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09 September 2008 03:31 (UK time)
Canuck wrote:
Edit: Exactly what original M2 elements don't you like? Just curious.
Well there is a heavy imbalance of proportions. That's a weird way to put it, but the gameplay is simply not in the players favor.
The only advantage the player has against the enemy AI is that it is able to hold and switch between many different weapons. Essentially everything else has stronger or equal strengths against the player. All the enemies use the same weapons as the player, which essentially is pretty realistic, however it can make lone wolf missions such as the ones in your mod pretty much impossible.
In almost every good game, if the player has to fight a ton of enemies, he needs an edge over them. His weapons need to shoot faster, more accurate, bigger clip size, more damage, extra health, SOMETHING. The player is pretty much equal to his opponents except having about twice as much health. Fighting guarding enemies is simple since they take a while to turn around, however guys that are roaming are fast and extremely alert of their surroundings, and can evidently use the same weapons you do, except much better, getting direct shots (If the spray factor permits) at the very peak of its firing range. I simply cannot fight the enemies in M2 without them doing some amount of damage on me first. I constantly have to rely on maps being loaded with medikits in each room in order to survive.
The way M2 expects you to have to kill many different enemies in large groups without giving you any sort of an advantage against them besides pure inconsistent luck is what makes the game not fun. This the explanation I have for making my mods use bullets as projectiles you can dodge. While it may be a little unrealistic, the way enemies in Meteor sort of stand in the way of projectiles making no motion to avoid them makes them less stressful to fight, since you can see the bullets coming in your direction and you make the effort to escape their line of fire. The enemies not having the ability to do that gives the player the edge, and therefore it's more fun to play since you can kill many enemies without getting massacred everytime you fight them, unless you are absolutely lazy and make no effort to survive.
I've played many first person shooters and other various games. Things that are important in them is that the player should be able to learn from his mistakes. If the player can learn to avoid making those mistakes, he should be rewarded. i.e. If bullets are coming your way, and you don't move, you will almost indifinitely die or become severely injured. Learning to stride out of the way of incoming bullets rewards you by not losing any health in the battle, and thus being able to continue playing the game. Another reward is watching your opponent die. Seeing your opponent fall to the ground in a splash of blood is an excellent way of rewarding the player, especially if the enemy is really frustrating to fight, and the player had grown to hate that certain enemy.
M2 doesn't really offer much of this. Enemies certainly drop dead on the floor after you kill them, but its more of a releif than a reward. I have yet to come up with a working strategy for killing enemies in M2 besides rustling up some troops and getting them to fight battles for me. (BORING). I still get shot every single time i come in contact with a pistol trooper. There may have been one or two times where i was able to kill them without taking a single shot, this is likely due to extreme luck. And relying strictly on like is not a plausible strategy for any game. Meteor 2 really needs to be redesigned to have fair battles.
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