Caesar III
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I just want to tune in with the praise. What a great game! Finished the first mission now and I love it.
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Shadow Tactics |OT| A worthy Commandos spiritual successor [PS4/X1 on August 1st]
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More_Badass
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"Overwhelmingly Positive" on Steam
Owners: 18,668 ±3,560, which in five days is already nearly half of the sales of their previous game (The Last Tinker, 2014 release, 39,824 ± 5,200)
This is seeming like a solid success for them.
Owners: 18,668 ±3,560, which in five days is already nearly half of the sales of their previous game (The Last Tinker, 2014 release, 39,824 ± 5,200)
This is seeming like a solid success for them.
Green Yoshi
Member
It seems to be quite succesful. Happy to hear.
https://www.facebook.com/shadowtact...601528299444/1205045866255008/?type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/shadowtact...601528299444/1205045866255008/?type=3&theater
HashtagLapsed
Member
I am so happy to hear it is turning out to be a success.
HashtagLapsed
Member
Is there a console version confirmed? It wouldn't surprise me given controller support.
Hopefully it gets even more exposure then.
Hopefully it gets even more exposure then.
Coreda
Member
More surprising to me was it was only two years in development.
More_Badass
Member
Says that PS4/Xbox versions are "coming soon" on the site
grandwizard
Member
These missions can take a really long time. I was initially put off by the mission count but seeing as how I can put an hour and a half into one and not even be doing challenges I think it'll be more than enough.
O.DOGG
Member
Yes, the missions are very long. I've put in 14 hours according to Steam, and I'm currently up to Mission 7. There's a lot of value in that game, especially if you go back and try to get the badges or replay on harder difficulty.
Zepp Twofist
Member
THIS GAME.
It took me two and a half hours to complete the fifth mission.Killing guards is also way too much fun. I even do it when I don't have toBut blowing up the target and his samurai with a grenade was worth it.
I usually kill everyone that I can, so I end up spending way above average time on each mission. Sometimes I find myself just killing my way through a place, and the I remember that there are actually objectives.
Btw, do anyone know of other ways to kill samurai than using Mugen or the pistols?
HashtagLapsed
Member
Ive been playing for about 9 hours and up to the fifth stage.
I want to go back and do a lot of the challenges but there is no way I will ever get the speed running one. There is just no way.
I want to go back and do a lot of the challenges but there is no way I will ever get the speed running one. There is just no way.
That demo is selling a lot of copies and it's especially helpful because $40 price point is considered quite high in the PC market right now. You try the demo and realize the game is actually really that good and the price point starts to feel pretty fair. Demo won't do you much good if your game isn't great but when it is, it's still a great tool for promotion.
Coriolanus
Banned
Dropping/throwing stuff on top of them does the trick.
I once dropped a dead body on one, then had another character kill him while he was knocked out.
13 missions. Some are quite time-consuming and require a lot of thought on how to approach them (last mission took me 3 hours).
I agree, it's sort of short if it's a full priced game. For a $40 game, its value is what I expected. Could've been a bit more though, something like the evasive targets in Hitman will be great.
MrCompletely
Member
This is about on par with me, I'm at 10 hours and at the end of the 4th mission, which is already very challenging. Maybe it's me, but this game can be pretty pretty hard at times.
I wouldn't say so. Commandos 2 had 10 missions (plus really short intermezzo's/gimmicks) and Commandos 3's campaign was pretty small as I remember.
The missions in this game are quite substantial and there's a ton of extra challenges for replay value.
I mean, personally, I got my money's worth.
Yeah, I got stuck at the end of the 1st level in the demo. The guard patrols just eluded me.
Then I came back to it later in the day and figured out pretty quickly what I needed to be doing.
Game feels very puzzle-like in that way.
Coriolanus
Banned
How so? Q/E for 90º shifts, alt for gradual turning in the rare situations when it is needed pretty much covered all bases.
game does seem a bit finicky with allowing you to throw bodies from ledges tho, regardless of angle.
I completely forgot that you could free rotate the camera, i have been playing left handed and didn't bind the free turn anywhere and i had a bunch of trouble aiming the camera around ledges in the second mission and a few minor locations in the first mission. I need to remember to bind it as soon as i get home.
Yeah, first thing I did was WASD that camera up. Put my Character selection to F1-F5, Abilities to 1-6. I believe I also mapped Use to X and Free Camera to L-Alt.
