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Middle-earth: Shadow of War |OT| Attempted Mordor
- Thread starter Skux
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My frustration is growing with this game and it isn't coming from the supposed grind of the Shadow Wars, as there are ways to overcome that. It is with the damn jankiness I am running into repeatedly.
Just finished Shadow Wars stage 2, was trying to kill the legendary Orc for the item he'd drop, but while he was on the ground it flipped him to retreating. Since he was the last one alive it auto-won the mission for me, shifting me back to the main fortress overlook. He was still in the area but retreating and by the time I got over there the game had despawned him.
Earlier I also had an issue where the game was placing a random enemy warchief in fortress slots of things I owned and the mission it wanted me to do wouldn't actually spawn in the objectives. I had ti infiltrate a spy and was about to infiltrate a second one for a betrayal mission when it flipped the mission to something that would spawn in.
Just finished Shadow Wars stage 2, was trying to kill the legendary Orc for the item he'd drop, but while he was on the ground it flipped him to retreating. Since he was the last one alive it auto-won the mission for me, shifting me back to the main fortress overlook. He was still in the area but retreating and by the time I got over there the game had despawned him.
Earlier I also had an issue where the game was placing a random enemy warchief in fortress slots of things I owned and the mission it wanted me to do wouldn't actually spawn in the objectives. I had ti infiltrate a spy and was about to infiltrate a second one for a betrayal mission when it flipped the mission to something that would spawn in.
I didn't even know that works in this game. TIL.
Maximus P
Member
This could be quite possibly my GOTY.
I'm at the end of Act 2 and I'm nearly level 40,but I hardly touch the story. I'm having a blast just recruiting new captains, levelling them up and taking down online fortresses.
No other game is getting any playtime at all right now.
I'm kinda hoping the last act is a grind like some reviews mentioned.
I'm at the end of Act 2 and I'm nearly level 40,but I hardly touch the story. I'm having a blast just recruiting new captains, levelling them up and taking down online fortresses.
No other game is getting any playtime at all right now.
I'm kinda hoping the last act is a grind like some reviews mentioned.
HashtagLapsed
Member
I still have dead enemy warchiefs in a fortress I captured and can't replace. Just corpses laying there and the slot not letting me replace anything.
See I killed those warchiefs and the missions were like "kill 10 enemy hunters" or whatever, but because the fortress was already friendly, yeah..
There are definitely some bugs and jank that need to get ironed out.
truestatic
Member
Done game
Chapter 4 too long
Boxes not really help with grind cuz the grind is the defences themselves and a box won't play the defence for you
No need to grind xp or soldiers, just recruit what you can when you can and so far as I can tell you'll never run out of bad dudez
I thought it was okay
7.2/10 GOTY would not play again but will probably buy the expansion pass when it hits $5 bargain bin prices in two years
Are they non-replaceable both from the army screen, as well as the manage siege defenses screen?
Chapter 4 too long
Boxes not really help with grind cuz the grind is the defences themselves and a box won't play the defence for you
No need to grind xp or soldiers, just recruit what you can when you can and so far as I can tell you'll never run out of bad dudez
I thought it was okay
7.2/10 GOTY would not play again but will probably buy the expansion pass when it hits $5 bargain bin prices in two years
Are they non-replaceable both from the army screen, as well as the manage siege defenses screen?
Tizoc
Member
That's what all fanfiction writers say :v
truestatic
Member
Act 3 was a thing of beauty. Too bad it's about 30 minutes long, but they can't all be winners.
HashtagLapsed
Member
Yes. On the siege upgrade screen there is an empty slot that says "Replace" but when I press A it fills up the purchasing bar as if I am unlocking it for the first time and nothing happens. It just lets me purchase it again. Oh, and if I add an orc from a a spoils of war chest to that slot the orc just disappears.
Its annoying but whatever.
It happened when I retook the fortress from Bruz, so it must have broke some sequence in there somewhere.
This happened to me too. Think I managed to purchase the slot four times until I realized it was using my currency without unlocking it. I did an Online Vendetta, and when I finished it, the slot was open once again.
HashtagLapsed
Member
truestatic
Member
Yeah I think something like this happened to me as well? I commanded someone into the slot though, and they overwrote the dead enemy. I've also had enemy warlords in forts I control. It's weird.
