I would but you know my situation. ;-;

I got to use Rebecca like once, I miss her so.

Josh isn't top tier. 'Near' everyone in reunion has a headshot + instant kill melee so they all have Midnight Wesker potential in a way. That doesn't make them top tier. You have to factor in the entire arsenal and all of their advantages before determining top tier material.

Josh is good and his melee's are strong, but, he lacks an effective means of dealing with plagas, namely duvalia. He only has one rocket as well. While he has the m3, it has recoil and recovery animations which leave him open for punnishment against bosses so he has to be careful. The M3 can deal with Duvalia, but, it takes a good few shots to do so.

Compaired to someone like Excella who can Humiliate her way to a 150 combo easily, has 12 flash rounds for every plaga in a level, flash round + AK for Reapers, and just a small burst of AK to kneel all other bosses for her to Disco Spin it into oblivion. Excella's only weakness is that a lot of her melee's have really long animations. Outside of that, Excella is beyond overpowered.

Excella and Barry are top tier in Reunion with Warrior Chris and Business Sheva close behind. Josh and Rebecca would follow behind that.

Rebecca can be good with her flame spray but her machine gun often head shots and instant kills rather than allow for a melee setup, just as well, the rest of her melee's are piss poor that if the headshot fails or the majini falls back for any reason, her Kick isn't going to kill them and now you just potentially lost your combo.

Heavy Metal Chris I hate with a passion from a costume standpoint and playstyle standpoint. The Gatling gun has a long startup which makes it useless in tight corners when you're surrounded. It also has terrible accuracy so you can often be firing directly at an enemy and still take a bit before you even hit the damn thing so it can easily hit you before you hit it.

HM Chris also runs at half the speed of normal chars which just hurts your time already. Now his stun rod........Yes you get melee setups with it, and yes you can get +5 for killing with it. But, half the time the stun rod pushes them back making you have to run up and stun them again before you can kill them or melee them. When you're surrounded by a group and the stun only pushed one back and you have to stop and run forward, you can easily get grabbed or hit by another majini.

HM Chris can be effective yes but he requires a lot of effort to use effectively and in the long run, I don't think it's worth it compaired to other chars. Not only that, add in the fact that standing there stunning everything an entire match can become dreadfully boring fast. But, to each their own if you enjoy it.


Oh and on a final note about Excella, Just to show how powerful her melee's are: My friend and I went and did a knife only Reunion run with Dual Excella's. We played on Prison and netted a 130k score by using nothing more than two Excella's, Knives, and melee's. Most other chars wouldn't be able to handle it as well. But, Excella's overpowered melee's make it a breeze. Again, this was with nothing but knives. Now 130k isn't any kind of score to brag about in Duo, but, for using nothing but knives and melee's, it's quite impressive in my book.

And lastly to Foxy, her handgun often fires 2-3 bursts rather than a single bullet which negates a melee. Whereas with her AK, firing only a single bullet at a time is reliable and works like a charm. Her AK is also far more powerful and helps when dealing with bosses to setup an effective kill with Disco Spin. Plus it gives you less clutter in your inventory when all you have to worry about is machine gun ammo.

But again, it's all about preference. There's plenty of people who enjoy her handgun. I just feel it's a waste and prefer to stick with the AK.

I get the headshot + melee bit, but there are few people in Mercs Reunion that can kill other Majini without having to damage them first from a headshot. Rebecca and Josh (w/ Maximum Straight) are the only ones who can do this and can benefit from truly building time. What's great about Josh is that he has more than one melee similar to the Cobra Strike. He has three! Each of them kill the target Majini and others around it without damage on them.

Duvalias are a pain in the ass, but the Flash Grenade drop rate is ridiculous. More often than not I can take them out. I usually save any Flash for them, anyway.

You can argue that building time isn't as important as the 150 combo this time around, but in the end the higher scores will be awarded to those who have 150 + the most time.

Hm. I honestly believe you are handicapping yourself with Excella, Ikari. I completely understand play preference (and power to ya if you score well), but Excella does wonders with the M93R. I can play without shooting more than one bullet in the head. If I miss, the AK can allow me another shot. Humiliate compared to High Heel is a major time building difference.

I hate the exclusivity of Barry's Headbutt and Cephalo still show up because his gun explodes heads a lot of the time. I like how he Hurricane's frozen Majini, though.

Huh? I never have a problem firing only one shot with her handgun. You just use it just like you'd fire one shot with an AK, what do you mean exactly with that? Or did I just misunderstand your post?

Humiliate is an amazing(ly funny) move, but I think the Midnight Wesker route with her handgun is the most ideal way to handle stuff as her like Seraph said.

In Mercenaries reunion, there is the occasional slow down (frame rate issues). It isn't as noticeable in singleplayer, but more so in Co-op . I don't recall regular mercs mode really suffering from this problem. I wonder if this has to do with the new enemies or if is somehow cause the DLC is running off the HDD.

This is for the Xbox 360 version.

Something you guys who care about scores may wanna watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCjIPm2mCOM

They do an interesting strategy with the executioner.

YT is loading real slow for me right now.

I'm gonna guess that they keep the bosses alive until the combo is pretty large? I heard that maximizes the score quite a bit.

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Yeah, they had to play with that dude swinging around whatnot. That will be the cause of many restarts. Their time wasn't bad at all either.

If you just whip out shotgun whenever this happens you shouldn't lose combos since a shotgun kill is faster than a melee anyway. Just train yourself to immediately pull out shotgun if you would do the special move with other characters.

You can do single shots with pistol reliably, just get used to barely tapping the button.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HL0vm3Y ... r_embedded

WOW

^ Poor guy musta been nervous.

Sheva had to keep the combo up a lot while he smacked timers. They both did a great job.