Striders... anyone else just a SNIDGE dissapointed?

[Lifehost]

Don't get me wrong, Striders are cool and all...

But none of the levels with the striders really matched up to what I saw in the binks, especially the 2k3 bink.

Now THAT is what I would have loved to see in the game... strider comes out blasting out of a building chasing people, shoots up the landscape, impales a guy, shoot a car and makes it explode, shoots the bridge, etc...

That was kinda what I was looking for in the striders. In game they are neat, but I still think the level from the bink was easily the coolest... the deadly silence before the attack...

That's just my opinion though, I'd like to hear what you guys think. I haven't beaten the game yet, but I'm pretty sure I'm past the strider levels... I'm in the Citadel (stuck )

 

[azz0r]

I agree - I was expecting the levels to be the best but the stiders were too damn difficult and the team mates were too damn useless.

 

[<RJMC>]

so that means are not levels like in the E3 2003 video whit striders?

 

[Lanthanide]

Most of the 2003 binks aren't in the game at all, or the buildings are mostly there but modified. Oh well.

I thought the striders were really easy - very easy to hit with the rockets once you'd shot it. The gunships were a lot more difficult, always shooting them down, and being able to fly and move so quickly it was hard to find cover from them in a lot of places.

 

[Hectic Glenn]

The choppers regularly raped me with their mines and machine gun there was never cover when i heard them charge! Yet to meet a strider yet...dont tell me they are easy to kill, that would be a real let down!

 

[Lifehost]

Unless you have a plentiful supply of rockets, they are quite difficult to kill to be honest. And they are pretty damn accurate with both guns of theirs...

Either way, Striders are cool, it's just I wanted that damn 2k3 bink level. It would have more fun. It was a lot more epic, in a way...

 

[CTTcrew_MrBlue]

I found the striders damn hard on medium difficulty, easily my hardest enemy.

 

[azz0r]

Yep very hard, Im saddenend they made them killable too - I was hoping they were invincible.

 

[one day....]

Yes the striders and gunships are satisfyingly challenging,although i agree 100% with the op here,i was thinking 'hmmmm cant be long now before i see that strider impale the citizen!' but alas...it never happened.Shame on you valve and for that you get a 9/10 from me instead of ten.....im sure you will live with it lol.

 

[Lanthanide]

Wow, I thought Striders were really really easy.

Hint: whenever there is a strider or gunship around, there is ALWAYS a box of rockets somewhere for you to find and use against them.

 

[azz0r]

Yes the striders and gunships are satisfyingly challenging,although i agree 100% with the op here,i was thinking 'hmmmm cant be long now before i see that strider impale the citizen!' but alas...it never happened.Shame on you valve and for that you get a 9/10 from me instead of ten.....im sure you will live with it lol.

Complete opposite for me! I had a team of 5, it impaled 4 of them lol!

It was really cool too, he went down lown and then stabbed one and shook her right in my face, then quickly stabbed the other two and threw them off.

 

[Lifehost]

Complete opposite for me! I had a team of 5, it impaled 4 of them lol!

It was really cool too, he went down lown and then stabbed one and shook her right in my face, then quickly stabbed the other two and threw them off.

Really?

Hmm I never saw that happened...

Well, time to reply the level

 

[azz0r]

The striders arent really as scripted as I was expecting - they do change there course based on you and you only though.

Try running straight ahead and then going back, or running straight ahead and turning back. They dont care about the rebels, all they focus there plan on is you.

 

[icarus7495]

But none of the levels with the striders really matched up to what I saw in the binks, especially the 2k3 bink.

If u read the Final Hours of Half Life 2 article it says that the e3 binks were mainly just clips from the old reels made to show hl2 as it would be once made.

 

[Burn]

Long as you find good cover, there easy as hell, I find the gunners harder as they can just fly around and shoot you, unless you have VERY good cover, your going to get shot at alot.

 

[Heatseeker]

one memorable moment for me was when i went through this tube and i wasn't paying attention and all of a sudden i was right underneath a strider. i looked up and it was awesome.

other than that, i'm a little disappointed about them as well.

 

[Megalomaniac]

They are annoying the hell out of me right now...I think I'm on Fallow freeman...or something around there