Vendors sell them. I got most of mine from the girl in the stall at Gunbarrel, left side after you come in. But I think all of them sell them.
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RAGE 2 |OT| Newer Dawn
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This really is a true sequel to rage
- crap story
- boring driving (at least they've added some decent flying vehicles etc this time which helps)
- AMAZING gunplay
Except now they have added
- a boring openworld
- boring side objectives like the sentries
If it wasn't for the amazing combat and powers I probably would have quit already.
Thankfully you can ignore the crappy side objectives and just head to the nearest outpost for more awesome gun action
I am curious to see what dlc plans they have in the future and hopefully they can improve the openworld more .
I am enjoying it way more then far cry new dawn at least and that's largely due to the amazing combat .
- crap story
- boring driving (at least they've added some decent flying vehicles etc this time which helps)
- AMAZING gunplay
Except now they have added
- a boring openworld
- boring side objectives like the sentries
If it wasn't for the amazing combat and powers I probably would have quit already.
Thankfully you can ignore the crappy side objectives and just head to the nearest outpost for more awesome gun action
I am curious to see what dlc plans they have in the future and hopefully they can improve the openworld more .
I am enjoying it way more then far cry new dawn at least and that's largely due to the amazing combat .
Enjoying the game a lot but have just discovered that after the initial mission for each of your major npc's they only give you one more each,then it's the end game..........that's really not much of a main campaign.......it's good that running around the map clearing all the markers is so much fun because I'm going to have to do that between each main mission just to stretch it out.
I mean, speaking of cherry-picked, you can put your face up in a texture in just about any game and see stuff like this still today, including Rage 2.
Also I don't have a resolution scale option on X so I'm stuck with the same exact visuals they gave the Pro for whatever reason.
How/where/when do you get this? If the traversal is as tedious as people are making it out to be, I'd like to get something that'd reduce it as much as possible - like the gyrocopter - as early as possible.
I'm gonna be playing the game solely for the shooty-bang and nothing else.
True but I remember the original Rage looking like someone smeared Vaseline on my gaming monitor when I first played it 8 years ago. It was terrible.
I think I misread your post I thought you said the Rage 1 pics were 4K down sampled to 1080p :/
All in all I think Rage 2 is slightly better than the original just because of the combat and skill tree for abilities and weapons. Driving, story and the initiative to explore are still trash-tier which pretty much confirms that this game was made on a tight budget and window. Hopefully they make another Rage 10 years down the line and and spend a little money and time correcting the glaring flaws Rage 2 has.
I've had a smooth 30fps in outpost shootouts.Noticed a couple of dips when driving around when a lot of stuff was going on around me.Gunplay is sublime and performance hasn't been an issue.
It's disappointing to see the game world and strutcure being barebone. I was expecting a universe out of this game with lots of story, characters and side quests. Not just a boring sandbox.
Also the driving being 10 times worse than Mad Max is a shame.
Same. The aesthetic, art style, color, lighting and atmosphere somehow won me over. Not to mention the driving and vehicle combat feels immensely satisfying. I enjoyed Mad Max just as much as other 2015 GOTYs like MGSV, Witcher 3, Bloodborne.
Also the driving being 10 times worse than Mad Max is a shame.
Same. The aesthetic, art style, color, lighting and atmosphere somehow won me over. Not to mention the driving and vehicle combat feels immensely satisfying. I enjoyed Mad Max just as much as other 2015 GOTYs like MGSV, Witcher 3, Bloodborne.
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Only problem is the time of day is not lined up at all, so you are only getting real time indirect lighting instead of all the shadows there from the sun. It makes the rage 2 shots look much worse than they otherwise would.For the hell of it, I felt like comparing both games' versions of Wellspring. All shots are 4K resized to 1920x1080. The RAGE 1 shots I took like 6 years ago.
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Ever play a game where you feel your opinion is opposite of a lot of the gaming enthusiasts/podcast personalities you like?
This is Rage 2 in a nutshell for me.
I am loving the gun play, most of the open world, the story has been enjoyable. Hearing Giant Bomb talk about this dead open world, when I'm constantly getting engaged by either pedestrians or various faction vehicles. Jeff saying that he had never been attacked by another vehicle is head scratching. Within 5 minutes in the open world the first time I was out numbered by 3 goons and taken out. Yes the map is Ubi style marker clearing, but the gameplay makes all of these events in the moment to moment feel better to me, especially clearing Arks and the mutant missions I have completed so far.
This is Rage 2 in a nutshell for me.
I am loving the gun play, most of the open world, the story has been enjoyable. Hearing Giant Bomb talk about this dead open world, when I'm constantly getting engaged by either pedestrians or various faction vehicles. Jeff saying that he had never been attacked by another vehicle is head scratching. Within 5 minutes in the open world the first time I was out numbered by 3 goons and taken out. Yes the map is Ubi style marker clearing, but the gameplay makes all of these events in the moment to moment feel better to me, especially clearing Arks and the mutant missions I have completed so far.
