Mein Leben Runs.

[PhantomBlade19]

I'm gonna start this post by saying, I did whine so mutch about this trophy, never sign the petition, but I was so frustrated because I thought it was nearly impossible and I didn't have the "time" to attempt it. Nevertheless, since February 24th I cut the bs and start ACTUALLY trying this difficulty, was so HARD at the beginning, not gonna lie. I thought of quitting more times than I can remember, but it was all worth it in the end. 

I couldn't have done it if it wasn't for Kreeper's and MariotheFalcon's methods, as well as @Dark section F revisit glitch and strats for the Ausmerzer Revisit final boss fight and A_B_Y_S_S_1 for his amazing strat for the 1st phase of the courthouse, not to mention all the other players feedback of their own runs in this thread, my special thanks to all of you for sharing.

I did like 20-25 mein lebein runs, didn't practise that mutch on IADI, only for the hard sections (Courthouse, Panzerhound, Venus, Ausmerzer Revisit). 

Quick advise for all the players that haven't got this trophy but are considering a try in the future or just attempting it at the moment, don't use the same person strats. In my playthroughs I used like 60% of Mario's run strats, but sometimes is "run and trust they won't kill you" in some sections didn't work for me, so i searched more strats that are more reliable, for me at least (example: for the last part of the New Orleans, instead of running like a mad man, and or failed the ramp (it happened once..) or getting killed (again, it happened) I took it slow, camped where the weapon uggrade was and I took them all out, ran to Eva's Hammer slowly, killing the all enemies and the dog with the shotguns) after this method, never died in this section again. So my advise, make your own strats, don't rely 100% on others, because sometimes it won't work for you, and that was my mistake. 

I got it today, couldn't be more relief that it's over, although in a few months I'm gonna do another playthrough on any difficulty (maybe on the "Can I play Daddy?", ahahah), but this time on the Wyatt timeline, because with all the runs I did for this game never had a chance to play in his timeline. Right now, I just want to forget about all the strats I had to memorize for mein leben and think about what to play next.

 

Edited March 4, 2018 by PhantomBlade19

[MrManiacB]

On 3/4/2018 at 9:15 PM, PhantomBlade19 said:

I'm gonna start this post by saying, I did whine so mutch about this trophy, never sign the petition, but I was so frustrated because I thought it was nearly impossible and I didn't have the "time" to attempt it. Nevertheless, since February 24th I cut the bs and start ACTUALLY trying this difficulty, was so HARD at the beginning, not gonna lie. I thought of quitting more times than I can remember, but it was all worth it in the end. 

I couldn't have done it if it wasn't for Kreeper's and MariotheFalcon's methods, as well as @Dark section F revisit glitch and strats for the Ausmerzer Revisit final boss fight and A_B_Y_S_S_1 for his amazing strat for the 1st phase of the courthouse, not to mention all the other players feedback of their own runs in this thread, my special thanks to all of you for sharing.

I did like 20-25 mein lebein runs, didn't practise that mutch on IADI, only for the hard sections (Courthouse, Panzerhound, Venus, Ausmerzer Revisit). 

Quick advise for all the players that haven't got this trophy but are considering a try in the future or just attempting it at the moment, don't use the same person strats. In my playthroughs I used like 60% of Mario's run strats, but sometimes is "run and trust they won't kill you" in some sections didn't work for me, so i searched more strats that are more reliable, for me at least (example: for the last part of the New Orleans, instead of running like a mad man, and or failed the ramp (it happened once..) or getting killed (again, it happened) I took it slow, camped where the weapon uggrade was and I took them all out, ran to Eva's Hammer slowly, killing the all enemies and the dog with the shotguns) after this method, never died in this section again. So my advise, make your own strats, don't rely 100% on others, because sometimes it won't work for you, and that was my mistake. 

I got it today, couldn't be more relief that it's over, although in a few months I'm gonna do another playthrough on any difficulty (maybe on the "Can I play Daddy?", ahahah), but this time on the Wyatt timeline, because with all the runs I did for this game never had a chance to play in his timeline. Right now, I just want to forget about all the strats I had to memorize for mein leben and think about what to play next.

