stealth section

[scragglie]

no spoilers but there is a forced story stealth section in this game and it is utter garbage, if you dont like stealth sections i have bad news for you. its here and its real bad. why do games still feel the need to give us these downright awful and completely unfun forced stealth sections right in the middle of an excellent game? astral chain had a very similar forced stealth section and it was just as bad as it is here. please game dev studios, if you are going to put "stealth" into your game, make it work and make some kind of sense please.

[Mattrex]

I disagree. It's neither very long nor very bad. You spend maybe ten, fifteen minutes doing it and the game gives you ample opportunities to both ambush enemies for instant kills and hide from your pursuers who you can't fight head-on. You never encounter more than a couple of enemies at once, enemies patrol on very predictable paths, none of them move particularly quickly, and enemy awareness is so constrained that they can only detect you anyway if you're directly in front of them on the same elevation.

As far as making sense goes narratively, it begins with an appropriate story beat that explains exactly why you're doing what you're doing, and ends as soon as it would make sense to.

[Skater901]

To add my 2 cents, I wouldn't say it's a terrible section, but it certainly wasn't my favourite. It is pretty short which makes it not too bad, but there was one point where I got spotted by the main pursuer even though I'm pretty sure I was out of line-of-sight, and I also got stuck on where to go cause it's so dark. I'll say this much; the fun part of this game is NOT sneaking around hiding from enemies. It's fighting and parrying insane boss fights. (And exploring, and general combat)

[Scorpix]

Originally posted by Skater901:

To add my 2 cents, I wouldn't say it's a terrible section, but it certainly wasn't my favourite. It is pretty short which makes it not too bad, but there was one point where I got spotted by the main pursuer even though I'm pretty sure I was out of line-of-sight, and I also got stuck on where to go cause it's so dark. I'll say this much; the fun part of this game is NOT sneaking around hiding from enemies. It's fighting and parrying insane boss fights. (And exploring, and general combat)

If you dont see what is in dark use nymph. This section is actually great to test your skills in using nymph

[Omega]

I hated it until I've learned you can actually parry them and kill them.

[Rubyeyed]

Want to know what a bad forced stealth section is? Go play Lords of Shadow 2.

Stealth section in this game isn't even bad. It is just boring. Wait for the eye to pass, hide in the pot, kill a guy, wait, hide in the pot and so on. You get shortcuts also. The only tricky part is near the end with 2 guards patrolling because you have to stealth kill them to not trigger the alarm. That's the only "hard" part which entails just waiting 30s for the other guy to come back to you.

It isn't fun but it's not something to cry about either.

[Rubyeyed]

Originally posted by GladiOol:

Originally posted by Rubyeyed:

Want to know what a bad forced stealth section is? Go play Lords of Shadow 2.

Stealth section in this game isn't even bad. It is just boring. Wait for the eye to pass, hide in the pot, kill a guy, wait, hide in the pot and so on. You get shortcuts also. The only tricky part is near the end with 2 guards patrolling because you have to stealth kill them to not trigger the alarm. That's the only "hard" part which entails just waiting 30s for the other guy to come back to you.

It isn't fun but it's not something to cry about either.

Ahh when something is not fun and bad you can't complain because some other game maybe did it worse! Or maybe, it's not that long! See, no complaining! Where is the treshhold? 20 minute bad section = I can finally criticize it? 30 minutes? 1 hour? Oh lord Rubyeyed, where does thou draw the line in life for a mere cretin like myself to be allowed to express a semblance of critique or a morsel of frustration? I am begging you, I wish to express my grievances!

Making a mountain out of a molehill. That's what this topic is. Keep up the theatrics though, it was a fun read. Also, maybe work on expressing those grievances more clearly because all you said was "it's so bad I'm uninstalling". Very constructive and informative.