Bay 12 Games Forum

Quote from: Asehujiko on January 30, 2010, 05:31:41 pm

Spoilery question:

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Why is there an achievement for completing the final mission with no deaths when the people who die do so under completely unexpected and arbitrary circumstances with no warning whatsoever?

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They die unexpectedly only if they're not loyal or you pick them for the wrong job.

So, in my case for example, Jack died because I chose her to be the solo diversion instead of someone seemingly more appropriate like Grunt (due to his high health and regen), and Miranda died defending the position because she wasn't totally loyal.

Although who exactly goes where best is just a guess. Tali did fine as the tech, Garrus did well as the fireteam leader, Samara worked good as the shielder, can't remember who I had as the survivor escort, possibly Tali.

I am currently stuck in because the can shoot through any cover that isn't perfectly aligned 90 degrees from them.

How good are the heavy machine gun and the heavy shotgun you find there? I picked the anti tank cannon because i HATE the automatic sniper and found out it's just my old gun except now it can actually kill with a single headshot though that may be attributed to my +50% headshot damage research instead so it's pretty much my old gun.

Quote from: Jreengus on January 28, 2010, 03:40:42 pm

It's been a while but I seriously WTFed at some of the abilities that can be set to auto use especially when other which you will always want to use as soon as they become available can't be set to auto use.

This is one of those things that really piss me off. It does seem like they randomly picked powers that get auto cast. The undead spider and orc wolf rider both have the exact same skill, but the spider can auto cast and the wolf can't.

Never played starcraft, hopefully SC 2 will be just as good as the first.

The spider has another skill that it doesn't autocast. Non spellcaster units rarely have more then one ability you personally need to use.

Quote from: Sensei on January 24, 2010, 03:56:05 pm

It's way WAY easier on foot. Which kind of bugs me.

Hell, in the sand flats, I was always fighting the enemy cars with a car (of course) and having a tough time. Then once my car rolled over and I had to get out, so I shot at their cars with my pistol and it was suddenly like "AHAHAHHA, KNEEL BEFORE OZYMANDIAS, KING OF KINGS, GOD OF CAVES, AND POWERFUL SORCEROR!"

Which strikes me as strangely unbalanced. I wonder sometimes why they put cars in the game instead of taking them out (originally it was intended that cars would be a much larger feature) and replacing them with trains or something. Trains would be pretty cool.

If their cars come into contact with you, you will die immediately, no second wind. That's why I never go around on foot in Salt flats and Dahl headlands.

That makes them only slightly deadlier then your average badass who who is nearly impossible to kill in second wind. They are FAR less durable though, my solution to the car boss was to get out and empty my SMG at him and watch him explode after 20 or so bullets. Never even got close.

Unfortunately, yes. You get 10 sniper bullets, 15 shotgun shells, 2 grenades, 70 or so pistol rounds and 440 assault rifle cartridges. The only reason i didn't run out of the last was because every ammo pickup contains 120 of them instead of anywhere between 0 and 10. And enemies take more then more sniper bullet to the face to kill most of the time. They also implemented locational damage, which seems to mean headshots, since i haven't managed to get any fancy effects when aiming for limbs like shown in the trailer.

Hacking is even worse now, they replaced the frogger with memory and some weird shmup that you can fail randomly by bad wall placement, bioshock style. No idea what the consoles are getting, knowing the difference between frogger and simon says, something even more irritating i think.

Lastly, scanning planets no longer involves clicking a button but going into a planetary view, holding down the right mouse button and dragging the cursor until the graph that indicates that there's something there spikes, wiggling around a bit to find the exact spot, and clicking to toss out a probe and loot one of the 4 different-but-identical resources there. Repeat about 25 times for a "moderate" resource planet. Probes, which you can only carry a limited amount of and need to be bought on the other side of the galaxy with the only resource that matters at all: money. and why is "other side of the galaxy" a problem you might ask? Because you no longer travel by clicking places but holding down the mouse button on the target and wait till a slow ass minature version of your ship reaches that destination, made more difficult by that the view shifts in a non-linear pattern so keeping the pointer aimed at an asterioid is more difficult then the combat, which roughly goes "find wall, activate bullet time, shoot something, hide and let it recharge, repeat". They also removed the stats on the guns so now have to choose them by feeling alone(hint, everything other then the sniper sucks).

What's worst is that i lost my original save by getting windows 7 and none of the (two, in total) preset histories make any sense. So i have to finish ME1 again just to get the universe i wanted, instead of just filling in a questionnaire, which would even make complete sense in the deus ex machina scene in the tutorial.

What do you get when you take
the basic concept of abandoned space stations on fire of dead space
the "one button does everything but always the wrong thing" control scheme from gears of war
the rushed out the door to meet a deadline quality of sadly too many games to count
the plot revisionisticism undoing all that was good about the previous game of red alert 3
the constant protagonist near death experience of call of duty
the ammo scarcity of resident evil on hard mode
and dlc that is already in the game but you need to pay for anyway?
Then there's also the MASSIVE spoilers in the installer with things like <important character>_death_renegade.mov

Yay for day 0 piracy giving the me the opportunity to cancel pre-orders before i'm ripped off. In a semi related note, company of heroes complete is on sale at steam for 10.49 euros if anybody suddenly has any cash to spare...

Quote from: Asehujiko on January 19, 2010, 03:22:35 pm

*Wall*

Wow. Did you take any pictures? The more I hear from this the cooler it sounds. Must concentrate on exams...

No pics, and the system is much more tedious then it sounds. Determining what go hit on a larger vehicle in particular takes ages. The mechs suffered from an extremely ineffective build style, game wise. Their open cockpits effectively give me a 1/6th or 1/3rd chance of destroying them outright per weapon when firing from the side or above if they don't have a canopy and since i'm using a napoleonic square on wheels i basically get them every time. We also decided to outlaw all shield generators that count as an extra layer around the entire vehicle since an open vehicle shouldn't survive a bombing run from a dedicated ground attack platform directly above it because everybody in it is holding a gem. The damage that should have been inflicted was enough to completely destroy it, except for maybe the chassis, depending on the dice. the only reason they got even close to winning at all was because of some retarded designs by me(the croc has 4hp altogether and the biplane about 30 and it needs 24 of them to not crash) and some lucky rolls against my other sensible vehicle. On a more open terrain, i would have lost despite the 80bazzilion health truck.

Next time i'm going to ditch the tracks, ram, forward guns and armor plating rule, equip all the skeletons with dual pistols and add another 8 of them hanging off the sides, GI joe style, with rifles. That gives me 42 short range attacks, anywhere between 5 and 2 long range attacks depending on direction and the vehicle can move 18'' and fire while doing so. The durability is questionable with the hero driver being the only thing preventing being disabled by a single small arms shot though and the exposed engine that can be disabled by a medium attack. I'll just have to stick with zipping from cover to cover performing drive by's on anybody standing too close to my path. I may be able to upgrade to 12 pistol skeletons at the cost of some more vehicle health and crew protection by getting rid of some railings. A total crew of 21 may be pushing the amount of minifigs i have though.