man i need to up my game at deathmatch.
also realised today that in all gta games i always push the stick forward when walking/running/riding, even though you just have to press a/x to move forwards. kind of unintentional and dumb but it actually makes the controls less twitchy and turning easier, imo.
― sent from my neural lace (ledge), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
same here - which also means that very often I push left stick in unintentionally and start crouching. very annoying as it usually happens in the middle of combat panic mode (had exactly the same problem in GTA)
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 07:34 (thirteen years ago) link
So I've been doing it wrong all this time? Thanks for the heads up!
― Bill E, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 10:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Both work though. You can just push forward and not even touch the buttons if you just want standard speed strolling/trotting.
― JimD, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 10:32 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't like the pressing button to move, far too sensitive when turning.
― ei ei oh (Ste), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 10:35 (thirteen years ago) link
well that's what i was saying, if you push the stick forward as well then you can turn more accurately.
― sent from my neural lace (ledge), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 10:39 (thirteen years ago) link
haha i do this ALL THE TIME. like quick, john marsten, jump on my stagecoach! "ok!!" CROUCH
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 11:03 (thirteen years ago) link
So how long is this game? I've been through about 4 missions for Bonnie and a couple for the Marshall. I've already put in 6-7 hours. If there are about 10-20 people to do missions for (like in recent GTA games) I will be playing this for quite awhile (like Fallout 3 come to think about it)...
― calstars, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 11:07 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm 12h 50m in and 45% complete. Don't know how that compares to other people, I think I might be quite slow. Finding it a bit of a slog now, I've started skipping cut scenes and taking stagecoaches.
― nate woolls, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 11:11 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm 12h 50m in and 45% complete. Don't know how that compares to other people, I think I might be quite slow.
Ha, 25 hrs and 20 minutes played, 34% complete.
― JimD, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 11:38 (thirteen years ago) link
poker is so boring :\
― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 13:59 (thirteen years ago) link
ah it's ok - when you systematically cut the cutscenes
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 14:04 (thirteen years ago) link
I think i got 40 hours out of this and about 30 good hours
― I have been forks-style since day one (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 14:43 (thirteen years ago) link
i started like this, but when i opened up mexico i kinda flew through the missions and barely touched any of the side stuff. cutscenes got increasingly boring and i skipped them. i haven't played for a while, but i am actually itching to get 'back on the horse'. ho ho ho.
― go O and O (Ste), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 14:47 (thirteen years ago) link
forks - i haven't played this game, but it seems to me like basically every game in this genre has the problem of being too long, or having a weak finish (or alternatively, just too much fluff in the middle to get the to the end)*, but do you think there are other GTA/alike games that don't suffer from this problem? *except maybe Saints Row 2 as you could tear through the story relatively fast if you wanted to, or maybe I liked the story missions in it more. San Andreas might have had the opposite problem, i think that game was generally strongest in the middle hours after long tutorial, but again it's a long way to the finale
― Nhex, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 15:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Bully is pretty refined, imo.
― no turkey unless it's a club sandwich (polyphonic), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 16:40 (thirteen years ago) link
i thought bully was too short. but i go a little ocd on r* games i guess...
― goole, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 16:44 (thirteen years ago) link
ps has anyone joined the social club? i tried last night and it wouldn't work. thought it was maybe a browser problem.
― goole, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 16:57 (thirteen years ago) link
what is the social club?
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 16:59 (thirteen years ago) link
http://socialclub.rockstargames.com/
― goole, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 16:59 (thirteen years ago) link
think i must have signed up for gta. doesn't seem to offer much except some 'exclusive cheats', + stat viewing etc.
― sent from my neural lace (ledge), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 19:20 (thirteen years ago) link
It's handy for keeping track of which locations it thinks you still haven't found.
― JimD, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 19:28 (thirteen years ago) link
are the extra challenges fun to do? that's all i'm really into at the moment
― goole, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 19:29 (thirteen years ago) link
got my first duel disarm ^_^
― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 20:44 (thirteen years ago) link
I feel like I'll be playing this game for the rest of my life
― calstars, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 21:27 (thirteen years ago) link
are the extra challenges fun to do?
only a couple there at the moment, they look fairly tough, e.g. for pike's basin:
* Kill 3 people in one Dead Eye burst * Drag a gang member through the basin * Kill all enemies while on horseback
― sent from my neural lace (ledge), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 22:07 (thirteen years ago) link
only just figured out how to do duels after googling :/
in a good way or a bad way
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 22:08 (thirteen years ago) link
you'd think that for the sharpshooter challenge for shooting two hats off people's heads, a penalty for accidentally killing oooooh five or so folk while trying might be a good idea.
