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Splinter Cell: Blacklist |OT| Warning: May Contain Trace Amounts Of Stealth
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Damn, thanks.
TheRedSnifit
Member
Usually when you shoot weaker mooks in the chest/legs the double over in pain, and blowing off a guy's helmet and watching him run around all scared is pretty fun. Tougher enemies don't react much at all, though.
Dunno how much of it is true but someone on reddit said it also resets your SvM progress so yeah.
Lame, I def don't want to do that. Maybe I'll just start it on another profile.
So it says when you do it.
I did it because i had accidentally skipped the intro and it told me everything would reset, singleplayer, coop and MP.
Of course i hadn't done shit yet, so i'm not sure what gets lost.
Jaded Alyx
Member
Just so you know, there's no need to do this anymore if the console locks up. Just hold down the power button. The last big update fixed this.
Theres a different ending for co-op? Like you do the last mission co-op to get it?
When you return to the Paladin after there's a big pay-off to what happened in that last mission/possible future story. FYI I'm talking about the Co-op only Briggs missions. It's a narrative.
I'm actually really enjoying this a lot thus far. It's much more of a stealth oriented experience than expected and plays brilliantly. While it has some of the streamlining of Conviction, the actual game is nowhere near as easy as Sam can be killed rather quickly. The levels are also much wider and offer multiple routes through each area. It's a pleasant surprise for sure.
In terms of pure game and scenario design this might just be the best Splinter Cell has ever been. It's much less trial and error based than Chaos Theory and its ilk while offering much larger levels without resorting to loading points. The original games were all limited by the engine but they are able to achieve more here. It's good stuff.
In terms of pure game and scenario design this might just be the best Splinter Cell has ever been. It's much less trial and error based than Chaos Theory and its ilk while offering much larger levels without resorting to loading points. The original games were all limited by the engine but they are able to achieve more here. It's good stuff.
NearRivers
Member
Had a co-op game sent from the Gods! 100% Ghost speedrun on the Billionaire's Yacht, perfectionist difficulty in 2 minutes 31 seconds, granting us 3rd place on the leaderboards.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKfYGcBout0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKfYGcBout0
the_batman
Banned
just a heads up to people who don't regularly backup save files.
my game and PS3 froze during a cutscene and my save file became corrupted. i lost everything and was at about 75 percent completion.
my game and PS3 froze during a cutscene and my save file became corrupted. i lost everything and was at about 75 percent completion.
That is ridiculous! So nice. I have no clue how that is only good enough for 3rd.
NearRivers
Member
Thanks! I can't work out where the other players are getting an extra 400 or so points from. As far as I can see we're taking the most direct route to the goals, not being seen, not killing anyone, not arousing any suspicion, and still we're short on points, even with the time bonus. I even deliberately activated the secret passage. Oh well, we've smashed everyone else as far as time goes, and had a lot of fun doing so.
Nervous Sausage
Member
Just finished on Perfectionist. Going in I had my doubts and was thinking I was going to be lucky to have a couple of night time, stealth orientated missions and the rest was going to be broad daylight shoot outs. Well I was pleasantly surprised to find that I enjoyed every single level and that the entire game was stealth-able, even the first couple daylight missions were fun and allowed me to play ghost style. Highlights for me were infiltrating the mansion in mission 4 and taking out all the mercenaries non lethally as they stormed the house and the final mission. There were only a few parts I disliked which were the
I'd put it right up there with the original and Chaos Theory.
UAV sections which were luckily very short, the ambush while the plane was taking off (still ghosted it though) and the FPS sections (shudder).
jukeboxtimebomb
Neo Member
This is my first Splinter Cell game, and damn, i'm having fun. I've done three main missions and three side missions. I need to check out that Spies vs Mercs everyone is talking about.
I said the same thing earlier and only after the third level. Actually loving the level design.
Onikaan
Member
Sigh.
This is a good game. Hampered by game breaking bugs.
Had to turn the xbox off completely just now because I pressed start to retry from a checkpoint and it wouldn't allow me to pick any of the menu's options.
An hour of progress gone. EDIT: It allowed me to reload from a checkpoint. Phew.
It's really having an affect on my overall enjoyment.
This is a good game. Hampered by game breaking bugs.
Had to turn the xbox off completely just now because I pressed start to retry from a checkpoint and it wouldn't allow me to pick any of the menu's options.
An hour of progress gone. EDIT: It allowed me to reload from a checkpoint. Phew.
It's really having an affect on my overall enjoyment.
