Disappointed with the CK3 Royal Court expansion. The game very badly needs flavor packs for non-Viking rulers. Would love to see them put out a DLC focusing on the Middle East or the Great Steppes.
Iām in the same place actually but bailed. I played HZD for ~10 hours after the PS5 patch and I was just so bored and its partly because of the really tedious combat, then I just downloaded it again this weekend and yeah no change here no regrets. For whatever reason I canāt get into this style of AAA games at all. Even god of war 2016 was a struggle and thatās a much better game.
If youāre describing the fight in the Cauldron, that was the most difficult fight in the entire game for me. Been a few years since I played it so I donāt remember how I eventually beat it but I remember fighting it over and over again like a Dark Souls boss and not really having that problem again with any other machine. Iād just try to figure out a way to power through it because the rest of the game is worth it. I spent most of combat using standard arrows and just blasting parts off of machines to cripple them iirc.
Super hyped for HZW and Elden Ring but would love to slog through some of my backlog before getting them. I also have Cyberpunk that I got for $10 before I realized the PS5 upgrade wasnāt ready yet, but not sure when Iāll be up for playing that.
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There are different types of bows with different types of arrows. Youāll start figuring out which arrows are better against which types of enemies and parts. I never had an issue killing or knocking off parts with hardened arrows mostly after equipping modifiers. I love the combat in the game, hopefully my comment helps and it clicks soon.
Traps and taking over enemies were also extremely helpful for me.
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Yup. Corrupted Fire Bellowback is pretty far into the game ifirc. You might be undergeared, making your issue worse. I think you unlock the bow for it after daytower (i.e. the initial area). Merchants should have it.
Double and triple notching + zoom/slowdown skills really help too
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The tear arrows are the ones that make a shockwave kind of explosion and knock parts off the enemies right? I found those really helpful but I canāt remember how I went about the combat exactly, been a year since I played the game
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Yeah I use those and the hard point arrows the most. The monsters with the mounted guns Iād shoot them off with those, grab the gun and nerf the monsters
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Havenāt played for a long time either but I do remember those shockwave arrows being my favorite, they blow all sorts of shit off the machines. Also those arrows would knock off big guns from the machines that you could then go pick up and use yourself.
EDIT: Like Krayz said
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Oh boy. Good advice so far. Shop from the merchants and get tear arrows and a hard point bow, etc. If you need specific animal parts for purchases, make note of them and go hunting for them. Killing boars, fish etc is easy and shouldnāt take long to get the necessary resources.
Another thingā¦i found grinding in the first half of the game made the second half of the game much easier. Do as many side quests as you can stand. Not only will you get resources and XP through normal fighting and looting but many side quests offer skill points and large XP bonuses which will help you level up faster. Quests will tell you what level the game thinks you should be at to take them on. Try and be ahead of that. Canāt recommend this game enough. Stick with it.
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On weekends I like to consume edibles and escape into videogames where I play the role of some guy who eats edibles to decompress.
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Weeks ago I put in to take next monday off to play elden ring all day and only now did I realize its also my birthday. 
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Haha yeah Iād just avoid those corrupted Fire Bellowbacks for now if youāre still that early. Or be prepared to wail uselessly on them for a while. You should be mainly tackling Watchers, Horses and stuff like that outside of missions.
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Yeah I was under that impression as well. For now should just be following objectives and talking to npcs for side quests and farming low level enemies along the way.
I think I want to get a controller for my PC. Is there any common wisdom one here as to what ones are decent? Iām obviously just a casual gamer, and Iāve always liked the PlayStation controllers.
I know for sure X box controller will work with a Bluetooth adapter for Windows. I canāt imagine Playstation controllers donāt. So if you like Playstation controllers just buy one of those looking up how to connect it to s PC beforehand. The Logitech controllers are a nice alternative but they were a pain with drivers and working with Windows. There are a ton of shady controllers on Amazon that I imagine fall apart quickly
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Any Xbox or PS controller would work. Would rather get a first party one like those than any third party stuff.
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Im pretty sure the official xbox controllers dont even require a dongle anymore. So long as you have bluetooth in your PC, your xbox controller ahould be able to natively connect to Windows.
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Yeah I donāt have bluetooth, so I connect both my xbox and ps5 controllers via USB. Both work fine, though DS4Windows is sometimes necessary for the ps5 one.
PS4 controllers have native Steam support, not sure about PS5 but they probably do too. DualSense (PS5) are way better imo, they finally added some heft to their controllers like Xbox figured out years ago.
I use ps4 controllers for Microsoft flight sim with no issues