Zepp Twofist
Member
I remember having the same issue in the first game, and I've fucked up a lot in this as well. Those icons are terribly designed.
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Middle-earth: Shadow of War |OT| Attempted Mordor
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I remember having the same issue in the first game, and I've fucked up a lot in this as well. Those icons are terribly designed.
Fleet_of_Foot
Member
Wow, for a game that was so highly regarded in 2014, it's weird that its sequel is on a whopping 10 pages for the OT that day after it's come out.
FallingEdge
Member
Yes! I was saying the same thing! I hope something comes out to fix this, it is annoying af.
After you opened their box their are in the market on the top left
From the guys that are dead you can choose market and place your own guys.
Its letting me go into the market however there is no button prompt to assign my own orcs. Maybe its too soon in chapter 2?
I completed the first using the black hand and Lithariel.
Can you do that in this game? Play with a different skin?
Andodalf
Banned
I think its a tab at the top?
I fucking love this game
Accidentally went into a mission that turned out to be against a war chief and he had three body guards captains. Managed to kill the warchief and chased down one captain, died to him twice, then was about to die on the third attempt to a random grunt in that survival mode, and some orc captain out of nowhere came and beat the orc to death and said ' I've seen you fight many times, keep getting back up' and ran off after he saved me and now is my ally even though I didn't dominate him.
Accidentally went into a mission that turned out to be against a war chief and he had three body guards captains. Managed to kill the warchief and chased down one captain, died to him twice, then was about to die on the third attempt to a random grunt in that survival mode, and some orc captain out of nowhere came and beat the orc to death and said ' I've seen you fight many times, keep getting back up' and ran off after he saved me and now is my ally even though I didn't dominate him.
MadLaughter
Member
Does this game stop re-using video assets from the first game? I'm a few hours in but they've done it 3 times already.
-The "previously, on" intro
-The re-telling of "press X to kiss your wife"
-Re-showing the CGI fight between Sauron and Celebrimbor from the first game
-The "previously, on" intro
-The re-telling of "press X to kiss your wife"
-Re-showing the CGI fight between Sauron and Celebrimbor from the first game
dancegrenade
Member
Nice try.
OverBlood 3
Banned
The start of the game is incredibly slow. Dear lord.
O.v.e.rlord
Banned
Fucking Ratbag?!
Play it on Pro. Framerate remains solid.
It's more difficult, epsically certain captains. Requires changing your attack style a lot more and there's more types of enemy's.
Plus you get the instant kill counter a lot more. You can always up the difficult. Also the only overpowered skill is the perfect counter execution which you could not use, but I use it because it's still a challenging game.
But I'm only onto the second chapter so it could get more easier or challenging
Okay now that's amazing
Golden_Pigeon
Banned
Yes, after two-hours i'm finally starting to have fun. They should make the tutorial part skippable, it's really sluggish when you already know the mechanics from the first one.
Feeroper
Member
So how does this game run on the PS4 Pro? I'm tempted to get it for PS4 Pro, but at the same time I have an X1X coming and currently have a base X1, so I was thinking of getting for X1 for the eventual X upgrade given that they have been touting that the X version will look best - however I know it is also part of a marketing deal.
I actually think Troy is fucking terrible here haha
I mean, it's not a hundred percent his fault. The writers give him nothing to work with since Talion is completely devoid of personality, but he isn't even trying to sell it
The nemesis system is creating so many great like mini stories
Literally just Went to one of those intel boards in a camp to get info on a olong-hai captain. Bout 3 minutes later he tackles/ambushes me in the middle of a fight out of knowhere and says ' so you want to know more about me hey? I'd love to know more about you'.
God 2017 is so good.
Edit : Another captain was about to execute a captain. Went in and saved and recruited the captain, and summoned another captain to help me. The captain I summoned betrayed me, killed him. Then the captain I saved betrayed me in the same fight. GG
Wanted a challenge but bumped it back to Normal because I was getting butchered by captains and Garagor riders. You don't have enough abilities or health or parry and quickly execute an entire army at the start.
