If it's wooden barricades Jason can destroy most of them.
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Friday the 13th: The Game |OT| You and your friends are dead. GAME OVER
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If it's wooden barricades Jason can destroy most of them.
Icedburden
Member
I played this game with my buddy and, wow, I can't fathom someone being ok with how boring and broken this game is.
I really love the license and they did well with the atmosphere but, holy shit, the game feels awful to play. It's a damn shame.
Xaero Gravity
NEXT LEVEL lame™
Different strokes for different folks I guess.
Game absolutely has issues, but I find that it nails the tension I expect from a game based off of Friday the 13th.
For real. This is the most fun I have had with a multiplayer game since Left 4 Dead 2 came out.
Icedburden
Member
I understand that, I would just hope people wouldn't accept such an obviously unfinished game being sold as finished. It's far from finished, sadly.
Except the tension is muted once Jason glitches and becomes invincible or my teammates fuck around and die, leaving me with nothing but a timer to watch.
But I'm happy people are happy... but the POTENTIAL this game had... man...
If I only had the patience.
If I get screwed in the beginning I'm gone. Don't give me xp, I don't care. But I'm not sitting there watching talking to myself when I could use the remaining 18 minutes to actually play another match. I don't have that much time on my days off.
Welcome to Friday the 13th. Where if you manage to connect to a lobby, you'll surely be dropped due to connection issues. I have so many hours clocked in, and barely the XP to show for it because it constantly crashes before the match ends lol.
Xaero Gravity
NEXT LEVEL lame™
Anytime man.
Mr Fahrenheit
Member
I don't understand how anyone ever lets the counselors get away when they're Jason. Shit is just effortless.
You'd be surprised by the amount of cheese I've pulled off circling a couch. And the archery range. Jason's love not utilizing their bear traps against me.
JigglesBunny
Banned
Steam patch drops early tomorrow morning, PS4 patch drops late tomorrow and Xbox One is getting a big, cumulative patch that includes the first few patch fixes and all of the new fixes sometime this week, probably Friday or so.
LUXURY
Member
Ran into my first team killer tonight. Me and him and one other person were waiting for rescue, the one guy went to call for Jarvis (we were attempting to kill Jason) and when the guy went to the cabin the other dude started chopping me with an axe down to almost no health. I fought back and he healed himself, then later on with about 1 minute left he began to do it again to me. I just killed him. I didn't care about the penalty. It sucks when people try to ruin a game like that. 20 some minutes of surviving only to have team mates try to kill you.
Xaero Gravity
NEXT LEVEL lame™
We all go a little mad sometimes.
ElRenoRaven
Member
Yes. They're working with MS and Sony to get patches out. Patches on the consoles aren't as easy as on PC. They have to be tested by Microsoft and Sony and then those companies are the ones who determine when it goes up and how soon. That's the one huge down side to consoles. With Steam they can push a button themselves and bam patch is out.
THe_DeiCiDe
Member
The beginning spawns seemed very different than on day 1.
9 out of 10 times as a counselor I spawn with everyone right in the main area and everyone has to bolt while 2 or 3 get ran down.
Anyone else notice this or is it just bad luck, I also haven't been Jason in the last 12 games and it's set as preferred.
9 out of 10 times as a counselor I spawn with everyone right in the main area and everyone has to bolt while 2 or 3 get ran down.
Anyone else notice this or is it just bad luck, I also haven't been Jason in the last 12 games and it's set as preferred.
Some guy tried to kill me because I hunted him down in the worst way as Jason. So when we were both counselors he attacked and I ended the match as host. Whoops. Lol
It's far easier on PC but the only console that constantly seems to have these problems with updates in games is Xbox, mostly due to MS's unnecessarily rigid certification process in regards to updates, especially compared to Sony. I've read that PS4 has already been patched and the next patch is to fix additional problems, where as the Xbox version was garbage from the beginning, being a beta client that was put out.
I've ran into almost identical issues with games that have serious bugs on release that are patched immediately on other platforms but take upwards of a week to be fixed on Xbox and this is the last time I buy any multiplayer focused title for Xbox like this (Especially from a small development group) due to how long it takes for critical updates to be put out compared to other systems. I wish getting a refund was possible at this point and then just buy it on PS4 but I doubt they'd refund it this late.
captainraincoat
Banned
Game is much easier to find a lobby for on xbox...just use lfg and join off profile....until they patch the region lock on ps4 i can only play on xbox
ElRenoRaven
Member
Yea no denying that Microsoft is certainly slower when it comes to the process. It's the sad truth. This is one area I'd love to see console makers improve on and get better at.
BananasWithGuns
Member
Private games are still fun and the LFG feature helps a lot to fill lobbies. There's also supposed to be a patch dropping within the next few days that hopefully fixes a lot of the problems. You could hold out and wait until the patch drops and see how things settle.
JHoNNy1OoO
Member
Just be aware that fixes through patches might take quite a bit longer on Xbone due to more stringent requirements it seems.
