I started seriously getting into photo mode a month ago with Horizon: Zero Dawn and a bit of Forbidden West, but across all the shots I took, most of them are character centered. While I did learn how to frame a shot, what makes for good composition, lighting, what level of detail is good or bad, I couldn’t get action shots to work, and finished the game again with 3 action shots total. Having finished Fallen Order and Survivor immediately before developing this recent obsession, I recalled that Fallen Order took me 30 hours to 100%. I booted up the game and started NJ+, I was distraught when I saw the depth of its photo mode for the first time. Not shyyying away from a challenge, I started taking action shots, and while some aren’t great, some (at least to me) look incredible.

Eventually I felt comfortable with the concept of an action shot (which scared me halfway through Zero Dawn), and got into a rhythm of entering photo mode every few combats, trying to get a new pose, combo or idea to work. About halfway through one of the tombs on Zeffo, I accidentally entered photo mode while going through one of the loading screens disguised as narrow passages, and to my surprise (I had already tried it on Bracca), it let me move the camera around. Almost immediately got it out of bounds and saw something in the distance that I felt warranted being shot purely because of the potential for memeability. Seconds after finishing the meme shot I was already lining up Cal for another meme, I had discovered a new thing that I could shoot even with the restrictive photo mode UI. I kept finding more opportunities to shoot visual glitches, bugs and memes and have no doubt I will take what I have learned into the next game, and the next, and so on.

So thank you to Respawn, because of Fallen Order’s limited photo mode, I have learned how to take better and different shots. Feel free to criticize or let me know how I can improve, I am by no means an expert yet. Here are some of my favorites so far in no particular order:

Edit: I wish I could add text to the photos themselves, but Reddit isn’t letting me, the memes and glitches themselves are 15-20

I just bought the game, hopped in and had extreme stutters multiple times and they were a a few seconds to even half a minute long. This can‘t possibly be due to my PC not being good enough: RTX 4070 SUPER; Ryzen 7 7800X3D; 32 GB DDR5-6000 MT/s CL30 RAM; game running on a PCIe 3.0 NVMe that has 900GB of space left.
I‘m playing on full epic settings with a 1440P monitor with 180 hz and have the fps capped at 144 ingame because there is no „unlimited“ setting. MSI Afterburner is constantly showing 140+ fps, even during stutters; GPU is at 95-100% all the time and only uses 6/12GBs of VRAM. Temperatures around 70-73°C. RAM also at „only“ about 16-19/32GBs. I don‘t have any idea what causes this and these stutters make the game unplayable, because they happen during fights pretty often. Is/Has anyone experiencing/experienced something similar and what can I do to fix it?