I wish she'd just stfu and let me enjoy figuring shit out in this wonderfull world.

I'll add I don't mind the talky bits to other characters when you can choose them. I tend to exhaust all the talking options as it has helped build a sense of place and people up to this point.

Really want to play this but Elden Ring is taking up all my time.

Cupatay wrote:

Verecocha wrote:

Tip, when you unlock the arena blast through it all to get legendary armour and weapon sets, top tier stuff. Then you’re set for the game.

Cheers, I have wondered about what to upgrade and when. Think I've gotta learn more about the dinos as I take them down. It realy makes a difference if you approach encounters knowing your prey well.

Any more tips, sling em my way.

It puts you up against everything so it’s a great way to learn exactly how to take each one down. Can get through the entire thing in no time, I looked over it at first but it’s massively worth it.

There is an absolutely tremendous amount of stuff to do. Pacing myself as this is one very well made game.

Ahh you’ll still have to do the collecting of items organically. Can’t take any of the pieces you earn in the arena with you, just the medal rewards!

superflyninja wrote:

Wait Im confused. You cant use the armour you win in the arena out in the world?

No you can use the armour and weapons you can purchase with the currency from the arena anywhere you want like normal, but you can’t collect any of the pieces of dino’s you shoot off whilst in there. There’s a vendor that sells items you can buy with only the medals from the arena. Sorry if I explained it poorly!

I think this is a new benchmark for the quality of side characters. I wish Tsushima had handled it this way as well but I get it's an incredible amount of work involved to make it look like this. I'm in no doubt this is the best looking game I've ever seen.

On another note this tremortusk is giving me abit of grief, Any tips for taking it down efficiently?

In about 40 hours I haven’t used a single trap…Or put a single upgrade point into the Trapper path. I like action and madness too much…

Level 40 now. Hope I’m not too close to the end.

I'm just enjoying the down time between questing at the moment, hunting down the robot parts I need to upgrade my kit. The only thing I am noticing though is that I'm using fast travel more than I would compared to other open world games.

There are several reasons for this: cross land traversal using a mount isn't much fun. Admittedly, I've only unlocked one type of mount, but the two robot rides I now have at my disposal are both slow and cumbersome and tend to get stuck on the scenery a lot. Perhaps I need to dedicate more time to the Cauldrons to unlock some better modes of transport.

And running over land just has me wandering into groups of Apex predators that I end up picking a fight with, expending too many resources to kill 'em all or invariably getting ganked by them when I realise I've bitten off more than I can chew.

Yep, that would be boss. I thought that sort of feature would be de rigueur by now; it certainly would have elevated other games like Tsushima too. Make even more sense in this, having robotic mounts on auto-pilot.

Ooooo! Nice one Aloy. Thanks!

It’s not full autopilot, you’ll need to give it a hand at junctions to lean it the right way, but it should keep you on track.

While your here Andy ahem i mean Aloy, Any chance there's a setting to stop you dropping hints to me on what I'm supposed to do? I wouldn't mind but at times you give us around 2 seconds before saying something like "maybe I should look by that waterfall, then look up, maybe I should glide over there etc etc.

Do we know who did these threads now by the way? My guess was Andy, not that it matters like, just interested who put the work in.

Finished a couple of days ago and already miss this…

Playing this at the moment - not a huge open world game but enjoyed the combat and characters of the first one. This is…well, more of the same just improved a bit. Enjoying it enough, and combat is still tops.

What's not to love about the combat? Sure, I've had one or two annoying moments where I've been stunned-locked by an opponent's melee attack, but apart from that the combat is splendidly morish. The vast array of weapons at your disposal and the tactical ability to neuter your prey with a well placed volley of arrows means things never get old.