When do I get to the open world in this open world game?

[CDXX]

I just want to explore the open world and look for dinosaur robots. Unfortunately, I'm a few hours in, and the game is currently making me do busy work. They replaced the original main character with a new, unlikable main character, and she is looking for Erend, so that she can kill some machines, and then probably be in a protracted cutscene about an embassy in a story that I don't care about. How much longer until I am free, and get to play the game I want to play?

[『Insperatus』]

SO you're still in the beginning area after tutorial STILL after hours?? Sounds like a player issue.

[CDXX]

Originally posted by 『Insperatus』:

SO you're still in the beginning area after tutorial STILL after hours?? Sounds like a player issue.

I’m talking 2-3 hours. Besides, it’s a player issue that the game is wasting the player’s time? That’s my complaint. I don’t care about watching her say goodbye to characters I haven’t thought about in years, I want the open world. Those cutscene alone take an hour. Plus, I like to explore, collect components for later, and grind exp, so I have been ant the few chances the game gives me. And I’m starting on hard, so the combat isn’t a guaranteed win.

So you gonna answer my question, or just be snarky? When do I get past this prologue crap?

[LilDipper]

You literally get there like an hour in, just chill and play the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game already, my god...

[GlowWorm]

-- There is a tutorial section. If it takes you a lot of time, you probably do need the tutorial.

-- You then enter the Daunt, which is "open world", although only moderate in size. This is a starter area, and has a couple of main quest steps that lead you to exiting the Daunt. The Daunt also has a variety of open world activities, such as side quests, collectables, and hunting and exploration. Machines in the Daunt are limited to the small category, and even those are in the lower tier.

-- Once you complete the Embassy, you enter into a larger open world, and can encounter dangerous machines up to large size.

-- You need to advance the main quest a couple of steps to get access to the left size of the map, including locations with the most dangerous machines.

[MOPAR Clam]

Originally posted by CDXX:

Originally posted by 『Insperatus』:

SO you're still in the beginning area after tutorial STILL after hours?? Sounds like a player issue.

I’m talking 2-3 hours. Besides, it’s a player issue that the game is wasting the player’s time? That’s my complaint. I don’t care about watching her say goodbye to characters I haven’t thought about in years, I want the open world. Those cutscene alone take an hour. Plus, I like to explore, collect components for later, and grind exp, so I have been ant the few chances the game gives me. And I’m starting on hard, so the combat isn’t a guaranteed win.

So you gonna answer my question, or just be snarky? When do I get past this prologue crap?

Your profile pic is very fitting of this post...

[EricHVela]

Only 2-3 hours in the tutorial area? That's no time at all.

I'll probably be looking under every rock and leaf and trying to get out of bounds and poking each anthill to see what the game will let me do before I leave the tutorial area.

There have been games where I didn't see the title screen for 7 hours of playtime (and they weren't AC games).

[IronicLyricist]

im 18 hrs in and done with the daunt, but im obsessive explorer

[CDXX]

Originally posted by GlowWorm:

-- There is a tutorial section. If it takes you a lot of time, you probably do need the tutorial.

-- You then enter the Daunt, which is "open world", although only moderate in size. This is a starter area, and has a couple of main quest steps that lead you to exiting the Daunt. The Daunt also has a variety of open world activities, such as side quests, collectables, and hunting and exploration. Machines in the Daunt are limited to the small category, and even those are in the lower tier.

-- Once you complete the Embassy, you enter into a larger open world, and can encounter dangerous machines up to large size.

-- You need to advance the main quest a couple of steps to get access to the left size of the map, including locations with the most dangerous machines.

Thanks for an actual answer.

I don’t actually need the tutorial, except for the new content. I played the first one. It’s just boring and time consuming, so if there is something else to explore or kill, I go off and do that instead of pressing on. I’m playing on hard, and this one seems more challenging than the first.

[CDXX]

Originally posted by LilDipper:

You literally get there like an hour in, just chill and play the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game already, my god...

Well, so far, it’s not the game I thought I bought. It’s kind of mid, honestly, and I’m asking to know if I should keep pressing on, or move onto a game I will actually enjoy.

[CDXX]

Originally posted by MOPAR Clam:

Originally posted by CDXX:

I’m talking 2-3 hours. Besides, it’s a player issue that the game is wasting the player’s time? That’s my complaint. I don’t care about watching her say goodbye to characters I haven’t thought about in years, I want the open world. Those cutscene alone take an hour. Plus, I like to explore, collect components for later, and grind exp, so I have been ant the few chances the game gives me. And I’m starting on hard, so the combat isn’t a guaranteed win.

So you gonna answer my question, or just be snarky? When do I get past this prologue crap?

Your profile pic is very fitting of this post...

The prologue is not hard or complicated, it’s just boring and long. I want to know if I should keep wasting my time or not, because so far, my time feels wasted.

[SimplyRedie]

Originally posted by CDXX:

Originally posted by MOPAR Clam:

Your profile pic is very fitting of this post...

The prologue is not hard or complicated, it’s just boring and long. I want to know if I should keep wasting my time or not, because so far, my time feels wasted.

then refund the game and stop wasting it on useless threads.

[Firaxius]

The tutorial area where Varl follows you is easy fully explored within 3 hours time, unless you like to take you time, then you go to meridian where ya have a small task to do and after that ya sneak out into the night to the Daunt, which is a pretty decent small open world near your old area in HZD, after that when completed the side quest there and embassy you get to finaly start the game like in HZD in a new large open world place. Should easy to be achieved within about 12 hours gameplay unless you really love to search every single nook and don't care to stay a bit longer in earlier areas to see all the scenery.

[Myztkl©-Kev]

took me 3 hours to get past the prologue. game doesn't really fully open up until you get your base though, which took me like 20 hours, but I did most of the side-quests near the start

[Ghostredneck]

While the pacing seems geared for people who never played the first one. It opens up after the tutorial area. Hang in there! I almost quit the game a few times but figured they were allowing the first game as not mandatory. Although why you would play the 2nd before the first is beyond me.

[CDXX]

Originally posted by (つ◉益◉)つSimplyRedie:

Originally posted by CDXX:

The prologue is not hard or complicated, it’s just boring and long. I want to know if I should keep wasting my time or not, because so far, my time feels wasted.

then refund the game and stop wasting it on useless threads.

I'm asking to make sure it is the right decision before doing so, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. If you don't care, skip the thread.