The Blood of Dawnwalker

Droigan said:

Timestamped it, but there is little to explore for outside of what is marked. You can do watchpoints at night that show ? on the map, which are minor activities, which sounds similar to the Witcher 3 ? in the open world. However, outside of those you won't really find anything running around other than some small mobs running around. He didn't find any "secrets". Great looking world, but little incentive to explore outside of a given path/activity.

The part that puts the timer in the mixed bag for him is that many of those activities take time. Like following wisps to a chest, then many of those chests take time to loot. Problem being it also made it sound like the chests were similar to The Witcher 3 ? chests, most have bad loot.

There are random NPCs you can save (not quest ones), they take time. So since time is the most pressing resource in the game, it made him feel "bad" to save them. There are small guard camps which is basically like a regular encounter, but as you approach it, the timer gets greyed out to mark that if you do engage, it takes time. His conclusion is that while they said in the PR for the game that you could explore the open world without the timers, there are quite a lot of timers tied to that which you might not expect. Again, bringing up the wisps and looting chests.

He also mentioned the skill system and he had 6 saved up, so he used them and suddenly the day was gone and it was the middle of the night. So it is 1 point for 1 slot of time. The review posted earlier having 60 points saved up, it would take 3.75 day/nights away from the timer as you get 8day and 8 nighttime timers. So assuming that you'll get a minimum of 60, but I would also guess he had spent a few points at least by then, you'll spend at least 4 of the entire day/nights simply by leveling up if you invest in your character? I thought it was bad that you had to save up so you could do multiple skills for one timer, but one for one?

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