Shadow Warrior 2 - Wang it up

[DrPillzRedux]

Shadow Warrior 2 is a FPS, made like Borderlands mixed with Diablo. Your goal is to go solo or team up with people online, go around the game, do missions, collect loot, and chop/shoot shit up. Violently. Comes with super cheesy 90's kung-fu stereotype chatter.

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[Timbrewolf]

I was asking if anyone had tried this earlier today. This looks like it would be fun co-op.

[DrPillzRedux]

This game is pure fucking raw gameplay. It's very well done. If you're looking for a narative don't bother but if you want to fuck shit up get it. The soundtrack is also just complete beauty.

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[DrPillzRedux]

The Double-barrel shotgun is held like in the old DOOM games. If that doesn't tell you how this game plays just by looking at it, I dunno what will.

[ThanatosRa]

I am a plebe who never got the first one. But I htink I'm convinced. Maybe I'll go back to the first, but I want to try out the sequel.

[Jacough]

I'm downloading it now but I probably won't be able to play it until after work tomorrow because 4 AM shift gotta call it a night early. Reee

[Timbrewolf]

YOOOOOOO this is nuts. I don't know if it has staying power but I'm having a blast dashing around doing ninja shit while armed with a giant fucking chainsaw ripping everything to pieces.

There's a lot of fucking content in here with all these powers, upgrades, and unlocks. There are honest to God builds for how you want to rep ninja killing sprees. I've really enjoyed what I've played so far.

Eg. I stacked charge-up damage on this laser revolver thing you get (or maybe I randomly got dropped?) so that it fired really fucking slowly and was inaccurate as shit, but I encountered a gigantic boss fight and instead of running in and aggro'ing it I stood back, waited for my blaster to fully charge, ADS and blew the fucking things head off in one shot.



Felt real good.

[DrPillzRedux]

Holy fuck that midgame boss is intense. It's like something out of Final Fantasy 14 raids. I was playing on hard mode and it was hella fun jumping and dodging the AoE's. The difficulty ramps up around the half way mark so far.

Also yeah there's a lot of variety for what you wanna do. I built my single shot grenade launcher to use the charge shot + mods that increase damage. I hit around 900 with it full charge.

[Timbrewolf]

Yeah I'm playing it on Normal for now but I'm already looking forward to stepping it up and getting into that KILL OR BE KILLED kind of gameplay. Even on normal you can fuck up and get killed if you aren't kiting a lot but it's forgiving in the way that having a decent sized healthpool and the ability to kite like a motherfucker and spam healing on yourself can be a crutch.

I'm impressed with how much fun they've made melee combat in such a fast FPS. You have moves that are actually useful for dealing CC or single-target damage but you still have to position yourself right to use them and there's no easy way to just block bullets and stuff with your sword or something like that. You have to be fast as shit and avoid all this bullshit coming your way as you run into melee range and back out again. Can't just run up on something and spam M1 as it'll start hitting you back and beat the shit out of you; or everything else will when you stop to hack one thing to pieces.

I see why this is top seller on Steam already and why there was so much hype over it. Cool stuff so far. At first glance it looks like there's enough meat on these bones to really dig into.

[DrPillzRedux]

>charged shot rocket launcher now that does over 2k damage

I am become death

[ThanatosRa]

trying it out. I'm having fun heh.

[DrPillzRedux]

The level of violence skyrockets once you get the rage mode. It turns into a fight out of Berserk.

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[Jacough]

Charge shotgun/melee master race. Nothing more satisfying then tearing a group of enemies with a fully charged whirlwind attack and then dodging back to finish off any survivors with a charged shot that obliterates everything on screen

[Timbrewolf]

The Stick of Doom is the best fucking shotgun I've ever played with in any video game holy shit.

[DrPillzRedux]

Just wait until you get Boner.

[Timbrewolf]

You get a sword as part of the main story that has a 10% chance to cause vanish when you connect with a special attack. If you max out vanish and your special attacks it's FUCKING INSANE.

Vanish makes you invisible so people stop attacking you, and when maxed out your next melee attack does double damage (connecting with an attack causes vanish to drop).

So you can vanish, fully charge an attack like vortex, run into the middle of a crowd and unleash it to do a shitton of damage and have a good chance of going right back into vanish. Rinse repeat until you've slaughtered a good chunk of all the enemies in an area. Combos well with the force blade attack as well if you line a couple dudes up.

[Timbrewolf]

That crit bow is the gift that keeps on giving, too. If you ignore the listed DPS affect and just stack Crit Chance + Crit Damage on it you can put together a hilariously OP weapon. Once I get that first proc I can keep slamming out 1000+ damage arrows one after the other and I'm only playing on Normal. Bosses show up and I lock them into their invulnerability state with a single shot. The biggest downside to it is the ammo availability, the bow chews up 8 projectile ammo per shot and you can only carry 200 by default for a maximum of 25 shots with the thing. The arrow itself has a very small hitbox on it as well so it's easy to waste ammo as you're dodging all over the fucking place trying to charge up and loose shots without getting massacred. I maxed out the projectile ammo capacity, pickup range, and ammo pickup % just for this weapon and it's worth every skill point.

Definitely, definitely, definitely recommend you max out Karma Harvester first as you play. +15% karma gain for 3SP means you'll earn every SP after those first three that much faster.

