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[Brandon F]

Just finished also on Uber. Final boss was kind of interesting and really pleased it wasn't at all similar to what TNO offered.

Shame the MG glitched out for me in Ch 4, I bet my overall enthusiasm for the game would be higher but getting passed that 'section' was a complete buzzkill and soured my impression of the game dramatically. I wasn't quite so high on TNO as most here, but it was B-grade fun. This is more of that, not quite reaching the same highs, and for me several steeper lows.

Going for gold on the first challenge room is pure CoD grenade spam hell if you even for a moment try to duck into the hallway room. Yea, I'm not gonna bother.

 

[NullPointer]

My only pet peeve with this game,besides being really hard in some places,like when they decide to strip all your weapons and you have 10 guys firing at you,is the annoying alarm blazing non stop until you clear the area or kill the commanders,whish there was a slider just for those lol...

The alarms are another one of those things which makes me relish replaying missions or challenges. When you know where the commanders are hiding to begin with you can always either quickly take them out in stealth or go full on gunzerker on everybody while bee-lining it directly for their positions. Once you drop the commanders its all fun and cleanup.

 

[Brandon F]

I didn't have issues with uber until I reached the final boss. Now I'm stuck there.

End Boss Uber help:

Spoiler

I used the rocket pistol ducking near the far pillar on the top section. Aim for its mouth and you know its a good hit if it reels back in pain. After each shot you will either have to duck to avoid an arm sweep, or strafe as best you can to avoid a fist pound. When enemies start coming, just focus on head shotting them with the silenced pistol to avoid attracting sound. The monster will help kill them off. They are the only real threat as tons spawn, so just focus on them until its clear before going back to mouth shooting.

Eventually when the grenade pistol runs dry, I just used the sawed-off to finish it off. Before its close to death it also does a few new attacks, all very easy to avoid and mostly similar. Took about half-dozen attempts for me, the soldiers liked to drop right behind me on occasion which killed me the most, not the beast.

 

[Messofanego]

I know this is nothing new but whenever I make a gif of the shotgun blasting off limbs, I just get mesmerised

 

[all of my hate]

Not sure if it works on Uber but

Spoiler

if you go to the upper ledge and put your back against the wall most of his attacks can't even hit you.

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Thats what I did. I used the rocket gun and tried to wait until he stopped smashing to hit his mouth. Afterwards, I ran to the stairway on the left and just kept nailing him with the sniper. For the enemies that drop, I would toss hand grenades, or hit them with a knife. The possessed ones seem to distract, as everyone immediately goes for them instead.

Afterwards I hit him in the mouth like 10-15 times with the sniper until he was like "F--- this, I'm dead, bye Helga"

I know this is nothing new but whenever I make a gif of the shotgun blasting off limbs, I just get mesmerised

As much as I love knife/takedown kills, I cringed a little in my seat when I got this kill:

I'd die after that hit, too.

 

[Messofanego]

As much as I love knife/takedown kills, I cringed a little in my seat when I got this kill:

I'd die after that hit, too.

Since he's here, now I'm reminded of how RoboPlato got his tag

RoboPlato
Would kick his enemies corpse
(Today, 06:46 PM)

Damn straight. It'd be in the dick too.

 

[Nifta]

How do I use my gold pistoles?

Once you've unlocked them, there's an option to enable/disable them in the Gameplay tab of the Pause Menu. They're super shiny!

 

[Mdk7]

I'm at the beginning of chapter 4, but i'm not feeling it that much.
And it's weird as i LOVED the original (it's surely among my favorite games of 2014, and i really really enjoyed its old school spirit).
Don't know, the shooting still feels fun, yet the experience is way more essential, with no cutscenes, less impressive moments and so on.
I hope it gets better, but i'm a bit disappointed (even considering it's a 20$ game, I KNOW... but i had high expectations after the The New Order).

 

[Vidpixel]

I'm at the beginning of chapter 4, but i'm not feeling it that much.
And it's weird as i LOVED the original (it's surely among my favorite games of 2014, and i really really enjoyed its old school spirit).
Don't know, the shooting still feels fun, yet the experience is way more essential, with no cutscenes, less impressive moments and so on.
I hope it gets better, but i'm a bit disappointed (even considering it's a 20$ game, I KNOW... but i had high expectations after the The New Order).

