You are about halfway yes. You can absolutely finish in your time frame if you stick to main missions. The side and endgame stuff maybe too, but it's sort of designed to be tackled later on. Bureau alerts will ramp up quickly and I don't recommend going after them constantly while on a first playthrough, while neat they sort of break the flow. So yeah, you can finish before you have to leave, easilyQuestion: I'm enjoying this immensely, but due to various travels pre-and-post Christmas, I'm now in a window where I have the remainder of this week before I'll be away from it for a month, and I suspect the break in continuity will hurt my enjoyment a *lot*... so it'd be good to get it finished before Saturday.
I've said before in other contexts that I tend to have a very easygoing slow pace - I've described it as "naturally grindy" at times. I do keep getting sidetracked by side-content (particularly the Bureau Alerts), so I've been playing it slowly and taking it at my own pace - but I don't know if I can afford to keep doing that and still get it done.
I'm currently just leaving Research after turning on the HRA machine; and now I'll be heading off to maintenance to go get the Blackrock widgets. I think this is probably around halfway, maybe a little after, given that I've just got the achievement for 120 collectibles and there doesn't seem to be another one unless it's a hidden achievement, and because it appears there's only one remaining unvisited floor listed on the elevator panel, although there are definitely areas I haven't been through and clearance levels I've not reached yet.
So, with maybe five-six hours of free time left available to play, can I continue to take it easy or should I push to make a beeline to the end?
You are about halfway yes. You can absolutely finish in your time frame if you stick to main missions. The side and endgame stuff maybe too, but it's sort of designed to be tackled later on. Bureau alerts will ramp up quickly and I don't recommend going after them constantly while on a first playthrough, while neat they sort of break the flow. So yeah, you can finish before you have to leave, easily
Expeditions is not really randomized. There are 4 set sub-activities in a 'run' but you will be given modifiers that are random. They can range from 'All weapons 75% reduced damage, except Charge' to '100% Health' and there are enemy modifiers too. The amount and intensity scale with the tier of expeditions.Just started this game. really loving it so far. like damn the mystery and the environments keep surprising me.
anyway I have a question for the end game dlc, expeditions. is it like a replayable challenge missions? like randomized encounters?
or am I way off? lol
Expeditions is not really randomized. There are 4 set sub-activities in a 'run' but you will be given modifiers that are random. They can range from 'All weapons 75% reduced damage, except Charge' to '100% Health' and there are enemy modifiers too. The amount and intensity scale with the tier of expeditions.
Did you finish before you had to go?
Okay I beat it. Pressed the guide button during credit to check achievement and now the song is playing but I'm in a different costume. Were there any Easter eggs?
Hi,
I bought this game because I'm a huge fan of House of Leaves, and I saw that it received great reviews. Unfortunately, the game is not for me. I find the combat boring (psy auto-aim while moving around), the enemies not that interesting, and the whole thing is a slog for me.
So I stopped it at around 5 / 6 hours of gameplay, with the TV Boss
Still, I'd like to know more about the story and the way the "house" changes in the game, can you point me to the highlights of the game, so that I can watch them on YouTube ?
Thanks !
Just about, 3:30 AM last night! Just left a big enough window to finish packing.
There are a few small quests only postgame, nothing major but definitely worth following up on. Jukebox may be connected more with the future DLC, but currently it's pretty much its own thing. I expect we'll hear more on the DLC soon as well.I did catch a fair few sidequests still, the only thing that I'm aware was available pre-postgame that I hadn't touched is the Jukebox (which I assume is context for the upcoming DLC?). I did get another quest when I came back into the game, but I assume that's postgame content only?
Really, really enjoyed it. Much like Alan Wake, the atmosphere is absolutely spot-on, and consistently so.
I don't mind the bullshit checkpoint system and sudden difficulty spikes i've played worse. But what i can't get over is the fact you lose source everytime you die. I really want to do the side missions with the really hard bosses but i know i am going to lose a shit ton if not all of my source as i will probably die a few times. I might just wait till i've upgraded my weapons and got some higher tier mods before tackling the hard side missions.
I'm having expedition problems. No matter how well I do, I'm getting screwed. The better I play, the worse bs ruins my run.
Whew, finally beat one. And the reward is worse than what dropped during the fighting.
I got -65% Weapon damage and just couldn't do shit the third time. Expeditions are hard.
Also how to get more tokens ?
Mine was on a voucher inside the game case. If you get it used it likely won't have it or it will have already been redeemed.Is the PS4 exclusive content on disc or it comes with a voucher to redeem? I ask in case I want to grab a used copy of the game.
I want to play the Kojima mission.Mine was on a voucher inside the game case. If you get it used it likely won't have it or it will have already been redeemed.
IMO the PS4 exclusives aren't all that impressive. The extra costume is pretty meh. You get a weapon and a personal mod, and they are decent at the start of the game, but you'll get much better mods as you play. I do like one of the PS4 themes that came with it, but I wouldn't consider it to be a big selling point.
As in Hideo Kojima? Didn't know there was one. I bought the basic version and it came with some small PS4 exclusive extras (themes, mods, and an extra outfit) but no extra missions. Perhaps that comes in a Deluxe version or something, sorry for not being helpful.
Jesse is incredibly snappy and responsive, is your tv/monitor one with bad input lag? This is probably the first time I've heard someone having 'control' issues. Your reticule is also key, even if Jesse body and arm doesn't line up exactly with the vector, the shot will be accurate, need to have faith in Jesse's visual movement and aiming.I picked this up in the Epic sale after hearing so many good things about it. I'm enjoying it so far, but really hating the old-school health system. Having a tough time on the first hiss-corrupted boss in the communications room, is it? He does way too much damage to me, and I try and wait it out and kill the spawns for health, but I found myself trapped on the geometry a lot and a lot of the time when I throw something at him it will collide with a wall or a pillar or something. Very frustrating. There's something about the character movement that feels.. off. I don't know how to describe it. I think part of it is waiting for the player animation to change when trying to quickly change direction from left-right. Hopefully when I get more upgrades later in the game I won;t just out of energy, ammo or psychic power so quickly.
Any tips?
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I reeeally want to pick this game up on Xbox.. can anyone chime in on performance on the One X?
Tired of waiting for a sale or for it to jump on game pass! :) I'm so close to pulling the trigger.
Great to hear! Downloading nowStarted the game a couple nights ago and I think it's in a solid spot now. Only had one momentary stutter in a boss fight but aside from that my first couple of hours have been smooth, and it feels a good deal better than when I tried the game at launch.
more edits: okay I really hate expeditions. I should quit now. I was proud of myself cause I completed the islands in time only to find out there's a boss back at the beginning I have to kill before time runs out. Wtf
Just wanted to chime in to say the boss at the end of expeditions can be beaten extremely easily by putting up the shield when you hear the scream, it will always absorb the full impact and be destroyed so you can immediately attack the boss.
Also areas 3 and 4 can be done in like 1 minute if you ignore the enemies and just do the objectives, they're pretty clueless about interrupting you.
Man, I'm not sure who thought this checkpoint system was a good idea because it can make this game super frustrating. I had some issues with it in the main campaign but now that I'm doing the side missions and some of the boss battles its REALLY annoying having to travel back to the boss after you die. Not only does it take a while, it spawns new enemies as well and it just sucks out all the fun for me, especially that annoying mold fucker.