lock-on free-aim: yes or no? **SPOILERS**

arkarian

2008-01-05 12:25:53 am

red chamber dream

Well yeah, it's more precise. That's why I like it.

Mr. Shadow

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2008-01-05 07:02:04 am

OH ****!!!!

I tryed it the other day and i was fearing that, like everyone said, i would get totally disorieneted. Quite the oposite, i didn't notice much but that it moved faster. Its my first time trying it also.^_^

UchihaSasuke

2008-01-05 02:02:14 pm

my umbrella goes directly to Bankai

for me the problem is motion sickness. the camera moves too fast and that's why i need the default setting.
also that's why i can't play any FPS. the prime series are the only games in first person i can play without getting dizzy and that was many years after mp1 was out (i got the game at launch but it gave me dizzyness too. only mp2 didn't give me that and got me into the series)

gamepro011

2008-01-16 05:02:01 pm

I alternate between on and off.I turn it on only when fighting the space pirate skiffs,ATCs and Dark Samus.

Mr. Shadow

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2008-01-17 03:23:22 pm

OH ****!!!!

I'm probally going to be forced to do that when playing on hyper mode.

GreenMamba

2008-01-17 11:47:52 pm

What luck, there's french fry stuck in my beard.

I started out on the default setting, and I was immediately like "ew, bleh, Red Steel." I quickly switched to the advance controls and haven't looked back.

My brother prefers to play it on the default, though, and I can never understand why. Though he is a bit of a beast at Red Steel multiplayer (the only part of the game worth playing, and even then, it's excruciatingly limited).

Metakraid

2008-01-18 09:43:30 am

I still prefer the middle sensetivity setting, with lock-on free-aim turned off. I have been playing the whole game like this and have never considered doing other wise. But again, this is probably becuase I've played MP 1 so much, and don't play first person shooters.

arkarian

2008-01-18 12:52:55 pm

red chamber dream

How can you know what you prefer without giving the other options a fair shot?

Dark Phoenix

2008-01-18 01:11:16 pm

plasma beam v.2.0

as to the topic, it really doesnt matter. bosses are free aim and enemies are sometimes much easier to hit on the fly in MPC. and to previous post, if your destroying the game, why change.

except on hyper dificulty in the PH shield generator thing. dang pirase dont die Evil or Very Mad

Metakraid

2008-01-18 02:44:32 pm

Quote from Arkarian:

How can you know what you prefer without giving the other options a fair shot?

I have given the other options a fair shot. I played with the popular control scheme (free-aim on, advanced sensetivity) for several hours of the game and hated it.

Ntsc

2008-01-19 02:33:13 am

Quote from Metakraid:

I have given the other options a fair shot. I played with the popular control scheme (free-aim on, advanced sensetivity) for several hours of the game and hated it.

I wish they just had a fine tuning option for the controls (like a sensitivity slider). The advanced setting is nice sometimes but other times it causes issues for me and the medium and beginner are so slow I feel like I'm waiting 3-5 seconds to do a 90 degree turn.

Free aim is somewhat needed though (as apparently the developers knew so force it on for certain boss encounters).

arkarian

2008-01-19 08:27:31 pm

red chamber dream

Quote from Metakraid:

I still prefer the middle sensetivity setting, with lock-on free-aim turned off. I have been playing the whole game like this and have never considered doing other wise.

Quote from Metakraid:

I played with the popular control scheme (free-aim on, advanced sensetivity) for several hours of the game and hated it.

?

Metakraid

2008-01-20 12:26:50 am

Quote from Arkarian:

Quote from Metakraid:

I still prefer the middle sensetivity setting, with lock-on free-aim turned off. I have been playing the whole game like this and have never considered doing other wise.

Quote from Metakraid:

I played with the popular control scheme (free-aim on, advanced sensetivity) for several hours of the game and hated it.

?

I tried advanced sensetivity at the beginning of the game, didn't like it, and have been playing on the middle sensetivity setting since..... 'nuff said?....

Dark Phoenix

2008-01-20 03:27:30 pm

plasma beam v.2.0

i upped the sensitivity for each difficulty. i hated going to advanced.

Mr. Shadow

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2008-01-22 03:29:06 pm

OH ****!!!!

You upped it for each diffculty? Then you do use advance controls then.

Dark Phoenix

2008-01-26 04:43:59 pm

plasma beam v.2.0

i did, i downed it to basic for better jumping acuracy in the PH shield generator tower. discovered that worked better after getting tagged with anti/insta hyper bombs. and both at the same time.

Mr. Shadow

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2008-01-26 06:51:02 pm

OH ****!!!!

Are you talking about the gernades they throw?

Dark Phoenix

2008-01-26 07:03:23 pm

plasma beam v.2.0

yeah, they sometimes throw grenades that put you in full coruption and sometimes throw anti hyper grenades. i got hit with both at the same time. while i was in hyper. i lost hyper, lossing one tank and went right back in, lossing another.

Mr. Shadow

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2008-01-27 02:27:56 pm

OH ****!!!!

The hyper gernades IIRC don't use up another energy tank, they simply shove you full of more phazon then you can handle which why you just go into a corrput hypermode, i love it when that do that. extra_smug

Dark Phoenix

2008-01-27 07:49:20 pm

plasma beam v.2.0

and it counts as a hyper, so it wastes an etank.

Mr. Shadow

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2008-01-29 05:13:53 am

OH ****!!!!

Oh dam i never new that, i must have collected some energy at the right time to fool me to look like it didn't waste one. One Question, when your in hypermode and you gain health orbs do they go into your etank so when you go out of hypermode it fills it back up by what ever amount?

Dark Phoenix

2008-01-30 11:12:24 pm

plasma beam v.2.0

yes, and its only as much as you get. also, the phazon energy reduces phazon in hypermode and heals in normal

Mr. Shadow

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2008-01-31 06:03:46 am

OH ****!!!!

So lets say im in hypermode and i deplet my tank. Before i did that i grabbed a 100 energy unit. So when i come out of hypermode will i've basically get my energy tank back?

Dark Phoenix

2008-01-31 05:58:17 pm

plasma beam v.2.0

yep. and thats how you get through most of the bosses. get out of hyper and pick up energy, then jump right back in.

Zeke

2008-02-04 04:54:11 am

Time bomb set get out fast!

Are you guys sure about the phazon grenade auto-corruption costing energy? 'Cause I'm sure it doesn't. Every time the fools hit me with one of those things, I laugh myself stupid -- they've given me my uber-attacks for free, just on the off chance I'll die by not unleashing enough utter destruction. I'd boot up my Wii to check, but it's way over there.

OT: I stuck with the Prime 1/2 system. I tried free-aim but found it too hard to use; one of these days I'll try again. Anyone else think the name "Lock-On Free-Aim" is really confusing?