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Re: PS4 Sales Up Year-Over-Year as Sony Tops UK Hardware Charts

Horizon_Rover

I think some consoles are packed up for 3-4 years and hooked people (like me) are buying new or upgraded console. Also I've bought GTA5 twice, which I didn't expect from myself. Week ago it was on huge discount on PS Store, and I've bought it just for not to bother to eject another disc from the console every time. LOL

Re: Microtransactions Arrive in Red Dead Online, You Can Now Buy Gold Bars In-Game

Horizon_Rover

I've enjoyed SP part and much enjoying online part. I do not care about micro-transactions in R* games as they are just optional. And it's not my option, because I'm greedy, I like to see a carrot on the stick and I like to get it myself and without mtx assistance. Yea, mtx in R* games are just assisting toll (would you blame users and owners of motorway toll of greediness an laziness?) not more than that. Some people are really short of time to be bothered to make the same mission tens of times and hunting the same animals thousands of times and I do understand them if they prefer to pay once a month instead of getting the next type of gun year later with their gaming pace.

Re: Red Dead Online Updates Coming as Early as This Week, Rockstar Wants to Make it 'Appropriately Rewarding'

Horizon_Rover

I do not see it as a total grind, you should not be able to buy everything after playing one day or 1 week. If you want everything straight away you need to go play a FPS. Some prices are definitely wrong - all jewellery should give much better payout. Wild horses should be sellable. I do not mind at all Mouser for 1000$, it could be even double no problem. Yes I have no money straight away to buy bolt action rifle, but that's the challenge. My friend got it, but he don't have some other weapons what I got on approximately same level and it makes it more interesting.

Re: Poll: Are You Enjoying Red Dead Online So Far?

Horizon_Rover

Tuesday - played a bit more than couple of hours. Everything nice and quiet. A lot of wildlife to hunt. First online contact with another player. While I've tried to figure out how to wave him he shot me in the face from shotgun point blank. Decided to buy shotgun.

Wednesday-everything the same, bought shotgun. Decided to check what damage will bring my weapons to other players. Shot couple of guys for experiment. Some disconnections started to appear on black "R*" screen. Deleted my character and created new one.
Shot one guy, who tried to catch me on exit from train station while I've calculated it faster and been waiting on the roof. Shot him couple of times more when he tried to chase and shoot me.

Thursday - "R*" disconnections more persistent. Shot by another player again. Shot some other players as I've been disconnected again. One of them shot me couple of times of revenge. Many more disconnections, not able to sell anything All my loot on the horse disappears every time.

Friday - had to switch off in-game chat. Blue screen error every 10 minutes in freemode. Cant get anything to sell before it desappears. Occasionally some disconnections from "R*" Started some missions - smooth. Started death matches - fun, and smooth.
Get back to free mode - errors, errors, errors. Killed a lot of other players between errors as couldn't do anything else.
Rich wildlife wildly reduced (not by me) Think "R" decided to adjust some settings on wildlife. Not alone who noticed that.
Errors every 10 minutes... Rockstar advised its wrong on Sony side - I do not think so, I can see some pattern.
Switched off "Boost Mode" on my PSPro, errors are a bit less persistent.

Sunday - all bugs desappeared for now.

Re: Red Dead Redemption 2 PS4 Patch 1.03 Out Now, Adds Red Dead Online, Provides Improvements and Bug Fixes

Horizon_Rover

@NoCode23 I have the same setup, but supersampling is on. All looks amazing. No issues at all. Finished story - didn't have any glitches apart from missing bison's pelt from the back of my horse, while travelling by train. But I took it as it was lost or stolen when my horse was on it's own for many hours. Rdr2 Online doesn't look as sharp as Story mode for some reasons, maybe due to in-game hazy weather. But faces are definitely a bit blurred and less animated.

P. S. : waiting for delivery of my new 4k hdr hlg dolby atmos TV next week.

Re: Sony Reportedly Bans PSN Account Over Cultural Misunderstanding

Horizon_Rover

I've never heard that word, not English native. So, theoretically if my name would be Kiran Kelly and I would choose two first letters of name and surname... Banana? BTW, many Spanish words syntax sounds and reads as most offensive and rude word in Russian language, how to be with this when children reading them loudly?

Re: Sony Secures a Sensational 20 Nominations at The Game Awards 2018

Horizon_Rover

@Lovespuds But I've Ditched GOW as it was too linear and not as open world as I thought. Ditched it for GTAO and Kingdom Come which I've enjoyed much more. Spiderman I've stopped playing after the first day. Rdr2 - can't stop on it, and planning a second go on it. So many people, so many tastes. Even FarCry 5 I've enjoyed more than Spiderman.

Re: Red Dead Redemption 2 Bug Potentially Removing Key Characters from Camp

Horizon_Rover

Are you definitely sure, someone, that if they are not in the camp, they are not around it in the woods? Or in the nearest town? Or like Mikah in his remote camp? Because, I have all of them doing their business outside of the camp and quite often I met them elsewhere.
If they all will be in the camp all the time, how would they replenish the stock/ledger book?

