Dead City not so much (looked fantastic but the clipping was just too bad). Started to feel like GTA with first person fights but without the option to explore.


<me> i am seriously pissed about all the official videos i watched because so far ALL surprises were spoilered by them
<me> next map is the well and i already know what gimmick i can use there. :(
<me> it feels like one rushes through the environments without properly being able to enjoy them
<me> just played dead city
<me> and the music is seriously making me sad
<me> atmosphere -5

Luckily the game got a lot better. Well and Prison missions were great.

Delay on NPC interaction before you can FINALLY hit E is idiotic.

If you walk away from an NPC while he/she is talking, the dialog will just end. And there is no log. And you cannot trigger it again.

The mechanical things at Kvasir's are well done. The competing claws and the tiny laser head, very cute and ~subtle.

Not sure why I cannot destroy a authority turret with a rocket.

Well mission: Why did they put NPCs down there? I felt pretty useless and random when I saw that there were others already taking care of the situation.

I thought this place looked nice (I can only take one screenshot per session :(( ): http://i.imgur.com/iTTmg.jpg

And yupp, this is how it looks like and runs quite fluent without many noticable popups on my "I don't waste money but rather buy second hand" hardware: http://i.imgur.com/NeqTB.jpg 

* A shame the sky is static and there is ZERO wildlife.

The races feel randomly tacked on. How can those people temporarily take over the wasteland and built a race track there. These are the things that screw up the whole story. "You have to race first before you can do mission X", so they try to integrate the whole racing aspect into the gameworld's realism. But it just does not work. Fuck.

Not sure if I said it here already (did so in IRC), but I am starting to appreciate HL2's storyline and way of telling it. Rage feels like an amateur attempt compared to it. And I hate HL2 more almost as much as Apple. ;) 

OK, now that I finally got the console working (the key was in a completely different place; I just tried them all until I found it) - you can drop the console and append a filename to the "screenshot" command. So "screenshot blah" will take a screenshot named "blah".

There's some birds flying around the old dam, but I think the lack of wildlife is supposed to reflect the "80% of life got killed" thing... 

Notes are here. 

Solved a lot of the problems I had, but now I have some extreme FPS slowdowns in some areas, like the game freezes but doesn't. Ironically, Jago says this patch fixed that problem he had earlier. Weird.

Anyhoo, it's a ton better now with the game not looking like shit and running well. 

While riding the atv. I might want to lower the size of my texture cache, though. 

I'm not gonna patch it now, I'll finish the game first. But I can't wait to give it a go on the high graphics settings. I don't know if my PC can handle it though, but it's a good excuse to try out the Nightmare mode. Hard is pretty easy, apart from the subway station mission. Fuck me, that was like Serious Sam at times !

Weird though, id shipping it more or less broken when the problem could be solved within a week. This has done there reputation no good at all.

Love the game though !
It's been a while since I've played a game where I didn't have any super powers. No advanced objective radar, no cloaking device, no grappling hook ... That's probably what gives the game it's "old school" feel. 

From what I heard it should be rather damaging AMD/Ati's reputation than id Software's though. Sadly I guess that ain't going to happen.

I played more and really liked it. Second Dead City mission was good, I like the Authority MG.

Music in the balloon ride to the new city and also the music in Subway Town are nice. Visuals just did another leap forward, see screenshots (thanks MH!), wow. Yes, that is brushwork on http://i.imgur.com/4v4Tg.jpg and http://i.imgur.com/xirXE.jpg

Screenshot album with spoilers I guess: http://imgur.com/a/D7K8z

Subway Town looks like those old System Shock 2 concept art drawings. Utterly amazing. The low textures resolution overall (up close) is so irrelevant I would like to shove mutant poo up anyone''s throat who bitches about that (I only bitched about it before the game was out, I swear!).

You can rampjump. But since everything is clipped it is no fun.

Bollocks: There are only 20 savegame slots and Rage will always select the top one. So now if I want to keep some incremental saves I have to navigate down and thanks to the fucking GUI that takes a long time (it waits on each savegame).

