Rocksteady's Suicide Squad: when Justice Leagues -- and Rocksteady brawlers? -- go bad

[tomchick]

@Hamilton

What ISN*t fun though, is the showstopper quests, where you have to deal damage by only doing one specific type of damage. I really dont like that, and must admit, I didn’t examine the system enough to really understand 100 procent what it meant, so I banged my head against a few these, not being able to progress, and overcame a few, mostly by luck.

I called it!

Here’s what I wrote in the review thread when I was asked about mission variety:

So imagine a player who doesn’t really care to learn about or practice systems. He just wants the legendary weapons unlocked, so he’s trying to do all the Penguin missions. And he’s discovering that his favorite assault rifle, the one he spent all his resources improving, is only doing 5% of the damage it’s been doing in the story missions and he doesn’t understand why. He doesn’t understand that his 5% chance of critical hits is the only thing causing damage. Suddenly, this game sucks and he’s not necessarily wrong. He just want to Deadshot some fools, not be taught a new combat system that involves learning all the ways critical hits work.

(By the way, I didn’t even fully understand how those missions work when I wrote that. Non-critical hits heal enemies in those missions. So using a gun with a high firing rate is actually healing them!)

I understand your complaint, and I don’t mean to marginalize your frustration, but here is your issue:

@Hamilton

I didn’t examine the system enough to really understand 100 procent what it meant, so I banged my head against a few these, not being able to progress, and overcame a few, mostly by luck.

Suicide Squad is a game that expects you to understand its systems. And it does this by putting you in situations where you won’t make any progress otherwise; it’s more than happy to let you fight while you’re doing zero damage, as you may know! But I find it fascinating that players resist a game – indeed resent it – when it’s encouraging them to learn its systems. As anyone who’s played Rocksteady’s previous games should know, there’s a sophisticated combat system at work here instead of a loosey-goosey shooter! Wouldn’t you want to learn it?

I’m not trying to single you out, @Hamilton, since I know the complaint isn’t unique to you. For what it’s worth, you can always drop the difficulty to “Walk in the Park” to get through the support missions. Then you can resume the normal difficulty chase after you’ve finished that mission. Lord knows, I did it for a number of them because I just wanted to unlock the support option!

But suffice it to say, once Suicide Squad gets into the endgame difficutly push, you need to know how this stuff works. You need to have eaten your vegetables. : )

@Hamilton

I have a few threads that never show up as having new replies (bolded), regardless of whether they have it or not. This is one of them. Its listed as “Tracking” though, so something seems up?

What I don’t know about Discourse would fill volumes! Fortunately, we have folks here who might be able to help you. I bet if you posted your issue in this thread…

Hey, how can I get Discourse to do X?

FAQ IN THE FIRST POST Most of us are new to Discourse, but some of us are newer than others. As we’re learning our way around, this is a catch-all thread for tips, advice, questions, and so forth. Welcome and good luck. Because whatever feature you want from Discourse, I bet someone in this thread will be able to say, “Hey, it already does that and here’s how!” As for changes, here is the ongoing list of stuff requested and stuff being updated. -Tom Answers to Questions Frequently Raised …

…you would get an explanation stat.