― sent from my neural lace (ledge), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 22:13 (thirteen years ago) link
* Kill 3 people in one Dead Eye burst
this seems pretty easy now that I have the 'paint the target' thing
― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 17 June 2010 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link
it was more the horse thing tbh, although i suppose it would just be tedious, not difficult. especially tedious if they manage to kill yr horse too.
― sent from my neural lace (ledge), Thursday, 17 June 2010 15:43 (thirteen years ago) link
i killed five goats in one burst the other night and immediately got shot dead at by a Federale who i didn't notice was standing right next to me. don't fuck with Mexican goats!
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 17 June 2010 16:37 (thirteen years ago) link
aw man not the livestock
― goole, Thursday, 17 June 2010 16:42 (thirteen years ago) link
they looked tasty
i forgot that john marston doesn't eat
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 17 June 2010 17:00 (thirteen years ago) link
when the game began i actually assumed there was going to be some kind of snake eater subsistence action going on.. i guess i haven't shaken it completely
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 17 June 2010 17:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Finally won my first multiplayer last night, tho it was a 2 vs 2 capture the bag. I didn't realise you can just whistle up a horse, so a couple of quick trips to get the bag sealed it, barely saw any of the opposition. Was kinda weird, I'm used to getting really crappy kill/death ratios. Sick of 2 vs 1 shootouts, would be nice to get into action with about 10 people or so. This is probably a time difference thing tho, I'm in NZ and only get to play at night here.
― Bill E, Friday, 18 June 2010 00:00 (thirteen years ago) link
i was having plenty of 16 player action the other (uk) night. kd ratio slooooowly rising. might rise faster now i've figured out how to use dead-eye in multiplayer.
― sent from my neural lace (ledge), Friday, 18 June 2010 08:31 (thirteen years ago) link
You can do that? How?
― JimD, Friday, 18 June 2010 08:38 (thirteen years ago) link
it doesn't slow stuff down but it does the auto-target painting of dead-eye level 2. nb only read about it not tried it yet.
― sent from my neural lace (ledge), Friday, 18 June 2010 08:45 (thirteen years ago) link
& it might need some control option fiddling since every time i've pressed the right stick previously i get a 'look behind' view instead.
― sent from my neural lace (ledge), Friday, 18 June 2010 08:46 (thirteen years ago) link
um, i'm not sure of the point of it then? i guess i'll have to try it and see but if you're still just targeting in normal motion, why don't you just normal target and shoot instead?
― go O and O (Ste), Friday, 18 June 2010 09:12 (thirteen years ago) link
oh sorry, does it auto paint?
p. sure it slows down your targets too
― stofu (cozen), Friday, 18 June 2010 09:14 (thirteen years ago) link
how can it do that in multiplayer tho?
― go O and O (Ste), Friday, 18 June 2010 09:16 (thirteen years ago) link
iunno the logistics but iirc it slows time as well as auto-paints
― stofu (cozen), Friday, 18 June 2010 09:19 (thirteen years ago) link
autopaint, yeah. slowdown, u mad dogg.
― sent from my neural lace (ledge), Friday, 18 June 2010 09:31 (thirteen years ago) link
ah seems ur right, I was just confused because it goes into that blurro vision
― stofu (cozen), Friday, 18 June 2010 09:33 (thirteen years ago) link
While in Dead Eye, if you mark targets while having either Dynamite, Throwing Knives, or Fire Bottles equipped, the thrown object acts as a homing missile and continues flying until the target is hit.
― stofu (cozen), Friday, 18 June 2010 09:35 (thirteen years ago) link
haha awesome!
gonna firebomb a coupla bros
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Friday, 18 June 2010 10:58 (thirteen years ago) link
the thrown object acts as a homing missile and continues flying until the target is hit.
Isn't that a bit shit in a Wild West game? Not asking for total realism here but come on it's not fucking Halo!
― slow motion hair ruffle (onimo), Friday, 18 June 2010 11:03 (thirteen years ago) link