UntoldDreams
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Rapping Granny said:
...but I like it when their heads explode...
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KILLZONE 2 - The |OT|
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...but I like it when their heads explode...
bigswords said:I maxed out my multiplayer rank in about 10 hours worth of playing a mixture of random matches, human vs AI and friend matches.
For those who are complaining of lack of co-op (yes wished the campaign had co-op). But you can set a match, put all the bots on one side, and let your friends come and join the opposite side. Bot level at veteran were pretty good , they are smart using chokepoints, but what impressed me was that when I was a tactician and dropped a spawn nade, the AI Engineer dropped a turret next to it
Played online with a random group of players and i threw a spawn nade through a window above where the enemy players were holding the whole team at a chokepoint, I shouted loudly"go to spawn nade", players near me must have communicated to their squad mates and in less then a minute a group of five players were in that position and took out the enemies holding the choke point. I felt like a hero for like 5 seconds, then I was taken out by a sniper
Great fun, but I dont think next time they should put these classes as unlocks. Just worried for the players who can't get through to at least medic would just think it's just a CS/COD4 clone.
Yea I think it's a pretty big risk - let's see how it pans out.
Jack Scofield
Member
Bought the game today. After a few hours of single-player, I decided to try out multiplayer. (I choose Skirmish, though. For some reason I couldn't connect to PSN.) Even playing against bots, I thought it was really, really fun.
A few questions, though.
- Can I unlock different classes in Skirmish mode? I really want to try out the Engineer and Saboteur.
- Is there a way to destroy enemy spawn points? It's tough to plant the bomb sometimes when they have a spawn point right inside of the room.
- For those who've played the beta: is there any chance of the Scout and C4-planting class (forgot the name) being overpowered? I watched the GT trailer with the C4, and it seemed kind of difficult to spot the explosives. Also, I don't want the game to turn into a snipe-fest once everybody unlocks the Scout.
- Is there any real difference between the ISA and Helghast starting rifles? Damage-wise, I mean? For some reason I prefer the latter.
Thanks, guys.
A few questions, though.
- Can I unlock different classes in Skirmish mode? I really want to try out the Engineer and Saboteur.
- Is there a way to destroy enemy spawn points? It's tough to plant the bomb sometimes when they have a spawn point right inside of the room.
- For those who've played the beta: is there any chance of the Scout and C4-planting class (forgot the name) being overpowered? I watched the GT trailer with the C4, and it seemed kind of difficult to spot the explosives. Also, I don't want the game to turn into a snipe-fest once everybody unlocks the Scout.
- Is there any real difference between the ISA and Helghast starting rifles? Damage-wise, I mean? For some reason I prefer the latter.
Thanks, guys.
rexor0717 said:
What he means is, why would you ever waste time using the SMG over the shotgun.
It pretty much dominates close / mid range entirely, rendering the SMG pretty useless.
The SMG should have had a damage boost and less distance accuracy for balance. It really serves little purpose as far as I can tell.
Wow it's been a long time since I've extensively played an fps on a console. I'm really sorry you guys have to regularly deal with this aggravation. It's manageable and I've gotten much better, but damn if it isn't constantly painful. That aside, I loved it. The last battle was a neverending stream of suck (I have no idea why these game always pull the same shit), but everything leading up to that was golden.
In the end, killed about 800 Higs and died (sadly) 40 times. Other than the last fight the
fight was where I died the most. It took a while before I realized I could get off that little platform and use more than that single pillar as cover. :|
Story was decent enough, and if nothing else the last half certainly kept me interested to see it through. I was surprised
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Will definitely play through it again, and the MP is good enough to keep me playing for a while I think. If I could play with a mouse this would definitely be MP game of the forever.
Pushing the Higs back to the main entrance and hearing "There are NO MORE REINFORCEMENTS! We're screwed!" was really satisfying.
rooftop ATAC(?)
Story was decent enough, and if nothing else the last half certainly kept me interested to see it through. I was surprised
by just who and how many they killed off
Will definitely play through it again, and the MP is good enough to keep me playing for a while I think. If I could play with a mouse this would definitely be MP game of the forever.
bigswords said:
Can the saboteur carry a shotgun?
If so, that's going to be my love affair, I really can't wait to unlock that badge.
I'm a total shotgun whore in most MP games. I greatly prefer it even vs. something like a sniper class. I just hate sitting back and picking people off, its not my style.
Dirtbag said:
No saboteur can only use the SMG and sidearm and nothing else.
If you want to be a shotgun whore , best to be an engineer, even if you can't build turrets due to the max of 4 turrets at least you can repair (must ding the ribbon of kill 5 people with turret IAR x 8) ammo boxes or other player turrets, more useful then a rifleman holding a shotgun
Dirtbag said:
If you don't wanna go the wimpy route, you could always go for the Assault class and get that double armor.
No need to be sneaky with the Saboteur, you could just run up to someone and shotgun them in the face with Assault.
There's no way I'm not sniping in this game, though. It's way too fun. Not to mention the cloaking. The awesome, awesome cloaking.
rollingstart
Banned
Y2Kev said:
don't
look up at mushroom cloud picture in the skybox for more than 2 seconds if you don't want the amazing immesion to be broken
Zeliard said:If you don't wanna go the wimpy route, you could always go for the Assault class and get that double armor.
No need to be sneaky with the Saboteur, you could just run up to someone and shotgun them in the face with Assault.
