War For Cybertron - No Combiners

That's alright. These guys are giving us so much more, I'll happily let this slide.

while i dont really mind in this game surely the simplest way around this is to play the LEADER of a special team , run into the rest of your team over the level - probably with twits where their individual abilities and powers are necessary - and you simply all combine at the end of the level to beat a big boss or take out an encampment or something.


TBH though combiners should really be their own game done ala socom navy seals.

I love combiners, but I understand why they wouldn't include this particular function this time around. It would be cool if you could control the one of the team members and all the others were AI controlled, and you could switch between them like in the Lego games or the Legends games. Of course when the group combines you would have full control of the Combiner form. BUT, there's no need for that in this game; the action alone is exciting enough. I would like to see combiners done right once again tho, be it in Games, Shows, or Toys.

This will still be a sweet game without the Combiner characters.

Talking about a test for the ultimate team players. The best way to play that out is voice interaction so both legs aren't going in separate directions while the torso is trying to go a third route.
I agree, this game will be awesome even w/out combiner technology. There is this neat little trick that game publishers have started to do for years now. It's called expansion packs. They could always figure out the combiner details later and release it as an expansion pack.

Probably they will make an expansion whit the combiners and probably also on earth. It's a possibility if the game as enought sucess for it. To me is a must have definatly.

You know, another possibility is to get five of your friends, with whom you work well together, on a combiners team and play the combiner each making decisions on character control for the entire group, sort of like how the theory behind combiners works in the first place.

it's okay if we don't have combiners in the game, we already have Trypticon and Omega Supreme. they're big enough to kick ANY combiners butt.

Having Combiners in multiplayer would be exceptionally difficult to pull off (though I did like the idea posted earlier about having a Combiner show up as a bonus for x amount of kills).

However, I don't feel that they should be excluded from the game entirely. They could still be implemented in the game as an integral part of the story, and you can still keep the team gameplay mechanics.

Just imagine having a five (or six) party team consisting of the Combiners as individuals. You play like you would on the other levels, acting as one character while the others are controlled by AI and switching the controlled character on the fly. Then, when you meet a certain requirement (i.e.: gain so much energon to use, everyone at a certain health level or above) and the level permits it (enough room to manuever) you can activate the combine ability and unleash some Devastator fury on your enemies. Voila. Problemo solved.

At least that's how I'd do it. Thoughts?

I can see both draws and negatives to the combiner experience, such as the scramble city style combining that would allow individual bots to take up places on one part of the body or another, or to even sabotage enemy combiners. Then again it's still completely retarded to consider the combiner limbs for playable characters or that any giants should even be allowed in multiplayer mode. We haven't had a single TF game yet that permitted gestalts or other giants to be playable, so why start now? The giants are only there to be knocked down.

Dammit, there's no Triple-Changers in the game either. I can see why, since a Triple-Changer would be overpowered compared to the other playable bots--too bad they couldn't be non-playable bosses who could adapt to your play style with multiple alt-modes. Oh well, maybe next time...when we get Sixshot as a boss.

As far as Combiners go, just give me the limbs as playable characters. Maybe make their unique power to where they 'summon' the other limbs to form the gestalt for a limited time, or somethin akin to 'calling in' an air strike attack.