I definitely don't care about that, just wanna recruit bosses
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Mafia 3 |OT| "Family isn't who you're born with, it's who you die for"
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Tainted
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It is also useful for side missions if you need enemy Intel for a particular area where they happen to be... But if you are just doing the main missions doing as you say should be enough.
I think doing all the wiretaps is purely for the completionists
ScaryShark
Banned
I really wish they had a car indicator for where you last got out of your vehicle. It'll be irrelevant when I get the covert car theft perk but it's still annoying.
Or just order new and fresh car from car service. Delivery is instant after all.
SJRB
Gold Member
The only actual benefit I see from the wiretaps is that the enemies in the tapped area appear on your radar and you can see them with your batvision. Makes infiltrating pretty much any location a cakewalk.
I'm still not sure why I should keep racket bosses alive, aside from a small difference in payout at the end of the racket takeover.
I'm still not sure why I should keep racket bosses alive, aside from a small difference in payout at the end of the racket takeover.
There's a perk that does this lol
Wiretaps have to have been solely thought up for the collectibles but then tied it to recruiting bosses and spotting enemies to make it seem more relevant
Which makes absolutely no sense when considering time period. Mobsters don't have cellphones in their pockets that you could track. Even Lincoln is dragging huge brick sized radio in his pockets.
It makes zero sense for spotting purposes but i understand it as far as recruiting bosses. The idea is that you're listening to their conversations and blackmailing them into working for you. Like a lot of other things, the game does mentions this but doesn't make it as pronounced as it could
You need recruit other sub-bosses for their side missions and favors to become available.
Square Triangle
Member
Going to have to set this game aside until the patches come out. The clipping issues and funky weird cloud shadows are too irritating to deal with.
Dr Duncan Steel
Member
So the only way to spare racket bosses is to complete all the objectives?
You need to wiretap section of district where racket boss is making his last stand.
not sure how I missed this bit of information
Blitzrules240
Banned
Gotta wiretap the area. For every district...
27 wiretap parts isn't that much tho. If doing bare minimum and only tapping for racket boss recruitment.
Edit: Okay, my math sucks. Every district has 2 rackets so you need double that. I wonder how I have never ran out of parts as I never hunted for them....
Tainted
Member
I think the game inundates the player with alot of information over a small time period regarding the mechanics of how all the territorial stuff works...it's easy to miss vital pieces of info or just plain forget about things early in the game.
I still don't know why for example why I am receiving kickback from a couple of locations and not others..and I only just learnt from reading this thread I actually have to drive over and pick up that kickback cash from time to time.
Freezasaurus
Member
I'm about 12 hours or so into the game and I'm definitely starting to feel the fatigue from the wiretaps and collectibles.
I actually just finished wiretapping the whole city. (I realize a lot of it isn't necessary) Thankfully there's more fuses than you'll ever need but i'm glad to be done with it.
Freezasaurus
Member
ALL OF THEM. As soon as they appear. I don't bother with all the collectibles, just enough fuses to keep up a stockpile and the Playboys, of course. I'll grab the other stuff if it's not too far out of my way.
MHWilliams
Member
This is the best way to go about it if you aren't an open-world completist.
Each district has set amount of rackets. In order to give more rackets to e.g. Vito you need take over new district of city and give those rackets and district to him.
Thanks! And is that just a case of going into districts looking for places/people to take over?
First 3 districts you take over are for loyal sub-bosses [Cassandra, Vito and.. umm.. Irish dude] and can't be assigned to anyone else than to boss who operates in X district. After that game gives you more districts to take over and those you can assign to any boss you want.
SlasherJPC
Banned
So I'm not super far but if I'm reading right, things are a bit repetative and then more varied missions open up? Is that right, and how far into the game is that?
NipplesAndToes23
Member
So were there a lot of bugs? I thought it was suspicious there were no early review copies.
There's some variation but not a ton to get your hopes up. A lot of "go here, steal this thing, drive it back" plus it's all gated by how many districts and rackets you own.
Really, Mafia 3, really?
