helena is easily the worst merc character in the game, both her default and police uniform.
her load out is ass. hydra is fast, but only holds 3 bullets and not that strong. her front melee grab is easily the worst in the game. she twirls around 2-3 times before tossing the opponent. that eats up valuable time and that wimpy toss doesn’t knock down enemies like say chris or sherry’s melee grab.
regular piers seems pretty ass too. haven’t tried his alternate. his melee move doesn’t cause enough splash damage but its faster than helenas although helenas back melee grab causes splash damage.
chris is one of the better ones. he starts out with the best machine gun, has a magnum and his front throw is BOSS.
carla is alright. freeze rounds are awesome but too bad you can’t find anymore. good melee like ada, but i think ada is better.
i’m still trying to figure out how i S ranked with alt sherry on my first try while struggling with most of the other characters.
So let me get this straight. You were detained for 6 months, and all of a sudden, you remember how to fight, and take down a bunch of armed goons? And the armed goons just STAND THERE DURING THE CUTSCENE WHILE YOU LITERALLY HAVE YOUR BACK TO THEM, EVEN THOUGH YOU’RE STILL UN ARMED AND CUFFED, AND THEY HAVE GUNS?! THERE’S PLOT ARMOR AND THEN THERE’S FUCKING STUPIDITY!!
Tier list (in before YOU WRONG SHADOW ACE…COME ON BRUH!!!)
Jake with martial arts master
Leon with target master
Chris with pharmacist
Piers with phamacist
Sherry with medic
Helena with why would you even try to pick her?
I havent unlocked ada,carla, and bsaa agent yet…anyone have any skill set advice those are the only ones I use because usually my partner has either combo bonus or time bonus…
I think there is a difference between bad controls, and controls that try something besides the standard over the shoulder dual stick style. I would rather see the series die with dignity than become a poor man’s Dead Space.
RE4 Merc enemies were unlimited but you had to move out or between certain areas to keep them spawning. And yeah, if you weren’t Leon or Ada, you had something to make your character break 100k fairly easily (Hunk’s neckbreaker, Krauser’s Plagas Arm Exploding Arrows combo, Wesker’s “what doesn’t he have”) Krauser’s plagas arm was the real broken thing about RE4 mercs though - some enemies could survive Wesker’s melee attacks and Hunk couldn’t get a neck breaker easily on some enemies, but that fucker killed everything in front of Krauser for a good distance almost instantly. And you got access to it a lot.
RE5 Mercs is more or less as said, but the Mercs Reunion DLC appears to be fairly different. I haven’t been able to run it with someone (and I probably suck now) so I’m not sure how the scores went or if the enemies cap out or not. Enemies spawn somewhat differently (spiders more common, fat guys more common, also the guy with a mega mic and the blonde lady appear often for some reason.) But most of the characters are just fucking broken compared to the regular RE5 mercs. Excella actually gets the burst handgun, and it kills almost every human type in one burst as it is (you can use this as a machine gun, though she has one of those too for some reason.) Heavy Metal Chris gets the infinite ammo gatling gun and can’t be hit from the back most of the time because of the ammo box on his back being a half ass protective barrier. Though hitting things from long range is a…chore. Then there’s everyone else which I’ve honestly sort of forgotten (Rebecca and Barry are playable too.)
Haven’t played 3DS Mercenaries myself. But Revelations doesn’t actually have Mercenaries, it has a new mode called Raid Mode (yes I know dude sounds hilarious if not offensively terrible to the ears. AYE BEE ESS?? game play starts at 01:35)
Mercs reunion changed some things around like timers, added in Partner melees, and everyone was broken as fuck.
RE Mercs 3D was probably the most balanced since you can use anyone with any loadout so you can pretty much cover characters weaknesses , and the skill system helped cover them more and add to strengths.
Forgot about Reunion. Lol @ Chris having a faux barrier, thanks to the mobile suit on his back.
As for scoring, it works via a combo system. Each enemy has a certain value, and you get a certain amount of points for how high your combo is when, or if it drops. In that essence, it’s all about time. The more time you have at the end of the round, the higher the score. You get more time for killing with melee moves. You don’t get any time for using your gun (just the points the enemies are valued at). Killing a boss in your combo also nets you a bonus of sorts. So, if there is a boss, then it’s a lot better to kill some average joes off and then the boss character.
“Combo Time” hour glasses also give you more points for killing creatures in the short amount of time it’s activated.
I don’t know the changes to RE 6’s aside from getting 10 seconds for a kill with a counter.
That probably has something to do with the RE creator Shinji Mikami leaving the company after RE4 was released. Capcom has been scrambling to find the right balance between action and scares ever since but then again you can’t name a beloved Capcom franchise that has gotten love (aside from Monster Hunter) via a decent direct sequel since 2010.
Read up on that on neogaf. There isn’t any on disc DLC like SFxT. Yeah there’s some data to get an idea of whats to come for the game but not enough to unlock and actually use.
Ada is not “asian” shes Chinese-American. As graphics improve, theres less of a need to make her look so stereotypical chinky eyed and asian.
Anyways. Can we get some strategy talk up in here? Like I need some in depth talk before I take on professional mode. Namely Shriekers and Bloodshots, like how am I going to deal with this?
Also, the first wave of S-rank MERCS gameplay is hitting youtube, the combat is totally evolving, and the new movement mechanics are doing exactly what I thought they would. Quick Shot + More stamina bars is going to end up RUNNING shit. Jake is at the top of all the leaderboards right now.
I need some tips as well. I only have a high score of 188k with chris, but I am still trying to figure out which of the skills will best suit aiming for the suer high scores. SO far Chris is my favorite but I am liking jake and leon a bit as well. I haven’t unlocked everyone yet though.
Pro mode is def hard solo. Without the lv.3 defense perk I don’t think I coulda done leons campaign. Trying to get an s on every chapter is hard as shit. People saying pro is easy but have like 8-12 deaths a chapter…smh
Campaign I run lv3 critical. Lv3. Defense and lv.3 firearm
As for mercs. Yea my highest score is only 178k with ada…and that’s bc a BS dog made me drop a combo…was so mad at that