Thrasador

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  1. 8 minutes ago, NLGrinder said:

    That first wolf is best avoided.  Just get to the church.

    Oh, I'm not going to the church without looting every car, cattail, and deer I see man....this is the way of the OCD gamer....

    And you can bet your bottom dollar I'm going back to pry open those 4 locked trunks after I go to Milton....there could be ANYTHING in there....!!!

  2. 54 minutes ago, Raphael van Lierop said:

    Literally trapped in the car?

    Lol, no I mean by the wolf by the first bridge. Every time you start a new game you typically spend x number of hours trapped in one of the cars after the first cave you walk through. At least I do, maybe I'm doing it wrong. I typically steal the meat off the deer the very first wolf is eating. BTW @Raphael van Lierop now that I started over AGAIN (for about the 4th time) I really wish you didn't mess with the amount of meat on each deer. I am really hurting for food this time compared to other runs. The deer before the first cave only had 0.6 kilos, and the deer after the cave that the wolf was guarding only had 1.6 kilos. At least one of those two had 4.0 kilos. Actually on the original release almost every deer had 4.0 kilos, lol. Every time I start over I end up with less and less food....

    I really hope by "retuned Grey Mothers quests" you mean you lowered the amount of wood and food she wants.....if it's more now I am going to be FUBAR....

    BTW I am now up to the blue trailer....I need to double back for the dead deer by all the cattails....Hopefully that one has some meat on it still...

    Also, am I getting hungry faster....and did you make the tutorial blizzard damage clothes more? My pants and green shirt both started at 22 condition and at the first cave I noticed they were down to 15 already....and I didn't get in any wolf fights....they are getting wrecked FAST...

     

  3. 1 hour ago, JAFO said:

    I'd guess some are compatible with already running games, and some are not. (retroactively fixing some things in a running game would require editing the save file to correct) It's just the nature of the beast.

    Okay, well I guess someday I'll finish Episode 1 and get to Episode 2 but I guess that day is not today, as I am trapped in the first car before the bridge again ;)

     

  4. 2 minutes ago, JAFO said:

    Sorry, but it doesn't. It takes just one arrow, and some patience. You never NEED to hit any animal more than once. But you might be waiting a few in-game hours for it to bleed out and die.

    I'm hoping he's got that down at this point. Myself, @Mroz4k, and now you have all tried to steer the OP straight on one shot, one kill and bleeding wounds. Only time will tell if he believes people who have been playing longer than him....some of you much, much longer than him...

  5. 18 minutes ago, Raphael van Lierop said:

    Good news! After all that explanation, our Xbox One Patch 2, and all the PS4 versions were both updated today. Just in time for the weekend.

    PS4 Version 1.08/1.09 Patch Notes: 

    Xbox Patch 2 Notes:

    Hope that helps all of you out.

    Great work @Raphael van Lierop! Now we just need to make sure we patch items disappearing when placed on the floor in certain buildings in Milton and the Trapper's Cabin in the story, and in the Pleasant Valley farmhouse the Sandbox. I don’t know specifically which buildings in Milton, I have been using the floor in Grey Mother's house because I heard it was safe....and it has been so far. I am just passing on the information I have been reading in various threads about items disappearing when placed on the floor....

  6. 2 hours ago, Raphael van Lierop said:

    Thanks. I've posted some things occasionally thank rankled people. In general I don't understand where the hate towards comes from but I get internet culture and I've come to terms with it. Often a small comment can be taken out of context and becomes a "thing". I'm also a vociferous defender of the game and team and so I don't shy away from telling people off when I think they are being unfair. I'm not perfect. But, apart from my family, this game means everything to me, and I've been working 15 yrs to get here. Not making excuses, just showing that this is a personal work of deep passion and not some corporate thing.

    I wasn't here for the countdown thing, that was just before my time...but I read about it.

    I think the root of the anger and frustration stems from the waiting. Some of your die-hard fans have been "waiting" for the story mode since potentially 2013 or 2014. Then to have it finally release and have it be anything but flawless after the years of waiting caused anger and frustration. No one is perfect and as others have stated releasing games a little prematurely HAS become the norm. Almost every big game has a day 1 patch now....and then STILL requires a month of patching afterwards....or more.

    So I don't know, maybe we were just holding you to a higher standard and being perhaps a bit unfair in our expectations. Also, it's easy to act like a big jerk when you are being anonymous on the Internet. It's not like people normally behave like this face to face and in person.

    What I will say is before Story mode was released this game was already becoming my favorite game of all time, with just the Sandbox. Once the bugs get hammered out, lets redouble our efforts to make sure the remainder of the story functions more smoothly upon release. Like myself and others have offered we are even willing to help test the game. I would do so for free....

    This game being as good as it is, and how quickly I myself became attached to it, I would think most people who try it like it. I found it on accident on YouTube, and after mentioning this fact in threads it appears this is how others found the game too. I have referred to it as, "The best game I never heard of." I don't think I have ever seen an advertisement for it ANYWHERE... I think myself and other fans should start a word of mouth advertising campaign on FB, Twitter, Steam, and Reddit describing it as, "The best game you never heard of." Maybe link a trailer and/or a gameplay video....

