Hunters 2 - (by Rodeo Games) - Universal App

[C.Hannum]

Originally Posted by visionwebs

Looking forward to it with mostly baited breath as I hope the release isn't any where near as bad as the release was for episode one. If it is then il be slapping myself on the face because I intend to buy as soon as it arrives...

I won't even be slapping myself in the face because I'm going into it this time knowing full well what the chances are that it's going disappoint (about 2:1 for disappointing based on the current state of H:E1).

These guys have ambition, they do NOT have attention to detail. Example, for several versions of H1 there was a very annoying bug where if you resumed a game the Leadership Talent that lowered the cost to enter Guard mode to 0 would not be functional. I kept bugging them about it, they kept promising it would be fixed in the *next* patch (this went through about four "nexts"). They finally 'fixed' it. So the other day when H2 got delayed I decided to do a clean install of H1 for S&Gs only to find out they "fixed" that bug by simply lowering Guard costs to 0 all the time rendering the talent pointless (Either they figured everybody still playing it already had the talent and would never catch them or they really aren't good at managing complex systems).

So, I'm going to insta buy H2 and I'm not going to regret it regardless, but if it turns out to be another bug ridden hot mess, I will not be buying 3 even if the entire original Sir Tech team comes to my house and gives it three thumbs up. As the old saying goes about "Fool me once..."

[grenadedodger]

On the one hand I am really excited about this as in my mind at least it is the closest thing to space hulk (please god someone make a WH40k TBS game for iOS!). However I cannot disagree with the comments above, the first one was handled terribly by Rodeo Games, it even had a bug for the 6 weeks or so which kept on resetting your game after mission 4.

My finger will be itching to press buy on day one but this time I think I may have to hold off and wait for someone else to try it and post up what they think on here.

[dalbertson]

I've been playing this for the past couple days due to an extremely lucky promo snag on twitter so I'll throw my 2 cents out. I don't know if my opinion will carry much weight with some of you as I really liked the first game so keep that in mind as I gush.

First, I love this kind of game, I love leveling up my squad, I love maxing out each and every skill tree, trying out different weapons, taking on daily contracts with just a lone hunter etc...Needless to say, I had already put in around 25h and had only done the first two contracts in the campaign. There are 5 skill trees available, each hunter comes with 2 trees so there are about 10 different "classes" you can have. There are also general skills you can update such as weapon damage, critical hit etc...

There five different levels of loot, you can also manufacture your own weapons and armor building up the stats you want...up to a point. With enough credits you can build pretty powerful weapons and armor but it can't top the best you can get which is legendary and it drops very very rarely.

In the 45h I've played I've only had one crash (iphone 4S with latest ios updates) right in the middle of a contact. When I booted back into the game it asked if I wanted to resume my contract and dropped me right back where I had been. All of this combines to make an excellent gaming experience. Having said that, I do hope that they release more campaign specific levels in the future and raise the level cap...also multiplayer would be an awesome addition.

[byronbulb]

Will it be retina-enabled for ipad3?

[C.Hannum]

Originally Posted by dalbertson

I really liked the first game so keep that in mind as I gush.

I suspect that many of the biggest critics, myself included, also really liked the first one as well or it wouldn't have received enough play to find all the amateur hour flaws

It's a genre I love, and the frustration with the first game was to do with how close they came to having a wonderful mobile version of that genre, and yet how far they were because they could never dot all the "i"s and cross all the "t"s at the same time.

In the 45h I've played I've only had one crash (iphone 4S with latest ios updates) right in the middle of a contact.

Unfortunately, that's not saying much. Most "crashes", particularly post iOS 5, are because iOS kills apps that consume too much memory with great gusto, which isn't an issue on the 4S, but often is for the iPad 1 and the touches, particularly the fourth gen. If I got a quarter every time a dev put out a game in the past year that ran fine on the iPhone 4+ and the iPad 2 but was a wonky mess on everything else, I'd never have to pay for an iOS game again

Regardless, happy to hear generally positive things,

[RangerRob]

Originally Posted by Ayjona

So, while I, against all better reasoning, am still excited for Hunters 2, I am hesitant to invest more money into a product from a iOS developer groups with one of the worst track records, a history of unfulfilled promises, and an abandoned and unfinished product in their past. Which is a shame, as Hunters 2 might really be an excellent product.

+1 for me. The original hunters had such amazing potential, I paid for it as well. I'll probably still pick up Hunters 2 if reviews say it is complete and functional. I won't buy on future promises this time.

[jonnycache]

I got on to H1 obviously way after a lot of you and didn't see any of the hype and so enjoyed it just for what it was. Which to my mind was an excellent TBS without a lot of bells and whistles but still a huge amount of fun to play. I'm sure I'll be on this at the weekend as there's still not been anything else like it.

[devensega]

To each his own says I. I think rodeo delivered a good TBS, they tried to do more than they were able. This seems to have earned them condemnation from some in this thread.

I would rather they keep trying than listen to some of this chatter and decide to play it safe in future.

[Leegames]

Originally Posted by RangerRob

+1 for me. The original hunters had such amazing potential, I paid for it as well. I'll probably still pick up Hunters 2 if reviews say it is complete and functional. I won't buy on future promises this time.

This.

And hopefully cloud save or similar.

[C.Hannum]

Originally Posted by devensega

To each his own says I. I think rodeo delivered a good TBS, they tried to do more than they were able.

I agree it's somewhat unfair to judge them too harshly for the stuff they announced and never delivered. However, if I were judging them for the number of empty promises about the first game I certainly wouldn't even be reading this thread. I'm judging them on the number of critical issues never fixed properly in the original game. They updated it ten freaking times and there are still bugs and unresolved issues that affect gameplay, i.e. the Guard Leadership talent still not working after how many ever tries they took to fix it.

Simply put, several months of support, ten patches, and they never accomplished more than getting the launch features mostly working.

From my p.o.v., I'm being extremely forgiving and generous to take a chance on buying Hunters 2 at launch.