 

Congrats man! I did a similar thing actually. I only played Wyatt's timeline once I'd done Mein Leben as a kind of reward to myself. I also didn't get every trophy before Leben so that I could play the game "normally" again after doing it. Even playing on IADI again feels so easy and chilled out after Leben. Realising that you can screw up and die and it doesn't matter anymore after the agony that came before is great!

[FreshCarrotSkin]

Finally got it!!! Countless of restarts, i think more than 20 deaths in reunion, 3 deaths in sektion F, 5 deaths in roswell, 4 deaths in courthouse, 2 deaths in manhattan nuclear bunker, 3 deaths in new orleans, 3 deaths in ausmerzer revisit (some stupid early deaths, not even at the final boss part!) .
In the last run, almost got screwed at 2nd last part of auzmerser revisit, got hit and down to 17health and zero armor.

Like what PhantomBlade said, use your own strats that worked the best for you, put in some effort and patient you will get it eventually.

 

[Stormwarrior90]

2 hours ago, FreshCarrotSkin said:

Finally got it!!! Countless of restarts, i think more than 20 deaths in reunion, 3 deaths in sektion F, 5 deaths in roswell, 4 deaths in courthouse, 2 deaths in manhattan nuclear bunker, 3 deaths in new orleans, 3 deaths in ausmerzer revisit (some stupid early deaths, not even at the final boss part!) .
In the last run, almost got screwed at 2nd last part of auzmerser revisit, got hit and down to 17health and zero armor.

Like what PhantomBlade said, use your own strats that worked the best for you, put in some effort and patient you will get it eventually.

 

Congrats!!!! 

[bezdomnekoty]

2 hours ago, FreshCarrotSkin said:

Finally got it!!! Countless of restarts, i think more than 20 deaths in reunion, 3 deaths in sektion F, 5 deaths in roswell, 4 deaths in courthouse, 2 deaths in manhattan nuclear bunker, 3 deaths in new orleans, 3 deaths in ausmerzer revisit (some stupid early deaths, not even at the final boss part!) .
In the last run, almost got screwed at 2nd last part of auzmerser revisit, got hit and down to 17health and zero armor.

Like what PhantomBlade said, use your own strats that worked the best for you, put in some effort and patient you will get it eventually.

 

EZ Good Job!

[WreckItPhil]

Hi, is it possible by now to skip the cutscenes? 

[bezdomnekoty]

20 minutes ago, WreckItPhil said:

Hi, is it possible by now to skip the cutscenes? 

Nope

[HellMoodCole]

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Edited April 9 by HellMoodCole

[Rune2303]

11 hours ago, BigBossImBeamer said:

 

Just to prevent confusion. You can skip cutscenes. But scenes in which you can use the right stick to move the camera are technically no cutscenes. So they probably will never change it.

 

Pretty much this. 

I personally put off my mein leben runs in the hopes that they might patch in the removal of these scenes in mein leben or some way to skip them, but seems like that is never really going to happen so I decided to just suck it up and get to work on this.

 

Its definitely a shame though since listening to your father ramble on with his rampant racism for a good 10 or so minutes at the beginning of the game shortly followed by a 5 or so minutes section of "Frau Engel torture porn" really sucks the fun out of what could otherwise have been a decent challenge. 

Edited March 11, 2018 by Rune2303

[lynx_1985]

On 11/03/2018 at 1:13 PM, Rune2303 said:

 

Pretty much this. 

I personally put off my mein leben runs in the hopes that they might patch in the removal of these scenes in mein leben or some way to skip them, but seems like that is never really going to happen so I decided to just suck it up and get to work on this.

 

Its definitely a shame though since listening to your father ramble on with his rampant racism for a good 10 or so minutes at the beginning of the game shortly followed by a 5 or so minutes section of "Frau Engel torture porn" really sucks the fun out of what could otherwise have been a decent challenge. 

Yeah defintely this, this is the only aspect of Mein Leben that I wanted to see changed it was just so annoying having to wait 10 minutes to actually begin the game. Yes it's part of the story and shows how much of an ass BJ's father was, which it did really well to be honest (and the same with Engel, the scene with her makes you proper despise her character) however, people going for Mein Leben runs have played the game before so aren't playing for the story any more, they're playing for the challenge. Paired with the fact that you can't even start a Mein Leben run without completing the game first so have seen everything. These two reasons are why I think it would have been OK to have an option to make the unskippable scenes skippable during a Mein Leben run. 

