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Redfall images2/1/2024 It's bizarrely structured too, as only the host will get story progression, meaning anyone else will have to replay all quests. It's not drop-in for starters, so unless you pick the 'host game' option at the title screen you'll have to back out to the menu if you want to play with pals. There are also oddities around the way Redfall handles co-op. I've never met such apathetic NPCs or lacklustre cutscenes, and it makes everything feel like a rush job. Characters you meet in the bases also feel painfully underdeveloped, with the majority of your "chats" with them being a single grunt, sigh, or simple hello. Again, it's super passive, and underplays whatever interesting narrative is buried within them. You get story beats through memory flash-backs, which involve watching blue silhouettes replay a key moment from before the vampires took over. For each core story mission, you'll get a kind of cutscene intro, but rather than a visual set piece they play out like someone put the Ken Burns effect on some concept art. It's something that comes as quite a shock compared to Arkane's other games. However, the narrative it's all packaged with is oddly lifeless in its presentation. You collect weapons and new gear throughout, and although, weirdly, there's no way to upgrade what you already have, there's a satisfying grind to proceedings. Gunplay is satisfying and figuring out how to best wield all three of your characters' powers both in combat and traversal is great. It's a shame because the gameplay is good. Each needs a generator to be found and turned on to be unlocked, and then subsequently provide one mission from a small pool of repeating options and a surprisingly underpowered sub-boss to defeat. Even the Safe Houses, which can be found and unlocked in each district of the map, repeat themselves almost immediately. There are some side quests that can be found by exploring or speaking to people in your base, but sadly they're basically shorter versions of similar ideas. They're linear and mostly revolve around heading out to a location to pick up an item, interact with something, or take down a named vampire - which are essentially just stronger versions of the standard vamps you'll find roaming the streets. You start at a base, with main quests chosen from a mission board. It's essentially a squad-based shooter, more akin to something like Back 4 Blood or even The Division 2 in terms of mission structure and the way it handles multiplayer progression (albeit with some odd quirks). Redfall’s issues reek of a rushed product and have thrown the future of Xbox exclusives into question.For a studio so renowned for making titles unlike other games, Redfall is surprisingly familiar. Many gamers are left wondering what happened to the Arkane that developed Prey and Dishonored. To make matters worse, we were just recovering from the burn of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, but while a great experience hides under that game’s performance issues and glitches. Redfall falls short of what fans of Arkane Studios’ previous work expected. And since the game’s multiplayer boots everyone if one player crashes, this issue can affect players whose games don’t crash on them. None of these problems even touch upon the game’s most fatal glitches such as a reported memory leak that makes the game chug the longer it is played and eventually crash. For instance, Redfall suffers from a glitch that applies sniper scope to every other weapon you wield, including weapons with their own scopes. At worst, the game’s glitches can make shooing even more cumbersome. You better hope you find a broken gun that works in your favor, because aiming in Redfall is a roll of the dice even during the best of times. dxiA49eetx- un chymera AYUDAdadAAAaaaaaa□□□ May 2, 2023 UPDATE: i found an assault rifle that had the traits "50% bonus accuracy" and "50% bonus accuracy while moving" and those were cumulative instead of additive.
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