Didn't get mine right away, but have it and activated on Steam. They have always come through for me. For $19 it is worth a shot.
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Seven: The Days Long Gone |OT| Isometric Cybermage Thievery
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Didn't get mine right away, but have it and activated on Steam. They have always come through for me. For $19 it is worth a shot.
Looks like a cross between a Spider and Piranah Bytes game lol,which isnt a bad thing I guess...but its 35 bucks CAD and the minimum req is exactly what I have on my 5 year old rig...might hiccup a lot...will wait till it lowers in price a bit,looks interesting although some impressions arent that good so far...
I just put two hours in.
This game is fantastic, and totally out of nowhere.
Great stealth, but instead of the fail/reload that most stealth games fall into, being spotted is handled with combat and then hiding again. And the combat is quite decent.
You can really feel the Witcher influence on this as well. The inventory and stats and even the interface are very close to it.
This game is fantastic, and totally out of nowhere.
Great stealth, but instead of the fail/reload that most stealth games fall into, being spotted is handled with combat and then hiding again. And the combat is quite decent.
You can really feel the Witcher influence on this as well. The inventory and stats and even the interface are very close to it.
I've been following it for awhile now. Was looking forward to it and it doesn't disappoint. Inventory is a bit janky. Not as intuitive as I would like. But the gameplay is fun and it looks fantastic. Can probably use another optimization pass, but my machine is good enough and handles it fine.
This game should get some good buzz soon.
Edit: One thing I hate. You leave a ton of loot on the ground. I hate leaving loot behind, even if it is mostly junk.
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Loot is just like the Witcher. Almost all random containers in the world have useless garbage in them, but a huge variety of it. It's not worth carrying around.
Unfortunately my CDKeys code didn't get posted until this morning. I spent all Friday night periodically refreshing that page too... Oh well. Installing now! I'm pretty excited after reading the impressions since last night.
On a side note, this Switch shit/port-begging has gotten outta control if someone is seriously going to pop into a thread for a PC-only strong eurojank isometric indie game that has like 50 posts in the entire thread to ask if it's getting a Switch port.
On a side note, this Switch shit/port-begging has gotten outta control if someone is seriously going to pop into a thread for a PC-only strong eurojank isometric indie game that has like 50 posts in the entire thread to ask if it's getting a Switch port.
Yeah, there is something very wrong with the optimization in this game. I'm running a 1060 and I needed to drop all details to medium and pit on the 30 fps lock to get a steady frame rate. And even at the lowest settings it hitches and frame skips a lot.
Really great game so far, but they really screwed it up. No excuse for this kind of performance given how little the game is actually doing graphically.
I ran a cpu/gpu monitor and the cpu never goes above 55%, and the GPU doesn't go above 30%. And the game is constantly dropping frames.
Really great game so far, but they really screwed it up. No excuse for this kind of performance given how little the game is actually doing graphically.
I ran a cpu/gpu monitor and the cpu never goes above 55%, and the GPU doesn't go above 30%. And the game is constantly dropping frames.
This is exactly like my experience but I went the opposite route. I went through that hole in the fence because I had no idea what I was doing lol. It shows how open the game is and the fact that no two people playing will have the same experience.
Really like what I've played so far, can't wait to play more.
It's an unreal engine 4 indie game... its to be expected unfortunately.
No 21:9 support. No support beyond 1080p. Why do developers shoots themselves in the foot like this?
What... I'm running the game at 2880 x 1620 with no issues at all.
You have complete control of the resolution and there is also a resolution scaling option that you can use for downsampling if you wish.
I played for an hour. The gameplay is pretty complicated and hitchy right out of the gate, but I can tell I'm gonna enjoy this one.
Trying to sneak around the first mission when an explosion/"distraction" goes off right next to me, sending every guard in the zone right to my location to kill me can't be intentional, but it happened three times in a row before I decided to take a break and eat breakfast.
Trying to sneak around the first mission when an explosion/"distraction" goes off right next to me, sending every guard in the zone right to my location to kill me can't be intentional, but it happened three times in a row before I decided to take a break and eat breakfast.
I'm running a 1060 and it has big issues. Lots of other people with high end Nvidia cards on the steam forums are having similar issues.
People were reporting that if you have a Rift installed the game will load the oculus client when you run it. I wonder if that has something to do with it...
People were reporting that if you have a Rift installed the game will load the oculus client when you run it. I wonder if that has something to do with it...
that story bit (if you go that way) fucked me aswell, just hide in a bush imediatly when he says hes gonna do it and then mosey on out of there when all the guards are distracted. You can completely avoid that bit tho, as I did when I replayed the mission, which wasa nice touch.
