Just finished Shadowfall, I must say I enjoyed it bar some troubling sections. I got bamboozled on two sections mainly, chapter 7 and the last chapter. I tried chapter seven a couple of times before pressing through, but looking at some of the comments now; I was certainly playing that section the wrong way, hell I didn't even realize there was a voltage on the platform, I noticed that gun for the first time only in chapter 9.
In retrospect, I think the shield was what I used the least playing through the campaign, hell, It seems I even forgot it existed, that should have been a no brainer for the onslaught that chapter 7 is though. Even with my kicking against the pricks method, trying to take these guys without a shield on the platform I did get close several times, but I died a few times trying to board the turret.
The way I beat it though was to forsake my men on the platform, go downstairs, go right and set my assault behind the section where the turret lands, the wall here served as my shield. I then placed trip mines on either side of that wall, near the stairs that takes you to the top platform, in order to prevent helghasts from getting to me or my men upstairs.
I put the owl in assault mode to protect me and I took out many shields and helghasts from my vantage point. When the shielded enemies came, I would put the owl in stun mode and take them out, btw trips mines will also kill shielded enemies. As the helghasts came and tripped over the mines, I would just put some more since there's three more mines to pick up in that section. I kept taking helghasts out till the turret landed, rushed upstairs, manned the turret and landed an array of bullets on the poor saps below..ha. I will do it the easy way next time I play though.
As for chapter 10, I must have spent so much time trying to figure out what to do, tried to stealth pass the top section but most times the citizens would panic if you passed to close and set the alert and timer, there's no silencer to take out soldiers in stealth mode also. I also could not find where the high level security panel was for the life of me, since I was always on the run upstairs, lol... I tried so many things for at least a good two hours, nothing, I got the gun with the security panel below deactivated get to the snipe point no dice. I shut it down last night and came back to it this evening, did the camera fly through before you open the door to that stealth section, try to pin point where the high level security shutdown was, I noticed a little section just below where you get the sniper, bam mission was as easy as pie, even though I didn't really stealth it.
Overall a solid campaign, I don't really play shooters for stories so I don't mind if it wasn't great, my jaw however began to hit the floor from the time I got into the vekhtan city and onwards till the end, there were so many beautiful scenes throughout that I don't remember which was more impressive,( I probably have a million photos saved..lol) chapter ten was beautiful though, but I will say that chapter 9 is my favourite chapter overall for both gameplay and looks. I will now look into multiplayer, most people are saying that it's great and probably the best feature of shadowfall, so here I come. I will also take a look at the trophy list, I guess I might have to play the campaign on hard towards the platinum is what i'm thinking.