Same behaviour for the weapon changing, you cannot quickly scroll to another weapon (of which you can only have 4 in your "current selection" anyways, dumb), but you will have to go from one weapon to another. In quick combat this blows. The quick-selection is completely and utterly broken on PC or I just have not figured out how to use it without the mouse... 

That happened to me after the steam update, and I fixed it by removing the Rageconfig file I had in my /base folder, and removing all of the command line options from the steam 'launch options' field. Including the command which forced vsync. Now it works, and there is a vsync option (which works) in the video options menu in-game. 

The update didnt seem to affect the savegames stability. 

Multiple taps on number keys? 

Does anyone else have trouble with the contrast between light and dark ? Like in the hospital, sometimes I couldn't even see the crosshair anymore. It seems that a lot of newer games are so over-lit that I'm actually considering wearing shades in the house ! 

Some random screenshots. I took shitloads so this is picking out a few I really like :E
*Spoiler warning*
http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/596950510593851977/EF1A83BE52B3E5913B95275D51D7B8774DA0B952/

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/596950510593881532/C5DC2D1D4E246F0DFF03886094EF2D6464D5C017/

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/596950510568301622/C368964BCA2651465351D70837493A2816CCA4D5/

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/596950510593999694/EF5D64545B20F160A8C747A26C915B97BBBB51F9/

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/596950510593913664/56B79F9AD3C421D698BF1BC4DD9204A61E25C68F/ 

After the update, rage is now running at an average of 45 fps on my laptop ^.^ it no longer drops into the teens when driving either. I finished the wasteland garage, and plan on finding the quake secret when I get home from work. 

http://i.imgur.com/D5DKLh.jpg really shows off the usefulness of the megatextures.
the ability to make your textures perfectly fit the geometry every time without having to resort to prefabs is huge. 

Yeah, it is absolutely amazing how all the rocks have uniquely painted borders! 

It looks verrrrrrry pretty and the character physics/movement feels great - a real rarity these days. 

It looks fantastic !
And runs as smooth as can be !
Hooray ! 

I have to say that I'm constantly impressed by how good the game feels compared to Doom 3. Also the engine is incredibly fast and beautiful. That alone is great, but I'm also having lots of fun with the campaign. Sure it's linear, but it doesn't get too boring or tedious. 

 

Finished my first playthrough on normal last night.

Disappointed by the ending, but overall enjoyed the game. I feel like the story was building up to much more than it delivered, and the end came a bit suddenly... I was also sad that racing was disabled for some damn reason just before the final mission, so my last save before finishing I can't even go back and finish all the races.

The shooting in the game was better than I expected, I was expecting it to be a lot more watered down for console taste, but I found it pretty damn good for a mostly hitscan collection of weapons. I liked that they managed to make most of the ammo types feel very unique and special, normally I hate multiple ammo types because they feel like all the same thing with different damage multipliers. I also enjoyed using wingsticks, and will likely play through again with alot more focus on engineering items, because I just simply didn't bother with them enough this play through.

I'd say another complaint for me was I wish there was more side missions, I feel like I hit all of them on my first run through. I wouldn't even have cared if they were simple ones, but it felt that some parts of the early areas of the game were forgotten by the end, and could've been reused again for some side missions. And perhaps I didn't search enough, but there weren't enough sewers or misc. 'dungeons' that were just shooting galleries.

I enjoyed the racing and random encounters of car battles in the world, I felt the controls could've been better (though, perhaps using a game pad or actually changing the controls on my part could've made it better). I wish there had been more options for customizing my car.

I had texture streaming problems like most everyone during most of my play through, but last night's patch pretty much alleviated that issue. Surprised how well it ran on my laptop, 9800m, 2.1ghz Duo, 4 gig ram, most newer games I've struggled with. I am very impressed by the visuals of the game, id did a wonderful job there.

Overall I'm quite happy with it. Was about 16 hours through my first play, and will likely play again. I'd get it a score of a B+ likely if I were rating it. 

That end game ...
I was waiting for it to come, then the credits kicked in.

Great game though. 

By the way anyone have an idea if Rage is reasonably mod-able ? 

http://hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1037840623&postcount=682

But bias and misleading too...... 

DooM 3 looked better, indoors for sure. But they were maps, like Quake. This is much more open.