Mold 1 and the Anchor were like exponentially harder than the rest of the game and I’m pretty much just trying to grind out abilities for the endgame by fighting them
they are some of the most impressive parts of the game though so it’s remarkable they’re so missable
Is it possible to just drop a difficulty setting to get through it? It sounds daunting.
it has a very peculiar approach to difficulty – there’s no toggle so it’s believed to be adaptive, except I found the entire game to be relatively easy with the exception of the bosses, all of which are optional (and really cool) and the endgame gauntlet
I actually kind of like that the penultimate fight of the game + all the optional bosses are the real skill mastery checks
yeah, I do too, it was just a really hard check and I had to start figuring out which bosses I could push on first to get my skills up little by little at that point
oh yeah for sure, the mold and tomassi 2 are such motherfuckers
but still, big fan of “did you try fighting the inexplicable dark souls boss in the basement so you can open the only gated chests in the game” as a solution to needing to get stronger for the endgame
also this game, like titanfall 2, has the good taste to have a hyper beam segment. hyper beams are the best. make that mother brain recoil
I’m playing Control right now, and after a so-so (but intriguing) beginning it’s become nothing short of marvelous. I’m just past the ashtray.
My main regret is I’d rather play a game about being an agent having to deal with weird rituals and tools to contain the objects rather than Jesse and her boring protagonist plot and magical problem solving gun against paramilitary shootmen. The game’s at its best when it’s super weird and it’s a pity they bolted a TPS on top of it.
yeah you’re not wrong about that, it does pretty much come together relative to remedy’s track record but jesse’s character doesn’t stick until the very end
I normally think every game would be better off as a detective or walking around game but remedy is actually good at the shooting parts. my complaint about the game is the supernatural stuff of the game world is almost entirely just possessed objects.
@Felix I actually like her as a character. It’s her plot and gameplay I don’t like. Like, subduing the TV or stoplight or mannequin were cool, especially the second one, because you have to figure out the local rules imposed by the object. The ones where you just have to shoot at them while they fire projectiles at you aren’t so much so, and bleh to all the soldiers and rangers or whatever. Or, the gun. It’s that wondrous things that has all sorts of wondrous powers, as long as those powers are being a standard pistol, shotgun, machine gun, rocket launcher and sniper rifle. Ditto with the hiss being shootmen apart from a couple of them.
I am definitely impressed by the weird stuff, just wish the game would build its gameplay on it.
@parker I feel it’d work as a walking sim but I’d actually like a game where you have to figure out rituals as gameplay devices. Like, you gotta recite ritual X from your book of rituals and draw an upside down triangle to subdue purple objects but don’t try it on ceramic ones cause that’s like crossing rays, that kinda thing.
EDIT: actually, even saying I don’t like the gameplay is wrong. As mentioned it’s actually a pretty competent shooter. I just think the setting’s kinda wasted on it.
EDITEDIT: aaaand finished! So yeah, for all that I’m complaining, it’s still dynamite! So to speak. I like how the postgame is structured. Definitely looking forward to the expansions.
yeah I went into quantum break with trepidation because I haven’t really enjoyed most 3rd person shooters in the last few years but I really loved the shooting
It still won’t let me upgrade the pierce gun
I just had to complete a mission first, and I only had the countermeasures left. I also got the 100% ammo return on hits mod for the grip gun from the furnace
Quantum Break not having an option to quit game during the streaming section blows hard.
It runs at Low Settings on my laptop at a variable 20fps. So it is janky playable. I am torn between refunding it and it being like exactly the catnip of game I like. The cover shooting is best I’ve ever seen.
Choppy is really going to hurt later on when the combat gets crazy and you want to chain powers together all the time
Technology is fun. I was all max on Alan Wake. Will update my drivers and see what happens. The actual graphics options are pretty slim.
low spec gaming is a thing on youtube. looks like there are a few videos for quantum break. This one seems good.
Including support by the “low spec experience”. Its some dude with a downloadable program which I have used before. Its not spam. He basically has a program setup to automatically tweak config files and stuff for you, with the click of a button. For some games its simply one click hor regular options you can change anyway (I.E. Dark Souls 2). For other games, its actual hand tweak optimizations. 99% of the features are free. It does have ads for game key sites and such, only inside the program, as you use it. And I dunno what you would pay for except maybe extreme tweaks for extremely popular games.
Otherwise, you can try hand tweaking config files yourself. That vid seems to show some of it.