 

Apart from that though the challenge of Mein Leben was really good I would like to see more games follow suit with trophies like this. 

[Rune2303]

Well there it is. Mein leben was beat and I can finally take a break from this game

 

 

Good luck to any future souls going for this trophy. Definitely beatable, just overly annoying sitting through all those "cutscene" sections as they really kill the momentum of your run and are far too long to be non skip able.

[MrManiacB]

Just now, Rune2303 said:

Well there it is. Mein leben was beat and I can finally take a break from this game

 

 

Good luck to any future souls going for this trophy. Definitely beatable, just overly annoying sitting through all those "cutscene" sections as they really kill the momentum of your run and are far too long to be non skip able.

Well done! Welcome to the club

[FreshCarrotSkin]

6 hours ago, Rune2303 said:

Well there it is. Mein leben was beat and I can finally take a break from this game

 

 

Good luck to any future souls going for this trophy. Definitely beatable, just overly annoying sitting through all those "cutscene" sections as they really kill the momentum of your run and are far too long to be non skip able.

Congrats and welcome to the platinum club

[Stormwarrior90]

14 hours ago, Rune2303 said:

Well there it is. Mein leben was beat and I can finally take a break from this game

 

 

Good luck to any future souls going for this trophy. Definitely beatable, just overly annoying sitting through all those "cutscene" sections as they really kill the momentum of your run and are far too long to be non skip able.

Congrats!! Must be such a relief and welcome to the club!!!

[Rune2303]

On 14/3/2018 at 10:07 PM, MrManiacB said:

Well done! Welcome to the club

 

On 15/3/2018 at 4:08 AM, FreshCarrotSkin said:

Congrats and welcome to the platinum club

 

20 hours ago, Stormwarrior90 said:

Congrats!! Must be such a relief and welcome to the club!!!

 

Appreciate it guys, feels good to be a part of the club  

 

Honestly I probably could have joined a lot sooner, but I kept on hoping something would be done about the "cutscenes" in Mein leben ... but uh .. yeah that didn't happen .. so that was time well spent   

 

Now I kind of feel like tackling the dlc's (considering they are on sale for the moment) since I got to say I did enjoy the game .. and actually the challenge of "Mein leben" itself .. apart from the odd 1-2 hours I must have wasted watching in game cutscenes again and again of course but I was wondering if you guys felt the dlc's were really worth it since it does seem like they really don't add anything to the main game?

 

[melodicmizery]

i dunno why people are complaining about cutscenes, you can skip them and the ones your forced to watch arent very long. the dad scene is only a few minutes and the hitler scene is only a few minutes. everything else you can skip. unless they only patched it in america or something.

i got to venus on leben, got back to the ship where it told me to talk to one of the ai on my team. and my friggen game blue screen crashed on me. screw this game. i can deal with the cutscenes, i cant deal with my ps4 crashing a blue screen like its windows98

 

 

Edited March 16, 2018 by melodicmizery

[Rune2303]

40 minutes ago, melodicmizery said:

i dunno why people are complaining about cutscenes, you can skip them and the ones your forced to watch arent very long. the dad scene is only a few minutes and the hitler scene is only a few minutes. everything else you can skip. unless they only patched it in america or something.

i got to venus on leben, got back to the ship where it told me to talk to one of the ai on my team. and my friggen game blue screen crashed on me. screw this game. i can deal with the cutscenes, i cant deal with my ps4 crashing a blue screen like its windows98

 

 

 

The "cutscenes" become a problem on repeat attempts. Try failing on the last level due to either dying or the game freezing (yeah .. both happened to me ) and then tell me you honestly feel like going for another attempt in which you'll literally have to wait 10 minutes before you can even begin (might be closer to 9 min but I actually did try to time this intro sequence and it took me just a little more than 9 minutes before I could move around in the wheelchair and this was with me skipping as much of the cutscenes as I could) the next sequence you'll have is immediately at the start of the next level and takes about ... 5-6 min not quite sure, but stil its downright painful to waste a good 15 min watching the same cutscenes over and over before you have even started level 2 in the game. 

