HP_Wuvcraft
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I loved all the dialogue hinting at Orcs riding Caragors in Moror 2.
Also:
Did anyone else get the dialogue about the Five Armies?
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I loved all the dialogue hinting at Orcs riding Caragors in Moror 2.
Also:
Did anyone else get the dialogue about the Five Armies?
keltickennedy
Member
Turn off the button prompts. Learn to counter by reading the enemies tell animations.
matrixman92
Member
is there a way to make sure that a war chief has a revenge stat against you. I am really trying to go for a lvl 25 rune, but they apparently need to have a revenge point. I am not seeing a stat for that anywhere in the info for the warchief
Edit: nvm, found it right on the saurons army screen
Edit: nvm, found it right on the saurons army screen
It doesn't change much, hitting them stops their attack anyways, countering isn't very useful in this game. Vaulting over them works too.
hunchback
Member
Just got the game. I'm a little worried though. I finished the tutorial and my map shows two story missions. I jump off the ledge and head to the first icon.
I was in stealth mode but must have been seen. A big ugly dude yells and comes straight for me. I shoot 2 arrows into his head but didn't kill him. We start fighting and other Orc's arrive. I noticed one of them blew a horn. I quickly died after that. I'm now on my 5th respawn and have yet to make it to the first mission. Is this normal? I really like what I have seen but I feel like a punching bag at this point.
I was in stealth mode but must have been seen. A big ugly dude yells and comes straight for me. I shoot 2 arrows into his head but didn't kill him. We start fighting and other Orc's arrive. I noticed one of them blew a horn. I quickly died after that. I'm now on my 5th respawn and have yet to make it to the first mission. Is this normal? I really like what I have seen but I feel like a punching bag at this point.
gnarlyxcharlie
Member
Thought it was a much needed break from the brown-grey-brown of the first area. The game's graphics shined in the second half.
Oublieux
Member
Quick pointer: a headshot with an arrow will not down a typical orc unless it's fully "charged" holding the right trigger.
And, the game is a tad hard in the beginning, especially if you get overwhelmed by orcs. However, once you unlock some perks and skills, you'll feel that sense of strength progression.
It sounds like you may have met a captain on your first go. You may want to avoid that area until you get a bit stronger. :lol
That or you didn't fully charge your shot.
If there's an orc with a healthbar involved, he's a captain. Might want to avoid those for like the first 20-30 minutes while familiarizing yourself with the game. If the area is labeled as a 'stronghold' that's also not a good place to be until you know what those are and are fully aware that yes, you do want to be there.
Hunt down some smaller orc patrols in areas that don't look particularly populated and practice parrying (triangle) and dodging (cross) and you'll be fine.
Ryunohadouken
Neo Member
This game is so fun! I'm not even into the LoTR universe. I played this game for kicks and got hooked! Awesome experience so far!
Yeah, I've had this a lot. Fighting a captain, and a horde of Uruk, and I'll run into another captain who will call me out and bring his own posse along to the fight. I get overwhelmed, die and have to start again. Each time Sauron's army is gaining strength. It's a bit frustrating. Really like most of the game, but this happens too often for my taste.
Sanctuary
Member
It goes from lots of brown, grey and some green to lots of green, grey and some brown. The only real difference is that you get to run through some actual vegetation, which was nice I guess, but the game is severely lacking in the aesthetics department.
Liljagare
Member
You have to run away in such situations until later in the game, even then, I still run away alot..
Or, you take it and enjoy levelled captains later, that can actually be fun too!!In the beginning I just did alot of killing around/near towers, handling 3-5 uruks at the same time, at the most, and did alot of sneak kills.
You have to run away in such situations until later in the game, even then, I still run away alot..
In the beginning I just did alot of killing around/near towers, handling 3-5 uruks at the same time, at the most, and did alot of sneak kills.
Using stealth and ranged attacks to whittle down numbers is a great strategy as well. Especially if the terrain has a place to hide and allow you time to lose them, so you can go stealth mid-fight and lessen their numbers from the shadows.
Agreed! I finished the story earlier today and I keep playing to fuck with the Orc Hierarchy constantly. Just put a bunch of my own chieftains up the ranks. One's name is Flak Giggles...love that guy.
Nearly 25% complete and I've only ever died from Caragors (sp?) cos they're shit to fight. I feel I'm missing out by not letting some Orcs make their way up the career ladder by killing me so I might do that just to shake it up a bit.
I fucking love Celebrimbor though. Such a badass.
I fucking love Celebrimbor though. Such a badass.
