Bah. You kids with your consoles go and have your fun. We PC users will be tearing shit up just fine over here.
All two of us.
And I just remembered something I was thinking: are we going to have to play a different merc than the one that our co-op partner's using, or will they just have us use the second skin or let us choose whichever extra ones they've packed in?
I wish to know this too. Co-op details seem to still be kept under wraps on their forum though.
Actually there's plenty of co-op information in the videos and previews. As far as that question goes, the second player will have to choose a different mercenary than the first player. You can't play as the same mercenary.
The co-op in Mercenaries 2 is actually pretty simple. It's just drop in and out play. There's no special co-op menu everyone starts at or anything. If I want to play co-op, I can simply invite someone and he or she joins right into the game I'm playing. We won't be booted back to a starting point or base. I just keep doing what I was doing but with a second person.
It's pretty much the same as Fable 2. The second player joins the game I'm playing, and he or she can go back to their game with whatever weapons and money they've collected in mine. And I can't wait to play this game in co-op. I'm just going to have to be selfish and make sure it's my game so I can play as Matthias.
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This game comes out on my birthday. I told the important people in my life that if I don't receive it as a present that Matthias is going to pull their genitals out of their mouth and set them on fire.
Buildings and objects do NOT respawn or reset unless the console is switched off. Storing location and damage information takes up almost zero memory and is incredibly easy to remember.
When you blow shit up in Mercs 2, it stays blown up until you turn the power off.
Buildings and objects do NOT respawn or reset unless the console is switched off. Storing location and damage information takes up almost zero memory and is incredibly easy to remember.
When you blow shit up in Mercs 2, it stays blown up until you turn the power off.
So basically I'm going to spend the first several hours just trying to destroy every building in the world.
Buildings and objects do NOT respawn or reset unless the console is switched off. Storing location and damage information takes up almost zero memory and is incredibly easy to remember.
When you blow shit up in Mercs 2, it stays blown up until you turn the power off.
So basically I'm going to spend the first several hours just trying to destroy every building in the world.
Possible.
The motto of Mercs 2 from day one of development was 'Never say no to the player'
Everything, and I literally mean everything other than the terrain itself is destructible. Buildings, trees, bushes, crates, everything can be blown up, burned, shot, detonated and cut to shreds.
To describe what can be blown up it is much easier to list things that you can't destroy:
- The terrain, ie the heighmapped ground beneath your feet upon which things have been built.
Buildings and objects do NOT respawn or reset unless the console is switched off. Storing location and damage information takes up almost zero memory and is incredibly easy to remember.
When you blow shit up in Mercs 2, it stays blown up until you turn the power off.
So basically I'm going to spend the first several hours just trying to destroy every building in the world.
Possible.
The motto of Mercs 2 from day one of development was 'Never say no to the player'
Everything, and I literally mean everything other than the terrain itself is destructible. Buildings, trees, bushes, crates, everything can be blown up, burned, shot, detonated and cut to shreds.
To describe what can be blown up it is much easier to list things that you can't destroy:
- The terrain, ie the heighmapped ground beneath your feet upon which things have been built.
That's it!
No, I'm sorry, GTA has taught me that trees are invincible. You must be wrong.
Seriously though, SO AWESOME.
It's going to be like EDF only with less terrible production value and shitting ants.
I absolutely love that you can drive through some trees. That always made me mad in other sandbox games. I just hope the physics demand that the impact has to be a certain amount of force, so you dont accidentally walk into a tree and have it fall apart.
I'm replaying Mercs 1 in preparation for next Sunday, and all I can say is that Mercs 2's soundtrack had better be as completely fucking epic as the Mercs 1 soundtrack.
Are you using a 360 with backwards compatibility? I rented the original from Gamefly but after a few minutes of play the rader would get all "infinite mirror" on me and the game would eventually freeze up.
I wonder if they put a vacuum effect in for the FAB - it'd be pretty nifty to be standing out of harm's way and see random mooks who're too close getting sucked, screaming, into the inferno or hanging on for dear life to whatever they're next to.
