Speeny
07-31-2011, 02:35 AM
First off, I love this game! That out of the way there are some VERY glaring problems that cause me to become so frustrated with the game i have to walk away.
1. The Load system combined with the chances for instant death and restarting the entire mission over. This has been covered in other threads but it is a problem for me.
A. Instant death from hacking. This basically makings the risk SO high when hacking a target that it becomes not worth it after X amount of time in a level. What i mean by that is that even with a fairly reasonable skill by the level your on you can still get counter hacked and brain dead with little trouble.
B. Other random causes of instant death, Ive spawned a clone army and litarly got squished by one and died, the game told me to be careful with explosives. Other areas like the secret room of death in the first level. Had a plane land on me that was instant death fun! moving on
2. Alien monster, Human(ish) cops, Giant dues ex machina and planes re-spawning over and over and over. I'm currently on the dusty ruin level and I find my self struggling to the point of pure frustration. The cause? The Hover planes spawning 10 seconds after Ive brought the last one down with the accompaniment of Soldiers from the rear and the Giant stompy monster spawning LITERALLY IN FRONT OF ME! This is a degree of difficulty i have never faced in a game, although i don't feel that this is a reasonable way to achieve the goal of making the game tough.
A. Lower the respawn setting in the options! well unfortunately that doesn't seem to do anything at all. I was still experiencing planes spawning every 15 seconds or so and a truly unreasonable amount of the giant monsters spawning every time I looked away.
B. Be better at the game! I'm not going to say i am a pro at the game, however im unsure as how to deal with the unlimited amount of bad guys with rocket launchers and chain guns. Moving on
3. Clone army! I have to say i love playing summoners in games, truely my favorite class. And i love the skill in this game however the clone army usualy ends up killing me more often than being usefull.
A. Unmovable 50 ton clones. With the way the clones spawn around you in a circle with 4 clones or worse when you get up to 5, you some times can not move with out first giving them the go hunt order. This is due to the fact that they are "Following you" this causes problems when you spawn them while you are under fire because you can not move them short of Shooting them in the head.
B. Terrible clone AI. One of my larges problems with them is that once spawned unless given the go hunt order they will spawn and turn and face you, completely ignoring everything else and stopping you from moving at all. this changes when you give them the magic "go hunt" order but some times just getting them spawned and usefull is a problem.
C. Telefragging fun. If used in a corner or near an object your clone army will some times telefrag you. This basically means they spawn inside of you instantly destroying you and causing you to respawn in the ghost world. A huge problem for me. Also other problems include being shot into the sky after spawning them(lots of fun) and generally being completely blockaded from doorways and stuff like that.
4. Being in dialog and fireing off your weapon when selecting a dialog path. Certainly leads to some very interesting action in the home base. This has been covered in other threads so i will leave off there.
5. Long range detection and they always know where you hide. This is a problem for me in the game, I'm walking down a street and bam bam bam. I've been shot from across the map by the dude with a shotgun behind a car! Alright so that one guy shot me, i can handle that, what i cant handle is the fact that EVERY bad guy in the entire level now knows where i am at all times AND so do the monsters!!
A. This becomes compounded by the fact that in certain levels the monsters seem to respawn 100% of the time very quickly, so that they always track you down and you run out of ammo and health very quickly.
B. Very big issue with the planes and Giant machina monsters as they have Gatling guns and tend to be mobile and looking for blood.
Thank you for reading and sorry for ranting. Again i love the game but i have some problems with and struggle to enjoy parts of it. also sorry for the spelling and grammar its late and I'm tired :D
1. The Load system combined with the chances for instant death and restarting the entire mission over. This has been covered in other threads but it is a problem for me.
A. Instant death from hacking. This basically makings the risk SO high when hacking a target that it becomes not worth it after X amount of time in a level. What i mean by that is that even with a fairly reasonable skill by the level your on you can still get counter hacked and brain dead with little trouble.
B. Other random causes of instant death, Ive spawned a clone army and litarly got squished by one and died, the game told me to be careful with explosives. Other areas like the secret room of death in the first level. Had a plane land on me that was instant death fun! moving on
2. Alien monster, Human(ish) cops, Giant dues ex machina and planes re-spawning over and over and over. I'm currently on the dusty ruin level and I find my self struggling to the point of pure frustration. The cause? The Hover planes spawning 10 seconds after Ive brought the last one down with the accompaniment of Soldiers from the rear and the Giant stompy monster spawning LITERALLY IN FRONT OF ME! This is a degree of difficulty i have never faced in a game, although i don't feel that this is a reasonable way to achieve the goal of making the game tough.
A. Lower the respawn setting in the options! well unfortunately that doesn't seem to do anything at all. I was still experiencing planes spawning every 15 seconds or so and a truly unreasonable amount of the giant monsters spawning every time I looked away.
B. Be better at the game! I'm not going to say i am a pro at the game, however im unsure as how to deal with the unlimited amount of bad guys with rocket launchers and chain guns. Moving on
3. Clone army! I have to say i love playing summoners in games, truely my favorite class. And i love the skill in this game however the clone army usualy ends up killing me more often than being usefull.
A. Unmovable 50 ton clones. With the way the clones spawn around you in a circle with 4 clones or worse when you get up to 5, you some times can not move with out first giving them the go hunt order. This is due to the fact that they are "Following you" this causes problems when you spawn them while you are under fire because you can not move them short of Shooting them in the head.
B. Terrible clone AI. One of my larges problems with them is that once spawned unless given the go hunt order they will spawn and turn and face you, completely ignoring everything else and stopping you from moving at all. this changes when you give them the magic "go hunt" order but some times just getting them spawned and usefull is a problem.
C. Telefragging fun. If used in a corner or near an object your clone army will some times telefrag you. This basically means they spawn inside of you instantly destroying you and causing you to respawn in the ghost world. A huge problem for me. Also other problems include being shot into the sky after spawning them(lots of fun) and generally being completely blockaded from doorways and stuff like that.
4. Being in dialog and fireing off your weapon when selecting a dialog path. Certainly leads to some very interesting action in the home base. This has been covered in other threads so i will leave off there.
5. Long range detection and they always know where you hide. This is a problem for me in the game, I'm walking down a street and bam bam bam. I've been shot from across the map by the dude with a shotgun behind a car! Alright so that one guy shot me, i can handle that, what i cant handle is the fact that EVERY bad guy in the entire level now knows where i am at all times AND so do the monsters!!
A. This becomes compounded by the fact that in certain levels the monsters seem to respawn 100% of the time very quickly, so that they always track you down and you run out of ammo and health very quickly.
B. Very big issue with the planes and Giant machina monsters as they have Gatling guns and tend to be mobile and looking for blood.
Thank you for reading and sorry for ranting. Again i love the game but i have some problems with and struggle to enjoy parts of it. also sorry for the spelling and grammar its late and I'm tired :D