lazybones18
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What's the deal with unlocking more skills? I'm up to Level 4 and I still only have two skills unlocked (Medic and something else)
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Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D |OT| Where the hell is Leon?
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lazybones18
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Ken said:
Well so far, I have SS-ranked all the Levels 1-3 missions with my available characters (and available alt. costumes)
lazybones18
Banned
Trying 4-1 now and I can already tell I'm gonna have a hard time with this (more interested in getting a max combo than anything else)
Shoot an enemy while they are already on the ground and I can't perform a ground melee attack is what I hate the most
EDIT: DA FUCK?! A bunch of electric rounds, upper combos, & some pistol shots, and that fucking Garrador still wouldn't go down! At least the electric rounds are useful for weakening the zealots enough to kill them with melee attacks
Shoot an enemy while they are already on the ground and I can't perform a ground melee attack is what I hate the most
EDIT: DA FUCK?! A bunch of electric rounds, upper combos, & some pistol shots, and that fucking Garrador still wouldn't go down! At least the electric rounds are useful for weakening the zealots enough to kill them with melee attacks
Decided to put Pokemon Black on hold since I hate the pre-elite 4 grinding. Finally unlocked the EX missions! And the credits music is pretty sweet. I guess I'll add a few more minor impressions after playing it a little bit more:
1. Wow you guys have some good high scores. Granted, I've only played through each level once (well, multiple times I've failed, but the scores on the Google Docs are the scores for my first actual finish of that level) but damn. I've got to actually play with you guys sometime haha.
2. I sort of wish there was an option to just have one set of skills across all characters. I don't know how everyone else is approaching it, but I'm just starting to mix and match characters and it's sort of annoying when I want to level up a particular set of skills. It's not like it's terrible the way it's set up and I know COD has the same type of setup (different perks for each character), it's just something I think would be nice to have. A minor annoyance at most.
3. Initially I thought strafing would be really stupid. But after getting to the higher levels I find it's actually the exact opposite; extremely helpful. Sniper+strafe ftw?
4. I think the FOV is just under what I find comfortable for this type of game. Sometimes I will think I saw something out of the corner of my eye and when I turn around there's nothing there. However, I only notice this when I have to scavenge for enemies, which on most maps, isn't usually an issue.
5. As for hand cramping, they do get cramped but I only notice it in between looking for games. I guess all the adrenaline sort of numbs it out during actual gameplay.
6. The ship map, not surprisingly, sucks. I only like the 4-5 ship map since it's wave-based. I also have a natural distaste for the lava map.
7. Online holds up really well. There's the weird initial "can't connect to internet" but other than that it's really easy to connect to a game. I've run into a few scrubs, but most of the random people I've played with have a general sense of what to do (i.e. melees for extra time, how to kill the bosses, etc.). Lag has been a non-issue and the only time I've seen a major FPS hit was when a barrel, grenade, and rocket launcher exploded at the same time.
8. I guess as my final impressions ever before I go back to blasting some ganados I'll just repeat what I said before. The core gameplay is definitely here and it's just the little things that are subtracting from the overall package. But in the end, the pros still outweigh the cons and I think this is a solid game regardless of all the criticism it gets.
1. Wow you guys have some good high scores. Granted, I've only played through each level once (well, multiple times I've failed, but the scores on the Google Docs are the scores for my first actual finish of that level) but damn. I've got to actually play with you guys sometime haha.
2. I sort of wish there was an option to just have one set of skills across all characters. I don't know how everyone else is approaching it, but I'm just starting to mix and match characters and it's sort of annoying when I want to level up a particular set of skills. It's not like it's terrible the way it's set up and I know COD has the same type of setup (different perks for each character), it's just something I think would be nice to have. A minor annoyance at most.
3. Initially I thought strafing would be really stupid. But after getting to the higher levels I find it's actually the exact opposite; extremely helpful. Sniper+strafe ftw?
4. I think the FOV is just under what I find comfortable for this type of game. Sometimes I will think I saw something out of the corner of my eye and when I turn around there's nothing there. However, I only notice this when I have to scavenge for enemies, which on most maps, isn't usually an issue.
5. As for hand cramping, they do get cramped but I only notice it in between looking for games. I guess all the adrenaline sort of numbs it out during actual gameplay.
6. The ship map, not surprisingly, sucks. I only like the 4-5 ship map since it's wave-based. I also have a natural distaste for the lava map.
7. Online holds up really well. There's the weird initial "can't connect to internet" but other than that it's really easy to connect to a game. I've run into a few scrubs, but most of the random people I've played with have a general sense of what to do (i.e. melees for extra time, how to kill the bosses, etc.). Lag has been a non-issue and the only time I've seen a major FPS hit was when a barrel, grenade, and rocket launcher exploded at the same time.
8. I guess as my final impressions ever before I go back to blasting some ganados I'll just repeat what I said before. The core gameplay is definitely here and it's just the little things that are subtracting from the overall package. But in the end, the pros still outweigh the cons and I think this is a solid game regardless of all the criticism it gets.
Santerestil
Banned
Sadist said:
Use Krauser weapons: crowd control the first wave spamming arrows (you can kill an hammer hulk with a dozen of them) then when appear the scorpion boss, use a BOW/exploding barrel/dying giant and then shoot the bazooka twice on its weak point: if you are lucky, you'll kill it.
And if you want SS the mission... I'm not so expert, sorry!
Oh wow. So I never realized the --/-- meant that you could score separately for each costume type per character. As a perfectionist, this is gonna bug me a lot lol. It's a good thing I love this game.
