They just keep spawning, which is probably why I keep getting distracted haha.
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Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor |OT| One Title to rule them all
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Admiral Woofington
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Yeah. My first goal whenever I can start playing this game again is to progress as far as I can in the story until I get branding. Because I've been reading about it and it sounds awesome.
I mean part of me wishes I could just summon my army of orcs out of nowhere. But having orcs I can rely on at one point is cool enough.
I mean part of me wishes I could just summon my army of orcs out of nowhere. But having orcs I can rely on at one point is cool enough.
Fahrenheit
Banned
Played a whole bunch today, my really only issue is the Batman combat never really clicked for me (in the Batman games as and here). The rest of the game is good enough though to over come that for me. Would love to see this game with combat more like Dragons Dogma. This type of combat always just feels like i'm waiting for a Y to flash on screen to parry or something. For the the game is at its best when i'm sneaking around, stealth taking down dude or shooting fires to blow up like 10 dudes.
FairXchange
Member
Does anyone know when warchiefs begin to respawn? I've wiped out the entire lot of them (save for the story character in one of the spots), and I'm just curious when I can expect those spots might be occupied again?
I'm getting pretty frustrated with this game.
When do I push Y+B to do the finishers? I think it's when they have the stars over their heads, but it isn't working 100% of the time but like 25%. My dude just does his push to stun them...
I'm stuck everything is too hard for me now. Been trying to kill 20 Uruks in 2:00 minutes to get the war chief (even took out his body guard first). Any tips?
When do I push Y+B to do the finishers? I think it's when they have the stars over their heads, but it isn't working 100% of the time but like 25%. My dude just does his push to stun them...
I'm stuck everything is too hard for me now. Been trying to kill 20 Uruks in 2:00 minutes to get the war chief (even took out his body guard first). Any tips?
DarkoMaledictus
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Brooks2304
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Was honestly going to wait to buy this on sale, but caved in, sold in the broken NHL 15 and picked it up today. Very satisfied with the decision. Although the slight lag input is annoying, enjoying the breath of fresh air with the nemesis system and the actual incorporation of a strategy in battle.
This game. This damn game. So good. Captain's seem to just have it out for me. I'm seeing Vengence missions pop up. I think these are Captains who have killed other players? Great additions!
Edit: Also, either the rain effects aren't the greatest or it's hailing in Mordor in my game.
Edit: Also, either the rain effects aren't the greatest or it's hailing in Mordor in my game.
FairXchange
Member
infiniteheteroskdasticity
Member
I'm usually a story/narrative focused gamer but the nemesis system is so amazing that I've barely started the story. I got killed by a few guys early on and all of them leveled up to captains (one guy got one level beyond that). Now, I've been hunting them down between starting off new story missions. I got into a fight where I managed to kill 4 captains (including 3 revenge targets) in less than 10 minutes. That was probably one of the coolest things I've ever seen in a game.
The production values are top notch and the voice acting is incredibly good (particularly your super badass wraith). I'm not a huge LOTR fan but this game feels immersive even to me. Well done Monolith. I think this will be right up there as GOTY for a lot of people (Its definitely #1 for me).
The production values are top notch and the voice acting is incredibly good (particularly your super badass wraith). I'm not a huge LOTR fan but this game feels immersive even to me. Well done Monolith. I think this will be right up there as GOTY for a lot of people (Its definitely #1 for me).
I was able to ask around on Steam and these are the 2 saves people shared with me, luckily the 2nd save at about 30% complete was just about where I was, when my save game got corrupt.
Here is the 14% save. (just after the poison grog mission).
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11517902/gamedata.sav
And here is a 30% or so save , (just after meeting the beast hunt guy).
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fghmnzi1vyncu40/gamedata.sav?dl=0
Here is the 14% save. (just after the poison grog mission).
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11517902/gamedata.sav
And here is a 30% or so save , (just after meeting the beast hunt guy).
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fghmnzi1vyncu40/gamedata.sav?dl=0
Admiral Woofington
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You need to get combos. You won't get far enough in the combos if you don't counter/parry with 'Y'. Like somebody else said the easiest way to get the combo meter up is to wraith freeze somebody, then do the flurry of attacks (paying attention to your surroundings to press Y if somebody attacks you). Also if you go later you can get an upgrade that lets you get combos faster if you press the attack button carefully(aka don't spam it).
