#Tv tropes metal slug update#

New Work, Recycled Graphics: Attack reuses the same arcade graphics from the previous game.It was nerfed so he can only use his special again once the blimp completely leaves. The player can send out multiple blimps at once. The Doctor's special is deploying the Brave Guerrier with a large area of attack and deploying mooks.It is so popular with staller decks that the dev team removed its ability to damage bases. Morden's special would previously can damage enemy's base with the invincible summoned Hi-Do's.She was severely nerfed in the next update. Leona was originally absurdly powerful for a low AP unit.Units are nerfed when they're overpowered by unintentional means. Necromancer: Cat and Lovely mummies summon a trio of regular mummies, who each make one attack and dissolve into sand.Megaton Punch: Ralf's Galagta Phantom also spews balls of fire upon impact.Press it and everyone with their Special Attack ready will all attack at once.

#Tv tropes metal slug update#

Macross Missile Massacre: A later update adds an Attack button on the lower-right corner.The Reload Support automatically charges the units' cooldown time, allowing them to use their Special Attacks without waiting. The Recovery Support refills all units HP and their production reload automatically goes to zero. Limit Break: In addition to the Metal Slug Attack, the game adds two more limit breaks.Choosing higher difficulties or harder stages in the Extra-Ops gives out larger amounts of Exclusive Points and more POWs to rescue.Higher difficulties also give out higher tier items.

The Elite Stages in Attack mode will randomly reward players with unit parts (one part per POW rescued).It was replaced again with the in-game sprites consists of characters, bosses, and other units to mark the third anniversary of the series. It was replaced again with the character illustrations of Yoshino, Dragunov, Red Goblin, a Martian, Marco, General Morden, Abigail, and the Professor to mark the second anniversary of the series. It was replaced by the promotional art for the first anniversary. Evolving Title Screen: The first screen is the first mission of Metal Slug 2.Defeat Means Playable: Completing the Marathon or Rare Boss Extra Ops rewards the player with the event's boss.This commonly occurs when the enemy's base is in critical levels or a certain amount of units reached the enemy's base. The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard: In the Extra Ops, certain Hell missions will spam a butt-ton of units (to the point of seeing a visual streak) who immediately start using their special attacks.Cap: At first, the level cap for both units and their skills is 10, then it's whatever level the player has up to Level 50.You have to wait until a particular unit's crank is available again. Box and Step-Up cranks are never available in the Medal Crank.Thankfully, these pre-acquisition units will eventually become obtainable via medal crank, so if you want a powerful pre-acquisition by spending medals instead of cash, you just have to wait. Pre-acquisition units can also be this, but instead of paying for it with medals, a player must pay $100 for 110 parts for that particular unit (that means a total of $300 to platinum ranking of said unit) as well as an exclusive gold bordered avatar that come with it.The maximum stamina cap is around 150 sorties but buying more sorties, grinding them from the Treasure Hunt and earning them through the daily missions can exceed this cap up to 99,999 sorties.

Announcer Chatter: Returns from Defense, although here, this can get somewhat excessive once you 1) Acquire the skills that allow the main characters to keep their weapons after using them and 2) Field many of the main characters at once.

Advancing Boss of Doom: Most of the end bosses walk towards your base (which excludes stationary units such as the Toschka Dalanue and Big John).