I played about 30-40 minutes of this and cleared 7-8 missions I think. This is my first Platinum game.
So far I like it for the most part. The combat mechanics are fantastic and fights against the harder enemies are amazing. The soundtrack and overall style are pretty cool as well.
I'm playing on normal (warrior) and so far it seems really easy, but that may be because I'm only at the beginning. I also have no idea how to even access my equipment or the items I pick up. Also not a fan of the level design or really any of the filler time wasting stuff that's in between the fantastic fighting. Also story seems totally throwaway but I have no experience or attachment to the Transformers cartoon.
So far a good deal for $25, I'll see if the game grows on me as I play.
Normal really is pretty easy. Honestly for all of Platinum's stuff the highest (non-unlockable) difficulty is IMO the best one to start on if you have some experience with action games.
I have no experience with character action games outside of God of War, but maybe stuff like Bloodborne toughened me up. Can you bump up the difficulty mid playthrough?
I have no experience with character action games outside of God of War, but maybe stuff like Bloodborne toughened me up. Can you bump up the difficulty mid playthrough?
Just bump the diff if the game's too easy for you. Some people (including me) started the game on Commander directly and it was fine. Besides, you get better drops (higher-ranked weapons) by playing on a higher diff anyway.You can, but you might want to get and/or synthetize better weapons first because people have reported that Hard (Commander?) expects you to have B rank weapons (which you get by playing on Normal), and if you don't enemies become bullet sponges (which is annoying, not hard). Alternatively just keep playing on Normal, the game is pretty short and meant to be replayed, and the best fun to be had IMHO is in the challenge missions.
Some awesome Grimlock play by Saur: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAmmYQJbo8I
Im putting this on my top 5 goty titles
Optimus prime power geysering cons is the greatest move this year.
You don't have to grind at all before Prime if you don't want to. Just build a weapon set with the drops you get as you play through game. Find four weapons with lots of slots and fill them with good boosts that you'll want to transfer to SS weapons from Prime. (Maybe equip some rare weapon+ tech to get rarer drops.) Unless combat is a huge struggle for you, there's no point in spending hours synthesizing weapons before you've unlocked Prime, where the rewards are so much better. Prime is the best for efficient grinding, since it's the only difficulty that gives you the rarest SS drops, as well as lots of spare A and S weapons for synthesizing.I have been loving this game since I got it around thanksgiving. I am on my second play through on hard right now, so far it's pretty easy except for the defend a guy part. Little worried about when I have to defend two guys later on. I've completed most of the challenge missions too.
Only thing I don't really care for is the grind to upgrade your weapons. I don't mind a grind, especially in a game with such great combat, but the amount of time I spend manually synthesizing weapons is tedious. Wish it had a more streamlined method.
Beat the game on warrior. Dope as hell. I liked it more the more I played. I wish the characters played more differently though, outside of grimlock they all have really similar moves outside of their special.
Their differences become more apparent on harder modes when you'll be using their specials and vehicle attacks more often for the invulnerability frames. Also their differences in attack speed and damage are more apparent when you start having to learn them by heart.
Yeah, I spent most of the game playing as sideswipe or whatever his name is, so maybe the others will feel more unique the more time I spend with them
OK Ive been enjoying this - loving the little mini-games that pop up through the story. Havent finished it but started looking at the challenges - how the heck do you even survive on the warrior/commander difficultly let alone finish it?!? All our moves just feel like they do chip damage...
Also does the first challenge level max out at B?
Been using Sideswipe as I didnt realise you can change them in game - kinda liked that he has dual swords though!
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Cheers for the info dude, some of it went over my head - after seeing the GDQ run I think Im just gonna skulked into my corner and pretend Im still competent at this game...No, you can SS rank all challenges as far as I know. Getting headshots is a good way to increase your score, and you can also go into your vehicle combo ender whenever you land them. I found a good combo to be using your rush move (do a heavy attack while in vehicle mode then mash heavy for the punch barrage), but instead of hitting R1 when the blue light flashes, go for a few headshots first, then when it flashes blue hit R1 then.
In terms of characters, most characters can use each weapon. It tells you who can equip what on the equipment screen. But basically Grimlock is awkward in what he can use, Optimus and Grimlock can use heavy weapons, Wheeljack can use a few of those, and everyone can use everything else.
Wow! Can't blame you.Saur has commented "that was amazing" in one of my videos. My ego has its own gravity well right now.
Is there any way to tell which chapters you've beaten on which difficulty and with which character?
Apologies if this has been answered elsewhere...
Any differences between the XB1 and PS4 versions I should know about?
I'm sad that this game never got proper DLC content. Extra missions and bosses, new characters, challenge packs, more costumes.... nothing.
Yeah, it's a bummer. The way the bosses play out, a playable Decepticon pack seems like it would have been relatively simple to develop, and they even have AI patterns for the Autobots too. With any luck we'll get a sequel next year, especially now that it seems Activision isn't too concerned about art direction synergy in licensed games releasing close to movies of the same franchise.
A second episode is probably coming. I read they were planning to make a franchise.