You know one has to give props to the developers by choosing to allow a lot of this stuff to be interrupted.
I never pay attentio to that tbh. I just wait for the sound cue and the sword to glow blue.
yeah, it's weird, there's not a lot of variety in the game from what I can tell, but the actual mechanics and combat are so satisfying that I don't mind doing side missions and challenges instead of just blasting through the story like I would in other open world games like Assassins Creed
Yeah dude the game can be pretty rough at start, but it gets much easier when you unlock more abilities.
About the Y+B, I think it's just a timing issue, the devs made the button press timing way too strict, meaning that you have to press them at the same time almost perfectly for it to activate. I honestly can't see any other reason than this because the finishers don't require for the opponent to be stunned, they blow through everything, hell you can even insta kill an enemy with a shield from the front with Y+B. So yeah, probably very strict timing that is causing this, and yes I fucking hate it too.
As for tips, I'd personally spend some time doing the side activities and buff up your character because with later abilities shit gets so easy.
But if you still want to fight as is, then utilize your bow mid combos, that is a very good way to pick out an enemy or two, especially those damned archers who shoot at you from a far while you fight, just fight normally and when at full focus pop out a bow, do 2-3 nice headshots and continue the combo. If you happen to be near a camp fire when fighting, shoot an arrow in to it and blow the mothafakas up, it will look cool, feel great, and be just devastating.
Oh man, you gotta get branding, it's like a whole new level of micro managing with your orcs climbing the social ladder and getting pissed off when they die too early in battles and fuck up your plans.
One thing that I hate is that the vengeance missions are only used with the people from your friends list.
I would understand if the people from my friends list would take the priority, but damn it I have only like 1 person on my friends list that plays Shadow of Mordor and because of that I barely get any vengeance missions.......
Hell not to mention the fact that I'm playing a half wraith character!
Wouldn't it be awesome to see some replays of people fighting to their death when in wraith mode, Dark Souls style?
Which branch / set of storyline missions should you focus on to get branding? Spoiler: Notes on first few available story missions.
Towards the beginning, they first branch on either focusing on helping the Wraith learn his backstory, or pursuing Gollum.
fluffydelusions
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Solution is to post your PSN/SteamID/XBL GT here on gaf then you will have lots of friends
When your sword glows, I believe. Took me a while to figure it out too.
At combo level 8, your sword will glow blue.
This ability really should have been unlocked much earlier.
Early in the second area of actual story missions
If you have it unlocked, your combo counter should turn red around the 8th hit starting off.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
My brother's game had a guy that kept coming back no matter how many times we killed him.
We thought it was a horrible bug.
Then we read his Motives.
"Believes he is cursed, and seeks out Talion for answers."
We thought it was a horrible bug.
Then we read his Motives.
"Believes he is cursed, and seeks out Talion for answers."
The nemesis system keeps getting crazier and crazier.
Admiral Woofington
Member
I'm all for micromanagement. I'd genuinely go to find an orc I really like and brand him. Then give him all the support possible to see him climb up the ladder. Then I'd give him back up when he becomes a body guard and tries to usurp the chief. And then we'd be the best of friends. My orc and me. Then do the same for another one until I have my own crew of chiefs and I just fucking shit up.
So is the only way to help them out once you brand them to give them orders to take out orcs until their power level keeps rising and they can take on another higher food-chan orc?
Man I'm getting excited to help out orcs lol.
I think the game pretty much "forces" you to make the most out of melee, stealth and ranged in a way where you can't rely on a single playstyle. Brutalize kills give you a good chunk of time where enemies won't get reinforcement and leave a captain isolated, ranged changes the battlefield completely once you start to set traps in the middle of a fight and when you start teleporting from the ground to archers on the roofs and then back on the ground.
I started playing the game like the Arkham games where I pretty much fight my way through everything, but here it seems you actually HAVE to stealth and shoot as much as you punch people in the face or it's game over.
Thanks everyone. Got it now. Literally after posting I went to another war chief and it was the one with combo/ground executions. Never knew you needed to get the combo up first. The wraith punch combo to finisher works great.
