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warboss wrote:

Sckitzo wrote:I imagine I'll be playing SM on the 25th as well, or doing something else, that day is sticking in my head for some reason, like there is something important non video game related but I can't remember what it is ...crap Welp looks like I may just end up slaughtering orks instead

Perhaps you're celebrating the birthdays of Krista and Tatiana Hogan, Canada's craniopagus conjoined twins... or Romania's Armed Forces Day?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_25

Do either involve drinking?

Sckitzo wrote:

warboss wrote:

Sckitzo wrote:I imagine I'll be playing SM on the 25th as well, or doing something else, that day is sticking in my head for some reason, like there is something important non video game related but I can't remember what it is ...crap Welp looks like I may just end up slaughtering orks instead

Perhaps you're celebrating the birthdays of Krista and Tatiana Hogan, Canada's craniopagus conjoined twins... or Romania's Armed Forces Day?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_25

Do either involve drinking?

If my very personal knowledge of Central/Eastern European customs is any indication, the later one most certainly does! The former, not so much.

I need help, I'm stuck on chapter 13 where you have to "wake the Titan". I've taken out all chaos guys, pwned the chaos champion, and collected the skull in the room to the left, and I now I'm just running round looking for a switch to flick to no avail.

There is a flickering computer screen up a slope that doesn't let me interact with it and a central door that looks like it should open up (ie, it has a red light / green light thing that's red) but I have no way of opening this .

Anyone got any idea what I'm missing as I'm getting numb with nerd rage right now!

cheers


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Cancel that, I restarted, the game seems to have glitched first time round. I didn't get the other 2 UM's dialogue which queued the doors to open

Gotta love random glitches.

kitch102 wrote:I need help, I'm stuck on chapter 13 where you have to "wake the Titan". I've taken out all chaos guys, pwned the chaos champion, and collected the skull in the room to the left, and I now I'm just running round looking for a switch to flick to no avail.

There is a flickering computer screen up a slope that doesn't let me interact with it and a central door that looks like it should open up (ie, it has a red light / green light thing that's red) but I have no way of opening this .

Anyone got any idea what I'm missing as I'm getting numb with nerd rage right now!

cheers


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Cancel that, I restarted, the game seems to have glitched first time round. I didn't get the other 2 UM's dialogue which queued the doors to open

Hmm from what I remember of this part you may be bugged man, try killing your self so it loads a previous save, I think if you stand ontop of 5 vengence rounds it should suicide you.

So does anyone here still play the multiplayer?
I logged on last night for the first time in a week or so. Managed to get in a couple games of Seize Ground

I havnt played in a few days, but thats mostly what Ive been playing on this game. Though the maps are rather boring after a billion battles on them

Ronin wrote:So does anyone here still play the multiplayer?
I logged on last night for the first time in a week or so. Managed to get in a couple games of Seize Ground

Think alot of us are waiting till the 25th to jump back in if were not still playing.

Yeah, Im mostly the same. I cant wait for Exterminatus, it's the kind of mode I really enjoy playing (DoW2 Last Stand anyone? lol). And yeah, the maps do get a bit old, and sometimes its a bit weird when Im playing for a couple hours, and yet the game never cycles through to one particular map, ever.

Hope more free DLC fixes that.

Sckitzo wrote:

Ronin wrote:So does anyone here still play the multiplayer?
I logged on last night for the first time in a week or so. Managed to get in a couple games of Seize Ground

Think alot of us are waiting till the 25th to jump back in if were not still playing.

Pretty much. Been enjoying the beta playlist in Reach a bit lately... also been sick.

Melissia wrote:

OZ-Guardsman wrote:MW is generic Garbage.BF

Is also a generic modern warfare shooter.

You could argue it's better done than CoD, but I'm not even entirely convinced that the series can manage to argue that it really is wholely better-- certainly, for example, black ops for its various flaws had a better leveling system than BFBC2.

But this isn't a topic about battlefield or other generic modern warfare shooters It's a topic about bald screaming old guys encased in huge suits of armor with rocket launchers as primary weapons.

