when does 'open world' start?

[Neurosys]

I skipped the tutorial and its still dragging me through mandatory fun explaino mode crap.

make it stop.

[Nite69]

when you reach your first apartment it will start, *north section only, south doesn't get unlocked until after act 1

[GoreTiger]

full open world happens after a certain main story event

[Captain Flappy]

really doesn't take long at all...

[egg fu]

it doesn't truly become open world until act 1 is completed. this could take about 4-5 hours from the start if you bee-line main missions only.

[ThyNecromancer]

Wait... did you play 5 minutes and are complaining that you are not in the open world already?

You do know that most games will have a "how to play" tutorial integrated into the start of the game ... right? It's not like some games that take 30 minutes and tons of chatting, unlike this one where you fight how you want and the tutorial is minimal unless you use the shard in the car.

This is one of the better tutorials on how to play and if you're whining about that... wait until your first time with the Brain Dance tutorial.

[Neurosys]

"Most games"? Like Journeyman Project? Meridian59? 10six?

BD wasnt so bad, and while the story is fun and all, I was really hoping to play around in the world without advancing the story. There does not seem to be a way to stop following a quest, as in to follow none at all. Feels a little more open now, just started act 2. Tutorial elements woven into the story mode start were mundane and poorly chosen imho. Especially when player has already elected to skip such things. BD was worthy of a tutorial. Opening a backpack isnt.

[Steel]

Originally posted by abolishbananas:

it doesn't truly become open world until act 1 is completed. this could take about 4-5 hours from the start if you bee-line main missions only.

Bruh it takes at most an hour/an hour and a half to finish act 1 even if you're exploring everything.

[Bogmore]

It's 30 minutes depending on which path you chose and after that just don't do the chip tutorial Jackie gives you and then go help Sandra and then shoot the scavs and you're into your apartment. After that get the Vic stuff and you are set to go, an hour at most.

Then you are in the open world. You don't want to go to the other parts of the city as there is nothing for you to do there yet, attack anything and you will die, quickly.

The chip tutorial does help you if you are brand new to the game.

[beez-one]

OP question is totally justified.
Real open world starts 4-6 hours in game depending on your playing speed.

[egg fu]

Originally posted by Tear:

Originally posted by abolishbananas:

it doesn't truly become open world until act 1 is completed. this could take about 4-5 hours from the start if you bee-line main missions only.

Bruh it takes at most an hour/an hour and a half to finish act 1 even if you're exploring everything.

lol not even, maybe 3 hours if you skip looting and dialogue but why would anyone do that when they're a new player.

[StratosFear]

Some posts said open world starts when Act 1 is done but just one thing. I think you need to complete two missions in Act 2, Playing For Time and Automatic Love. And then you have to start the next mission The Space In Between which begins in a building in Japantown. Once you exit the building onto the city streets then you can roam to the rest of the world including the use of fast travel.

Edit - I'm not saying that every fast travel point in the game will be lit up all over the map. One or two fast travel points will be available in each major district to which you can fast travel to from Japantown. And you don't need to use fast travel if you don't want to. Just walk or drive into any district you want. And you can unlock many other fast travel points during free roaming.

But it's mainly good for exploration right after open world is available. It won't help much with the story and mission progress of course. I play games mainly for the graphics so I was eager to free roam the whole open world to see the structures and landscapes. The downside is a lot of interior areas of buildings are closed until some more missions are done further in Act 2. And even a few small exterior land areas may be blocked off until more missions are done.

A normal player like most in this forum would've been into the missions and not even realized exactly when they got access to open world free roaming. But I was so eager to get to open world, that's why I gave such a detailed description of the moment open world starts in the third missions of Act 2.

[Midas]

The intro of the game is basically linear or heavily limited until you meet your first ripperdoc. Even then you're still limited to the 'shallow end of the pool' in watson only, but otherwise most of the activities are open to you. After you complete act 1, the map opens up.

[JefferyNothing]

Cope

[Nite69]

Originally posted by abolishbananas:

Originally posted by Tear:

Bruh it takes at most an hour/an hour and a half to finish act 1 even if you're exploring everything.

lol not even, maybe 3 hours if you skip looting and dialogue but why would anyone do that when they're a new player.

it depends on the difficulty set, if set to easy sure you can speed through act 1 but it takes setup time for the character if playing on hard or very hard

[Bogmore]

I just did up to Vic to see how long it took and it took 43 minutes skipping the text and the tutorial.