Got the warchief first try riding a beast...he freaked out and ran away. I chanced him down got intel and put a sword through his face. So rad...
Got the warchief first try riding a beast...he freaked out and ran away. I chanced him down got intel and put a sword through his face. So rad...
WordsintheWater
Member
I have gotten a bunch of Vendetta missions from people who are not on my friends list
I think I've found a new type of Caragor.
This looks a lot like a shot from Dark Souls 2 forest of the fallen giants.
cleveridea
Member
So, and people maybe want spoiler tags but how big is the game warchief screen wise?
I see 3 layers of captains and 5 warchiefs which is visible right from the start (though war chiefs dark), what comes next? Another single set with new map? Or even more?
I see 3 layers of captains and 5 warchiefs which is visible right from the start (though war chiefs dark), what comes next? Another single set with new map? Or even more?
cleveridea
Member
Army screen never changes quantity. You'll enter a new area at some point with its own population of captains and warchiefs.
I think I've found a new type of Caragor.
The Caragor Centipede
cleveridea
Member
Ah OK thanks, looked like a much bigger board with stuff above
Can't imagine how hard it becomes second area, already loads of tough enemy types
When you give them orders a new quest opens up (blue) where you have to go and help them out with it if you want or let them do it on their own. So you could have a really weak captain go straight to the top with some help.
Net_Wrecker
Member
lol @ the "Avenge" mission I just did to get Zumug The Tongue back for killing Gaz.
I start by sneaking up on his little crew and realize he's only a level 5 before thinking "lol Gaz, get gud" then all of a sudden in walks one of my own Nemesis hellspawn, a level whothehellknows that shoots EXPLOSIVE CROSSBOWS
wtf
What should've been a simple stealth assassination turns into a massacre because this Orc with the crossbow is killing his own people accidentally and hitting explosive barrels/bonfires as well. Gaz's nemesis runs away because he's terrified of fire leading me on a chase right into 3 random Caragors. Needless to say everyone got wiped out, and I made extra sure to kill the crossbow enemy before he ended up as a level 15 one man kamikaze army.
Moral of the story: Don't laugh at low level enemies, or friends who've died to them.
I start by sneaking up on his little crew and realize he's only a level 5 before thinking "lol Gaz, get gud" then all of a sudden in walks one of my own Nemesis hellspawn, a level whothehellknows that shoots EXPLOSIVE CROSSBOWS
wtf
What should've been a simple stealth assassination turns into a massacre because this Orc with the crossbow is killing his own people accidentally and hitting explosive barrels/bonfires as well. Gaz's nemesis runs away because he's terrified of fire leading me on a chase right into 3 random Caragors. Needless to say everyone got wiped out, and I made extra sure to kill the crossbow enemy before he ended up as a level 15 one man kamikaze army.
Moral of the story: Don't laugh at low level enemies, or friends who've died to them.
DualShadow
Member
Amazing haha
Sometimes it feels like the game purposely spawns extra captains when you only want to engage one.
any general tips against the dudes with spiky shields and only weak to finishers?
you can't vault over them, and building combo against, especially these war chiefs and their army of possies is not the easiest thing to do.
hmmm...
also the game has a REALLY BAD HABIT of me targetting the dude next to the guy i actually want to target for death from aboves and finishers D:
what really annoys me was a completely random poison spear that took me down to critical health from near full... also you can't last man stand against warchiefs is a bit annoyin D:
you can't vault over them, and building combo against, especially these war chiefs and their army of possies is not the easiest thing to do.
hmmm...
also the game has a REALLY BAD HABIT of me targetting the dude next to the guy i actually want to target for death from aboves and finishers D:
what really annoys me was a completely random poison spear that took me down to critical health from near full... also you can't last man stand against warchiefs is a bit annoyin D:
I believe so, I have these two Uruks that always show up and kill me, both are immune to almost all damage types with only fire as their fears. Both level 20 with one as a poisoned hunter and the other a shield carrier and literally every time I try to take out a Uruk to gain more power for fire arrows they show up and kill me....it's bloody fantastic I'm loving this game and I can't wait to end them both.
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