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Chuck Berry
Gold Member
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Chuck Berry
Gold Member
It’s pretty damn good. Does enough to stand on its own despite the Far Cry familiarity.
Balducci30
Member
Game looks great in a lot of ways. But I absolutely hate the style of the UI and the story is dog shit so far
LaughingStock
Member
Is that Miles Morales I hear as the male na'vi?
Balducci30
Member
I will say this game would be incredible in VR
Chuck Berry
Gold Member
Nope
Denton
Member
Crazy to me how terrible Ubisoft designers and writers are.
Like, this game has pretty much the same story setup as many other games, e.g. TLOU or Kingdom Come, where a character close to protagonist dies in the beginning and that loss sets up the rest of the game.
But the difference in execution is staggering. In TLOU and Kingdom Come, when it happens, you know those characters, and you feel the loss. I played the intro of both those games multiple times, and it gets me every time.
In Avatar, you just shrug at the sheer idiocy of how it is executed. How badly it is written and directed. Zero emotion. Zero interest.
Like, this game has pretty much the same story setup as many other games, e.g. TLOU or Kingdom Come, where a character close to protagonist dies in the beginning and that loss sets up the rest of the game.
But the difference in execution is staggering. In TLOU and Kingdom Come, when it happens, you know those characters, and you feel the loss. I played the intro of both those games multiple times, and it gets me every time.
In Avatar, you just shrug at the sheer idiocy of how it is executed. How badly it is written and directed. Zero emotion. Zero interest.
Arsic
Loves his juicy stink trail scent
Got this on PS5. The performance mode is blurry AF even with motion blur off.
Visual mode isn’t much better looking and isn’t the buttery smooth 30fps you get with ff16 for example where it doesn’t even feel like a 30fps game.
Plays good so far. Character models do look great in cut scenes. Water is last gen.
Fun so far.
Visual mode isn’t much better looking and isn’t the buttery smooth 30fps you get with ff16 for example where it doesn’t even feel like a 30fps game.
Plays good so far. Character models do look great in cut scenes. Water is last gen.
Fun so far.
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
Don’t switch back and forth and 30 fps will begin to feel smooth.
Balducci30
Member
it seems like it’s written in ChatGPT
STARSBarry
Gold Member
God the controls on this are awful for controller, immediately it feels like they ran out of buttons because they don't know how to do contextual inputs. Everything is you holding a bumper or trigger and then pushing anouther button to get access to a single thing you otherwise normally wouldent use. Why give us navi vision and then also a scan tool? Why not just make it some fucking goggles that flip down to enhance you navi vision with a tech overlay... now you just need to use navi vision, ITS NOT HARD TO SOLVE!
Thank god i have a edge and making good use of the paddles.
Thank god i have a edge and making good use of the paddles.
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LaughingStock
Member
I wonder if you can create a sexy female na'vi. 
sendit
Member
That is a low bar.
Revolutionary
Member
Just wanted to give kudos to the devs for avoiding the mistake that Guerrilla made by unlocking flying very early in the campaign in Avatar, as opposed to unlocking it very late in the campaign like in Horizon FW.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Bomba alert ?
Magic Carpet
Gold Member
Tutorial for Hack and Mod your way into VR mode, I've tried to follow this guys instructions for Talos Principal 2 in VR and was never able to get it to work. He makes it seem so easy in the video.
GymWolf
Gold Member
Unfortunately yes.
I regret not choosing the female voice, she probably has more testosterone than him.
Very good comparison.however I'm having issues with the directions this game gives.its vague and the compass moves around so you don't know what's north or south
Ammogeddon
Member
There’s a shrine in the cave at the resistance base where you can edit your character as you see fit.
ManaByte
Banned
It's just a $30 off code QVC does for new accounts. Works on every game. Avatar sold out with it.
Chuck Berry
Gold Member
Are you making waypoints at all on the map to help you where to go? That’s what I’ve been doing. It’ll show up as a little green blip on the compass. Follow that, simple.
Chuck Berry
Gold Member
It’s not Nadji Jeter bruh. A quick IMDB lookup proves this.
Sounds like him at times, but it ain’t him.
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Do I need to have seen the second movie for this game's plot?
King Dazzar
Member
A couple of interesting takes. PS5 seems to possibly be the better optimised version at this time. But both XSX and PS5 may have performance issues in the 60fps mode with VRR likely required. Definitely avoiding this until on sale for console, if even then.