(Downtown area spoilers)
(Downtown area spoilers)
Donovan tells you that Tony Derazio is holed up in the penthouse suite of the Royal Hotel, so Lincoln comes up with a brilliant idea to flush him out: Take over the rackets in the area. So, you do that and Tony comes out of the hotel for a brief cutscene, only to return to the hotel again.
The next mission: Infiltrate the hotel and take out Tony.
Jesus, why not just let me skip the tedious bullshit and do that from the fucking start.
The next mission: Infiltrate the hotel and take out Tony.
Jesus, why not just let me skip the tedious bullshit and do that from the fucking start.
Elven_Star
Member
About 3 hours in, and I think I'm done. The "damage" thing seems like an endless series of boring nothings.
SlasherJPC
Banned
I'm not too concerned with burn out as I really enjoyed mad max also so, I think as long as the story keeps up I'll be good. The combat is insanely fun for me.
Model for taking down rackets will be pretty much same through whole game with few unique objectives here and there. French Ward and Frisco Fields were best districts imo when it came to busting rackets. Variety comes from hauling materials to your sub-bosses and doing favors for them. Favors basically tell small story related to boss for whom you are doing favors.
Story does lose some momentum after prologue, but still delivers very good moments and storytelling!
SlasherJPC
Banned
BluenoseGames
Member
God this game is super repetitive
I hope there are more story misisons than the prologue and the ones you get at the start and end of a region...
Rellik
Member
It got even better for me when I unlocked the silenced weapons.
I just did a side mission where you have to steal a slow Police truck. That was hell escaping the cops with all my tires blown. I obviously couldnt use my usual tactics of leaving the car and running. In the end I used the train track.
I think this game is really good proof to the concept that you really only need to play a few open world games a generation. They're all so stagnant and derivative now that if you've played one then you've mostly played them all.
The last open world crime game I really put any time into was Sleeping Dogs, so this kind of fell at the right time for me to enjoy it enough that the repetition doesn't drive me insane, but if I'd played a ton of GTAV, Watch Dogs, Infamous SS, Ass Creed's yearly copypasta, etc I'd probably be raging at the game.
The last open world crime game I really put any time into was Sleeping Dogs, so this kind of fell at the right time for me to enjoy it enough that the repetition doesn't drive me insane, but if I'd played a ton of GTAV, Watch Dogs, Infamous SS, Ass Creed's yearly copypasta, etc I'd probably be raging at the game.
I'm sure the developers could have come up with a better way to make Lincoln learn of such a basic piece of information.
But, of course they couldn't divert from the brilliant mission structure they had in place.
Net_Wrecker
Member
I play almost all of em because I love the genre and have a soft spot for collectathons, but yeah the stagnation of game structure and mission design is a constant source of frustration. Even with GTAV where you can see every dollar they spent on the screen even in side missions like the Strangers & Freaks, those production values are wasted on limp storytelling and boring scenarios (as well as bad combat mechanics). There's no open world game that has gotten it all the way right.
The Witcher 3 made some big strides though. There's an absurd amount of dialogue in that game that gives life to many of the lower tier missions which don't actually have a lot going on. Doesn't hurt that killing beasts is sort of a day job for Geralt, and it allows the game to go on tangents with lots of people from all over the map. I don't even think The Witcher 3 needs a main story thread to be successful, just lots of episodic arcs.
Crazypanda_85
Member
TBH, I'm not too bothered that the game has received average scores so far. I would have loved for it to be higher but it could have been worse, lol. Some of my favorite games were scored as average. I'm just glad that the comments of the story were scored well. Plus, repetitiveness in a lengthy game is a given. The trick that only a few companies have master is masking the repetitiveness as refreshing.
ElzarTheBam
Member
I just god damn love this game.
And holy shit unlocked the silenced pistol and increased pistol accuracy.
I am basically this.
And holy shit unlocked the silenced pistol and increased pistol accuracy.
I am basically this.
Please hold off on patching this game until Cr1tikal makes a few more videos.
lol This is great.
SlasherJPC
Banned
Is the majority of glitches on the pc version? I've only seen some minor clipping issues so far on ps4 and a car that wouldn't start till I re entered.
MaximusPayne
Member
Can you fast travel?
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