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As far as phases, there's a giant cooldown timer that shows 'hey, in X hours the next phase opens'. It's just a timegating thing, you just gotta wait
I love the game as a concept, and there is a hell of a lot jam-packed into this game. glad to hear you havent run into lag or crashing issues, unfortunately for me i get random crashes so often it becomes a turn off for me, as well as the base building, there are so many times i have had to move my base just to replace a piece of my floor. I have nearly 80 hours into the game and enjoyed most of the time playing. but i feel theres so many smaller issues that build up that just make the game less fun to play. the times i crash i have a tendency to reload the game dead with no chance to use an adrenaline cause it loads the player in before said player even leaves the main menu. another thing that needs to be more clear is how gravity effects pipes. you need to have the object you want filled lower then the pump/container. making me create unnecessarily tall water pumps just so i can automate the osmosis purifier. and the season being locked behind a weekly thing drives me insane, finally got to the last boss area and cant even do it cause i need to wait a week. all that feels like is a way to force increased playtime, and it seems they arent really wanting to be beginner friendly, at least with how they make it seem. if a new player tries to join in a server it will give them a warning that the current season has already started. why does that warning exist? and why does PVE get wiped on top of PVP servers. they shouldnt be one in the same. yet we get PVP attack locations all around the map that do nothing but fill up map space. i get the game is new and is gonna have issues or some dumb ideas to start. but all the little things add up fast. and with the current season locking me from the rest of the games content. kinda stuck doing nothing for a week as there is not much to work to now. you can only use the blueprint machine a few times a week as well, because for some reason we were given a purification limit of 40, which may sound like a lot. but thats how many cortexes in total you can put in. if you have 50 level ones, you would be better off turning them into level 2s, as you cant even get all the rewards for doing the 50. the limits make this feel too much like a mobile game rather then a pc game.
These are all cry baby complaints. It's a survival game. Objective: Survive. Learning more about the game and actually giving an accurate and fair analysis is crucial. You may have a point about seasons but that's about it tbh.
I've died most from melee attacking a suicide soldier. I haven't HAD to group for anything. I'm 29, I haven't fought the second boss, I haven't finished the T2 area, I haven't once been truly challenged, food is everywhere, and I built a lovely house with almost nothing. This is NOT a survival game. It's a phone game that got ported to pc. The most important stat is how much you play.
@@KrisTomich It's a pc survival game with realistic survival mechanics that's been optimized for mobile as well. Yes, I agree that seasons could pose an issue for casual and regular players with not having enough time to complete each season in 6 weeks and then having to start over again. It's a new game and the devs are very responsive to feedback. Coming back to my point, the seasonal wipes are really the only big complaint.
your mouse might be the problem pretty sure i left my aim on default you hold to third person aim and click to fps aim on right click
you can turn off whispers bro
I would like to specify, you absolutely can improve and modify the weapon even if you don't have the blueprint, you just can't repair it
yeah but you can change character boob size :D
yeah but you cannot even delete characters :D
But... PVP still isnt forced.
bit later down in the game, in the chalk peak union settlement, claire talks in one voice, then switches to another completely different VA. One moment sounds like a young woman, then the next sounds like a 70 year old chain smoker
Not a different VA, but different recording environment it seems. Sounds a lot like the mic was of much lower quality when they recorded these specific lines of dialog.
There is no problem with the aiming, if you hold RMB it aims over the shoulder, if you just tap RMB it goes first person. Check your mouse. Never had engine based lag, only server based. You can unlock blueprints in a shop style, you don't have to gamble for it. The reason you cannot repair looted weapons is because the creator is not you, not because you don't have the BP. Phases change every week. Week 1 is phase 1 of the season. It is explained, and there is a timer for it. The game in fact points you in the direction you have to go. It literally tells you when to go to the next area. Everything is explained. The characters are actually more indept then you let on. As for grammar, not even native english games get it right. Weapon play is good. Driving is good. "Oh no survival mechanics in a survival game." Your thirst drops faster because you are running. That's literally it. And even so you don't have to drink anything in less than every 20 minutes or so, and it will not change anything. There is also a bodyweight mechanic which determiens how athletic your character is and gives different buffs/debuffs for that. There is a fridge in the game. If you don't take food out of the cooking station it doesn't spoil at all. Spoiled food is used for farming. The most you lose if you don't play for a few seasons are blueprint unlocks and story. Which is true for every seasonal game. Having an opinion is fine, disliking things is fine. Shitting on things because you go into it with a negative attitude and not even looking at things that are right in front of you just to rage about things is not fine, and is gross incompetence.
