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Dive to Hell: Retribution

Every time you die and return to last save, HDR turns off

How?

You have to be in full screen to have HDR otherwise you get an error message

Additionally even if HDR actually does 'work' properly the colors are completely over-saturated like if you turned up the color slider on your TV to max, it hurts to look at it.

And if you completely disable HDR on your monitor, whenever an overlay event on steam pops up the colors become completely washed out until it goes away.

Look... I like the game, I still will because of the gameplay and the friends who would enjoy said gameplay with me.

That being said, not all of my friends live in the US and creating a PSN account in accordance the **TOS** of PSN will require them to expose their face, ID, address or payment method to SONY, just to have the privilege of playing this amazing game. Said information is going to be at risk in the event of another data breach which with SONY's track record will happen sometime this year.

SONY has backtracked the decision, however I am waiting for the region locking to be lifted from steam to change my negative to positive

I see what you are doing
You develop content for PvE window shoppers, playerbase increases, queues happens, open up new servers that your actual playerbase has to pay to transfer to. Once the window shoppers leave, you merge the servers back together which kills the PVP content because people have to deal with gold sellers, bots and top warring companies that YOUR playerbase PAID to get away from.

brilliant business strategy, really, I applaud you.

Kept us waiting huh.

In the words of the ancient warrior Solaire of Astora, Git Gud scrub

In the words of the BFFs geezer

They ruined battlefield

No seriously

Monster Hunter World is a very approachable while having enough depth for the more hardcore players to be able to enjoy it, each category of weapon plays completely differently and has a high enough skill ceiling that you will be constantly learning new things in order to BE better at using the said weapon

There are three phases to this game; Low Rank, Transition, High rank

The Low Rank phase focuses mainly on introducing the common apex monsters in the New World's ecosystem, the modifiers for the apex monsters are stable and will not fluctuate unless there are special circumstances behind the assignment, as a consequence, your weapons and armor that you will use during this phase doesn't matter as much, save for the ones that have high debuff attacks. To summarize, you LEARN during this period of time.

The Transition phase is the game telling you, stuff's gunna get a difficulty spike. This phase happens when you have a persistent assignment across your expeditions and other assignments you have active, mainly, find clues that xx monster was here. Once you enter this phase, you should have figured out some extra tips to increase your efficiency while playing and have settled on a weapon category to use and begin the grind to get the best Low Rank armor and weapons possible.

The High Rank phase has the apex monsters' modifiers unlocked, size, health, attack and defense are able to differ between the monsters of the same species so efficiency and preparedness is the name of the game here as High Rank and Low Rank materials can only be used in their own rank of equipment when crafting. All the knowledge you have taken in till this point will reward you!

Seriously just buy it already!

While not many people that are active at all times of the day, enough people come in to fill a server once every day and will go through multiple matches

Now lets go down the rabbit hole of this game

This is the napelonic era after all so you will be using flinlock pistols and muskets and only 12 lucky bastards will be able to use the rifleman class in any one match, 6 on each side, deal with it.

This game has a system where intrument players and flagbears can give a buff to accuracy they must have the instrument/flag out to do so however. While they have it out they also get a buff to health and the flag acts like a melee weapon so it one hits everybody like the bayonet would but you could take a second hit from the bayonet, a bullet would still basically kill you unless some miracle happens

Carpenters have acess to a blunderbuss which is a musket with many balls stuffed inside the barell and can multikill guys with one shot, the range is garbage and the spread is wild so hide in the bush and wait for people to pass you so you can kill them

Longer range than a musket with the accuracy of the pistoll, its a nightmare, it reloads slower than the other guns

They are basically rifles with less range and has the fastest reload in the game