H_Prestige
Banned
Agreed. I could never get steady aim with any gun in U3. U2 felt buttery smooth. I also hate the movement in U3. It feels like running through molasses, like some force is constantly resisting you.
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Uncharted 3 multiplayer going free to play this Tuesday
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Agreed. I could never get steady aim with any gun in U3. U2 felt buttery smooth. I also hate the movement in U3. It feels like running through molasses, like some force is constantly resisting you.
WAR recon zero
Banned
They removed it from the post, it may not be ready
Onion_Relish
Member
Looking forward to buying the single player only campaign for uncharted 3.
TimeEffect
Member
QFT
UC3 MP was fucked up from the start:
-Situational Awareness was promised to be out, but they just ended up breaking it up into like 5 different things (boosters, power plays, paid boosters),
-they added a sprint which was not too bad, until they made it much more responsive, which I didnt like
-the maps were WAY too big. This was a problem since they started doing UC MP DLC. I swear, the classic maps are so damn good-- smaller, more symmetrical, etc.
-Kickbacks/scorestreaks. Not bad in itself, because they supported the game with a basic hardcore mode, then later a classic mode, but the kickbacks were bound to cause balance issues, and they did.
-class loadouts
Really, what made UC2 so good was that it took from Halo: simple maps, map control-gameplay, weapon pickups, everyone starts out virtually on the same playing field, boosters were the only differentiator.
They threw that all out in UC3, added all kinds of carrot-on-a-stick mechanics to desperately keep people coming back. Now it's free to play and they will milk the game with stat-changing attire, tons of taunts, and stuff like that.
It's not all bad, it's just such a shame how far it fell from UC2 (which was fucked the minute they patched health anyway)
I hope it does. Was the best thing they did for U2's multiplayer even if it was for a few weeks. And I say that as someone that bought the map-packs in U2 before that happened.
WrenchNinja
Member
UC2 1.04 represent
Spring-Loaded
Member
Even with all its flaws, UC3 multi is so great. It's refreshing to play multiplayer game where traversing the environment is so intuitive. Really adds to the action
Except U2 1.05-U3 made traversing the environment pretty pointless when you couldn't complete a climb up if someone noticed you climbing.
FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
I wonder if this includes Coop arena and missions. So much fun.
PRjumpman124
Member
Sweet. I can tell this is going to create more activity in the servers.
baxter2231
Member
uncharted 2 mp pre 1.05 was utterly amazing, only problem was people rushing the hammer to much all they had to do was tone that down or remove it, everything else was fine. Then they decided to ruin it all. Thats really annoying thing about these mp games, even if you like it they will get changed constantly and ruin it. Even if a patch fixes alot it doesnt matter because the next few patches will ruin it again. I would pay to have uncharted 2 mp pre 1.05 that wont get patches.
so how can i go play a mp only to get attached to it knowing it will be ruined ?
so how can i go play a mp only to get attached to it knowing it will be ruined ?
No, it says "Uncharted 3" pretty clearly in the thread title.
baxter2231
Member
glad im not the only one, my fav mp game pre 1.05. Originally i didnt like the idea of uncharted mp fearing it would be a waste of resources and would stink but it turned out awesome. Only latter did it turn into the very thing i feared it would be.
Gear2nd_PK
Member
Hope they don't actually have separate pools for F2P players. They need to drop the price on the DLC map packs and bundle, if not free entirely.
I stopped playing around the time the first map pack came out. The MP was a huge disappointment to me. My cousin and I LOVED the Summer Beta. It was the best multiplayer I have ever played and to this day I still stand by that statement. Then the Subway beta came and it was horrid. Sprint was broken, the maps were ok, but it just didn't have that same feel. During the summer beta I felt like we were all on a level playing field, but after the Subway Beta and the eventual full launch, it was all screwed up.
I remember weaving in and out of firefights with the broken sprint before they released that patch. It's so messed up. I'll certainly download this since I sold my copy not too long ago though. It couldn't hurt to see how things have change. Naughty Dog, I'd pay at least $40 for the Summer Beta stats though.