He still got a point regarding the aiming. Having it be on the same key/button makes it clunky when you want to switch from one PoV to the other while still aiming. If you're shoulder aiming in third person, you have to first let go of the key (since it's tied to holding it down for that PoV) and then tap it to go into FPS, but that means it's going to awkwardly transition into the non aiming state for a split second, making it look and feel clunky. That's what he was (legitimately) complaining about. If you could at least rebind it to different keys, you could switch to FPS from TPS seamlessly without having to exit aiming mode, and it would both feel and look better.
you can turn off whispers. Still I wouldn't recommend the game and I have over 100 hours since the release. I had a guy in chat tell me, "don't use your bio missiles during prime wars when it's lagging, they won't register" People openly know and understand the severe bugs in the game but still the company has yet to address it. The building mechanics and design options are absolute garbage and they had a beta so I'm confused on how the building is still this bad. How is glass walls locked behind a paywall? The lack of options in this game is staggering. I have bugs all of the time to where I can't spawn my motorcycle, switch weapons, reload or teleport. Getting one tapped by a boss to make the game feel hard isn't really that rewarding. Roofing in this game should have been addressed even before the launch of the beta. Honestly, the questing is pretty bad as well. I don't mind all of the side quests, but I did think the main storyline was very short and telling me I have to wait till season 4 to continue is frustrating, knowing most of my stuff is going to be wiped anyways. I don't mind weekly store resets and the specializations. I think the fact that you can't get all of them as you level up is really annoying. If I'm putting hours into the game, at some point I should be able to earn them, not have it be complete RNG and then I have to wait 6 weeks till wipe just to hope I get the specialization I want. I go from 30 fps to 100 fps but the shadows load 3 ft in front of me, so I really don't know what my gpu/cpu is processing. I can run GTA 5 and Red Dead 2 on max ultra graphics, but this game runs worse than any game I have ever played before. Don't forget the Gingerbread quest that can bug out, but you wouldn't know that so you end up running around looking stupid for an hour. The fact that people can even put notes in towns or on your property is going to repel people from playing because most don't know you can turn of the whispers. This game has so many issues it's not even funny. Simple coding that wasn't even done correctly. Honestly, if you don't know how to code, you should have paid someone who does know or simply call another gaming company and possibly ask for some assistance. I would rather pay $30-$60 for this game, if that meant it was going to run smoothly and I was going to actually have an enjoyable experience. All in all, I more than likely won't be playing after 1st wipe mainly because of the severe sever lag and fps drops that haven't been addressed. No way I can play 30 fps lagging game for 6 weeks, just to hop on and have to restart the laggy 30 fps chinese sever grind again. Last thing, if the company does address the server stutters/lag and bugs a couple weeks before the wipe, I might actually end up staying.
You nailed it. The game has potential, it's filled with very good ideas and takes on the genre, but the execution is severely lacking. It feels like this was made by a bunch of unexperienced students, there's jank everywhere. Another example you didn't mention is how bad the enemy AI is. And it being bad is when it's at its best, because the rest of the time, it simply doesn't work or glitches out : Enemies just standing there not reacting to getting shot, getting stuck in geometry, going into cover in the weirdest places, etc. When the enemies aren't fun to fight due to how stupid they are, or annoying to fight because the AI glitches out, in a shooter, you know something is very wrong. That's like, the very first thing they should have made sure they got right. And even you could argue shooting is only a part of it and there's other things going, like the crafting and building mechanics, well like you said, these are janky as well, so... This game could really be something special in the hands of a more talented and experienced dev team. As it stands, these guys are in way over their heads.