BrassDragon
Member
His voice alone fills the badass quotient. The actor, Alastair Duncan, also did Nihlus in Mass Effect 1 and of course the Turian councillor ("Ah yes, 'orcs'.")
matrixman92
Member
Just got all the achievements and beat the game, I have no idea what happened
Discotheque
Banned
was doing the sword mission (on the second map) where you have to take out specific uruk and bonus objective of killing 25 orcs. plus two random captains decided to join in (didn't know their weaknesses yet)
and this pops up on shuffle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUIZvAe3RBg
hooo, feel like a total badass. surrounded and fighting them off, climbing up to take a few arrow shots then shadowstriking back into the fray
highly recommend playing lotr soundtrack over the game music for this if you can. adds to the experience imo.
even the batman games never made combat look so exciting.
and this pops up on shuffle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUIZvAe3RBg
hooo, feel like a total badass. surrounded and fighting them off, climbing up to take a few arrow shots then shadowstriking back into the fray
highly recommend playing lotr soundtrack over the game music for this if you can. adds to the experience imo.
even the batman games never made combat look so exciting.
This game starts out pretty confusing man, was going towards the first story mission officer to kill, and got jumped by 2 officers on the way, killed the story mission officer, and before I can even start leaving the area, three more officers popped. Seems areas don't stay cleared for long? Had to sprint out of the area to be able to continue.
The game is random like that. It's pretty rare to have that many captains appear at the same time unless there's something special going on but it can happen. Once you kill a captain there won't be one to replace him until time passes (either you die or advance time at a forge tower).
BrassDragon
Member
The amount of dialogue in this game is staggering. Listening to orcs react to things like a carragor breaking free or their captain being poisoned just never gets old. I genuinely hear something new every playthrough.
Sanctuary
Member
Yeah, I thought that at some point I might actually do that myself. But then I thought about just how monotonous a lot of fights would turn out. It wouldn't be challenging, it would just be a bunch of basic attacks ad nauseum.
DOWN
Banned
Yeah it's nice to keep hearing new stuff even when you start to recognize some.
Going to start my no upgrade run apart from stuff given in story missions and no counter prompts.
Glutton for punishment? Does this get an achievement or something? I feel like it is doable but just really difficult.
I forgot executions are a unlock not like batman Arkham city already have them. So already broke no upgrades what done is just have all tier 1 upgrades. Executions, elven swiftness, death from above,exploding campfires and ride caragors(which assume you have to for the hunt missions). I been looking over my Orc captians and you need at least all tier 1 to cover the immunities and weaknesses they have.
Kind like my new Uruk captain Mzog the crazy his battle charge is "buttons!" his sword clash dialogue he was telling me about beetles not liking people
I do this with batman and assassins creed games add more challenge to replays not a achievement hunter person not got 1 plat
mickcenary
Member
So, is it fair to say that the the real SoM kicks in after you've clocked it and are free to screw around with the Nemesis System?
I'm getting a serious hankering to jump back in and create a ruckus!
I'm getting a serious hankering to jump back in and create a ruckus!
Imagine if they rode giant spiders like in Battle for Middle-earth 2? That would be an interesting new enemy type.
Sanctuary
Member
I'm seriously not laughing to be an ass either. I wish there was some way to make those games remotely challenging.
Haha. I know exactly how you feel. Each day I've been considering starting it back up, but then I don't. I might play around with the trials though.
I feel so fucking dirty for almost agreeing with this. Now just imagine if we had gotten the Dark Souls 2 everyone was expecting (the lighting engine...) and it didn't feel like everyone had sucked down a couple of tankers full of helium. Oh well, here's hoping the real Souls team delivers come Feb.
SuperCambot
Banned
Is it normal to have killed a level 20 captain before playing the first story mission or unlocking any second tier abilities?
Anyone?
I'm seriously not laughing to be an ass either. I wish there was some way to make those games remotely challenging.
h.
No it fine playing with no gear upgrades shows how fucking pointless the uprgrades system is in assassins creed I only keep doing it hoping that one of them will finally be a challenge or even slight challenge. With Unitys skills tree and stuff hopefully it is the one.
Kiraly
Member
Press Triangle + O when he's down I believe
D-did you have fun?
Sanctuary
Member
Yeah, it's the execution move, but it doesn't always do the decapitation animation. I've had Talion do the throat stab as well as the head chop (not neck chop) from doing that. Seems kind of random.
Yeah, it seems the only way to deliberately decapitate an enemy is by doing that head-exploding wraith finisher. The combat execution method is exceedingly random.
What speed do you expect from PSN exactly? Even if Sony gave you a full 25mbps pipe from their server, you're still only going to get 11GB of data per hour.
So much fun in this game. Walk into an Uruk camp, see Orcs noticing your presence, you draw your sword, they attack, you parry, counter and demolish them one by one untill none stand. Walk away, only to hear an unsuspecting Orc scouting party say "There's been a muhrduhr here!"
Moment like this I can't help but turn around and kill them too.
Moment like this I can't help but turn around and kill them too.
User 479360
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I beat it earlier this morning, but may go back and attempt the bow, dagger and sword challenges that I passed on. That, and a couple of the other challenges.
Overall, I think it's a solid 4/5.
Overall, I think it's a solid 4/5.
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