RedAssedApe
Banned
my dumbass was using skills points on melee abilities thinking they were additive instead of "pick of these three" lol
HashtagLapsed
Member
I haven't even used my last 4 skill points because I don't even know where to put them/what to replace, so I wouldn't worry too much 
Yeah I would have paced the game way differently now that I know what Act 3 and 4 are. Should have just went balls to the wall after a couple of hours. Only real bad thing for me (End game spoilers warning)
is that they didn't do any voice work for the Dark Talion domination or new lines when referring to him. He just grunts at people and you're still called The Bright Lord.
truestatic
Member
More end game spoilers:
Not entirely true. Fortress sieges will reference you having retaken Minas Morgul, and one orc told me that I'd screwed everything up - kicking them out of minas morgul, but also reawakening Sauron, whose eye now watched them constantly. He told me everything was better before I came along.
I don't think it matters whether you execute them by chopping off their heads or if you just stab them through the head or gut, sometimes they'll do their little speech and other times, they won't.
I had a couple of hours when I was just slaughtering orcs without anyone coming back for me, nor any last words, then suddenly they started to come in hordes. I posted a screenshot of a guy who I decapitated twice already, and yet the came back. I didn't see him again, so I presume he's dead for good now.
cantona222
Member
Is there any advantage in killing a captain? Compared to recruiting him?
loot.
Opus Angelorum
Member
Anyone?
My nephew is going nuts, and because it's digital he can't return it easily.
VibratingDonkey
Member
The menu theme gives a sense of a light adventurous happy fun times romp, and then the game's just *blllooooooooooaaaaaaaaauurrrghhh*
Thank goodness for the goofy orcs.
Oh but if you kill a fortress overlord you're supposed to get 500 gold.
Thank goodness for the goofy orcs.
Which you can get plenty of from the fight pits anyway.
Oh but if you kill a fortress overlord you're supposed to get 500 gold.
HashtagLapsed
Member
Hold onto it for now, friend.
When you start capping fortresses the defense upgrades can get pricey, You can easily spend 6+K on getting upgrades.
OK good thanks
BoogieWoogie
Banned
You'll find yourself pumping money into Siege Upgrades too.
A Serious Man
Member
The peak "Christopher Tolkien ragestroke moment" has to be (Carnan spoilers)
Be sure to check the level and traits of the opponent before you assign a follower. I think the first fight pit opponents are lvl 20 or so.
the Balrog vs. Super Ent WWE match.
Be sure to check the level and traits of the opponent before you assign a follower. I think the first fight pit opponents are lvl 20 or so.
Ordinaryundone
Member
You are gonna need it for fortress and siege upgrades. A LOT of it.
Its probably in the market.
I dont have the gold edition, but I had some preorder loot crates or something in there.
Edit: most of it is season pass related. Sometimes on Xbox shit is weird and the season pass is a separate download. So the gold edition ends up being a key for the game and a key for the season pass. Theres a chance that the main game preloaded but you have to DL the season pass separately it will just say you already own it. I would also check for that.
lucebuce12
Member
So there's no stealthy way to kill Ologs, right? Pretty much have to engage in combat/take advantage of traps and explosions to get rid of them
Huh?
What would be the best way to level my captains if they're all under 20?
RadioactiveLobster
Member
I stealth kill Ologs all the time.
In fact one of the challenges is a stealth kill Ologs one.
lucebuce12
Member
Really?
Damn, I must be fucking up somewhere.
Maybe you can only do it from behind and not from above?
SirMossyBloke
Member
So I did all three fighter pit challenges to unlock the fortress upgrades and then... Nothing happened. No extra missions, no way I can see of purchasing anything. How am I supposed to upgrade my fort?
Violence Jack
Member
I'm still early in the game (just killed the first Warchief), but I assume there's a mission that goes over recruiting captains somewhere along the line?
semiconscious
Gold Member
confused me, too. when in the menu, hit r1 (ps4). the column on the left is your attack forces, the column on the right your fortress upgrades
...lucebuce12
Member
It's available once you get to Act 2 and do the first few missions for that Act. I really would advise rushing the main story to get to that point, cause that's when the game really opens up.
SirMossyBloke
Member
confused me, too. when in the menu, hit r1 (ps4). the column on the left is your attack forces, the column on the right your fortress upgrades
Oooooooh.
Thank you!
Dat downgrade though...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xl4bkIGgiyc
(not talking about the graphics)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xl4bkIGgiyc
(not talking about the graphics)
He just managed to come back once again. I'm quite certain this is the last time he returns as he was part of the
necromancer end quest
