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[G_Berry]

Farcry 2 and MAG.

 

[Buttchin]

black had bullet sponge enemies but they made the clip size massive... plus head shots made the enemies go all sort of crazy animations...

UC1 had really bad bullet sponges, UC2 they were still somewhat spongy but didnt detract from the game in the slightest... i only really remember the spongy factor after it was mentioned here...

KZ2 had some spongey enemies as well..

only game where it was jarring was UC1 cause the enemies clearly weren't armored...

 

[J-Rzez]

Farcry 2 and MAG.

MAG is only such when you use a weak weapon and they have med-heavy to heavy body armor. Headshots are still headshots though.

 

[Coxswain]

I don't agree with this at all. If you're getting shot in the back then it means your in game spacial awareness is shit and you deserve to die. The player who managed to catch you with your pants down should be rewarded for out manoeuvring you, not the other way around.

You're not disagreeing with me. You just don't like your preferred style of game being (correctly) called out as a game of competitive hide-and-seek. The second quoted sentence is absolute nonsense; there is not a single FPS in existence where you are rewarded for being out-maneuvered. What actually exists are games where the first-shot advantage is not so heavily weighted as to make all other aspects of the gameplay irrelevant.

I know, but it shouldnt, and it doesnt

Well Fallout 3's shooting mechanics are orders of magnitude better than its (combat) RPG mechanics, so what should it have?

 

[Magni]

Gears of War. Halo 2 Brutes.

People in this thread really need to learn how to play Halo MP correctly.. If you're running around sprayin' and prayin' with your AR, you deserve to die every fucking time. A kill in Halo takes two-three seconds at the most, most of the time less than a second (snipe headshot, nade/BR headshot, etc)

 

[ItAintEasyBeinCheesy]

COD MW.

Cant stand playing standard games, Hard Core only for me.

 

[USD]

Gears of War. Halo 2 Brutes.

Halo 2 Brutes were no match for the Battle Rifle/Carbine. The main issue is shooting off the faceplate. After that, you just need a single headshot. Easily can drop a Brute with less than half a clip.

 

[Ephemeris]

Or

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abuse the nailgun, which gives you a reticle is a one-shot kill

or

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abuse the sniper, which is a one-shot kill

or

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abuse the lightning gun which is infinite ammo

or

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abuse the LMG, which mows down those armored LMG fucks quickly in the desert area

Yes. Yes. Yes. 100% Truth

 

[ultron87]

COD MW.

Cant stand playing standard games, Hard Core only for me.

Oh cmon. I mean obviously it is only (effectively) 1-shot kills on Hardcore mode, but I can't imagine the crazy universe where CoD has "bullet sponge" multiplayer. If I die in less than a second to pretty much every weapon I'm not a bullet sponge.

 

[Magni]

Halo 2 Brutes were no match for the Battle Rifle/Carbine. The main issue is shooting off the faceplate. After that, you just need a single headshot. Easily can drop a Brute with less than half a clip.

With the Carbine it's much better, true. The problem's the stretches when you no longer have Carbine ammo..

 

[USD]

With the Carbine it's much better, true. The problem's the stretches when you no longer have Carbine ammo..

There's always the Needler as well. It does take quite a bit to drop a Brute with plasma weapons though.

 

[Relix]

Killzone 2 and Resistance 2 online. Gears also suffer from this.

 

[richiek]

From a few pages back:

It's not the bullet sponges that bother me. It's the fact that the butt of my rifle is more effective at killing people than 5 rounds from an AK47 that can penetrate and exit the trunk of a tree at 50 metres.
Are there any games where using the butt of a weapon doesn't automatically kill someone?

Fucking this. Especially the knife kills in COD Modern Warfare 1 & 2. One hit knife kills should only occur from behind. If you charge at a gun wielding opponent with just your knife slashing, you should get shot full of holes. The fact that knife kills are so easy to execute was one of the reasons I quit playing Modern Warfare 2.

 

[hbkajshdvfbkjhvgkahsgdfka]

Far Cry 2

 

[starchild excalibur]

Hard Core only for me.

Sorry, too easy.

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<3 IT Crowd

 

[olore]

I`m playing through Medal of Honor: Allied Assault now on Easy and I`ve really found the enemies to be real bullet sponges.

Also intend to do the expansions Spearhead and Breakthrough

 

[Danne-Danger]

I`m playing through Medal of Honor: Allied Assault now on Easy and I`ve really found the enemies to be real bullet sponges.

Also intend to do the expansions Spearhead and Breakthrough

Yeah they are, but at least you can "juggle" them when they're stunned. I'd have to play it again but I remember that being kind of neat!

 

[FartOfWar]

Metro 2033

 

[NullPointer]

Sneak + Hunting Rifle non-VATS to the head took care of anything other than Brutes and up. A second headshot in VATS took care of most anything else. And you can get the Hunting Rifle extremely early in the game. The Sneak Critical Bonus is a godsend.

I just started replaying this last night and took this advice, and yeah, its a night and day difference in the early game. Have a high specced agility character and I bought a hunting rifle off of one of the megaton caravans right from the get-go. Even center of mass shots while hidden drop bandits and just about everything else in one hit. Nice.

 

[LakeEarth]

Metroid Prime 2, dear god. Space Pirates take so many shots, you just gotta say fuck it and use missles or special weapons. Even then it takes good amount of them.

 

[∀ Narayan]

Bioshock's last half suffers from this a great deal. It really makes the game overstay its welcome.

 

[hwalker84]

Uncharted 1

 

[Arnie]

ITT: Spraying an assault rifle at medium range and meleeing each other to both die = skill?

If you're supposed to use a plasma/covie weapon on a dude to pop their shields and then spray them with a human weapon (DMR/Battle Rifle/Assault) I really really wonder why the Covie army didn't just learn that and then own Masterchief. (Oh wait, he has super speed and strength, my bad)

Again, I like the game. But the shields could pop a little faster for some (pretty shitty) default weapons like the A. Rifle. Not to completely change the game, just make the kill speed slightly faster.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr5Dnk4Rd3k&#t=1m20s

Your ignorance in this thread is astounding.