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    Originally Posted by HorTyS Go to original post

    I also prefer the open world exploration and mucking about to the core campaign, but find that the campaign missions are sort of what breaks up the eventually "what do I do next" situations that inevitably follow spurts of open world play. Rarely do I play for much longer after completing the campaign unless I have alot of side-quests left (which rarely happens with me). I find that when you're deprived of the main missions, the open world seems to get dull faster, as I suddenly don't have those missions to break up the time in the open world, and that is why I'd prefer to have more of them....
    I have played all open world games just like that. The only open world game I have ever continued playing for a long time after finishing all story and side missions was Black Flag,but that was more about living my boyhood pirate dreams But I would like to know how much time people spend in the open world after the credits with the different games
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    How long the game is depends as well on how many features of the hud you are using. If you go with a minimal hud, just health/stamina bar, don't use fast travel and avoid to look at the map beside finding the next object marker - but then memorizing it's whereabouts and not look at the map again until this mission is done - then you get a more realistic gameplay, where navigation alone is already a challenge. Then you get a real feel for the size of the game and you will need more resources, because you will come across more events and have more interaction with wildlife. If the game is played more in a hunter/gatherer style and unrealistic gaming aids like compass, minimap and hud features avoided to the most part, then the game experience will be long-lasting and be intense. But if you just walk or fast travel to the next mission icon, you reduce the game to a set of locations, instead to have a seamless landscape where landmarks and distances actually matter. Just switch off most of the hud, the aiming aids and the reticle and it will be a different experience.

    I use these rules for myself:

    1. minimal hud - just health/stamina bar
    2. no aiming aids, no reticle
    3. no fast travel
    4. looking at the map just in the wenja village and claimed outposts, bonfires and at owned camp fires
    5. whenever I use hunter vision, I eat 1 meat - if I have no meat anymore, I don't use hunter vision - so I use it actually rarely

    the last point makes it a real challenge, because I have to actually spot game to hunt it - and their camouflage fur pattern is hiding them quite well. Try it out, it is by far harder to hunt any real predator with it, they are so well camouflaged and blend into their surroundings.
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