Official Thread Alan Wake 2
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Yeah this is the worst the combat has been, I’d be surprised if there was any disagreement on that front.
The game focus is more on being an interactive movie with detective elements. Well at least 10 hours in that’s the case, it could change.
Combat is fine, not sure what it *should* be instead...
There's not much of it, but that's fine with me.
There's not much of it, but that's fine with me.
Well...QB had pretty great combat, the only problem was that all the powers you got came fairly late.
Control had good combat, though slightly worse than QB imo.
AW2, at the point I am in the game, is much worse... but this is more survival horror and as such shouldn't be as nimble... at least I think it shouldn't.. idk, it's worse than the two latest releases though.
Still... it's a great game imo, not a 10 by any stretch, but at least a 8.5 and a goty contender for me.
I think I agree with the combat in Quantum
I found controls combat a lot of fun. Was just the level design and story that missed the mark for me.
The 08 update contains over 200+ individual improvements and fixes to the game.
Global
-Various localization fixes, such as improved subtitle timings for all languages
–Improved localized audio for live-action cinematics
–Various audio-related improvements and additional polish
–Improved lip sync in some instances
–Fixed various graphical issues in the environments
–Fixed various minor issues in cinematics
–Minor improvements to image aliasing in Performance mode and Xbox Series S
–Improved lighting
-Fixed lighting bugs in multiple locations
–Various UI-related fixes and additional polish
–Various gameplay fixes and improvements
–Minor gameplay finetuning
–Improved auto-aim for specific circumstances
–Fixed rare player character animation issues
–Fixed various issues in the Case Board
–Fixed various map issues
–Several conversations failing to trigger and thus blocking progress later have been fixed
-Fixed Rose’s dialogue choices, sometimes not being selectable, blocking progress
–Fixed a rare issue with Saga’s lines not playing when going to the Sheriff’s Station, blocking progress
–Resolved a potential problem in the player getting stuck in a Case Board Tutorial
–Fixed exploration rewards for Lighthouse
Mission specific
-Fixed a bug where Saga could get stuck in the environment (“Crazy forest”)
CASEY:
-Fixed potential issue with players able to get stuck when falling from ladders
-Fixed potential issues with Dark Presence (it remains a threat)
-Fixed a rare crash
ZANE’S FILM:
-Fixed a bug where Alan could fall through the environment
SCRATCH:
-Fixed a bug where Saga could fall through the world
-Fixed a bug in where a gate could get locked after reloading a save game, causing the player to get blocked from progressing
-Fixed an issue where, in rare circumstances, the player could end up outside of the game world when opening the map
-Fixed an issue where, in rare cases, the Lighthouse key could not be picked up
WE SING:
-Fixed a bug where Alan could get stuck in the environment
ROOM 665:
-Fixed an issue that caused the Oceanview Hotel Lobby Echo not to align correctly (this one was really annoying; we apologize)
MASKS:
-Fixed an issue where if the player performed specific tasks in an unpredictable order, the mission progress could get blocked
DEERFEST:
-Fixed an issue (much to Rose’s chagrin) with physics-related props that could block the player in and halt progress
COME HOME:
-Fixed an issue where the player, in rare instances, could not exit the radio, TV, or manuscript interact modules.
PC specific
–Fixed a bug that could cause graphics settings to reset when launching the game
–Improvements to PC Window handling logic
–Fixed mouse cursor sometimes not appearing in menus
Could be placebo effect, but the game seems to be looking, sounding, and running better for me after this recent big patch.
The static, or glimmer/glitter that comes and goes in black areas (mostly in town when playing as Saga is annoying af. Read somewhere that it's the temporal anti aliasing or something like that that's the culprit. I even tested it out on my TV since I thought it might be something wrong with the hdmi handshake between my projector and the console, but it's still there.
Quality mode on xsx and xss
Quality mode on xsx and xss
One of those game you have to be in the mood for to play. I haven't touched it in a few days. Probably take me a year to beat it.
My game keeps crashing during a boss fight 
Have to wait for a patch. Happened while playing as Saga
Have to wait for a patch. Happened while playing as Saga
My game keeps crashing during a boss fight
Which platform ? And is it the first boss?
I'm not loving the combat either, which is a bummer. I've never liked games with bullet sponge enemies, and even the most basic enemies in this game seem to take at least 3x the amount of ammo they did in the original Alan Wake, American Nightmare, or Control.
I guess if bullet sponge enemies is their idea of "survival horror", I don't like survival horror. Probably going to drop the difficulty to easy, Kvally style, as the story and other elements of the game are awesome.
I guess if bullet sponge enemies is their idea of "survival horror", I don't like survival horror. Probably going to drop the difficulty to easy, Kvally style, as the story and other elements of the game are awesome.
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I've started doing this as well when I find out if the enemies are just more bullet spongey. IRL it doesn't take that many bullets to take someone down why would I need to fire 10 bullets at someone's head to kill them?
On pc. No. During the second boss encounter saga faces .