banned
I feel like no matter how many times I hit a weak point on a machine it never breaks that part. I'll target a weapon or stealth generator or whatever and hit it over and over and over. It does more damage but never breaks or falls off. How much do I have to hit this shit?
GraveRobberX
Platinum Trophy: Learned to Shit While Upright Again.
Herman really wants to get Headshotted aye!
d00d3n
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Two questions regarding selling resources:
If a resource is only used for "selling for metal shards" according the inventory/resources menu, it has no uses other than that? No use in quests?
Do different merchants give you different amounts of money for your resources when you sell them?
If a resource is only used for "selling for metal shards" according the inventory/resources menu, it has no uses other than that? No use in quests?
Do different merchants give you different amounts of money for your resources when you sell them?
FlutterPuffs
Member
Oh, for Kojima fans here, did you guys realise there's a Death Stranding easter egg in the game? You can collect 'stranded' items and trade them in for an item.
Irishmantis
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Add on some of them tear mods son!!!
Also make sure you are using the right arrow type too like percision, hardpoint or the God almighty Teararrows!
Open question.
What was or will be your first max branch ability?
Mine was Tinker, because fuck being stuck with a shitty mod with no return
sems4arsenal
Member
Hey guys just started playing yesterday and overall loving it so far, a question though
How do I compare an outfit/weapon I want to buy to one I already have? am I missing something?
How do I compare an outfit/weapon I want to buy to one I already have? am I missing something?
GraveRobberX
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Like what?
There is a bow, whose ammo is literally made to literally "Tear" off stuff
If your using regular ammo, have you Focused said enemy and read up on them
Hell even on the fly you target certain areas it tells you what the Weakness and Strength is
Say for Longlegs, shoot their chest/breasts, it will annihilate the health when that shit blows up
Same for Glinthawks chest or wings
Same for Snapmaws, their top spine or underbelly/sides
Gotta learn what to hit, where, with what
SuperBanana
Banned
I've been using precision. I guess I need to upgrade tear more with mods then.
I think a part of it was that Guerilla already had success with supporting an outside studio working with their engine (Suppermassive with Until Dawn and Until Dawn: Rush of Blood).
BuggeryBugz
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Is there a way to see my playtime and percentage of things completed at all?
Unfortunately you can't. But there aren't that many types so you basically want the best one for that class, which are for outfits:
- All resists
- Cold resist
- Corruption resist
- Stealth
- Damage reduction
And for weapons
- Hunter bow (fast bow for standard/fire arrows)
- War bow (medium speed bow for elemental arrows)
- Sharpshooter bow (slow firing sniper/tear bow)
- Sling
- Tripcaster
- Ropecaster
- Rattler
GraveRobberX
Platinum Trophy: Learned to Shit While Upright Again.
No Tearblast Arrows, there's 3 different bow types
One is regular/damage, one is elemental/rebuff, one is resource material/penetration
Triple Very Rare Tear Mods can decimate any Robot
I think I have Tear @107%on my Bow
And Corruption +137% on other bow
SonicAaron
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How do you craft tear arrows? Do you always need to buy teararrows first and then you can craft them from then on?
Played for a few hours, just
and completed the second Cauldron.
A few thoughts:
Positive
- Machine combat is very fun, and it's cool that proper use of all your resources really makes a difference in DPS and survivability.
- The sci-fi stuff is great, and they really seem to give you a lot of insight into the machines and the overall mythos.
- Story seems good so far*
Negative
- Human combat absolutely sucks. It's terrible. It's like everything I imagine people must feel when they criticize Witcher 3 combat.
- * The tribal stuff is just not interesting at all. Maybe that's just me, I've never found that stuff interesting. I'm pretty much skipping dialogue until they talk about the sci-fi elements.
- The lighting and time of day seem a little buggy, especially during dusk and dawn. The game can look fantastic one second, and with the smallest turn of the camera a bunch of shadows will clip out and flicker.
- Outfits look awful. Especially the helmet ones.
- Riding a mount outside the roads is an exercise in frustration. I thought Roach was bad.
crossed the border
A few thoughts:
Positive
- Machine combat is very fun, and it's cool that proper use of all your resources really makes a difference in DPS and survivability.
