How's the single player experience?

[Victor]

Just curious, as I'm mostly interested in single player / campaigns in games as I don't really know anyone to play with for some multiplayer. How many hours is the campaign roughly and what's the replay value like? Cheers.

[Syrus]

Hello, singleplayer campaign can last beetwen 7-30 hours, depends how big of a completionist are you, and if you wish so you can replay it with some 'perma' death modes for some bigger challenge,

Aside from that we have 'Survival' which is essentially a multiplayer game with randomly generated stuff, that enables you to play it like singleplayer is played.

Hope that helps! :)

[Rhysavus]

The Campaign starts off easy and escalates in difficulty quite rapidly.

Even as a player that knew his stuff, I was having trouble with the last 5 missions due to stronger enemies, more intense wave attacks, etc.

What the campaign is good at is making you feel a sense of responsibility. You'll know the importance of a group, how to use abilities more efficicently, how to combat hordes as well as bosses, and how to deal with split-second decisions that could wipe you.

I would rate the second half of the campaign to be as difficult as the later sections of a game of MP depending on your team. It's beautifully created to teach the game rather than be a walk in the park.

Until you get a Hellspawn right outside the last objective......

[Harukage]

Originally posted by BWC Evans:

Until you get a Hellspawn right outside the last objective...... :ritonaworried:

Yeah. I liked that move so much.
The only thing better was Nyx droping nuke on your head after death in multiplayer. But it seems developers thought that it was too much too, because without a full shileds termie you are boned 95% of time with that.

[Syrus]

You can just run past hellspawn wihtout even touching him ;)

[Stock]

Tried the second mission on veteran.
The funny thing is that when you die, the game lets you load the last checkpoint, BUT the seismic charges you have spent stay gone, so you have no chance to take down the nests.

Edit: Gave it another try today and made it through and never lost the whole squad once.
I guess it took a new approach and practice.

Playing the singleplayer campaign cooperatively with my friends would really be something!

[vexo]

When you die, if you have space in inventory it will be ressuplied with 2 seismic resonators, also in new patch holes that you close, will stay closed, new patch will be today.

[LoveFist]

You need to have space in your inventory and you need to have zero seismic resonators on you when you die. You can drop them to the ground before dying to "cheat" the system :)

[Moose]

Singleplayer is a solid game in it's own right. Past the first couple missions it still teaches you the importance of using your team, but in a more brutal Game Over sort of way and realistically, this will help you understand key concepts when traversing into multiplayer.

[Kreed]

i ve played he campaign abot 7 times now from beginning to end and its still fun to figure out new tactics.
And im still not able to beat "super hardcore mode" :D

[p0xy]

JC if you end up buying the game then feel free to add myself, Lord Poodle Moth, Wrecker or some of the other players that have been around for a while. We're always happy to help get new players into games.

You'll find that the majority of the vets are very friendly and happy to help.

You'll find that the community is like 1 big family. Once you have played for a while, you'll begin to recognize everyone and know their playstyles.

[Victor]

Originally posted by p0xy:

JC if you end up buying the game then feel free to add myself, Lord Poodle Moth, Wrecker or some of the other players that have been around for a while. We're always happy to help get new players into games.

You'll find that the majority of the vets are very friendly and happy to help.

You'll find that the community is like 1 big family. Once you have played for a while, you'll begin to recognize everyone and know their playstyles.

Thanks mate, I'll keep that in mind if I pick up the game - which I reckon I will, looks like fun!

Cheers all for your responses. (:

[Morphic]

When I saw this game on the front page, I immediately wanted to make a similar thread lol.

I, too, am interested in this game. Thanks to the OP and the responses I'm encouraged about the singleplayer aspect. However I'm still unsure/misunderstanding the multiplayer and Survival mode component.

Is Survival a seperate mode that can be played Singleplayer or is it a Multiplayer mode that must be played with other people? While I'm interested in how a Tactical Squad based game performs in a Multiplayer setting, my primary interest is Singleplayer.

[Diode]

Originally posted by Setzway:

When I saw this game on the front page, I immediately wanted to make a similar thread lol.

I, too, am interested in this game. Thanks to the OP and the responses I'm encouraged about the singleplayer aspect. However I'm still unsure/misunderstanding the multiplayer and Survival mode component.

Is Survival a seperate mode that can be played Singleplayer or is it a Multiplayer mode that must be played with other people? While I'm interested in how a Tactical Squad based game performs in a Multiplayer setting, my primary interest is Singleplayer.

Survial mode is tactical mode in a multiplayer environment and you only play by yourself with 3 npcs following you. You would be playing Multiplayer objectives/storylines.

Mulitplayer mode is with other people and you can't use tactical mode with that.

Single player is the using the tactical squad mode and playing through a storyline.

[Zenoslaf]

Single player is hard and fun although Tactical mode is a life saver. :) In my opinion. But there are many hardcore gamers in this community that enjoy playing it on even harder modes.