Going live in 5 :china:
Yo Beta with that classy intro.
I do what I can :china:
No heres what it seems like, Spoilers if you haven’t beat the game yet:
[details=Spoiler] After being responsible for the death of Stela, Max went into a downward spiral of drugs and alcohol, though not crazy. Nikolai being power hungry(if you watched then ending you’d see he is admittingly corrupt and power hungry) took advantage of this weakness(Nikolai even talks about him being crazy and on drugs and very suspicious way) and found a way to hack into the computerized part of Max’s brain(or used nanites or some futuristic shit like that) and would trigger rage induced episodes in Max to make him appear insane, so he would have an excuse to kill him and be in the number 1 spot. He wanted to stop Jack from taking Max to trial so he sent out a bunch of drones and hit-men to kill him, with jack out of the picture(a man who has a 97% retrieval rate) getting Max would be much easier.
This is also why once Nikolai is defeated, Max is no longer bat-shit crazy and thanks our heroes.
I asume when Max was psychotically ranting about a sacrifice and set-up it was the voice in his head(Nikolai) either making him say that, or he was just repeating what he was hearing.
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Blog updated with a few sweet pieces of concept art that we havent seen yet.
Okay, this Leo concept art is pretty sweet. I like the Leo we got, don’t get me wrong, but the sleek “Prototype” like arm blade looks all kinds of awesome. Also helps that he looks like a no nonsense, pissed off Dante in the pic, lol.
Mathilda, Douglas, Zero, and Sasha’s(the white costume) concepts look a lot cooler than their current designs.
Why on earth did they change them to what they are now?
Here is Max’s awesome Black color, makes him look like a Cyber-Vampire or something
And his sleek younger self
The PS3 port of Vanquish was supposed to support it(said so on tbe box) but didn’t and never patched it in
So who knows what’s up with this game. I haven’t tried it myself but I doubt it.
Yeah defense is way too strong. Especially with some of the perks like Takedown Defense(auto techs every techable throw attempt.) and Guard Master(500% increase to guard durability)
Those combined with how effective evade is almost completely shut down most of your offensive options. Like you can’t do anything to a guy with Guard Master once he starts to Turtle up if he’s good at teching.
I’d really like to see the 3 dodge limit become more strict. Right now you kinda just have to let some people get away once they decide they’re going to run from you. You’re at way to much of a disadvantage trying to chase them
Thanks for the stream Beta. Chat wouldn’t load for me.
Ha! I knew there was a perk that was an auto throw-tech perk.
…bah. I really want to play this game, but I can’t afford to import right now, and I’d rather not be forced to import. I’m still hyped for this game, but the delay killed a lot of my hype.
Yeah Zero’s is sick. I can see why they changed Sasha’s though. In those pics she doesn’t really look like someone who works for an organisation.
They can always release the older skins as DLC. In fact, you know they will.
The ridiculous defense sytem in this game…
It’s like winning a free trip to disney world, except the catch is that you have to get punched in the chest before you go on a ride.
Sure its really fun, but that shit gets annoying after a while.
It’s not so bad in smaller modes with smaller maps. and it’s a little better in team modes since its much easier to break guard with team mates and they can hit the opponent during the vulnerable teched throw state.
but battle royale is kind of unplayable for me between latency issues and turtling being too strong with the above mentioned skills. Gotta just play like a vulture in that mode or prey on weaker players that don’t know
Not trying to come off as those guys blaming the game and wanting re-balance after a week, just putting in my two cents knowing JP atleast skims the thread
Still loving the game to death. Planned on just messing with it until Persona but now I can see myself rotating between both when that comes out.
So it seems like matches with perks turned off is the way to go then? When I heard there was a perk called “Guard Master” I lol’d.
some game modes have no perks, some do.
there is no “No perk mode”
modes with perks, that I can think of:
Battle Royale(Some of the perks make this mode really frustrating)
TDM(The perks aren’t very noticeable and are just extra help)
Tag Battle(Same as TDM)
Capture the Flag(same as TDM)
3 team Capture the Flag(Same as TDM)
Will stream multiplayer for a bit tonight :tup:
Team Battle is the most fun I’ve had with this game so far. It requires legitimate teamwork to win. Good stuff.
I personally like Deathball the most.
the Colosseum stage is fucking bananas, it goes from frustrating to intense very quickly.
for those of you who don’t know, its basically a tiny platform surround by a circling ring pit of fire that damages you as soon as you get knocked off the top level.
The only modes I actively avoid are Battle Royale because of the above mentioned reasons, and the Survivals.(because it’s PvE and I’ve already completed most of them)
but to answer your question, nah. I’d encourage all new players to play all the modes and form their own opinion.
At the stage the game is in right now I think the objectives in other modes sort of prevent the benefits of the perks from being too much of a problem. That and most modes don’t even allow them in the first place.
It’s still really early so I wouldn’t write off any part of the game yet.
edit: derp pterodactyl covered it
The lava pit stage is the worse. With the Platforms that lower into lava.
Reason I hate the stage though is because of the colors. It’s all red so it’s hard for me to even see some things. Like Volcano stage in SF4