samus4ever
Banned
People want to play online, I own the Wii U version and it suffers from lock ups in multiplayer right now. Its pretty bad, play a round, and lose all your stats because it locks up. People are staying away until a patch.
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Splinter Cell: Blacklist |OT| Warning: May Contain Trace Amounts Of Stealth
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People want to play online, I own the Wii U version and it suffers from lock ups in multiplayer right now. Its pretty bad, play a round, and lose all your stats because it locks up. People are staying away until a patch.
Gamer @ Heart
Member
Dont be rude.
The Wii U version runs and looks fine.
Its server stuff that seems to be crippling the experience. There is no reason invites and matchmaking work one moment, then fall apart 10 minutes later and i cant connect to someone i have been playing with for an hour after a disconnect. It has to be on their end.
Thank you, I have an Xbox 360 and an X 51 - I could have bought either, I chose the Wii U because I actually enjoy that platform and what the game pad brings.
Yeah I suffered from the lock up as well - captured a bunch of ridiculous lag on video as well.
Gamer @ Heart
Member
It doesnt really matter. Their stories dont feed off of each other except for the Briggs missions a tiny bit. Play however you feel comfortable, you wont be missing a thing.
Krappadizzle
Member
I almost bought if for the Wii U myself, but as none of my buddies have a Wii U I decided to get it for PC on the off chance one of my Steam buds decide to pick it up. Does it have cool gamepad intergration?
endresults
Member
When are publishers going to pass the savings of digital distro over boxed copies to the consumer? $60 for PC is larceny.
I really want to agree with you.
But running through a whole squad of mercs on Extraction as a spy is gaming bliss. Simply exhilarating. I agree it's a little unfair though. But I have been getting stomped when pitted up against mercs that know what they're doing.
Gamer @ Heart
Member
The biggest advantage i feel the gamepad adds, is reminding me to use my dam gadgets. Having them front and center on the screen instead of tucked away on a circle menu means i use them way more often.
Have you experienced this?
Krappadizzle
Member
Yeah, it's crazy that some publishers don't do this. If it wasn't for GMG, I probably would have waited much later to pick this game up. Though, to be honest, if I had read the fine print, I would have bought it on Steam instead, as I like to have my games on as little digital platforms as possible. Even though the Steam Copy still uses Uplay, you can at least let steam download and patch it for you. UPlay is a pile of shit.
What's funny is that I've not really had a problem with Uplay in the past, but for SCBL I get really random issues.
Thanks, mate!
You are pretty much forced to remember them if you play perfectionist.
Krappadizzle
Member
I use the sleeping gas and the drone more than anything else in my realistic playthrough.
Cuban Legend
Member
Wheres the PC thread for this game? I want some DX9 vs DX11 comparisons up in here!
On perfectionist it's either utilize all the darts on your crossbow or go home.
Krappadizzle
Member
Make it!
They went crazy with tesselation for sure. It's a bit distracting tbh. But at least the DX11 plugin runs at 60 fps for me. Batman AC ran like garbage for a while with it's DX11 plugin.
IcyRhythms
Member
Uplink Control on PC is a wasteland.
Everyone on PC is either playing Classic SVM or Deathmatch.
What is happening? Is it any different on 360 or PS3?
Also, people get their ass handed to them in this game and quit A LOT. I get tired of starting a match, kill the host a couple of times, and he quits and we have to start all over in a new lobby where I am almost always the merc again
Everyone on PC is either playing Classic SVM or Deathmatch.
What is happening? Is it any different on 360 or PS3?
Also, people get their ass handed to them in this game and quit A LOT. I get tired of starting a match, kill the host a couple of times, and he quits and we have to start all over in a new lobby where I am almost always the merc again
Jaded Alyx
Member
Such ignorance.
The problem with the online here has nothing to do with Nintendo or even low player base. Ubi screwed up.
And under powered compared to what exactly? PS4/XBONE? What does that have to do with this game?
There is a problem accepting invites.
Gamer @ Heart
Member
Jaded, have you done all the coop missions yet?
Want to try and play right now?
Shoot me an invite if im playing solo. Ill join you if your down for it.
Want to try and play right now?
Shoot me an invite if im playing solo. Ill join you if your down for it.
Eh, I wouldn't say stunning, least on the 360 anyways. It has it's moments where some of the lighting can shine.
But yeah, I can agree on the variety.
samus4ever
Banned
I actually played a match 1 v 1 random. I hate Ubi locked away half the playlist on Wii U. I let him kill me a lot so we both could level up. Luckily it didn't freeze, but after the match the server went down. Maybe they are patching it that way.
Jaded Alyx
Member
Was actually doing a coop mission solo. But I'm heading to bed now, so another time maybe.
the_batman
Banned
concerning Charlie's missions,
are they all wave based, horde mode type stages? i tried the fist one solo but kept getting spotting and killed so i gave up. don't know how i'd make it to wave twenty let alone wave ten.
One thing to keep in mind is, the game hasn't unlocked for Europe yet. I'm in the UK and I've only been playing the campaign because I used a VPN. There's chance of me playing multiplayer though.
What's really annoying is, all other Friday releases unlocked at midnight, over five hours ago. Blacklist is special however and is unlocking at 6PM.