PowderedToast
Junior Member
the level design is truth. it's genuinely open in parts, ubi did really well on that end
Doing the Charlie missions solo at the moment. Once you get above level 8 you pretty much have to go full assault. I'll admit the combat is far better than I originally thought, it's actually a lot of fun. You have to be constantly moving and using all the gadgets, then slip back into the shadows to get th drop on the next wave. The enemy combinations the game starts throwing at you are crazy. Dogs, just endless dogs... and exploding drones.
Thank you
Start->Reset story or something, it's in the settings menu but you lose your SvM levels, your equipment, and your Paladin upgrades. Not really worth it.
Nervous Sausage
Member
If that's the bit I think it is, I hugged the wall on the right side and got about halfway to one of the laser snipers in the watchtower before he saw me, so I whipped out the sticky shocker crossbow and took him out. Then I just moved on from there.
SpartanForce
Member
Why can't I play online? It keeps saying I can't connect to the server.
Lostconfused
Member
Oh right Perfectionist. I am not one of the crazy people who hates fun so I didn't decide to jump into the game at the highest difficulty where a good chunk of game mechanics does not exist.
I maybe used mark and execute once on realistic, and I pretty much handicapped myself to mostly what they took out in perfectionist. So the game definitely feels balanced (or you can make the argument for) without those helpers in mind.
Well the AI might be tougher though....
All these freezes and stuff have me a bit tense. Gonna back up my save later.
Maybe server's are down? They were doing work on it a day or two before.
Lostconfused
Member
I am not using mark and execute except for a rare occasion either but at least there is some use for sonar goggles on realistic. They seem to be entirely useless on perfectionist so I have no idea why there are there. Strangely enough the radar is still there for some reason.
My point is that perfectionist is a significant change to the rules and mechanics of the game that you don't even have access to at the start. It just lops off a bunch of stuff and you might not know what kind of an effect it has on the gameplay.
Either way my reaction to this is all in the context of "extraction" missions which is just a dumb horde mode where you can sit in front of a monster closet and shoot terrorists as they run out of it one by one and watch the wave counter go down.
SammiiDoogles
Member
Stopped playing single player for a couple days to play through the co op stuff split screen. Just back in single player now, at the Transit Yards level and holy fucking shit the first person sections suuuuuuck.
I didn't play Splinter Cell to play a FPS, christ.
I didn't play Splinter Cell to play a FPS, christ.
I wanted to buy it but apparently the game is delayed in Asia. It's supposed to be released by now but it still says pre load for those in Asia with no response from Ubisoft or steam. This is pretty unacceptable to say the least
http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1l1u66/steam_version_of_splinter_cell_blacklist/
http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1l1u66/steam_version_of_splinter_cell_blacklist/
legacyzero
Banned
This Blacklist_DX11 error is getting annoying...
Ugh, that happened to me a couple times in Chaos Theory. I was hoping Ubisoft would have finally fixed their shit.
Sorry about your saves though.
Jaded Alyx
Member
No patch. Can't say I really noticed any drops anyway.
Buy the footprint tracker, Sonar becomes useful when you can see enemy movements before making moves.
Except I know what effects they have on gameplay since I played SC1-5 before 6/Blacklist launched. And honestly, Perfectionist is probably the first time since Pandora Tomorrow/2 to actually make me think of my actions and ways around enemies or groups. It's refreshing "kneecapping" myself to "hate" fun.
Actually my experience trying to ghost it has been pretty much the same as a "monster closet" but I stay near corners and take loners out as quick as I can and then abuse equipment on the groups that won't break for me to take out one at a time. It's kinda interesting that way instead of "LOL PEW PEW PEW HEADSHOTS."
rangersfan414
Member
How do you have that mission?
Pre-order or Deluxe Edition (basically pre-order) for consoles/PC's respectively.
Nvidia "preorder"/graphic card redeemers got the Deluxe for free.
rangersfan414
Member
Well it looks cool. Only the dead coast hunter mission came as a bonus with my game :/
There was a day one patch. The Wii u version does maintain a solid 30 without tearing however. But like the other console versions, the lack of texture filtering and proper as look like crap on my tv.
In this analysis the frame rate drops to 11, yes eleven, in a freaking cut scene. This is beyond ridiculous. I don't know if the day one patch fixed this, the guys from the video didn't mention anything.
chickdigger802
Banned
Question. What contributes to panther? I seem to only get ghost for stealth takedowns and assault if I mess up and have to shoot people.
Is there any reason to use knife over nonlethal take down?
Is there any reason to use knife over nonlethal take down?
Hmm, I didn't notice the framerate drop like that when I played through that cutscene
Lethal stealth takedowns (open the weapon wheel to toggle between non-lethal and lethal) and stealth kills (kill without being detected; go for headshots)
Use the knife if you want panther points
Only counts as combat if you're in combat, otherwise it's stealth knockout.