I played about 4 hours of the game on a PS4 Pro and didn't notice any frame drops myself (playing on the "Resolution" mode). Note that this was the very beginning of the game.
-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Middle-earth: Shadow of War |OT| Attempted Mordor
- Thread starter Skux
- Start date
I played about 4 hours of the game on a PS4 Pro and didn't notice any frame drops myself (playing on the "Resolution" mode). Note that this was the very beginning of the game.
drotahorror
Member
Do you not get XP for just killing anymore? I was running around killing shit at the beginning for a while and realized I wasn't getting XP. Is XP for killing unlocked later or never?
I just started playing on the Pro and it does have a HDR toggle. Can't tell you whether it's implemented to make a meaningful difference, as my TV doesn't properly support HDR.
truestatic
Member
I'm like five hours in and so far it's just for doing quests and killing captains.
drotahorror
Member
Alright thanks. I knew something had made my XP move, it must have been captains. I guess that's good enough as long as XP isn't too hard to come by.
Also, not digging the use of towers in this game. Where you have to pinpoint an area for finding relics and whatnot. It's fine, but I don't like it.
Yeah captains and their missions (executions, etc.) are a huge exp source.
Don't like the tower pinpointing either tbh. My only complaint thus far.
I've had the game since friday and put in around 35 hours (jesus), you guys are in for a treat. Still in Act 2, but already in my Top5 for the year.
Lots of cool nemesis story so far, favorite one: I stumble across this mystic assassin orc WAY above my level and it takes me around fifteen minutes to take him down using a graug, drakes, and lots of sappers that I can call in as a set bonus of an equipped legendary gear set. As I dominate him, naturally I cannot recruit him since his level is too high, so I shame him to level him down.
Next time I meet him: he ambushes me, only his level is even higher and he does this speech that he embraced my shaming and feels even prouder because of it (he has, at this point, my hand mark tattoed all across his body). So i beat him again and shame him again, and this time he becomes "deranged" and a blubbering idiot. Using SUPER shame, a special shaming skill aquired later, his level is supposed to go down drastically, but of course that doesn't happen and he becomes a "dangerous maniac" , an even stronger, but mentally impaired, version of himself.
Since then he ambushes me time and time again, blubbers unintelligible gibbberish, and fucks my world up. I love him.
Lots of cool nemesis story so far, favorite one: I stumble across this mystic assassin orc WAY above my level and it takes me around fifteen minutes to take him down using a graug, drakes, and lots of sappers that I can call in as a set bonus of an equipped legendary gear set. As I dominate him, naturally I cannot recruit him since his level is too high, so I shame him to level him down.
Next time I meet him: he ambushes me, only his level is even higher and he does this speech that he embraced my shaming and feels even prouder because of it (he has, at this point, my hand mark tattoed all across his body). So i beat him again and shame him again, and this time he becomes "deranged" and a blubbering idiot. Using SUPER shame, a special shaming skill aquired later, his level is supposed to go down drastically, but of course that doesn't happen and he becomes a "dangerous maniac" , an even stronger, but mentally impaired, version of himself.
Since then he ambushes me time and time again, blubbers unintelligible gibbberish, and fucks my world up. I love him.
Pheace
Member
Not a worldwide release I assume? Thought it said it was 7PM here (9 hours from now)
BreezyLimbo
Banned
They kinda did a worldwide release at 4PM PST? On Steam atleast. it was weird. It went from being launched Tuesday Morning, to being launched...Monday afternoon.
A random grunt orc killed me and he said he was a tark slayer and that became his title
and then I met him again and he was like 'you're a tark I'm the tark slayer do the math'
And then I fought him and he was like 'you're gonna get tired and then die'
and then I died
this game is great.
Brad from Giantbomb wasn't kidding. Shit can get thick real quick.
Spent the past few hours grinding out the first area and i managed to get an orc named skak who got the first kill on me. He ridiculed me about being a tark slayer. He then got promoted to....Skak the Tark Slayer. Of course i went and got my revenge and just as i was about to kill him he made a quip about how he guesses i'm now the tark slayer, slayer which i thought was funny. He then proceeded to show up 3 more times since then which, with his latest appearance, i found less funny. Particularly because he's adapting to my attacks. I can't vault over him (even though he does attacks that prompt me to vault over him) and i can't cheese him like i've been doing with every other orc (including him) by stunning him then attacking because he just won't get stunned. Thankfully there were no other orcs around and my only recourse was to run to the top of one of the castle walls and do a aeriel attack of it which caused him to retreat.
