NoirVisage
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I have to agree, feels like a primer for co-op
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I have to agree, feels like a primer for co-op
Neuromancer
Member
Yeah I was really disappointed by it. Thank god for co-op.
In other news I made it through a co-op level by myself last night for the first time (Mozambique). Man that was intense. So much fun though.
If Starbreeze makes a Syndicate 2 I would highly recommend they just make the co-op the full campaign, just scale it down for one player if necessary, or add AI squadmates that you can give basic directions to.
Oh that's neat. I don't think I've ever seen them.
vitaminwateryum
corporate swill
Is it just me or does the aiming on PC feel very floaty / loose? Even after adjusting the sensitivity it still feels like there's a little delay.
Gaz Pwnage
Member
Just finished this (both co-op and SP)the game was pretty cool i thought. Loved the sound, but the bloom, oh my god my eyes. One annoying thing though, my co-op stats haven't been registered (weapon kills etc) for some reason, meaning getting some achievements is going to be a pain. I did co-op before i did SP.
TheMissingLink
Member
Polished off the co-op (stupid agents) and I have zero desire to play the single-player or to even go through co-op again. It's funny, I went from digging the game quite a bit to pretty much hating it after my 11 hours to get through all the co-op maps with a group of three.
TheVisualizer
Banned
gg's frontier, thanks for the invite
I havent played the co-op that much so far, only have played the 1st two maps. That was the first time I've played Western Europe with only 2 people, we struggled a bit to finish off that last section but managed to get it done
might be avail to play later
I havent played the co-op that much so far, only have played the 1st two maps. That was the first time I've played Western Europe with only 2 people, we struggled a bit to finish off that last section but managed to get it done
might be avail to play later
frontieruk
Member
I'll probably reappear on live a bit later going to have to work on dethroning drifter in the syndicate
Neuromancer
Member
Yeah I'll never bother with the SP again. Too much filler bullshit to have to go through. The co op though I'm really enjoying. Playing mostly with a buddy and going pretty slow, I think we're only on the 4th map. Playing the co op mode solo is a good challenge too.
frontieruk
Member
frontieruk
Member
Mwahahah, my syndicate just hit #9 on the leaderboards. Taking the world by storm >
Traitor! Lol
Tea and Toast
Member
Yeah, I'm having a problem with it. Finding it hard to target guys accurately . Something seems off.
frontieruk
Member
Kb/m or controller, and have you switched off the auto aim? That thing is nasty
Tea and Toast
Member
Controller. Should I just switch to Mouse/Keyboard?
frontieruk
Member
It's a bit more accurate, but the controller handles exactly as the console cousins, it's a bit weighted and the dead zone is a bit large I think.
frontieruk
Member
Just about to set up a game on live anyone want in?
NoirVisage
Banned
Solo'd that mission by myself today as well, it was definitely harrowing, how many tries did it take you? took me 8. at level 8
BoobPhysics101
Banned
Holy shit, dat bloom. It sucks. Gotta figure out how to tweak it.
Revolutionary
Member
Finished the campaign earlier. Meh. On the one hand the gameplay is pretty good, a nice little twist to the standard FPS fare, but the campaign was over far too quick. I played on the hardest difficulty and it feels like it took me 4 or 5 hours.
Gameplay aside, the game shares a lot of thematic and visual similarities to Human Revolution (the Tai Yong part in particular), so it just failed to resonate as well as it could have with me. I also found it to be extremely predictable.
Co-op is pretty sweet, though.
Oh, and dat bloom. Holy shit, Starbreeze.
So yeah.. overall I'm a little disappointed by the game. I'd have preferred a more faithful remake/update of the original, kind of like what Firaxis is doing with X-COM. However, I'm still grateful for the game, because without Starbreeze working on this, we wouldn't have gotten The Darkness II from Digital Extremes. <3
Gameplay aside, the game shares a lot of thematic and visual similarities to Human Revolution (the Tai Yong part in particular), so it just failed to resonate as well as it could have with me. I also found it to be extremely predictable.
"Oh so Brian Cox and Rosario Dawson seem to be the only actual actors in the game... that means Brian Cox is probably the primary antagonist."
Oh, and dat bloom. Holy shit, Starbreeze.
