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I played it for a few hours when it first went to early access, haven’t picked it up since it went to full release! Like Sea of Thieves, I would be interested assuming there is cross play as il be playing through Xbox Game pass 👍🏻

I had a brief go with this when it was first released on xbox. Now it's coming to other consoles I am giving this a nudge to see if anyone else would be interested? My first impressions were pretty positive so looking forward to playing this now that it's further down the developmental road.

Echoing this Lee, it's an absurd idea to expect servers to be capable of millions of players, even if you look at Counter Strike on PC which has a sizeable following it doesn't hit 1 million players. Considering the first helldivers was nowhere near as popular it's hard to predict this would have gone down as well as it has. Sony could easily spend a fortune now ramping up servers similar to Palworld but is that practical? The numbers will drop fairly quickly with quite a few online games coming out over the next month or so.

Final snaps from my Alan Wake 2 playthrough! 

So far, my biggest issue with this is trying to get online, and the servers are full.  2 nights in a row for me in the EST timezone.  I hope they increase their server size soon.

I had heard that as well but I don't really understand where that has come from.
 
There are sort of like 2 battle passes, 1 which is free and earned in game, the other is paid for (but you do earn the currency through general play and the free battle pass). The guns on the paid for option have been compared with those you get on the free and everything is fairly well balanced.

@Stretch616 just you wait till @Macca89 get's a montage sorted of last nights schenanigans!

I finished this one up the other day.  It was a decent run, but I encountered a side quest bug that prevented me from getting all the achievements.  They claim it's been patched, but that's only for people who start a new game post-patch.  Wtf?  We can't just fix the fucking issue period?  Oh well.
 
I likely won't be playing through this one again.  As with the typical Ubisoft games, they have way too much bloat with collectibles, lore items, and such.  Plus, with the aforementioned side quest bug, I was turned off from playing the game period.  I'm a completionist for Metroidvanias, and when I couldn't finish the quest, I wanted to just shut it down, delete it, and start something else.  It also didn't help that the story didn't hook me in, or was interesting enough to keep me invested.  If the combat had been dogshit, this would've been an easy "Don't recommend."
 
A lot of what I said in my previous post stands too, so I'll recommend you fine folks wait either for a sale, or when this game inevitably drops on either ubisoft+, game pass, or becomes a PS plus extra game.  There's no real replay value IMO, and with the story being "meh", puts this in a bargain bin.
 
 

You should use it mate. Its really so easy as we've used the FG Game Room discord chat within seconds onto the PS5 and its just as, if not clearer than PS5 party chats.
 
 
I'm here atm. I'm just trying to work out if I can do that because I have a feeling it will drop a little soon too. If Helldivers and Sony can't sort the max capacity servers out in the short term then this could push me into this sooner.

I had heard that as well but I don't really understand where that has come from.
 
There are sort of like 2 battle passes, 1 which is free and earned in game, the other is paid for (but you do earn the currency through general play and the free battle pass). The guns on the paid for option have been compared with those you get on the free and everything is fairly well balanced.

@Stretch616 just you wait till @Macca89 get's a montage sorted of last nights schenanigans!

So, a few from my latest JRPG, I am quite enjoying the art style of this one albeit the game feels like it might be a bit short -
 
 

I had heard that as well but I don't really understand where that has come from.
 
There are sort of like 2 battle passes, 1 which is free and earned in game, the other is paid for (but you do earn the currency through general play and the free battle pass). The guns on the paid for option have been compared with those you get on the free and everything is fairly well balanced.

Defo, not pay to win. Microtransactions feel very minor and not really game impacting. The grind is the same for all regardless 👍

@Stretch616 just you wait till @Macca89 get's a montage sorted of last nights schenanigans!

Sea of thieves and grounded are 2 games I would pick up gladly!

Sea of thieves and grounded are 2 games I would pick up gladly!

Not really surprising, couple the poor console sales with the fact I think they view gaming going to a more streaming based service I would be surprised if we see more than maybe 1 more physical xbox generation and everything going cloud based in the next generation or so for Xbox.
 
The only way this works for Microsoft is to make it so that their content reaches the biggest audience that it can.
 
The other plus for us as PS5 owners is that it may potentially mean Fallout, Elder scrolls etc won't be locked behind Microsoft devices (though with the next releases they may be timed releases).

This isn't going to be modernised, it's being remastered so everythings going to be the same just look a little less pixelated I reckon.
 
I feel like PS1 era games are where some studios are going to come unstuck with all these remasters, the original 3d graphics are very blocky and not particularly pleasant to look at in most instances and this is definately going to be one of those games that really falls down. You can get away with remastering 2d titles and anything from the 360 / PS3 era but I don't see it working with most PS1 titles.
 
I wonder if this is one of those projects that Square started as it seems like their sort of thing to do at the moment and Crystal Dynamics have decided to complete the project, it really does smack of a cash grab though.

I have just checked this out, you can have a server of up to 20 players but smaller squads of 3 to take on objectives and quests.

Unfortunately I did not get round to playing it, I ended up trying the new FFVII demo which has got me all excited for it now.
 
That said I have seen various tik tok video's and a review or 2 and it sounds like the game has gone down quite well, the stumbling block for most people though will be the price tag as I think to buy through the store it's like £70 I think?
 
 
Just looking about online you can get a physical copy for £53 if you know where to look so that's not so bad! That said I am going to be paying £60 for FF at the end of this month and I quite want to get Helldivers 2 as well so justifying a 3rd game at a time when I'm trying to clear some credit card debt may not be feasable.
 
How many can you have in a party / lobby?

I think a lot of it was timing, it came out and the game is half decent and enjoyable but since then the likes of Starfield and Baldurs gate have been released.
 
To keep the player count high while competing with arguably 2 of the biggest releases of the year is a tough ask.
 
 

I won't lie, I haven't even touched this. I just have too much to play so when games come out on PS Plus they just get added to the library for tomorrow.... Then tomorrow often doesn't arrive unless reviews crop up like it's the next Palworld or Rocket league etc.

@WelchyTV I think you must have been too happy the day you made your predictions!