Also had a pretty hectic moment where i went to take down a captain and then another captain mosey into the fray and i kill the first captain and then Skak shows up. The second captain downs me and (possible random occurrence spoiler)
then ANOTHER captain just shows up and i just get overwhelmed and get taken out.
I appreciate the spontaneous chaos that can occur but im hoping these kind of dog pilings aren't the norm and seem more exaggerated in the first area because the confines are smaller.
Spent the past few hours grinding out the first area and i managed to get an orc named skak who got the first kill on me. He ridiculed me about being a tark slayer. He then got promoted to....Skak the Tark Slayer. Of course i went and got my revenge and just as i was about to kill him he made a quip about how he guesses i'm now the tark slayer, slayer which i thought was funny. He then proceeded to show up 3 more times since then which, with his latest appearance, i found less funny. Particularly because he's adapting to my attacks. I can't vault over him (even though he does attacks that prompt me to vault over him) and i can't cheese him like i've been doing with every other orc (including him) by stunning him then attacking because he just won't get stunned. Thankfully there were no other orcs around and my only recourse was to run to the top of one of the castle walls and do a aeriel attack of it which caused him to retreat.
Also had a pretty hectic moment where i went to take down a captain and then another captain mosey into the fray and i kill the first captain and then Skak shows up. The second captain downs me and (possible random occurrence spoiler)
i don't have a last stand and just as he's about to kill me, one of the castle soldiers jumps in and saves me which i thought was pretty badass and he seemed really pleased with himself and
I appreciate the spontaneous chaos that can occur but im hoping these kind of dog pilings aren't the norm and seem more exaggerated in the first area because the confines are smaller.
Pheace
Member
What? Misleading bastards xD
Oh well... at best it would've prevented me from sleeping before work I guess. Looking forward to coming getting back from work today
Heckler456
Banned
just got my copy! Kinda pumped. How's the difficulty? I remember basically never dying in the first game, which meant that I never really got to use the nemesis thing.
texhnolyze
Banned
How do I mark the orcs?
I can see them in ghost mode but couldn't find the button to mark them.
I can see them in ghost mode but couldn't find the button to mark them.
truestatic
Member
If you're playing with m+kb on PC, X. It only works on captains.
I feel like they introduced that "pinpointing" thing when people were raving about Breath of the Wild making you "spot and mark" the points of interest by yourself, instead of them just popping up on the minimap.
But since the points of interest don't really stand out visually, they had to use this weird dowsing mechanic - which both misses the point, but is also somewhat cumbersome.
texhnolyze
Banned
I see. Yeah, I've already done that but I'd like to mark the grunts as well as some of them are actively patrolling the are. I'm not too good at stealth games like this.
Banderdash
Member
How do you tell if your xbox has downloaded the 4k assets for One X?
I've done the LB+RB+View button thing... but I can't tell which one is the information I'm looking for.
I've done the LB+RB+View button thing... but I can't tell which one is the information I'm looking for.
truestatic
Member
So long as you don't sprint, you don't break wraith vision, so you can keep it up while you move to be sure you don't walk around a corner right into a bad guy's face. And if you do... You have a short window to do a stealth takedown after you're spotted before they broadcast your location. Alternatively, if you have arrows and focus, you can get a charged headshot off and they won't broadcast.
Sorry if this is all shit you already know.
btw, the WBPlay signup for the 3% xp boost does accept disposable email adresses.
I used a mailinator.com email and while it took like 3 minutes to "register", it registered fine.
(though that mailbox didn't get any kind of confirmation / first wave of WB spam yet)
I don't know where the bonus would show up, though.
I used a mailinator.com email and while it took like 3 minutes to "register", it registered fine.
(though that mailbox didn't get any kind of confirmation / first wave of WB spam yet)
I don't know where the bonus would show up, though.