So yeah.. overall I'm a little disappointed by the game. I'd have preferred a more faithful remake/update of the original, kind of like what Firaxis is doing with X-COM. However, I'm still grateful for the game, because without Starbreeze working on this, we wouldn't have gotten The Darkness II from Digital Extremes. <3
mob_skater
Member
I'd love to play with some of you psn/sen gaf guys some time. I've never played with any of you before and it seems to be a pretty cool community. If I could get a psn syndicate invite I'd really appreciate it. Psn Id is mob_skater
frontieruk
Member
Quick thanks to JTrov and the visualiser for some great games tonight, had a couple of really good runs.
Gaf currently rank 811 on LIVE our stock is rising.
Gaf currently rank 811 on LIVE our stock is rising.
Neuromancer
Member
I think I was a little over level 10, probably took me around 5 tries. I also did Western Europe today by myself for the first time, that ones a lot of fun.
frontieruk
Member
/me loves my sniper rifle
Never the highest scorer on the team but always in the area of the top player.
Neuromancer
Member
Blowing limbs/heads off with the upgraded sniper rifle is one of my life's joys right now.
Single player or co-op? I don't find this to be the case compared to other modern shooters.
Played with Dave1988 and Raul_Atreides in our PS3 Syndicate tonight. Lots of fun but I got my ass completely handed to me when we tried expert since my character is still pretty low level. Still, I had a lot of fun and hope to play with the GAF Syndicate again soon, if they're willing to have me after my performance tonight.
I need to stick with normal for a while.
frontieruk
Member
I quite like using the mini cannon and shredding people's legs from under them, twisted yes, but fun though.
Oh PC gamers rejoice... No no solution to bloom... Yet
But if you do feel like replying sp and want to go into it a bit stronger...
1) Start your desired chapter.
2) Open the dev console (Ctrl+Alt+~ or Ctrl+Alt+º)
3) addupgradepoints 99
4) ???
5) Profit!!!
For some reason, this method only allows you to start the game with a maximum of 9 upgrade points, and the cap increases as the game progresses. Considering the Single Player has 17 upgrades, you start with more than half of them?
Played with Dave1988 and Raul_Atreides in our PS3 Syndicate tonight. Lots of fun but I got my ass completely handed to me when we tried expert since my character is still pretty low level. Still, I had a lot of fun and hope to play with the GAF Syndicate again soon, if they're willing to have me after my performance tonight.I need to stick with normal for a while.
Hey even getting picked off the ground helps the syndicate! It's a management challenge to reboot guys, 2000 is the target! So don't feel guilty, just try not to be in the open, against 4 Agents, makes life complicated... But seriously though the Gaf community is about having fun and a laugh so you'll be invited back... Me I have to run a syndicate or else I'd never be picked
lolI was just joking around. I always really suck at stuff like this at first. Once I play through all the missions a couple times and build up my agent I'll be good to go.Hey even getting picked off the ground helps the syndicate! It's a management challenge to reboot guys, 2000 is the target! So don't feel guilty, just try not to be in the open, against 4 Agents, makes life complicated... But seriously though the Gaf community is about having fun and a laugh so you'll be invited back... Me I have to run a syndicate or else I'd never be picked
frontieruk
Member
So was I
how do you think I know about the issue of needing a reboot in the middle of four agents... JTrov had a nightmare trying to fish me out lolHero_of_the_Day
Member
This is my first disappointment of the year. Can't fucking stand the controls. I don't know what it is, I can't shoot worth a shit in this game. I don't like not finishing games, but think this is going back to family video unfinished.
NoirVisage
Banned
I still can't get past W. Europe without dying, but i have it down pat..gonna try the 3rd stage, hopefully its manageable!
How far are you into it? Once everything clicked for me, and it took a while, the controls felt great. You have to use a lot more buttons simultaneously than most games but it works quite well.
We definitely had some great runs tonight, especially during those final showdowns on Scandinavia.
Finally encountered my first hard lock-up in co-op. sucks that it happened on Northern Territories; I love that map.
I still haven't seen any map after Northern Territories, and now it makes sense, since you told me about the glitch. So is the only way to advance to just play the last stage unlocked until it recognizes you've completed it?
Either way GAFindustries is on the rise. Going to log on in a little and put in some more work.
Hero_of_the_Day
Member
Not very. A little bit after getting your second power (make guns backfire or whatever). I'll give it a bit longer since I have it a couple more nights any way.
ColonelSkills
Member
Does anyone know how you sprint tackle Riot Shield guys? The sprint action followed by the door bash thing that appears in a few spots of the campaign (I think it's left stick to sprint, right stick to bash) doesn't seem to work. Kilo lowers his shoulder but then nothing in particular happens to the shield bearer.
thetrin
Hail, peons, for I have come as ambassador from the great and bountiful Blueberry Butt Explosion
It's the best way to take out Agents, for sure.
