Silencers Bugged?

[Blade]

I apologize, I'm brand new to this game and I got it on PS4 because of the price difference so I don't know if the same issues carry over on Steam, likely worse honestly being a port, but I'm only about 30 minutes into the game at Willy's garage. While looting the car inside I got a tutorial message of equipping silencers. This led me to believe I'd found one but I can't find it nor equip it to either the shotgun or pistol. I've been googling but can't find anything. I saw something about how there was thought to be a bug with silencers on side arms but scrolling counter clockwise in the wheel would reveal your missing silencer. That didn't work and I can't really find any other posts or pages about the my issue. It's a minor issue but it's one that's really bothering me, especially this early into my experience. Can anyone help me with this please? <3

While I'm at it I'll take the time to complain how hard it is to see button prompts during quick time events. I died to the rippers at the very beginning 3 times because I didn't see the "x" prompt on the screen. The first time I thought it was just supposed to happen and wondered how I was surviving a knife through the heart but then I realized it was a quick time event when it started over. lmao Is there a way to make them more visible somewhere in options?

[Ɣɪ¢♰ɪɱƧ]

Hi.

I'm not familiar with the PS4 version but I would say first make sure you got a silencer and of which type (the tutorial could've popped just because you opened a trunk, which is where they're usually found, but maybe there was just scrap there). Aside from main and side weapons you also have special. Right now you might only have the crossbow (and thus why you might not have seen the silencer because it doesn't apply) if you're early in the game but if you clear a camp try to grab a sniper rifle and see if you have access to the silencer. Or you can just flat out buy the type you want and check it then.

QTEs are about getting used to them. The moment you develop the muscle memory to look at the center of the screen when you get grabbed you'll see them with more ease. Finishing blows are a little harder because they appear above the NPC's head and your camera can be looking anywhere and you don't know when you're going to trigger one.

[Blade]

Originally posted by Ɣɪ¢♰ɪɱƧ:

Hi.

I'm not familiar with the PS4 version but I would say first make sure you got a silencer and of which type (the tutorial could've popped just because you opened a trunk, which is where they're usually found, but maybe there was just scrap there). Aside from main and side weapons you also have special. Right now you might only have the crossbow (and thus why you might not have seen the silencer because it doesn't apply) if you're early in the game but if you clear a camp try to grab a sniper rifle and see if you have access to the silencer. Or you can just flat out buy the type you want and check it then.

QTEs are about getting used to them. The moment you develop the muscle memory to look at the center of the screen when you get grabbed you'll see them with more ease. Finishing blows are a little harder because they appear above the NPC's head and your camera can be looking anywhere and you don't know when you're going to trigger one.

I finally found it today in my inventory and it's a special suppressor. I found a sniper rifle and was able to equip it, no idea why it gave it to me so early. The way this game does things confuses me. I'm also curious, because I'm really struggling right now. Is this one of those games that's hard and frustrating at the beginning but easy and empowering at the end like Ghost of Tsushima for example? It seems unreasonably difficult for the type of game it is right now. I managed to loot a Nero checkpoint that had a hoard but being spotted seemed to literally mean reloading the last save with no questions asked and took me almost an hour and half to complete. Now I have kill 15 guards in an outpost that are more well equipped than me, seem to have a Crysis 2 and MG5 level of awareness, and zombies keep wandering in to complicate things. Then there are bear traps around that alert the entire camp to my presence. I'm just getting frustrated and burning out already on the game, when does it start getting fun? I was under the impression this game was easy as hell and I was going to have to jack up the difficulty.

[Ɣɪ¢♰ɪɱƧ]

Originally posted by Blade:

I finally found it today in my inventory and it's a special suppressor. I found a sniper rifle and was able to equip it, no idea why it gave it to me so early. The way this game does things confuses me. I'm also curious, because I'm really struggling right now. Is this one of those games that's hard and frustrating at the beginning but easy and empowering at the end like Ghost of Tsushima for example? It seems unreasonably difficult for the type of game it is right now. I managed to loot a Nero checkpoint that had a hoard but being spotted seemed to literally mean reloading the last save with no questions asked and took me almost an hour and half to complete. Now I have kill 15 guards in an outpost that are more well equipped than me, seem to have a Crysis 2 and MG5 level of awareness, and zombies keep wandering in to complicate things. Then there are bear traps around that alert the entire camp to my presence. I'm just getting frustrated and burning out already on the game, when does it start getting fun? I was under the impression this game was easy as hell and I was going to have to jack up the difficulty.

