Popular Post Sinthoras_96 Posted August 13, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted August 13, 2019 (edited) Hey guys, I recently achieved the platinum in mercenaries 2 and it wasn't half as bad as I thought it would be after reading all the horror stories about the HVT captures. The reason why it was so easy for me is the German cut version of this game. Back in the day, when mercenaries 2 was released, the German age rating for games was rather strict when it came to violence in video games. We often had reduced or completely removed gore effects in games, although they were already rated 18+. However, in mercenaries 2 they didn't cut the gore effects (there are barely any), but the HVT extractions. Yes that's right: In the German version of this game you DONT need to extract the HVTs. It's enough to walk up to them, melee them and put handcuffs on them and they will instantly despawn and count as captured alive. That pretty much makes the most difficult and annoying trophy piss easy, since you don't have to worry about the HVTs getting killed during the extraction process. I assume this has been cut because it looks like the player is taking a hostage and stuff like that wasn't allowed here back then. It's actually kind of funny, that this cut turns out to be a favor for the player. Regarding the ONLINE: Me and my friends were only able to connect to our second PS3s in our homenetworks. So you will probably need two consoles and two copies of the game. Also, if you decide to abuse the German version and play trough the campaign to unlock the 20 different airstrikes, you will need two German copies, since they can't connect to the international versions because of that cut. The race and the airstrike trophy should pop for both accounts. For the airstrikes simply play through the story to unlock them and call in each of the 20 once in a coop match. The turret trophy seems to be glitched in a way that it only works for the host, at least from our experience. EDIT: I forgot to mention a glitch in the game, which can still screw you over when going after HVTs. It might happen at some point, that the game counts an HVT twice. If that happens immediately reload your save (you should always manually save before each HVT) because otherwise your stats will say 10/10 HVTs for a faction, but there will still be one on the map that didn't count. So always pay attention to the messages on your screen, when you capture an HVT. Oh and some of them like to blew themselves up with a rocket launcher, before you can reach them. So yeah, just pay attention to actually capture each of them and reload your save if necessary and you shouldn't have any problems with that trophy. EDIT2: Another important thing is the game language. Although it's the German version, the game should still be in English, if your console is set to English. So you don't need to learn German for this Edited August 13, 2019 by Sinthoras_96 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grifteskymfning Posted August 13, 2019 Share Posted August 13, 2019 It was the same with the german cut version of WANTED, if I remember correctly. They removed knife kills from the "get x kills with each weapon" trophy or something like that. It also got its very own stack so you can punch yourself in the face twice for double the plats, yay! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinthoras_96 Posted August 13, 2019 Author Share Posted August 13, 2019 4 minutes ago, grifteskymfning said: It was the same with the german cut version of WANTED, if I remember correctly. They removed knife kills from the "get x kills with each weapon" trophy or something like that. It also got its very own stack so you can punch yourself in the face twice for double the plats, yay! Yeah I just wanted to let people know about this, since you can hardly find this information anywhere, but it makes the game much much easier. I actually first thought it was a glitch when my HVT instantly despawned and kept reloading my save. But eventually I understood that the whole extraction thing has been cut from the game. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grifteskymfning Posted August 13, 2019 Share Posted August 13, 2019 25 minutes ago, Sinthoras_96 said: I Iust wanted to let people know about this, since you can hardly find this information anywhere, but it makes the game much much easier. Well, you made me pick up two german copies 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
totallycrushed Posted August 13, 2019 Share Posted August 13, 2019 Interesting. Might look into getting a copy. HVTs get tedious in late-game and waiting for invincibility glitch or passive enemies glitch to occur isn’t the best use of time 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
APCGrayLocked Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 (edited) video proof of 99Suvres. Edited August 31, 2019 by APCGrayLocked Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post LucienNL Posted August 31, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted August 31, 2019 It looks like Germany went soft when Adolf left the country 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conker Posted November 1, 2019 Share Posted November 1, 2019 Wow, I’m buying 2 German copies ASAP 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kryptor_kris Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 Does this really work still? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColekPL Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 On 4/20/2020 at 9:55 PM, kryptor_kris said: Does this really work still? Why wouldn't it? As long as your disc is BLES00328, it's censored German version. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinthoras_96 Posted May 24, 2020 Author Share Posted May 24, 2020 Yeah definitely still works Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conker Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 So Where is best place to buy it? @Sinthoras_96 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColekPL Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 12 hours ago, Conker said: So Where is best place to buy it? @Sinthoras_96 Germany. Amazon.de/Ebay.de Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Last-_-Judgment Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 Nice one pal. Sounds like a plan for those going for it. I plat'ed this like 3 years ago and tbh the HVTs weren't too bad doing it normally. The most frustrating thing was for sure the online. But a really terrible game overall in my opinion. Has to be the worst game I've played unfortunately. