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The combat is really f**king cool, there’s different lobbies, each named after a MGS character ; Snake, Otacon, Liquid etc (yeah, 95% of the people are in Snake lobby).
- It’s rather annoying to change to first person mode (L1+triangle) especially when you’re fighting people. The box has made a return! It’s pretty funny that I managed to kill quite from a cardboard box that totally didn’t fit in with the environment.
- There are only two maps in the beta. One looks like the arctic and the other is something like the middle east that we see in the trailers and gameplay footage.
- Voice chat is supported as well as typing. To bring up chat window is left or right on the d-pad.
- To change to the position on your back once laying down is triangle, tapping triangle and holding the joystick in whatever direction will allow you to roll in that said direction.
- Grenades are cool, so are stun knifes.
- No slow down, solid frame rate.
- The camera control can be customized in the options menu, at first it was a pain. You can invert etc and if you so wish, have it player controlled entirely.
- Difficulty wise, it’s not hard to get the hang of at all. It took a bit of ‘mashing’ to find out how to roll onto the back of your character
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- The visuals are ‘nice’ but they seem to be a bit unpolished right now as the game is still in the beta phase however, character models are very detailed.
- More interesting is the way you can customize how your character performs. Think of it something like the talent system in WoW. You can alter how fast you run, skill with certain weapons and whatnot.
- As for the ‘hacking’, If you mean the ability to hack out the nano things from enemies, no he hasn’t learned how to that yet.
- You press L1 to change into the aiming mode. you can change to free aim by pressing square.
- This isn’t something related to the game mechanics or whatever but some crazy ass player joined my game and actually killed people by sneaking up on them, strangling them until they were blacked out (you have an oxygen meter under the health bar) and then would proceed to head shot them. Crazy.
He had a better look around at the rank system or ’score sheet’.
You’ve got your normal kills, deaths etc like most other shooter games. You get your headshots counted also which brings me onto the next thing I tried out;
The Sniper Rifle!
10x zoom for your evil intentions!
Once you fire it the recoil is pretty intense, you totally lose your aim if you wanted to take another shot.
Controls
X - crouch > crawl positions (while running: diving roll)
O - reload ammo
Triangle - standing: salute (spreads this aura thing around to local team-mates, it’s like a blue mesh so you can see them behind walls etc) crouching: point emote (?)
Square - toggle autoaim
D-pad:
left & right: toggle display of chat window
control sticks: left - move character, right - move camera
R3: toggle over shoulder view in aim mode from left to right.
R1 - fire
R2 - secondary fire while in aim or toggle weapon menu
L1 - aim
L2 - toggle item mini menu
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