The game is open world so you can find anything anywhere (recipe ingredients will require you to have them unlocked, but they will still be there even if you can't pick them up yet).

The game is extremely easy from start to finish, but it has some bs moments that will get you killed. When it comes to stealth, it's either super easy (you can almost walk in front of a zombie and stealth-kill it) or impossible (zombies will activate wallhack and chase you as soon as they smell you). There's plenty of bs like that but you'll see.

Hordes are meant to be killed later in the game (very VERY late) and they're balanced out that way. They're supposed to be scary and a thing to avoid for most of the story until you're told to clear them. I personally killed them very early, because to me they're the only fun thing in the game honestly, and thus I was way ahead of the curve so maybe that's why it was so easy to me (the more NERO injectors you get the easier the game is plus all the XP you get from freakers too). As soon as you get your first machine gun and a good collection of molotovs I'd say it's viable to start dispatching hordes.

The game doesn't get better until very late and it gets much worse before that. There's a ton of missions that are just holding hands with an NPC and listen to them yap all day. Sometimes you even have to WALK SLOWLY by them until the game lets you go.

[Blade]

Originally posted by Ɣɪ¢♰ɪɱƧ:

Originally posted by Blade:

I finally found it today in my inventory and it's a special suppressor. I found a sniper rifle and was able to equip it, no idea why it gave it to me so early. The way this game does things confuses me. I'm also curious, because I'm really struggling right now. Is this one of those games that's hard and frustrating at the beginning but easy and empowering at the end like Ghost of Tsushima for example? It seems unreasonably difficult for the type of game it is right now. I managed to loot a Nero checkpoint that had a hoard but being spotted seemed to literally mean reloading the last save with no questions asked and took me almost an hour and half to complete. Now I have kill 15 guards in an outpost that are more well equipped than me, seem to have a Crysis 2 and MG5 level of awareness, and zombies keep wandering in to complicate things. Then there are bear traps around that alert the entire camp to my presence. I'm just getting frustrated and burning out already on the game, when does it start getting fun? I was under the impression this game was easy as hell and I was going to have to jack up the difficulty.

The game is open world so you can find anything anywhere (recipe ingredients will require you to have them unlocked, but they will still be there even if you can't pick them up yet).

The game is extremely easy from start to finish, but it has some bs moments that will get you killed. When it comes to stealth, it's either super easy (you can almost walk in front of a zombie and stealth-kill it) or impossible (zombies will activate wallhack and chase you as soon as they smell you). There's plenty of bs like that but you'll see.

Hordes are meant to be killed later in the game (very VERY late) and they're balanced out that way. They're supposed to be scary and a thing to avoid for most of the story until you're told to clear them. I personally killed them very early, because to me they're the only fun thing in the game honestly, and thus I was way ahead of the curve so maybe that's why it was so easy to me (the more NERO injectors you get the easier the game is plus all the XP you get from freakers too). As soon as you get your first machine gun and a good collection of molotovs I'd say it's viable to start dispatching hordes.

The game doesn't get better until very late and it gets much worse before that. There's a ton of missions that are just holding hands with an NPC and listen to them yap all day. Sometimes you even have to WALK SLOWLY by them until the game lets you go.

That's a viable response, but it was a story mission before you actually gain access to the open world. That's why I was being critical of it giving that message too early. lol

That's exactly what I was afraid this game was. Is it worth it or should I just return it tomorrow to Game Stop? Typically if I still feel this way after 7-10 hours of a game it's not going to get any better. It sounds like it's only fun for the last bit of the game too and that makes me worry more. lol

[Ɣɪ¢♰ɪɱƧ]

Even if it's a story mission it still takes places in the open world. Only flashback missions take you away from it.

The game is not terrible. It can keep you busy for quite a while between the very long story, the side quests and the challenges. That said, I wouldn't buy this game again knowing what I know now. It just depends what you expect from it. There's a lot of people that seem to love the game, I'm more on the "meh" side.

[simon.pete15]

There are 3 sizes of silencer, primary, side arm and special. They are all oil filters from different sizes of engine.
You may have found a silencer for a special, but a crossbow is silent anyway. You can't silence a shot gun with an oil filter, so they don't work for those either. So if you didn't find a sidearm silencer, which is the only one which will go on a pistol, it'll be in your inventory but you won't be able to use it until you get the correct type of weapon.
Strangely, special and primary weapon silencers, you just click the left hand second trigger button when using the weapon wheel. For the side arm, on the weapon wheel you scroll round to sidearm and click it, then underneath is the silencer icon which you have to highlight and click to equip.