I literally felt the exact same as you, but I found the second half of the game to be wayyy more impressive than the first half. Things get a lot more interesting later on, both with the narrative and gameplay.

I do think The New Order is the superior experience overall, but The Old Blood is still pretty enjoyable for what it is, kinks and all.

 

[Mdk7]

I literally felt the exact same as you, but I found the second half of the game to be wayyy more impressive than the first half. Things get a lot more interesting later on, both with the narrative and gameplay.

I do think The New Order is the superior experience overall, but The Old Blood is still pretty enjoyable for what it is, kinks and all.

That's nice to hear, hopefully i will feel the same way!

 

[DOWN]

Just to check, am I alone in finding idTech 5 unimpressive? Wish they'd license an engine like Unreal 4.

 

[Mdk7]

Just to check, am I alone in finding idTech 5 unimpressive? Wish they'd license an engine like Unreal 4.

On PS4 it looks far from stunning, yeah.

 

[the_batman]

the Old Blood is paced so poorly compared to the New Order, now i just want to play TNO instead.

 

[psychotron]

After loving TNO, I'm not liking this nearly as much. I'm up to chapter 4, and if they take my fucking guns away one more time, I'm going to flip, lol. It's really feeling like series of challenge rooms, and I never felt like that with TNO.

 

[Mdk7]

After loving TNO, I'm not liking this nearly as much. I'm up to chapter 4, and if they take my fucking guns away one more time, I'm going to flip, lol. It's really feeling like series of challenge rooms, and I never felt like that with TNO.

THIS.

 

[S1kkZ]

Just to check, am I alone in finding idTech 5 unimpressive? Wish they'd license an engine like Unreal 4.

i think it looks great. fantastic animations, great atmosphere, rock-solid framerate.
every ue4 engine game on consoles runs like shit so far (sub 30 fps), so i am very happy there are using id5. the textures could be more impressive, but aside from that: i think it looks really good.


and i agree with the weapon thing: i was so pissed off when i lost all my stuff in chapter

Spoiler

4

. it also sucks that you cant use/unlock more weapons in challenge mode or use some of the later weapons when you replay the story.

still: fantastic game, aside from the annoying mid-boss in ch.4 and the shittier stealth (nwo was great, ehy fuck it up?)

 

[RoyaleDuke]

I finished this and it was absolutely phenomenal.

I'm gonna go pass out now because it's 4:52am.

 

[Dictator93]

i think it looks great. fantastic animations, great atmosphere, rock-solid framerate.
every ue4 engine game on consoles runs like shit so far (sub 30 fps), so i am very happy there are using id5. the textures could be more impressive, but aside from that: i think it looks really good.


and i agree with the weapon thing: i was so pissed off when i lost all my stuff in chapter

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4

. it also sucks that you cant use/unlock more weapons in challenge mode or use some of the later weapons when you replay the story.

still: fantastic game, aside from the annoying mid-boss in ch.4 and the shittier stealth (nwo was great, ehy fuck it up?)

Nah idtech 5 is terrible. All those things you see (minus texture diversity) would be done better elsewhere with a better framerate to boot.

 

[S1kkZ]

Nah idtech 5 is terrible. All those things you see (minus texture diversity) would be done better elsewhere with a better framerate to boot.

yeah...no.

 

[epmode]

I really love this thing so far. I have to say that I prefer the tone of TNO, though. While the moment to moment game is great in THB, it's pretty light on story bits, and what's there is more cartoony than TNO. It makes sense considering when the game is set but I still miss the Blazkowicz from the 60s.

 

[GAMEPROFF]

I want to play this right now.

 

[Kurt Russell]

End Boss Uber help:

Spoiler

I used the rocket pistol ducking near the far pillar on the top section. Aim for its mouth and you know its a good hit if it reels back in pain. After each shot you will either have to duck to avoid an arm sweep, or strafe as best you can to avoid a fist pound. When enemies start coming, just focus on head shotting them with the silenced pistol to avoid attracting sound. The monster will help kill them off. They are the only real threat as tons spawn, so just focus on them until its clear before going back to mouth shooting.

