Deathloop

I did a little bit more this morning, Julianna invaded by I managed to survive and escape through the tunnel. I shot her and she disappeared but not sure if I actually “killed” her or not

Unfortunately when I did the next area, after sneaking through and picking off every enemy it glitched and stuck me in the pause menu with no way to exit so I’ll have to do that again

I know now that I need to find some lab in order to get the ability to infuse

Same with personal mods, really. Double jump, fast sneak, fast hack and hard skin for 99% of the game. Everything else seemed either worse or pointless.

My game plan was always to headshot as many people as I could with the silenced SMG before inevitably triggering an alarm and slaughtering everyone else with the shotgun.

What are you playing it on, retro? I've put a decent amount of time in on Series X and haven't had a single bug

I think the game is great. For now it's just a sandbox while I'm exploring all the areas and passively gathering up information and getting weapons/trinkets, without worrying too much about the bigger picture

The only issue I have is that the AI is too stupid to put up any kind of challenge. I've died probably twice and that was to a mine and turret because I got sloppy due to the lack of challenge. You can easily just clear out an area by funnelling the enemies into a doorway and/or hacking turrets. I usually play Dishonoured full stealth/no kills but not seeing the need for stealth in this really and since everyone comes back again on the next loop, I've got no moral issues with killing everyone

It's still fun to play around with the weapons/powers though and looking forward to putting it all together. Something it has over Dishonored is that rather than thinking about how I'll do something differently on another playthrough, I can just do it on the next loop

Sound design is also excellent. Everything makes some kind of ambient sound so you always know when you're near a health station, turret, camera, mine, etc. It's really well done

Love Colt and Julianna. I've only faught (and beat) her three times. She's just a free slab to me. Playing offline

Playing on PS5. Not sure why it’s so problematic as I’ve never had a single bug or crash on a PS5 game before now. A lot of times in the load out / level select type screen my controller buttons just disable randomly with no response from them other than pressing the PS button, which allows me to reset the console and then everything works again

Despite the problems it is a lot of fun to play and becomes very addictive. I went to Fristad Rock for the first time yesterday and was like “Uh? There’s nothing and no one here” then pressed some weird uplink machine and all hell broke lose with scores of enemies coming from every direction, it was awesome

I do agree about the AI, they are cannon fodder to a certain extent but you can end up fighting 20 of them at the same time so they need to be

That place has a schematic to cut wires to stop everything going boom. If you can get there before you aggro them all.

In the early days, it may also be better to play conservative and nope out with slabs loot to infuse them before going back.

Needless to say, we've all been burnt by sticking around too long and losing it all!

I’ll file those last two posts under “Knowledge that may have been useful this time yesterday”

To be fair, you'll be playing the level again enough times. Can't actually think where you mean though?

That level/scenario is one of the harder ones. Insta-fails suck and I suspect most people were blown up the first time and Fia is pretty much the hardest boss.

Yeah it was my fault, I should have just retreated with my goodies. Would have been better game design if it had a timer and I could have legged it to the exit and moved the day on before everything blew up

Oh yeah I had completely forgotten that whole section. Which kind of sums the game up for me really.

Fia the hardest boss?

Apart from her reactor gambit (which is only a threat until you get the schematic) she was quite easy to deal with I thought.

Pro tip:


Garbage guy was the hardest for me...

I also found Fia tougher than others. Probably cause i was shit at stealth in that area. Not that you have to worry about that later.

That comment above that described the game as a “chore” is bang on the money. The developers are way off in terms of the pacing with certain tasks

I had a “quick” go after work and found a gun in one of those sealed tubes I figured would be an easy collect. Cue two hours of the most mind bendingly dull quest where you’ve got no option but to keep going until the end. Absolutely awful game design by people that are probably nice artsy, fartsy types but don’t understand how the very best games work. Is there no map in this? That would have helped a bit I suppose

I’ll probably never use that gun but after two hours of tedium I really should give it a go