Community:GTA IV Gripes/Combat
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Wish there was the ability to prone and shoot.
When tossing a hand grenade into a gang, some of them still survive the blast, despite being thrown directly at their feet.
GTAIV's cover system is the crappiest I have ever seen. It doesnt work half the time, or Niko takes cover in the wrong area. Gears of War's cover system is better, and GTAIV's system is supposedly taken from that. What happened?
You cant fight the cops like in other GTA games.
- Actually, you can fight cops. Just take out your gun and shoot them. You also fight them in missions, like the Bank Heist.
That's one of the worst ideas you posted on. If you take out a gun and shoot at the cop, you'll get 2 wanted star levels and more cops will swarm in and kill you. And if you attempt to fight a cop, he will easily arrest you and don't even bother holster a weapon. Cops will always shoot back anyways.
But since the cops don't have night sticks, if you try to punch them, the will just shoot you.
So your saying that if someone punched you, you would shoot them?
Combat is unrealistic and hard to attack people. You'll have to use weapons to kill them instead (not meleé ones).
It doesn't matter what the intent was. The point is, the combat system is horrendously awkward and often, unrealistic.
Still, it's hard to target people you are attacking and it's completely unrealistic while GTA SA had realistic hand-to-hand combat moves.
During shooting missions, you die very easily by shooters before you even run for cover. Enemies somewhat has great aiming, and Body Armor is highly recommended for hard missions.
- Once more, the game is meant to be more realistic. If you'd be facing down ten trained gunmen with nothing more than a few grenades and a pistol, do you think you would live?
Yeah, but even during Vigilante missions, the "criminal on foot" seem to survive a shotgun blast to the face. How's THAT real?
The Hand-to-Hand Combat is not as good as in San Andreas.
- Stated somewhere else, the hand-to-hand combat has a new purpose: subduing enemies that you aren't meant to kill.
Yes, but that doesn't excuse it for being horrendously awkward and sloppy.
Stealth kills as in San Andreas are no longer possible.
But on outside missions, you can't. It's straying away realism because it didn't even have the silenced pistol.
In final interview you cannot perform a stealth kill. Even if you use the knife to kill Goldberg, the receptionist still runs in screaming, and a 3 star wanted level is in place.
Still does'nt count as a stealth kill, even with a knife, the recepsionist still runs in screaming and a three star wanted level is still present. Besides, he can still scream even with a knife.
Stealth kills, with a knife or a silenced pistol are no longer possible in GTA IV. Slitting one's throat has been taken out, and so has the silenced pistol. It is nearly impossible to kill someone with a knife because they will most likely scream. In addition, the combat system is awkward, forcing you to follow your opponent every time he sways from a hit.
- I just the other day, went to the laywer's office and went up behind him and killed him, stabbed the hell out of him, walked out the door and outside to the street, no cops, no alarms, so it is possible at least with the lawyer mission.
Despite the stealth, I did the same thing, but he screams anyway and I got a 3 star wanted level. Like I said, his screams are always audible by the receptionist. Never counts as a stealth kill.