Horizon Zero Dawn

gazzamcg · 16 Oct 2020 at 12:35

Finally completed this the other day.

The fireclaw was tough on very hard difficulty but eventually got him.

Good game.

mark43 · 16 Oct 2020 at 17:25

Okay so I've not got around to buying this yet so I don't know how much of an impact it actually had, but how was getting her to walk in a straight line not one of the first things to be fixed.

V F · 16 Oct 2020 at 20:05

gazzamcg said:
Finally completed this the other day.

The fireclaw was tough on very hard difficulty but eventually got him.

Good game.

The Fireclaw was a real beast.

ne0 · 19 Oct 2020 at 00:33

This game is awesome but I don't know how people are playing it on hard difficulties. I'm dying lots just on normal difficulty. The combat is so satisfying though and very deep; you really have to strategize.

ne0 · 19 Oct 2020 at 00:37

Poneros said:
The Way It's Meant To Be Played

30fps and no HDR? Naaaah

ic1male · 3 Dec 2020 at 13:54

This is behaving surprisingly well on my "nearly-potato" system. The only gripe I have is this weird black frame for a wee millisecond every now and again in cutscenes. But no crashes, mostly holding a 60fps with dynamic scaling. Very pleased overall.

V F · 3 Dec 2020 at 13:58

ic1male said:
This is behaving surprisingly well on my "nearly-potato" system. The only gripe I have is this weird black frame for a wee millisecond every now and again in cutscenes. But no crashes, mostly holding a 60fps with dynamic scaling. Very pleased overall.

Nearly-potato system? This? Alienware Aurora R7, Intel Core i7-8700 @ 3.2GHz, 16GB DDR4-2666, nVidia GTX 1070

MoodyB · 3 Dec 2020 at 14:05

I was getting a 95% stutter-free experience up until the last patch. Fps is limited to 60 in RTSS, running a 2600x + 2070s@1440p.

Now it'll drop to sub 40fps for a second or so every 20-30seconds. Slightly annoying.

ic1male · 3 Dec 2020 at 14:59

V F said:
Nearly-potato system? This? Alienware Aurora R7, Intel Core i7-8700 @ 3.2GHz, 16GB DDR4-2666, nVidia GTX 1070

Compared to the new generation of consoles, it certainly feels like it.

deuse · 3 Dec 2020 at 15:04

ne0 said:
30fps and no HDR? Naaaah

Is there any games with real HDR?

MissChief · 3 Dec 2020 at 15:26

deuse said:
Is there any games with real HDR?

Rise of the Tomb Raider has it.

BS Dave · 3 Dec 2020 at 17:00

MoodyB said:
I was getting a 95% stutter-free experience up until the last patch. Fps is limited to 60 in RTSS, running a 2600x + 2070s@1440p.

Now it'll drop to sub 40fps for a second or so every 20-30seconds. Slightly annoying.

wait in the menus for it to do the shader thing, it helped me running the benchie.

ne0 · 4 Dec 2020 at 00:43

deuse said:
Is there any games with real HDR?

not sure if serious question or not? there are quite a few and nearly every AAA game that comes out these days has HDR. HZD has incredible HDR so your question seems a bit strange.

ne0 · 4 Dec 2020 at 00:45

level 45...trying to grind up to level 50 to do the final frozen wilds mission and then main game final mission. Had such a good time with this game. After the last couple of patches the visuals have gone up a notch too.

Frubeling · 4 Dec 2020 at 06:31

I still need to do most of Frozen Wilds
The base game absolutely caught me off guard with how good it was. One of the best open world games I've ever played. I dunno what peoples gripe with the story was, I thought the twists and turns were fantastic and a lot of it was exceptionally emotional

Loved it so much I'm theming my new PC build on HADES

I kill Bunnies · 4 Dec 2020 at 07:26

I am a couple of hours into the game, it looks quite pretty but there are far too many cutscenes, hopefully they start to reduce now.

The movement and combat seem designed very much with controller in mind, it doesn't feel good with mouse and keyboard.

Frubeling · 4 Dec 2020 at 08:01

I kill Bunnies said:
I am a couple of hours into the game, it looks quite pretty but there are far too many cutscenes, hopefully they start to reduce now.

The movement and combat seem designed very much with controller in mind, it doesn't feel good with mouse and keyboard.

First few hours are cutscene heavy because it's trying to set the scene for what's going on. They become less obtrusive when you get free access to the entire map

In regards to the controls, it is a console port after all. Also why you'd want to use KB+M over a pad in a 3rd person game I don't know. Only issue would be aiming with the bow, but a few sensitivity tweaks and that becomes easy enough.

ne0 · 4 Dec 2020 at 09:23

I've had no problem using mouse and keyboard with this, seems pretty intuitive to me

Unisol Magic · 4 Dec 2020 at 09:51

I had to ditch this a few hours in. I just couldn't get into it at all. Lots of things about it just felt 'off' to me. Maybe the game engine in general?

deuse · 4 Dec 2020 at 10:10

ne0 said:
not sure if serious question or not? there are quite a few and nearly every AAA game that comes out these days has HDR. HZD has incredible HDR so your question seems a bit strange.

There a few fake HDR games out there. RDR2 is one of them.
That's why the colors look washed out in HDR.