Have you ever actually played Battlefield 2?
Nothing like COD at all, it was all about combined arms and had 64 players on huge maps trying to take control of maps, with veichles like jets, helicopters cars, tanks etc.
All with a focus on team gameplay, where each class has a specific and necessary role in order for your team to win.

So please don't say its generic modern warfare shooter crap, its not about infantry battles in tight corridors which every shooter seems to imitate now, but rather its about wide open battles using everything that an army has to offer

Asuron wrote:

Melissia wrote:

OZ-Guardsman wrote:MW is generic Garbage.BF

Is also a generic modern warfare shooter.

You could argue it's better done than CoD, but I'm not even entirely convinced that the series can manage to argue that it really is wholely better-- certainly, for example, black ops for its various flaws had a better leveling system than BFBC2.

But this isn't a topic about battlefield or other generic modern warfare shooters It's a topic about bald screaming old guys encased in huge suits of armor with rocket launchers as primary weapons.

Have you ever actually played Battlefield 2?
Nothing like COD at all, it was all about combined arms and had 64 players on huge maps trying to take control of maps, with veichles like jets, helicopters cars, tanks etc.
All with a focus on team gameplay, where each class has a specific and necessary role in order for your team to win.

So please don't say its generic modern warfare shooter crap, its not about infantry battles in tight corridors which every shooter seems to imitate now, but rather its about wide open battles using everything that an army has to offer

And you can make it rain jeeps!

Can we please get back to talking about Space Marine instead of this BS "my modern shooter is better than yours!" crap??

kitch102 wrote:I need help, I'm stuck on chapter 13 where you have to "wake the Titan". I've taken out all chaos guys, pwned the chaos champion, and collected the skull in the room to the left, and I now I'm just running round looking for a switch to flick to no avail.

There is a flickering computer screen up a slope that doesn't let me interact with it and a central door that looks like it should open up (ie, it has a red light / green light thing that's red) but I have no way of opening this .

Anyone got any idea what I'm missing as I'm getting numb with nerd rage right now!

cheers


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Cancel that, I restarted, the game seems to have glitched first time round. I didn't get the other 2 UM's dialogue which queued the doors to open

I had the same issue for Chapter 10 - House of Secrets where you have to place the power source into the cradle. I didn't have the cradle, or where the cradle was. Just the objective icon pointing at nothing.

The same thing fixed mine little error to.

Asuron wrote:Have you ever actually played Battlefield 2?

Yes. It's a boring generic modern warfare (as in, the setting, duh) shooter.

And don't act like its vehicle section was somehow special. Other games have done that far better

But as I said-- this isn't a topic about battlefield or other generic modern warfare shooters It's a topic about bald screaming old guys encased in huge suits of armor with rocket launchers as primary weapons.


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Pilau Rice wrote:

kitch102 wrote:I need help, I'm stuck on chapter 13 where you have to "wake the Titan". I've taken out all chaos guys, pwned the chaos champion, and collected the skull in the room to the left, and I now I'm just running round looking for a switch to flick to no avail.

There is a flickering computer screen up a slope that doesn't let me interact with it and a central door that looks like it should open up (ie, it has a red light / green light thing that's red) but I have no way of opening this .

Anyone got any idea what I'm missing as I'm getting numb with nerd rage right now!

cheers


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Cancel that, I restarted, the game seems to have glitched first time round. I didn't get the other 2 UM's dialogue which queued the doors to open

I had the same issue for Chapter 10 - House of Secrets where you have to place the power source into the cradle. I didn't have the cradle, or where the cradle was. Just the objective icon pointing at nothing.

The same thing fixed mine little error to.

I had a problem early on similar to this, when you blew up the orbital gun. After fighting off all the Orks, the doors to leave didn't open, and I had to redo the waves and waves of Orks again while brother Doucheus McBaggish pushed the melta-bomb'd shell again.

Ronin wrote:Yeah, Im mostly the same. I cant wait for Exterminatus, it's the kind of mode I really enjoy playing (DoW2 Last Stand anyone? lol). And yeah, the maps do get a bit old, and sometimes its a bit weird when Im playing for a couple hours, and yet the game never cycles through to one particular map, ever.

Hope more free DLC fixes that.

