Game mechanics you are embarrassed you learned too late

I played the entire first run if Mass Effect without knowing about Biotics or whatever. Literally only used guns.

I'm ~50 hours into Horizon Zero Dawn and I still don't think I know how to properly play the game.

I finished Last of Us before i knew you could use the "listen" mechanic to see enemies through walls.

Would have been a major help

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I finished Last of Us before i knew you could use the "listen" mechanic to see enemies through walls.

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holy shite, you poor little guy

I didn't know you could land on the surface of random planets in Mass Effect 1.

In EA's Star Wars Battlefront I didn't know how to lock on to enemy ships in fighter assault for the first 20 or so hours of play.

Rolling in Dark Souls
Different weapons in Horizon

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In EA's Star Wars Battlefront I didn't know how to lock on to enemy ships in fighter assault for the first 20 or so hours of play.

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Same for me with the lock mechanic on the ground.

I probably had the Last Word in destiny 1 for a month before I found it was full-auto. It wasn't listed on the perk tree and it was a hidden perk.

I'll never forget the first time I ever equipped it in a PvP match and was like, "why do people like this gun?"

I played almost completely through State of Decay before I realized you could bring people with you when leaving your base. The game became so much easier after that realization

I did the mission where you go back to find the little girls watch up at the cabin solo, at night. Truly terrifying.