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Days Gone Combat Breakdown with the Developers
- Thread starter Domcorleone
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I'm assuming that the ring shown during the loading screen at the end has some sort of narrative significance. Perhaps its a memento of Deacon's wife.
They just really need to shore up that framerate, I'm sure this is an old build, but otherwise this looks awesome.
In my humble opinion, the gun SFX it's...
Unfortunately, below average yes. : |
I mean, compare it to quality like Uncharted 4 or RE2 Remake & such, the difference are solid.
But at least I heard worse somewhat.
I mean, I get a large part of the draw is the horde-like mechanic with the zombies ("freakers" lol) but it just feels like a faster paced Dead Rising with blander weapons. I could see this style of encounter becoming boring after the first half dozen times you do it. Shame there isn't location or environment-based traps you can use, like reversing or pushing one of the construction vehicles into the pit.
Close quarters combat looks janky as hell...combat in general just doesn't look good or punchy.
Graphics look good I suppose, but I'm still not sold on this game. I think they're definitely missing some special sauce here.
Graphics look good I suppose, but I'm still not sold on this game. I think they're definitely missing some special sauce here.
you have environment-based traps in the game, take a look at the first gameplay trailer, nothing mindblowing but they are in it.
Still not as polished as I hoped it would be based on the animations.
If this is still an old build, then they should not even bother showing this same area or anything from this stage of development.
If this is still an old build, then they should not even bother showing this same area or anything from this stage of development.
Is this the same build they demoed last year? Gameinformer had footage of this exact location and the frame-rate was horrendous.
Supposedly, yeah.
Maybe & hopefully the final game would be a lot better.
Same demo build from E3 which is 7 months old now just a much better player thats why I did not bother to make a topic.
The Freaker hordes look cool but combat and the overall flow feels a bit meh. He said in the video you could not run away and then spends most of the encounter running away. I wonder how in-depth the traps etc go or is it all just bombs and proximity mines next to convenient red barrels? I saw the log rolling trap, which seems useful for killing 2 or 3 enemies but when 300+ are coming, everything seems a little drawn out. Maybe the deeper it gets the more varied the ways will be to tackle each encounter,.
What he means by run away would be that you can escape but the horde will still be on your tail so you will have to deal with them sooner or later.
Ahh I see. That makes sense. I wonder if its possible to draw out and deal with smaller groups or is it always a great blob of Freakers that chases you?
You will find smaller groups (50 or less guys) in the world. They usually come out depending on the time of day or the weather.
I feel like I've seen this a few times in one form or another. Generally it looks good, I like the idea of having to prep the area before wading in. Is the framerate a bit stuttery though? I can handle framerates that aren't locked but even I noticed what I assume are drops.
Didn't we see loads of people trying out this exact scenario a year ago?
Yeah, I like everything about this game so far except the guns. They don't look/sound satisfying at all.
Some of the trailers have made the world seem pretty and the motorcycle stuff alright, but man the gameplay looks like such trash. The framerate, the movement, the plastic looking and sounding gun. Also the World War Z type zombie hordes seems like a pretty dull choice. They did mention rival factions/human enemies too so at least there's that.
Yes. This and framerate are my only worries. They're probably playing on Pro and still have drops. RIP my base PS4.
So I watched the first ten seconds of the video and there's a red barrel conveniently placed against a pile of logs. Could you imagine if someone did that in real life? MASSIVE safety hazard.
Seems to be a game where you'll be doing a lot of kiting. Setting up traps, choke points, and planning routes before you agroo the horde seems key.
The challenge the devs faced must have been balancing the hordes speed vs being able to turn and fire without almost immediatly having to turn and run again. Which could become rather cumbersome and annoying, but they've added a slowdown while hipfiring giving you longer time on offence.
Really curious to see how this combat loop is recieved at launch.
The challenge the devs faced must have been balancing the hordes speed vs being able to turn and fire without almost immediatly having to turn and run again. Which could become rather cumbersome and annoying, but they've added a slowdown while hipfiring giving you longer time on offence.
Really curious to see how this combat loop is recieved at launch.
One of my dream type games is to have that level of dynamicism, danger in the zombies/infected. But play with friends, maybe even have a survival type mode/map where you compete with out her groups for resources, etc. And can utilize the hordes like that against each other or have to actually fear them.
I'm looking forward to this, but someday, I need that.
I'm looking forward to this, but someday, I need that.
I'm pretty disappointed (but not surprised) that the shooting doesn't seem to have improved.
Personally, I think guns should have recoil/impact/feeling of power, especially if they're large automatic weapons. He may as well be watering plants with a hose.
I know this isn't important to everyone, but in a game where shooting is a major component it's a deal breaker for me.
I played it Friday at PAX and was completely underwhelmed. It didn't have that usual polish that most Sony games have. It could use a delay.
I can't believe how quickly the positivity and negativity fluctuates between threads for this game.
Can trust Era not to keep up.
Can trust Era not to keep up.
The thing you played is 7+ months old. It was delayed already so that they could polish it. Keep up.
It's a 7+ month old build. Jeez, c'mon folks.
That the game is impressive, shows promise, and is fun. Shu is able to see the game in a more recent state than 7+ months ago you know?
They've shown this mission at least 3 or 4 times by now and I still don't think it's a good mission to show off the game. It looks more frustrating than fun. You can set up a few proximity mines here and there but you're not going to be able to take out 300 freakers with them so once they trigger the mines you're going to end up running around in circles trying to shoot the rest.
