About level barrier and cheats

[Reset]

I heard this game has a nasty level barrier that requires you to farm sidequests or indulge in microtransactions.
Can you simply hack your EXP?
Is there any anticheat in this game?

[Dellicious]

There is no grinding in this game at all as long as you are not trying to rush everything, it's an RPG, naturally you should be doing your fair share of side quests and battles, not just rushing from main quest to main quest, ignoring everything else. The people complaining about grinding are just not good with RPG'd in my opinion and are giving off the impression that you need to do 20 fetch quests to get through some level barrier, it's not the case.

Naturally there are ways (third party programs well all know about like CE) to cheat and give yourself unlimited everything but it would ruin the game pretty quick but if you were worried about it, that's always an option.

[Ogami]

Originally posted by Boneru:

I heard

This is really the big problem with this game . Tons of people " have heard" this or that but barely anyone tries to do some research to confirm what they heard.

[Zastrutzki]

So the research would be doing it himself then, because otherwise it'll always be "I hear". Or "I read".

I've installed a 21:9 cutscene-fix, which completely replaced the entire EXE. So I'm guessing you're safe. Also, what's the worst that could happen. It's a single player game. Ban you from the microtransaction store? Ha!

Anyway, there's trainers out there. Go nuts. Don't spend a dime on grind skips. It's lunacy that these things even exist. You can grab one for this game at cheat happens dot com.

[1545242564528]

the target audience for ubisof are the young and noobs and the lazys, those will be glad to pay to get some extra stuff to make their life easier and be more powerfull.
while normal players don't use mtx and claim it's nothing and the game don't need buying stuff to progress in it, which is true for a category of players, ubisoft fill their pockets with the low range people's money. Everybody is happy.
well done ubi. nice tactic.

[Zastrutzki]

Originally posted by fermedonctagueuletrouduc:

the target audience for ubisof are the young and noobs and the lazys,

You mean the gamers that grew up and now have a life, a job and perhaps a couple of kids and don't have 80 hours to waste on one game that is 75% good, topped off with 25% crap content. Also, folks who want to get this over with before Read Dead 2 arrives, perhaps.

[1545242564528]

Originally posted by kaiuno:

Originally posted by fermedonctagueuletrouduc:

the target audience for ubisof are the young and noobs and the lazys,

You mean the gamers that grew up and now have a life, a job and perhaps a couple of kids and don't have 80 hours to waste on one game that is 75% good, topped off with 25% crap content. Also, folks who want to get this over with before Read Dead 2 arrives, perhaps.

this goes in the lazy category, they want to play but have no time to play....

[Dellicious]

Originally posted by fermedonctagueuletrouduc:

the target audience for ubisof are the young and noobs and the lazys, those will be glad to pay to get some extra stuff to make their life easier and be more powerfull.
while normal players don't use mtx and claim it's nothing and the game don't need buying stuff to progress in it, which is true for a category of players, ubisoft fill their pockets with the low range people's money. Everybody is happy.
well done ubi. nice tactic.

Good point, only idiots would buy the boosts imo, which is probably their target audience. I think it's worked because it's the best selling AC (I think)

I had about 100K Drachmae after the first week of playing and I worked out it would cost somebody over $60 in the store to get that much gold, the value for money is really bad.

[BrianDavion]

Originally posted by Dellicious:

Originally posted by fermedonctagueuletrouduc:

the target audience for ubisof are the young and noobs and the lazys, those will be glad to pay to get some extra stuff to make their life easier and be more powerfull.
while normal players don't use mtx and claim it's nothing and the game don't need buying stuff to progress in it, which is true for a category of players, ubisoft fill their pockets with the low range people's money. Everybody is happy.
well done ubi. nice tactic.

Good point, only idiots would buy the boosts imo, which is probably their target audience. I think it's worked because it's the best selling AC (I think)

I had about 100K Drachmae after the first week of playing and I worked out it would cost somebody over $60 in the store to get that much gold, the value for money is really bad.

just because it's the best selling AC doesn't mean those boosts are terriably well selling. I suspect the REAL market for those boosts are the "super elite gamer" crowd. you know the ones obsessed with speed runs etc to prove how awesome they are etc. meanwhile to a sane gamer who knows what an RPG is about the idea of speed running an RPG is nuts.

