Winterblink
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And boy does it look great. Sounds awesome too, the sound mix of this game is very aggressive.eJawa said:
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The Official Mercenaries 2: World in Flames Thread
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You guys are right, the game definitely gets more fun the longer you stick with it. Most of my criticisms still stand, but you just get used to them and ignore 'em in a wild-eyed lust to blow more things up.
The game does have some very curious logic. Such as, you can't shatter or break a single pane of glass in the entire game world (they get that cheap bullet hole effect instead) but you can level 5 story buildings with a few RPGs. Or when calling in air strikes, sometimes every building around gets leveled except the one I threw the smoke target at.
Also, as mentioned several times in this thread, the game doesn't explain much. I played Mercs 1 to completion yet still feel like half a noob here.
I'm worried about the play length. Has anyone completed the game? I've played maybe 3 hours, finished about 5 missions and the meter says I'm 21% complete. I hope that meter is weighted where unlocking new factions would cause my meter to jump a lot higher than just completing a mission would.
The game does have some very curious logic. Such as, you can't shatter or break a single pane of glass in the entire game world (they get that cheap bullet hole effect instead) but you can level 5 story buildings with a few RPGs. Or when calling in air strikes, sometimes every building around gets leveled except the one I threw the smoke target at.
Also, as mentioned several times in this thread, the game doesn't explain much. I played Mercs 1 to completion yet still feel like half a noob here.
I'm worried about the play length. Has anyone completed the game? I've played maybe 3 hours, finished about 5 missions and the meter says I'm 21% complete. I hope that meter is weighted where unlocking new factions would cause my meter to jump a lot higher than just completing a mission would.
pr0cs
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I haven't investigated much yet but I wanted to open up another faction on the first island but am only friends with UP, the faction I want to try missions for are "hostile" to me, likely from me doing UP missions.
How do I fix it so they won't shoot me on sight? Start attacking UP resources? Is there any negatives behind doing this (other than UP won't deal with me anymore)?
How do I fix it so they won't shoot me on sight? Start attacking UP resources? Is there any negatives behind doing this (other than UP won't deal with me anymore)?
Head back to the mansion and talk to Fiona. There's a "bribe faction" option you'll have to use to get them to leave you alone.pr0cs said:
No shit. I just got access to the 3rd faction (Jamaican Pirates) and the few times when I bribed the first two, it cost me almost 5 million each.Brannon said:
I think someone posted something like a 12 million figure when he paid a bribe later on the game. :lol
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Yeah, this. :lolLinkzg said:
Kung Fu Jedi
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pr0cs said:
You don't have to bribe them. Start going after the HVT's on their wanted lists or destroying buildings that are their targets. You'll soon come up in their estimation and they'll offer you missions. Bribing is just throwing money away in my opinion.
Of course, part of the fun of the game is trying to balance your relationships with the different factions. It's not Mercs if at least one of them isn't shooting at you. :lol
notjackbauer
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pr0cs said:
That's not the only option! Look around on your pda map, find a few VZ target buildings that the faction in question wants destroyed and level em. Same goes for HVTs- each HVT has a specific faction who put the hit out, so just pick the ones on the map that your faction is looking for and off them. You won't be able to call in a transport since they don't like you, but killing the target will have a positive effect.
joeblackisback
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RavenHawk said:
My first time through this mission I made it all the way through until the exec was ready to go. I ran down the tower to the raven, but it was long since destroyed.. I hopped in another vehicle and raced toward UP headquarters. It wasn't until my body was flying through the air and the vehicle was in flames that I realized I had jacked a VZ jeep. UP lit me up something good.. DOH!
DevelopmentArrested
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SlasherJPC
Banned
Doc Evils said:
If your willing to put time into the game and know that it has a few quirks here and there and can accept that. You should have a good time.
It never gets old blowing shit up. Its like having a "playground of destruction" at your fingertips! Co-op = sex!
Kung Fu Jedi
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Doc Evils said:
If reading the posts of everyone in this thread who are having a great time with the game isn't enough to tell you about it's quality, then I'm not sure what else can be said.