Gamer @ Heart
Member
You can extract every 5 waves and complete it.
I use those missions as an opportunity to use all those guns they give you and go full assault.
Oh shit. The game better not count me accidentally pulling an enemy out of a window as a kill if I abandoned the mission. Otherwise I'm going to be pissed, I'm not redoing the story again after I just upgraded a ton of shit. Double so I'm not redoing SvM to rank 5 again. Ugh, damn it.
the_batman
Banned
i'd do that but i'm worried they'll count those kills as part of Sam's kill count for the campaign. i'm going for a no kill, no detection run.
I haven't honestly touched classic. Mostly because it's 2v2 and I have yet to see a full 4v4 match. I've been getting 3v3 which I guess is a limitation of "Training Ground" despite it putting me in "SvM Blacklist."
I've also been wanting to try Extraction and Capture to get the achievements from those and then maybe stick to TDM (which is sacrilege, I know) for my casual Splinter Cell multiplayer mode, but I haven't been able to get into any games for that.
I've had issues for like 2-4 hours yesterday attempting to get into games. I'd load into a game, try to spawn and the game would simply hang there for 2-5 mins before kicking me out for "idling" when I chose everything and tried to spawn. It ain't my fault, Ubisoft.
I wouldn't say that, I just re-ran Safehouse and jumped from 2,832 or thereabout to 282 or so from 1:04:048 to like 39:200 or so in the leaderboards on Perfectionist for the PC version in the World leaderboard just rushing with gadget use besides the Stun Gun
at extraction
for both "hostages"
Anyone wanting to do coop or SvM in the future, please add "demolitio". I use a mic and communicate often which is why SvM is so damn easy as long as you have a teammate that talks to you and calls out every position.
It might be under NSAdemolitio (probably not the best name due to current events but it's an old one).
It might be under NSAdemolitio (probably not the best name due to current events but it's an old one).
XANDER CAGE
Member
I like how this game clearly cribs notes from the Assassin's Creed developers down the hall.
Sleeping Lesson
Member
Abso-freaking-lutely. Cloak needs to be nerfed, it's absurd. Here's my possible solutions:
1. Have a 2 or 3 second cooldown when disengaging cloak, before which the spy cannot one-shot a merc.
2. Spies should only be able to one-shot from the back.
Alternately or perhaps in addition, hip-firing should be a bit more accurate as the mercs. When a spy is running up on you, it's not usually possible to aim down the sights quickly enough to kill them, and hip-firing is so inaccurate as to be useless. I should be able to gun down a spy that is 5-10 feet away with hip fire.
keltickennedy
Member
Just beat the main campaign. Well, it definitely ended how you would expect an Ubisoft game to end....lol.
We saved America!
I haven't finished it yet, loving my delicious first run perfectionist masochistic bullshit
John Harker
Definitely doesn't make things up as he goes along.
I have every platform under the sun and have played SC on several and own the Wii u version because it's the best experience. Why would you hate on anyway for enjoying something?
(Note, haven't tried multi since launch yet)
I have an awesome pc too . A ps3 and a 360. I also went with the wii u version as I liked the idea of gamepad stuff. Not Dissapointed at all. Great game and runs fine on wii u. No tearing is the ultimate win for me.
Haven't tried multi either
Can anybody tell me if there is a way to see the framerate?
Console command? Key? Tool?
Console command? Key? Tool?
plugin?
Besides, the obvious point about how Sam Fisher's voice doesn't sound like Ironside's at all, I think the larger issue for me is that his voice just sounds way too young. You can tell the actor isn't anywhere near Sam's age and that's more jarring than a simple actor change. It's more jarring to see this older guy sounding so damn young every time he opens his mouth. No, this isn't some major whining where I say it ruined the entire series, but it just annoys me while ingame.
Overall, the MP is definitely a lot of fun and SP is decent and at least better than Conviction's.
So far, I like Briggs but it's still early so I'm not sure how you guys feel about him.
Overall, the MP is definitely a lot of fun and SP is decent and at least better than Conviction's.
So far, I like Briggs but it's still early so I'm not sure how you guys feel about him.
XANDER CAGE
Member
I'm a little worried about how difficult it is to find a SvM game on PC.
Sleeping Lesson
Member
Just download FRAPS. Easiest, simplest way to view and/or benchmark your frame rate.
Krappadizzle
Member
I'm hoping it's just people playing the SP but yea, I'm worried as well considering my first game my friend and I went into as complete level 1 noobs was against 2 buddies ranked 31 and 34 so we play them once and exit out just to be put right back in there against them.
I'm just hoping it's not like Double Agent's attempt at SvM where NO ONE played it. Chaos Theory had a small population but they were a dedicated bunch meaning there were at least a few games for a year or so.
I'm loving classic SvM and I just hope there's people playing it for a few months.
Edit: By the way, it's pretty funny that my friend just randomly said how young Sam sounded when he was playing SP so I'm glad I'm not the only one. It sounds so damn off...
In the original SvM in Pandora Tomorrow it was basically a techo game of Rock, Paper, Scissors. No matter what the enemy countered you with it was possible to counter that again. If the Spies were using anything electronic the Mercs had a vision that could detect electrical devices, even what the Spies were using. Are you saying that there is nothing that can be used to see the Spies camouflage?