[Jom]

Over 500k after 80 hours and 10k+ resources without anything which felt like grinding. For the last 30 hours i was kind of a mercenary in early retirement, just doing what i felt like doing. No need to clean out every camp or burn down every farm, some quests here some quests there, some sightseeing on the isles. There is really a lot of content and many of the side quests are much more than simple fetch or kill quests. The last two were a beach party with a really funny ending and telling some children a story (which i had to google to tell it right :) ). If you decide to do the repeatable quests it's really your own decision to grind. You don't have to do it to reach max level or to get enough resources. If you feel you have to buy stuff from the item shop to beat the game in one day, i think nobody can help you. Well if i think about it, i'm wrong, i could help you selling a savegame, special offer 49.99 only.

[Jaaaake]

Originally posted by kaiuno:

Originally posted by fermedonctagueuletrouduc:

the target audience for ubisof are the young and noobs and the lazys,

You mean the gamers that grew up and now have a life, a job and perhaps a couple of kids and don't have 80 hours to waste on one game that is 75% good, topped off with 25% crap content. Also, folks who want to get this over with before Read Dead 2 arrives, perhaps.

Being a gamer that grew up and now have a life, job etc I find that notion insulting. Buy a game and then pay again to have playtime reduced..

I highly doubt any real gamers would ever pay to have reduced playtime lol.

So no, the lazy/weak minded category sound about right.

[LuckyN13]

Put the game in easy mode, theres no difficulty penalties.

[JKArtorias]

I'm level 50 now (Max level)...Its not hard to level up. You can get there pretty easily and there's no farming. Let me say this as well doing side quests isn't farming. Feeling bored and doing repeatable quests or something that gives alot of exp is grinding.

[Sikklid]

People saying it doesn't have any grind and Pay-2-Cheat are simply accepting of them, which is different than it all being present. I have the game (little dumb-proof icon by my name). It does and it is purely there to abuse consumers and take advantage of the uninformed.

Gaming is the only industry where these practices are acceptable - and for good reason - world-wide armies of community managers and their fans scouring boards like these to help sweep these practices under the rug, while consumers are left to hoping that people are out there like them without such a powerfully global voice. This is also why people will try to discredit those speaking out against these practices as trolls vs explaining how singleplayer microtransactions (especially Pay-2-Cheat) benefit the consumer in any possible way besides shareholder pockets.

If you accept the broken grind, level gating, drip fed crafting materials/money, and mindless AI - then have at it. It is indeed shiny and "preeeetttyyy" and many people seem to like it on that alone.

However just how Shadow of War had "mostly positive" reviews and needed no further explanation of the marketplace and wildly reaching PR of it's "player choice" nature, Monolith as artists still pointed out that games designed to funnel consumers into these marketplaces means that they breaking games by default. Broken products are predatory and anti-consumer, especially when injected with Pay-2-Cheat patching for their own intentionally broken mechanics built to exploit frustration and psychological ticks in players.

[LuckyN13]

Remember the old days, the old school RPGs, where you actually went out into the world and explored, killed things, did side-quests, enjoyed the game?

Now everyone wants their hand held through the entirity of the game.
People complain when a game is too linear, then complain when its too open... what the hell do you people want?

♥♥♥♥ you dont even have to look at the RPGs of old, look at Skyrim, that ENTIRE game is a side-quest.

[Sikklid]

Originally posted by LuckyN13:

Remember the old days, the old school RPGs, where you actually went out into the world and explored, killed things, did side-quests, enjoyed the game?

Now everyone wants their hand held through the entirity of the game.
People complain when a game is too linear, then complain when its too open... what the hell do you people want?

♥♥♥♥ you dont even have to look at the RPGs of old, look at Skyrim, that ENTIRE game is a side-quest.

This game is nothing like an Elder Scrolls, not even a Witcher. Those RPGs had diverse questlines, creative side quest writers, dungeon creators, etc.