You get tutorials with new abilities and guns. Progress more and you'll experience it
Get the Dr's reputation to 7 and it unlocks in your menu to summon.
How does FC5 compare to Rage 2? Eyeing that one after I finish up R2.
Anyone else getting whole lines of audio dropped? I had to turn on subtitles because 1 out of every 30 or so lines just aren't spoken.
Man, just fired this up. First impression so far- yup, it's an FPS. Opening section is not impressive in any way. And the graphics? Oof. They're especially bad that morning after the intro fight. I was walking around just to look at stuff, and a lot of these texture are shite, like minimum pc settings shite.
Crazy how much of a sequel it is.
It's also the most polar game I've played in a while. High framerate and a FOV slider on PS4 Pro is terrific and the combat is amazingly fun. Everything else is hilariously trash.
Outside of the combat, all of it is shockingly bad for a AAA-developed game in 2019. Last night I was running around completely square, empty warehouses that look like something out of an alpha stage PS4 launch game.
More than anything, Rage 2 makes me excited for Doom - a game smart enough to double down on its strengths and not bury them under garbage... hopefully.
Far Cry 5 I felt was a disappointment personally. The characters are underdeveloped and mostly inconsequential but the garbage story acts like you should care about them even though they spent more time giving the characters backstories and motivations in the trailers for the game than in the game itself. Combat has more options on how to approach it, such as doing stealth or full on guns blazing, but the enemy AI feels dumber than past FC games and the guns feel off. Oddly the game also (maybe this has been patched) feels like it's worried about you getting bored if you don't run into anything every 3 minutes and spawns either an angry animal or enemies in your area. The locations in the world usually involve light traversal puzzles that are interesting, plus there's hunting and fishing and some variation on activities that are fun to do. The game features a silent protagonist which felt weird for Far Cry, though man I would rather the protagonist in Rage 2 be silent. The plot is pants on head dumb, and once you reach a level in different zones you get kidnapped because even though you're murdering hundreds of cultists who spend all their time trying to kill you, they for some reason are able to kidnap you multiple times instead of outright murdering you, because that was the best they could think of to fit in plot segments that suck anyway.
But you also can roll out with Cheeseburger the bear and a cougar as your allies like a goddamn beastmaster.
New Dawn might be better.
The Death Cult God boss battle is such bullshit. Throwing as many mutants as possible making it impossible to Dodge them and the boss itself. Have no health Infusions so I'm screwed playing on hard.
Just gotta throw these two clips up here that I recorded, the gunplay in this game is spectacular once you unlock your powers, it may overtake Doom 2016 as my favorite FPS gameplay for the time being until Eternal comes out. You really feel like a superhero, and the Michael Bay explosions bring it to the next level. The open-world does drag it down a little, but I like how it allows you to handle things at your own pace and discretion . . . if the game was more linear, I don't know if it would differentiate itself from Doom enough . . .
It's the perfect example of a '7/10' game. Not the best, most polished thing in the world, but damn, it's so fun to gib baddies in it. I'm also getting great performance on my 1080ti @ 1440 ultrawide.
It's the perfect example of a '7/10' game. Not the best, most polished thing in the world, but damn, it's so fun to gib baddies in it. I'm also getting great performance on my 1080ti @ 1440 ultrawide.
Finished this today. If anybody is sitting on the fence it comes highly recommended. Amazing gameplay, you feel like a total badass when you get all your powers. Shooting is even better than Doom. I even enjoyed the open world aspects, just travelling around the world clearing out camps and stuff. Can't wait to play again on a harder difficulty. Normal mode was probably too easy by the end.
I agree 100%. I'd recommend Nightmare, it's tough at first and you really need to learn hit and run tactics at the beginning, but you feel yourself getting stronger with new unlocks and perks. It's tough, but fair, if you don't think quickly on the fly you get punished for it.
Yep, weird thing is I found Doom too hard and had to finish on Easy mode hahaha. 😳
I agree with what you said, well formulated. I played Mad Max at release and loved it. Driving around, destroying a camp and being on my way again. Rage 2 is similar in that aspect, but the encounters are realy short and the open world is a bit too strechted for my taste. Sadly the car combat in Rage 2 feels like a step back, hopefully the can spice it up a bit.
Overall I will wait to see how and if there are any changes, right now I can´t motivate me to play.
Played it some more. I must be a weirdo, but I'm one of those people who enjoys wandering around a map completing checklists, and I'm enjoying doing that in this game.
My only real complaint is that the game really needs a bunch of sweet music. At least license some stuff for the radio in the cars, guys.
Wandering and poking around ruins is way better with a soundtrack. See: Fallout.
My only real complaint is that the game really needs a bunch of sweet music. At least license some stuff for the radio in the cars, guys.
Wandering and poking around ruins is way better with a soundtrack. See: Fallout.
Love how the enemies will scamper about on the ground after getting knocked down while trying to shoot you at the same time.
