[DaleNixon]

Waffen use Fixed 8.
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[BotageL]

The default aiming style is an interesting idea but it just doesn't really work in practice. Fixed 7 or 8 is just so so so much better. Also, while I didn't mind reload being on clicking the right stick, reload on RB has the advantage of Gears-related habit.
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[SuperWes]

[firenze]

[Waffen]

[Legal Step]

dudes the sooner you admit this game is gay, the quicker the healing can begin
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[Waffen]

oh hush.

its a nice distraction. I honestly don't see myself playing the offline or online game in a month from now (the online part just feels too... cheap or something. I'll be in a VS and fire 20 rockets at a guy on the ground without killing him then someone with a machine will shoot me in the back twice and I'll die... grumble grumble) but its not a terrible game.

It plays a little mushy... I mean I know the guy is running through 2 feet of snow but I don't give a crap. its almost as much a tax on your patience as piloting a mech in Chromehounds as you slowly watch something in the distance grow closer and closer as you run towards it.

and the zoom sucks.. can you make it so you just click the stick in to zoom? its so painfully obvious that this is a Jap attempt at a shooter. they really don't have a grasp on making decent controls for action games (me thinks of Gun Valkyrie and parts of Otogi).

but I guess the only thing going for it are the atmosphere and the occasion fun times you run into with all the people online at once and the VS's and how fun one or two of them are to pilot.

so yeah- the best part about this game are the mechs.
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[Moogs]

[IIOIOOIOO]

[Mikey]

I've just played a few 30-minute one-on-one matches with a friend, on some of the larger levels. I like the fact that in multi T-Energy is mostly used to regulate people's use of Vital Suits and energy weapons - in slow-paced matches like the ones my friend and I were playing, there would be long periods of just sneaking around and activating data posts to gain T-Energy before we'd hop into some VSs and stage a showdown. It's a lot of fun! If anyone would like to give some one-on-one elimination on Frozen Wasteland a shot, my gamertag is ilopan, and I'm on Live pretty often.

[BotageL]

Waffen: Aim type Fixed 7/8, Control Scheme B. That puts reload on RB, zoom on LB, and click/hold right stick and push in direction to quickturn. It works much much better.
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[oneEIGHTkevin]

Gonna cop dis shiz tomorrow. I don't even know if it will be worth it or not!
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[Shapermc]

I think this game is pretty close to pure bliss. I had no problems with the game (minus the Green Eye boss fight, which was the only part of the game that really hung me up for more than one or two lives). I have also played quite a bit online.

For as much as I really enjoy playing Gears of War online with friends, playing w/o friends is exceptionally hellish for me. Lost Planet was a fucking blast to play online w/o friends because you have modes of play that don’t require teamwork at all.

I beat the main game in about 15 hours (5 of which was probably spent between cutscenes, pausing, and restarts). The main game is good, but I don’t think that the story is anywhere near as good or as important as the game tries to make it. The story is so horribly acted and ripped off from so many sources that it was hard to take it even slightly seriously. I was torn between skipping the scenes because I knew they were pointless, and seeing what I paid for.

The levels alternate between many different environments (shockingly) and usually switching between a most VS (robot/mech) level and a human run-and-gun level. I have to say that I liked the human emphasized levels the most. While many of the VS’ are great to use to get from one point to the next and blowing up a lot of shit in the meantime I didn’t like using them as my main combat tool. The large amount and variety of the VS’ were excellent though.

The controls work mostly fine without much tweaking. They do start out way too slow, and based on your preference you will probably want to turn the auto-aim off (especially if you’re going to play online a lot because there isn’t auto-aim online). The way the character moves within realistic parameters in a completely unrealistic way to allow you to control however you want and as fast as you like. It’s pretty great. The reaction of the weapons is also pretty good in relation to your character. Reload and charge times are fairly accurate for compensating the strength of the attack.

Thermal Energy is what runs everything: your health, your robots, and some weapons. You can get T-Eng from just about everything, and if you start running low I suggest getting creative and blowing some stuff up. I only once ran my T-Eng down to zero and it was during a lengthy boss fight while in a VS, I’m honestly not quite sure how so many people have claimed to have run out.

The difficulty is kind of off balance. If you have played the demo many times (I think I played through the whole demo 3 times for each level) you will feel that the game is too easy on Normal. Don’t let that worry you, the game picks up in difficulty. Ultimately I was left feeling like the balance of difficulty was mis-managed. The hardest part of the game for me was halfway through and the game was constantly bouncing between too easy and harder than it should be. When I finished the game it didn’t feel finished (too short), so I picked it back up to play through again in Extreme difficulty, but decided to say screw it and played it online for a good while.