@@RioFordays people don’t realize how worthless gear/weapons/grind and everything else become simply due to poor AI reg. Like I can go in with low lvl gear and wipe lvl 50’s because of how AFK they are. They had to have known about this before and after beta and still chose to release the game in this state. Not a TERRIBLE state but def not more than a 5/10 on its best day
@@RioFordays it’s crazy how this game scratches the itch but doesn’t at the same time. It’s a itch on the middle of your back that you can’t get sadly
I really like the game but its got a lot of issues. The art direction feels wildly uneven. You got these awesome looking monsters in these weirdly mostly generic environments and human NPCs that look like they were made by aliens. Who the heck dresses like this??? Then there is the multiplayer were you have to coordinate like a team airforce stunt pilots to make characters on the same server or you're outta lucko with how fast the servers fill up. Just really sucked the fun I was having out with it
there is a option to turn off the whispers, it felt glorious
what? you dont like every ladder, chest, npc, special location covered in little messages that you have to then find the perfect spot to actually click your target? weird bro
OMG THANK YOU
Are u soul made from glass,U are irritating as hell.
Its the most addicting game since Ark, a game I spent close to 10k hours on.
So your two biggest complaint are you need a new mouse (you should only be going first person if you single click) and you haven't turned off the whispers.
The Demo was an OLD build. The beta tests were newer then the demo. Yes you can turn off the whispers
The only thing I dislike about Once Human is that when you log into a server and your friends are on a different server, switching to their server causes your entire character to reset. This means that everything you've spent hours grinding for and all the items you've purchased need to be earned and bought again from scratch.
You wouldn't have had to pay too much attention to anything the devs said to know this will change on the big august 1st patch.
Fan of OH here and yeah, pretty fair shake given at the game in the video, I'll admit that. OH is a bit of weird game I WANT to recommend to everyone but honestly, I can't. One thing about the hunger and thirst THAT REALLY SHOULD BE conveyed lot better that overstuffing and overdrinking gives you a buff that negates getting thirsty and hungry for 20 minutes. Water and food become also not an issue when you unlock air drying and water collectors. Air driers make jerky which don't decay and water collectors, especially when piped to tank mean that the next time you log in, you probably have tons of water to boil. (And when you unlock power and purifier.. you wake up to tons of purified water) The dropped gears you can't fix and modify is also one weird thing, I wish dismantling them gave atleast blueprint fragments and stuff. Only great about that mechanic is that in open PVP mode, you may get that super kitted sniper your enemy dropped. And last thing, wish machine? You DON'T have to gamble, you can buy whatever the prizes are straight. However, a legendary weapon goes for 8k starchrom. (Still, I say buying outhright will be generally cheaper than banking on your luck) I actually been enjoying the phases system, keeps the nolifers at leash and there apparently is mechanics that early tier stuff drops in more abudance for those late joiners. I am indiferrent about the seasons system, we'll see how it grips me after a season change. BUT to top up this big wall of text.. As Once Human has Netease's backing, I am going to scrutinise the FUCK out of the monetisation system. So far it's just pretty cosmetics and house drip, but the devs can only fight off big monay grabbing publisher so long..
Was there any survival game where the hunger/thirst mechanics were not annoying? I think V rising did it well, by tying it all to your nature as a vampire.
Will need some time from them to improve and find their way between those who inspired them and matured for much longer, game is ok just too fresh for really standing out, i won't stop playing Warframe for this one but i will play from time to time.
Warframe's story was trash for a long time stil 2nd dream...
