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[Blaze]

I originally got this game during the Summer Sale, but I tried it and went, "Not Metal Slug; Disappoint", and didn't touch until about a week ago.

I checked my game updates and I saw that it pulled out of Early Access, so I went back to it. It seems to be a cross between Monster Hunter and Metal Slug. You can craft specific gun parts and then mix and match said parts to create a weapon. Some weapons include a toilet gun, a gun that shoots homing hearts, and a gun with a gun-shooting cat. There's also a knife crafter but I don't really use them that often. Armor is a simple upgrade system, hand them the parts and money and your life bar will go up.

The game is fairly challenging. It's nowhere near as fast paced as Metal Slug, but you'll die pretty quickly if you get sloppy; but once you get the hang of enemy patterns you dodge them fairly easily.

Does anyone else play? I'm trying to figure out how to get multiplayer to work, setting it to public doesn't seem to do anything.

[Man of Paper]

Woah woah woah woah woah

Metal Slug/Monster Hunter? Excuse me one moment while I...

Okay, watched the trailers, am not disappoint. It's a shame I already spent my self-imposed weekly game allowance on Game Dev Tycoon, Tropico 4, and the Fall of the Samurai sale. Next week, though. Next week this will be mine.

[ThtblovesDF]

Played through it, its quite fun - exploit the radio call for c4/medkits every mission, its free. Many secret places can only be reached by placing a crate (with a support call) and then jumping off that!

I finished the game, but there are 2-3 missions i just couldn't do, its quite annoying.

A chain/maschinegun with all its parts generates enough recoil so that you can hover/float - useful for dem hidding spots.

Making meals is pretty much pointless, the bonus is so small.

MP is fun though

[Sinistar]

Saw an alpha preview or something like that by TotalBiscuit some time ago, looked mighty interesting. Didn't come around to gathering the funds for it yet. Hopefully one day. One complaint I remember from back then was the levels and the setting as whole looked a bit to much the same. Is there more than just jungle?

[Blaze]

Some missions will put your on the same map, but work in separate area of that map. You generally unlock a new map every rank, like Monster Hunter.

[Gunner-Chan]

My ultimate major complaint about this game was, unlike monster hunter, most of the missions felt the same after a while. And not just because you fought a boss you fought before.

Kinda been meaning to go back to it since it was fun, but it just feels like I'm retreading the same steps no matter what since the actual mission maps are fairly static, and none of the enemies or bosses are really that interesting to fight.

[Blaze]

So played quite a bit more and hit Major rank (Using time I should probably have spent doing story updates for my giveaway thread).

Does anyone else play? There doesn't seem to be many matches on Public, maybe I should switch servers?

[AlStar]

I really enjoyed this game, although I hated - HATED, the first hour or so of the game (private rank.)

Here's the Steam review I wrote about it:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

There is a really great game with powerful crafting abilities hiding underneath an extremely unfriendly introduction.

Here's some of the problems with the game's first rank:
1) Your starting weapon is weak, short ranged, and has a small clip to boot.
2) They chose one of the worst maps ever for the starting missions. Confusing layout, lots of little unconnected rooms, and tons of elevation changes; apparently just to screw with you.
3) Very poor mission choices to start with, including a gathering mission and a rescue 8 hostages mission which, combined with the annoying map layout and the fact that the stuff you're looking for isn't marked on the map (most missions are kind enough to give you an 'x' to head towards,) seemed to have been chosen specifically to weed out new players.
4) Your extremely limited choices to upgrade, once you finally manage to pick up some crafting supplies, really don't give you the tools to significantly modify your weapon.

All told, it'll take you somewhere around an hour and a half to get out of that horrible slog.

So why am I recommending this game?

Because as soon as you start to move up the ranks, all kinds of new stuff is unlocked which greatly improves the experience. You start getting all kinds of real choices for your weapon: bullet hose machine gun or single-shot sniper rifle? Shotgun or pistol? Submachine gun or magnum? Your choice! Mix and match pieces from each to completely customize your experience and unlock the ability to use special ammo types with a variety of effects.

You'll also start seeing some interesting choices for hand-to-hand weapons: Do you take the tiny knife that won't weigh you down, or a massive sword or spear that can inflict massive damage at range (and never runs out of ammo!)

The ability to choose two perks that can really help customize your character. Need to throw more bullets at things? Double your magazine size or pick up faster shooting. Looking for crafting materials? Make it so that enemies always drop items and/or make them drop rare items more often.

Better maps! Now, not going to say it's all roses (I really didn't like the temple, which is another extremely vertical level), but it's all a step up from the starting jungle map.

Mission choices! Past the first rank, you generally don't need to complete every mission to get to the next rank. Have a mission that's kicking your ♥♥♥? Skip it, then come back in a rank or two with a bigger, better gun.

Pros/Cons:
+ Great pixel graphics.
+ Great music.
+ Great customization.
+ Epic boss fights.
- Horrible starting levels.
- Control scheme that sometimes feels like it's fighting you.
- Why can't I shoot diagonally? (Most of) the enemies can!

Overall:
+Worth the starting slog.

And here's the weapon I played through the last half-ish of the game with:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Machine gun that can fire anti-materiel rounds (wall piercing, extra large), gets 88 shots with the large magazine bionic, with some of those being double shots with the gunner bionic. All for a very reasonable 3 second reload. It was my baby.

It was actually kind of funny watching some of the Youtube videos for this game - I went a totally different direction than any of the ones I watched (the shotgunner with a 2 shot clip especially stood out.) But that's part of what makes the game so amazing - just how personalized you can make your weapon.

Never actually tried it multiplayer.

[Blaze]

I've only played with handguns and magnums, everything else just weighs too much.

Spoiler: Current Weapon (click to show/hide)

I could swap stocks to bump ball compatibility to 100%, but I don't have access to a magnum/ball type ammo yet. Ball ammo seems kinda useless to me anyway.

I'm using the storage proficiency, so I get an additional 5 bullets.
Bionics are 2x Sprinter+.
Since my accuracy is 100%, I usually get around 3 or more crits per bullet.

My current full loadout weighs 4.9, and with sprinter mods I can essentially fly across the stage.