Yea thats mainly why I didnt realize there was more then 3 maps. I swear I only EVER play on the same 3 maps....wtf?

Melissia wrote:I had a problem early on similar to this, when you blew up the orbital gun. After fighting off all the Orks, the doors to leave didn't open, and I had to redo the waves and waves of Orks again while brother Doucheus McBaggish pushed the melta-bomb'd shell again.

My most recent noticeable glitch was where you have to walk on to the Invictus. I walked onto it, went straight through it and plummeted to the ground. Looking up you could see the body of the Titan but its legs had disappeared.

Fun times

So! I borrowed Space Marine from a friend and managed to get through the first 10 chapters of the game before having to head back to campus (no Xbox in apartment, too bloody distracting).

The game seems to be a resounding 'meh'. There are some fun parts - wading into groups of Orks with a Thunder Hammer, for instance - but other parts are pure aggravating.

The whole 'enemies as health' thing. No. I want to find the guy who thought this was a good idea and drop him from a 20 story building. If it was a 'every enemy you kill gives you back a bit of health' mechanic, it would have been better. But making it so that only a super special 'finishing move' gives you back health doesn't work, especially when you're mostly facing guys with guns and rocket launchers, or goddamn mechanical sentry guns, or when you're down to your last bit of health and you accidentally just killed the last Ork because Captain Derptus swings so slowly.

Completely agree on the health thing, they should have at least made sure that you can't take damage whilst knacking the gak out of something, I've died too many times just by being unable to move whilst trying to replenish health!

My hated it when you were trying to perform the special attack on a Nob, and while performing the looooong attack some rokkit boyz show up and kill you before you finish the attack

Fo shizzle.

Apologies to dakka for saying nothing more than that, but it needed saying.

The game would be broken if you were invulnerable while executing, because you could just stun+execute constantly and never have to worry about dying.

The health-regen mechanic would have to be completely redone, not just make you invulnerable. But, to be honest, even the campaign on Hard was laughably easy, if you could be invulnerable while executing it would be even more of a joke. I think I died about twice on hard, mostly because I was being stupid and screwing around. Face-crushingly difficult it was not.

Hm, fair point... I think the way around that would be to have more Nobs in that you can't just stun and destroy, so you'd have to make sure that you had some normal orks left over for you to replenish your health from during a nob fight.

I actually think the execution mechanic was WHY the game worked. The fact that it had a health bar put it well above games like CoD or battlefield for me. Yes, I know, UI elements, but frankly I'm an old school FPS gamer. Give me my health bars.

And the enemies functioned as mobile health packs that you had to earn, so that was also remniscent of older games too.

I did enjoy the health bar...I'm getting tired of every game having auto-regenerating a la CoD...I was just saying it was frustrating to get killed while doing the health-gaining kill moves

Yeah, you have to plan out what you're gonna do to regain health before you do it.

Once I started thinking a few steps ahead I died far less.

I enjoyed the health mechanic, but it would break the game to make you invul during the executions. I also learned, no you can't stun then execute a bomb squig I was hoping I'd get an animation where I kicked it in the ass back towards the orks or something. I did hate it when I'd go to stun the last ork around, I have no health and then my stun attack kills him. I just sorta stood there looking at the corpse wondering "what have I done?!"

Would have been nice to be able to kick them away, like the Tickers in GoW.

They need more enemies first If they do Orks again. We can easily assume they're considering a sequel with Heretic Titus the Confused and throwing Chaos at us again. But the game should get more enemies, such as:
- Bloodcrushers
- Alternate-weaponed CSM's
- Raptors
- The odd tank or two perhaps

If they chose Orks again I'd pray very hard for less Tankbustas. Those shouldn't be spammed, or be so accurate. That was a big concern of mine for Orks actually - the shooty units were too damn accurate. I know you're a giant killing machine and therefore a massive target but Orks can't aim at all. Why must we die so fast to Ork fire? If anything the CSM's should've been super accurate and capable of killing you with every damn shot regardless of weapon. That needs fixing...

Orks can aim.

They just prefer the idea of point the gun in the general direction and fire as often as possible.

Thesee rokkits are blessed by Gork (and maybe Mork).