I played with randoms for hours earlier, a bunch of different people and everyone was helping and not being a dick. The community seems really good, obviously if you have online friends to play with and laugh at the dumb shit that happens, it will be a million times better.
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I played with randoms for hours earlier, a bunch of different people and everyone was helping and not being a dick. The community seems really good, obviously if you have online friends to play with and laugh at the dumb shit that happens, it will be a million times better.
hillsighed
Member
Did they fix something with the room browser? Got on today and the only rooms that were showing weren't full and I was able to join in every game I tried. Hallelujah!
I used to spend more time trying to join games than actually playing the fucking game.
I used to spend more time trying to join games than actually playing the fucking game.
They added a full lobby filter option, on by default.
super-famicom
Member
Is he a GAFfer or a random dude?
Good games tonight. Patch delivered a more stable experience. Only had an issue with servers refreshing slowly and for some reason, the loading/saving skull never left my screen. Not sure what that was all about but I had no problems saving my progress.
Unlocked the HAV
I encountered this all tonight, post-patch. Pretty strange... like you I didn't notice any issues with my progress being saved, however.
avengers23
Banned
I think it's a random dude.
super-famicom
Member
Gotcha.
Has anyone else turned on Veteran Controller Mode? I can aim a bit faster than before, but wish there was a slider option instead.
Wind's Howling
Member
This game is an absolute blast and for only 17 bucks you can not go wrong if you love co-op games.
I love the fact that Friendly Fire is an always on mechanic.
It makes for some truly magnificent encounters where you have to make decisions whether to dropship bomb the most powerful enemy in the group, with the danger of killing your teammates, or just hope on surviving without using the revival skill.
But some people need to learn that turrets are pretty useless in a Level 7-9 mission when you have 4 exo suits waiting for the dropship to land.
I always have this fragment in my head when fighting bugs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPE00A6b9TY
I love the fact that Friendly Fire is an always on mechanic.
It makes for some truly magnificent encounters where you have to make decisions whether to dropship bomb the most powerful enemy in the group, with the danger of killing your teammates, or just hope on surviving without using the revival skill.
But some people need to learn that turrets are pretty useless in a Level 7-9 mission when you have 4 exo suits waiting for the dropship to land.
I always have this fragment in my head when fighting bugs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPE00A6b9TY
super-famicom
Member
I still find the railcannon turret to be useful in the higher difficulties. Throw one at the edge of the screen and it will do its job.
Got the no damage received and no alerts trophies on the same mission, against level 8 cyborgs on a desert level with accommodating objectives. Compiling a video now I will put up on YouTube in case anyone else is looking for ideas on how to knock those two trophies out.
edit: here is the video - showing about 10 minutes left for it to finish uploading. Towards the end I used a smoke grenade just in case to cover the approach to the shuttle. This was my third attempt at the mission, and both of the previous runs I was spotted inside the last 30 seconds prior to the shuttle arriving.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM6if4-NVsk
edit: here is the video - showing about 10 minutes left for it to finish uploading. Towards the end I used a smoke grenade just in case to cover the approach to the shuttle. This was my third attempt at the mission, and both of the previous runs I was spotted inside the last 30 seconds prior to the shuttle arriving.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM6if4-NVsk
The trick is to have 2 distractor beacon slots and make use of map geography when you plant distractors away from your evacuation beacon. Its an art form.
I'll upload my 0 shots fired playthrough of a lvl 7 cyborg desert when I get home.
EL CUCO
Member
Oh trust me...It goes away...but only while in the main screen. The moment you get back in game it pops back up and is there to stay lol. I tried everything to get it to go away. It's definitely a bug introduced with 1.03
Thats's weird. Mine is fixed if I do that.
Oh well its a harmless bug and I'll rather have this than borked matchmaking.
Duebrithil
Member
Yup. Did it yesterday on a level 7 cyborg ice planet, went with two distractor beacons, UAV, jumpack and stratagem priority. Dropped a beacon near the drop location and went clockwise completing objectives (two area captures, two truth transmitters, silo defense) while leaving beacons behind me. It was tense but really fun.