    It's time for more people to appreciate "The quiet apocalypse!"

    Thanks again for making the game @Raphael van Lieropand crew! Sorry for those of us who were being jerks the last couple weeks....myself included!

     

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  7. 22 minutes ago, SnowWalker said:

    I wish I could put this in some other thread but I just wanted to say that 'Me Too!' I can't finish FO4. It's the micro managing that gets me after awhile. I get what I call FO Burnout. I have to give it a rest for two or three months and then get back into it when I miss it and play another couple weeks and then I get FO burnout once again :D I will finish it though someday, maybe by 2020, but then there will probably be a new one, oh god, lol.

    I would say it is a trend with many Bethesda games....they just put "too much" in their epic games. The games are incredible....like FO3 and FO4, and Morrowind and Skyrim....but they are all just soooo damn big, I can't possibly finish them. I just drown in content. Part of it is my OCD gaming, I can't miss or skip any of it. So I have to make this giant flow chart in my head of how to cover everything and in what order, and then it just becomes so daunting and overwhelming I just give up, lol...

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  8. 5 minutes ago, GeronimoTester said:

    So we'll done "Raphael Van Lierop" for coming out and explaining the situation with the Console fans for both Xbox & PS4.. Not many Game Directors come out and make a statement so good on yeah..

    Those were my thoughts exactly, and it's why I accepted his statements and apology. I feel it was a good choice to say something, and the right thing to do at this juncture. Things were getting pretty heated in various threads, and I feel the moderators were beginning to get frayed nerves over the hostility in general in the forums....

    "Hey boss....the natives are outside and they have pitchforks and torches.....can you address them please?!"

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  9. 2 minutes ago, The Gentleman Bastard said:

    And if anyone did say it was not a good game, i would literally fight them over it. its my FAVORITE game. Only one i really play actually

    This is the only game I have been playing since I started playing it. I haven't been playing it very long though, lol. Less than two months....

    That being said, I am already at like 274 hours or something like that. Typically at this point I am completely sick of a game, and even if I hadn't finished it....I would just lose interest and stop playing it.

    For instance I have loved Fallout since it was GOTY in 1998...or was that Fallout 2? Regardless, I have loved Fallout for DECADES. I have played all of them, often more than once. Even Fallout 4, I was burnt out on it by now and just stopped playing it, and I never even finished the main story. I just got overwhelmed by all the places, and side quests, and my little settlements....I was just tired of managing it.

    This game, I don't seem to be getting tired of it. Part of it is the game, and part of it is talking to the other people here who also play the game. I enjoy the sharing of information, and tips, and secrets about the game as much as I enjoy actually playing the game. I probably spend more time on the forums helping other people find things in the game, as I do looking for things in the game for myself....

    It's a pretty unique situation actually, I've never invested this much time in a game's community, let alone a game itself....

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  10. 1 hour ago, Winnsford said:

    I know bears can be taken down with one arrow. I've done it from the porch on PV. It was a lucky  shot that stunned me to say the least. I aimed for the head and let it go. I also know it takes about five arrows if you shoot it in the side. There was one that would get stuck on the ice on DP that was an easy takedown. There was a bug once that cancelled any damage you did to bears if you shot it and immediately jumped into a cabin. Haven't kept up with changes to know if this has been corrected.

    It's still there, I just saw it in a Rick video.....and I mentioned the bug in my posts above....

  11. My last bear hunt was in DP a couple days before Wintermute. I actually had a really good DP run. I was going to loot all the locations and while there make a ton of arrowheads, because sometimes you lose arrowheads, even though you are not really supposed to. I brought my heavy hammer with me that I had repaired with tools and fir wood to 100%, but it ended up being unnecessary(I figured it would be unnecessary, because there is normally a hammer in Hibernia....and there was so I left that one in a locker there). The weird thing was the one I looted at the end of the mine that connects the Crumbling Highway to DP. I didn't even know it was possible to get a hammer from a red tool chest (it was my first one ever in a tool chest). I usually find them out lying around on things.

     

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    I hunted the bear that wanders around in front of broken bridge on the road. I shot him in the head with an arrow from a cliff that you can walk to by hugging the wall after leaving the coal mine in DP. The East exit across the street from Hibernia. You can see the blood on the snow right above the middle of my bow. He saw me and smelled me and then walked right up to me and stood there because he couldn't reach me...

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    I didn't insta-kill him unfortunately, but I did only shoot him once right in the middle of his forehead. He ran around for a couple hours until he died on the ice just to the right of where I was facing on the cliff. If you look closely you can see a piece of the shaft sticking right out of the middle of his brain pan....pretty good shot.  My archery was just under level 3 at the time. Now it is level 3 after making about four more arrows....

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    This is a shot of the cliff I was on from the road. You need to walk along untill you fall down about a half foot from one cliff part to the next, where there is a gap between a higher part of the cliff and a lower cliff. I think that's what made it inaccessible to the bear. Animals won't jump off edges of things or cliffs. If they hit the edge they turn around and go back...

