Fall of Cybertron

[Limitbreaker]

The game is fun but it feels like the gameplay mechanics have been dumbed down from WFC. It felt like High Moon abandoned a lot of stuff that worked in WFC for the making FoC more 'playable.'

- lack of online co-op campaign was disappointing but the story made up for it

- host migration is great for public games. I'm glad that they've addressed that issue.

- no double jump 'to prevent people from abusing double jump cannon spam', but yet they've made splash damage weapons like the Riot Cannon and rockets do a lot more damage than in WFC. Good job High Moon

-kill streak perks are gone, which I don't mind

- the weapon upgrade system is pretty fun

- they've made the abilities per class more bland and generic in multiplayer and in escalation. It seems like they've toned down the abilities to address the ability glitch abuse from WFC but it seems like cheaters can still do it in this game. Although it looks like High Moon isn't going to bother to patch the glitch but is banning all cheaters. It'll lessen the amount of cheaters but it's still too easy for the cheaters to open a new account to rinse and repeat.

- melee attacks seem to be the same generic sword swinging animation, so no more unique melee animations like in WFC

- while there's some more customization for character part models, the color palette choice in multiplayer is still lacking.

- escalation feels completely different than in WFC. Even on hard difficulty, it feels too short (especially if you're used to playing 50+ wave marathon escalation games in WFC). However, this escalation mode has a heavier emphasis on teamwork to survive the higher waves.

-Again lack of character unique abilities kinda makes the experience less interesting in escalation. Regardless of which map you choose, you basically get the choice of using the ammo beacon, sentry gun, heal beam or flak shield ability among the four characters. Basically different models, exact same abilities. The enemies are slightly more aggressive but they have more or less similar attack patterns from WFC. The new flyers, leapers and guardians add some new challenges on the maps.

I've mostly played the hell out of the four escalation maps, but not sure how long I'll be holding the number 1 ranking.

I'll post more later.

[Knockout]

does anyone know how the create a character upgrade thingie works, cause I get hit once and 90% of my life is gone.

[Shepp]

So far, just played the first chapter. Pure undiluted awesomesauce.

With only one complaint and one observation:

I can't remap the melee button from my center mouse button. This pisses me off as I keep accidentally swapping weapons when I want to smash the hell out of something.

And the observation is that they removed the option to select who you play during that chapter. I kinda missed this option. I know in WfC people tended to play the big name characters, but I like to play alongside those characters too. Made me feel like I was part of Megatron's or Optimus Prime's respective armies.


Favourite moment: Very hard to choose, but when I first fired the Throwback Blaster and heard the sound. It actually made me smile uncontrollably. That was like the sprinkles on the icing on the cake.

Originally Posted by bomoth

yeah i'm replaying the game now and trying to find every blueprint and audiologs. found one log mentionning orion pax !

Found that one too! Wasn't sure if they were gonna go with Orion Pax or Optronix or some new name.

[Blitzkrieg]

I enjoyed the game immensely, but I too have a few points that I'd like to adress.

- The game is awesome, but not very challenging I like games that take quite some time to finish, I feel like I am getting my money's worth and I didn't feel that way for FOC. I finished the game within a day.

- The new storyline mode is good, but I preferred WFC's method of either playing the Autobot, or Decepticon Mode. I prefer picking sides rather than playing both sides from the middle.

- Not much in the way of playable characters in FOC, as opposed to WFC, which had a lot of playable characters.

Other than that the game is fantastic! Playing as Bruticus was the best!

[Jefro]

I bought WFC because it seemed like it would be a good game. I enjoyed the story line and blah blah... but the escalation aspect took over pretty fast and I continued to play it up until FOC was released. Now with FOC, I did play the campaign but felt it a little lacking (especially the lack of character selection). But did enjoy the story line. As with WFC, I'm strictly playing escalation now in FOC (currently ranked 14th!) but have found a few things to be quite annoying. #1 being buying ammo/health etc as if another player gets there first it will disappear and you then have to wait for it to re-spawn or go find it somewhere else on the map which can be a huge pain if your dying for example. Incorporating ammo and health as player abilities is nice but only if the players know what they're doing. I've been in several games were players never healed others or provided ammo for others etc... which rather defeats the purpose. The idea of having different characters for each escalation level is an alright touch but them all having different weapons is annoying as I personally hate the scrap blaster and ion cannon so you have to buy new guns right off the bat. They level's are also quite a bit smaller from the beginning etc... requiring players to open doors right off the start to provide more room as the waves continue. I've also figured out that escalation is similar to zombies in black ops. You cannot stay still or even stay behind cover. You need to keep moving and do laps around the maps and shoot enemies as they appear or you can easily get over run. I've figured out Oblivion and beat it several times solo/alone. I'm pretty sure I have Ignition figured out as well but only made it to wave 12 as I screwed up twice. Have yet to try Downfall solo. Have tried Ancients and its got to be the hardest map.

All in all... Great game in my opinion and defiantly worth $68 though it would have been nice to get it for $30 like WFC. I will add though, if your not into escalation or multi-player then I'd say borrow it from a friend or rent it just to play the campaign quick or wait to get it on sale.