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matrix vs coh. i havnt played whats ur opion and combat
colep53
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ok its been a long time since iv posted. right now im playing WoW which is good but i still long for somthing new and fresh. ok so heres my question.
Do u fell that the mxo well end up like coh getting boring after about a month of play?
to me coh is a great gam with low life span. if im going to buy mxo id like to know im getting myself into somthing that well be fun for awhile.
ok question 2
How are u guys liking the ombat in the mxo? it looks pretty cool from here and of course its diffrent so that gotta be nice.
thank you for u r time.
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MxO is very "differant", in many ways.
I don't see it getting boring any time soon. There are a lot of things to do, and then, well....there's the story.
Choose your side, find a good clan, and help your side in the struggle for supremacy and survival. You will at some point meet characters from teh movies, who are played by a RP team, and will give you assignments, either individually, or to your clan as a whole.
Listen to the grapevine, and find out what clan met with what characters in secret meetings, and what this could mean for the story. Why did Morpheus meet with members of The Collective, who are machinist, and actively seeking him to kill him? What did Nibe mean when she said "morpheus is on his own agenda" ?
Get bored of being an operative...go the hardline and swap out your skills....become a hacker, or a spy, or a coder.
Combat. Well, not ALL combat is interlock. You can fire from a distance, use pets, attack with viruses (casting, basically), etc. For those who like to get their hands dirty, there's interlock. Interlock is a fast-paced battle of tactics, and timing, combined with special moves. It's confusing at first, and some people outright hate it, but once you learn how differant strategies are used, and how to use them to open up your opponant for a special, you may learn to love it, as many do. It's very involved....if you go AFK in combat, you will die. There's no "press attack, go get a snack".
Once you get to over lvl 10 and get Hyper-Jump, it starts getting a lot more fun. Honestly, the first 10 levels aren't the best part of the game by a long-shot. Most of the negative hype I hear about this game is from people who make it to level 4 or so, don't "get it", and go back to a game with mechanics that they are familiar with.....hit attack and go afk
Back to hyper-jump. Imagine being able to clear three city blocks in one jump. So high in the air, the cars below look like toys. Granted, it's not like this at level 10, but every level your jump gets bigger and better. It's a total rush.
There's lots of good things to say about this game. I suggest you give it a try, and check out RadioFreeZion while you're playing.
My experience so far (I also currently play CoH) is that the combat system in CoH is a lot simpler. I have barely figured out combat in Matrix and I seem to get shot to death while trying to melee, but I just started. So far, I'm 50/50 vs. combat.
Matrix shows a lot of potential, I like the mission system where each mission is like a continuation of the previous one (so far) which I think gives a good sense of progression. In that Matrix definitely beats CoH.
Graphics: and general appearance, once again it depends on what you are looking for and what kind of card you have. I play at work during my lunch on my FX5200 and graphics on CoH are better.
Music: definitely Matrix. CoH music (... or should I say musac?) sucks.
Level progression seems similar in both cases where you have to go to a trainer(CoH)/phonebooth(Matrix) to level up.
Skills/Powers: Matrix is superior. You can change your whole loadout of skills everytime you hardline (phonebooth). If you have $i you can update your skills or buy new ones.
Gameplay: Currently very laggy (and I have a backbone connection at work!). Sometimes it is so bad that it is like the good old days of 14.4 quake where you'd be walking and all of a sudden you are back 50m and dead (or in combat in the case of the Matrix).
So far, I'm hopeful the lag will be fixed.
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a lot of the 'lag" people are experiencing is hardware related.
You NEED a gigabyte of memory to play this game. The demands on your system are rather large. On a good machine, cranking the graphics up all the way makes it visually stunning.
Setting your swapfile to a differant physical HDD than your operating system lives on smooths the game out a lot....and other games as well, in fact.
The game DOES need some optimisation, but I know they'll get it smooth. There was a period in beta where it was liquid silk, it was so smooth. The they added a crap-load of content and stuff and havn't re-optimised since, mainly I think because of the release crunch. But it's coming, I have full confidence in these devs, seeing as how much they care about the game, and how fast they fix things.
as I said. it needs some optimisation. But for quite a few of us, it IS (believe it or not) basically lag-free. I expect a stutter when I hyper-sprint three blocks, and then hyper-jump over a river into a differant neighborhood.