SlasherJPC
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raYne said:
This game is so amazingly awesome, the amount of explosions that rocked the screen not only destroyed my controller and red ringed my console, debri literally flew out of the game from my HDTV and into my living room shortly before blowing up.
MERCs 2 BLOWS SHIT UP!
Kung Fu Jedi
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Doc Evils said:
Fair enough. But most of us haven't had any real bugs to report at all, and if you read what people are saying in the thread, you'll see that the overwhelming majority of us are having a complete blast (Pun fully intended) with this game.
I haven't run into a single bug myself, although, as I mentioned earlier, I did see a stack of crates suspended a few feet off the ground. Other than that, there hasn't been anything else that I've noticed at all. While it's not as polished as GTA IV, for me it's a lot more fun, and it does it's own thing very well.
Kung Fu Jedi
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raYne said:
Bug complaints go out the window when you drop that first bunker buster into a bad guy's lap! :lol
Doc Evils said:
Careful there! I said I was personally having more fun with this than GTA IV. I do recognize that on a technical level, GTA is far superior. But shiny graphics aren't everything. Especially when you can have such an impact on the world the way you can in Mercs.
Mercs also delivers something that GTA didn't, namely campaign co-op, and it's oh so fun!
SlasherJPC
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Concerning bugs, has anyone else noticed cars or barricades pop up outta nowhere sometimes? I'm just curious if its only my copy.
Kung Fu Jedi
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slasher_thrasher21 said:
This hasn't happened to me in single player, although things did pop in much closer in co-op mode for me.
You only get "stuck" if you trying to jump out of the back rather than walk left/right through the door like normal people.Dizzle24 said:
Streaming issue. I've had the same experience as KFJ where it's much worse in co-op and things spawn far closer to you, but it's fine in SP.slasher_thrasher21 said:
I'm sure I've mentioned it in the thread already.
BravoSuperStar
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I havent had any major bugs, the worst is probably when I called in the support chopper to make a pickup and it fell into the ground and disappeared. I didnt get credit for the pickup either so that kinda sucked, but they are all over the place so no biggie.
Co-op glitches ive seen are things like when you escort someone one player sees the AI character, the other doesn't. We were also doing the mechanic mission where you drive the truck and failed. It spawned me on a motorbike about 200ft in the air when we retried it. That was kinda cool though, lol. I've also seen cars just pop up into the air a couple times.
None of this has soured me on the game in the least. In fact it adds some charm to it, in a buggy unpolished sort of way, lol.
Co-op glitches ive seen are things like when you escort someone one player sees the AI character, the other doesn't. We were also doing the mechanic mission where you drive the truck and failed. It spawned me on a motorbike about 200ft in the air when we retried it. That was kinda cool though, lol. I've also seen cars just pop up into the air a couple times.
None of this has soured me on the game in the least. In fact it adds some charm to it, in a buggy unpolished sort of way, lol.
SlasherJPC
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raYne said:
AHH ok yeah I thought I really only noticed this in co-op mode. Single player was much better. Makes sense now I suppose. Thanks.
NullPointer
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A nice trick to keeping your factions friendly without having to resort to bribes is to reserve a few of the "blow-shit-up" missions for when you can maximize your return on them.
I got spotted assassinating a UP exec, and they all shifted to hostile on me. So, in order to save some cash and get them back into my good graces I blew up an entire fucking community of VN bases to the southeast. I'm serious. There was an entire mountain range in flames when I was done with em.
Made a profit and got the UP guys to love me again.
I'm saving some PLAV missions for just the same thing. Its almost certain I'm going to end up pissing them off soon enough.
I got spotted assassinating a UP exec, and they all shifted to hostile on me. So, in order to save some cash and get them back into my good graces I blew up an entire fucking community of VN bases to the southeast. I'm serious. There was an entire mountain range in flames when I was done with em.
Made a profit and got the UP guys to love me again.
I'm saving some PLAV missions for just the same thing. Its almost certain I'm going to end up pissing them off soon enough.
