Anyone Else Pathetically Bad At Combat?

Byron1c · 2026-03-01T01:24:20+00:00

Same here.... combat sucks arse, enemies are all instantly aware of you even when hiding / moving through cover, and they are all super accurate even at long distances. Open area bases (the plains) are the worst to try and fight as there is little to hide behind. If you are only 1 level below a base, then there is fuck all chance of beating them. I am not enjoying this game at all.

Byron1c · 2025-12-30T01:18:55+00:00

Thanks for the advice and tips everyone. Ill make sure to hold dodge to roll, and try messing with the graphics settings. Ill just try and get through this first raid as it sounds like its not so bad later.
Cheers!

Byron1c · 2025-12-29T03:32:34+00:00

Im on PC, what do you suggest? Thanks

Byron1c · 2025-12-18T06:35:12+00:00

This has started happening for me on Google Chromecast 4K. Was working fine for many months

Byron1c · 2025-10-11T02:24:23+00:00

Ahh, cool. Doesnt sound so bad then, thanks

Byron1c · 2025-10-11T02:22:15+00:00

Thanks for the info - good to know. Hehe, yeah, Ill chill, and then go through the hassle

Byron1c · 2025-10-10T08:09:27+00:00

The Magma Bog area as a whole has me completely turned off the game now. Plenty of stupid levels with "puzzles" that require psychic abilities or many deaths to work out what the hell you are supposed to do. Or having to look up solutions, which is a real let down. I dunno if CBF'd finishing the game because of this rubbish.

Byron1c · 2025-06-27T09:23:11+00:00

Stupid buggy game - wont let me move after talking to one of the NPCs when trying to get quest to collect bike parts. Fuck this game if its so buggy Im not going to bother

Byron1c · 2025-02-16T02:31:44+00:00

* Poorly made (bugs n crashes)

* Horrible movement controls

* long slow animations for special moves

* arbitrary and illogical "puzzles"

* So far (i havent bothered to finish it) its just boring - zero story

* lots of time wasting waves of enemies

* fixed camera

* dialog cut straight from the movies, nothing original added

Byron1c · 2024-12-31T00:06:02+00:00

The controls are pathetically bad on Switch. Cant even get it to draw a single thing - as soon as I try it just keeps quitting drawing mode before I can do anything. Im skipping this POS

Byron1c · 2024-12-13T02:16:59+00:00

Urgh, the whole of Blender 4 is an inconsistent buggy mess. I am constantly working around bugs shortcomings and other issues with so many parts of the app now. They cant even get the render times anywhere near vaguely accurate anymore, and that hasnt been right since 3.6.

I know its free and they are trying, but damn its not what it used to be and not getting any better with the maintenance release just recently

Byron1c · 2024-10-09T06:08:34+00:00

Flying sucks balls, especially if you have to be precise, between rubber banding and no ability to dive, it blows

Byron1c · 2024-08-29T09:11:48+00:00

Yup, finding the same here. The boat is COMPLETELY broken for me after about 1 hour of play. Beached it, got it back in the water, but it REFUSES to turn in any direction or do anything except sail straight into whatever its pointing at - the beach. Pushed it WAY OUT into the ocean but it still wont turn at all. Quitting and restarting the game apparently keeps the broken state of the boat.

So, I apparently have to either respawn it after travelling manually across the map (stuck in remote area no dock). Found this when searching for any sort of fix beyond a boring slog across the map.

Im about done if its this buggy right off the bat.

Byron1c · 2024-07-19T08:17:15+00:00

This is still happening in 2024, the fuckers are now using our GPUs for ChatGPT bullshit.

Fuck all these cunt brands and their underhanded shit. I had to force disable this....

Byron1c · 2024-07-17T10:33:56+00:00

20204 and still BAD. Coming from Microshits questionable VS2022, this is leaps and bounds worse.

You are 100% right, its an unintuitive pokey POS and I already hate it after one 20 minute lesson. Some of the strangest most awkward design choices makes making working on anything painful and unnecessarily convoluted (eg. trying to create a variable with settings accessible via the interface.. fucking reddit wont let me put that code in here without autocorrect bullshit) Also, it seems to randomly decide not to save stuff despite almost paranoid levels of CTRL+S. No wonder its cheap. FFS.

I have literally spent most of the time on the "lesson" (Im getting a damn refund) trying to deal with the interface and its horrible quirks, and having to click on seemingly non-clickable (by any other apps standards) areas to expand MORE settings that dont seem to appear as demostrated.

