Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception

[Matt S]

Got to play last night with d_jedi1 and some of his buddies. Nice to be able to talk to a fellow freak. Bet you didn't know I could hold my own so well huh.. I'm kind of an Uncharted Junkie.

Is it just me, or is Uncharted 3 beta easier to control the weapons...I am doing way, way better with the beta than I do on Uncharted 2 MP.

 

[d_jedi1]

Got to play last night with d_jedi1 and some of his buddies. Nice to be able to talk to a fellow freak. Bet you didn't know I could hold my own so well huh.. I'm kind of an Uncharted Junkie.

You were damn good.
Sorry about my cousin (pfeezy) he runs his mouth to people he doesn't know when we play.
I can't remember if it was you or this other girl we teamed up with after you left (princesspuddinz) but we ran into a laggy group of guys who started off telling us about how they were some "christian gamer clan" and had to leave the previous match due to some "salty language" then they spent the whole match calling our girl team member a whore and telling us all to repent and accept Jesus.
Our sniper was scoring direct hits and couldn't kill them.
We won but it was tougher than it should have been.

Is it just me, or is Uncharted 3 beta easier to control the weapons...I am doing way, way better with the beta than I do on Uncharted 2 MP.

I'm still not certain if it's the way the guns handle or the general bugginess that has plagued Uncharted 2 since 1.05.
This beta has run much like 2 did on 1.04 since it started and that is a MAJOR plus.

 

[Matt S]

Yeah, loving the beta and how smooth it seems to me.......just a lot of fun

 

[BuffyGirl]

You were damn good.
Sorry about my cousin (pfeezy) he runs his mouth to people he doesn't know when we play.
I can't remember if it was you or this other girl we teamed up with after you left (princesspuddinz) but we ran into a laggy group of guys who started off telling us about how they were some "christian gamer clan" and had to leave the previous match due to some "salty language" then they spent the whole match calling our girl team member a whore and telling us all to repent and accept Jesus.
Our sniper was scoring direct hits and couldn't kill them.
We won but it was tougher than it should have been.

It wasn't with me. I always mute the other team though, so who knows. And no worries about your friend, I showed him with my skills, lol.

Yeah, loving the beta and how smooth it seems to me.......just a lot of fun

I don't notice it being any different. I find I do well in both. But I spend a lot of time on UC2 so it may be just because I'm used to it.

I'm sad today is the last day for it. But I do get bored after about an hour. I need some elimination to keep me happy.

 

[siningy]

Maybe I'm just terrible at the game, but does anyone else find that they usually die at the same time they kill someone? I only got to level 11 or so but still had a lot of fun with beta. I think my only complain is with how inaccurate most of the weapons felt and it seemed like faster rate of fire was better than accuracy. I loved the RPG and it felt kind of cheap how accurate it seemed.

 

[BuffyGirl]

Maybe I'm just terrible at the game, but does anyone else find that they usually die at the same time they kill someone? I only got to level 11 or so but still had a lot of fun with beta. I think my only complain is with how inaccurate most of the weapons felt and it seemed like faster rate of fire was better than accuracy. I loved the RPG and it felt kind of cheap how accurate it seemed.

The only weapon you need to be MOST accurate with is the AK. The rest are more or less considered power weapons. They take less shots to kill you. So it makes sense that the more rapid fire would do you in faster.

 

[Matt S]

I am not that good a player, yet a kill score of 18 and death of 5 has been common for me. Blind fire seems heavily accurate....which makes me think it may be tweaked when the final game hits

Everyone of the Naughty Dog forums seems to hate the changes, but I dont get it. Found this beta to be as fun as anything I've played. And I love the new game modes, like hardcore and Free for all - what's not to love?

 

[BuffyGirl]

I am not that good a player, yet a kill score of 18 and death of 5 has been common for me. Blind fire seems heavily accurate....which makes me think it may be tweaked when the final game hits

Everyone of the Naughty Dog forums seems to hate the changes, but I dont get it. Found this beta to be as fun as anything I've played. And I love the new game modes, like hardcore and Free for all - what's not to love?