At first online wasn’t so hot. I’m not very good at games when it comes to playing versus other people willing to dive into the controls, techniques, tactics involved with being a top teir player online. Anyways, I jumped onto the Ranked matches online and was pleasantly surprised with how it worked. The ranks within the online game work like an MMO: when you do well in a fight you gain more points which add to your level, doing poorly only lets you climb the ladder slower, you’re never harmed for doing poorly. The higher level you are the more skins you unlock for your characters that you can play online, and then eventually you unlock more characters to use online.

There are four types of mode to play online and all work well for different reasons. Fugitive is the most interesting: the host is the fugitive and all other players need to hunt him down, killing the fugitive wins the game. I played a few of these and they work quite well. It was great hearing all these people I don’t know panicking: “where is he?” “don’t know, but he just killed me near the tower!” “I think I saw him over by the arch.” I have yet to attempt to be the fugitive. There is another mode pretty similar to capture the flag which I only played once and … well, it’s capture the flag. Execution (and team Exectution) is deathmatch, and it’s spectacular under the right circumstances. Some of the levels are really gigantic, so large that even after over a dozen matches on the board I know I still haven’t seen it all. There are also different layouts for each of the maps which you can select (the topography is always the same though): you can have ones with an emphasis on weapons, posts, grenades, and finally mechs. I haven’t gotten use to the mechs yet because I kind of stink at hunting people with them.

The online maps are really fantastic. Aside from the one for the demo (which is honestly the weakest) many have multiple hidden routes, out of the way places to secure a post, and winding passages which layer the maps. The simple change of weapon from guns to mechs will also completely change the manner of tactics and give a new feel to the maps. Many of the maps also include environment change including but not limited to: low visibility snow storms, falling rocks, day/night schedule, rising fog/smoke, and even lava flow. Most of these things can’t be found inside the game itself and shows a level of attention to detail that I haven’t seen in an independent element in a while.

Anyways, the more time I spend with the game the more I enjoy and appreciate it. I was sick all weekend so I couldn’t much leave the couch and got a lot of time to play. A few tips for people wanting to play online: to roll hold the duck button (c-stick by default) and then press jump, and to get a gum grenade off of you just roll.
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[schild]

Hey Shaper, since we played I think I gained about 25 levels. I'm at 37 or so now. Between my roomie and I, we win by about 8-15k on Dark City and Dilapidated.

[dmauro]

MECHS
AMNESIA
PIRATES
DEAD FATHER RAGE

I was watching my roommate play for a little bit last night. There's some cool stuff, but it seems like it's mostly going to be as bland as the demo led me to believe. The bugs do a lot of kicking around of debris and big chunks of busted up metal, and it's a shame to see them pass right through your character's model. It's one of those "isn't that one of the things the next-gen leap was supposed to cover" sort of things.

In Lost Planet you harvest butt heat from bugs on a barren desert snow world. It leads to many bad jokes about the bugs having hot asses and getting lots of t-eng from the bugs.
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[Mikey]

In the end I'll say this - this is one of the games I bought a 360 for (or at least, why I bought one as soon as I did) and I have no regrets.

[aerisdead]

Lost Planet is so insanely flawed, that's what I've decided. It could have been a lot better with some really hard tweaking. Also, ripping the plot into little bits. The ending is ludicrous, particularly the final battle. Seriously wtf

Also, I really want to win an Elimination, just one, so I can get the Grand Slam achievement. Then I can put the game down and not play it any more.

I'm pretty rubbish, though, so I don't see it happening.
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[boojiboy7]

so are we ever going to get an SB crew together for this game? the best times i have had so far on live have been SB gears.

[Waffen]

well it took most of these assholes what, two months to get Gears? so give it some time.

also- I gave up on the worm. despite tweaking the controls I just couldn't beat it. most of the time I couldn't run around the side of it fast enough to flank it.
and nothing could piss me off more than taking out like 6 of those yellow pods and then getting eaten by it. that happened probably three times and I gave up.
I think at this point the only thing compelling me to play are two things:

1.) achievements

2.) playing something on Live besides Gears

In other news if you can believe it I think for the time being I've given up on Chromehounds. I actually got tired of its slow pace. I'm over it. I used to like that about it before but now I'm just done.
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[Waffen]

so whats next guys? Battlestations: Midway?
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[BotageL]

I just beat the fucking worm. Since it is a complete cock, I shall provide tips for fighting it.