So I have a new issue: so you know what your high score is, but you don't know which character-costume combination it was. They could have at least color-coded the one rank so you could know this fact. Or better yet, keep track of high scores for each characters. I guess this complaint goes hand-in-hand with the no leaderboards complaint. Sort of lazy, since storing a bunch of numbers isn't that hard to do.
So I have a new issue: so you know what your high score is, but you don't know which character-costume combination it was. They could have at least color-coded the one rank so you could know this fact. Or better yet, keep track of high scores for each characters. I guess this complaint goes hand-in-hand with the no leaderboards complaint. Sort of lazy, since storing a bunch of numbers isn't that hard to do.
Having lots of fun. Too bad Capcom shit themselves in the foot with the silly single save slot. (and reminding you of it by having you click through "SAVED!" screens every chance they get)
This game didn't really start until around level 4/5. Now it's the mercs I remember from the consoles.
Edit: thank iOS for auto correcting shot to shit. Lolz apple.
This game didn't really start until around level 4/5. Now it's the mercs I remember from the consoles.
Edit: thank iOS for auto correcting shot to shit. Lolz apple.
got this, am enjoying it have unlocked the EX missions and am working my way through as well as going back and working on earlier levels....but it made me want to play RE5 Mercs again, so I did this afternoon for a few hours. And damnit I think I might have ruined the DS experience, being able to talk to your partner makes so much difference and it is just so much more visceral.
I'm glad I have Mercs 3D for when I'm out and about but at home I think I will be defaulting to RE5 Mercs. Still a few people hanging around online, just felt soooooo good even after year or so. I'm so much better at it than the DS version too still
I'm glad I have Mercs 3D for when I'm out and about but at home I think I will be defaulting to RE5 Mercs. Still a few people hanging around online, just felt soooooo good even after year or so. I'm so much better at it than the DS version too still
edbrat said:got this, am enjoying it have unlocked the EX missions and am working my way through as well as going back and working on earlier levels....but it made me want to play RE5 Mercs again, so I did this afternoon for a few hours. And damnit I think I might have ruined the DS experience, being able to talk to your partner makes so much difference and it is just so much more visceral.
I'm glad I have Mercs 3D for when I'm out and about but at home I think I will be defaulting to RE5 Mercs. Still a few people hanging around online, just felt soooooo good even after year or so. I'm so much better at it than the DS version too still
Yeah I hear ya. 3DS version is very nice, but I'm hoping this game will help more people discover RE5 Mercs and realize what an awesome game Mercs is. If anyone wants to play RE5 Mercs on PC send me a FR
Baloonatic
Member
Man, I love the special loadout. Using that with Full Burst, Thunderbolt and Old School. Being able to reload while using a melee attack or climbing a ladder etc. is awesome.
isamu said:Yeah I hear ya. 3DS version is very nice, but I'm hoping this game will help more people discover RE5 Mercs and realize what an awesome game Mercs is. If anyone wants to play RE5 Mercs on PC send me a FR
hey isamu, XBL RE5 Mercs is pretty quiet nowadays I am ebtemp, might be on in 5-6 hours time after work and then am super busy for a week or so, so no home console time so guess its lucky I have Mercs 3D!
Thought occurred to me this am, will RE4 HD version come with that version of Mercs in HD? I am getting it anyway obviously but that would be a pretty sweet add on.
Omg some of these earlier missions are stupidly hard to SS. Can't do 3-2 for the life of me. Using knife loadout.
Edit: Never mind just did it. 1:27 on the clock. I had been getting 1:25ish before. Soooo lame. If the melee attacks didn't have the same button as the attack button then this wouldn't be an issue Couldn't stop triggering the melee attacks which eat up more time than a final knife attack.
Edit: Never mind just did it. 1:27 on the clock. I had been getting 1:25ish before. Soooo lame. If the melee attacks didn't have the same button as the attack button then this wouldn't be an issue
Couldn't stop triggering the melee attacks which eat up more time than a final knife attack.Haha, almost forgot about skills. I'll keep this in mind later on when I go back and try to do the earlier missions with all the other characters. Only rocking Patriot Barry for now! Also almost had a perfect 100x combo on 3-4 but some douchebag majini had to grab me. Knifing is soooo fun on the earlier levelsSmithnCo said:
Have you tried using Krauser's knife? I'd imagine the higher damage and higher critical chance on his knife compared to Jill's would make killing enemies much faster.MooMoo said:Haha, almost forgot about skills. I'll keep this in mind later on when I go back and try to do the earlier missions with all the other characters. Only rocking Patriot Barry for now! Also almost had a perfect 100x combo on 3-4 but some douchebag majini had to grab me. Knifing is soooo fun on the earlier levels
Tested it and technician makes the knife faster I guess. Krauser's knife is still a little slow for my taste. Jill with her own knife can be seriously fast with technician on, and I like how Jill lunges with her knife as opposed to how everyone else slashes horizontally with it.
Her melees are quite good too, I think her knee drop is an insta-kill or close to it.
Her melees are quite good too, I think her knee drop is an insta-kill or close to it.
Count Dookkake
Member
This game has quickly become one of my all time favorites.
Nostalgia~4ever
Banned
so leon isnt in this game?
Yeah, I'm still on.kiryogi said:
@MooMoo
So many times I wanted to tell you there was a boss behind you but thanks to Capcom's genius all I could get Chris to say was "Show yourself!" lol
GGs though. We should play again later.
Also, reposting for any new or future Mercenaries 3D players:
BTW, does anyone want levels before 4-1 added to the spreadsheet?