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Ну що ж, нарешті цей великий день настав!
Вітаю всіх, хто не намагається вбити мене та мій народ кожного дня, з виходом продовження цієї легендарної гри. Наразі награв 3 години, пройшов вступ, і - треба йти спати, хоч дуже важко відірватися від цієї краси.
Це попередній відгук, як пройду всю гру, напишу повний.
Граю на наступному залізі:
CPU: 12400f
RAM: 32GB Kingston Fury
GPU: MSI GTX 1070 GAMING X - і ось це у мене найслабша ланка
SSD (не M.2) - перша компіляція шейдерів 15хв (один раз крешнулась), після завершення першої компіляції коли запускаю гру - 1хв займає.
1080p

Пройшов початок (коли день настав, а те що треба - зарядив), майже завжди стабільні 40фпс.
Налаштування - все помірно.
Вимкнув розмиття в 0.
� ізкість - 30%
FSR - Balanced
FS3 - off
В Nvidia Control Panel залочив кадри на 40, щоб не стрибали з 55 до 30, бо тоді дуже неприємно, а коли стабільно тримає 40 - норм. Завтра спробую на 45 та більше пограти.
Відеокарта навантажена від 35 до 98%, коли 98% - може просідати фпс до 30 кадрів.
Під час першого старту гра один раз вилетіла, коли шейдери генерувались, після цього жодного вильоту.

З мінусів - не працюють xbox360, ds4 пади, хоча гра розпізнає xbox360 pad, але контролер не працює все рівно.

PS. Стартова тема - просто ВОГОНЬ!!! Аж до дрижаків. Класно зроблена. Дуже було цікаво, якою вона буде, і вона неймовірна.
Сама гра - ууух, особисто мені дуже подобається, а це ж лише тільки початок.

Дякую GSC та ЗСУ за можливість грати в цей шедевр!

UPD. 11 годин +
45 кадрів майже постійно, вильотів - 0, задоволення - 100%
Найбільше я чекаю фікс геймпадів, хочу спробувати пограти з крісла на ТВ

UPD. 25 годин +
Заюзав з "Посібника" FPS boost методи, спрацювало, тепер майже стабільно 60 :)
Погоджуюсь, що респаун мутантів/ворогів та стелс - дуже бісить, чекаємо на фікси.
Але в усьому іншому - з кожнем днем закохуєшся у гру все сильніше!

UPD. 49 годин
Я ЛЮБЛЮ ЦЮ Г� У!!! Зараз забив на квести і просто гуляю Зоною, досліджую, неймовірно атмосферно і красиво!!!

Pretty cute and interesting game, battle gameplay is good too.
I thought I'd refund it before 2hrs to pass, yet it's still here and I really like the story. What's even more cool there's "no russian" :wink: I mean, not "no russian" like in CoD, but "no russian" like in list of supported languages.
Modern games don't need language of terrorists ;)

Game is a gem, though it has lots of issues and glitched my save file several times, it's still a banger! OST is perfect, bought it too. It's my Xmas game now. Playing it for second year. Completed both on Xbox Guitar and PS4 Mad Catz Guitar (it requires some work and suffering)

Trick how to make the game respect Xbox Guitar: I was able to fix it with Steam's (kudos to Steam :possession:) built-in Controller Mapper. Just by... simply enabling it for the game (I also remapped strum to DPAD UP/BOTTOM -> Backspace, but I don't think that this fixed Guitar for me...) And right now game supports even navigating in menu with strum (up/down)...

This game is a huge masterpiece music video. A mixture of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and your favorite rock concert with all these AWESOME guitar riffs and solos.
The game has no hard battle or puzzle mechanic. It's not for challenge, it's for soul.
Start of the game was a bit dull, but it changes pretty fast and after that it's really hard to stop playing it.
I love it! It's a real Artful Escape!
5 stars for me.

Early review just to support the game's release: it runs fine at 60fps, with rare small drops to 55-50 and max settings on my i5-4570, GTX 1070, 16Gb RAM. Win 8, x64. No crashes.
I know the story so far, watched clips movie 2 years ago, so happy to have ability of playing this game on PC.

