Dying Light 2

DL1 scored 'poorly' as well iirc with mostly 7's but that was one of the most fun/best games of that generation. I feel for the devs as they are trying to be as positive and nice about it as possible but you'd imagine they would make most of their money from high scores instead of long support. Saying that, no man's sky released so much free content i had to wonder where they were getting the money from. Maybe devs can make money in the long run from word of mouth and people buying the game again. I did buy DL1 twice.

I just played a few mins to test. There's a new Nvidia game-ready driver for it out now and also I highly recommend checking out Digital Foundry's PC optimisation guide (linked below). It is a performance killer with RT even with DLSS but it is one of the most impactful implementations I've seen, where it's really adding to the atmosphere rather than just adding some prettier shineys. The menus are a mess with obviously being controller focused rather than remember that PCs do actually have this wonderful thing called a mouse. Where this gets really annoying is in options with multiple screens, especially video where you can easily hit the binary-page-flip buttons thinking you'll see more options (as happens in other areas like Controls) but in reality have just wiped away your customisations by selecting a different preset instead. For video I had to reload to get it to accept my change to DX12 and until I did RivaTuner overlay was telling me I was getting near 100FPS in DX11 when it clearly was MUCH lower, on reboot it showed DX12 and yep a frame rate in the 40s (I had everything maxed at 4k a little tuning from the DF video below and it's now at 60-70 with minimal visual differences).

Control binding is also kinda broken. You can't remap mouse buttons at all so you'll need to set those to Keys in your mouse software if you want to set them to any other functions. Some functions are not represented in the configuration options (e.g. it just told me I need to hold TAB for a new function which is not shown anywhere in the menu to remap). After I reloaded to fix the DX11/DX12 issue my control changes hadn't been saved, I haven't tried since to confirm.

Last up after the first tutorial section I was on my way to the next target and wanted to try some parkour tests on a nearby house that had a boat rack. I ended up stuck under the lowest boat with no way to get out. So at that point I just quit and will wait for the weekend and hopefully some quick fixes for things like the controls.

Still I was a Dead Island fan and LOVED Dying Light 1 so I have high hopes for this beyond some niggling initial problems. This will absolutely own my weekend.

Same as Jim, about an hour in on PS5 and really smooth, no bugs for me so far. Game looks beautiful, the night actually feels different to the first game, different sense of fear when a chase starts to the first as there seems to be more going on and more danger. Climbing and skills feel very weak at the moment but was the same starting the first game, really feel vulnerable starting off. Weird not having a repair option for weapons but might be more fun using weapons, breaking them, finding new ones instead of keeping the same few and repairing. Will see how that works out.

Yeah for a big release on a Friday, would be handy if they gave people a chance to collect after work. I had to bomb in on my lunch. Got the 10 euro voucher though which is very handy. Either get psn credit to get Elden ring digitally or just get a physical copy from GS.

Yupp, thought it was supposed to be a bigger patch as well but dev said the latch today/ last night is the day one patch.

Survivor sense reminds me of the Batsense in the Arkhsm games how often it's being used, too much. Other than that really enjoying the first few hours, gameplay is at its best when parkouring, closely followed by dropkicking enemies. I think overall it does a good job of gradually bringing in new elements rather than bombarding too much at once.

Ya can't! Well, why time you mod/upgrade a weapon with a craftmaster, it fully repairs. It's making me hesitant on being attached to a weapon enough to mod it though.

Yupp, you get to repair a weapon 3 times before it's gone for good but in end game, i had 5 repairs per weapon but any time i did, it wasn't using the 5 allowed repairs so was like i had infinite. No idea of it was because of a perk or what.

The weird thing with this is that it's rare you can pick up your enemies weapon so if you were in a long stretch of an event section, you could get stuck with no weapon, will see how it plays out.

I had to read on twitter about the distance meter that pops up on the bottom left of the screen when you hear the automated voice tells you about a nearby container. I tried going into a few GRE places but got a warning that it's too dangerous so for now, I'm running around doing a mix of main and side quests while doing any injectors that pop up as i get close. Need to do more windmills.