Indeed - and the point is the game was designed in such a way as to make the micro transaction be appealing - they’ve deliberately altered the games design. That’s wrong
I’ll be honest I think it’s all been massively overblown and abit of a media hatchet job. I’d played 20 hours before even realising there was any micro transactions. They are also the most useless micro transactions I’ve ever seen. You earn hundreds of the items they are selling so really has zero impact on the game. It shows you the power of the media though when little things like this pick up so much traction. What I’ll say if that if this is a game you were interested in picking up, don’t let this noise put you off because it’s largely nonsense. To be honest micro transactions are a toxic part of modern gaming, but is much rather smaller irrelevant stuff like this compared to genuinely cool armour sets etc used in the likes of Assassins Creed.
The first game was very similar, fast travel was meant as a last resort and to be a considered move. Personally I absolutely adore the mechanic because without it I’d be zipping all over the world just like in Skyrim. The magic of the game is the exploration. I’d go as far as to say it’s easily the best open world design outside of Elden Ring. So many secret places, hidden chests, rare loot, hidden quests. I’ve spent whole evenings just travelling from point A to B, but that doesn’t do justice to the journey itself! It’s a masterpiece in world design.
The optimisation is absolutely fair, it’s been a poor launch in that regard, but hearing positive things about its support, so I think they will fix it(especially on PC). As for the micro transaction thing…I’ll be honest I don’t get the hate. Nearly every modern game has a form of MTX. In assassins creed it’s far more agregious, but even take a game like Helldivers, that has MTX and nobody’s batting an eye. Still a full priced game, it seems painfully transparent and seems to be coming from a lot of misrepresentation of the game.Micro transactions in a £60 single player game are bad, bad, bad. Doesn't matter what way they try to spin it. Being able to change how you play the game after spending extra money on top of the full price is just shitty practise by Capcom. Add to the fact that the game released with poor performance optimisation and in a total state on PC and it's easy to see why people are being negative about it. It sounds like the devs made a quality game and Capcom got impatient and greedy about it.
Plus, the fecking lead dev said only a few weeks ago that the game doesn't have fast travel because it doesn't need it
I'll play it in a year when it's fixed, and cheap.
Sorry to jump on you, but this is exactly the kind of misinformation that is making people avoid the game. Fast travel is an option. Through exploring and playing the game I’ve picked up over 30 of the ferry stones needed for fast travel. Buying a single one in the store hardly seems to be moving the needle much. The economy in the game makes you weigh up the decision to use them. You can’t just fast travel because you feel lazy (and my lord I sometimes want to!).
I agree, I’d argue the pawn system in DD2 is as good a guide as you can get. It genuinely feels like a collaborative effort in the community. People rent my pawn into their worlds and explore. When I then pick the game up again, he’s pointing out things I’ve not yet seen in my world yet. Likewise I feel like when I’m taking other peoples pawns along, I’m furthering their own knowledge for other players. It might not be a system for everyone, but I personally absolutely love it. Feels like I’m living my very own LOTR adventure with actually useful AI companions.
Sorry but this is more misinformation. The game has always deliberately been tight on resource management and fast travel is a big part of that economy. It was the exact same in the first game. It’s only really at end game you should be able to fast travel more easily which really works in a game with this level of exploration. If the store had on sale 40 fast travel items in a pack, I might concede, but as it is you are buying a singular item for a singular trip. Only an idiot will buy that.
It’s running well on my PS5. The occasional stutter as I enter the big city, but to me at least it’s not that noticeable. In game to game moments when exploring and fighting I haven’t noticed a drop but I reckon it’s running at 30 only. I just havent noticed it all that much in this game though. I think if you enjoyed the first game, this one will blow your mind. It’s better in almost every way, can’t recommend it enough.
Interesting, what’s the money glitch?
I think in the next week they are releasing a console patch to offer a fixed 30 so that should fix the main issues. Also the ability to turn off ray tracing (which I doubt I’ll even notice in this) and motion blur which will both be welcome.
Yeh you may be right on the lighting as it does seem really good at times. To be honest, if I could turn off motion blur I can live with the framerate as it is now. I agree on the niche of this game. I remember thinking that while, playing the first, and really between that one and DD2 there still hasn't been another title quite like this. I think the issue in those games you mention is the open world fatigue that kicks in as you head from one marker to the next. This game pivots in the complete opposite direction, basically giving you little to no prompts other than what your pawns tell you, and what you can piece together. It is largely pretty logical, but I've had to google a few sections.
Good to know. Shame I just completed the Ulrika storyline and without spoiling anything Melve is abit different...Maybe I can get apples somewhere else though.
Yeh that's very true, it all happens so quickly. Was fighting an orge who drop kicked me off a bridge into a ravine with a drake sat at the bottom. If that wasn't bad enough, my main pawn yeets himself off the bridge galliantly to come to my rescue only to end up in a heap. It can be absolutely hilarious at times! I'm hoping that like the first game, it gets more challenging when the credits roll and they have some surpises for NG plus. They certainly did in the first game.
Nah I’ll call it out when it’s bad. This is just a hatchet job nothing more. Why aren’t we calling out the MXT that are far more egregious in other games?
Sounds like it can be completely ignored from the game though?
It’s not it’s weird there’s such uproar about this game when MXT have been around for years and this is probably one of the instances where it has absolutely zero impact on gameplay or me as a player. If people are stupid enough to buy meaningless stuff like this it’s on them. My opinion is relatively simple. I hate MXT and would rather they go entirely, however that’s a pipe dream. In that scenario I’d rather see small and meaningless stuff for lazy people than actual game altering stuff or even cool armour sets you can’t get any other way.
Yeah I hear ya
I haven’t taken it personally, I’m not defending the use of MXT, but I’ll use common sense to defend the against the outcry here. I think it is misinformation to say “pay for fast travel” it’s nothing like that extreme. At best the tag line is “pay for a minor convenience and laziness”. I’m just making sure that people reading the sensationalist headlines are not being put off a potential all timer of an RPG. Would be sad for people if that misrepresentation stopped them buying it.
