In the end, I just said "Screw it" and went and purchased it on Steam.
So far I'm really enjoying it, the story is actually pretty interesting, the villain is perfectly despicable so far, and I like the whole tattoo idea for leveling up.
Currently I'm able to play it on my PC at near max with an exception of Ambient light being at medium for optimization' sake.
Combat feels pretty good, melee and stealth play is especially gratifying. The game certainly rewards you way more for being tactical and patient instead of just running in guns ablazing (In a way that's sort of a shame, since it kind of forces you to play a certain way if you want to level quickly)
All and all, I like it so far.
There are a few things that bug me though.
Enemies seem to have near perfect aim, there are times when they are quite a ways away, shooting at me with what sometimes feels like laser beams.
This can be overlooked, but what grinds my gears the most, telepathic like senses, I kill one guy that just so happens to be in line of sight of another hostile soldier, and they immediately know EXACTLY where I was shooting from, even if I'm hiding in a bush at times.
Eagle vision also, there are times where I've dragged a corpse away into a bush or something and the NPC will instantly know where it is and go running to it.
These are all first impressions of the game thus far, so perhaps once I download some patches these issues will be resolved, but other then that, I think the game is pretty good. I would have liked a little bigger variety in weaponry but I can live with the current arsenal.
So far the Bow has been invaluable to me, only other weapon that's been used more than it is my knife and sniper rifle (All suppressed of course).
I'm currently looking at some mods for the game, nothing too extreme, but I am thinking getting a mod to make the game much more realistic to amp up the challenge (more realistic bullet velocity and damage, accurate rates of fire and effective ranges for all firearms etc) as well as being able to put attachments on nearly all the weapons (Co-op and multi allow you to have optics on the AK but in SP you cannot, the mod simple makes it so you can)
If anyone else is on the fence for getting this game, I'd recommend it if you enjoy sandbox like games where you have near total reign on how fast or slow you want the story to progress. Honestly, I've spent more time hunting, both animals and hostile pirates than playing the actual story line.
So far I'm really enjoying it, the story is actually pretty interesting, the villain is perfectly despicable so far, and I like the whole tattoo idea for leveling up.
Currently I'm able to play it on my PC at near max with an exception of Ambient light being at medium for optimization' sake.
Combat feels pretty good, melee and stealth play is especially gratifying. The game certainly rewards you way more for being tactical and patient instead of just running in guns ablazing (In a way that's sort of a shame, since it kind of forces you to play a certain way if you want to level quickly)
All and all, I like it so far.
There are a few things that bug me though.
Enemies seem to have near perfect aim, there are times when they are quite a ways away, shooting at me with what sometimes feels like laser beams.
This can be overlooked, but what grinds my gears the most, telepathic like senses, I kill one guy that just so happens to be in line of sight of another hostile soldier, and they immediately know EXACTLY where I was shooting from, even if I'm hiding in a bush at times.
Eagle vision also, there are times where I've dragged a corpse away into a bush or something and the NPC will instantly know where it is and go running to it.
These are all first impressions of the game thus far, so perhaps once I download some patches these issues will be resolved, but other then that, I think the game is pretty good. I would have liked a little bigger variety in weaponry but I can live with the current arsenal.
So far the Bow has been invaluable to me, only other weapon that's been used more than it is my knife and sniper rifle (All suppressed of course).
I'm currently looking at some mods for the game, nothing too extreme, but I am thinking getting a mod to make the game much more realistic to amp up the challenge (more realistic bullet velocity and damage, accurate rates of fire and effective ranges for all firearms etc) as well as being able to put attachments on nearly all the weapons (Co-op and multi allow you to have optics on the AK but in SP you cannot, the mod simple makes it so you can)
If anyone else is on the fence for getting this game, I'd recommend it if you enjoy sandbox like games where you have near total reign on how fast or slow you want the story to progress. Honestly, I've spent more time hunting, both animals and hostile pirates than playing the actual story line.