 

In total for 1 play through I'd say you'll probably have to sacrifice about 45 to simply watching "cutscenes" since you've got:

 

Intro sequence

First Engel capture sequence

Dinner sequence

Tiny bit following courtroom sequence (where you choose your gear)

2nd Engel capture leading up to courtroom battle

Hitler audition sequence

 

And these are just the ones I remember, ..

 

Really doesn't take a lot of failed attempts, for whatever reason, before this time starts to add up 

Edited March 16, 2018 by Rune2303

[HellMoodCole]

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[Rune2303]

11 minutes ago, BigBossImBeamer said:

I totally agree with you. But there are 2 more scenes you can't skip. General Engel at level 2 and the scene right before the courtroom. All in all we're talking about maybe 20 minutes and it takes about 3 hours to beat the game. That's definitely no reason for me to release a patch that might cause more problems than it uses.

And blue screens at permadeath modes suck ass. But to be fair, this game is very well programmed and blue screens are very, very rare.

You can skip the dinner sequence by killing that dude with your atomic bomb extinguisher. 

 

*sigh* well shit that would have been great to know earlier  Still thats more of a time saver than it is a skip (even if it is a damn good one) sort of like how you can save a couple seconds hitting your dad with a vase instead of throwing them at him in the intro, as you do have to sit through the start of this sequence still ... besides if anything I'd actually say the dinner sequence was one of the less painful ones as it isn't really that long (maybe 3 min doing it the slow way)

 

A skip for the intro really would be the most helpful fix for other people as that does seem to be the longest one and you have to sit through this one no matter how far into the game your attempt gets 

 

[FreshCarrotSkin]

2 hours ago, BigBossImBeamer said:

I totally agree with you. But there are 2 more scenes you can't skip. General Engel at level 2 and the scene right before the courtroom. All in all we're talking about maybe 20 minutes and it takes about 3 hours to beat the game. That's definitely no reason for me to release a patch that might cause more problems than it uses.

And blue screens at permadeath modes suck ass. But to be fair, this game is very well programmed and blue screens are very, very rare.

You can skip the dinner sequence by killing that dude with your atomic bomb extinguisher. 

Didn't know this worked until I loaded my IADI save and tried it, Interesting!

[Dark Layla]

On 3/16/2018 at 11:50 AM, melodicmizery said:

i dunno why people are complaining about cutscenes, you can skip them and the ones your forced to watch arent very long. the dad scene is only a few minutes and the hitler scene is only a few minutes. everything else you can skip. unless they only patched it in america or something.

i got to venus on leben, got back to the ship where it told me to talk to one of the ai on my team. and my friggen game blue screen crashed on me. screw this game. i can deal with the cutscenes, i cant deal with my ps4 crashing a blue screen like its windows98

 

 

I think the only thing people don't complain about this game is the fact that a nazi father forces his son to kill a dog.
Letting go of jokes ... The problem of cutscenes in mein leben is due to the fact that someone wants to return to the game after a death and will have to "relax" for 10 minutes, count this for the rest of the cutscenes throughout the game and until give me a nap!
What irritates me the most about the games is the blue screens, a person pays well for a game so that once in a while these "spells" happen.
Its call the spell of "this is for the players"

[melodicmizery]

on second thought, screw those cutscenes lmao

i still hate blue screens more though.

screw them both!

[HellMoodCole]

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[XxIsa-GxX]

Roswell seems to be finicky... At that elevator section I can clear out all the enemies on lower floor without any issues, but when I go upstairs, I couldn't make to next section an dying on there (you cant activate elevator because if you do there'll be Supersoldiers and Übersoldiers will spawn at elewator). I tried taking elevator stealthly but it didn't worked out for me very well.

[realm722]

I'm not someone who owns this game or was interested in it(don't play shooters) but I've gotta say this thread has been a delight to go through. Awesome to see so much positivity and motivating others to keep going while offering tips and tricks. With nearly 28k owners, MAD respect to all those in the elusive under-150 platinum achievers club.