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Originally Posted by Mack the Knife
you guys seem to be putting up with my stupid questions so let me ask another. i've played MoW and am currently playing/finishing red tide (civ V interrupted me). i was able to try assault squad (thanks to KageToraUK) using the skirmish mode in multiplayer. I AM NOT a multiplayer player. the single player component in the final game is skirmish, you guys think it will be the same gameplay as i'm seeing in the multiplayer skirmish mode? i mean, it sucks! a hail of bullets from the bad guys surrounding a flag while i return that hail of bullets trying to get it? is that all there is to skirmish? right now in red tide i'm using a sniper to pick off the machine gunner in his lookout tower while a couple of my other guys lie hidden picking off the ground troops that come looking for me as a result of my shot. i'm talking strategy, tactics, logistics in red tide while skirmish in assault squad just seems to be kamikaze charges. is that it? is that why it's called assault squad? you guys like that kind of battle? or am i just frickin' wrong about all this?  |
I played it twice - once on my own and once with a friend - and both times the game wasn't finished. The first time I was just 'checking it out', as AS had only become available minutes before (very late at night), so I just wanted to see what it was like. An hour later, and I was still stuck on the first line of flags, so I gave up and went to bed. Next day, played again with a friend, and after two hours of relentless pushing, we'd only just managed to secure the third line of flags before both of us decided it was too long. The difficulty setting was on medium. So, I will say, it was very hard, and in my opinion, way too long for a multiplayer game of this sort (I play SOASE multiplayer, and games there can last for days, but it's a different type of game entirely). Thing is, it'll just take some getting used to. There is more you can do with squads in AS. The reason we'd managed to get as far as the third line of flags was because we worked out a tactic that seemed to work for us (one of which was taking it in turns to go around 'healing' dying soldiers behind the front line, repairing damaged tanks, etc). In addition to our own German tanks, we had a few Shermans (not excellent tanks, but the more armour the better).
Basically, what I'm saying is, the more you play it, the more you'll get to know what works. AS is actually quite different from MoW.
On a side note, if all you really want is the original MoW multiplayer-type game, but for single player, then check this out, if you haven't done so already:
If you haven't got this already, look on that video's page for the download link, or visit DMS or sust3.
11-07-2010, 10:54 AM
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