Redfall by Arkane Studios

Always felt it should have been 3-6 months after release. But MS can't go back now and I'm pretty sure this is them trying to kill off retail.

Fuck that. Give them to me on release. Why would you want to make GP worse?

Changing sensitivity to preference is understandable.
Having to understand and change deadzone, look speed acceleration, etc, just to get something usable in the first place is not.

You should have a generally universal working model from the get go. If it's a competitive multiplayer FPS, tweaking all the shit might be beneficial for the individual but shouldn't be a must.

As most people have said you shouldn't have to go changing controller sensitivity settings as soon as you start the game, and if you actually saw the control settings for the game they tell you nothing about what the settings actually do. It's a terrible first impression for the user experience.

Yes, and specifically with Arkane's track record of poor controls (that one usually just had to make peace with, as the settings frequently didn't resolve the underlying jank) the natural assumption for any old hand is "whelp, they fucked it again. I'm out!"

It's not like I'm against changing settings - a forumite posted them and they resolved my issues immediately - but how the fuck did it ship with those defaults? And why are there two settings, one of which is a completely opaque "low, medium, or high" for something that doesn't make any sense? If someone hadn't posted those settings, I'd have uninstalled the fucker already.

It's clownshoe time, it really is.

Re the controls I think I'm playing a different version to most people. I hadn't noticed any deadzone issue until I read in here then when I tried it again there was no real dead zone for me, pretty much immediate response from slight aim movements and it aimed far better than the previous arkane games.

Also with skill ups review I've had none of those ai glitches where vampires ignored him or human enemies just stood there shooting.
Admittedly the a.i. sucks for me as well but nothing to the level skill up suffered with. Perhaps the day one patch fixed most of the clips he made.

Re game pass I still think it is amazing including redfall. I think I get it for about £80 a year maybe through things like cd keys.
I've had the series X since a few months after launch and I've only bought 2 games maybe and I've always got about 15 games installed at any one time to play. Basically i will never get through what game pass has to offer and for £7 odd pounds a month that insane value to me, even without first party content. I will definitely be spending more than £7 on one drink tonight that will last me 10 minutes.

Easily the biggest AI fail I've had with the game..


i.imgur.com/Fzki6kE.mp4

I played a bit today before giving up because I had to find another thing to open something but the texture loading just stopped working so everything looked even worse than it usually does.

I've ended up playing about 90 minutes, maybe 2 hours max since launch. I really like the setting but otherwise I've ended up being quite bored by it. Not frustrated or disgusted...just bored.

I think I'm done.

I want to finish everything in the first map but feel the need to move on now.


Definitely could do with SoD style settlements.

anyone fancy trying coop on this (series x) I know it is very meh but might be a little better with chums ? I'm only lvl 3 or 4 Jacob, just found the two helicopter crash sites and completed that mission.

Playing in coop and the world is fun to explore, but there's almost no challenge. The locations are fun, some of the detail is great but it's so easy that there's no difficulty getting anywhere. There's no 'oh, shit' moments of panic, no 'we made it!'.
As far as originality, it's not a brown military shooter or alien infestation, at least. The town is fun to poke around.
There's some great ideas, the lighting, location, stake guns and powers but it's all inconsequential when there's no challenging gameplay. The loot and collection system is poo.
It's nearly a great game but feels unpolished (and that's being generous). Fix the graphical glitchiness and difficulty level and it could be decent.

Had a good maybe two hours on it today. Killed a couple of underbosses, did some side stuff and one main mission. Again outside of some semi tricky moments everything is hilariously easy. Killed a rook in probably under one second and an underboss died before I saw it, apparently my son killed it in one or two shots. (This is on the highest available difficulty).
So many bizarre things that are so wrong with it. Lots of fun still though.

With some legendary assault rifle it died in under a second. Was pretty comical after the cool lightening build up.