Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor

[Heroesandvillains]

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Man, once you are able to brand and command this game really opens up to a new level.

Is that unlocked by completing story missions or through XP?

I need this in my life.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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Is that unlocked by completing story missions or through XP?

I need this in my life.

Its about the 15th or 16th mission on the main storyline.

[aukevin]

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Finally finished out the platinum trophy for this one, my 40th! Just my second on the PS4 though.

[Iadf]

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This game is tremendous

[Fresh Tendrils]

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Finally finished out the platinum trophy for this one, my 40th! Just my second on the PS4 though.

How was the caragor slave romp? I think my only other gameplay trophies are to kill all 5 war chiefs before any promotions and to brand 5 bodyguards of a warchief. Then I just have all the collecting to do on the second map.

I beat the main missions last night. Honestly, I think the side storylines were developed a lot better than the main missions because other than being a guide on how to play the game they really aren't that memorable or cohesive. With that said I feel like the game doesn't really even open up or "start" until the end anyway because the abilities affect the strategy of the gameplay so much.

Pretty great base for a series. It would be awesome if they opened it up a bit more either in the SoM series or another LotR world to include different factions and enemy types (seriously, how badass would it be to play out the Aragon and Nazgul's fight) and a bit of a more rounded world.

[aukevin]

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How was the caragor slave romp? I think my only other gameplay trophies are to kill all 5 war chiefs before any promotions and to brand 5 bodyguards of a warchief. Then I just have all the collecting to do on the second map.

I beat the main missions last night. Honestly, I think the side storylines were developed a lot better than the main missions because other than being a guide on how to play the game they really aren't that memorable or cohesive. With that said I feel like the game doesn't really even open up or "start" until the end anyway because the abilities affect the strategy of the gameplay so much.

Pretty great base for a series. It would be awesome if they opened it up a bit more either in the SoM series or another LotR world to include different factions and enemy types (seriously, how badass would it be to play out the Aragon and Nazgul's fight) and a bit of a more rounded world.

I used a vid on youtube that showed where to start and the path to take on a caragor to get that trophy, got it the first time. That was the only trophy I needed assistance on other than learning the criteria for the level 25 rune (having branded warchiefs helped a lot with this one). I got the "kill all warchiefs before promotion" trophy during the story because I decided to wipe them all out before choosing Ratbag's warchief mission. I got the 5 brand warchiefs during the main story as well because I wanted to take all 5 into the final battle with me.

I agree that the main missions were basically a tutorial about how to utilize the Nemesis system. It would be pretty cool to have a sequel with more recognizable characters without the missions being so much of a tutorial of the battle system.

[42]

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That was the only trophy I needed assistance on other than learning the criteria for the level 25 rune (having branded warchiefs helped a lot with this one).

Re: Obtain a Level 25 Rune


I recorded gameplay of the steps I took (decided on a different approach).


Level 20 War Chief :
- Had the War Chief kill me (+1)
- Slapped a Death Threat on him (+1)
- Killing the War Chief (+2)
- Fear/Hate Exploited (+1)
- Knowing Weakness (+1)


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Obviously killing the War Chief with a death threat greatly increases your Epic Rune chance, so I had them land the killing blow.


Went overboard on the body guards but wanted to make sure he would go down. Ha!

[Mabster]

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You know a game is good when it brings 42 out of the woodwork.

[Heroesandvillains]

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You know a game is good when it brings 42 out of the woodwork.

So I wasn't the only one that got all cold and scared because they thought they saw a ghost!

[DGuinta1]

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Man can I just fight one Warchief at a time? Geez! So hard.

[kehlis]

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I don't have anything other than sports games but I didn't know this existed until I just saw a commercial for it and as a big lotr fan I have to buy it.

Silly question though, I don't have ps plus (and won't buy it). Do I need it to play the story line or anything.


Edit: Nevermind, found it earlier in the thread.

[Eman5805]

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Man can I just fight one Warchief at a time? Geez! So hard.

That's strongholds for ya man. I once had a warchief and four captains come at me at once. Only one of them was a bodyguard. Sometimes you gotta know when to fold 'em. Actually worked in my favor. The captains all pursue you aggressively. So I kept running up, bleeding them, focusing on one at a time with Wraith Fury strikes, and falling back to grab herbs when I got low. Eventually I wore them down.

Took a long time though. But I got the job done.

[cam21224]

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Just picked this up today, any beginner tips and strategies?

[K0ZZ]

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Just picked this up today, any beginner tips and strategies?

Practice out the combat against the basic orcs early, get adjusted to the feel of the combat. Death isn't terrible, but if you die repeatedly to the same captain's they gain power and at one point, I was getting one shotted by a poison sword of a captain because he repeatedly killed me while getting immunity from virtually everything.

Divide and conquer the captains, if two show up, either split them up or basically to batches of attacks (attack/retreat, rinse and repeat). Don't be afraid to retreat, even later in the game you'll get killed from time to time.

Use the creatures in the game to your advantage and until later in the game when you learn to counter the Caragors I'd reccomend steering clear, it can be difficult.

I'd also recommend pursuing the captains as soon as possible, power is essentially how you open stronger tiers of abilities and doing the power struggles and killing captains will see that power ranking soar.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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I'd also recommend completing the storyline missions first because once those are done I feel like the game really opens up to what is greatest about it and that's playing around with the nemesis system. Plus, being able to just roam around the map and completing the side activities is what really builds the world up around the player. Talion is kind of a bland blank slate to me, but the Uruks really feel like living enemies as opposed to per-rendered AI like in so many other games.

Its really cool how you can single-handedly build an Orcs reputation both as a Branded follower or as a legit nemesis. I was just thinking last night the narrative you can craft and shape with the system. Allow a low level Uruk to kill you. Find him again and brand him. Command him to off a body-guard and then do an initiation to take his place. Betray the Warchief to become the Warchief. Riot against other Warchiefs. Amass a small army of Branded bodyguards. Its really pretty fun just messing around with the Orcs using their own against them. Plus, being able to "disable" an army of uruks with one press of a button is kind of badass.

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