@handlas: how did you buy upgrades? Im at the same stupid fucking spear boss and I havent seen a spot to buy upgrades yet. It says I need 4 beads or some shit and I barely have 1. I also turned it off and im pretty sure im done with it. Trying to make my way back to that spear guy everytime is a pain in the ass slowly trying to kill these guys without taking damage but being seen from a mile away and having arrows and dogs charge me immediately is annoying as shit. Then I finally get to the boss guy and I have to kill 3 fuckin people around him slowly and quietly first. Then I get to die in 20 seconds to the spear guy and do it all over again. Not having fun at all. I feel like I have to be missing something.
Also having a giant white wall of air stopping me from walking forward until I kill this random mini boss is fucking dumb.
So not upgrades but skills. Which I've nearly bought all the skills and I've barely progressed into the game ;/.
Alright..took the night off. Cooled down. Beat the spear guy without being hit! I was not using the thrust counter skill correctly. I thought you just counter like normal but it's a different button... that certainly helped. Does a lot of damage to his posture.
Also turned HDR off on my xbox...swear it causes input delay to be much worse. Can definitely feel it in Metro Exodus. Beat drunk boss in less than 8 tries at least... didn't bother parrying much just whittled his health down.
@handlas: If you buy those two stealth upgrades then it becomes a little ridiculous what you can do without being seen.
humm i bought those 2 now and honestly am not seeing much of a difference. But I'm still in the same corridor running up, killing the 8 or so enemies to the spear guy. Died to him another 10 times... most of which I feel i parry his hits every time yet die regardless. And the tracking on the dodge, him just rotating mid attack to hit you when you dodge, wow. I'm officially done sadly... if only I could refund. This coming from someone that beat all Dark Souls and Bloodborne (my fav souls game).
Alright lol my bitchin is over... onto a more friendly game. Maybe I'll play Bloodborne! I think the fighting based mostly around a parry system is not for me. I never parried in Dark Souls or Bloodborne.
edit: Gave it another 5 tries because I really don't want it to defeat me. It did. There's no doubt a 1 second input delay to everything for me on the xbox. Makes it nearly impossible to reliably counter attacks. That sealed the deal for me... can't beat the 2nd mini-boss. Done done done.
Thanks for the tips. I got to the spear mini-boss guy... I think I'm just actively hating the game at this point. It started to click for a bit but after dying to the spear guy 10 times I'm not much wanting to go back at it. Something about the controls just feel sluggish and the parrying seems imprecise. I dunnno... there's no stamina bar but it just feels like I'm playing a Souls game with a character that is fat rolling with no stamina left. Also the stealth seems completely pointless; you get seen from a mile away and with groups of enemies that are looking at each other in a circle; there's nothing to do but be seen immediately.
Is combat all about extreme patience? I got to the first sorta mini-bossy kind of guy that starts doing sweep attacks and thrusts and died on him about 15 times. Then I found the tutorial guy after that which helped. But it seems like you should be parrying more than actual attacking? And only really attack when you have a deathblow (or if you are just fighting the weaker enemies since you can spam them).
I'm enjoying it solo as well. Some of the heavily armored enemies can be tough. And the cool-down on some abilities like the drone is soooo long. My first ability was the cannon that damages armor and it's cool-down is only like 20 seconds which is way more useful alone I feel like.
I've bounced off Metro and DMC to play this for now.
That looks atrocious. From the handles to the sticks... why do thumbsticks look so tall yet the thumb parts look small. Just from the pics it looks like they tried to make it bad???
I was having trouble seeing things in the game. Either I set the gamma where everything was super dark or blown out. So I decided to turn HDR on my Xbox One X off. Thought it may look better like Red Dead does.
But there was a different outcome. The sluggish controls are fixed. No more of that really heavy input delay feeling. I can't imagine it's in my head since that was one of the main things that was causing me to not enjoy the game as much as I wanted.
Anyway... give it a try if you want. Think I may just keep HDR off from now on; seems to cause more issues than benefits.
I was disappointed initially that there wasn't a solo option. But I think the game needs a team dynamic. I'd actually rather see a mode with larger teams... 4-5 maybe? But duos would also be fun.
Wonder why they fell one 3 as the default. I usually do decent (and I'm not good at this game by any means) when one of our teammates bails out quick and it's just me and another person.
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