I can't recommend the game, because:
1) Too short, even with the repetetive mini games.
2) Sky's mini game is glitchy (also in story mode) - sometimes bones are just too close to beginning of a new fly track, so it requires a lot of precision to collect them. But this is not the biggest problem - the biggest one is that sometimes bones are simply not collected, and it looks like Sky just flies over them. Try to explain this to a kid, why everything is done in time, but not collected... Frustrating.
3) Bones are glitchy, we had to replay a couple levels while looking for lost bones and were really surprised to find the bones directly in place where we couldn't miss them.
4) Too expensive for such type of game: with minimum content, repetetive gameplay and story mostly copied from cartoon series.
5) Thanks for russian voiceover, but the problem is that most of phrases are cut and not ended...

In total: not a bad game, not very hard, so it's enjoyable for kids. But listed above items spoil the fun.

PS. Even Sky's mini-game achievment is glitched =)

https://test-steamproxy.haloskins.io/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2254205549
The game has it flaws, for me those are:
1) weak plot and poor dialogs, especially in side quests. I can even say that the spirit of a plot lives stronger in a text and video logs scattered across the vast world, rather than in main story itself;
https://test-steamproxy.haloskins.io/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2257066993
2) side quests are felt detached from the main game that were added just to increase the play time. They had to be wisely integrated into the open world of the game to deeper the feelings from story, but most of the time they just like "mehhh"
Only several of them are interesting;
3) greedy and crazy loot/resource gathering, at some point you start to feel that this constant button pushing to pick a source pisses you off very seriously. Auto-collecting skill would be a great help there (IDK, maybe there will be some later, I hope)
https://test-steamproxy.haloskins.io/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2246929798
4) map is toooooo biiiiiiigggg, so big, that developers decided to fill it with tones of loot, resource and collectibles gathering and that was a bad solution. But even with this there are still empty spaces across the map... The map had to be smaller or have less robots, because you constantly have fight with them and at some point this becomes boring since you start to get used to them =( Doing the same things over and over again kills the fun. Unfortunately lots of open world games suffer from such illness. "Mad Max" is a good example of an open-world post-apocalyptic game, it would be better if HZD had something similar: more riding and sudden fights would be better, than unstoppable fights with robots.

So why do I recommend this game:
1) this world is really beautiful and entertaining, music is great (though not so various as in NieR for example) and traveling in it is very interesting;

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I'd hated this game since the time I saw the first screenshots.
I'd hated this game since the time I saw the first gameplay
I'd hated this game since the time I saw that nothing was going to change and it would be released as shown initially.

But after it was released I decided to look at gameplay and clips and found it funny, after that I decided to try it (Steam refund - thx for this opportunity), and then... I just realised I really like the gameplay, the story and the concept...

I'd never think I'd buy it, play it and... recommend it. But I'm doing this now.

Minuses: none for me.
Pluses:
- gameplay is fun;
- story is fun(ny). I played OG BT in childhood and I'm neither offended nor feel that this game kills the OG's spirit. It's funny enough to keep me playing it =)
- visual style is fun

SCS is doing a great job by supporting and enhancing both EST2 and ATS, love both of the games a lot.
Love the spirit and dedication with which the dev team works on both games. I can't add nothing new as for the game, it's like ETS2, but in America, with its own unique roads, rules and beautiful views.
Everytime I see how many time I've put into no story-based, no multiplayer-based, just-drive-and-enjoy-the-process game, I'm still surprised by the fact I so addicted to it. Why? Because the game is for driving lovers. Seriously. Driving is so hot and adventerous and the game gives ability to embrace it pretty much.
PS. I have American Truck Enchanted Edition of the game, are there any other questions? =)
PPS. Russia is a terrorist state!

Too sad the game crashes a lot to blue screen. It looks and plays great, but those crashes ruin everything =(
I've searched on Hub for solution, but none helps me.
Refunded and because of this I can't recommend it, the game is broken.

UPD. Bought this game on PS5, and gosh - it's so AMAZING!!! Literally one of the best games about Baja racing!!! To sad it failed on Win for me.