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I'm replaying Mercs 1 in preparation for next Sunday, and all I can say is that Mercs 2's soundtrack had better be as completely fucking epic as the Mercs 1 soundtrack.
Are you using a 360 with backwards compatibility? I rented the original from Gamefly but after a few minutes of play the rader would get all "infinite mirror" on me and the game would eventually freeze up.
Yeah, it sucks. Wish they'd done a better job with the BC on Mercs 1.
I'm replaying Mercs 1 in preparation for next Sunday, and all I can say is that Mercs 2's soundtrack had better be as completely fucking epic as the Mercs 1 soundtrack.
Are you using a 360 with backwards compatibility? I rented the original from Gamefly but after a few minutes of play the rader would get all "infinite mirror" on me and the game would eventually freeze up.
Yeah, it sucks. Wish they'd done a better job with the BC on Mercs 1.
How are you getting any real play time in? I'd get maybe 15 minutes in before the game locked up
Man, I LOVE when devs are more concerned about making a fun, awesome game than making sure they don't put in anything game-breaking. Nuclear warheads? Assault chopper + battle tank combos? Rocket buggy? Grenade sportscar? Muscle car converted to a monster truck with nitro boost? Yeah, it's about as far from realism as you can get, but it's the same distance away from boring or monotonous. And you get so much cash from just destroying things that it doesn't look like having money for strikes or support drops will ever be a problem.
Yeah, but like the asshole innocent bystanders in light-gun games, I don't want them here.
I want to go "Hey, I see a group of people" and be able to call down Random FuckAwesome Explosive Device without worrying about "Faction loss for killing people who didn't have it coming, even though they totally would have shot you, bro"
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Yeah, but like the asshole innocent bystanders in light-gun games, I don't want them here.
I want to go "Hey, I see a group of people" and be able to call down Random FuckAwesome Explosive Device without worrying about "Faction loss for killing people who didn't have it coming, even though they totally would have shot you, bro"
Wait, there is faction loss in this game?
Innocent bystanders just make the game fun. GTA, Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, Assassin's Creed...it's different fun then killing enemies...but killing things that don't fight back in games gives me sadistic joy. I don't know why, that's just the way it is.
I mean, you play Hitman: Blood Money. Sure, it's cool to read: "Silent Assassin strikes again!", but it's nowhere as hilarious as "MASS MURDERER SLAUGHTERS 72 PEOPLE!"
Seriously, you can't tell me that you didn't spend fifteen minutes torturing stormtroopers in various inventive ways in Force Unleashed demo...
There are civilians. I remember the radio operator saying something like "Look if you want..... must kill civilians, please keep it to a minimum. Every civilian you kill costs us money" during one of the recent GT clips.
Yeah, but like the asshole innocent bystanders in light-gun games, I don't want them here.
I want to go "Hey, I see a group of people" and be able to call down Random FuckAwesome Explosive Device without worrying about "Faction loss for killing people who didn't have it coming, even though they totally would have shot you, bro"
Wait, there is faction loss in this game?
Innocent bystanders just make the game fun. GTA, Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, Assassin's Creed...it's different fun then killing enemies...but killing things that don't fight back in games gives me sadistic joy. I don't know why, that's just the way it is.
I mean, you play Hitman: Blood Money. Sure, it's cool to read: "Silent Assassin strikes again!", but it's nowhere as hilarious as "MASS MURDERER SLAUGHTERS 72 PEOPLE!"
Seriously, you can't tell me that you didn't spend fifteen minutes torturing stormtroopers in various inventive ways in Force Unleashed demo...
Hey, that fucking peasants had it coming. That guy kept pushing me, and my blade must have just slipped. Into his throat. Five or six times.
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If you played the first Mercs game, you'd know the civilians were just a pain in the ass. They waltz in the middle of a firefight, and suddenly you have to beg for forgiveness and fork over thousands of dollars (dollars that could have been used on explosives!).
Although it was amusing to leave civilians handcuffed on the ground and experience no reprisals for it.
Hopefully they'll make the piracy and resale of captured equipment a bit more profitable in this game than last. What was it, like 50 grand for a good-condition heavy tank in Mercs 1? C'mon
I wonder if (minor Wikipedia pre-plot synopsis thing)
That chopper dude you can hire for your PMC can haul stuff off right to sale instead of adding it to a stock or whatever I assume he takes things off to.
