I agree. The challenges are the best part of the game for me right now. Soooo fun.i don't think there's any arguing with you there.
but if platinum games were literally just a testing box with their combat engine and a customised fight arenas i would play the shit out of them. they know how to make combat
The whole map you start in, aside from the racetrack and places just before it. I skip the early areas from Chapter 1 (it's the same map), because the treasures are too few to justify the travel time.
Check out this video. Without collecting anything, clear the first two battles in that guide. Then go back to the Ark portal to make your checkpoint. The portal is in the area where the first encounters happens. The area after the second encounter, which you'll see at 2:22, is where you don't want to go. (Well, you can, but you'll get a new checkpoint, which could ruin the process if you've already collected stuff. And there aren't many items to find there anyway.)
To save time, I like to activate the various puzzle switches around the map, then return to the Ark for a new checkpoint before collecting any treasures.
There are many chests and groundpound points scattered around. Equip a piece of enhanced radar tech so you can see the hidden points. Two of the best places are the secret areas you access by using the air lifts to jump up onto the raised purple paths. Once you're one one, follow it to the end and then hop to the entrance of the area. It'll have a yellow stripe on the edge.
I like Platinums games but this is a criticism I have for almost all of their character action titles - the weapons all have basically the same combo and movesets, with slight variations. Compare this with DMC or Ninja Gaiden where each weapon is distinct from the rest. Not only that but you could almost just see combos lifted straight from Bayonetta 2 into Transformers, since the melee weapons are largely the same.
I still love the games but this reason alone will mean they are never ahead of those two other series for me. I hope Scalebound and Nier offer more variety in the movesets and force Platinum out of their comfort zone.
There's a small section in the city that during Chapter 4 has a side mission behind it, but I can't find any way round there. From the central area you go along a purple bride section, over two jumps and then you're suppose to turn left, but there's no way round there.
I can see a yellow rim to the roof of a building and a ramp, but it's too high to jump up to. Next to it is collapsed building, so there's no way through there. Just poking over the top I can see some air stream from one of the boost-jump fans. It's really annoying me!
Those white/grey parts on the map are platforms, use the air vent next to the 1st one to get to them.
The air vent in the main area? That only gets me high enough to get on the purple bridge (next to the floating shielded chest) and not up high enough to get to the platform.
There's a small section in the city that during Chapter 4 has a side mission behind it, but I can't find any way round there. From the central area you go along a purple bride section, over two jumps and then you're suppose to turn left, but there's no way round there.
I can see a yellow rim to the roof of a building and a ramp, but it's too high to jump up to. Next to it is collapsed building, so there's no way through there. Just poking over the top I can see some air stream from one of the boost-jump fans. It's really annoying me!
Yep, that's one of the hidden areas I referred to in my post about grinding. The other is in the upper-left portion of the map.Those white/grey parts on the map are platforms, use the air vent next to the 1st one to get to them.
That looks damn good!Crossposting from the general TF OT, a friend of mine just sent me this:
http://kotaku.com/custom-transformers-devastation-optimus-prime-figure-im-1742577385
Pretty damn amazing, honestly.
You can double jump off of air vent boosts.
Yep, that's one of the hidden areas I referred to in my post about grinding. The other is in the upper-left portion of the map.
Honestly, I should just take a screenshot of the whole city map and whip up a little guide to all of the hidden stuff I've found. There's quite a lot. I haven't gotten around to it to yet because I thought maybe I could find a picture of the map on Google, but nope.
One more question though... do you gain experience from playing the challenges? If not I'll just grind it out in story mode, but thought I'd ask anyway.
Yes.
Oh yeah, that was the second hidden area I was referring to. In chapter 2 I think it's in the upper left part of the map. I forgot to mention you can hop up there using the side of the purple track.I had to screen grab that from a youtube video, lol. The only other area like that that I found was in the top right hand corner, but it was easy to get in there as it is one of the few places you can jump onto, and land on, the supports along the side of the purple trackway. If there are any more hidden spots, I'd love to know about them. I thought I was pretty through, but apparently I've only opened just over 86% of the chests in the game, so I can't be as thorough as I thought.
Yes, you do.One more question though... do you gain experience from playing the challenges? If not I'll just grind it out in story mode, but thought I'd ask anyway.
Oh yeah, that was the second hidden area I was referring to. In chapter 2 I think it's in the upper left part of the map. I forgot to mention you can hop up there using the side of the purple track.
This would have been a lot easier to explain with a screenshot of the map, lol.
Yes, you do.
Haha, we've all been there.I meant top left... I'm having one of those days!!! (I call them weekdays, they're that fucking frequent, lol).
Man, the game seriously bombed in the US(and I'm sure the rest of the world). I wasn't expecting a million seller but sub-50k?
It had next to no marketing so you can't be too surprised. Then the reviews come out, the words 'budget development' and '4 hour campaign' are thrown around with that initial price tag and that already turns anyone who might have had an interest away from it. Might sell a few more copies when it drops in price and has good word of mouth to pick up during a sale.
I wanna believe that the sequel tease was more than just wishful thinking. I'm sure they weren't expecting a lot.
Devastation was confirmed to be the first in a trilogy.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...oys-and-comics-will-be-part-of-the-same-story
Sub-50k? Ugh. I wasn't expecting it to move millions either, but I was hoping for the hundred thousand at least.
Wonder how it did in Japan. Surely worse, but I'd still want to see numbers to get an idea about how G1 nostalgia is over there. Judging by the endless release of Masterpieces over there, it seems pretty strong.
It's upsetting to me how little I'm enjoying playing as him 😦
Man, I feel the first protect mission is impossible on Magnus difficulty. Wheeljack dies too fast.
Grimlock is funky but personally he's my favorite character to play as. Knowing how best make use of grapples and dino mode is key. Only flaw is how dificult it is to equip tech on him. On Magnus and he's capped at two.
I'm finding Grimlock the most difficult character to play on Prime, especially during the challenges, because he seems to scale really badly. On Prime most of your damage comes from weapon attacks since enemies have so much HP, weapons scale reasonably well (since by then you can make level 50 SS uniques with 7000-20000 attack power), but everything else does chip damage, including anything Grimlock can do in dino mode. With the others vehicle attacks are at least useful for staggering and invulnerability (and the chip damage does add up over time), but with Grimlock, failing to hold R1 to go immediately back to robot mode is crippling. Adding that to his equally useless (by then) grabs, loss of vehicle mode for quick traversal, etc. seems to make him clearly the most gimped character. Has anyone found a way to make him more useful in the endgame?
It could all be fixed if all attacks got a bonus from the melee weapon you're holding (perhaps not much for vehicle attacks as othrwise it'd make them overpowered again).
The game will be on sale this week in Europe, 25/£20.
https://psprices.com/region-gb/game/114030/transformers-devastation
This is new thread worthy, allow me to make it when the update goes live please~
Sure, go ahead!
EDIT: It's live http://store.playstation.com/#!/pt-...tion/cid=EP0002-CUSA01985_00-TRANSFORMERS2015
Sure, go ahead!
EDIT: It's live http://store.playstation.com/#!/pt-...tion/cid=EP0002-CUSA01985_00-TRANSFORMERS2015
The game will be on sale this week in Europe, 25/£20.
https://psprices.com/region-gb/game/114030/transformers-devastation
Just saw, it's on sale in the US on Amazon for $29.99 -- if anyone was looking.