Maeko Hayes missions are the absolute worse.

[Cummings]

I get that with the story the MC has to take an active role. I love the game even its BS, but what adds an exponential amount of BULL to the frustration are these levels where they take away your squad and make you control Hayes. With the detection mechanic being as broken as it is, it doesn't matter when you're rocking a squad of Bada** marines, but when your Maeko and you can't outrun the alien you can't break line of sight and hide or you can't redo without restarting and losing a vast majority of progress. It almost mad me quit the game multiple times. That and the super long tutorial making repeat play throughs almost unbearable. When you get into the thick of the survival aspects and see the slow descent of your marines to madness is my favorite part of this, I enjoyed those last stands and desperate retreats back to the APC loosing marines along the way. But these missions make it almost not worth the slog.

[Aniki]

I'm on mission 10 and to me, Maeko's missions were the easiest ones by far. You just have to be patient and know when to move.

[Flavalicious]

The first xeno encounter with her was hella annoying because the auto save was before you activate the console lol. So while your learning how detection works, when you get caught and killed, its like 30 seconds of down time before you can try again, with looping audio. LOL.

The later missions with her were better. Helps when you know how the game works.

[Lokocz]

Originally posted by Cummings:

but when your Maeko and you can't outrun the alien you can't break line of sight and hide or you can't redo without restarting and losing a vast majority of progress.

Now my friend, replace every "you" with "I" and perhaps this will force you to some reflection? :)
These parts with Makeo are super-easy.

[MassImpact124]

This guy has only played 24 hours of this game and insists that he's played through to the end. I'd report him.

[Flavalicious]

Originally posted by MassImpact124:

This guy has only played 24 hours of this game and insists that he's played through to the end. I'd report him.

???

I just beat the game at the 27 hour mark, only 3 hours more then him.

Was definitely doable a few hours faster, I spent some time trying to fix a bugged side mission.

[Wyrm]

I wish these missions were skippable. They were okay to play ONCE. But on my second playthrough I just stopped playing when I reached them. They add no enjoyment, they just feel like a chore.

[LukanGamer]

ya they are absolute garbage, poorly done in every way from narrative-requiring too do it in exact way or fail (so may as well stay a scene)-sense ability-making it even look the same as the scene-gameplay-everything

thankfully there only a few and they are quite quick (though having too redo zap the alien was annoying since I kept thinking various logical ways and not just doing the perfectly time way... hell they even let you do a do over in case it fails but moment you do it you pretty much need too succeed or he eats you).

[ScarScream]

They are really easy and quite short (around 15 minutes max).

Also I can't believe the OP saying you can't hide with Maeko... Really?? You do realize it's the same game and same controls? Just click behind cover where there is a green dot and press control..

Jesus H Christ..

[LukanGamer]

Originally posted by ScarScream:

They are really easy and quite short (around 15 minutes max).

Also I can't believe the OP saying you can't hide with Maeko... Really?? You do realize it's the same game and same controls? Just click behind cover where there is a green dot and press control..

Jesus H Christ..

I think he refering too the fact the alien smells that ugly w0man from miles away, "conveniently" walks in areas she needs too be, and bum rushes too destroy her in secs the moment she slightly visible with no remorse or method too survive like golem in golum getting detected may as well be what it does (which ya even that game would be a improvement over her sections in every way other then length)..

[RobBobBrah]

Just download cheat engine and use the speed multiplier script. I set it to 5 and blitzed through the BS. Wtf is wrong with the developers anyways? Their attempt at imitating Isolation is pathetic and stupid.

[TigerClaw89]

Super easy and fun playing her, devs added some alien isolation horror to this allready great game, with her missions.

[GasmaskMSK]

I hate scripted scenarios. Period.

Each and every time I lose control of my units and they run into trouble - and I CANNOT do ANYTHING about it - it pisses me off.