Deathloop

OK cool. The opening section (well, after the tutorial) seems to want you to play stealthily and I'm just not sufficiently patient for it.

No outrage here. I mean I've trashed two keyboards and punched a monitor since reading your comment but that's unrelated.

Oh man, this shit is gooood. having a blast (literally sometimes). Got me a slab, thanks juliana invader, plus a better(ish) gun or two. The 'proper' vs human Juliana encounter got me a sweet gun too, but not enough keepystuff dust, so only the slab it had to be.

Currently planning on just visiting one location and having numerous poke arounds at all times to try to see what's around/pick up info. It's got an almost TF2 art style for me, or maybe it's just the colour palette. This is seriously hitting those explore stuff buttons and has more than enough mysterious shit to investigate too.

I think this is going to be one of my favourite games in a long time. whether I can work out how to do it all in a day, I'm not convinced about, but I'll have fun trying.

I think Dying light 2 is getting binned for this.

Amen

You can deffo do a 'kill everyone' run through.
I'm pretty sure I did a few times.

Quite enjoying it now I've given up caring who gets wasted and how.

Yeah I kill everyone.

In terms of stealth, for me it was all about optimising for time. Early doors skipping an area full of bad guys could shave a bunch of minutes off of my objective (usually getting a slab). Later in the game, when you're a killing machine, it was often easier to mow them down than take the longer stealthier route. But as said above, on the many, many occasions I had to "go loud" the game was almost eager for me to do so and I had a blast.

I've started jonesing for another playthrough, but I've just filled my plate with PS5 exclusives that I should probably batter through first...

Love the setting the vibe the characters the level design. My word tough the a.i., I think I've done the first five levels maybe and it's so easy just to kill everything just by manipulating the a.i.
Only came close to dying once when a turret saw me before I finished hacking it. In the library basically the whole level came at me but I climbed onto a window ledge and slowly killed them one by one as the a.i. couldn't work out how to get me.

At least even just poking about a level to see what's happening or has changed gets you info to act on later. It's a lot of fun, even if /when you fail.

Considering you have to do the whole thing in one go, I imagine it would be an absolute pain in the ass if the AI was really good though.

Yeah, it's no different to dumb as shit AI on patrols in a Souls Game or whatever. Mostly just cannon fodder.

The interest comes in the systems - set an alarm off here, a door over there shuts, routes have to change, etc. etc. As you get later into the game you'll find some places where going loud doesn't really help you.

And - as Starchild says - it'd be an unbearable game if they were all ninjas.

Fucking hell, last night i seemed to achieve the square root of fuck all, despite moving things on a bit. However, I got looped 3 time losing a lot of stuff Mostly due to mobs or Juliana who is now appearing more regularly, even if there is no visionary there.

Is there a point when mobs become tougher in the story? I was wasting them easily before, but now they seem to have a shield and are taking a few shots with the shotgun even when up close. I may remove all my personal trinkets and see if one of those is the issue. I have a purple one that makes me like a rock or something and I wonder if it's done the same for them too (although the description doesn't say that!).

That's what it was like up until last night, so either i have done something by swapping personal trinkets or weapons about, or something has changed behind the scenes!