Listen up cops,
There's one vital asset in your crime fighting arsenal that will keep you alive on the mean streets of LA - and it's not that cup of joe. Your partner, used correctly, will have your back and keep you alive in the roughest of tough sitches.
This post details a few of the tactics that you can use to utilise your partner effectively, but it's not definitive. Add your own tactics to the comments below and help those rookies get started and those criminals get busted!
The simplest of tactics. You and your partner stand at the precipice, waiting to burst into that room and rain the full fury of justice down on those drug dealing criminal morons. Logic tells you that sending only one cop in leaves you with once cop left standing if it all goes to pot.
Screw logic. As you move in through that door, tell your partner to move in at the same time. Each of you should cover one side of the room, splitting the number of enemies in need of a bullet by half for each cop. BOOYAH.
Two doors, one room, more enemies than you can violently shake a pistol at. A rookie would scoff at that second door. But you know better. Your experience with the Barnstormer has taught you that splitting enemies up is better than splitting your own skull on a hailstorm of bullets and cheap insults.
Put yourself on one door, your partner on the other. At one and the same time, storm through with your partner, each taking the baddies closest to you. Pop, pop, pop and the room is clear.
A personal favourite for those extra sticky sitches.
Pop your partner a little way back from the only door that leads into the room where all the crooks have gathered for a jamboree (or whatever the hell they do). If you can find your buddy some cover to fire from, all the better. Make sure he/she is facing the correct direction too, and not face first in a strawberry frosted DoDo (BORLAND.)
Unfortunately, you get the wonderous task of being bait. Kick down the door, make a riot's worth of noise and then run back to your buddy with your arms in the air, flailing like a helpless child. Those idiots will, one by one, file through the door for your partner to execute in a cool, calm and collected fashion.
Problem solved.
When all else fails, this one will thin their numbers out.
It's brutally simple - send your partner in first. If you've ever heard of the Forlorn Hope, the way that this plays out is extremely similar. You exchange the life of your partner for less enemies in the long term. It's a horrible way to treat your most trusted ally, but what is trust unless you get something out of it?
Just remember to pick up a med pack and get your buddy back on his feet before your next criminal death-fest.
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So there you have it rookies, just a few ways to use your partner and stay alive in the world of LA Cops.
What tactics do you use and, importantly, what are their super-rad names??
MT17