People reaaaaalllyyy need to stop comparing this with that cheap game Warframe its just a bad joke. This game needs improvement but is in its core already so much better. This is comming from someone that has played Warframe, Divisions and Destiny for years. This games characters and the mechanics to develop them and grow stronger are one of the strongest mechanics till date and it just works. Having a lot of fun with this game over 100 hours in
I mean you described pretty much every single game released in the last decade and a half. Only a few outliers in all that time. What gets me is we have a lot of things from paid games in a game that is f2p and you can actually fully progress without paying anything. That's the big point to me. The fact that it also pulls from the best points of several games is as well. It's not going to be for everyone and you finding it boring is fine because not everyone is going to like it. It's not that you don't like it. It's just the reasons you give pretty much apply to the industry as a whole now not just this game. Plus you kind of exagerate a few of them. For one the grind is not nearly as bad as you are making it. I mean there are plenty of people with an ultimate character version with just 50-60 hours of playtime and not from cash shop. Hell I have about 80 and I've almost fully kitted out my Ultimate Bunny with fully updated mod slots on her and her primary weapon (except fully upgrading it's ultimate perk). I'm just griding out the mod (one of her exlusive transcendant mods because hard Pyro is a b**** when you're mainly electric) I want and I already have the kuiper to upgrade it to almost max. It's not nearly as bad as you make it especially when there are pay games with a far far worse grind than this game has. As for gun variety... I mean seriously dude... I don't even know the point of this one. There are a ton of different guns in this game... plus you're comparing it to the list on Warframe and Destiny after they have been out for a long time. Both games had a similar list at launch... (and Warframe had a grand total of 8 frames at launch which ahs expanded to 57 now) they've had time to release more so give this game the time to release more too before you grade it on games that have been out for 7 (Destiny) - 11 (Warframe) years. This one is probably the most petty of your points because your examples were the same or worse at launch than this game is.
Why does everyone complain! This game just came out. Remember Warframe sucked until people started to cheese the game. Now the devs did listen! Let's see what happens here. So far the game is cool
i feel the reason is WF is a game from 2013 with a old engine and thery had no big name funding them hell they almost failed and had to use their own money and players founder investment to survive and then look what happend it evolved from almost a fail game to a 11y still kicking ass game this is a 2024 unreal 5 engine game funded by nexon a big multi billion company they could have used a bit more imagination but like you said let this babyu grow a bit first hell if they follow WF footsteps then this game will def suprise many many people in a few updates
I think that in TFD the 3p shooting isn't /great/ it's just that they didn't do anything to screw it up. TFD is a game that took a lot from every other game, but implemented them all in objectively worse ways.
it annoys me it wont let me use a shotgun as primary weapon, some shots and you are looking for special ammo the rest of the mission.
It reminds me of a mix Skyforge and Warframe
4:35 Ya gotta utilize momentum like a Titanfall Grapple Pilot. The dodge roll after a double-grapple quadruple-jump helps with that movement tek. But it feels more like Gears of War movement mixed with the Crackdown 3 running animation, and a cheap-feeling double jump.
Just started playing 4 days ago. Haven't spent a penny. But I already have Freyna, Bunny, Ajax, and Sharen. But I did have to grind one dayum mission for an hour to get Sharen's crap needed to unlock her. 😂 It's not bad to grind, but it does get repetitive with the mission design and bland story. The community has been fun so far, and the missions are fairly easy due to good matchmaking. The boss battles feel good(Void Intercepts) even when solo. But if you want any of the unlocks to be immediate, this game has the boosters. The same thing happened with AC Odyssey; rewards those who grind but also sells the boosters to those who don't.
I wasn't planning on playing on release cuz i wasn't expecting much, glad i came in with that mindset, 100+ hours in and still have stuff i wanna do. The grind as another comment said is easy, just gets boring after abit (guess that's with any game like this tho)
Hm weird cuz ordis will forever live in the orbiter of my mind for the rest of my life. No matter how many times I hear the same dialog.
Honestly, i went in with very low expectations and im actually very satisfied with what i got from the game. The combat feels great, the characters feel very fun to build. The story is pretty awful but thankfully the story is the thing i CARE THE LEAST in the game. Ive even made new friends and we've grinded 2x Ultimate characters in a few days. Really having fun, and honestly don't find warframe to be any better outside of trading changing the access to certain things better in Warframe.
Yeah I didn't even try and already almost have Ultimate Lepic. Been on as a solo player for 4days. Start with Ajax. Don't use Bunny until after you get to White Gulch (also progress-gated in her Bunny origin story Mission with Alpha) cuz she's cheeks against bosses without the proper building due to her glass cannon features.
