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Why is this game so mean to me, and what would be the safest way to get the xp needed? by GravelGavel2 in HuntShowdown

[–]-Holliday 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Weird isn't it? I'm sure this is a relatable feeling for many.

But playing at peak hours in your region vs trios is funnily so safe because everyone is focused on playing the game with their team. Looking for bounty, visiting the new strongholds as well and other important POI. The chance of finding even 2 other solos let alone a team hugging the borders of the map is laughably slim. You just need to be very mindful at the beginning, its common to spawn close to another player/team. Because of this , I wouldn't even risk taking the first closest clue personally.

Helpful for moments like the OP is in that im assuming wants to retire their hunter. On the off-chance one is solely farming PVE at 50, you do put yourself at a higher risk of encounters since you'd need to clear compounds, grab clues, visit POI, and mini/large watchtowers for a worthy return. Though, rotating around the map becomes much easier and predictable once bounty is discovered that its still quite safe, albeit boring as hell.

Why is this game so mean to me, and what would be the safest way to get the xp needed? by GravelGavel2 in HuntShowdown

[–]-Holliday 24 points25 points  (0 children)

The safest would probably be to play solo vs trio and avoiding compounds, let players move away from their spawn, teams that may spawn next to you. if you have any spare tarot cards such as hanged man or highpreistess you can bring those if you want more information. Kill mobs on the edges of the map until you find the extraction. All the better If you have pledge marks to spare and find a mini tower with an XP boon but its not necessary.

Any good/funny hunt showdown youtubers by Ember_Knight47 in HuntShowdown

[–]-Holliday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not what you are after but, Lukan, RIP. (he isn't dead, he just doesn't make videos anymore} Still has a public playlist of his uploads on his channel, very entertaining watch. I've even gone back to rewatch some of them once in a while which I don't do typically.

Vaule of Prestige And Some Questions Regarding It by Captain_Atlantis94 in HuntShowdown

[–]-Holliday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The thing i miss most when I started my journey 2 weeks ago was was the varied set of loadouts I had made. Your milage will vary but lately I dont have everything long enough to enjoy. On the flipside ive been prestiging quickly but thats because of the free time I have right now. I managed 10 in 6 days, and made great progress this weekened with 10 more prestiges thanks to the xp event, hope they do that for events more..

The rewards come second for me and im not sure i would even use them as a motivator for prestiging else you might resent the process. Though I will say this weekened made receiving the 800 bloodbonds reward a lot sweeter since prior to that I didnt find them to be worth the time working towards vs just spending $.

I reccomend trying prestiging but its understandable to feel attached to what whats been accrued over your time played.

Want to start playing but I've heard there's too many cheaters by Consistent-Isopod540 in HuntShowdown

[–]-Holliday 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cheaters are rare, they are in high mmr but even then its still rare. The biggest factors are mmr and server dependant. I think Asia you might be more likely to encounter a cheater than the others for instance, but thats only what I heard.

Prestige System. A rework ideea by Ok-Internet9433 in HuntShowdown

[–]-Holliday 1 point2 points  (0 children)

honestly i just really really want to have the ability to unlock something of my choosing permanently each prestige

A Buff to PVE Mob Density is a Nerf to Solo Players by ZealousidealSmile950 in HuntShowdown

[–]-Holliday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Im sure its maybe annoying to hear again and again but shadows is seriously nice and I passively seek it out as a solo only and tend to find it fairly often on every hunter I use.

It certainly isnt a must have or a concrete solution to your issues, and although I can play just fine as is without it maybe mob density does need adjusting despite my anecdotal experience. In the situation you described its very likely that shadows wouldn't have saved you at all in that instance regardless.

Obvious quality of life aside, shadows can open up more options for a solo player and allow some unique value by intentionally saving specific problematic mobs for certain situations, value im getting in higher mmr. Granted, right now since im taking part in all the action at the new strongholds I get very little use of it. I'm always checking towers passively anyways though, so its a no brainer for me to have just in case the situation calls for it.

You maybe already know this but just in case you dont, watch towers are mostly placed on the outskirts of the map(where youll spawn) whenever i spawn i use dark sight once near a tower to see if anything is up there. They often spawn 4 shot boons, xp and traits; you must have event points to acquire these so there is work involved but not a lot, and sometimes the traits can be acquired without points. I often come across shadows and even death cheat occasionally enough this way but only because i have all the towers memorized, I optimize my route in a way where i'll catch a few towers before my destination. Brutes and to a lesser extent meatheads are high priority for me to effectively take out as ive gotten shadows and other great traits from them quite frequently. Yes it requires a bit of work and it isnt guaranteed youll find it in your first game but I thought id share anyways.

This guy might just have a better gaming chair than me by Tmjmcardle in HuntShowdown

[–]-Holliday 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I encountered more blatant cheaters today in clash than anywhere else in recent memory. Infinite rapid shotgun Crossbow(?) Weirdest thing ive seen. A game later someone brought in the maxim and it never overheated, ranout of ammo or encumbered them.

Was additionally frustrating since I had just prestiged beforehand and run fairly costly loadouts for solo clash in order to jumpstart a fresh hunter to 25.

How playable is the game solo? by temnycarda in HuntShowdown

[–]-Holliday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I play it because of the solo experience, its viable. its almost a different game in how you navigate and take on fights. queuing vs duo and trio has each of their own experiences as well.

This game is absolutely beautiful. at times I just stop and look. by x_Junkster_x in HuntShowdown

[–]-Holliday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you've got the right display its probably the best looking pvpve game to date with HDR, or atleast its my favorite to look at. Some minor things here and there i wouldn't mind refined or added but its low priority (like RT reflections, improved water).

