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#2118207 2-Nov-2018 08:43

HDR in Horizon Zero Dawn and a few other games has been excellent though. A bit annoying that Rockstar has taken the low road on this one, given they delayed the release a few times they had enough time to get it right.

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#2118213 2-Nov-2018 09:11

I agree ZDH was fantastic from a looks perspective. Just finished the Frozen Fire Expansion. Was excellent visually.

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#2118214 2-Nov-2018 09:15

TBH I haven't seen a "bad" looking HDR game yet other than RDR2. And even then I wasn't that displeased with it until I started hearing all the backlash. I do agree it's pretty washed out. I notice it much more in the daytime than nighttime.

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#2118218 2-Nov-2018 09:28

I'll be spending the weekend playing and I am going to try HDR on and off and see if I care enough about the difference to have it off all the time.

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#2118250 2-Nov-2018 09:34

networkn:

I'll be spending the weekend playing and I am going to try HDR on and off and see if I care enough about the difference to have it off all the time.

I did a bit of on/off comparison myself last night, and while SDR definitely has deeper blacks, it's not enough for me to leave it off.

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#2118270 2-Nov-2018 09:37

I have a projector so I'll be interested to see how that fares one way or another. The colour banding may mean that any benefit of HDR may be massively offset.

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#2118321 2-Nov-2018 10:01

Yeah banding would drive me nuts.

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#2118330 2-Nov-2018 10:18

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HDR in Horizon Zero Dawn and a few other games has been excellent though. A bit annoying that Rockstar has taken the low road on this one, given they delayed the release a few times they had enough time to get it right.

On the right TV they look great, on a junk LCD the bright areas are all messed up because the TV cant do it.

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#2119633 4-Nov-2018 21:25

Well, I am into the game properly now, but to be honest, it's so slow I am struggling to stay awake. I was concerned it would be like this honestly, all the little chores to stay "optimum". I am pretty lost most of the time since the tutorials were bare at best.

Basics like I bring an animal to the butcher at night, it says "wait 7 hours till open" so I click this option, next minute my big elk I roped and cut the throat of, is nowhere to be found, despite taking 15 minutes to get it and haul it back to town.

I don't really understand the camp either. There is a donations area and also a butcher I can donate to. As I come into camp there are 3 red icons, but I am unsure how on earth I am supposed to fix that?

Every little person I stop to help ends up being a black mark against me. I took some woman trapped under a horse 20 minutes, my horse slipped slightly and she accudded me of being a horrible person and walked off.

The controls are HORRIBLE, and aiming and the like is almost impossible.

I think I might be the only person on earth not enjoying it. Hopefully, it improves or at least my understanding of it does.

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#2119646 4-Nov-2018 22:15

@networkn stick with it. It will all start to click soon. Watch a few of those "stuff I wish I knew" youtube videos.

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#2119677 4-Nov-2018 22:32

I think those 3 icons mean you have to buy some more stuff for those from the ledger. But some of mine are yellow and its not letting me buy for them?

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#2119763 5-Nov-2018 02:12

If you haven’t contributed food or funds to the camp for a while, your camp-mate women will remind you about it. Not sure what effect not-contributing has though.

If you buy stuff for the camp using the ledger, if it’s ammo you can pick it up in your own wagon - so you sort of get your money back.

Graphics glitch: I was riding past a saw-mill and there was something going on at the side of the road. Three guys bending over a fourth guy who was on the ground. Got off to investigate and had to help lift a tree-trunk or log that had fallen and pinned the fourth guy to the ground. Only problem is that the entire log (or whatever it was) was invisible. Weird.

Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.

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#2119865 5-Nov-2018 08:41

OK here goes...

I was hunting and contributing food to the camp but getting nowhere. I was watching some videos early on and found out that you can fast travel (mentioned earlier in thread I think), and to get that requires upgrading Dutch's tent in the Ledger. Once I realised that, and found that the money to buy things can be a combination of camp funds and my funds, I spent some time getting cash and then upgrading all the camp tents. That puts the camp in a better mood to contribute more of their own to the funds.

At that point I saw that you have three different spots in camp that are of huge interest to Arthur - the medical tent, the food tent, and the armory. These are shown on the camp map as a bullet, cross, and drumstick. Once you get enough funds you can go through the ledger and start upgrading those tents - e.g. I spent more time getting money and doing that so the're all upgraded as far as they'll go.

Now I just have the option of restocking those tents any time I go back to camp. And every time I restock them, the camp icons go the right colour again. No amount of hunting/donating got me there until I had upgraded those tents.

So go poking around in the ledger and see what you can upgrade. Now every time I go on a mission I stock up at each tent first - I get a few Potent Miracle Cure which gives me full bars on everything, and all the ammo i need. Then you never need to buy this stuff at doctors or gunsmiths. It's a pretty cool system really, but it doesn't give you any help about how to use the camp properly :)

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#2119868 5-Nov-2018 08:44

I am hours and hours and hours in, still around 60% in the main story and I am still seeing new events, mini-missions, vignettes etc playing out around me every time I go anywhere.

Credit where it is due - the sheer volume of scripted and built content is very impressive.

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#2119908 5-Nov-2018 09:06

With hunting pelts/carcasses you want to donate to pearson/trapper in order to keep them for crafting some of the better satchels or gear. I was hauling stuff to sell to the butcher but he doesn't offer anything the pearson/trapper already does. When hunting legendary animals you will never lose the pelt if you accidentally drop it, but you lose out on the reward when handing it in.

You do have to be quite careful in free-roam as accidents do happen. Crashing your horse while carrying something will drop it, pulling your weapon out accidentally will frighten people, accidentally holding triangle (or Y) will choke the nearest npc.

I've had to get into the habit again of manual saves. The time mechanic also reminds me of witcher where you need to sleep till a certain point in time to access some content.

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