So I picked this up and promptly lost about ten hours of my life to it so far. Something very pleasant about just going out and fighting zambambos in this system.
Only real complaints I have so far is that the talent system just doesn't jive for me personally. If there's a tree, I want to be able to specialize my guy. I hate the feeling of running out of stuff to take that melds with my playstyle and having to spend the next 8 levels dropping points into stuff I will barely ever use just to get to a capstone.
But that's a different strokes different folks thing, really. So far this has been a fun way to wile away some time.
yea I can see that, at the end of the game all max level guys will have the same skillsets, though I likely play quite differently than other, my friend was loving the two handers and used the heavy hitting abilities like power strike and that slam. I shoot people.. lots.. then I shoot the virals that come running, and then shoot the virals that come after shooting the previous virals and so on.
Currently my favored style is breaking everyone's legs via slide kicks. Even when facing Rais's people at airdrops I don't bother getting into fisticuffs, I just run around slide kicking them until they die. Or lure a viral to occupy them long enough for me to nab the airdrop.
So I picked this up and promptly lost about ten hours of my life to it so far. Something very pleasant about just going out and fighting zambambos in this system.
Only real complaints I have so far is that the talent system just doesn't jive for me personally. If there's a tree, I want to be able to specialize my guy. I hate the feeling of running out of stuff to take that melds with my playstyle and having to spend the next 8 levels dropping points into stuff I will barely ever use just to get to a capstone.
But that's a different strokes different folks thing, really. So far this has been a fun way to wile away some time.
The current system is fine, I think, provided there isn't a cap that is below the amount of available skills. I don't think that's an issue here, so it is largely whatever.
Oh there's plenty of ways I can take them out, including explosive stars and molotovs, but I just have a ton of run running at the group, slide kicking, then coming back up still running to loop behind a vehicle and come at them again. Repeat until they're all dead. A variant might be climbing on to something wait for them to come after me before Sparta-kicking them off.
Do airdrops decay when Rais's people show up? I've only found one airdrop with no one there yet and I got two boxes, but every time Rais's people beat me to one there's only one box.
So I picked this up and promptly lost about ten hours of my life to it so far. Something very pleasant about just going out and fighting zambambos in this system.
Only real complaints I have so far is that the talent system just doesn't jive for me personally. If there's a tree, I want to be able to specialize my guy. I hate the feeling of running out of stuff to take that melds with my playstyle and having to spend the next 8 levels dropping points into stuff I will barely ever use just to get to a capstone.
But that's a different strokes different folks thing, really. So far this has been a fun way to wile away some time.
The current system is fine, I think, provided there isn't a cap that is below the amount of available skills. I don't think that's an issue here, so it is largely whatever.
Yeah there were only a few skills I never used (like throwing my weapon or ground smash) but by the time I was taking those I was just filling up my bar because I had the points.
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Oh there's plenty of ways I can take them out, including explosive stars and molotovs, but I just have a ton of run running at the group, slide kicking, then coming back up still running to loop behind a vehicle and come at them again. Repeat until they're all dead. A variant might be climbing on to something wait for them to come after me before Sparta-kicking them off.
Do airdrops decay when Rais's people show up? I've only found one airdrop with no one there yet and I got two boxes, but every time Rais's people beat me to one there's only one box.
If you get there quick enough you'll get both boxes, if you are not Rais' dudes will be there and there will be one box. If you leave it even longer you'll get an Airdrop stolen notification and no boxes
One of the goofiest things so far was running the power plant mission. I arrived there during the day to wait it out until the night, and decided to do some zombie killin' in the meantime. I perched up on the nearest fence, and started swinging.
I must've spent over half an hour on that fence smacking zombies as they filed in. At one point there were so many bodies that the ragdolls went nuts and zombies started flopping over the fence into my safe area!
Btw, the ragdolls have to be one of my favorite parts in this game. They're so goofy, and it's so fun to see zombies stumble over each other and fall all over themselves.
Yeah there are several places you can stack up zombo corpses. The bridge prior to a side quest is a great place to level up your zombo murdering pretty much free reign at night, but once you do a side quest there, that goes away.
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The one power station was my go to for zombie killing. Wait til night time, hop up the ledge just outside of the safe zone and toss explosive firecrackers or molotovs. You just rack in the power exp, hop down collect loots and let the nightrunners spawn then kill the shit out of them when they come up... bit of a cheese but they shouldn't attack a guy with a machine gun.
The thing is for me is that through normal play you can be pretty much maxed at the end of game. Like when I finished I had maxed both survivor exp and power exp and just needed to do some night running to finish free running. That's with playing strictly solo with minimal grinding.
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Also the hazmat zombos when they explode summon virals as well, so they can be a pain in the ass. When you are fighting a protracted campaign of zombo annihilation and they keep bringing more.
That's why drop attack was civilization. Vault off of the hazmat zed and then slam down into his face. One hit ko and his tank doesn't go boom.
It is much easier to pull off if you don't have power attack. Power attack is the only ability that has upset me enough to re-roll so that I don't have to deal with it messing things up.
The late game mission to climb radio tower can go die in a fire made of fires while on fire. Grappling hook is disabled, enjoy leaping to your death repeatedly.
In the first area there around that gully area where you can find toxic lichen there is a dammed off section that is filled with water. If you look you can a spot where you can swim into a tunnel which leads into a Dark Area... filled with Night Runners... NOPE!
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Have the devs addressed the performance issues yet? Game still kinda runs like hot garbage at times for me.
I'm on a 970, 2600k and it runs like fucking shit. Horrible jaggies too, DSR just makes it run even worse so I'm not touching the game until they clean this up.
