I am mainly interested in Multiplayer (especially at the moment, while the single player is glitchy and I wait for them to fix it.)
Anyone else got this game? I’ve got it on the PC. (Wasn’t massively looking forward to it or anything, but the cost versus curiosity balance tipped in favour of curiosity)
The scenery is very pretty. it feels like COD and Battlefield Bad Company 2 had sex and Medal of Honor is their baby.
I’m at that stage at the moment where dying is more frequent than killing, but I’m not terrible compared to the others in the (nearly always losing) team I’m on. So far my K/D has been about 0.6. It’s very early days. I hope to figure out the ‘nack’ that the good players have for being able to locate you and kill you without you even seeing them.
One thing that I find a bit annoying is the constant haze and brightness. It’s like when you go outside from an unlit house on a sunny day, when it takes your eyes a few moments to get used to the light difference, only in the game you don’t get used to it, it’s always there.
So far my grenades and RPGs seem to be useless. The amount of times I’ve fired a rocket into an enclosure where I know there to be someone camping and NOTHING HAPPENS.
On first impressions: While I suck at it (and I suck less at MW2) and I don’t think I’ve played enough of it to give a definite answer, so far I think it’s better.
But then a lot of people will say: That’s not saying much.
That’s a good idea. I’ll check it out.
For this thread I was hoping people would just run with it, so I didn’t put much of my own assessment of the game into it. As I play the game some more I’ll have a better impression.
Is a lot of the hate directed at the single player mode? Or is there hate for the MP too?
ETA: Because I’m at that initial just-bought-the-game suckiness point I tend to play it in short infrequent bursts. I’ll turn it on, play, get killed a lot (but enjoy the pretty graphics in the process), feel satisfaction whenever I get to kill someone, turn the game off… repeat a day or two later.
Sound is always the best “tip” for detecting players before you see them. Play with a good headset (and the music turned down) if you possibly can. The other part is just rote memorization of “hey, a guy shot me from that bush once, let’s put a shotgun shell into it and see what happens.”
I’ve been trying to incorporate memory into it - If I happen to spawn quite near to where I was shot, I’ll either head back there quickly or throw a grenade there. Never works. The grenades have the shortest fuse of any grenade I’ve ever seen in this type of game. If you lob them into the near distance they’ll explode in mid-air. Useless.
I have since seen more of the ‘mixed’ reaction to this game. Some online youtube ‘stars’ who play games (one that springs to mind - wingsofredemption) seem to be positive about it.
And I must confess I keep getting the urge to go back and have another play.
But I’ve also seen (and experienced) some down sides. One thing conspicuous by its absence is any sort of killcam. The killcam in MW2 gives you some useful information - where were you shot from, what were you doing wrong, was the person who shot you cheating (did the killcam show a wall in front of him and his reticle following the red ‘you’ symbol!)
I guess there is an argument against there being a killcam (more of a challenge - figure out the hard way what you are doing wrong, rather than being shown in a killcam)
It seems like it might be somewhat boring and anticlimactic on the unlocks front. the unlocks are basic stuff like silencers, better scopes, better stocks, and so on.
There is no customization of grenades. If you pick a class you’re stuck with whatever grenade that class has.
I am sure smoke grenades have their advantages, but I don’t know what they are. Anyone explain them to me? I can’t help thinking that anyone who uses one is hindering them self as much as anyone else.
It’s quite fun to play when my keyboard isn’t playing up. I keep getting graphics jerkiness when I hold the shift key down. Does anyone else play this game on the PC? Have you experienced this problem?
It depends. I don’t have the internet connection to play it in multiplayer yet, so I’ve stuck with the singleplayer. But if you can get thermal scopes on your weapons in multiplayer, then it’s a huge boon. It basically means “I can see you but you can’t see me.” It’s also nice as a distraction or, in the meanest sense, a way to get someone’s graphics card to overload so you can frag him while he’s lagging. (Ahhhh, that brings back memories of old Counter Strike. sigh)
Single-player is, unsurprisingly, intense, linear and very, very short. It doesn’t have the realpolitik story or setting from the Modern Warfare games, but it does do a fairly credible set of romps through the Afghan mountains. The gameplay and NPCs are rather brutally scissored from the Modern Warfare series, from the “approach fortifications and call in the CAS” set-pieces of the commandos to the back-slapping ooh-rah ooh-rah heart-stirring buddy adventure that is the Ranger missions. On the plus side, some pretty nifty helicopter sequences are thrown in, but any goodwill from that is lost with the now-mandatory AC-130 sequence later on.
It fits rather neatly into the box labeled “modern shooter.” If you’re feeling a bit more charitable than I am, I guess you could say that it’s probably the mean watermark for a modern shooter, in the same way that the original series was the watermark for WWII shooters. The downside is that, this time, the CoD guys got here first, but the upside is that the guys who made the good CoD games have quit. Actually, that’s probably harsh of me, but I’m not exactly psyched about CoD: Black Ops. (Which has managed to strike me as derivative of it’s own series.)
Of course, that’s probably meaningless to most people since all people seem to want out of these games is the multiplayer, anyway.