I remember weaving in and out of firefights with the broken sprint before they released that patch. It's so messed up. I'll certainly download this since I sold my copy not too long ago though. It couldn't hurt to see how things have change. Naughty Dog, I'd pay at least $40 for the Summer Beta stats though.
WrenchNinja
Member
I cant believe I bought the season pass. What a waste of money.
I felt like you were typing all my thoughts regarding U3, and I like it.
Razgriz-Specter
Member
Have you tried a Socom?
Uncharted 2 MP didn't get good until after 1.05 despite waht some fans say. The high HP beta was a very unbalanced game. It wasn't until 1.05 that absurdly cheap tactics were nerfed.
BadAss2961
Member
I love Uncharted's multiplayer. Both of them.
WrenchNinja
Member
servers are down for all the good SOCOM games.
digoutyoursoul
Member
Great news, thanks ND/Sony
What a load of horse shit, U2 1.05+ became nothing but a camp fest due to lowering the health increasing damage and making traversal game play worthless. ND is the perfect example of a developer that completely ruined their own multiplayer trying to get the COD audience. Before they fucked it up U2 was one of the best multiplayer games on PS3.
But they continued the trend because U3 multiplayer was so bad it wasn't worth playing from Day 1.
Then they ripped off everyone who purchased a season pass by giving you re skinned U2 maps. And then they screwed over everyone again by making you buy tickets to play the multiplayer you already owned and item DLC up the wazoo. Oh and they never fixed the bug the stopped around 5-10% of people even being able to connect to online which was present in both U2 and U3. ND is a developer with absolutely no qualms with fucking over its customers.
I can never trust them or buy their products again after all of the above + the terrible U3 campaign and disgraceful input lag it launched with. Which is sad because U1/U2 are some of the best single players campaigns of this generation.
AwesomeSauce
MagsMoonshine
I loved Uncharted 2 MP so much. Have many fond memories of that game. Pre and post major update.
Uncharted 3 MP was the most disappointing thing. The beta had promise but idk what happened at release.
Uncharted 3 MP was the most disappointing thing. The beta had promise but idk what happened at release.
Messofanego
Banned
First step in buying single player campaigns separately I hope, for like $40.
Flatline
Banned
Sony and its developers have a tendency to listen to gamers but sometimes at the expense of the dev's original vision of the game and some very wise decisions they made. Both Guerilla and ND listened to the COD idiots who were bitching about "bullet sponges" and "hard to get into" idiotic complaints and ruined their multiplayer trying to imitate trash.
Not to mention that they listen to that crap and waste their time trying to "fix" their games while ignoring legitimate complaints about bugs or fragmentation.
Haha.. too true. Best MP experience I've ever had.
Seventy_X_Seven
Member
KZ3 only went free to play up to a certain level then your access was taken away unless you paid.
Nobody ever answered you, but yes you can unlock stuff as you progress. Ever since the summer when they added stat hats, they also went ahead and allowed everyone to buy their unlocks with real money instead of having to level up to unlock them. So you can make the choice of buying a weapon early so you don't have to grind it out (if you don't have the time) or unlock it the free way.
This is part of why making it Free to Play makes sense now because all of the unlocks, as well as stat hats, can be bought via real money. Microtransactions basically.
Everyone's been suspicious of it becoming F2P because of the microtransactions ND introduced above.
Net_Wrecker
Member
Pretty much this. UC2 was amazing in the early days, and I still managed to have fun with it after the health patch due to its simplicity. It was so pure aside from a few boosters. UC3 I dropped after like a month. Too much fluff, too much crap, just too much everything. They had something beautiful with UC2 multiplayer, then they went and tried too hard.
blitzcloud
Banned
mainstream opinion.
I thought only being able to turn a certain degree when sprinting was genius. But nooo, make everyone run like headless chickens...
This is why i'm kinda annoyed at ND, for outsourcing the mp models and making everything look like a quick cash-in rather than the "to-go" multiplayer experience they announced.