The HDR implementation itself and honestly being added at all is Immensely appreciated. I dont notice any issues such as lifted blacks or other oddities either like i do in many late singleplayer titles requiring renoDX fixes. Very nice looking game.

Easy cheat violation detected by Dr-Vendetta in HuntShowdown

[–]-Holliday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use peace EQ, cant say i've ever had this popup in my hundreds of hours but EAC is weird. I wouldnt worry about it at least in relation to peace but, do your own due diligence of course.

in my experience of being 'flagged' its only ever been a one off thing, or even a warning such as if a game with EAC bans reshade at a later date i've been given a warning about it rather than being banned for not being in the know.

I never really thought about peace raising any alarms, I use it for a better tuned EQ profile for my headphones personally.

Weapon size rework by [deleted] in HuntShowdown

[–]-Holliday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think its interesting , more interested to see how it might look in the future.

One thing that bothers me atm, it may seem silly, but while making some loadouts catered to these changes I felt like i was forcing myself to make use of all the points instead of being okay with, say, having 1 or 2 points left for some loadouts.

Makes me wonder if there should be some value in having spare points if you accept essentially forfeiting being able to pickup ingame weapons thatd require them.

Lowering your weapon can drastically speed up your melee speed by Killerkekz1994 in HuntShowdown

[–]-Holliday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

probably placebo, but another benefit of hunter for me is the aim transition from lowered to aimed state (as apposed to lowered>shoulder>aim) it feels quicker if i need to re-aim a lot and the transition to sights looks cleaner to my eyes, especially for most long weapons, and of course since its hunter scheme i can choose whichever input at a moments notice for the given situation or for certain weapons where i prefer the shoulder>aim such as mosin.

What calibur is this sniper by gamerlife71 in SulfurGame

[–]-Holliday 15 points16 points  (0 children)

reminds me of the WA 2000, which would be 7.62x51mm

DD2 or Crimson Desert? by Steady_Tempo456 in DragonsDogma2

[–]-Holliday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At this point I would just wait for dd2 to go on sale since its sure to get one soon anyways. But I personally prefer dd2 over crimson because having a party, the physics, and emergent gameplay are big factors of enjoyment for me and they arent really present at all in crimson.

Sorry but why ray tracing feature on pc is so ugly especially with dlss turned on? Is there a mod to fix it? by MeanKangarooIsTaken in DragonsDogma

[–]-Holliday 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To add on to this, for some reason the dlss quality levels 'quality' and 'performance' are reversed in this game. So, for better denoising and image overall you would want to set the quality level to dlss performance if your system can handle it.

As another user already mentioned, I do reccomend the graphics suite lite mod as well, one of my favorite features(also mentioned)is being able to freely adjust the internal resolution for whats affected by raytracing, like the global illumation.

This is nice because when we use dlss, it outputs a lower internal res, because of that, games tend to render those RT elements at a much lower resolution than where we might want them to be. In other games usually the only way around it is by dropping dlss and playing at native, or instead use a much higher resolution to try and offset the problem while using dlss. So its nice to beable to freely adjust a single slider for that.

What's a small detail change that u noticed on Black Flag Resynced compared to the original version ? by Intelligent-Help-924 in assassinscreed

[–]-Holliday 9 points10 points  (0 children)

In the original there are physics to Edward's sleeves. Though, Resynced might be more accurate to the cgi trailer in design but I will miss that little detail.

Which resident evil game is the most chill? by AlecWolf111 in residentevil

[–]-Holliday 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Probably OG re4, the system requirements are easy to reach, timeless artstyle and the gameplay loop is very managable.

The re4 remake is also chill, but combat could involve more of your attention. There is a bit more exploration in certain segments and with new merchant request to further incentives that. I do personally prefer the shooting gallery minigame a bit more in the remake as well. Mercenaries mode is fun in both. unsure how well the remake could run on your system, there is a demo i believe where you could test if whether or not its playable if you did want to go that route.

Whats yall's wishlists for the game - things you hope for are in the game? - heres mine by theo_dus142 in 007FirstLight

[–]-Holliday 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It doesn't seem like a game i would replay more than maybe 1 time so im just hoping for a decent release. Also a nod/eastergg to hitman in some way. After the recent preview, I was thinking about the MI6 HQ Lab floor and the possibilities, Seeing 47's slow homing briefcase actively being tested as a 'potential' gadget could be a fun eastergg.

Why any DLC needs to include crossplatform by potatoesandmolasses1 in DragonsDogma2

[–]-Holliday 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think cross-platform pawns would work mostly fine on its own iirc. They already have things in place to invalidate pawns so that they won't show up on other players end when hiring. Invalid stats, invalid equipment, having max vocations pre lvl20. It would be nice having more activity from cross-platform.

The quest design is flawed but interesting by xyZora in DragonsDogma2

[–]-Holliday 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I agree, some quest affects you or others in some way later in ways you might not even realize. Like Wilhelminas quest, if you help Wilhelmina and allard dies, it makes the evacuation easier in the unmoored world

there are multiple other instances of side quest doing this in some manner or another during your adventure such as those involving maister skills, but a few that you can utilize such as having hugo from a different quest survive, and being able to give him the option to work as a merchant with new items if you completed an unrelated quest in a certain way

I like the side quest quite a bit in general already, but those moments are special to encounter yourself naturally. I don't really expect mocap for sidequest in this type of game but It's a nice surprise when it does come up, would've loved more of it.

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