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Helping idiots hate other idiots since people have existed.
Posted by: A Dumb Door
Posted by: The U2 RoKKeR
Posted by: A Dumb Door
I really wish I could apply a broad hammer of knowledge to everyone who enters this thread. I feel like a broken record.
It's not that I have trouble understanding them, it's that the game doesn't introduce these mechanics to the player early on. I have to spend some time trying to figure out what the game is trying to make me do before realizing that there's a mechanic that I was not informed existed that helps me through. If there were more flexibility and actual agency in this game, my tactics would work. However, since this game likes a very strict regiment of precise gameplay pieces to be executed, it should at least teach that there is a specific key to this specific door.
And I wish I could apply a hammer of competence to your head. I'm fine with you not liking the game, but what you are saying is hilarious in the context of the gaming industry today. You don't know when to shoot at the guys who look different than yours? To hide behind walls when you are getting shot at? It is 2012 man, we've been playing the same FPS campaign on repeat since 2007's CoD4. You still can't grasp the basic concepts of a shooter, even if some of its underlying, more complex mechanics aren't instantly presented to you in bold text?
That's a problem with you, not the game.The very first few moments just has you shooting at everyone you see. Then, you're introduced to a squad. Sure, I can figure out that they're my allies by simply looking at it, and while I MYSELF didn't have problems with it, I recognized that this is an issue for someone who ISN'T informed about these games. That specific example of allies vs. enemies was not a problem which got in my way at any point, but there were parts in the game where both allies and enemies are hard to see, and recognizing them might become an issue for someone who doesn't fully understand it.
I hid behind walls when necessary. That did not need to be taught to me. However, as I said, I'd died due to a lack of fully understanding the controls. I learned how to crouch by sheer accident, tried to hide behind cover, and then realized that I wasn't low enough to be fully hidden. I figured there's probably a way to go prone, but was killed before I could test out any way to do so.
Also, BF3 =/= CoD in every single respect. Controls are different, for example. I don't play many PS3 games, so I figured I'd be learning the nuances of PS3 games along the way, only to find that they game assumes you know everything immediately. There was no tutorial or introduction to let me know what is what.
Yes, I eventually figured stuff out, but it required far more than it should have to figure out.
It really sounds like you're mad because you had to figure stuff out for yourself, and that the game didn't hold your hand.