Topic: Days Gone - OT

And as I was playing, all sounds suddenly stopped working. The only thing that was still audible was Deacon. Everything else dead silent.

@Octane You're character have been infected and it's temporary deaf. Wow!
Or maybe it's just another bug.

Mmmmm just killed my first horde in Days Gone. Was only a little one but managed to catch 50 of them sleeping in a mine. So I quietly crawled in, chucked 3 pipe bombs at the group and legged it back to my bike. About a dozen or so made it out but I threw a few molotovs at them, shot a couple of others and watched the rest burn. Man that was intense. Such a mad feeling when you finally conquer them. Feel like a superhero.

Days Gone is awesome.

Yeah, hordes really are something else.

The game starts pretty slow or at least felt that way for me but towards the end, it really starts to click. I'm enjoying the survival aspect a lot.

Much like Sekiro this is a game where I'm wondering how people have had the time to finish it so quick. I feel like I might be getting on for 20 hours in the game now and I've barely reached the 3rd area.

Well I'm juuuuuust a little to the party and after my hour or so long test of it a few weeks back I started Days Gone for realsies on Friday night and played a decent amount over the weekend.

It's pretty positive impressions so far.

I love coasting down a hill/mountain on the bike, saving that precious fuel as you carefully dodge trees, rocks and freakers. I busted my bike pretty bad with the one jump ... luckily I had the scrap to patch it up!

It feels very satisfying to use the bike in general to be honest and like Spider-Man (I did use fast travel in Horizon now and again) I probably won't use fast travel at all if I can.

Normal difficulty is also kicking my ass more then I expected 😅

Granted I did just come off of an action jrpg (and perhaps rather stupidly I am trying to melee kill enemies so far instead of using my guns so it's probably just me 😂) ... but I wasn't expecting attacks to hit quite so hard!

It's definitely keeping me on my toes as every encounter is a fairly tense experience... Especially as the freakers are starting to seemingly buddy up even more now and I've seen a few 30+ hordes roaming about 😨

I'm not even that far in! Last "story" mission I did was bring the Thunder Egg to Lisa.

It's a very pretty looking game and thanks to the year wait I haven't come across any bugs so far.

Well Deacon sometimes is a little particular with those button prompts to open a boot or talk to a vendor as I'm apparently not in the correct position for this biker in sour armour (I actually kinda like that Deacon's a fairly miserable git lol) but other then that it's been very smooth to play on my slim!

I bought it last week in the sale, and it's so good. Might be my favourite PS4 game. Zombies, motorbikes, and a miserable git, it was made for me .
I'm playing on hard, and get by fine with melee, as long as I'm not too out numbered. Just practice that R1 roll timing, and you can dodge out of the way most of the time.
Coming straight from RDR2, the being in the right place to search thing is so much better than trying to hitch that damn horse, I've not noticed it too much.

Seeing as you've made moody ol' Deek your avatar I'm inclined to believe you @phil_j lol

Yeah melee is definitely only good for one on one or two at a pinch... I've learnt that the hard way! 😂

It was mainly because I found the starting weapons rather rubbish and my trusty spiked baseball bat was way more reliable (I went for the survival skill tree first too so I can repair melee weapons and carry double the crafting materials).

I got my hot springs reputation up to level 2 now though so I got myself the very satisfying shotgun as my primary weapon.

Can't say the story's hooked me at the moment but it's very satisfying to play and I'm enjoying the survival aspects to it more then I thought I would

It's not the best script I've ever seen, but it gets more interesting as you get further into the story.
I'm a lover of the crossbow myself, there is just something I find really satisfying about sneaking around headshotting zombies with it.

Started a new game on PS5. Never got far, because I wasn't really into it. I pretty much forgot everything that happened, so there's that.

Not a big fan of melee combat on R2, it just doesn't feel right. I can't pinpoint it, but the control setup doesn't feel natural. Not sure what I'd change, but I definitely remember pressing the wrong buttons a lot lol.

Got to the point where I quit last time I think. I'm definitely paying more attention, and I understand it all a little better I think. I have to say, the world looks amazing. Climbing those watch towers, and view, it is as if you really are in Oregon. They definitely nailed that part.

@Octane I played a few hours of it before Cyberpunk. It didn't blow me away but I did enjoy it and plan to go back to it soonish, after I get the urge to play something open world again.

Can someone explain the gun locker to me? I reached Tucker and Alkai(?), and I was able to buy new weapons. A SAP9, which is supposedly better than my 9MM. When I buy the gun, it drops the 9MM, and I can't hold more than one. I can't access the store anymore after this instance, presumably due to story reasons. Anyway, I restarted my save, tried putting my 9MM in the locker first to purchase the SAP9, but I won't let me store the weapon. How does this work?

What I've learned to far is that the best way to kill deer is by riding into them with your bike.

Octane - only guns you've purchased or have been rewarded can be stored in the locker. Will not store every gun found in world

@Octane any weapons bought or gifted to you will be available in your locker even if you drop them, you can always just go back to your locker later and re-select it for no cost except to maybe fill the ammo. I've found this pretty helpful since I've gone with a sniper rifle as my special and a rifle for my main and the SAP9 for my secondary I use a lot of stealth so have them all equipped with silencers but when in a big gun fight I've swapped out my rifle for a ak47 or shotgun I'll get from an enemy to deal with larger numbers then go back to the locker and get my original weapons again.

I don't know if we get extra holsters or not but they would be super helpful.

@MaulTsir I was about to ask about the holsters! I guess so, but it'll be a surprise until them I guess..!

And thanks! I've mostly gathered that from playing as well, I figured it would be a weird system if you could permanently lose the weapons you bought.

I'm about 30 hours in now, played a bit more yesterday, messed up a tiny bit didn't manage to clear all the speakers on a Nero check point close to a horde and now the horde is constantly there day and night lol had a mission to clear a marauders camp out and it was so close to the horde that their gun shots brought them flying through the camp and destroying all of us, was pretty funny tbh

@MaulTsir The one near the sawmill? I had the same problem. I thought I cleared out all the speakers, but there was one left. I died, and the horde respawned inside, and they didn't come out for some reason, so I took out the last speaker, and now the area is safe.

@Octane yeah that is the one, I managed to snipe the speaker but they just hang about there now every time I reload the game and I've even progressed the game further they just be a horde around that Nero camp and some at the saw mill lol hopefully I'll be ready to take them out at some poin5 but I think it's one of the harder hordes