Another thing I noticed: it seems rather than trying to build a weapon for each different element it's a lot less hassle to just pick one element and specialize in it. Electricity isn't a bad choice as it's proc effect stuns a guy in place and lets you fuck them up more while they're shocking. Fire has a decent damage-over-time effect that is pretty good too. If you pick one element you can then dump SP into its corresponding skills and have one really strong effect you focus on and the elemental add-ons for your weapons become that much stronger. You can also get a skill that reduces enemies' resistance to your elemental effects so encountering enemies who are strong to your element of choice wont be so bad. If you alternate between weapons of your chosen element and two or three weapons that are high DPS raw physical damage you should be set to just swap as needed and always be dealing additional damage. Though it is possible for elites to roll physical resistance and elemental resistances it's doesn't happen all that often and I've found that stopping to dig through your gear to find the one gun that sidesteps all their resistances is often more of a liability in getting you killed than just continuing to plug them with something they're strong against.

[DrPillzRedux]

Finally finished it. The two last bosses were good, though the final boss could use more health. Still, going to be a bitch on higher difficulties.

The sword the final boss drops is good as well. 10% chance to restore all fury on special hit kill.

[Jacough]

I managed to get an energy chain sword which is fucking sweet and I'll probably use it as my primary melee weapon. Basically the primary attack functions like the usual chainsaws since it's also a sword you can also use melee abilities with it. Also got the minigun which is absolutely insane when it comes to crowd control. It chews through lmg ammo pretty fast but it can hoards of enemies into red paste in seconds

[Timbrewolf]

Oh yeah the "Saw Blade"? I have that as well.

I don't know if its bugged or what but its Sting attack does an absolutely stupid amount of damage. I think something in the code for how chainsaws work and deal damage involves their hitbox colliding with a target, so when you do the Sting attack you're just jamming the hitbox in there and leaving it for so long it disintegrates whatever you do it to. It fucking puree's enemies when you do that to them. Normally the Sting is just a single hit attack with every other melee weapon but the Saw Blade gets like a couple dozen hits out of it for insane damage.

If you vanish, then fully charge a sting and hit something with it

Like holy fuck goodbye dude

[IcePacks]

wangs out for harambe

[Jacough]

Oh yeah the "Saw Blade"? I have that as well.

I don't know if its bugged or what but its Sting attack does an absolutely stupid amount of damage. I think something in the code for how chainsaws work and deal damage involves their hitbox colliding with a target, so when you do the Sting attack you're just jamming the hitbox in there and leaving it for so long it disintegrates whatever you do it to. It fucking puree's enemies when you do that to them. Normally the Sting is just a single hit attack with every other melee weapon but the Saw Blade gets like a couple dozen hits out of it for insane damage.

If you vanish, then fully charge a sting and hit something with it

Like holy fuck goodbye dude

I think it's kind of designed to be like that. I tried it myself and it seems like a better finisher than anything else. It takes a good deal of time to charge and it leaves you pretty vulnerable during the attack animation. On top of that it's kind of iffy against enemies like thorn tails and shamen where their central mass is located a bit high up.

Great for enemies like upgraded fangs and bellies that have fat hitboxes close to the ground but hitting tall spindly enemies requires a lot of precision and missing can put you in a bad spot.

[Timbrewolf]

The minigun in this game is pure ecstasy.

My Wang go so hard

[IcePacks]

The Stick of Doom is the best fucking shotgun I've ever played with in any video game holy shit.

i somehow missed this but yes

it is the firearm equivalent of a mighty cockslap, or perhaps the cockslap equivalent of a firearm

[ThanatosRa]

The Stick of Doom is the best fucking shotgun I've ever played with in any video game holy shit.

i somehow missed this but yes

it is the firearm equivalent of a mighty cockslap, or perhaps the cockslap equivalent of a firearm

I put charged shot on it. What the fuck.

Probably a poor choice in the long run. I've been pacing myself out between hospital visits to not burn out too quick. I got this plasma pistol thing, I really need to put charged shot on it because GBE. A killy gun.

[Malkevin]

Shadow Warrior 2 is a FPS, made like Borderlands mixed with Diablo. Your goal is to go solo or team up with people online, go around the game, do missions, collect loot, and chop/shoot shit up. Violently. Comes with super cheesy 90's kung-fu stereotype chatter.

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Odd choice of trailer music.

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[Supermichael777]

The embed meme at 1:23


I think it does show the kind of shit a crouching tiger hidden nerd like Wang would listen to. If you actually look at the shit scattered around his personal space you'll start to understand.

[IcePacks]

it was actually used as early as the first game; he sings "the touch" on his way to a hit and his partner in it frequently commented on what a loser he is, especially in the wang cave level

[TechnoAlchemist]

beat this game, had a lot of fun but wish I could have gotten the online to work so I could do co op with friends

[Timbrewolf]

I still havent finished my first wangthrough but my wang is already anticipating harder, stiffer difficulties.

If I can catch up Id be down to blast our way through Hard+ together

[DrPillzRedux]

YOU GOT THE TOUCH

[Timbrewolf]

Oh sweet Jesus you can get a mod that makes the sawed off fire both barrels at the same time.

Game please the rush of blood to my dick is causing me to black out I can barely play.