I loved it in Doom but in the new titles the enemies couldn't kill each other, which was disappointing.
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Enemy infighting has to be the most underrated game mechanic.
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I think it's hilarious when some Pokémon will attack each other in wild battles (Seviper/Zangoose ganging up on each other, Mareanie attacking Corsola, maybe others)
Into the Breach is all about pushing enemies in line of fire of there other troups. You feel amazing, if you get a chain reaction of enemies killing each other in one turn. Amazing game.
This is really fun to play around with in Boneworks, you can unlock a spawn item gun that lets you spawn enemies and just watch them go at it. Watching these mechanical headcrab type enemies just launching themselves at enemy's heads never gets old.
Echoing Monster Hunter World.
Watching a Deviljho wreck an Anjanath while calmly roasting a steak is a big moment.
Watching a Deviljho wreck an Anjanath while calmly roasting a steak is a big moment.
I had a lot of fun staging cops vs gang fights in WD2. I usually start by sending a cop to a gang member on their turf and spam those fake evidence/gang hit calls so that more cops and gang members show up. It usually ends with lots of bodies and (blown up) cars left on the street, though there are some rare cases where it ends with a car chase that ends in police victory.
The Puppeteer ability in Sekiro is also neat. I often use it to get an enemy to fight his own friends while I watch from the shadows.
The Puppeteer ability in Sekiro is also neat. I often use it to get an enemy to fight his own friends while I watch from the shadows.
Always loved these moments, the first Half Life being a particularly memorable example. It often bothers me when a game that has factions that should be fighting each other and they either all focus on you or are simply kept in thier own separate areas so they never meet. Sounds like my issue with The Last of Us not having this was at least somewhat rectified by the sequel.
I've been playing Fallout 4 recently and wandering into a battle and picking up the scraps never gets old.
I've been playing Fallout 4 recently and wandering into a battle and picking up the scraps never gets old.
The second level of Streets of Rage 4 has this, and I reckon it's the best level in the series. The 'cops vs criminals vs you' stuff is so cool
Fallout: A thread.
Seeing a Deathclaw coming out from fucking nowhere to fuck up a bunch of Caesar legionnaires will never not be funny.
It's kind of a shame that infighting used to be a huge part of gameplay during the Doom to Quake era and then almost completely vanished.
Seeing a Deathclaw coming out from fucking nowhere to fuck up a bunch of Caesar legionnaires will never not be funny.
It's kind of a shame that infighting used to be a huge part of gameplay during the Doom to Quake era and then almost completely vanished.
Or aBloodsucker that has killed an entire platoon of Stalkers wearing EXO suits. Yeesh, still gives anxiety attack during the nights hearing it breathe
Lol this worked on all shopkeepers from what I could tell and I'd spend sooo much time doing this. It was hilarious every time.
Vampyr. I love luring the vampire hunters to the vampires. After watching them engage in a bloodbath, I finish off the survivor--who's usually weakened after participating in the battle. This makes the game so much more fun.
I've been mildly annoyed by this behaviour in XCOM 2 lately -- not because I don't want it to happen, but because it seems inconsistent about whether it happens or not. It keeps screwing up my half-baked plans, making me think I'm safer than I really am, lol.
When you have Advent and the Lost in the same mission, they'll sometimes attack each other, but also sometimes ignore each other. I kind of get it from the Advent side; it makes sense for them to see XCOM as more of a threat and thus not necessarily take out every Lost in sight before turning their guns on you. What I don't get is why the Lost sometimes run past Advent and beeline straight for my team. They're mindless zombies, they should be attacking whoever's closest! The only thing you can really rely on from them is breaking the aliens' overwatch shots, because the Lost turn conveniently happens right before your turn, after the Advent and/or Chosen turns.
When you have Advent and the Lost in the same mission, they'll sometimes attack each other, but also sometimes ignore each other. I kind of get it from the Advent side; it makes sense for them to see XCOM as more of a threat and thus not necessarily take out every Lost in sight before turning their guns on you. What I don't get is why the Lost sometimes run past Advent and beeline straight for my team. They're mindless zombies, they should be attacking whoever's closest! The only thing you can really rely on from them is breaking the aliens' overwatch shots, because the Lost turn conveniently happens right before your turn, after the Advent and/or Chosen turns.
Pedestrians getting into fistfights in GTA IV could be hilarious, especially if someone pulls out a gun. People might try to take them down, or police could see them and go for an arrest. You could call the cops on an angry pedestrian and sometimes they'll work out what you're doing and bolt, other times the cops could show up and arrest them. Then you could hijack the cop car with the pedestrian still in the back.
There were a lot of fun systemic interactions in that game that were taken out of V and it was real disappointing. I loved picking up stuff from hot dog stands and throwing them at people, or shoving them around and seeing what happened
There were a lot of fun systemic interactions in that game that were taken out of V and it was real disappointing. I loved picking up stuff from hot dog stands and throwing them at people, or shoving them around and seeing what happened
Not gonna lie, I'm disappointed, I was waiting for a Horde to appear as well.
Because when the Lost spawn, they spawn on the opposite side of the map, away from your units. If the aggro rate of Lost was even 50% they would almost always target Advent leaving you pretty much safe and defeating the purpose of them.
Use a Lost lure and completely nullify their threat on top of helping you do tick damage to enemy units in future. I almost never go into Lost missions without it once I can create one.
You can't talk about in-fighting without talking about classic Doom (and 2).
As others have said, it's one of the main aspects of the game which adds another layer of depth to its gameplay mechanics. In harder custom wads, it's definitely necessary to be successful in setpieces.
As others have said, it's one of the main aspects of the game which adds another layer of depth to its gameplay mechanics. In harder custom wads, it's definitely necessary to be successful in setpieces.
In Watch Dogs 2 i kinda hated calling the cops or a gang because it wasn't really pacifist... i didn't want to kill anyone and those options even if they were a lot of fun, were not pacifist.
The original Doom was the first time I remember seeing this happen. Blew my mind.
One of my favorite elements in the back half of the original Halo was when you could watch the Covenant fight the flood, or more often find yourself in a 3 way fight.
I understand perfectly well how it works and why. I'm saying I don't like it as it is, because it's inconsistent. I'd rather they either have them fight, or don't. As it stands, the mechanic might as well not exist outside of the lure; under normal conditions, you can't work it into your strategy at all because of the randomness. I think that sucks, because y'know, it's a strategy game.
You beat me to it.One of my favourite parts in 'The Last of Us Part II', for this threads subject matter alone:
Loved that part and every section where I can just lure enemies to the Infected (and vice versa)
It can be done with any shopkeeper, but Herbert Moon in particular will take way, way more damage from other NPCs than any other NPC can in the game.
My favourite was punch someone then run infront of the cops and let them punch me. The cops of course would arrest them.
I was just going to post that. It's great to get a huge brute with an axe to hallucinate and wipe out half a camp in story, but in Legends, it's amazing.
Had it happen with a tower shield enemy at the end of a wave. All 4 of us stopped and watched the last two brutes tear into each other. It was surreal, no other enemies around, just could relax and watch it play out.
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You're not supposed to work them into anything; Alpha strike rules still apply to the player, Lost or no Lost. Just focus on Advent and manage acceptable damage from the Lost. I notice that Lost dont tend to gang on on a single unit even if that means they give up an attack opportunity on a unit that is in range.
They were added to screw you, not Advent .