The important thing is that the Dev team for this game is competant. They'll get teh bugs fixed. What you have is the typical big company rushing a potentially incredible game out teh door unfinished...but they WILL finish it eventually, at least.
And I certainly wouldn't call MxO a "typical mmo". There's more RP and story in this game than anything I've played....and I've been around teh mmo scene for quite a while.
This game is extremely hardware intensive and it definitely helps to have a swap file on a second hard drive. I have played this on three machines, two of my own, athlon 64 3200+ with 1gb ram and radeon 9800 pro and it is pretty flawless there, a dell with p4 3.2ghz, 2gb ram, 6800gt video card and it's very nice on there, and on a friends athlon machine (think it's about 1.5ghz) with a fx5200 and it is quite noticeably slower on his machine. We are both on broadband and ping times to places are similar so it has to be his hardware.
I personally love this game so far. It does at times remind me of coh, but to me it's like it expanded on that idea. The combat is different, the character growth and progression is different, etc. I just hit level 7 last night and I only get to play twice a week for about four hours but I'm enjoying it so far.
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So far not one person has been ON TOPIC - I'd also like to know the comparison if anyone has played both games. I have played CoH - currently playing WoW - but, I have a max charactor. I maxed a few chars on CoH and WOW it got very boring - no tradeskills... Does The Matrix have a tradeskill system?
Here are the major differences i feel that MxO has that CoH didnt.
1. inventory. i love inventory's, thats just me. CoH didnt have inventory's and those little enhancements dont count.
2. combat. the combat is visually better and just plain more fun.( for the people that love interlock)
3. repititive. stalemate, ive heard many arguments, and my personal feelings is MxO is way less repetivive, but ill get flamed for taking sides.
4. character creation. CoH hands down is "better". However, MxO character creation has a certain flare. it may not be as customizable, but its very unique and much different from CoH's.
5. Characters/how they level. MxO is better than CoH becuase you can be anything you want whenever you want. (provided you have enough money, which really is never a problem if you are smart with it.) Having trouble beating a mission with fighting, becuase the alarms are going off? switch to a hacker, find the computer that controls the defense system, and disable it. then go in and mind blast the unsuspecting gaurds.
6. Missions. Like above, theres basically 3 ways of completing the missions. (for critical missions that involve some form of killing / taking something) you can sneak past everything, pick the lock to the door that has the boss/artifact/whatever your doing and kill/take it. Go in with guns/fists a blazing and kill everyone. Or like above, hack the defense system and pick off the guards, pick up the key from one of them and unlock the door. In my opinion, that kicks CoH's butt.
I know im missing more, but thats my opinion on how they are different. Plus one is anime/comic'y and the other is Sci Fi, so thats another big difference that should be noted when comparing these games.
It is a lot like COH in many ways, but instead of making comparisons because jackman hit the nail on the head.
The most I can say is that it is a lot of fun, varied mission types (not the go out kill 15 of these and return-coh style missions). I started noticing more and more details in the combat system with every level I go.
Then again, before the trolls come out, it comes down to a simple fact, just like any other licensed game, if you like the source material enough, you shold like the game. If you don't like the Matrix then of course you will hate this game.
Overall, it is simply a nice change of pace, I am getting a little sick and tired of the whole Medieval/Fantasy/Wizards&Warriors setting.
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The lack of inventory in CoH just kills me. I want stuff. Lots of stuff. Stuff and more stuff. Batman had stuff! Superman even had stuff. I think CoH took the easy way out by not having cool things to make and collect.
MxO has lots of stuff to collect and they're even talking about adding new ways to enhance your clothing so that I can stop weaing lorpor's jacket (sp?).
I think combat in the Matrix is at least on par to that of CoH. The rest of the game I consider to be a notch up, and I'm now playing the Matrix rather than CoH. There is more mission variety, more character diversity, and at least to this point, a better storyline. The games are pretty close, the Matrix game engine does require higher resources, but has considerably better graphics, and if your PC can handle richworld at it's fullest (few can), then the graphics are on par with the best MMORPG graphics out there, and the world is just so alive. The game is virtually unplayable with 512mb ram even at the lowest settings, I think they should really set minimum requirements as 1 GB ram, unless they are still optimizing the engine.