I'm actually enjoying the shootouts more in this than Doom(2016).The combination of weapon feedback and awesome powers is a real winner.
They said they'll be adding mod support in post launch way back, so hoping that's still true. Some in-vehicle radio would really set this up.
And I usually hate map based busy work, but here it's a pleasure to explore (especailly with the gyrocopter).
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Honestly, I wouldn't even consider them to be in the same league. FC5 is just a better game. The only thing I like better in Rage 2 is the gunplay. It's not like FC5 has bad gunplay - in fact, it's very good - but Rage is just better.
In every other aspect? World, exploration, progression, side content, graphics, music, story..... yeah, FC5 it is.
Yup, it really adds to the 'strategy' of the encounters. You have to split-second think of who to go after next because you can buy precious seconds when you have some enemies stunned, and go after more active threats. It's fun!
for me the gameplay is better than doom overall.
also great videos man.
Once you get all the abilities the game is so much more enjoyable.
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Agreed. I decided to download a trainer and unlock all the upgraded versions of abilities and my god is it so much fun. Double dash is too good.
I think overall, RAGE 2 is just the more stylish of the two games. There's a lot more room to pull off cool shit and combos in firefights. RAGE 2 would be THPS while DOOM is more Skate. I also think DOOM is slow as fuck after playing this which is just insane.
I dunno, Doom still takes the cake in terms of combat for me.
I think a large part of that is that I really liked embodying the Doom Slayer. You could feel his outright hatred for the demons in everything he did, and being in that mindset really coloured the way I played the game.
I think a large part of that is that I really liked embodying the Doom Slayer. You could feel his outright hatred for the demons in everything he did, and being in that mindset really coloured the way I played the game.
After playing this for the last three days, I'm at a point where I feel confident in saying that I don't like it.
The core shooting feels serviceable and I've prioritized the arcs above everything to give the combat more flexibility but I still find myself not enjoying it enough to stick with the game. It pales in comparison to the visceral feeling of the Doom reboot and doesn't feel as fun or as flashy as something like Bulletstorm. It also feels incredibly slow. Even after all the mobility upgrades I've unlocked.
The story presentation and the dialog make this a slog to progress through. It's like they want to lean into the wacky and crazy stuff that their marketing campaign was based on but still have this overly serious story with these characters that are either too weird or too serious. They wanted it both ways but it doesn't work.
The driving is unfit too. I've had so many awful physics mishaps that send my car off the track in races or flying into the air out in the open world. Not only that, the car that I put all my points into is beyond obnoxious with the constant chatter from it's A.I.
The only part of driving I've enjoyed was the first two times I attacked a convoy. That was fun when it worked well.
Also, wtf is up with the menus? They're so delayed switching from tab to tab. Honestly surprised that this passed QC. Sometimes it'll just hang for a minute and I can't get out of it.
I'd be willing to check back in with it after patches and DLC releases but for now, this is going back to RedBox and I'm going finally finish Mad Max and do another playthrough of the first Rage. Both of which appeal to me much more than this does. Very disappointed.
The core shooting feels serviceable and I've prioritized the arcs above everything to give the combat more flexibility but I still find myself not enjoying it enough to stick with the game. It pales in comparison to the visceral feeling of the Doom reboot and doesn't feel as fun or as flashy as something like Bulletstorm. It also feels incredibly slow. Even after all the mobility upgrades I've unlocked.
The story presentation and the dialog make this a slog to progress through. It's like they want to lean into the wacky and crazy stuff that their marketing campaign was based on but still have this overly serious story with these characters that are either too weird or too serious. They wanted it both ways but it doesn't work.
The driving is unfit too. I've had so many awful physics mishaps that send my car off the track in races or flying into the air out in the open world. Not only that, the car that I put all my points into is beyond obnoxious with the constant chatter from it's A.I.
The only part of driving I've enjoyed was the first two times I attacked a convoy. That was fun when it worked well.
Also, wtf is up with the menus? They're so delayed switching from tab to tab. Honestly surprised that this passed QC. Sometimes it'll just hang for a minute and I can't get out of it.
I'd be willing to check back in with it after patches and DLC releases but for now, this is going back to RedBox and I'm going finally finish Mad Max and do another playthrough of the first Rage. Both of which appeal to me much more than this does. Very disappointed.
The game is super fast when you unlock upgrades.. have you checked all the project stuff like faster sprint, fast move on ADS crouch, higher/further double jump etc...? movement is so much better than DOOM imo, but you do need to upgrade stuff to get there.
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No, that's a misconception. The game director of RAGE 2 actually came out and said that most of the development was handled by Avalanche including the combat.
id only provided oversight and consulting on how to achieve that 'id style of combat' which Avalanche took and made their own, tbh. Absolutely puts DOOM (2016) to shame and I'm super curious if DOOM Eternal is going to top it. FWIW, I love the DOOM games but RAGE 2 really surprised me here.