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ManaByte
Banned
I've had no problems on XSX with VRR enabled in terms of the framerate. Did have one strange studder when loading an interior environment at one point. But the performance mode has been great with VRR.
No it's set between the first and second movies. It starts 8 years before the first movie, then time jumps 16 years. So it's set about 5 years before The Way of Water.
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King Dazzar
Member
Yeah the video echoes that. All fluctuations appear to be in the 50 to 60 range. I just wish, we didn't have to rely on VRR. I get better PQ with it disabled on my particular panel.
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metareferential
Member
And from what I've seen, combat very much resembles crysis in a lot of ways.
And I think Alex is spot on in saying you should turn on explorer mode and ignore the Ubisoft hand-holding crap and chores.
ManaByte
Banned
It's more Crysis than FarCry. Game is great. I truly believe a lot of reviewers decided to shit on it just because they weren't able to will the Avatar sequel into failing at the box office. They'll get Cameron NOW!
graywolf323
Member
they seem to be bringing games to Steam later finally but still not at release
I have not.i tried the discovery mode which is more immersion and the way they want you to play the game but it's confusing because compass rotates
Magic Carpet
Gold Member
It's currently on Epic Game Store. Is anyone buying it there for PC?they seem to be bringing games to Steam later finally but still not at release
I bet people are that pathetic
Stuart360
Member
Spent about 90mins just messing around with the settings to get the game how i want (settled for 1080p native/30 at ultra settings, one of the VERY rare times i will chose graphics over 60fps, the game just looks that damn good!), and i noticed a couple of things.
Now i dont know if FSR3 isnt optimized well for 10 series gpu's, but on my 1080ti FSR3 at ultra quality and quality actually ran slightly worse than native resolution, very strange lol.
And the old 'tick disable fullscreen optimization' box in the desktop icon gave me a noticable boost in performance, in fact Ultra settings ran around 10fps better than High settings after doing that. That was an old trick that worked on some Ubisoft games like Ass Creed Origins and Odyssey, and it works here too it seems, so def give it a try if you're on PC.
Now i dont know if FSR3 isnt optimized well for 10 series gpu's, but on my 1080ti FSR3 at ultra quality and quality actually ran slightly worse than native resolution, very strange lol.
And the old 'tick disable fullscreen optimization' box in the desktop icon gave me a noticable boost in performance, in fact Ultra settings ran around 10fps better than High settings after doing that. That was an old trick that worked on some Ubisoft games like Ass Creed Origins and Odyssey, and it works here too it seems, so def give it a try if you're on PC.
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Buggy Loop
Member
DF is doing a better job at selling me this game than any Ubisoft marketing so far.
WTF was that about the early preview with the shit graphics we saw not long ago?
Gamer_By_Proxy
Member
To me these Ubi open world games are like CoD. 7ish, not worth getting them all. You may like buying the current one if you skipped a couple.
No harm in mindless 7ish romps.
No harm in mindless 7ish romps.
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Denton
Member
I tried this, but the information about quest locations can be so vague ("it is located south west of Big Tree on shore of river X") that after I searched for something for 15 minutes and it could have been anywhere (because the map is so huge, as is that river, as is "south west"), I just enabled the guided mode again. It only displays the waypoint when using the avatar sense anyway, so it is not particularly distracting.
The map would have to be more distinct and locations more clearly described for it to be good idea.
GymWolf
Gold Member
Both terrible then.
Little Chicken
Gold Member
All that tech and great art wasted on Flops of Pandora. Bit of a shame, but an MC score in the 70s isn't completely terrible, I'm sure it'll find its audience through deep discounts.
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John Marston
GAF's very own treasure goblin
If I'm not mistaken the game occurs between the 2 movies so no.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
I've seen the first one, not the second one. Will probably remedy that over the weekend. I was expecting my copy of this to deliver via gamefly today but looks like USPS shat the bed, so not playing this before Monday at the earliest now anyway.
SirKicksalot
Member
I wanted to wait for the Steam version but that DF video is making it really difficult...
Stuart360
Member
Just get a month Of Ubisoft+, then get the game when it launches on Steam in a year or whatever. The Steam version will probably launch at a discount anyway so that price,. plus the $15 for a month of UBI+ will probably be around the same price as if you bought the game new now. Plus the Steam release will probably have the expansion too.