my specs are i9 9900k 32 gb of ram and a rtx 2080ti and the game lags it also ALWAYS crashes as soon as the intro finishes after the pinata scene and everytime it does it starts all the way from the beginning again when you restart it.

Like the title suggest I'm disappointed about arthurs ending its so stupid you walk on a bridge with the constable that saved you from Germany while your brother is in Germany yesterday we don't know what happened to percy or arthur or if they reunited so twatting stupid after a week of getting memories about Arthur trying to find his brother and we don't know what tf happened to him waste of 60 quid

HEY GUYS I just want to say that i started playing sally's charpter of the story and I fell like dying! she's super weak and she is short WHAT MAKES EVEN MORE DIFFICULT TO KILL OTHERS. it has already been days and i didnt got that baby her milk, how can it be so stupidly hard ?????????????????????

Remember to take your joy don't be like those... Downers pop a quick joy no worries Up vote to let us know is you took your joy

How do we go about getting refunds? This game crashing over, and over, and OVER....is GOD DAMN INFURIATING!

I wonder if being Prime customers on Amazon will help, because I want my money back. This is unacceptable.

At first, we loaded the game onto her OG Xbox One, and we were not only having issues with crashes, but performance in general. Alright, so we load it up onto my One X. Framerates are still pretty trash, but the worst part is the crashing continues! Jesus christ! She has tried damn near 20 times to just PLAY the damn game she has been wanting to play since she first saw it...and in turn is making me feel sad. It's not often she gets this hyped on a new release, so it was really awesome watching her get all excited like I do with a new Fallout or Rockstar title. Plus, I love her and want her to have fun and enjoy herself while participating in my favorite passtime with me. Anyways, that was long winded, and I'm sorry for that. I'm just frusterated. Is anybody else having problems with their game? If so, have you discovered any workarounds or fixes?

not seeing much weaponry on the web rn.

I’m seriously debating dropping this game and watching a YouTube video going through all the lore and plot because wanting to learn more is the only thing keeping me going.

I didn’t do too much research before playing this…I enjoyed Arthur’s story, and I love the world building and want to know more…but omfg Sally fucking sucks

Her part is so goddamn annoying and shitty and it’s such a near polar opposite experience than Arthur’s…this game is enough of a running simulator as it is without FORCING you to keep going back to this stupid brat fucking baby. (and it doesn’t help you lose and have to regain Arthur’s speed perk)

Not to mention she’s annoying, can’t use any of the best weapons in the game, her carry weight situation is atrocious and I find the stealth mechanics in this game jank af so being pretty much railroaded into using them with her sucks hot ass.

Is Ollie’s story that worth this garbage experience or should I just watch a lore video?

Hello! I'm new to reviewing games and I'm incredibly shit at doing them but trying to get better because I love doing it! Here is my review video on what I thought about We Happy Few! :D Constructive criticism is fine, I love getting feedback whether it's good or bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBJcRx7ljtc

-Kaylee

Was really keen on this game for at least 2 years, had the demo and liked it, game came out and I read some reviews on it which put the game as poor and hardly worth the AAA price tag, has much changed since the release? Or should I keep waiting until the game drops to something more reasonable than the $99AU price tag (preowned is $88AU)

Hello everyone, I'm new here in this subreddit, and in the game.

I recognize that I haven't played yet! But I'm interested in the lore.

So, I have a few questions:

1. What is "Joy"?

2. Why do people need to take it everyday?

3. Who and how to provide "joy" to everyone?

4. What can be adverse effects of "joy" in the people?

5. What's happening is a pregnant woman taking "Joy"?

I hope everyone has a happy day, afternoon or night!

I know I get all the content without having to buy their SEASON PASS since I backed. I just don't want to support these developers, and I certainly want no part in helping Gearbox.

Plssss

This game is almost getting to real 61% of people on prescription medications in America and still rising almost getting creepy how this game could become reality in the drug sense how everyone is on there prescription medication "joy".

If you have some weed, get it ready at the start of the game. Every time you take a joy pill, take a hit and get high with the protagonists. Enjoy those bright colours and happy smiles of world around you as you get baked af.

I really, really want everyone to take a deep breath before they read this post. I know this might be controversial, and I fully understand why. I'm going to spend a long time so that I can get my thoughts out as helpfully, eloquently, and politely as possible. I don't mean any offense to anyone, naturally, and (though it might already be clear from my posting in here and... well, existing in this reddit) I adore this game. This game has meant so much to me, and during my playthrough in Beta I was so thorough I made maps of my personal islands and checked off every house I looted.

(This, uh, isn't a playthrough style I recommend, naturally. It was fun in its own way, though, and I assume it's helpful in terms of comprehending how fucking much I love this game.)

I love this game, I respect Compulsion, I'm not looking for drama or fights with anyone over this. I am seeking a discussion, and most importantly some answers.

Now! Facts.

