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I’m so happy this is meant to be good and different. I got bored of the DLCs in 3 and 4 as it was doing the same thing over and over again and the continuous bigging up of Churchill got a bit too much. Reminds me of Hitman, where the whole thing is about setting up an arena, but fell off Hitman 3 which was just a shiny Hitmans 1+2 (was also disgusted with the Dubai setting there though).

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Uncle Nasty

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14 minutes ago, Gringo said:

Be interesting to see how the AI has been improved.

 

Talked about by ACG, he goes into detail about the AI flanking, pincering, creating a fog of war and in general being upgraded over the previous games. Some problems at chokepoints/bottlenecks where the AI will pile through doorways into your fire, but will still sometimes retreat. Lots of options for tweaking the AI in the options. Looks solid overall.

 

Been a good while since I played a shooter with great level design and AI. Really looking forward to this.

 

 

 

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Uncle Nasty

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2 minutes ago, Gringo said:

That review video has me super excited @Uncle Nasty. This is gonna be brilliant. 

 

I reckon so too. Toying with the AI in this series is brilliant fun, so with more advanced AI and improvements to the already superb level design, it's sure to be great.

 

The Souls-esqe invasions looks gloriously tense. Didn't know abut that until today and it's made me even more hyped. I saw something about a system that works like bonfires for different starting points too, another Souls-like element.

 

Very much looking forward to a full day on it tomorrow.

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Uncle Nasty

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16 minutes ago, Mystacon said:

I remember really enjoying Sniper Elite 2 but never bothered with 3 or 4. Not for any particular reason, just never got round to it. The Eurogamer ‘Essential’ has certainly piqued my interest.

 

Yeah, this especially:

 

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Spy Academy will likely be the level everyone remembers, but it's just one of several tremendously realised locations – the best sandboxes this side of IO's Hitman trilogy. The fourth level, War Factory, takes place in a sprawling industrial complex where Fairburne sabotages towering blast furnaces and sweltering steelworks. The sixth level, Libération, is like half a Call of Duty campaign crammed into one level, a rolling valley filled with French villages guarded by tanks, armoured cars, and counter-snipers. One of the most open-ended levels in the game, Libération provides ample opportunity for sniping, stealth, or blowing the scheiße out of everything with Panzerfausts and anti-tanks guns.

 

I'm not even that bothered about the setting or historical aspect of these games, it's just that they do sandbox sniping and level design so well.

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I played some of SE2 on console, kind of enjoyed some of it but found the controls really clunky and ultimately the gameplay loop very repetitive. Tried SE4 and found it identical bar the addition of cavernous levels and loads of enemies, both of which detracted from the limited enjoyment I found in SE2. Eurogamer’s Essential made it sound fantastic and on paper right up my street but not sure if I’m prepared to give it another go. At least not at full price. 

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Mr. Gerbik

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4 minutes ago, Doctor Shark said:

I’ve never played one of these and always assumed they were a bit like that hitman sniping mini game IO released, with you permanently fixed to a spot and just shooting folks. Interesting to see it’s more like a 3rd person stealth game. 

No it's more like What If Proper Hitman As A Sniper instead of that minigame. SE4 is in my top 20 best games of all time. Easily one of the best shooters ever made, the emergent fun possibilities and exhilarating scenarios you create/accomplish are endlessly fun.

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Mr. Gerbik

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10 minutes ago, petrolgirls said:

I played some of SE2 on console, kind of enjoyed some of it but found the controls really clunky and ultimately the gameplay loop very repetitive. Tried SE4 and found it identical bar the addition of cavernous levels and loads of enemies, both of which detracted from the limited enjoyment I found in SE2. Eurogamer’s Essential made it sound fantastic and on paper right up my street but not sure if I’m prepared to give it another go. At least not at full price. 

SE5 is on game pass, surely you can afford the £1 to give it another chance :)

 

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1 hour ago, petrolgirls said:

I played some of SE2 on console, kind of enjoyed some of it but found the controls really clunky and ultimately the gameplay loop very repetitive. Tried SE4 and found it identical bar the addition of cavernous levels and loads of enemies, both of which detracted from the limited enjoyment I found in SE2. Eurogamer’s Essential made it sound fantastic and on paper right up my street but not sure if I’m prepared to give it another go. At least not at full price. 


You’re not going to like this either then. The game is all about that excellent loop, and 5 won’t differ from 4 at all in that regard.

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My problem with Sniper Elite is I don't like when a plan doesn't come together. I struggle to just go with the flow and accept when things get messed up and adapt to them. It's too easy to hit reload.

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It's a slightly weird thing Sniper Elite, in that it's a fairly serious military sniping game, especially on the higher difficulties, which also features these insanely lurid and OTT slow-motion sequences where you blow someone's jaw off or explode their testicles. The nut detonation is a slightly odd fit with other elements of the game, i.e. the way that you find out small bits of trivia about soldiers by scanning them, which humanises them slightly. It makes me feel slightly queasy when I read a profile of a guard that says he has nightmares about his older brother drowning his dog when he was 5, and then I kill them from 300 metres away by blowing a hole through their neck vertebrae.

 

In its own way, the weird contrast between those bits and the rest of the game does the job of at least making you think a bit about what you're doing and why. And the for the avoidance of doubt, this isn't a criticism - I like the game a lot, and the tone is an interesting mix of realism and bonkers levels of gore - but it is slightly odd.

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49 minutes ago, Ry said:

 

IGN review showed the AI being awful and buggy. 


Boo, that’s not an improvement. That was my one slight criticism of 4 that even at the higher difficulty levels the AI being a bit dumb broke the immersion. 
 

I’ll still enjoy it and look forward to a blast tonight.

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