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r/DaysGone•
Astark

Some weird things about this game...

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I'm enjoying the game a lot, but some things are a little weird...

It takes almost an entire tank of gas to ride 1.5 kilometers on a motorcycle? Pretty sure you could ride that far on fumes if there were a hole in your tank.

An AK is a useless noisemaker that hurts an enemy about as badly as a paintball gun, but a crossbow is a one-shot kill death machine?

Deke rides up to a mission, and does what, sits on his bike for 12 hours and waits for the right time of day to begin?

The same ineffectual butter knife that takes 15 stabs to kill an enemy turns into the devil's own death bringer if the victim happens to not be paying attention?

NERO is your standard corrupt quasi-governmental military organization largely responsible for the fall of civilization, but Deke is gonna go around injecting himself with whatever mystery injector he finds lying around in one of their shacks?

As an former lifelong Oregonian, I'm impressed with the wolves ability to rebound their populations since the humans went away, considering there are like 3 in the state right now. (This is a nitpick, I'll admit. We also don't have grizzly bears.)

What else is weird to you guys? Come on, it's okay to admit, doesn't mean you don't love the game.

Posted May 1, 2019, 8:48 PM UTC

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Qlimaxs•

Its a game man. These mechanics make the game challenging.

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koleke415•

I'd say mechanics are more frustrating than challenging

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rasafrasit•

sure is a lot of fuel lying around...

but oddly nobody seems to be reloading their own ammo

motorcycles can't be salvaged and gas can't be siphoned from their tanks

there are a frustrating number of doors that can't be opened; I mean what else is a shotgun for, right? (open world my ass)

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Harry101UK•

motorcycles can't be salvaged

If you 'sabotage' them you get 3-5 scrap, at least.

there are a frustrating number of doors that can't be opened

Pretty much every building in the game is enterable. If a door is locked, it means you'll access it later in the story. (or you need to climb to the roof, etc, to find a way in)

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rasafrasit•

I'd say a good 70% of the doors don't open

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AstarkOP•

I don't get the motorcycle thing... I mean, it's right there. Sometimes you can even ride an enemy's bike, but you can't take his gas? And what's up with the sabotage? Enemies don't get on their bike and ride around during a battle, and when the battle is over they're dead. Do rippers come back and pick up their dead and belongings later? And if their bike is better than yours, you should be able to keep it like a horse in RDR2. Not to mention, you can capture some enemies and tie them up, and just leave them there for someone to pick up later. In the middle of an apocalypse filled with deadly creatures. Deke can't pull over and take a piss without a freaker or a wolf attacking, but some tied up guy lying there yelling to be set free is just gonna be fine?

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wu_tang_killa_bees•

i was wondering the same thing about enemy bike and realized that sabotaging theirs bikes gives you scrap and that is it sole purpose

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moon-worshiper•

Finding it to be the perfect Oregon simulator, exceeding the Oregon Trail text adventure ;) You have to admit, the game captures the character of the average Oregonian.

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AstarkOP•

It's not a bad Eastern Oregon simulator... Of course, the countryside would be flooded with refugees from the Willamette Valley scavenging for Starbucks and pot stores. There should be at least a few freakers with hipster haircuts and beards, and at least a few of the camps should be hippy-style communes and non-gender specific collectives.

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Callum-H•

After a few months or years petrol/gas does become stale and less efficient as it evaporates over time and the parts that make petrol up evaporate at different speeds which effects its performance

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zero_harmony•

Sneaking lets you stab them in places that kills them. You can't do that when someone is aware of your presence.

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nodakgirl93•

Um im pretty sure the change of time after starting a mission happens in a lot of games. Gtav did it a lot. Some missions happen at certain times wheb set by the developer. It's not weird.

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Harry101UK•

They actually talk about the wolves in one of the missions. Deacon mentions that there were no wolves in Oregon, and is amazed that they came back to survive there.

The AK is supposed to be a crappy, weak, starting weapon. Everything that you find later in the game puts it to shame. They're rusty, janky guerrilla guns compared to the military-grade ones you get later.

The bike upgrades make fuel last a lot longer later on. Just usual game progression things.

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undead_freak21•

It feels like that motorcycle gas usage has been better with patches. But I do fill it probably in like 10 mins. Before it seemed it was dipping way faster than that. But hopefully they do a tweak for fuel management

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