- The sci-fi stuff is great, and they really seem to give you a lot of insight into the machines and the overall mythos.
- Story seems good so far*
Negative
- Human combat absolutely sucks. It's terrible. It's like everything I imagine people must feel when they criticize Witcher 3 combat.
- * The tribal stuff is just not interesting at all. Maybe that's just me, I've never found that stuff interesting. I'm pretty much skipping dialogue until they talk about the sci-fi elements.
- The lighting and time of day seem a little buggy, especially during dusk and dawn. The game can look fantastic one second, and with the smallest turn of the camera a bunch of shadows will clip out and flicker.
- Outfits look awful. Especially the helmet ones.
- Riding a mount outside the roads is an exercise in frustration. I thought Roach was bad.
Irishmantis
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You need at least a rare Longbow I think?
If not definitely very rare
The item you need for them arrows is not easy.
Usually the bigger enemies only drop it so be mindful with them
Always-honest
Banned
Huh, i lost my tripwire thingy...
SonicAaron
Member
Ah I see so once you buy the weapon you can then craft the ammo.
You can see playtime when you manually save and can see overall completion % in the statistics menu under the Notebook tab.
Irishmantis
Member
Exactly
It caused me a headache trying to put Ice arrows on my normal bow without realising I need a different type of bow
GraveRobberX
Platinum Trophy: Learned to Shit While Upright Again.
Correct
Until you haven't bought or earned weapon, you can't create ammo for it
TearBlast definitely is the go to for ripping Armor and Components
Just watch as shit flys off enemies and lands on the ground, exposing them to more damage by you
Irishmantis
Member
Yeah Tearbkast arrows are a must. Who doesn't love that pulsing sound effect
GraveRobberX
Platinum Trophy: Learned to Shit While Upright Again.
The weapon?
Did you sell it by mistake, can buyback from any Merchant if you haven't sold 10 other items afterwards, if so, time to buy a new one!
GraveRobberX
Platinum Trophy: Learned to Shit While Upright Again.
Especially if your a resource hog like me and can create 30 arrows to hold in your bag and +120 as Reserve to craft at whims touch lol
Irishmantis
Member
Same man, it got to a point its a problem haha
I'm fucking hoarding my inventory and never have enough room for shit but don't want to drop any shit either. I got like 7x 250 wood lmao
BuggeryBugz
Member
Perfect! Thanks!
1.21Gigawatts
Banned
I took down my first few snapmaws yesterday.
The game constantly make me feel awesome, the next moment it kicks my ass again.
The game constantly make me feel awesome, the next moment it kicks my ass again.
Always-honest
Banned
Maybe.. no idea. Thanx. Guess i will look for a Merchant.
GraveRobberX
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How did everyone do their skills tree?
I went right mostly (Forager)
Wanted that Health Boost + Modification removal ASAP
Knew it was gonna really help early on
Then left
Saved Middle skill tree for last
Mind you I'm talking about the +2 and + 3 skills
I'm missing the last 2 Overrides and some of the bottom ones that aren't a huge game changer like low health gives you a boost
I went right mostly (Forager)
Wanted that Health Boost + Modification removal ASAP
Knew it was gonna really help early on
Then left
Saved Middle skill tree for last
Mind you I'm talking about the +2 and + 3 skills
I'm missing the last 2 Overrides and some of the bottom ones that aren't a huge game changer like low health gives you a boost
Itchy//Tasty
Member
Fuck guys, I was setting enemies on fire yesterday and they were clearly running into a nearby water source to cool off, and in addition to that there were a couple of idle Snapmaws a short distance away who started launching ice projectiles at them! Has anyone else seen this sort of thing happen? I swear I'm not going crazy.
GraveRobberX
Platinum Trophy: Learned to Shit While Upright Again.
Sometimes enemies attack each other if they encroach into their territory
these machines are fucking incredible. My first fight has been really long and exciting!
FlutterPuffs
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Focused on getting concentration first.
Realised then that resources will be scarce (damned wires) so I focused on getting improved resource taking and the disarm traps.
This means I dont have to worry anymore if my traps arent triggered, I can just pick them up back after a fight.
Also, since there's limited weapon choices in the game, I decided to take the option to remove and insert mods into my outfits and weapons as I pleased. That helps.
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