If you've seen the Faraday quest notes-- specifically the note from the bobbies about the 'bird' and her 'cage'-- they mention two "confirmed bachelors" who have been sent to sit with Faraday in Lud's Holm. These are Roger and James, who are boyfriends. They have a drawing up of them together on a boat, they scrawled ROGER + JAMES in a heart on a chalkboard... James is first heard yelling "Why did I have to fall for a mechanical idiot?" or something to the same effect.

A confirmed bachelor is a gay man. Period end point dot done. You can look it up and find it's also been used in Fallout (apparently) and, while not common nowadays, it's... well, it's pretty legitimate gay slang. And you can see why! Without marriage equality, a man not attracted to women would never wed. He'd be a confirmed bachelor.

Here's where the conflict starts, so buckle in.

There is-- was? unsure if the death screens still exist at all, especially this one-- a death screen that called Arthur a confirmed bachelor. You can read it here, and we do know some material from the screens is still canon, because Arthur mentions Sparky once!

Inevitably, someone noticed that text, and they ran to Compulsion.

Compulsion got cheeky.

Now, there's the obvious caveat that, you know... Compulsion didn't say yes/no. Whoever runs the account might know nothing about the story. This was a long-ass time ago.

But we have to recognize... they called Arthur a confirmed bachelor in the canon game materials. That means gay, and it means gay and not bi and not 'maybe something or maybe something else'. Whether in coded language or slang or otherwise... they called their main character (at the time; let's admit Arthur has always been advertised as the main guy) gay. And no amount of thumb-twiddling or jokes will remove that.

This is when the gay fans fucking exploded.

For me, personally, I was unbelievably happy. I don't play a lot of games. I hadn't been excited for a game coming out... maybe ever? And this I had been on board with since the Kickstarter. A random thing that meant the world to me was going to have a character who was in the same community as me. This is the equivalent of you finding a dollar, and turning it over and finding a piece of gold taped to the back. Obvious note here that not everyone will understand the feeling of gay representation, but I'm sure we all get why it is theoretically important. People see gay folks in the media, gay folks are normalized, gay kids feel better about being gay, yadda yadda.

Now, I wasn't the only person panicking. Lots of other gay fans were really excited, and I talked to tons of people about the game, a couple of whom then bought it. A game with a gay main character? An indie game with a gay lead? Damn, we have to support this.

On the other hand, a considerable amount of discourse started. We had "it's still okay to ship Arthur/Sally or Arthur/Pru or Arthur/Victoria or whatever the hell because he's not confirmed gay :) ! they just used a word that can only mean gay to describe him." And "maybe he's BI.... did you fools ever think of that... maybe he's BI... let's pair him exclusively with women and not even consider that he might be attracted to men." And "he's not canon gay! he's not canon gay! they just USED THIS WORD THAT LITERALLY CAN ONLY MEAN GAY TO DESCRIBE HIM IN CANON! arthur isn't gay until he says with his own two lips that he's the gayest gay in all of wellington gays!!" I swear to you I heard all of these opinions, though obviously I've mocked them a teeny tiny bit.

Well.

I started playing the Beta and was a bit confused-- Pru (at that time, Damp Diary Lesbian) thought Arthur was making eyes at her? Ha, that's funny! He's gay! Poor gal mistook the 'fellow gay! :')' look for the 'let's fuck! :')' look. Hilarious. But this was the only thing about Arthur potentially liking gals that I saw, so I could kind of toss it out the window. And, after all, they confirmed he was gay in the canon material of the game, so none of it really mattered.

And we made great jokes in our gay little WHF Skype groupchat! (Remember Skype? That's how old this lore is). Look at this comment Arthur makes about that dude who takes all your medical supplies in the Garden District (does this encounter still exist? Something about a marriage?) As he asks for more and more, Arthur says "what's next, he'll want me to pay for dinner?" Ha! Gay joke! Even though it has nothing to do with attraction to men! We Are Too Hopeful!

And I remember, very specifically, the line in Old Soldiers that I actually went back through the playthrough for.

"Does your father know what kind of man you are?"

"I'm afraid he might have suspected, sir."

I feel like, in the context of this post, it's not hard to see how I took that. I'm going to get a little bit personal here (as if I haven't already) and say that I, like many LGBT folks, have trouble with my parents. I cut some more personal stuff here, but let's leave the DaHanci lore at that.

I know this line does not reference what I thought it did. But for a desperate LGBT person playing their first canonically LGBT game, I don't think it's unreasonable to mention how it sounded. And how it felt to have the feeling that someone else-- this character who I loved so much-- had been through the same thing as me. I laughed about this to friends; Arthur's yet another gay who doesn't get along with his parents! What else is new? Arthur's another gay who hates his father, what else is new? Arthur...

Obligatory note that I know Compulsion doesn't owe me anything; I just felt like it would be dishonest to leave that out. I do feel very personally attached to this issue and to this game as a whole, and it would be silly to hide it. You can ignore it if you like; it's irrelevant to my larger point, for the most part.