I wish randoms appreciated the beauty that are distractor beacons more. Just yesterday I planted one away from our objectives so that we could get around to them without much trouble, but the rest of my team was having none of that and insisted on running towards the beacon. Got kicked for trying to move away from it afterwards :/
ZettaiSeigi
Member
I played a random game this morning and chanced upon a couple of other players who are using the Distractor Beacons as we've all been talking about here. I immediately knew their play and went along. We hardly had any encounters and we all went for the objectives. Mission was done very quickly and our extraction was essentially uneventful.
I commended the guys once we're back to the ship and they did the same for me. I left the party because my other friend wanted me to join him, only to get a notification seconds later that the two random players wanted to add me as a friend. Heck, they even sent a "good game" message afterwards.
If only we always come across such players most of the time...
I commended the guys once we're back to the ship and they did the same for me. I left the party because my other friend wanted me to join him, only to get a notification seconds later that the two random players wanted to add me as a friend. Heck, they even sent a "good game" message afterwards.
If only we always come across such players most of the time...
Hmm wondering if I played with you, did some level 10 bug missions and got the Shredder Missile also also achieved the no death trophy on 10 or higher mission.
TrouzzzerSnake
Banned
Kinda makes me sad 
Finding and joining matches like no one's business since patch 1.03... but I'm still getting disconnected at mission-end roughly 1/5 missions. I haaaaaate that feeling of wasted time.
I think I'll be taking a break for a while.
Finding and joining matches like no one's business since patch 1.03... but I'm still getting disconnected at mission-end roughly 1/5 missions. I haaaaaate that feeling of wasted time.
I think I'll be taking a break for a while.
My lvl 7 cyborg no shots fired 0 alerts mission.
video here
Killed 4 peeps by using the distractor beacon to lure patrols into mines. Pity you can't get infinite accuracy.
video here
Killed 4 peeps by using the distractor beacon to lure patrols into mines. Pity you can't get infinite accuracy.
Nice gotta try this myself, you can get three trophies in one I believe.
dark_prinny
Banned
This is some bullshit. I'm so tired of this.
ZettaiSeigi
Member
Not sure if the mission was against bugs or cyborgs, but it's most likely the former. I checked the NeoGAF players spreadsheet and didn't see you on the list so I can't confirm if you're one of the two guys I was referring to. But whether we played with the game each other or not, it's good that we met players who actually don't just stand around shooting enemies.
The loading/saving symbol in the top-right corner of the screen has been continuously there spinning for me since, probably 1.02 (Europe so not even 1.03 until whenever).
ChasingComets
Member
A week in and I still can't stop humming the GOAT main theme of the game. It's constantly one of the highlights of the game when it starts playing during extraction.
ZettaiSeigi
Member
You know, that sounded so wrong yet it is actually so right. Hahaha!
Dhruv_hanom
Member
Where are you fellow divers ?
I can't spread managed democracy alone :-\
I can't spread managed democracy alone :-\
KillerDark
Member
There was one on Monday or Tuesday, Illuminates invading one of our planets. Went from like 7ish-10ish PM CST. Sadly we lost that too haha. I agree though, I wish there were more during the evening, seems like the majority happen in the middle of the day.
StealYourFace
Banned
Loving the game. I'm level 12 and my experience has been great so far. Still learning a lot but I've done some harder missions and it was really fun. Some people need to learn what patrols are though and that you don't just stand around for 20 minutes not completing objectives.
Weltall Zero
Member
The main theme is quite OK, but I have it playing over and over in my head. It's kind of annoying, actually.
Liberty4all
Banned
About 4k online now whenever I log on. That's up from 3k last week.
NinjamicWZ
Banned
Says access denied on the video link, but yeah. I got my no alerts trophy by surprise on a Very Hard or Challenging mission too.
Game feels fun again now that there's a filter to remove full games. Can join more randoms and dick around, whether they're on a low level or not. Now I can watch people ignore the field on the tesla tower and walk their exo's into it as I'm telling them not to, blow us all up with the HAV's splash damage etc
super-famicom
Member
Just got the Mr. Danmaku trophy!
Edit- tried going for the "Complete a Level 4 mission in 5 minutes or less" and got 5:49, grr. I'll try again when the missions reset and I get something more favorable.
Edit- tried going for the "Complete a Level 4 mission in 5 minutes or less" and got 5:49, grr. I'll try again when the missions reset and I get something more favorable.
EL CUCO
Member
ExitPlanetDust
Member
I'll be hopping on in about 20 mins while on lunch. PSN: Randy_M_Green and I'm still pretty low level.