Why the DLC adds some early unlocks ?

[dprog1995]

Early Unlocks

Upon purchase of the Days Gone – Broken Road DLC pack, players will be granted the following in-game items

 

Drifter Crossbow Early Unlock

Nitrous Upgrade #1 Early Unlock

Gas Tank Upgrade #1 Early Unlock

Shroud Upgrade #1 Early Unlock

Monkey Wrench Skill Early Unlock

I'm interested to get the DLC to play the horde assault mode. But I'm not a fan of this early unlock feature.
Allow us to disable it !

[SexyPanther]

Agreed. I buy games to play them to experience the content. The way the game is already, the pacing of difficulty and better weapons is completely imbalanced in the sense that if you play through the game like I did, you'll spend over half the time with the best gear. If you remove the need to progress yourself to upgrade, you are further nerfing the balance even more. What's next, buy DLC to have the game win for you?

Furthermore, the permadeath mode is a non-starter for me since the game has a problem with crashing once your save file has passed about 25ish hours of playtime. After this point, the game will crash randomly out of nowhere at odd times. In fact, I can consistently crash the game if I attempt certain challenge modes. Considering how many hours I spent completing the campaign and all side quests, there is no way a permadeath mode would improve the experience knowing how unstable the game can be.
- I managed to corrupt a save file once, but thankfully the game is generous with multiple save file slots (by that I mean, loading the save would crash the game after 30 seconds in the world)
- The game seemed to like crashing near clear-out-bases with lights on, at night, when there is a horde nearby
- The game, after 25-ish hours would crash randomly on any save file
- Specific challenge modes can cause a crash
And all of the above can occur despite stable performance including a solid framerate.

Due to a positive, I won't be buying the DLC. The positive being the fact the base game has an absolutely massive playtime for its campaign, a new game+ mode (which I didn't touch), and additional challenges. If the DLC had been story-based, I might have considered it.

[Warriosparky]

Originally posted by SexyPanther:

Agreed. I buy games to play them to experience the content. The way the game is already, the pacing of difficulty and better weapons is completely imbalanced in the sense that if you play through the game like I did, you'll spend over half the time with the best gear. If you remove the need to progress yourself to upgrade, you are further nerfing the balance even more. What's next, buy DLC to have the game win for you?

I couldn't agree more. It's a shame, I wanted to buy the DLC to increase chances of Days Gone 2, but I won't buy it because of this.