-tetsuo-
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That mission where you escort he UP VIP is out of control, and certainly not scripted from what im hearing.
On top of you guys stories, i was in a co-op game last night atthe last part with the tower. I got to the top, got the anti-air rockets, and took out the first chopper no problem. The second one got its tail blown off, and it flew RIGHT past me, spinning and on fire, at about 100 mph straight into the refinery type area across the street. It crashed and exploded, brought the refinery down, and a few of the huge pipes running in it fell straight down onto some enemy jeeps blowing them up. It all happened so fast my partner didnt even get to see it :lol
On top of you guys stories, i was in a co-op game last night atthe last part with the tower. I got to the top, got the anti-air rockets, and took out the first chopper no problem. The second one got its tail blown off, and it flew RIGHT past me, spinning and on fire, at about 100 mph straight into the refinery type area across the street. It crashed and exploded, brought the refinery down, and a few of the huge pipes running in it fell straight down onto some enemy jeeps blowing them up. It all happened so fast my partner didnt even get to see it :lol
NullPointer
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Doc Evils said:
I did have one major co-op bug when playing the other night:
On the mission where you
recruit the mechanic, you have to test drive a special car of hers. I played this mission already so I was wondering how we could have the most fun in co-op. So I decided to take another vehicle and ride alongside him or even get ahead of him to neutralize some of the hostiles along the path.
Problem was we got separated. We ended up at opposite ends of the co-op player zone. Now, that mission area is full of twisty roads and switchbacks, so we weren't actually able to regroup with each other, because we'd have to go further into the no-go-zone in order to turn around and meet back up. So we were completely stuck.
That sucked. But that's the worst thing we experienced from playing a few hours.
notjackbauer
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Who can tell me when I get the jet pilot? i just started doing missions for the pirates in the north.
There isn't really on order of getting things like that. For example, I've had my pilot for a long time now and I haven't even done any of the Pirate missions. From my pov, that'd be because I finish off all of a faction's missions before I move on to the next.notjackbauer said:
The way I did it was, I got Eva first (the mechanic). Then when you do her missions, she'll hook you up with the pilot. Either that or talk to Fiona and ask about the Pirates. You'll get the location and can pick him up there.
_tetsuo_ said:
I did this mission 3 times just to try and do it different ways. One time I called in a chopper and pretty much transported him to both places quickly and painlessly (much less fun).
A definite holy shit moment was strapping the chopper full of C4 and taking it to the second section where there's tons of enemies. So I leave the chopper where the enemis are coming from and run up to the top of that tower. Sure enough, by the time I'm at the top some asshole VZ jacked my chopper. I wait until he circles back around over his own troops, set off the C4 and watch the fireworks.... Oh I hadn't mentioned that on my way I happened to winch a fuel tank and leave it in a good position. So now there are jeeps, APC's, choppers and fuel tanks making sweet man-charring music.
Of course there's still a ton of time left so at the end where the chopper leaves you the Anti Air rockets, I waited for the enemy choppers to come and jacked one. I once again put some C4 on that and tried flying it, jumping out, and detonating it into the other chopper. Unfortunately when you're falling you can't set off the C4 so my plan failed, but it was still fun to watch my chopper turn into a comet. I'm having too much fun.
There isn't any way, which is unfortunate when playing co-op and you get in the wrong seat. The other person has to stop and wait for you to hop out and back in.
Edit: I also wanted to throw this out there for people just starting out. You don't only have to throw one C4 at a time. After you stick it, and it shows you the detonater in the HUD, you can tap left on the d-pad again and choose more C4. This wasn't obvious to me at first, but it's good to know because you can put C4 on 4 corners of pretty strong buildings and bring them down.
Edit: I also wanted to throw this out there for people just starting out. You don't only have to throw one C4 at a time. After you stick it, and it shows you the detonater in the HUD, you can tap left on the d-pad again and choose more C4. This wasn't obvious to me at first, but it's good to know because you can put C4 on 4 corners of pretty strong buildings and bring them down.
NinjaCodah
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Holy shit at the Mother Of All Bombs!