Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor

[Flightwhite24]

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Are you guys mainly sticking to the story off the bat or just wandering around taking it as it comes. Unsure what seems to be the best route. Reason I ask is because this game is hard. Any tips would be greatly appreciated. Game on!

Whatever I run into is what I'm facing. Lol. Probably not the best approach but I'm having a blast!


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[kingsofthevalley]

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Ok, picked up the game a few days ago and gotta say, I'm having a pretty good time with it so far. Forgot that there were actual missions to accomplish and I'm finding myself just roaming around fighting packs of uruk (been doing this since I bought the game, no missions complete at ALL lmao!).

There's one enemy who I let get to level 16 and I can't figure out for the life of me how to beat him, so I just avoid him if I see the skull on the map. Also, after reading reviews that said the game was too easy, I made sure to turn off "block" prompts, not look at any intel (that might be more because I don't know how lmao), and just run into packs of creatures and fight it out!!

One thing I DONT like (and this goes for plenty of other good game engines I've come across) is that the devs damn near ALWAYS use a good game engine in the wrong context. For example, DragonBall raging blast game engine is a very good game engine and should've been a Macross game, this is a good engine, but should've been a standard "fellowship of the rings" game with gimli, aragorn, and the rest of the fellowship (all selectable mind you) fighting it out.

See where I'm going with that? Out of ALL the Lord of the Rings games that have come out (none which have been any good imo) we finally get a decent fighting engine and its some weird solo mission offshoot title. Come ON now!!

[kwebbvols4423]

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Whatever I run into is what I'm facing. Lol. Probably not the best approach but I'm having a blast!


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Same here. I need to do more story missions.

[Gotmadskillzson]

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Not a weird off shoot title at all. You haven't done any missions yet so that is why you think that. But once you make it to the middle of the game, you will have a better understanding of what this game is about far as time period goes. Really this game could have been it's own movie, for this story was never told in detail of what happened, how it happened and who were the people responsible for it. All the movies just hinted at it vaguely but that was it.

[nemesis04]

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Are you guys mainly sticking to the story off the bat or just wandering around taking it as it comes. Unsure what seems to be the best route. Reason I ask is because this game is hard. Any tips would be greatly appreciated. Game on!

I have been peppering a little of everything. I am only 20% complete. I am trying to unlock as many combos and sword/bow enhancements as I can. That way I can be effective when I start entering the latter part of the story.

[Mabster]

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Are you guys mainly sticking to the story off the bat or just wandering around taking it as it comes. Unsure what seems to be the best route. Reason I ask is because this game is hard. Any tips would be greatly appreciated. Game on!

Pretty evenly split for me. I usually look at the overhead map find what's nearest to me and go at it. There are some very handy skills that only unlock only through the story though so don't neglect them.

If the game is hard, slow down and level up some more. Don't charge into every fray. Use attract and stealth kills to weaken groups, shoot fires, release caragors from cages, knock down nests, etc. Some of the weapon legend missions are pretty hard if you're tackling them early on. I saved those till I had some crowd control skills and larger focus bar unlocked.

[burter]

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I ran into a captain who was immune to everything.
I had to use the stun strike then the wrath strike but stop before the combat modifier was active beaux he was immune.

Stun, 5 sword strikes, stun, 5 sword strike etc...

Haha I had to fight that guy also. Pain in the a**. I ended up fighting him on top of a roof. So adds would have to jump over to help him. I would stun him do a 5 hit combo, than any adds that where up there I would execute them(normally only 1 or 2 would be up there at a time). Worked out good but took forever to get his health down. Also I have the 2 execute talent, so could kill 2 of the adds quick.

[aukevin]

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So do your weapons actually get stronger the more you level them up in their side missions to forge new weapons?

[longshadow11]

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Man, this game is HARD to me. I keep having captains show up when I'm in a fight with 5 or 6 orcs. I also don't know what to do half the time.

[aukevin]

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Man, this game is HARD to me. I keep having captains show up when I'm in a fight with 5 or 6 orcs. I also don't know what to do half the time.

That's probably happening in a Stronghold. If you let an orc ring the bell in a stronghold after they detect you, get ready for some captains to show up. You see an orc with a bell icon over his head, be sure to kill him before he alerts everyone of your presence. If they do set off the Stronghold bell and you don't feel like fighting off 50 orcs, just run away until the alert meter goes back down (inner red circle on your map turns yellow, then goes away). You don't necessarily need to leave the Stronghold, just climb up high and avoid detection for a while.

Also if you just started, don't get too carried away doing side missions and exploring, do a few main missions that teach you the game and give you new powers.

[ChubbyBanana]

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Also if you just started, don't get too carried away doing side missions and exploring, do a few main missions that teach you the game and give you new powers.

Killed one of your Nemesis last night aukevin. Just wanted to let you know he's currently without a head.

[aukevin]

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Killed one of your Nemesis last night aukevin. Just wanted to let you know he's currently without a head.

That's good to hear! Hopefully it wasn't a too embarrassingly low-leveled of a orc to have killed me!

[Phobia]

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Monolith, you nailed it!!

Spoiler

[aukevin]

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I'm halfway through the main story now, just had what I guess was a boss fight against the Hammer.

I've been saving up the money in the game and purchased the sword ability that allows 20 seconds of unlimited executions. Holy smokes, that is pretty powerful.

[Chizzypoof]

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Two things I just noticed:

1 - You can convert old weaker runes to Mirian.

2 - If the Captain that you just killed doesn't show up in the menu with a head on a spike. The chances are high that he's coming back for you.