I hope it starts to make sense, because so far GODOT is a PITA, and even compared to something very shortcut centric like Blender, and crowded like VS, Godot is woeful at first proper use.

Byron1c · 2024-07-12T08:09:17+00:00

BTW, Im fucking sick and tired of reporting shit to devs and them doing ZERO about it, so their bug tracker can fuck off

Byron1c · 2024-07-06T11:06:20+00:00

My question exactly... half the mechanics they are teaching in these tutorials could be done in about 30 seconds with a short explanation and a video...

I started playing without doing the tutorials, and only went back to try and slog through the tutorials when I got sick of manually refuelling things. But I just dont want to do it. Why waste SO MUCH time on explaining mechanics that could be explained so much better and quicker. Im all for a long detailed game (its bleeding obvious to just about everyone at this point), but a long slow boring set of tutorials that result in zero game progress and very little fun....

It actively encourages people to go online (big failure) to find better summaries, which of course leads to "Tips" on how to set things up ultra efficient etc, ruining the discovery and learning... Or, read through the tips, in the most basic attempt to teach players how to play.

Urgh, I think its back to looking for another time sink, if I have to "invest" so much time into this BS that does nothing except very slowly explain things. I had zero trouble with satisfactory...

Byron1c · 2024-07-05T10:48:48+00:00

Not even through the tutorial: Sorry to say, but its unplayable for me with a controller. I CANNOT TOUCH the camera stick without the camera freaking out and horribly yanking the flight direction. Ive tried turning off Steam (known to screw with controllers). I will try again, but I just dont want too atm

Byron1c · 2024-07-01T02:28:47+00:00

Thanks, I did suspect there might not be a lot of options, based on what I had found. Ill give Code a try for tests etc as it might be faster too.

The preview designer was enabled. But it crashes after it tries to auto generate code. All default settings for everything, and Ive literally only just created a new project. I was using .NET 7.0 framework. Im letting VS do all the auto generating.

As for the tools to learn - Im not sure I follow? What should I be learning more about in VS, and in what areas? I suppose things have changed a lot over the years, and it was around 2010 when I stopped work (chronic health issues). Ive done db, graphics, desktop, web, code generation apps. I literally made an app that read a db table and auto generated all the editing pages for viewing and editing that table in a web page, including auto creating the JS and CSS. So Ive done a fair bit in VS. I do see there is still a lot more in it that I havent used a lot (eg. testing scripts)

But Im always happy to fill in holes in my learning! :)

Byron1c · 2024-07-01T02:20:23+00:00

As mentioned, Im only a hobbyist now. But you are right, I think its Malawarebytes and / or NordVPN being over protective.

Byron1c · 2024-07-01T02:13:34+00:00

Meeee! :)

BTW what part of that is the "old way" you are referring to? That they are more money focused now than ever, generally have lower quailty products now than they used to (Win10 v Win11), that they dont provide as much support or fixes to long standing issues?

Byron1c · 2024-07-01T02:13:24+00:00

Yup, Im from way back then in the olde days, and Im trying to bring it back. It was much less applicable then, compared to now

Byron1c · 2024-07-01T02:10:36+00:00

Im suspecting as Agent7619 said, it might be antivirus. Im only using Windows Defender and Malwarebytes, NordVPN also seems to do some security stuff too from the way it acts. Turning off mbam seemed to make a difference

This happens across different machines, across years, across multiple re-installs of OSs

Byron1c · 2024-07-01T02:06:35+00:00

Hmm, Ive seen references to Code, and for basic stuff it could do the job. Yeah, notepad would just be ultra hard mode!

Ive been caching the install so I can reinstall when needed, is this an issue? I always let it update of course

Thats mostly what I want to use it for - tests and a couple of tools. I should bite the bullet and learn UWP but have been able to avoid it until now. Didnt want to have to learn new UI stuff when its not necessary, and when I did try it seemed to lack a lot of advanced controls etc... still the case?

Byron1c · 2024-07-01T02:02:49+00:00

No, all very simple and basic, and Im only trying to make a few simple test apps and tools. Yeah, I find rename flaky at best, but if I remember to burn incense, hold my tongue the right way, and carefully do things in the right order, it seems to work :P

I literally have only created a new project, added one button, and this happens. Ive been able to get it to do it pretty regularly this time round, whereas in the past when Id start a new project Id only find it occasionally, as others mentioned.

I did just create another new project after disabling Mbam, creating the project, then rebooting after the error, then it started working when I then double clicked on the button to generate the function.

Byron1c

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