ChoklitCow
Member
Mannnnn. My team almost killed Jason tonight. Four seater and two seater escaped really early. Person called back Tommy.
As Tommy was running back to pick up the fuse he purposefully dropped near the four seater location, he came across the asscheek counselor in the middle of nowhere who had found Jason's mom's sweater.
Got everything setup but when Jason was stunned the Tommy missed with the machete. GG. We all died inside.
As Tommy was running back to pick up the fuse he purposefully dropped near the four seater location, he came across the asscheek counselor in the middle of nowhere who had found Jason's mom's sweater.
Got everything setup but when Jason was stunned the Tommy missed with the machete. GG. We all died inside.
I almost became a team killer tonight. I played a game where a bunch of people were clearly a group. Anyway, three of them were in the car, they were waiting for their buddy, as I approached, the driver hit me so that his position would be open. I was very, very close to hunting them down in the next round...
Just gunna quote this question because I feel like it's valid and I still don't have an answer.
F0rneus
Tears in the rain
Fairly certain XP gain is higher in Quick Play
That's a relief to know with the machine gun disconnects I'm getting over here in Xbox land. Looking forward to that patch...
Haha yea that was epic!
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
watching a timer? why arnt you doing the objectives?
Icedburden
Member
I'm dead.
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
theres a ton of systems in the game you can use to stop that from happening
The game seems to work fine on PS4 now. Sucks I lost some batches from before.
Yeah, doesn't really make sense you can't jump or climb fences.
Yeah, doesn't really make sense you can't jump or climb fences.
Playing as Jason can be harder than it looks to be honest, I certainly wouldn't call it effortless. I usually do pretty well as Jason, and have killed the whole team on several occasions, but it can be hard to keep track of absolutely everyone. Spend too long playing cat and mouse with someone who is jumping in and out of windows and locking doors and the other players are repairing cars and making phone calls.
You want to try and regularly cover the car/boat areas and the fusebox area but you can't jump around indefinitely. At some point you need to commit to chasing people and leave the other areas unguarded.
That's without getting into the possibility of a counsellor spawning near the fusebox, finding the fuse straight away, and calling the cops within the first couple of minutes of the game, at which point some people are probably bound to escape.
I think the game strikes a pretty good balance. When playing as a counsellor you feel vulnerable as hell and Jason seems completely omnipresent and inescapable. But playing against a good team as Jason, you certainly don't always feel like taking the team out is a foregone conclusion.
The more I play, the more I think escaping in the car seems to be the weakest option. You need to find three things compared to two for the boat and two for the fusebox, people tend to congregate around the car area which means Jason will regularly warp there, and if you do manage to get the car going Jason will probably spawn right in front of you and smash it. The boat seems much safer in comparison, and calling the police allows you to go hide for a bit. Jason will often spawn right in front of the police but you still have more chance of escape than if he appears in front of you in the car imo.
Not from my experience. If you're playing against organised counselors who fight back, or they spread out, it's easy to get caught out by an escape while you're busy.
StrongBelwas
Banned
Is there a ps4 gaf group?
giancarlo123x
Banned
I like it, plus it's funny doing commentary with other people and yelling like it's a movie when survivors do questionable things.
You should not be dying within a couple of minutes, that is when Jason is trash and has almost no mobility. If he happens to teleport around you in the very beginning don't lock yourself in a house, sprint away.
Picked up the XBO version last night and had no issues finding private matches via the LFG in the game hub; what a great feature.
Managed to play a few matches as the counselor and one as Jason, although my Jason run was dampened by the fact that half way through I lost my ability to open doors, use my abilities or do any action of any kind except move and grab which essentially left me with no other option but to bleed out the clock. I also lost the ability to aim my flare gun on multiple occasions as the counselor. Both of these issues popped up randomly mid-match, despite working perfectly moments before...
Despite the jank and bugs, this game is a blast to play and nails the vibe and aesthetic of the films.
Regarding objective escapes, are the items randomly dispersed each time or is there a general vicinity to search depending on the objective you're going for? As a newcomer, I'm just happy to survive, although I imagine pulling off a successful escape would be immensely satisfying. Looking forward to dive back in!
Managed to play a few matches as the counselor and one as Jason, although my Jason run was dampened by the fact that half way through I lost my ability to open doors, use my abilities or do any action of any kind except move and grab which essentially left me with no other option but to bleed out the clock. I also lost the ability to aim my flare gun on multiple occasions as the counselor. Both of these issues popped up randomly mid-match, despite working perfectly moments before...
Despite the jank and bugs, this game is a blast to play and nails the vibe and aesthetic of the films.
Regarding objective escapes, are the items randomly dispersed each time or is there a general vicinity to search depending on the objective you're going for? As a newcomer, I'm just happy to survive, although I imagine pulling off a successful escape would be immensely satisfying. Looking forward to dive back in!