This game is such a boring disappointment
Warframes probably better for you, they'll let you know if the frame you're playing is gender fluid or some shit and you can look like a soy infused mutant when running around as your Tenno.
Hahahahahaha @@JampsD3
The grind on this game is pretty easy, i'm quite surprised, i'm on my 8th descendant unlocked as well as 12th forma/crystalizer and 3rd energy activator all just from playing the game On the movement side you're comparing a space ninja game to a normal humans with elemental attributes game, we're not supposed to be fast space ninjas, think more of the division, as for the grappling hook save yourself trouble and only use the long grapple hook mod on your descendants instead of punches and whatnot
Yeah they need to clean up the net code so I'm not getting input lag with the double jump and grapple. The grind isn't terrible, UNLESS you get stuck on a mission with a boss and have to run it for 4hrs to get an Enhanced Cell for a descendent 😂
So i didnt have any performance issues on my laptop. one thing that i did learn, that was strange, was the OPEN beta was on a version older than the CLOSED beta... for some reason
the clothing looks wild
looks like defiance from back in the day
The Shorts on the Avatar look weird. The monsters and stuff look really cool, but polished and finished by July 9th? Feels/Sounds like an Anthem issue. Lotta hype, lotta issues, results in a bad Game. I wouldn't mind seeing you play it just to compare release vs. beta experience.
The demo definitely was rough. But the closed betas were more stable and less buggy. Not sure what happened. The crossbow is indeed that strong. No buffs from being in a hive or warband because I was playing solo.
I tried it and couldnt even Finish the Tutorial its Just Bad. All the shills Here in KZread told US how good this is fking its a shame.
The tutorial is very generic and boring. But the game after that is pretty fun. Not perfect but still fun. Especially the base building.
I played it. Idk...I think I had about 2 or 3 hours in. Overall, I like the concept. It has clearly borrowed heavily from some other titles from a gameplay and style perspective - which isn't a bad thing necessarily. But it also has enough of it's own ideas to be unique. Overall, I liked what it had to offer and it definitely has potential. I didn't notice the lag that was mentioned in the video - I had pretty solid performance during my entire playthrough. However....and this is a big one, it is going to be a free to play title with heavy microtransactions and one that is also going to be released on mobile. Consider that information however you may. I only have a few beefs with the game - they clearly need to address the "build anywhere" mechanics. As the video mentioned, the entire starting area is completely polluted with player structures pretty much stacked on top of one another. Not only does it become a problem from a gameplay perspective, it also severely breaks immersion. Not sure how they'll address this; maybe player structures should be automatically removed after a certain period of inactivity, I don't know. But it was immediately off putting. Im assuming a lot of the mechanics were condensed and compressed for the sake of the demo. But, I felt like after 3 hours...I had already experienced the entire gameplay loop. Shoot badguys, loot loot loot, craft craft craft, unlock new areas, build a base somewhere in there, rinse and repeat.
The lag could have just been a hardware issue on my end, idk. I also didn't know they were releasing it on mobile and that's just going to make it a complete shit show. Thinking about it more, I think if they did a system like Fallout 76 where you log out and your stuff goes away could help it, maybe. But that would take a lot more programming for them to try and figure out a system for that so stuff didn't fully break when you do that. which may not even work with how they want to do PvP servers and things.
@TheTrueSandmanKing Honestly, something as simple as having "no build" zones within certain area's of the map could do it.
