This game is amazing. I'm about halfway through i think, but I need to slow down. I've kind of been speed running the story progression just because its so fucking good, and as a result I dont think I'm powerful enough to move on to the 3rd map. I haven't even fought a horde yet because they scare the fuck out of me.

The characters are fantastic. Sam Witwer, who is an absolute underrated gem of a national treasure, in the role of the player character (Deacon St. John) is just brilliant. The mocap, face capture, and performance capture are so well done, you'll find yourself appreciating the facial animation a great deal especially. The NPCs are varied and feel alive, and frankly most of them piss me off, buncha tryhards and pieces of shit, lol. The dialogue is so good that I feel emotionally invested enough to legitimately hate a lot of these fucks (obligatory FKSKIZZO). Meanwhile there's other characters you care deeply about, like your bro that you ride with and your absent wife. It really draws you in.

The game mechanics are a little different from what you typically see in an action horror. The horde mechanic is what stands out. The game isn't scary but barreling over a hill on your motorcycle and finding yourself suddenly waist deep in 100 or more (up to 500!) enemies all at once, just surrounded. I haven't yet learned to fight a horde, but just trying to get away from them while you have their aggro is tense as fuck. They'll clothesline your ass and knock you right off your bike.

Speaking of your bike, it's some of the most satisfying driving I've ever done in a game. I hate driving mechanics in games. I'm terrible at it. I veer all over the place. I can't stay on the fucking road. But this game, it's intuitive. It's manageable. I can stay on the road even! The driving is actually fun. I even skip fast traveling at times just to enjoy riding around on my motorcycle. It's fantastic. The implementation is just right for me.

As an aside, I'm running a ROG Ally, which is a mobile AMD processor, and it runs just great with no tweaking.

So anyways, if you skipped Days Gone like I did, as an action horror junkie, I highly recommend it l. The story and characters and voice acting are the highlight, and I just dont have a single complaint about the combat or driving, even the crafting (which I typically hate) is well done. My only complaint would be that the game has allowed me to progress the story before i feel prepared for it, and that's minor. Plus for all I know maybe I can handle the next chunk, I won't really won't know til I get there. Great game.

I can't reroll anything on my boots, so I'm hoping that I can roll for extra evade charges on something else like a helm or chest piece etc. Does anybody know if that's possible? I don't want to spend all the money and resources if it's not.

I want to love the idea of a universal messaging app, but being on a waiting list with tens of thousands of other people for months has killed my excitement for it.

Does anyone else see "1 more reply" fairly often, but when you click it, the one more reply is not revealed?

I don't know if this is a problem with the app, a problem with Lemmy in general, or if I'm just doing something to fuck things up which is most likely.

Quite often, I'll make a comment on Lemmy somewhere, and then the next time I go to make a comment, the text from my previous comment is already in the box and I have to delete it all to begin anew. Sometimes I get like an error message about it, sometimes I don't, sometimes it doesn't happen at all. It's a little unpredictable.

Does anyone know if this is a known issue, or if I'm doing something to cause it?

Edit: I added a pic of the error message. Interestingly, the error indicates that the app quit while I was typing, but that's never the actual case. I post and comment just fine, with no app failures. I just get this message the next time I open Voyager.

I'm not a big networking guy, so I'm not sure exactly the best way to ask this. My internet tends to drop out a lot, and I get disconnected. I'm wondering if there's an app out there that I can just put on on my laptop or phone and let it run in the background for like 24 hours to see exactly how many times my internet really gets disconnected during the day. I'd like to be able to contact my ISP and give actual information rather than guessing. Anyone know if such an app exists?

And if you do, what's best, killing every enemy in the dungeon, or just speed running to the boss?

I don't have it, and I'm just curious. Do you have to have the imbuments on your skill bar in order for them to apply to rain of arrows, or do you just have to have points in them?

I've read articles that say they do, however, flawless skulls provide +12 Life on kill, but no matter how many you have on, if you look at your stats, it still just says "Life on kill +12".

She's on Playstation 4. That's not normal, right?

Hey there... I notice that doing side quests earns renown. However, I thought you only had to do renown once? I'm seeing a lot of side quests that I already did on my eternal character. I have to do them again? Just confirming.