I will be getting this but I think I have to put the purchase off. Seeing as the X version is supposedly the best version I have to wait until the console launches. If I bought it now it'd mean I'd be playing on the One S and that'd be annoying as then my PS4 Pro would have a better version and I could have purchased it there.
It looks great on the S, especially with HDR. Can't wait to see it on the X but honestly I think you'll be happy with how it looks right now. The game seems massive and it sounds like the DLC is going to add a whole new area, so there's a good chance you'll still be playing when the X hits or wanting to return.
I understand your feeling though! I've been battling with what to play now and what to wait.
wesleyshark
Banned
Nice OT!
Sadly have to head into work shortly so I can't dip into this until after. Enjoying reading the impressions so far.
Sadly have to head into work shortly so I can't dip into this until after. Enjoying reading the impressions so far.
Duchess O'Death
Member
I think early game encounters are scripted in a way to show you the cool stuff.
wesleyshark
Banned
What difficulty settings are you all playing on? How do they feel?
truestatic
Member
Nemesis, and it's challenging. Big fights lead to either clever careful play or lots of deaths. It's the way to go imo.
drotahorror
Member
Good point, I forgot about that. It was sort of fun in BotW because you were actually discovering things and not being told where they were. Or you might see something weird and mark it.
You thought you were the one child ? we all thought that...
theofficefan99
Junior Member
wtf you're kidding me. I hate it when RPG's think omitting XP from regular enemies is ever a remotely good idea.
Yep, this is bad. I would have prefered not to know. Now my brain is going to force me to skip the regular enemies goddammit.
wesleyshark
Banned
Nice. Given that the game basically relies on you to die many times to further the Nemesis System, that sounds like the way to go!
drotahorror
Member
When does the game save? There was an icon in SoM that let you know it was saving. I don't see one for this.
drotahorror
Member
Pretty lame that if you die your loot disappears. I think in SoM it stayed there and you could run and pick it back up. I'm fighting like 4 maybe it was 5 captains at once, I killed 4 and died on the fifth one. All my loot gone, couldn't grab it cuz I was fighting. Very lame.
Also, fire hurting you is awful. No more luring a pile of orcs to a barrel and blowing it up without taking atleast 25% of your life.
Also, fire hurting you is awful. No more luring a pile of orcs to a barrel and blowing it up without taking atleast 25% of your life.
Huh, the loot stays for me after death. Also SoM didn't have loot.
Is this some kind of event or at least a note that this was your old nemesis. I doubt I could remember mine
Jawmuncher
Member
This OT ain't as good sorry OP
There's the exact same system in Mad Max. And it was before BoTW.
So no, they indeed lifted the system from another game. But i doubt Zelda is the one since Mad Max is a WB game.
7DollarHagane
Banned
That honestly sounds more of a positive than a negative experience with how the game is supposed to be dynamic.
Games cant be dynamic and exciting if every situation it throws at you is an easy win. Sometimes you gotta get fucked over.
Reading reviews, the changes to the combat system sound very on-point.
With the original they definitely aped Batman: Arkham too much and you could feel it, so pulling away from combo-focused gameplay into more typical hack and slash territory is a very clever move.
Fuck it.
Sold.
With the original they definitely aped Batman: Arkham too much and you could feel it, so pulling away from combo-focused gameplay into more typical hack and slash territory is a very clever move.
Fuck it.
Sold.
No, it's pretty clear that sooner or later everyone will get every terms, but I thought it's random, yet it seems to be scripted. At least for the first orc that kills you.
Yeah even though I played mordor years ago seeing my nemesis instantly brought back memories... I then Proceeded to lop his head off swiftly.
Yeah the nemesis difficulty got me killed a few times at the start but the more you get used to figuring out weakness and abusing them it gets easier. I feel like the normal difficulty wouldn't do the game justice and would be too easy.
FF Seraphim
Member
Just started playing and its just what I wanted. Also the first area you get swamped so god damn fast by captains.
Bought the gold edition, not sure if I should open the gold chest or not
Bought the gold edition, not sure if I should open the gold chest or not
Feral Gingy
Banned
Are the story expansions available already or are they arriving at a later date?
If later, when?
If later, when?