Eventually when the grenade pistol runs dry, I just used the sawed-off to finish it off. Before its close to death it also does a few new attacks, all very easy to avoid and mostly similar. Took about half-dozen attempts for me, the soldiers liked to drop right behind me on occasion which killed me the most, not the beast.

Yeah,

Spoiler

the enemies that spawn are the ones who always get me

. Gonna try it with your tips soonish, thanks!

 

[Dictator93]

yeah...no.

Hrm..

1. the game has no real time global lighting or shadows yet runs the same if not worse than games that use completely real time lighting (that looks better).
2. It artifically is capped at 60fps (and comes from id)
3. Textures have variety but are inconsistent in quality and resolution
4. AF works only partially and increases texture aliasing when set higher.
5. Although forward rendered, MSAA is expensive and misses many edges.
6. Character shadows and shadow rendering that is there has no physical basis in reality. It just is.
7. Any dynamic object looks completely separate from its environment.
8. Turning around or moving the screen rapidly (aka with mouse moovment) causes textures to fade in. It generally looks horrible.
9. Most of the engine's render weight is spread across post-processing leaving most performance questioningly low given visual return.

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All these above mentioned things are done better elsewhere in almost any major AAA engine. idtech 5 was designed around last gen consoles and their set up (moderate CPU, no RAM, poor GPU strength) and scales horribly.

 

[Crab Milk Mickey]

I didn't have issues with uber until I reached the final boss. Now I'm stuck there.

Spoiler

Silenced pistol for the common mooks, hide behind some cover in one of the corners and move whenever needed. There should also be enough raketten lying around for your would-be grenade launcher to take him down if you connect all of them properly.

Surprisingly easy boss once I exercised a little more patience.

 

[Calabi]

I'm really hating the beginning, its the worst sneaking section. In The Order at least the forced sneaking was a bit easier. Why right at the beginning put it where you've got to sneak past 5 instant kill hard to kill enemies. The way it's set up there's no predictable pattern as well.

I'm not going to be playing this more than once, and I completed The Order three times.

 

[Anung]

Anyone know if starting uber from chapter select counts towards the trophy? I really don't want to start it without perks.

 

[RoboPlato]

Nah idtech 5 is terrible. All those things you see (minus texture diversity) would be done better elsewhere with a better framerate to boot.

Which is why I hope Machine Games gets to use UE4 or something for their next game. I do think this is the best looking idTech5 game, is a noticeable improvement over the New Order, and performance is perfect but there's definitely room for improvement. Really with the game had some form of AA on PS4.

Anyone know if starting uber from chapter select counts towards the trophy? I really don't want to start it without perks.

It does.

 

[Anung]

It does.

Thank God.

Uber left to do then the challenge rooms and I'll have the plat

 

[derExperte]

I'm really hating the beginning, its the worst sneaking section. In The Order at least the forced sneaking was a bit easier. Why right at the beginning put it where you've got to sneak past 5 instant kill hard to kill enemies. The way it's set up there's no predictable pattern as well.

Annoying to say the least, I tried doing it via stealth but eventually gave up. If you aim for their heads while using one their big guns they can barely shoot back and die quickly (I'm playing on normal).

 

[epmode]

I was worried about the Chapter 1 stealth after reading the complaints here but I found the whole section very forgiving. Sight ranges are low, the enemies always walk the same path (loudly) and you can stealth kill most of the supersoldiers by turning off the electricity.

 

[Anung]

I was worried about the Chapter 1 stealth after reading the complaints here but I found the whole section very forgiving. Sight ranges are low, the enemies always walk the same path (loudly) and you can stealth kill most of the supersoldiers by turning off the electricity.

If you do activate them if you just shoot the cables they die quite easily. Just beat it on Uber and it wasn't that bad.

 

[CHC]

I don't have any hard evidence of it but I feel like the AI is better in the expansion. Stealth seems harder and I was being flanked like CRAZY in the

Spoiler

bath house

fight in the village. Nazis seem to have upped their maneuvering game on me....