     

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  12. 1 hour ago, Mpat120 said:

    Hmm....I kill bears with the rifle all the time......rarely with more than 2 shots.

    Good job then, that's how it's done....Even if you don't crit your shot in the head and down the bear in one shot, if you hit it once solidly and take shelter in a place you cannot be reached by a bear (some clifs can be unreachable to a bear, or trees, or a car, or a shelter) it will eventually bleed to death in a matter of in game hours. Then you can track it and harvest it.

    There is a bug, where if you shoot a bear and run into a shelter with a loading screen, it may reset the bear and it will behave like it was never shot, and then never bleed to death. This is a bug though, and that is not supposed to happen, but it has happened....

  13. This was a pretty amusing read for me.  @pigbull320's heart was in the right place, but it's clear some of your tips are not tips, and others are just wrong and really bad advice, like the advice on shooting bears for instance. All animals in the game are supposed to bleed to death over time if you land a single bullet or arrow. Currently there are bugs which may interfere with this fact, but it is how it is supposed to work. Also you CAN one shot bears... @GELtaz does it a LOT, on video. Also, in the event you were somehow magically lucky enough to spawn inside any lootable building at the beginning of a run, why in God's name would you advise someone to NOT loot it. In the beginning you can use ALL the clothes and tools you can find as soon as humanly possible. Risking freezing to death to travel directly from a better base of operations like the Camp Office, because it is practically in the middle of Mystery Lake, to the Trapper's Cabin without searching it is almost insane to advise. Using the Camping Office as your base makes going on a trip to loot the rest of Mystery Lake one location at a time INFINITELY easier than having to trek from the Trapper's Cabin to the other end of the map and back over, and over, and over...

    As someone who HAS read all the guides available numerous times, studied every map available, and watched a sickening number of videos by game veterans playing on Interloper, on top of playing several hundred hours longer myself than you have, you should take @Mroz4k's corrections as he is correct in pretty much everything he stated. He could have perhaps tried harder to correct you without being rude and insulting (like saying no explative Sherlock)....but much of what you said was pretty silly for a game veteran to read, so he probably got very frustrated by some of the "advice" you gave.

    No one, brought up searching for bunkers I don't think. I would recommend doing that in both ML and PV. The only bunker I believe I saw mentioned was the Abandoned one in PV which has far less loot in it than the not abandoned ones....

    Lastly the MOST amazing aspect of this thread for me personally, is if I had written the OP or the detailed reply at least three forum members including @Carbon would have instructed me to add spoiler tags to black out almost everything and all maps, and at least one forum moderator would have scolded me in the thread and/or by PM and then deleted everything, like they have done with several of my other posts including one that was a letter from the PEGI game rating organization which only mentioned the details of exactly ONE cut scene in Wintermute.

    I guess some people have all the luck...

  14. 2 hours ago, Bripea said:

    Are we talking hours, days?? I really am excited to move on to episode 2, (but the game wont let us, because of the issues on xbox)

    I would pray for days and prepare for weeks. This smells of shoddy Microsoft bureaucracy....

    As an angry player feel free to call Microsoft's corporate office to complain, and ask why this process is so slow and tedious....when other gaming platforms are able to receive quicker patches.

    Tell them you are planning on no longer supporting their products and gaming platforms, if they can't get their acts together. If that does nothing then I would stop buying XBOXes....and post all over social media why you are boycotting their products.

    Of course that is how I roll when frustrated and upset....you could also just wait patiently like a good little consumer and twiddle your thumbs....

  15. 33 minutes ago, Thrasador said:

    Wolves still walk right over lit flares....is this a bug? Am I using flares wrong? Am I supposed to hold the flare or throw the flare?

    Also I walked the whole waterway of Milton starting at the bridge and did not find ONE cattail stalk....There were a bunch before town, so I have some....but there's not ANY in Milton?! That blows....

    Ok....so I kind of found some cattails in Milton sort of....not on the river though....

  16. Wolves still walk right over lit flares....is this a bug? Am I using flares wrong? Am I supposed to hold the flare or throw the flare?

    Also I walked the whole waterway of Milton starting at the bridge and did not find ONE cattail stalk....There were a bunch before town, so I have some....but there's not ANY in Milton?! That blows....

  17. 35 minutes ago, SnowWalker said:

    Hahaha, that reminds me of my hubby. He won't play Alien: Isolation because he has no choice but to play a woman :D Also, not Tomb Raider, lol.

    I've played Tomb Raider....like 20 years ago. I'll play a female protagonist if that is the only choice available. If there IS a choice, I play as my gender, which is male....

    Usually a big tanky male that likes to smash things...

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  18. 16 minutes ago, JAFO said:

    Funny.. I always play as Will, because I find Astrid's whining irritating as hell.

    I always play as Will because I AM A MAN! Lol, I always play men, as a man. I know some guys say they prefer staring at their female avatar as opposed to a male avatar, but I always found that peculiar...