It'd certainely help in giving you an extra bit of income to blow on the fun stuff.
I paid off my pre-order today. Sunday cannot come soon enough! A friend of mine is coming over and we're going to play the crap out of this game. All of the videos that they keep releasing all killing me.
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Actually there's plenty of co-op information in the videos and previews. As far as that question goes, the second player will have to choose a different mercenary than the first player. You can't play as the same mercenary.
The co-op in Mercenaries 2 is actually pretty simple. It's just drop in and out play. There's no special co-op menu everyone starts at or anything. If I want to play co-op, I can simply invite someone and he or she joins right into the game I'm playing. We won't be booted back to a starting point or base. I just keep doing what I was doing but with a second person.
It's pretty much the same as Fable 2. The second player joins the game I'm playing, and he or she can go back to their game with whatever weapons and money they've collected in mine. And I can't wait to play this game in co-op. I'm just going to have to be selfish and make sure it's my game so I can play as Matthias.
When you blow shit up in Mercs 2, it stays blown up until you turn the power off.
So basically I'm going to spend the first several hours just trying to destroy every building in the world.
Possible.
The motto of Mercs 2 from day one of development was 'Never say no to the player'
Everything, and I literally mean everything other than the terrain itself is destructible. Buildings, trees, bushes, crates, everything can be blown up, burned, shot, detonated and cut to shreds.
To describe what can be blown up it is much easier to list things that you can't destroy:
- The terrain, ie the heighmapped ground beneath your feet upon which things have been built.
That's it!
No, I'm sorry, GTA has taught me that trees are invincible. You must be wrong.
Seriously though, SO AWESOME.
It's going to be like EDF only with less terrible production value and shitting ants.
I present exhibit A:
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/38987.html
Again, as always, watch in HD if your connection can handle it.
This is like demolitions porn.
I besmirched myself.
actually, maybe that would be cool.
I thought you flew everywhere on a fuel air bomb pressure wave like superman.
So bought'd.
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Are you using a 360 with backwards compatibility? I rented the original from Gamefly but after a few minutes of play the rader would get all "infinite mirror" on me and the game would eventually freeze up.
I'm pretty sure I saw "Nuclear Bunker Buster" in the drop-down list.
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Yeah, it sucks. Wish they'd done a better job with the BC on Mercs 1.
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I mean, mindless destruction is fun, but it's going to get old if there aren't little pixel people to torment.
Wrong! See: Earth Defense Force.
I guess I can see your point though.
I don't think random civilians would be running around in a fucking warzone, personally.
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How are you getting any real play time in? I'd get maybe 15 minutes in before the game locked up
To borrow an earlier opinion, I really don't give much about realism. Just the "fun" part.
Yeah, but like the asshole innocent bystanders in light-gun games, I don't want them here.
I want to go "Hey, I see a group of people" and be able to call down Random FuckAwesome Explosive Device without worrying about "Faction loss for killing people who didn't have it coming, even though they totally would have shot you, bro"
Can trade TF2 items or whatever else you're interested in. PM me.
Wait, there is faction loss in this game?
Innocent bystanders just make the game fun. GTA, Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, Assassin's Creed...it's different fun then killing enemies...but killing things that don't fight back in games gives me sadistic joy. I don't know why, that's just the way it is.
I mean, you play Hitman: Blood Money. Sure, it's cool to read: "Silent Assassin strikes again!", but it's nowhere as hilarious as "MASS MURDERER SLAUGHTERS 72 PEOPLE!"
Seriously, you can't tell me that you didn't spend fifteen minutes torturing stormtroopers in various inventive ways in Force Unleashed demo...
Hey, that fucking peasants had it coming. That guy kept pushing me, and my blade must have just slipped. Into his throat. Five or six times.
Can trade TF2 items or whatever else you're interested in. PM me.
Although it was amusing to leave civilians handcuffed on the ground and experience no reprisals for it.
I wonder if (minor Wikipedia pre-plot synopsis thing)
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