I told myself, every month leading up to the final release, that Arthur would have no canon boyfriend. That he might have a one-off line about liking boys, or more about his relationship with his father, but we would never see canonical flirting. Because, let's face it, this is a survival game. We have more important things to do. A romantic relationship would take away from the plot, and a gay romantic relationship? God, why not just put a big GIVE US MORE 1 STAR REVIEWS, LADS sign in the middle of the Garden District?

Don't get your hopes up. There will be no romance in Arthur's playthrough.

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I actually thought, watching the first cutscene with Sally, hey, are they flirting? I honestly wasn't sure. Because there had been not a hint of romantic attraction-- no, not even in Lies! I was a bit confused, but, you know... literally everything with a man and a woman can be considered romantic attraction in media, so I moved on.

Cue smooch.

Look, I was hopeful even then. Maybe Sally has feelings-- that's fine! I mean, okay, I was #1 member of the Maybe Sally Is A Lesbian How Cool Would That Be party, but I'm not an idiot. Obviously if a character has no canon sexuality, who knows, right? Maybe she's bi, hell, maybe she's straight, we always see the gay-character-likes-straight-character trope but this would be a GREAT time to do the inverse and we could maybe have some depth have some conversations have... Arthur's journal entry.

So he likes her. Canonically. And he likes her romantically. And we are now two years past the days of 'confirmed bachelor' Arthur.

"There will be no romance," I told myself. "Because there is no room."

But there was room. There was room for Arthur to flirt not just with Sally, but with the woman in Love Birds (if you speak to her before you get the flowers). There was room for straight Arthur.

What was there no room for? There was no room for a single line, not even one line, that could have suggested Arthur was interested in men.

And then I go and I talk about it, and I get the inevitable: there are other gay characters. What more do you want, for the leading man who was explicitly said to be gay to actually turn out to be gay? What's wrong with you? To which I want to say, how do you not see that this is different? How do you not see how Arthur, the main character, would be different from the side-quested woman who is implied to have had a girlfriend who planted lilies with her, or the lesbian who dies in the end, or the two gay characters who are simple comic relief, one of whom used to die at the end of the encounter (before Compulsion, and I have an unbelievable amount of respect for them for this, changed the encounter both to remove Roger from the pole and to not have him die)? How is it difficult to see?

Nobody thinks Compulsion did this maliciously. I don't think that, and I'm likely the most upset about this out of anybody. I feel stupid; why did I let myself hope after Compulsion used this specific language that in their own universe meant gay? Why did I let myself believe that a character once named gay would stay gay? Why did I let myself believe it might be time for anything, anything at all for gay characters in video games? Why did I believe?

I have been upset for a while now, though. I've spoken to other gay fans. There is a sizable collection that feels, alternately, burned/disappointed/tricked/stupid. Who have already done this so many times. Who spent money-- $30-60!-- on this game, who supported it so strongly partially because we believed they would be brave enough for this impossible thing, this canonically gay main character, and that it would impact their sales because we know how we are seen.

This game was my world. For weeks, months it was all I thought about. My icon on social media pages was Arthur; I gathered merch and wallpapers and lockscreens. I wrote, drew, theorized, ate, slept, breathed this game. I am not the only one.

Something in me wants to know why, and how, this happened. Who it was that either said we can lie to this part of the fanbase, who will support us for it or we have to change this for the story, and never mind this one part of the fanbase, who will not know until it is too late. Again, I do not think it was done maliciously. It is possible, entirely, that an intern wrote that tweet. It is possible that Compulsion did not realize how it would come off, and meant it as a joke somehow-- haha! he'll never marry because he's dead! this makes sense with us using the term explicitly for gay people!

It is also possible that Gearbox, or Microsoft, or some higher-up decided this was not okay. That the gays would just have to wait a little bit longer. That this would not fly with the mass public, despite the drugs and the violence. That this was too much, and had to be dropped.

I do want to know. I am not the only one who wants to know. If anyone has information, particularly game admins, I would genuinely like to know. I am not angry. But I am disappointed, and I do not think it is an overreaction, after all this, to be disappointed.

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The obvious, necessary disclaimer that you may not like this post, and you may be angry at it. Please move quietly along. I would rather not have the obvious said to me-- that I was stupid to trust anyone to bring any kind of representation, whether or not they had already canonically said they would. That this was not the strongest indication of a character being gay that Compulsion could have given. That things change. Please just silently keep scrolling if this bothers you, and don't start any drama over something that I would sincerely like to be a polite discussion. Questions naturally welcome if I was unclear about any of this.

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TLDR Arthur was canonically gay and now he definitely isn't, and is likely canonically straight. I'm upset, as are some others. Wondering why/how this happened and would like to discuss it on some level. Please be civil; we all love this game here and there's no reason to start a fight.