Fortunately, those are a small part of the game. I'm just running around territory way too dangerous for me trying to get weapons and being opportunistic about about snagging the minor objectives.
Just finished a 45-minute battle for a rocket launcher. Playing in the hardest area of the game on Psychotic while under-leveled and under-armed is actually quite satisfying. I had to infiltrate a sniper-laden area by doing a lot of sniping myself, scouring the rooftops until I had a rocket launcher dude pinned down. (Or rather, we had each other pinned down.) Lots of deaths, but some fantastic shootouts. I'm sort of making the game be what I want it to be, and it's working pretty well.
One comment touching on what I said earlier, about the developers not quite getting what made Crackdown, well, Crackdown. I'm in this territory, and the announcer keeps telling me what I can't access. He tells me when an orb is too fast for my current level. When one of those energy beam stations is too high for me to get to (he let me know I'd need to be level 4). And so on.
In Crackdown, when I look at the city, I see possibilities. Can I get up there? I wonder if I can make this jump....and so on. In Crackdown 2, the announcer is shutting those down without my having to experiment to find out. Trying, failing, and later succeeding is a big part of the joy of the game. Why on earth would you discourage someone from trying to reach something in Crackdown?
