My one year old loves watching us play this game. If I ever want a few minutes of quiet, i just turn this on the big screen and sit her in front of it.
I beat the core game and the DLC on Very Hard not too long ago. I'm on vacation for the next few days and so I just booted up the game for a New Game+ on Ultra Hard. I have all the DLC Weapons and outfits, which were nice improvements over the Hunters Lodge weapons and core outfits. Going with the stealth outfit as I've never been a fan of the Shield Weaver outfit. My objective is to be seen as little as possible on this run, and considering how hard everything will hit on Ultra Hard difficulty, I'm dead anyway if I get caught slipping, Shield Weaver or not.
Im looking for something to restore the feeling of beating TLOU on Grounded difficulty. I'm pretty adept at combat and dodging. So much so that I was taking on multiple Frostclaws out of sheer boredom on my last playthrough. Ultra Hard sounds as if it'll add the tension back and make me consider activkey avoiding conflict instead of being nonchalant about it. I can already tell the machines are more aggressive and reactionary.
A watcher spotted a dead Scrapper I'd put to bed. It came to investigate and I whistled to lure it my way for a stealth kill from the bushes. The yellow '?' went red in a blink. SOB immediately went on the attack without investigating and
threw himself in the bushes.
Like, breh just
launched himself into the shrubbery
That alerted the other scrapers in the area. I was able to lose them easy enough with the Master Adept stealth outfit and proceeded to pick them off one by one but that caught me off guard. Really looking forward to this playthrough. Definetly my GOTY for 2017.
Edit: If you aren't playing this with the HUD set to 'Dynamic', what are you doing?
I have no clue why more companies don't incorporate that system like GG did here to help avoid the clutter. Most games either hide too much or not enough when you adjust the HUD settings. (EX: Assassin's Creed Origins.) Hiding everything except the compass makes this game so much more immersive & beautiful. Being able to pull up objectives, health and other HUD clutter by running your thumb across the touchpad was great designing. It should have been the default set up.