Why bother? The Kusanagi ACR-10 shoots right through riot shields.
TheVisualizer
Banned
We definitely had some great runs tonight, especially during those final showdowns on Scandinavia.
Finally encountered my first hard lock-up in co-op. sucks that it happened on Northern Territories; I love that map.
I still haven't seen any map after Northern Territories, and now it makes sense, since you told me about the glitch. So is the only way to advance to just play the last stage unlocked until it recognizes you've completed it?
Either way GAFindustries is on the rise. Going to log on in a little and put in some more work.
yeah gg's guys
Im liking the game, its hectic but there is def some strategy needed to succeed. I have kind of been hanging back and healing you guys, picking at people with breaches and finishing guys off. Not sure what gun I should be going with as my main. I've dabbled with a bunch and the TAR seems to work best for me, the AC10 rifle kinda sucks and I cant hit anything with the sniper rifle.
Played Atlantic Accelerator with you guys for the 1st time, its a really cool homage to the original syndicate where you get jumped from every angle right at the start of the map.
Almost finished the campaign today, it's one of the better linear corridor-shooter FPS campaigns I've played thru in awhile. Story is shit, but the gunfights are really fun.
ColonelSkills
Member
So does the sniper.
Unfortunately, it's one of the few achievements I'm missing, and I'm a whore like that. I can't figure out for shit how to accomplish anything by sprinting or sprinting and right stick clicking them. Nothing seems to work.
NoirVisage
Banned
Wow.. Just finished the 3rd co-op mission solo(normal), went in level 10 came out level 13 , the moment i was dropped i was getting tagged on all sides, died 8 times, before i even left the heli-pad..but found a safe haven a few feet away, hunkered down and dominated, got the minigun and shredded..then there's the agents....*pause*....i was not prepared for that, i peed a little when they jumped out..killed e'm all after understanding how to seperate them, missed one chip though
I love this game..the co-op campaign is one of the best single player experiences i've ever had the pleasure of sinking time into..its a bit of a grind to get passed the first mission, but you can feel your improvement and your agent getting stronger..
BoobPhysics101
Banned
Fucking awful bloom. Seriously... first pic is from the 'blow my retina out' viewpoint, and the 2nd one is when I move 10 feet forward and look at the same windows...
Just... wow.
Just... wow.
thetrin
Hail, peons, for I have come as ambassador from the great and bountiful Blueberry Butt Explosion
So does the sniper.
Unfortunately, it's one of the few achievements I'm missing, and I'm a whore like that. I can't figure out for shit how to accomplish anything by sprinting or sprinting and right stick clicking them. Nothing seems to work.
You definitely just have to sprint into them.
Wow.. Just finished the 3rd co-op mission solo(normal), went in level 10 came out level 13 , the moment i was dropped i was getting tagged on all sides, died 8 times, before i even left the heli-pad..but found a safe haven a few feet away, hunkered down and dominated, got the minigun and shredded..then there's the agents....*pause*....i was not prepared for that, i peed a little when they jumped out..killed e'm all after understanding how to seperate them, missed one chip though
I love this game..the co-op campaign is one of the best single player experiences i've ever had the pleasure of sinking time into..its a bit of a grind to get passed the first mission, but you can feel your improvement and your agent getting stronger..
Imo, the best part of the coop is playing with other people, but that's just me.
NoirVisage
Banned
You're not a lone wolf like me, i don't play well with others, including friends. you should try doing a map by yourself to see if you've got what it takes to Alpha everything..or if relying on others has made you a pup.
faulty_fork
Member
Yes! I always pick it up whenever I see it now. Increasing it's range and making it chain to a second enemy really does wonders. I also like that it's one of the pick-up weapons that can be restocked at the ammo boxes.
The Antitype
Banned
I actually enjoyed some of the fire-fights in the campaign quite a bit.
But damn, the co-op in this game is so good. It's like a perfect mix of L4D and Borderlands.
I'm level 20ish, and am just ripping fools apart with the Kusanagi rifle, E-Drain and Damage Link.
But damn, the co-op in this game is so good. It's like a perfect mix of L4D and Borderlands.
I'm level 20ish, and am just ripping fools apart with the Kusanagi rifle, E-Drain and Damage Link.
frontieruk
Member
Booting my pc now.
Thanks, I've accepted your request on Origin and also in Syndicate now.