Has anyone managed to liberate a city labeled as having an "overwhelming Mongol presence"?

There seem to be invisible snipers that rapid fire you, and each hit seems to do 99% damage.

Just sat down to play a bit and hit the 70 hour mark, discounting the 6 hours for the midnight release, that's 6 hours a day. I havn't played a game like this since Death stranding which i was averaging almost 8 hours a day, not countibg a replay of the Witcher 3 at around 7 but sure that was the depths of winter. 

Anyway, I don't know what these journalists were doing but rushing the main story on easy or normal cause I'm still in act 2 and I've only two story missions done with about two thirds of the first two island sections cleared of icons I've unlocked so far with more icons coming in as I talk to people and free prisoners (really cool reason to do random battles instead of ignoring them), I've done about half the side tales, 5 mythic tales and and I've one side set of side character missions to complete which has 9 parts. Even discounting time for photomode I'm still over the 40 hour mark which was the general estimation. Admittedly I'm slowed down because I refuse to use the map and instead rely on the visual cues on the screen so I can come across things organically, I think this is the way they instended people to play, only using it to switch back and forth from side missions to story or fast travel when I have new gear upgrades. 

This is one of the best games I've played of the generation, flaws and all. I really would like to see the flaws fixed but fuck it, every games has some manner of flaws and weak points and the bigh points here hold it up. I'm also a but saddened and at the same time admire the fact that they made some of the more emotionally impactful scenes and story in side tales, that's a big gamble with journalists. So far I'd give it a high 9 and round it off to a 10 but I can see how someone would think other wise depending on the difficulty they select, the way they play and the pace they go. There is no wrong way to play a game true but there are clearly more enhoyable ways to play sone games than others. 

Any idea how many hours you hit before you got the platinum?

Thank you for the tip.

My only problem is that the minor side quests (like liberating mongol outposts) I'm doing aren't giving me much experience. It feels like it isn't worthy doing them (except the ones that drop good stuff).

Has anyone managed to liberate a city labeled as having an "overwhelming Mongol presence"?

There seem to be invisible snipers that rapid fire you, and each hit seems to do 99% damage.