Grab the vulcan off of one of the VSes, load it up with another one or two, then charge barefoot into battle. Don't even bother bringing a VS out against the worm, since it will just explode the VS when it first rises anyway. Now, the trick is simple - use an Energy Gun or something while the worm is down to clear out the flying assholes because the Energy Gun has homing shots. When the worm's up, dodge its attacks (roll at the last second at a fair distance diagonally up-right or up-left usually works), then vulcan the fuck out of it while it's recovering. You don't have to pop all the eyes for it to count as dead; if you hear the music stop, you killed it. Try to work your way toward the posts for extra T-Eng if you can.

This is the important part: once the music has stopped, run the fuck for the shattered building on the other side of the map. The worm respawns indefinitely, and for some reason Capcom neglects to give you the achievement until you finish the stage. So just run like a retard as soon as you've downed the worm once.
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[Moogs]

I think you get the achievement even if you just run away from it. I fought it for a while but I'm pretty damn sure I didn't kill it, so I just ran and ran and ran until a cutscene took over.

I checked my achievements and I have the one for killing the worm, so...

[BotageL]

[Martial Loh]

The mechs in this game completely sold this game to me. I remember seeing the skinny mech transforming into the snow-mobile for the first time in a trailer..."OOOOOOooooooooh Shiiit!"
I've only briefly tried the Chromehounds Demo, but this game is the best stompy-weighty-mech action that I've played since Mechwarrior 3 (PC).

Im finding this game to be immensely fun in online multiplayer. Perhaps its just my unwillingness to be a team player that gives this game the edge over Gears.

if anyone's Europe-based my XBLtag is Martial Loh - I'd be up for some Lost Planet action.

[Shapermc]

Really, my tactic for the worm is simple: don't stop moving. If you just keep moving sideways from him (not towards or directly away from) he can't eat you. Then after he's done a lunge at you just use a rocket aimed at an eye pod. There really are tons of rocket launchers on the ground so just keep moving around and you'll find them. Another part of the tatic is to shoot at the eye pods with a machine gun while you're running sideways. I only killed 7 of the pods and then he fell over dead on me.

Hopefully some people will be up to play online tonight, I may have some time.
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[boojiboy7]

um, yeah. i didn't really find the worm that bad at all. circle strafe saved the day.

[aerisdead]

I'm done with this game. I got a couple of online achievements and have given it enough time to decide while it's okay, it's got too many niggles for me to return to it again and again or anything. I got to level 28 or something, but it's going back in the box not to go back in the machine.

Bye Lost Planet!
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[Mikey]

I already compared this game to Metal Slug, but now that I've played a bunch of multiplayer, I realize that in many ways I approach playing it (in multi) like I approach fighting games.

Due to your avatar's propensity for being thrown about by explosions and stumbling after jumps from high places, you become acutely aware of the recovery times for animations - it is worth noting that most of these animations actually impart invincibility. For example, if one knocks an opponent on their ass with a shotgun blast, aiming down at their prone form and firing will not do more damage. You have to wait for them to get back up and completely finish that animation - should you time your next shot poorly, the rate of fire of the shotgun (the recovery, if you will) will leave you open to counterattack. Similarly, people who are falling after (for example) an explosion knocks them off a ledge are similarly invulnerable. If you jump and then stumble, you can actually take a rocket straight to the body and take no damage. It's very Street-Fighter, which I suppose is not that surprising considering the game's pedigree.

An interesting use of this quirk/glitch/whatever applies to the brief invincibility you are granted while entering a VS - while the VS goes through its start-up sequence, it can not be damaged. Once, while playing against a friend, I began charging a homing laser. I then fired it, and my friend waited until almost the moment of impact, then entered a VS. Though the shot hit him square in the back as he climbed into the VS, he took no damage. The fact that I was on higher ground (a tactic pioneered by one Obi-wan Kenobi [lolz0rs] ) and had an a very powerful weapon meant nothing because of his exploitation of the game system.

[SuperWes]

[Mikey]

Perhaps, but at this point I'm getting used to it for what it is and enjoying it, I'm having fun with it despite/because of those "niggles", is what I was tring to get at.

[firenze]

[IIOIOOIOO]

This is where grenades come in. Get used to counting out the stand animation and timing a grenade to be sitting next to the guy when his avatar stands up. I usually do (from the moment they flip and land) 1.2..throw.

Works pretty consistently and lets you be moving around so he can't do the STANDANDSHOOT on you.

[boojiboy7]

so dudes, mission 9. Fuck yes mission 9. 72 minutes, a massive boss, and a lot of asskicking all the way. I do love this game.

[aerisdead]

I reviewed it.
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[alice]

so is it harder than farcry for PC?

[Predator Goose]

[Mr. Mechanical]

[Predator Goose]

Ah, thank you! I knew I was being retarded in some way.
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[SuperWes]

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