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Everybody's Gone to the Rapture |OT| A Cosy Catastrophe

Does anyone know how the save system works? I played for an hour last night and put my ps4 to sleep, wanna run destiny today to do some nightfalls but i don't see any way to save in Rapture.

edit: to answer my own question, quit the game, started it back up, and it seems to have moved me back like 20-30 minutes worth of gameplay :( Definitely NOT the last ghost-light I viewed, even further back. So yeah, don't just randomly quit the game I guess, you will lose progress.
 
Finished the first chapter and that gorgeous bit afterward, and I'm really liking it.

The music, and tone, remind me a bit of HBO's The Leftovers. But without being shitty. The voice performances are great.
 
tearsintherain said:
Does anyone know how the save system works? I played for an hour last night and put my ps4 to sleep, wanna run destiny today to do some nightfalls but i don't see any way to save in Rapture.

edit: to answer my own question, quit the game, started it back up, and it seems to have moved me back like 20-30 minutes worth of gameplay :( Definitely NOT the last ghost-light I viewed, even further back. So yeah, don't just randomly quit the game I guess, you will lose progress.
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As far as I can tell you have to wait until you see the little saving message come up in the bottom right corner. Played about 10-15min longer than I meant to last night waiting for it to pop up then quit right as it was finished.

Haven't found any way to trigger it. Radios/Light scenes don't do it.
 
There's an obvious "Saving Game" message in the lower right corner. Just play until you hit one of those, then quit out.
 
dark10x said:
Are you serious? They left the frame-rate unlocked?!

Why are developers DOING this so often?! Stop! Lock it down if you can't hold 60.
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Or give us the option?

I preferred unlocked on both Killzone SF and both InFamous games, so no don't lock if you can't hold 60 but are well above 30 majority of time.
 
What's up with those moving balls of light? Seems like some times they lead me to scenes, but other times they just hang around doing nothing even though I'm close to them. Right now one of them is just lying on the ground near the trains and I don't know if that's intentional or some kind of bug.
 
I need this soundtrack!

Spent around three hours with the game last night and I'm my feelings are torn. The visuals are stunning, especially the sky-box during the nighttime sequences. The frame rate seems to fluctuate a lot which is a tad annoying. The story is interesting, the voice acting is top notch and, as mentioned above, the music is wonderful.

I guess my problem with the game begins with movement speed and interactivity. I'm not suggesting they allow the player to run but your movement speed is plodding and the world they've created is fairly large. Venturing off to explore every nook and cranny can feel a little tedious. Speaking of exploring, I wish there were more interactive elements in the environment. Beyond opening doors, flipping light switches and turning on radios/televisions there isn't a lot to do. Let me bang on a piano, kick a soccer ball, pull a dart from the dartboard at the pub, etc. I think that would help you feel more like a person in this world rather than a floating camera. Constancy of interactions is also a little odd. Sometimes you knock on doors (once or twice), sometimes you just try to open a lock door and sometimes no sound is made at all. I wish you could go into every house/room.

blame space said:
I hate the sixaxis stuff. I feel like an idiot and I never know if I'm supposed to do it or not.
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This too.

That probably sounds overly negative so forgive me for that.
 
Quick question: for a guy that mildly enjoyed The Vanishing Of Ethan Carter is this game right up my alley? Is it worth it?

Vanishing wasn't a bad game for me by any means, i particularly enjoyed solving the puzzles to make the story progress and i enjoyed the setting, but it had too little meat attached to it for me to enjoy it fully. Will i like this game?
 
So i've been watching this game on stream are you like a gaurdian angel following people around and bringing them to heaven?...is that the twist ? <_<
 
Framerate has gone to absolute shit after leaving like the first town, it's borderline unplayable now and is starting to give me an headache.
 
bestpersonevar said:
really enjoying the game so far. liking it much better than Dear Esther.

can someone please explain to me how to get this trophy -

Discovered the power of interactivity by doing nothing at all
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Ha-ha, I got that. If you just stick to opening doors and tilting the pad when prompted u should get it.
 
My guess for the twist is that everyone in the village have actually gone to see a gig, non other than the hip New York band The Rapture. (who aren't together anymore :(
 
1hr into the game so far (check my twitch) really melancholic game.

Edit: hope that didn't come across as self promotion
 
lmao there was a sprint button the whole time? Oh man that's too good lol. Time for some reviewers to adjust their final score. And it's seriously just holding down the R2 button for a few seconds? Crazy
 
Lan Dong Mik said:
lmao there was a sprint button the whole time? Oh man that's too good lol. Time for some reviewers to adjust their final score. And it's seriously just holding down the R2 button for a few seconds? Crazy
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After playing, I get why reviewers missed it. It's not on the controls list, it takes a long time to work, it doesn't work indoors, and it's a very slight speed increase.
 