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Have the devs addressed the performance issues yet? Game still kinda runs like hot garbage at times for me.
I'm on a 970, 2600k and it runs like fucking shit. Horrible jaggies too, DSR just makes it run even worse so I'm not touching the game until they clean this up.
I would not hold your breath on that. Dead Island runs like shit to this very day. I don't have much confidence in them making any sort of real effort to fix their shitty optimization to any extent.
Am I crazy or do the goons in Oldtown have longer range than they do in the slums?
They level up, for lack of a better term. Goons back in the slums are also super long ranged and are frustrating to handle. This is just for me though so ymmv
We had an amazing stand off last night in old town. Me @Malakaius and @minor incident just stood in the middle of a small market area in the night and killing everything that came in. Then a bomber came and blew us up. Good times. Also crashed for the first time.
If anyone is on the fence over the same things I was from dead island:
I wasnt happy with the durability again in this game(hated it in dead island). But when I realized I always had so many items on me and I could pretty much always have 4 crafted weapons I was good with it.
I didnt like the cost of things in dead island either, things are prohibitively expensive in this game too, but I am not hitting a drought of money vs running out of good weapons either.
This is all super early on though, like pre 20% through.Some loot is static, I did coop with nackma and we found a 'secret' chest in the middle of nowhere, which had a purple blueprint in it for each of us. It's neat.
In the first area there around that gully area where you can find toxic lichen there is a dammed off section that is filled with water. If you look you can a spot where you can swim into a tunnel which leads into a Dark Area... filled with Night Runners... NOPE!
Not actually a secret area, you go there for a side quest...
Though the slums does have an easter egg cave that makes fun of another game.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
In the first area there around that gully area where you can find toxic lichen there is a dammed off section that is filled with water. If you look you can a spot where you can swim into a tunnel which leads into a Dark Area... filled with Night Runners... NOPE!
Not actually a secret area, you go there for a side quest...
Though the slums does have an easter egg cave that makes fun of another game.
yuck I was afraid of that..
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So that Easter egg where you get teleported into a game of
Plants vs. Zombies? Holy fucking shit this game is so goddamn weird
Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
In the first area there around that gully area where you can find toxic lichen there is a dammed off section that is filled with water. If you look you can a spot where you can swim into a tunnel which leads into a Dark Area... filled with Night Runners... NOPE!
Not actually a secret area, you go there for a side quest...
Though the slums does have an easter egg cave that makes fun of another game.
yuck I was afraid of that..
Don't worry I'll spoil it for you.
You go there at night thus emptying it of the volatiles and just leaves virals and regular zombos.
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yea I can see that, at the end of the game all max level guys will have the same skillsets, though I likely play quite differently than other, my friend was loving the two handers and used the heavy hitting abilities like power strike and that slam. I shoot people.. lots.. then I shoot the virals that come running, and then shoot the virals that come after shooting the previous virals and so on.
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The current system is fine, I think, provided there isn't a cap that is below the amount of available skills. I don't think that's an issue here, so it is largely whatever.
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Do airdrops decay when Rais's people show up? I've only found one airdrop with no one there yet and I got two boxes, but every time Rais's people beat me to one there's only one box.
Yeah there were only a few skills I never used (like throwing my weapon or ground smash) but by the time I was taking those I was just filling up my bar because I had the points.
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If you get there quick enough you'll get both boxes, if you are not Rais' dudes will be there and there will be one box. If you leave it even longer you'll get an Airdrop stolen notification and no boxes
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I must've spent over half an hour on that fence smacking zombies as they filed in. At one point there were so many bodies that the ragdolls went nuts and zombies started flopping over the fence into my safe area!
Btw, the ragdolls have to be one of my favorite parts in this game. They're so goofy, and it's so fun to see zombies stumble over each other and fall all over themselves.
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The shotgun can make the rag doll physics do some crazy things.
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That's why drop attack was civilization. Vault off of the hazmat zed and then slam down into his face. One hit ko and his tank doesn't go boom.
It is much easier to pull off if you don't have power attack. Power attack is the only ability that has upset me enough to re-roll so that I don't have to deal with it messing things up.
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I believe it runs like hot garbage because they tried to address performance issues sadly
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I'm on a 970, 2600k and it runs like fucking shit. Horrible jaggies too, DSR just makes it run even worse so I'm not touching the game until they clean this up.
I would not hold your breath on that. Dead Island runs like shit to this very day. I don't have much confidence in them making any sort of real effort to fix their shitty optimization to any extent.
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They level up, for lack of a better term. Goons back in the slums are also super long ranged and are frustrating to handle. This is just for me though so ymmv
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They have a shockwave as they hit, which is super screwy when you first transition over from the Slums.
I've met goons with shockwave in the Slums. I assume it is either a matter of combat level or story progress.
I wasnt happy with the durability again in this game(hated it in dead island). But when I realized I always had so many items on me and I could pretty much always have 4 crafted weapons I was good with it.
I didnt like the cost of things in dead island either, things are prohibitively expensive in this game too, but I am not hitting a drought of money vs running out of good weapons either.
This is all super early on though, like pre 20% through.Some loot is static, I did coop with nackma and we found a 'secret' chest in the middle of nowhere, which had a purple blueprint in it for each of us. It's neat.
Not actually a secret area, you go there for a side quest...
Though the slums does have an easter egg cave that makes fun of another game.
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yuck I was afraid of that..
ha I missed that one entirely. Where is that?
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Don't worry I'll spoil it for you.
You go there at night thus emptying it of the volatiles and just leaves virals and regular zombos.
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Right after you finish the radio tower thing. Take the southwest (I think?) zip line down and explore that big canyon. You have to inspect
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