I have a 1080 and the performance on Peh is a massive let down. Changing settings doesn't seem to do much either. 30fps at 1440p on Ultra, changing to 1080p does nothing, stepping down graphics options all the way to medium and I get maybe 5-10 additional fps. The first area ran like a dream. I hope this isn't another Hob that runs like complete crap on a large number of 10 series cards for some strange reason.
I only played the first area btw and I just started Peh so now im worried >_>
I just put in another hour or so. For a game that seems to heavily focus on stealth, it doesn't appear to be very good at it: I feel like I have to repress and hold B several times every time I want to go into sneak mode. It's unresponsive for me. Seemingly stealth actions like throwing a rock will erratically break me out of stealth mode. For example, I'll be crouched behind a bush, throw a rock in front of a guard, and he'll completely disregard the rock because now I'm just standing in his periphery behind a bush like an asshole. I don't get why throwing a rock occasionally results in me standing up out of stealth, and occasionally it doesn't. Before quitting out just now, I got to the end of the first mansion area. I waltzed past the traps (which are ridiculously obvious) and cameras, and am literally jumping ontop of the item I need to end the quest. No prompt shows up and I can't interact with the item. I stealthed my way there for nothing? All there is for me to do in the room is to trigger the traps and die.
Earlier in this same mission, I was stealthing around when my character jumped onto an item I didn't expect to be climbable and I was spotted. I thought about just reloading my save, but I said fuck it and went for it. I ran through the entire stage, aggroing every guard, and as soon as I walked into a building, everything went back to normal. I step out of the building not even 10 seconds later, no one's looking for me and I can just continue on at my leisure. Just, what?
My main complaint really boils down to this: I haven't felt like I've died yet with it being my fault. I love these sorts of 'Eurojank' games (Mount and Blade is by far the game I've logged the most hours into on Steam) and I know that issues like this are to be expected, but it feels a bit too loose and unresponsive for me at the moment.
I really am intrigued by this game, but I might have to wait for some patches before I come back to this.
I was literally hiding in a bush when this scene played out. One of the guards rushing to the scene ran through the bush in his path to the explosion, immediately knocking me out of my hiding space.
By the way, is there a quicksave/quickload for this game? I couldn't find one, but I feel like if I could speed up the process of getting in and out of the game it wouldn't be nearly as frustrating.
Earlier in this same mission, I was stealthing around when my character jumped onto an item I didn't expect to be climbable and I was spotted. I thought about just reloading my save, but I said fuck it and went for it. I ran through the entire stage, aggroing every guard, and as soon as I walked into a building, everything went back to normal. I step out of the building not even 10 seconds later, no one's looking for me and I can just continue on at my leisure. Just, what?
My main complaint really boils down to this: I haven't felt like I've died yet with it being my fault. I love these sorts of 'Eurojank' games (Mount and Blade is by far the game I've logged the most hours into on Steam) and I know that issues like this are to be expected, but it feels a bit too loose and unresponsive for me at the moment.
I really am intrigued by this game, but I might have to wait for some patches before I come back to this.
I was literally hiding in a bush when this scene played out. One of the guards rushing to the scene ran through the bush in his path to the explosion, immediately knocking me out of my hiding space.
By the way, is there a quicksave/quickload for this game? I couldn't find one, but I feel like if I could speed up the process of getting in and out of the game it wouldn't be nearly as frustrating.
My freelance review for IGN is up. I really did not like this game, which surprised me, since I went into it thinking I would.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/12/02/seven-the-days-long-gone-review
F6 is quicksave.
Re: your Eurojank comment, absolutely. I love me some Eurojank, right? But this game just... it doesn't do anything well. It's a bunch of bad systems and boring loot. It's weird that every vendor in the game only has around 40-60 auryte; you can't sell anything. Not really a big deal, as picking up skills in the world gives you tons of Auryte. Of the 50 or so games I completed this year, it's the worst one.
Based on the above remark, it's uh... it's way more Spiders than PBytes.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/12/02/seven-the-days-long-gone-review
F6 is quicksave.
Re: your Eurojank comment, absolutely. I love me some Eurojank, right? But this game just... it doesn't do anything well. It's a bunch of bad systems and boring loot. It's weird that every vendor in the game only has around 40-60 auryte; you can't sell anything. Not really a big deal, as picking up skills in the world gives you tons of Auryte. Of the 50 or so games I completed this year, it's the worst one.
Based on the above remark, it's uh... it's way more Spiders than PBytes.
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Damn. From what I've played of this game so far, a 4/10 seems really harsh. You weren't kidding when you said you didn't like this game.
For a game focused on stealth it sure isnt rewarding as much as I'd hope. There are no real consequences and enemy AI is so bad it doesnt even matter if they detect you. Quickload is also a pain in the ass because it always resets certain things and while you think you were safe when quicksaving, after you quickload chances are you'll be in a u got detected or alarm triggered situation which is annoying af. Add that to performance issues, tons of bugs, no insta stealth kills(arguable), map design kinda meh and just the whole jank of the game, makes me regret I bought it tbh. Atm its a 6.5 out of 10 but slowly its starting to grow on me but only because I got used to it. They should've focused on a more linear experience tbh. Open world stealth for a small new studio is not a good idea and it clearly shows.