Lan Dong Mik said:
lmao there was a sprint button the whole time? Oh man that's too good lol. Time for some reviewers to adjust their final score. And it's seriously just holding down the R2 button for a few seconds? Crazy
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Except it's not a sprint button. It's more of a "walk marginally faster" button.
 
I think I've figured out the stuff relating to the golden ball of light, spoilering just in case but it's only about game progression -
there are two main balls of light. One is the main one. This one will point out stuff of interest, i.e. radios, scenes, etc. You can't interact with this, it's just there in case you are lost - it's kind of like a waypoint marker. The other balls of light are scene-based. They are completely stationary, don't move about at all - you activate them by tilting the controller slightly, which will then start to vibrate and you will get what I am assuming is a 'major' scene.

This game is absolutely incredible, and I have only two main problems with it - the story is less opaque and more straightforward than the one in Dear Esther (relatively so, at least) which will probably make it a little more boring to replay. It is still very interesting but so far not too open to interpretation so far. And the second is that I just prefer the OST in Dear Esther because I love the cello. Otherwise, spectacular stuff, tone is perfect, graphics are stupidly good, can't wait to delve further.
 
Pros:
sound design and music are brilliant
Voice acting is amazing
World is nicely realized

Cons:
Pacing is slow, I mean really slow even with r2
No real character building as the dialog is sparce and mostly just drives plot points
Ending is maudlin and
disregards the alien-ness of the pattern.
Sometimes confusing/missing directions to player

The game has a great premise and provides
an alien that actually feels incomprehensible to our minds, until the ending that is.
. I just wish there was more story and less slooooow plodding.
 
I seem to have come across a glowing light I can't seem to interact with? It's the ball of light that you keep seeing floating around the streets, I've managed to find the location where it's stopped behind the building, but I can't do anything with it. I'm tilting my joypad in every way. Am I being daft?
 
I can't help but feel all the women in this game aside from Katie are little old women due to their accents and all the men are white haired farmers.

JonnyKong said:
I seem to have come across a glowing light I can't seem to interact with? It's the ball of light that you keep seeing floating around the streets, I've managed to find the location where it's stopped behind the building, but I can't do anything with it. I'm tilting my joypad in every way. Am I being daft?
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The large orb is basically a way point to guide you to the next area. You can't interact with it, only the small orbs.
 
JonnyKong said:
I seem to have come across a glowing light I can't seem to interact with? It's the ball of light that you keep seeing floating around the streets, I've managed to find the location where it's stopped behind the building, but I can't do anything with it. I'm tilting my joypad in every way. Am I being daft?
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Try moving a bit, then tilting. If that doesn't work, close the game and restart it. I had to do that once.
 
Untalkative_Bunny said:
Pros:
sound design and music are brilliant
Voice acting is amazing
World is nicely realized

Cons:
Pacing is slow, I mean really slow even with r2
No real character building as the dialog is sparce and mostly just drives plot points
Ending is maudlin and
disregards the alien-ness of the pattern.
Sometimes confusing/missing directions to player

The game has a great premise and provides
an alien that actually feels incomprehensible to our minds, until the ending that is.
. I just wish there was more story and less slooooow plodding.
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Shame to hear about the ending. I loved Ethan Carter right up until the ending, which kind of sullied the experience. Was worried the same might happen here. Will hold off for a price drop.
 
Looking forward to digging into this tonight. I understand a lot of the criticism it seems to be getting, but I'm approaching it expecting pretty much Dear Esther so hopefully I'll be in the right 'mindset' or whatever.
 
Just browsing the AMA w/ Chinese room. I think I probably missed a lot of the story because I'm an A to B type person.
 
This was the one game that I really wanted to buy during the PS Summer Sale, but I decided I would wait as I don't have time to play the games on my backlog already.

I'm listening to the soundtrack instead right now. First track off to a great start.
 
I hate when people assume a patch is coming and are waiting for it, but I'm about to join the club:

I'm waiting for a "R2 now makes you run even faster" patch before I play.

If they are listening to GAF
they probably aren't
, they will have a MAX SPEED slider option and a LOCKED 30FPS option in the next patch.
 
Shaking my head at not being able to walk behind the bar counter.

And good lord at the framerate, game is gorgeous(cryengine <3) IQ aside but was it worth it ;-;

And a 30 FPS lock won't help with the game plummeting to the teens.
 
Been watching PS4trophies on youtube and a lot of them just seem to be go somewhere and stand still for 3-5 minutes for a trophy.
 
So there's one house where I go upstairs and into a blood covered bathroom. It tells me to tilt thw controller and i do so but nothing happens. I quit the game and tried again, still nothing. Am I being dumb or what

E: it was prompting me in completely the wrong part of the house. Got it now
 
I need a little help for people that beat the game. I'm a little stuck. I am at
thr train station during the "Stephen" section of the game. Lizzie just got off the phone breaking up with Stephen. I am
Not sure where to go right after that point. I am assuming I am at the point in which I head to the observatory, but I can't determine if that's true. The floating orange light is now gone.
 
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