I always know what I'm talking about thanks, I would never discuss something I'm not informed about. I'm really getting tired of your insulting vibe towards me. You could of simply said "STARS Wesker can't melee enemies as good" and the whole conversation would of probably ended, but instead you proceeded to call me out and call me a fool who doesn't know what he's talking about, and assumed I didn't read the first post when I clearly did. It was completely unnecessary and really quite rude.

I may of given an example of how to not post in 'your' thread, but you provided an example as to how not to post on a forum in general, if you want to be liked and respected anyway

Just because you got on some leaderboards doesn't make you better then anyone else.

I'm done here, remind me to never try to have a decent conversation with you again..

edit: (lol same time post)

I feel you, Agent Wong. Every time I play Mercs, I barely get above the 30,000 mark. *cries* I have managed to unlock every character, but just barely. Heck, it took me over 20 times to unlock STARS Wesker in the Prison level. I ended up using Tribal Sheva with the long bow and scored about 42,000.

I usually end up playing in either costume for Jill and Wesker, but I'll take the advice of the OP and hopefully improve in time. I'll just be proud of myself if I can get A rankings on everything.

When versus mode comes out I suggest this thread be used for strategies on that as well.

Well my highest score thus far was 35k and change on PA, but that was an extremely lucky run for me heh. Which is the moment I really wanted to chuck the controller because I was so close hehehee. My original strategy was to use Chris' neckbreaker, but I soon learned that the enemies don't always go to one knee when you pop them in the leg, so that went out the window.

As I said I usually do better with Sheva because her melee while they are laying on the ground is an instant kill, and her sniper gun is normally a one shot kill as well, I dunno I guess I just need to practice more and maybe watch some videos. If I could get only sniper rounds I think I would do fantastic eheh.

Not to be fussy or anything. But, while his reply was a bit over the top, you say you read the original post and know what you're talking about, then go on to say "If you had simply said, the hydra doesn't setup for melee's well. The conv probably would have ended there".

But, in his original post, he did blatantly state that. That was his main reasoning for Midnight outperforming S.T.A.R.S. because the latter can't setup melee combos with the shotgun. He also mentioned the shotgun again in reference to another char and blatantly mentioned that you shouldn't bother using the shotgun to begin with if you're going for a high score.

So, although his reply was a bit over the top, it does hold some merit because he clearly explained why midnight is top tier and what the fault of S.T.A.R.S. is and you came in and said "I disagree" and then went on to proclaim the reason for your disagreement being because of the exact reason he said S.T.A.R.S. fails, by going on about the shotgun. Again, which was already stated to be 'the' reason he falls short.

His original post also went on to address the fact that to get high scores you 'need' to be doing melee. Once again, as he also mentioned, the shotgun destroys the possibility of melee's. So any char relying on a shotgun is essentially gimped compaired to other characters because they can't setup melee's.

So basically, you were being rather ignorant in your reply, and he responded as much stating just that. If you aren't reading what it said and don't know what you're talking about (and posting what you did does imply as much, no offense), then it's rather silly to be trying to debate a tier listing, and also try to state you read the original post and know what you're talking about when clearly, you didn't.

Also, him stating his high score was not to flaunt, but, to prove with evidence that he knows what he's talking about. If you haven't reached a score like his, obviously, your strategies and methods are not as profitable. So if you say S.T.A.R.S. wesker is better than midnight because of unlimited shotgun ammo, yet, still don't have a score to match his midnight wesker's score, obviously, there's a flaw there and Midnight wesker is obviously proven thus far to be superior than S.T.A.R.S. wesker.


I hope you can take all of that as me simply putting things into perspective rather than an 'attack' on you or anything.

I thought there would be more to it then simply Midnight meleeing well, because I don't think a few seconds from a melee attack make too much difference (but after thinking about it some I realize that every second would count), that's all. All he needed to do was say that that was all there was to it, and give some explanation as to why it's so important, like, you know, he is SUPPOSED to do by leading a thread like this, he didn't need to be so rude and bring up irrelevant facts, and say I'm a fool when I've had the game just as long as he has. =_=

Not to mention he DID say



He basically called me out into an argument that, quite honestly, I don't even care about. I could care less about mercs in RE5, it's just a little thing that is there to play for fun to me.

Instead of being so fast to debate his points, perhaps you should read and fully test them first. You obviously aren't well aware of how Mercs works and this is why:

You say a few seconds are not that important, but a melee kill = +5 seconds on the clock. Let's say we get 50 melee kills instead of 50 Hydra kills, that would be 250 seconds extra.

After killing all 150 enemies the game ends and the left over time is what adds to your bonus score. Each second on the clock is 1,000 pts. The 250 extra seconds equate to 250,000 bonus pts on top of your total.

You can not debate that these "few seconds" are not important and the Hydra, while amazing as a weapon, sucks for the premise of BH5's mercs. Wesker STARS is an amazing killing machine and if Mercs was similar to BH4, he'd be S Class; but it's not and this is why Midnight is better.

Now see, if Detrimantix had just said that instead of being so rude and quick to insult, I wouldn't of gotten upset, and this wouldn't of happened.

I understand now, I already knew about the 1000 points per second thing, just melee kills seem to not be that good in solo mercs since the animation usually takes 2-3 seconds anyway, but there is always duo mode.

I've also found that I am no good at all with Midnight Wesker, yet I'm good with the rest of them, maybe just bad luck and not enough practice though.

I've just been using the inventory menu to reload, which has been working out for me so far. I've never tried your tactic for reloading, but I'm somewhat hesitant to do so considering I've been using the "A Controls" forever haha.

BTW any tips for duo mode? It seems that whenever I do solo, I can usually guarantee an S or SS, but for duo, I always seem to be getting an A or lower. Although I don't want to sound like an elitist, it could be because my partner isn't as good as I am roff.

I have absolutely no shame in admitting i utterly suck at Mercs. Just the other day i blasted my way through, hit a combo of something like 17/18 villagers, hit a bunch of time extensions, survived to the end...and was looking forward to finally improving on my C-grade best...and still got a C Gonna brush up on some of the techniques here and give it a real shot next week.

Am dying for the points to get the infinite ammo for my 5,000 hitpoint S&W.