13 hours in and I'm finally uninstalling

[SizroSpunkmire]

After 13 hours, I've tried to like this game but I just can't. Bought it on discount with all the DLC and even though the world is GORGEOUS, the entire gameplay loop is dreadfully tedious. The most frustrating thing is that I can't figure out if it's a stealth game or a shooter. It has elements of both, but neither are done well so both suffer immensely.

When traversing the world, you encounter three things:

Plants x100
Animals x20
Bad guys x5

The first two offer multiple resources by way of gathering or hunting, as is standard in most Ubisoft games. Unfortunately, the resources are a weird mix of plentiful and diverse yet boring and uninteresting. The game teaches you very quickly that whatever you just picked up isn’t going to be all that useful, so eventually you just stop collecting them until they’re absolutely needed. For example, do I really need 10 different cooking recipes for a poison resistance buff when poison is such a trivial threat?

The third is where the game really let me down. Enemies are almost entirely located in bases and you rarely encounter them in the wild. When you do find them, absolutely no preparation is required. Shotgun blasts, reload, rinse/repeat. The larger bases took a bit of care but that happened very infrequently. The ease at which they get dispatched made no difference if they were a flame mech, a gun mech or whatever type of mech I encountered. Shotgun, done and done.

The story also doesn’t make sense. My character is nothing special compared to the other Na’vi, so if like 5 of them came along we would kick the Sky People out of the world by dinner time. However, for some odd reason, I find them and they decide to run off half way across the map to continue the quest. Seriously, just grab a shotgun, steamroll the enemy with me and they can tell us all about their tribe when we’re done.

The final breaking point for me was losing the Ikran when you get to the Plains felt cruel. I hoped a changed of scenery would make me enjoy the game but it felt like I was back to where I was 10 hours ago, unable to reach places i desperately wanted to explore. I understand some developers wanting people to experience what they made, but forcing us back to the ground after giving us the one thing done incredibly well just sucked the life out of the game. Learning to ride the horse didn't in any way make up for it. Please please please don't make that same decision in future games.

Anywho, I wish I knew at 2 hours that after 11 more hours, the game won't get any better. I'm way past the point of a refund, concede I likely had 50+ more hours to go, but if it's anything like the first 13 hours, it's a sunk cost and I've learned my lesson.

I can only pray to the gamer gods that whoever made this isn't touching FarCry 7.

[Ritual Magick Lad]

Sounds like you're looking for combat in a game that is thematically about avoiding conflict and having a connection to nature.

[Avalanche]

Originally posted by Ritual Magick Lad:

Sounds like you're looking for combat in a game that is thematically about avoiding avoiding conflict and connection to nature.

While i agree, the game does seem to suggest stealth is key, but only make it work with RDA bases and not work in the slightest when hunting.

When i fire 1 arrow at an AMP, regardless of if its a 1 hit kill or not, if any enemies were within a set distance and/or enters view of said AMP, they instantly know where i am, they just don't outright attack until i am in view....i move in stealth to another location and they turn to face me again, despite not being in view.

But if i can keep them isolated i can take out a whole base without tripping the alarms, but in the wild when hunting, i can't even aim at the animal cause they clearly know i am there, but the game says they don't know, but they behave as in they do by turning to hide their weak points from me, but the moment i stop aiming to shoot, they turn back revealing their weak points to me, i aim again, they turn away.

I personally gave up with it, getting the perfect kills and the perfect food ingredients is just too tedious to care about it.

I tend to just aim and fire......if it takes 2 arrows or 10, i just do it, i just don't care enough to try to get the perfect kill, cause it is just too tedious.

RDA = Stealth is possible

Animals = Stealth is impossible