Open world without fast travel??

[Tonykov]

Game is fine, it runs fine in my system, but the lack of fast travel is making the game very repetitive for me, as you end travelling for the same streets fighting the same foes all the time.

Why would a game designer take so controversial decision?

[Cursed Life]

because the city is small, and you can just avoid the enemies

[dzgl]

There should be more games without fast travel. It is small city, where you can avoid all of enemies but modern games made you so lazy that you think of it as bad thing

[asarokk]

Controversial decision? For some time Fast Travel has become a constant in open world games, but Vampyr is technically not an open world game. Those tend to be much larger and literally quite open. With high emphasis unhampered exploration and the freedom of completing quests in almost any order, at any time - including with the ability to walk away from them and returning to them later, as if no time had passed at all, since the Main questline is the only thing that affects any sense of time.

Vampyr is a semi-open world game. Meaning the map is way smaller so there's no need for fast travel as others have pointed out and they also tend to be sectioned off into smaller defined regions. While it is open to some degree, it's not uncommon for some areas to be completely inaccessible until a certain point. The story progression is a lot more sensitive to time and has a lot more in common with closed-world linear games, where the player is guided through the districts (when and where to go), only with a little more leeway as you're not stuck on a single predefined path that closes off behind you.

[Sputnik]

With enough gates unlocked you can then chart an enemy-free route across the game East-West, roughly following the river.

[Rance-sama]

bruv try Kingdom Come Deliverance on hardcore w/ no fast travel it's actually really dope, you can legit get lost in the forest and really learn the lay of the land.