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Don't bother then, you have to buy it new or pay for a pass to go past level 5 in multi. And from what I could tell, nothing interesting opens up until level 10.
I guess the whole online pass thing is easier to stomach in games like dead space. It seems a bit overboard in an online shooter. Especially if the story is as short as I've heard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTlLOF2moxY
Really? Wow that sucks.
Four hours? I'm not one to complain about a game's length, but four hours is really pushing it for me. Campaigns make me buy a game, multiplayer keeps me playing. It just doesn't seem that the multiplayer is really an improvement on Black Ops, just different.
Multiplayer opinions vary.
You didn't unlock Battle Commander game mode which deals with the worst part of camping snipers. I think it was a mistake of the devs not to have BC available from rank 1.
ALso I've noticed not very many people are using sentry drones yet. Sentry drones ruin snipers day ... once folks realize how much bps they can get spotting, I think that you'll see a lot of snipers finding themselves painted permanently red.
It opens up early ... Can't remember if it was lvl 5 or 8. Don't know why they chose to do that although I suspect it was to lock out players who don't have an online pass.
Still a bad decision in my eyes as battle commander deals effectively with camping snipers.
As for how the Battle Commander work's, is that after you kill so many people the commander will tell someone on the other team to come kill you and they mark you. The longer you go alive and kill more the More people the battle commander tells where you are and to kill you.
This can go for Sentry drones for marking, drones for killing, and just players themselves. It rewards the person who kills you more for however many people that are after you.
Also Multiplayer in this game is great, it's possibly the best balanced FPS I've played. If you are on a losing streak (was on a few myself after it got going) the game will give you a couple hundred battle points to get you off on the right foot. This allows you to (If you are horrendous) at least get to see some of the cool toys, and if you are just having a rough match lets you unlock a flack jacket or some such to start getting into drones, and vehicles that you are good in. It's a great system.
Personally I would say if you are getting a little tired of Battlefield/CoD:Blops, pick it up. It's great fun I played for hours on multiplayer alone despite it having some bad server issues tonight. It takes about an hour to get used to as you seem to run kinda slow, and the weapons feel weird, and Grenades throw real weird. But I wouldn't call the way the running, grenades, and weapons handle as bad it just takes getting used too. Once you are used to them though it's no problem and feels great.
Awesomely.
The higher you killstreak, the higher your 'wanted level'. As you rank up your wanted level, you get little buffs related to what you've been doing - extra vehicle armour, slightly faster move speed, etc. In return increasing numbers of enemy combatants are notified of your 'general area' (a big circle on the radar that continually updates) where you might be around. They get extra cash benefits for offing you.
Multi is grand, but I don't think it's $89 Steam sale price grand. I'll grab it for PC when Steam Sales kick in.
I agree with you re mp. It's great. The reason I think though that they should have opened up battle commander from the very start is that there are alot of the people rushing to forums complaining of snipers without actually
having tried the mode that neuters campers.
Also with so many low level people on the first day you've got very few people sentry spotting, very few people with effective anti air, and very few people who have unlocked battle commander ... All of which make a huge difference against campers, snipers and choppers
So keep in mind many of the negative impressions coming out are completely inaccurate of how the game will flow even 2 days from now.
I tried to use the sentry. But all it seemed to be good for was buzzing a lot and getting shot. The screen told me to hold lmb to mark someone and I did that (a lot) and it just did nothing. The only thing it would actually mark was a bradley, any human target I tried it did nothing. I tried from every range too, as far as flying so low I almost literally hitting the dudes in the face and nothing.
Is there some secret to using them?
Sniping seems to be waaaaaay too effective. I was getting murdalized as a new recruit until I started just picking up the sniping (my team had a few competent guys that could assault zones so I could lay back and reap rewards and keep heat off of them). Then I was going 15-1, 20-1 and it seems if you are far enough away there's not a whole lot people can do about it, even if you get the 5 star 'wanted list' or whatever, which I did quite a few times and still never died. Though I think that was because they didn't have one of those predators up with the stupid missile, man I hate that thing. Keep in mind, I have never played a 'sniper' class in a game. I think if I combined my total amount of time between mw, mw2, blops, bf, bf2 and bfbc2 as a sniper it would be less than 2 hours total.
Also, what is up with the performance of the game? It seems the graphic engine swings wildly between really smooth (~62 fps) and then drops to 10-20 fps just randomly for extended times. Seems like it's related to the net code or something.
I really like the maps though. Just wish there were more of them. I played for a few hours and I think I only saw like 4 maps in the GC mode. Some of them are really large, which is great for all the [snp]_shadowninja_sniprz type kids.
I did have fun with the multi though. I really can't figure out what people dislike so much about it, other than it's not cod or bf.
Marking dudes pops them up on the UI and on the radar of allied combatants, so they can easily track 'em. Gets you kill assists as well. But, you know, you need allies who are competant. You get points for tracking dudes btw
also, is quickscoping possible?
oh yeah, and shotguns? instant kill at 3 feet, pellets disappear at 3.5 feet? or viable non-retarded weapons?
oh oh oh, is there an instant kill bullshit magical teleport 30 feet knife while getting shot in the face but ignoring it because of PCP button?
It's also pretty awesome if you are sniping on certain maps, I get into a high kinda covered area and will lay down. Throw up the recon drone and mark somebody that I know I can see from my spot. Pop Up cap him get the points for the drone assist, and the killing a drone target lay back down rinse, and repeat.
I actually find sniping harder in this then it ever was in Bf or CoD. But then again I played hardcore modes in those so it was almost always hit them anywhere they die. In this it's two hits to kill unles you headshot.
Yeah I got the point of it, but for whatever reason when I tried it last night the drone would never "lock on" to a target, it wouldn't even start with the 'white delta' marks that initially come before a lock on. It just did nothing, no matter how long I focused on an enemy.
I tried it again this morning and it worked correctly. So evidently it was bugged for me last night.
You have to do that in CoD as well so....why so surprised here?
I would say this game falls way closer to Battlefield than it does to CoD.
If it gets patched, it will be worth it, but just a heads up it is a bit buggy in general.
It really is, my biggest complaint with the game is the Lack of bullet penetration and destructible environments. It's just so hard to get used to cover being invincible again.
I finally just lowered everything to "High" and unchecked the five boxes of "extras".
I also attempted to disable Physx in the ini file in My Games. Not sure if that helped.
When the weird performance dips come now at least it stays above 40 FPS. The mouse still feels inconsistent, really tight at the start of a round, and then more jittery towards the end.
I'm hoping THQ has some revelations about PC performance and issues a quick patch cause I really am enjoying the Multiplayer.
(i7 + 5870 + 4gigs)
1 minute into the game (still running to the landmarks): "Come on guys, we're losing this!" :shock:
I would have felt that Dilema as well. If my computer could run Shogun
Of course, shotguns dont really work on a lot of maps, but still.