The game is pretty disappointing and rough in places. They shouldn't have gone with the isometric view, because for almost the entire game it gets in the way, especially when you're climbing a lot or exploring a large multi-level location (the game has serious problems making certain objects transparent or hinting if you can go up or not). Also there are plenty of questionable gameplay mechanics. Like for instance the game gives you a chance to collect a lot of stuff and to use disguises, but all of this weighs a lot and the weight limit is very strict (and I haven't found any safe stashes). Or it tries to promote stealth, but backstabs don't work on stronger enemies and there are some quests when you're suddenly forced to fight a strong enemy and you'll die in an instant if you don't have good defensive gear. Also concerning stealth it really doesn't help that enemies respawn and that they're generally dumb (don't worry about leaving corpses out in the open).
Oh and the optimization is awful. It starts out okay but just get to Warden's Hold on Peh and you'll see for yourself. Constant low fps and changing graphics settings doesn't help.
Oh and the optimization is awful. It starts out okay but just get to Warden's Hold on Peh and you'll see for yourself. Constant low fps and changing graphics settings doesn't help.
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I think I'm going to put the game on the back burner for a while and hope for a few patches that might smooth things a little bit out.
Ideas are great but a few things are missing. Also, where the fuck are the three bolts I need for the workbench quest?
Also, why did some publications say "it's Diablo meets xyz"? So far it's nothing like Diablo.
Ideas are great but a few things are missing. Also, where the fuck are the three bolts I need for the workbench quest?
Also, why did some publications say "it's Diablo meets xyz"? So far it's nothing like Diablo.
Did anyone do and finish this quest: https://seventhedayslonggone.wiki.fextralife.com/Hunting+the+treasure ? One of the clues is obvious but I think it might be bugged.
I'm enjoying the hell out of it. Jank and all. It just oozes character.
Stealing is like Skyrim, cheese the NPCs and steal everything you want. I can't imagine why anyone would think this is Diablo like. It's more of an isometric Thief.
I'm at the same spot. Trying to figure it out.
no idea dude, Ive given up on understand why pc games work fine for some and not for others with same rigs.
Apparently there is a main quest that unlocks the first fast travel so I guess ill wait for that. Just doing all the side quests in the first zone, this is going to be a long one for me, I always do all the side stuff, and the map is gigantic.
2 questions:
How do those skill chips you find all over the place work? Are those just automaticall making those thngs better, because I dont see any of the in the skill menu, the only thing I have there is the scavanger chip and the blink skill still, and ive found a lot of skill containers.
also what do those blue containters do that when you click on them they do like a energy surge and you see a little icon ticking down from 3 to 0? They seem to recharge too.
It corresponds with the energy regen icon from the character menu, so I assume it regenerates your energy?
You unlock actual chips later on and you slot those skills you find into them.
So what does everyone do with the loot they acquire? Shopkeepers have a limited amount of funds (as it should be!) so I mostly break everything down at a crafting station.
I think the loot is a kind of trap per se. A good thief would know what to take and what to let go, and I honestly think its kinda amazing that there is a plethora of useless shit around for you to take. Feels a bit elder scrolls where you can loot and steal everything that isnt nailed down, even useless stuff.
I can't say anything about the other two, but I can definitely say I am not them.
I also don't agree with people calling out IGN. This is a DocSeuss review, not an IGN review.
No, it's a IGN review.They ran it, so it's their review. The funny thing is, this just exposes how utterly useless reviews are. They are literally just one person's opinion on something. Thats it, nothing else.
I am usually VERY critical of games, but I played about 4 hours of this one so far and I can not for the life of me agree with a single quote from that IGN review. I am not saying its wrong, but i dont think I have ever felt such a discrepancy between what I read in a review and What I played before. Feels like the review is from another game.
I feel its very good. Characters have charisma, and the delivery is really well done. It helps that the main character is a bit refreshing in is "rogueness". Accents are nice, too. Reminds me of the over the top swearing of the Witcher 1.
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Well, yeah, that's the whole purpose and appeal of reading reviews. Getting a person's opinion and perspective on something
And you serious with that first comment? I understand labelling a review as a site's when you're listing reviews in a review thread, but it's ridiculous and makes zero sense to do the same when you're discussing the merit of a single review or comparing different reviews. The site doesn't write a review and the site doesn't give the game its score; the writer does, and individuals are so different that trying to put all the reviews from a site under a singular umbrella is futile. It only makes sense in a broad "all these reviews are from this place" way, not in a "all reviews from this place are the same" sense. Because the latter is literally impossible unless the same person is writing every review