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The Last of Us
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So, what is everyones weapon of choice. I try to keep with the bow but the shotgun is most effective. Can't stand the rifle. Molotov is deadly as well. Haven't used a smoke bomb yet, really should!I really like the bow myself. Silent, almost always a one-hit kill and you can often pick up the same arrows again after firing them (some break though). The Molotovs are devastating too. I remember, at one stage, there were a number of clickers about and a bloater. I threw a bottle first to get them all to congregate in one spot, then threw the Molotov - it killed all of them, even the bloater!
I found the melee weapons with the shivs attached useless though. Shivs on their own are way more useful as they are silent, and by the time you need to use a melee weapon, a gun is probably better because you are normally spotted in that case.I've found the melee with shiv just deadly one hitting people, waste of shivs though so very rarely make one. Since upgrading to shiv master and getting the upgraded shiv manual, I get 3 goes with one shiv and using a shiv defending against a clicker doesn't use it up. Makes clickers almost redundant.Flamethrower, least against the infected :cool:
From a combat point of view, I was never truly sold on the bow. It takes down soldiers and hunters in one hit, but infected was hit and miss. It takes a headshot to take down a clicker and when they are ambling about, that's a difficult thing to pull off.
The flamethrower is awesome. Roasts everything and it's ammo lasts surprisingly well. Will kill a dozen infected in 12 seconds flat. Nuff said
I used the shotgun the most and upgraded it the most. It felt really satisfying to blow a runner away point blank. The short range is a killer though because it can take 3 or 4 shots to kill a guy who isn't right in front of you.
The Revolver and 9mm are okay. The Revolver is fun even if it's rate of fire is slow....too slow at first. But it is satisfying to shoot. The default 9mm pistol does no damage but it's magazine is so big and there is so much ammo for it that you can just pepper people and it works.
I loved the El Diablo. Always a one hit kill, has a scope, feels epic to fire and when you upgrade it, unstoppable. I wish you got it earlier in the game as for me, it was the last gun I picked up.
The shorty sawn off seemed pretty terrible to me, even after I upgraded it. Not enough damage, not enough rounds in the chamber and too short range. Poor version of the regular shotgun. It get's points for originally being Ish's gun though. :P
The hunting rifle isn't great at first because it feels weak. It takes two shots atleast to kill. When you upgrade it's power, it becomes the best gun in the game imo. It has a scope, is a one hit kill at any range , and can hold a few bullets before reload. The problem is, that you need 4 or 5 tools to upgrade it's power so its fairly late in the game by the time it becomes really good. Obviously if you are a headshot master, power doesn't matter but I can't hit a running target in the head with a PS controller.0 -
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First boardsie to finish and upload a pic of it winsThe problem with Survivor is the No Listen mode aspect of it. I can deal with hardly any supplies and getting one shotted by everything.....but I used listen mode so much on my own first playthrough that I think I would be a bumbling mess without it.....bumping into every enemy I don't see. :P 0 -
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There's something that annoys me as a scientist and it's that Naughty Dog have their science all confused.
The clickers are presumably blind and can only detect sound. However they use echoloactioning. The thing is echo locationing allows you to see by bouncing sound waves off objects and using the time the wave returns to build a picture around you. So they aren't actually blind. Which is how sight works except it does the same with light waves and stereoscopy and assumptions to estimate positition. So if they were using echolocationing you couldn't sneak past because they would see you and even if you stood still they'd still see a human shaped object.
Just a small annoyance. I suppose stupid science is a trade off for that terrifying clicking noise.
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Retr0gamer wrote: »There's something that annoys me as a scientist and it's that Naughty Dog have their science all confused.
The clickers are presumably blind and can only detect sound. However they use echoloactioning. The thing is echo locationing allows you to see by bouncing sound waves off objects and using the time the wave returns to build a picture around you. So they aren't actually blind. Which is how sight works except it does the same with light waves and stereoscopy and assumptions to estimate positition. So if they were using echolocationing you couldn't sneak past because they would see you and even if you stood still they'd still see a human shaped object.
Just a small annoyance. I suppose stupid science is a trade off for that terrifying clicking noise.
But the Cordyceps infecting the human and turning them into flesh eating monsters you can accept? :pac: Suspend your disbelief, tis but a game.
^ NotorietyH - I left a game early by mistake today while doing a challenge that was risking 100% of my population and despite having 25/25 heals the game registered it as a 0/25 because I left and my entire clan died and I had to start again after 7 weeks
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But the Cordyceps infecting the human and turning them into flesh eating monsters you can accept? :pac: Suspend your disbelief, tis but a game.
I'm sorry but this is the worst case of science abuse since Sigorney Weaver's disgraceful handling of a micropipette in Avatar. That's a 300 euro peice of precision equipment you've just ruined!
...sorry.
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But the Cordyceps infecting the human and turning them into flesh eating monsters you can accept? :pac: Suspend your disbelief, tis but a game.
^ NotorietyH - I left a game early by mistake today while doing a challenge that was risking 100% of my population and despite having 25/25 heals the game registered it as a 0/25 because I left and my entire clan died and I had to start again after 7 weeks
Aw man, that sucks! There's the odd little begin multiplayer like that. It constantly says my explosion expert perk is new because I blocked it early with the pre-order dlc. The constant exclamation mark is driving me nuts. Not nearly as annoying as losing your entire population though. That's very disheartening.0
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