Compare Revisions

11 Stealth in Marvel's Wolverine is opportunistic rather than hiding-based. Insomniac has reduced the point to one line: stealth is optional. It is closer to thinning a group before it notices you than to a sandbox built around assassinations.
22  
33 How it works
44  
55 Enhanced Senses marks the opportunities, picking enemies out as silhouettes and making their heartbeats audible through walls, and takedowns are available on isolated targets. Jean Grey adds an assist of her own: enemies she blinds can be taken down silently, which the trophy list tracks. See Combat.
66  
77 Why it is worth doing
88  
9-Quiet kills pre-build the Rage and Healing Factor meter, and game director Mike Daly has pointed out that Rage banked this way does not decay the way it does in an open fight. That makes an opening stealth phase a real mechanical advantage rather than a stylistic preference: you walk into the loud part of an encounter with a meter you would otherwise have to earn under fire.
9+Quiet kills pre-build the Rage meter, and game director Mike Daly has pointed out that Rage banked this way does not decay the way it does in an open fight. That makes an opening stealth phase a real mechanical advantage rather than a stylistic preference: you walk into the loud part of an encounter with a meter you would otherwise have to earn under fire.
1010  
1111 ElementDetailDetectionAccessibility Options expose a Stealth Awareness slider that adjusts how quickly enemies detect youRageStealth kills build Rage, and that Rage does not decayAssistsJean Grey can blind enemies, opening silent takedownsLimitsMany scenarios cannot be stealthed all the way throughBossesStealth does not work against bosses at all
1212 Where it is used
1313  
1414 One previewed section had Logan sneaking through a fake town Bolivar Trask had built for one of his experiments, destroying generators as he went and moving through claustrophobic house interiors between them. Traversal feeds the same loop: Insomniac has described Logan using his strength to climb rocks and trees and to sneak through areas, so climbing is a stealth tool as much as a movement one. See Locations.
1515  
1616 What it is not
1717  
1818 It is not a full stealth game and the game does not pretend otherwise. There are many scenarios where it is not possible to stay unseen through an entire encounter, and boss fights are open from the first frame. See Bosses.