I didn’t mind that the majority of the player base were clumped together near the spawn point as it gives you an advantage 😅
I was kinda excited until I learned it's a season game. Stopped caring about it right after that lol
For someone has played both cbt2 and 3 and demo. Hive is like mini clan(8 people) but main "clan" is warband. I did not really have any buggs at all this demo. Also windows updates makes game buggs out a lot. heard some people had buggs when runing windows 11. When you talk about servers, they said per server gona be 4000 player max. Also it depends when you played the demo. Many players stop after few days so it was less and less as time went on. I saw a lot of people in cbt 3. Warband should have 80 players. the silos are 4 man dung and i think the raid is 8 man but you can also solo much of the stuff. I can agree with you the early zones Tier 1 - 3 is really easy but that you can thanks the whiners for. They nerfed them even early bosses got nerfed and became really easy, but people whine said they where to hard -.- I can say i really liked the story line of the game. I have played a loot of other loot and shooters, and most of them kill stuff with 1 shoot enemeys easy(like DIV2 and others) but elits and bosses take a bit more. But the reason some wep are strong(crossbow) is single ammo wep and have a slow reload. When getting in to higher zones(tiers) there is gona be a lot more adds and they can become too many then it does not really matter how strong wep you have if they all rush you at the same time. Give it a good try. i really like how they made it, is one of is kind what i think but hey thats just me :P
I think we played the demo on like the last day of it so that's why we probably only saw like 3 other players. The main thing for me is I think the Hive system doesn't need to be there and they could just fold it into the Team or Warband system. I heard a little bit about them maybe getting rid of the Hive system but I'm not sure what they're going to do. I agree with the story stuff, I thought it was interesting with the eldritch monsters and conspiracy stuff. With the weapons it's mostly because I'm used to starting off with the weak weapons that you want to get rid of right away but I feel like the first crossbow you make could carry you through for a good 10 levels. Especially if you play smart. I might be wrong because of the short amount of play time though, it's just how I felt about it.
@@TheTrueSandmanKing If you played last day then is 100% you saw so few people xD Tbh i like the hive system, you can build your base close to your hiv mates to build a mega base. It becomes a problem if you do it with warband. I havent heard anything about them remove it and i check their discord almost every day, tho there has been people make a vote for it but was voted down(i think it was not sure). The story monsters are based on Chutulu occult by H. P. Lovecraft i think. Stil the crossbow is a strong early was weaker but again the whiners won -.- weak point dmg is really strong even stronger with mods. But not all adds have weak points so some take time to kill. People whine it was to hard so they nerfed a lot off stuff thanks to whiners.
With the hive thing I think it was while I was playing I thought I saw something about making a hive base, not knowing it was just by putting bases together, and was looking online for how to do it. I think it was in a forum post or something that somebody said they were thinking about removing it but idk. I didn't really pay much mind to it I just remember seeing it briefly. Yeah, when they listen to the people that whine about a games difficulty and then cave it fucking sucks.
I am convinced a lot of these Chinese games don't actually have EU/NA servers and fake it all.
They had eu/na servers. i had server ms 30 - 40 all the time. that you cant have with fake servers. i think you are negative just bcs is chinese game
At least play before making such accusations. I'm in CA and played one closed beta and the demo. It's real. You're talking out of your rear.
Look at all these china simps
It felt like it was trying to wear too many hats and trend chasing when I played it. The basic gameplay loop of going out to scavenge materials and fight eldritch monsters was cool, but then they added in capturing monsters like palworld (their words), and some half-baked survival mechanics that dragged down the game for me.
I'm playing SMT vengeance right now, looking forward to Shadow of the Ered tree, and that's about it. I'm off the hype train, I'll look up a game when it launches.
I try to be cautiously optimistic about games these days. I look forward to stuff but I try not to get super invested until I see a lot of gameplay or play it myself. Used to get on hype trains, like Destiny 1, but I've been let down by too many lol.
As someone who has already played like 50-60 hours I think this games biggest flaws are the balancing issues that both boons and weapons have. Its a little boring that only 3 out of the 5 weapons are "viable" and for every one of those there is only one build that lets you clear high fear runs. Other problems I see are that most non-final bosses spawn too many mobs in between phases wich is annoying to deal with. Everything else is really good and polished plus its only an alpha and they will continue to add more and more features and story lines wich I am really excited for.
Agreed
I need to make a small addendum to the video!! When I was working on the video, the first patch wasn't released yet. So at the time of me playing Hades 2 and writing the video, you could still only take a single tool with you. With the first patch, now you are able to gather all of the resource nodes for the tools that you have unlocked.