There's no way I'm not sniping in this game, though. It's way too fun. Not to mention the cloaking. The awesome, awesome cloaking.
Assault does not have the option to spawn with shotgun, only nade launcher and 2 types of rocket launcher. No LMGs as well
You actually have to wait awhile for a buggy to drive up. It was actually quite weird on my run when I did it, I was waiting around, wondering what was going on, then suddenly I died. Turns out the buggy drove up and ran me over :lolPhaethon0017 said:
Alas, nothing personal. But it still ain't right ;oSnakeXs said:
Played through the first chapter and a little bit of MP. Some of those MP maps are absolutely amazing. Like I said before, I loved 2142 and this just feels like that even more polished and taken to the console.
Got to play with some of GAF too...i actually got to hear Kittowny talk.=o
Got to play with some of GAF too...i actually got to hear Kittowny talk.=o
Puck said:
Yeah, that happens. When I unlock the sniper class I'm gonna look for secluded spots in more open levels.
bigswords said:Assault does not have the option to spawn with shotgun, only nade launcher and 2 types of rocket launcher. No LMGs as well
Boooo.
I thought Assault was able to carry the most types of weapons (guess I mixed it up with Rifleman), so I figured that included shotgun. Is it just the Rifleman and Engineer who can carry it? Scout?
WHOAguitarninja
Member
Do you have to get both badges with a class before you can use the next class? I noticed that I had one more healing master pin (or whatever) to get before I had got all 8 for that medal when i unlocked engineer. The next map started up, and I could not select engineer. I got the medal on that round, then the following round I could select the engineer.
Zeliard said:
The best solution is to allow any EXP from bots till the rank of General, and allow the unlocking of ribbons and medals. After from that on just stop.
Alternatively, just do not count the EXP from bots in the leaderboards.
I still think allowing players to play with their friends against bots to get their abilities will be something like co-op. Plus it's a good tutorial to all the game types as the bots are really quite good with their tactics.
If you dont have bots and you to grind to get the classes and equipment it is going to be really really frustrating, just ask any Engineer who is trying to unlock the turret kill medal.
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
Stench said:
SpudBud said:
I have been playing all day today. Got about 70% done with the
single player campaign and I jumped online for about 4 hours.
I absolutely love this game. The gameplay the graphics OMG THE GRAPHICS!
and the helghast have made this one of my favorite FPS games of
all time.
I just fricken love this game though.
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
One thing that I find very perplexing though.
This game encourages playing with your friends. It encourages
getting together the perfect team of people with varying abilities.
So you get this perfect team together and go to play online
and all end up on different teams
WTF
Is there really no way to keep your party together when you
go into a online game?
This game encourages playing with your friends. It encourages
getting together the perfect team of people with varying abilities.
So you get this perfect team together and go to play online
and all end up on different teams
WTF
Is there really no way to keep your party together when you
go into a online game?
careksims said:
Yeap. What you do is stay on the second floor on the far left right at the front (behind some rubble). It acts as semi cover and you can quickly dart in and out to pick off the rocketeers who will be much closer to you if you stand here. Just constantly keep moving, even if you have to sometimes run back to the rear (still on the second floor).
You can if you want run to the second floor far right at the front, to pick off the rocketeers on the right side, but be warned, the cover here is not nearly as good. It's better advised to pick off the rocketeers on the right side from the front/left area. Also, if you don't get an immediate shot on them, run or hide. They will blast you away in a single shot. The only way you'll succeed is if you get off some shots on them before you fire, once you get just a shot or two on them they will lose balance and start reacting (hit detection). You want to keep them like this until they are dead, so they don't even get a chance to react. Be quick, and like I said, move around constantly.
MiamiWesker
Member
I'm not really feeling the single player campaign, but when I played online with gaf it was magic. Online is well worth it.
yeah hopefully they patch this soon. hmm what was that 1.11 patch for?BruceLeeRoy said:One thing that I find very perplexing though.
This game encourages playing with your friends. It encourages
getting together the perfect team of people with varying abilities.
So you get this perfect team together and go to play online
and all end up on different teams
WTF
Is there really no way to keep your party together when you
go into a online game?
BruceLeeRoy said:One thing that I find very perplexing though.
This game encourages playing with your friends. It encourages
getting together the perfect team of people with varying abilities.
So you get this perfect team together and go to play online
and all end up on different teams
WTF
Is there really no way to keep your party together when you
go into a online game?
I think you have to turn auto-balance off.
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
How come when I create a online game I cant add ai
bots?
Do you mean if I create my own game?
bots?
Zeliard said:
Do you mean if I create my own game?
BruceLeeRoy said:
RavenFox said:
Yeah. I haven't tried it myself, but I think the option's there. And if you turn it off, players shouldn't be switching sides after every game.
Not positive about this, though.
Just checked it, it's called "faction balancing". Guess you either have to make your own game or join a server that has it off.
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
I just tried to create a custom game and add some bot but
it didn't let me press left or right on the amount of bots
options. Any ideas?
Sweet Ill try that.
it didn't let me press left or right on the amount of bots
options. Any ideas?
Zeliard said:
Sweet Ill try that.
AgentOtaku
Member
Got up to the 3rd or 4th act tonight
...fuck ...I don't think I ever closed my jaw =O
...fuck ...I don't think I ever closed my jaw =O