Loving it so far, I ran into an orc with two faces and he was pretty scolard.
People really need to learn how to use spoiler tags on here. Have to put some context for what your spoiler is or at the very least how far into the game it is.
So I've put in 15 hours so far, which is a lot for how long the game has been out, and for the most part I really loved it but for the last few hours I'm feeling burned out. I don't know, the interesting items that I was discovering have slowed down for the last several hours, the combat was really cool and I suppose it still is but I'm running out of interesting things to unlock as I level and it's starting to feel very monotonous. The main story feels very forgettable so far and quite frankly the open world feels in many ways like Dragon Age Inquisition. Sure, the gameplay is more fun and traversal is a lot better but the quests you're doing are very tedious. I'm probably going to take a break for awhile and then come back a bit later when it's feeling a bit more fresh, we'll see. For reference I just started what I believe is act 3.
Interesting things do slow by the end of act 2, for sure. At that point it became a session type of game where as before I was binging large amounts of it. Game did need someone to focus it and manage the length and pacing.
Fleet_of_Foot
Member
Nice try what? I just paid ~$64 for this game yesterday.
I've been wondering this too. When I quit out it warns me that unsaved progress will be lost but I can't figure out how to save anywhere, seems like a pointless warning?
It also warns me that I will lose unsaved progress when I quit from the main menu to the desktop.... go figure.
A Serious Man
Member
Getting your ass beat and then having a follower appear out of nowhere to save you really is a great feeling. It almost never happens on Nemesis but when it does, man, I just want to give them a hug.
Soul of the Beast
Member
highly regarded in 2014? which game?
Isn't that just intro stuff to catch new players up? Is it the same video as before or just the same material?
I'm only about 4 hours in and I haven't noticed it again.
Bill R Boggess
Member
It's very good but it also feels very much the same.
I'm not very far in however so maybe as things open up the mechanics do as well.
Also, having to go back and re-earn many of Talion's combat abilities is a slog. I understand why they did that but it still annoys...
MANSWINE!
LISTEN AS I REGALE YOU WITH MY BACKGROUND STORY!
There should be a skill upgrade where you can interrupt them with a punch to the face.
Now that would be worth a skill point.
theonerayman
Member
I had something similar happen to me. I had used a worm to find out info on a captain. Well on my way to him I spotted a legendary captain and detoured. I'm stalking around, picking off enemies. I get up on this roof and get ready to make my strike. I'm holding down RT ready to press x and strike when out of freaking nowhere that captain I got info on ambushes me from behind and we have this amazing duel up onto of a building. It was better than 90% of boss fights I've had in videogame and I've been gaming for almost 30 years!
LEITZSABER
Member
Once the Market part of the menu opens up you'll have two unopened chests with that content. I think you have to be online too.
I'm wondering if I should open them now or later. Only like an hour in and I don't think I have the dominate ability yet.
Yeah i think the tutorial on the new items continues throughout that first area.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Yeah. Troy Baker's inflections are good, but you can tell he's 100% phoning it in. I honestly wonder if it's partially (if not fully) because he also was VO director.
They can fall like companion AI in most game and you can revive them during a seige, but I haven't had one die in the regular world. The pitts are a quick way to lose some guys, but you are near enough that you can take the guy who won.
I had a similar expirience. I was creeping along the top of a really high wall that was about 4-5ft wide when I got ambushed. We fought it out for a good while and the captain was a slippery fellow too. He would evade my attacks by dodging and spinning around to my back side and I would get behind him by vaulting over him. It became this intense duel of us jumping all around on a narrow platform.
It's just too bad there's no risk of accidentally falling off and captains can't be thrown off edges either :/
Kydd BlaZe
Member
Is there 4K/HDR support for PS4 Pro?