The start is a bit rough indeed, but the gun is more like a thing you pick up for later when you find ammo for it

Fun, but holy crap that start is some BS. First guard has a generally useless shotgun, pistol behind the counter has no bullets, and so many sentries around have radios. Eventually snowballed ONCE I got the suppressed AK off the guy north of the gas station, and then stuff kinda steam rolled a bit, but thats a ROUGH jump from barehanded to end.

Thanks

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I don't even have 3 levels yet lol and the second is not really ambush, but I can see where you are coming from

but 3 ambush levels, idk about that no offense. Just consider what i said, thats all. Cheers once again on the rest of the levels.

got it, makes sense. i just thought it might not be 100% clear for all players, thanks for clarifying

The gun was intended to have no bullets, you get it and look for ammo for it and the ambush in the first level was intended to push you out of the house to avoid getting killed, since the cutscene before lets you know they are coming (plus there is a vent in the toilet), same in the second level, you know one guy is coming and you can knock him out if you don't want people to get alerted or hide the bodies and leave before he sees you. In general the level was made to feel chaotic in the beggining

cheers on part 3 and beyond man

another thing. heres some tips from screwing around in other programs like this.


1. boot up the base game levels, in the editor and ask a few questions.

2. Am i safe at the start, and if not, can i see it coming and react.

3. why is this here, what gameplay purpose does this serve.

4. is there any spots that could be cheesed. (CNN storage room as an example.)

5. is it fun to play?

6. (this one is not exactly needed but still) can this be beaten on the hardest diff without becoming bald?

If i got any advice, from someone whos been toying with level editors and such, and very much so for this game. With these two maps, it's a ambush, thats fine, but in order to survive these, you gotta camp or be very darn quick.


The gas station here is a good example, you got maybe 9 seconds to process the cutscene, the npcs running out. then around (might be wrong) 15- 30 people rush the area, might be able to snag the keycard in that time, maybe not. If you dont you're fucked in higher diffs. Also this might be on purpose but the gas station owners pistol has no bullets....


The house level, ehhhhh? Gideons house is small, thats fine, but the ambush isn't also as clear (in my view at least) and so again you got maybe 9 seconds to process what to do. Load up Intravenous one dlc map and get to the level where steve gets ambushed in his house. Night and day i say.

Thanks! The gained experience from the making of the first level helped out for sure.

They say the sequel is never as good as the original. In this case, they were wrong.