 

[Nifta]

After loving TNO, I'm not liking this nearly as much. I'm up to chapter 4, and if they take my fucking guns away one more time, I'm going to flip, lol. It's really feeling like series of challenge rooms, and I never felt like that with TNO.

After the torture scene, you can just go into the room behind the chair and get all of your weapons back. They keep them in there for you

 

[RoboPlato]

I was worried about the Chapter 1 stealth after reading the complaints here but I found the whole section very forgiving. Sight ranges are low, the enemies always walk the same path (loudly) and you can stealth kill most of the supersoldiers by turning off the electricity.

On a replay it's really only the hallway with the two dogs and four Supersoldiers that's bad.

 

[BokehKing]

Up to chapter 3, have not come across any of the special boards people speak of


BTW, chapter 1 stealth was not bad at all, it made sense, I'm trying to escape, but it wasn't dumb stealth where you auto die, besides you could just run past the enemies after a certain point

 

[CHC]

FUCK this

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bath house

checkpoint.... "They're in trouble, gotta find a way to get to them." The grenade spam is so fucking goddamn obnoxious, it's intolerable. If I hear one more fucking "grenatten!!!" I'm gonna puke.

 

[Cyros]

I really like the Wolfenstein auto shotguns.

 

[Dictator93]

Which is why I hope Machine Games gets to use UE4 or something for their next game. I do think this is the best looking idTech5 game, is a noticeable improvement over the New Order, and performance is perfect but there's definitely room for improvement. Really with the game had some form of AA on PS4.

This game's art direction on an engine that... you know.. properly shades and lights it would be amazing.

 

[Randomizer123454444]

Sooo, I'm in chapter 6 and

Spoiler

WTF plot just took a 900 degree turn

.

 

[tesqui]

Once you've unlocked them, there's an option to enable/disable them in the Gameplay tab of the Pause Menu. They're super shiny!

How do you unlock those?

 

[Dictator93]

Sooo, I'm in chapter 6 and

Spoiler

WTF plot just took a 900 degree turn

.

First time playing a Wolfenstein game?

 

[RoboPlato]

Sooo, I'm in chapter 6 and

Spoiler

WTF plot just took a 900 degree turn

.

There's tons of notes outright talking about it even in chapter 3 and it's Wolfenstein.

 

[Dr. Kitty Muffins]

They should give away the first game on Playstation plus in order to push sales of the Old Blood.

 

[Bananastand]

They should give away the first game on Playstation plus in order to push sales of the Old Blood.

The opposite would happen.

 

[AgentOtaku]

I know this is nothing new but whenever I make a gif of the shotgun blasting off limbs, I just get mesmerised

glorious

best gunplay this gen, period.

 

[graffix13]

So are the Nightmare Levels just

Spoiler

levels from the original Wolfenstein with your weapons from The Old Blood?

 

[Unain]

It's nice to have a stealth section that is optional for a change.
You can go in guns blazing and not have it fail automatically, because you got seen.

 

[Randomizer123454444]

There's tons of notes outright talking about it even in chapter 3 and it's Wolfenstein.

I skipped most of them Perhaps I shouldn't.

First time playing a Wolfenstein game?

Nope, I played all of them. Including 3D and Spear of Destiny. For whatever reason I just had this idea in my head that New Order/this were a bit more...grounded/serious. Though, I guess I should have guessed, with the space nazis in New Order and

Spoiler

KSSSH! Static! What was that, kill more [all?] nazis?

. So this was a (pleasant) surprise

 

[Kurt Russell]

Managed to beat the last boss in Uber using the tips provided here, thanks guys'n gals!

I must say that I can't think of a single reason for reviewers giving this game quite lower scores than TNO. The combat is the same, the length of the game is pretty good for a $20 title, and the story bits were all nicely integrated and fleshed out Blazko's character even more.

 

[Drewfonse]

Le Arghhhhh

I spent two freaking hours trying to get a gold medal on the second challenge room. The requirement is 29900, and I could only pull off a 28850. Half the time not enough enemies would spawn to even get to 20000. Maybe it was a glitch. I mean, I got 32/43 kills with head shots, plus explosive kills, chained kills, and it STILL wasn't enough? Fuck that shit.