I hate people who blind fire. It's like, learn how to point and shoot already!

 

[siningy]

Maybe it got patched since I only had time to play the beta over the July 4th weekend, but it seemed like even when aiming at the head with the G-mal, I would die to an AK. It also felt like even when aiming with the AK, my bullets tended to fly everywhere except my target! Regardless, I'm still psyched for UC3, UC2 is still my favorite PS3 game. i think I enjoyed the hardcore mode the most, the medal kickbacks felt a bit overpowered to me.

 

[d_jedi1]

I hate people who blind fire. It's like, learn how to point and shoot already!

I've been known to blindfire in a pinch though, that said, I tend to aim even when I'm jump-firing (shooting while jumping off of something).
Sometimes, I'll dump bullets into some dude who is running up on me and when he goes to melee, I roll away. I had these guys screaming the other day cause they couldn't get a kill on me due to my rolls.
I'm liking that I can now drop a nade while rolling.. I wish they'd had that in Uncharted 2.

Back to blindfiring, my two biggest weapons for blindfiring are the hammer and the pistole. if you see me with those, watch out. I rarely stop to aim either one. (though I actually will stop from time to time with the hammer)

Slightly aside, has anyone noticed a sort of auto-aim to this game and further, that it seems to point a bit down?
On Uncharted 2, I move my camera all around as I run, just like this one but when I find someone to shoot at, I'll center the person in the screen and snap into aiming. In Uncharted 3, it snaps into aiming at the floor.

 

[d_jedi1]

i think I enjoyed the hardcore mode the most, the medal kickbacks felt a bit overpowered to me.

I actually need to try hardcore mode. I don't mind the kickbacks but the only one I really like is the RPG one.
If anything, I dislike the paid boosters more since one of them essentially gives the player a radar.

 

[Matt S]

I hate people who blind fire. It's like, learn how to point and shoot already!

You'd hate me then, lol

 

[siningy]

I actually need to try hardcore mode. I don't mind the kickbacks but the only one I really like is the RPG one.
If anything, I dislike the paid boosters more since one of them essentially gives the player a radar.

I liked hardcore more since it felt like you needed to depend on your skills more than just getting enough medals to grab the rpg and get two free kills. The grenade booster that turns your single grenade into multiple ones was also pretty crazy, cant roll away from one of those

 

[d_jedi1]

I finally managed to get the Naughty Dog site to let me check my stats. I had to sign-in on playstation.com first and then the Naughty Dog site.

I don't know why it says i spent all my time in coop as nearly all was spent in team deathmatch.
(Unless that somehow counts as coop?)

 

[Matt S]

I finally managed to get the Naughty Dog site to let me check my stats. I had to sign-in on playstation.com first and then the Naughty Dog site.

I see you are a fellow IE user......lol - same issue with that browser. Use Chrome to log onto ND site quicker.

 

[d_jedi1]

ha! yeah.. with all the griping I do about Microsoft, you'd think I WOULDN'T use IE.
I tried chrome back in it's early days but it was VERY buggy back then and I removed it. It's probably better now but we've been running with two browsers for a long time now and each have our own bookmarks set up accordingly. (by we, i mean me and my wife. I run IE, she runs firefox)

 

[The Rogster]

This Beta was sweet I can't wait for the full game! Did Drake look different to you guys? I'm not to sure, what it is though.

 

[Matt S]

Yeah, his face looks fuller to me - makes him look older than previous

 

[Raikirik]

I guess the chances for Uncharted statues just went higher. The statue in the CE is by Sideshow but how about this?

An Uncharted comic coming from DC, which SS recently signed with and the cover art is by Adam Hughes.

More here https://comics.ign.com/articles/118/1182576p1.html

 

[Matt S]

Cool, thanks for the pic and link