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinthoras_96 Posted May 25, 2020 Author Share Posted May 25, 2020 8 hours ago, Last-_-Judgment said: Nice one pal. Sounds like a plan for those going for it. I plat'ed this like 3 years ago and tbh the HVTs weren't too bad doing it normally. The most frustrating thing was for sure the online. But a really terrible game overall in my opinion. Has to be the worst game I've played unfortunately. Tbh considering it's age, I actually enjoyed it. Yeah the online is absolutely broken. For me and my friends it only worked with two consoles in the same network. 20 hours ago, Conker said: So Where is best place to buy it? @Sinthoras_96 I don't know if Amazon.de has international shipping. But you could check ebay.de for sellers who ship worldwide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Last-_-Judgment Posted May 26, 2020 Share Posted May 26, 2020 13 hours ago, Sinthoras_96 said: I don't know if Amazon.de has international shipping. But you could check ebay.de for sellers who ship worldwide. All amazon sites can have international shipping but only for certain sellers as Amazon supplies products from all different companies. Each company will say whether or not they do international deliveries. I've been ordering from UK amazon from the NL for the last two years after my move here (and the NL/DE amazons are crap compared to UK Amazon). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColekPL Posted May 26, 2020 Share Posted May 26, 2020 I've just managed to Platinum this game finally with German copy - highly recommended, makes HVT very easy compared to regular. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinio26 Posted August 16, 2022 Share Posted August 16, 2022 Anybody know's it's still working with German copy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blazkowicz6 Posted August 16, 2022 Share Posted August 16, 2022 It was working last year when I did it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoorayForTyler Posted August 16, 2022 Share Posted August 16, 2022 Just to confirm, it’s the disc version with the red diamond with USK rating? It’s very hard to read the BLES numbers on eBay listings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinio26 Posted August 16, 2022 Share Posted August 16, 2022 Yes it's disc version with red diamond usk rating 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoorayForTyler Posted August 16, 2022 Share Posted August 16, 2022 7 minutes ago, kinio26 said: Yes it's disc version with red diamond usk rating Thank you for the confirmation! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demonviper666 Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 On 8/13/2019 at 2:24 AM, Sinthoras_96 said: Hey guys, I recently achieved the platinum in mercenaries 2 and it wasn't half as bad as I thought it would be after reading all the horror stories about the HVT captures. The reason why it was so easy for me is the German cut version of this game. Back in the day, when mercenaries 2 was released, the German age rating for games was rather strict when it came to violence in video games. We often had reduced or completely removed gore effects in games, although they were already rated 18+. However, in mercenaries 2 they didn't cut the gore effects (there are barely any), but the HVT extractions. Yes that's right: In the German version of this game you DONT need to extract the HVTs. It's enough to walk up to them, melee them and put handcuffs on them and they will instantly despawn and count as captured alive. That pretty much makes the most difficult and annoying trophy piss easy, since you don't have to worry about the HVTs getting killed during the extraction process. I assume this has been cut because it looks like the player is taking a hostage and stuff like that wasn't allowed here back then. It's actually kind of funny, that this cut turns out to be a favor for the player. Regarding the ONLINE: Me and my friends were only able to connect to our second PS3s in our homenetworks. So you will probably need two consoles and two copies of the game. Also, if you decide to abuse the German version and play trough the campaign to unlock the 20 different airstrikes, you will need two German copies, since they can't connect to the international versions because of that cut. The race and the airstrike trophy should pop for both accounts. For the airstrikes simply play through the story to unlock them and call in each of the 20 once in a coop match. The turret trophy seems to be glitched in a way that it only works for the host, at least from our experience. EDIT: I forgot to mention a glitch in the game, which can still screw you over when going after HVTs. It might happen at some point, that the game counts an HVT twice. If that happens immediately reload your save (you should always manually save before each HVT) because otherwise your stats will say 10/10 HVTs for a faction, but there will still be one on the map that didn't count. So always pay attention to the messages on your screen, when you capture an HVT. Oh and some of them like to blew themselves up with a rocket launcher, before you can reach them. So yeah, just pay attention to actually capture each of them and reload your save if necessary and you shouldn't have any problems with that trophy. EDIT2: Another important thing is the game language. Although it's the German version, the game should still be in English, if your console is set to English. So you don't need to learn German for this Is this possible solo with 2 ps3 and two copys? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinthoras_96 Posted August 28, 2022 Author Share Posted August 28, 2022 On 18.8.2022 at 4:13 AM, demonviper666 said: Is this possible solo with 2 ps3 and two copys? Yes IIRC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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