Game plays like a dream now.
The best part is, if you're playing the demo and unsure whether to buy, it saves your bindings/settings between play sessions.
Oh, and I flipped the audio dialogue to Japanese. So good.
Game plays like a dream now.
The best part is, if you're playing the demo and unsure whether to buy, it saves your bindings/settings between play sessions.
Oh, and I flipped the audio dialogue to Japanese. So good.
I am just glad it has full controller support, a rarity in strategy game.
It's about 25 hours minimum if you're quick without replaying any of the missions for badges, challenges, and whatnot. That's short?!
publicpwnerer
Member
This game is brilliant, but I have some gripes, design wise. There's nothing inherently wrong with anything, just clashes with my own preferences.
I really would've loved the ability to play a single character with a sense of progression and arsenal customization (playing the way you prefer). The game presents itself as a stealth / tactics game, but I just feel like in reality, it ends up being a puzzle game, with each character bringing their own gimmick that's required to get through certain sections.
It reminds me of Aragami somewhat. Dressed up as a stealth-action game, but it's essentially a room clearing puzzle.
I really would've loved the ability to play a single character with a sense of progression and arsenal customization (playing the way you prefer). The game presents itself as a stealth / tactics game, but I just feel like in reality, it ends up being a puzzle game, with each character bringing their own gimmick that's required to get through certain sections.
It reminds me of Aragami somewhat. Dressed up as a stealth-action game, but it's essentially a room clearing puzzle.
Agreed.
It's kind of cool that you can play it both ways...Point & Click navigation, or straight up controller-stick movement ala Diablo 3 (console ed.).
I really like the way it feels on k/m, but I'll have to remember to give the 'ol 360 pad a try at some point.
afternoon delight
Member
This is exactly how I would play, glad to hear your impressions.
For me the closest comparison (Commandos and Desperados aside) would probably be Mark of the Ninja, which feels pretty similar despite looking like a very different game. And, yeah, it's absolutely a puzzle -- but, then again, isn't every "serious" stealth game to some degree?
Maybe you're right, I can see the values are definitely there. I was more from a "structural" perspective. The first 4 level are basically the introduction to the characters, ( which is where I am at now ). Then you have 8 levels plus a final. The ratio 4:9 is what makes me feel "short". I don't know, maybe compress the introduction levels to two? I was also comparing it to a full priced game, so, there is that.
Anyway, I may feel different when I finish the game. Can't wait.
Goddamn it, get out of my head! LOL.
True story: 5 or 10 minutes into the demo I thought, "This feels like Mark of the Ninja."
One of the major reasons I insta-bought it.
Coriolanus
Banned
abstractify games enough and every game is a puzzle.
As far as I am informed by vert boil from the Xbox One Download Games Thread it is scheduled for Q2. No source though.
Wondering how the gameplay changes with the direct control.
More_Badass
Member
You can find out now. The PC version has full gamepad support
grandwizard
Member
Yeah I've always thought of stealth games as a certain type of puzzle game. Good ones will have multiple solutions but it's usually about the planning more than the execution of it. Shadow Tactics is a pretty awesome balance where you have to plan a lot and scout a lot but it being in real time makes it so there is still the tense part where you have to do the thing.
Out_Of_Ammo
Member
Bought this game yesterday after playing the demo. Love it so far.
Lumination
'enry 'ollins
Had a lot of fun with the demo. In the full game, do the badges unlock anything or are they just for personal achievement? And how many levels are there? After the first level in the demo, it said I was on level 2/9, but there can't be 9 levels in the demo right...?
One Foul Note
Member
Their are 13 levels in the full game. This is just a guess but that 2/9 number you saw might have been the badge number on the first level, telling you that you completed 2 of the 9 badges. I haven't collected enough badges to confirm if they do anything, but so far their is no sign that they do anything other then mark off a personal achievement.
I've managed to do a total stealth run on mission...11, I think? The mission where
. I made my way to
without killing or knocking out anybody, being spotted, and without using any disguise....but now I'm stuck.
I can find no way to
without being seen....and even if I could I can see no way of
safely either.
So I may be forced to start killing people.
you have to kidnap Noburu's son
the bathhouse
I can find no way to
knock out the target
getting him to the boat
So I may be forced to start killing people.