by XvGojira » Tue Apr 07, 2015 6:34 pm
Almost done with my Low Rank Caravan Quests. I could have completed them by now, but I NEEDED my Rathain armor (and Rathain plates are hella hard to get on low rank) and now I'm up grading my weapons, which will mean I'll probably have to branch out and add two or three more. I've nearly completed 200 hunts, according to my guild card, but that's what happens when framing carves.
Since my apartment's club house with their treadmills and what not is under construction, I've taken to walking around a near by mall as something to do other than sit on my ass all day. But I've taken my 3DS with me and I've gotten a few more Guild Cards from random people, probably the workers at the gamestop. It's nice having a some hunters to send off on quests for additional items.
I also picked up Battlefield Hardline. Amazon had it for $40. And when it's with friends on the same team/squad it's great fun. We were ruling a Hotwire game as I just floored it in one of the capture point vehicles and my two friends took the chopper and decimated the other side from the air. But many of the other modes are just various degrees of clusterf***ery. The unlock system is wonky and the asymmetrical weapons are annoying as hell when you keep flopping from one side to another and you just jump into the game thinking it had your mechanic loadout from last round but nope. You have to die and put your repair tool on it.
And the unlock system is almost more of a grind than previous games. It's neat that you buy many things via money gained from playing the game, but BF4 as you gained kills you unlocked more and different attachments, so after like 50 kills you usually have one or more of each kind of attachment. In BFH, the attachments are tiered, 20 kills unlocks the lights/lasers 60 kills unlock the tripod, extra handles and other stabilizers, 90 kills gets the scopes (or something similar, it might be slightly different weapon to weapon). And the whole Battlelog interface seems so much more complicated than BF4s even though there are less options.
Honestly if it weren't for playing with friends, I'd totally skip this game. The only time I plan on playing alone are on money boosting servers (no kill Hotwire games, I gained like 20,000 in one round).