Re: Talking Point: What's the Background Behind Your PSN Username?

Horizon_Rover

I've started with Tr@hula in early LAN Half-life deathmatches and Counterstrike. It's twisted Drakula as my real name is same as his name. If to transcript it from Russian it would be F@ckula. Later I've swapped my nickname for some MMOs and Wow to Gallardo (not because of the car, not sure if it was made then). While playing Wow I've decided to create another class character and named him as was written on the box of candies on my desktop - Oizon.
So, when I've bought my first console PS4 and had to create an account I've tried Gallardo of course and no luck even with suitable variations, then I've just put Oizon with some digits in a hope to change it later. But, unfortunately, it was not possible as I've found out later. So, stuck with that one.

Re: Rockstar Expects Turbulence Upon Red Dead Online Release

Horizon_Rover

No, it's not weird. Let's put it right Rdr2 is a single player game and totally worth that full price on release and maybe even long after release. Online part is free bolt-on, you not paying for that. You can pay, however, if you wish by using MT later on, but it's only up to you how will you support online component - dedicating your precious time or precious money. I'm on first side of it, never used Mt's in any game. Level 1007 in GTAO (most of it by winning races on double RP).

Re: Only a Handful of Senior Employees Worked 100 Hour Weeks on Red Dead Redemption 2, Rockstar Clarifies

Horizon_Rover

There are spikes and falls in all businesses, and if you will keep your working time line flat an not reflecting those wobbles you will end up with losses. You will loose a customer or their trust which will be reflected down to lower link of the employee chain and could end up with redundancies. Or you will end up with oversaturated market or overstock of your product for example, which also will be counted as losses. Many famous artists, scientists, passionate and creative people do work abnormal hours in some stages of their work, so why some senior writers from Rockstar can not do the same? If they feel they are artists, why not?

Re: Red Dead Redemption 2 PS4 Reviews Will Run Next Week

Horizon_Rover

@legalstep Can you read? And all other people who gets it wrong and turn it to their twisted interpretation? I've met some guys from Rockstar and they didn't complain about any "forced" overtimes.

I do not trust all reviews but hope it will get all 10s where it used to.

Re: Rockstar Worked 100 Hour Weeks to Get Red Dead Redemption 2 Done

Horizon_Rover

Some people saying it's not healthy to work two weeks of 100 hours in a 6 years for a team of four creative writers.
I would say - it's not healthy to be a lazy fat couch potato over 100 hours a week, and those are in majority. So cry about them, not about passionate creative writers. By the way, many of classic writers were sleeping only 4-5 hours a day, and all the rest of the day they were working.

Re: Rockstar Worked 100 Hour Weeks to Get Red Dead Redemption 2 Done

Horizon_Rover

It's OK for senior staff to work 100+ hours a week sometimes. If you are passionate about your project/business, if you are responsible for it 24/7, if you can authorise extended working hours for yourself. And do not forget, some jobs are not physical only or brainwork only. You can have your lunch breaks, business lunches, meetings, travels etc and it is all included in your working hours.

Respect to those who worked that hard on busy weeks. I would do it as well. And did something close to that hours when needed.

All those who are desgusted with it, did not have responsibility for a project and will not understand and will see it only from the point of hourly paid worker. Sorry.

Re: UK Stats Show Spider-Man PS4 Vastly Outsold Other Major Exclusives In First Month on Sale

Horizon_Rover

@Flaming_Kaiser
I didn't like RDR1 as I've tried it twice on PS Now, maybe due to streaming controls lag. I didn't try Skyrim - it's ugly. But open worlds in AC Origins/Odissey are brilliant, FarCry 5 brilliant but small, GTA5 brilliant, KCD amazing. But Rdr2 will be on top of all I know it.
I'll get Spiderman soon though for free from colleague, didn't plan to buy it at all as I'm not a fan of comics and superheroes.

Re: Poll: If PSN Name Changes Are Really Happening, Will You Change Yours?

Horizon_Rover

A lot of people, me as well, were rushing to start up the system when unpacked it, but their preferred ID tag was already taken, so they had to choose generated one with some additional and unwanted digits or symbols. I've put my day of birth, but I didn't really wanted to do so as I wanted clean ID no digits/symbols, but all of them were taken, and I didn't have more patience to guess which is still available. But now I can do so, as I'm not rushing any more.

Re: Assassin's Creed Odyssey Gets a Suitably Epic Launch Trailer

Horizon_Rover

I've played it already, it's quite the same as Origins but with some additional stuff which is nice. But Greece looks stunning, I'm feeling like I'm on holiday there, when I see it. Love Greece, hope I can get there on (Santorini) Thira Island in game. Not buying it yet, due to Origins not finished and Rdr2 incoming.

Re: PSN Name Change Rumour Is a Load of Nonsense

Horizon_Rover

Well, I've never understood why do people need some stupid trophies which are just small pictures... But I would like to change my PSN ID to get rid of digits. All my nicknames were reserved when I've created current one but I had create it quick as I've just bought the console and was in a rush to get online. Now I would take time to create clean digitless proper sintax nickname.