dreamer3kx
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if I have the dlc gear should I still upgrade it with nodes or is the suit maxed out?
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MickeyKnox
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Line gun and plasma cutter are for different situations.Zeliard said:
The plasma cutter is for fast surgical strikes at limbs, horizontal mode for legs, vertical for arms. The line gun is slower but packs a stronger punch, great for amputating the legs of multiple enemies running at you from the same direction, or letting a group of them mob you then throwing a stasis freeze so that you can use one mine on all of them.
My weapon usage through the game went like this, 45% Plasma Cutter, 35% Line Gun, 10% Contact Beam (for Boss/miniboss situations), the remaining 10% alternating between the Saw, Rifle and Flame thrower (mostly used for little shits that are a waste of good ammo.)
Revolutionary
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The suit governs your inventory slots and base armor (+10%, etc.).dreamer3kx said:
The RIG updates are universal and upgrade your health (not armor), and your breathing.
MickeyKnox said:
I'm still early on (ch. 3), but so far, amputating arms seems kind of useless especially since it's generally tougher to do that than just going for the legs. If you knock one arm off, the enemy will still keep coming after you at fast speeds and still be able to attack, but if you knock one leg off their mobility is greatly reduced and they're easy to shoot dead when on the ground. And as you noted, the line gun is very effective at taking out legs since it launches out a wide horizontal laser.
The plasma cutter is definitely still a strong weapon, and it's certainly my most used one (so far at least), but the line gun does seem like the better bet in most situations. I'm always running out of line gun ammo, though, while I always have tons of plasma rounds to spare. So that helps to balance it out for me.
I guess its all about what you have more of, money or time.garath said:
My girl and I make good money, but we both also work a ton. We can't get wrapped up in 60 hour epics very often.
As a result I'm probably passing on a lot of good games this winter just because I want to play Fable II and it will take up the majority of my free time.
A great 10 hours of gaming though will fit in perfectly this Sunday.
So to me $60 for 10 great hours of gaming is better than $60 for 100 hours of even solid but unspectacular.
I actually just picked this up in the TRU sale. Was thinking about using it as a return but upon further consideration I'm going to keep it. Sounds like it'll pair very well with Fable II and Far Cry 2 for the next several months.
MickeyKnox
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I shoot one leg off then as soon as they hit the gorund I switch to vertical and shoot the nearest arm off a little past the shoulder, 2 shots one kill.Zeliard said:
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
That's it, I can't handle it anymore. Thanks GAF.
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Alright GAF, I have a question. I failed to pick up the flame gas schematic in Chapter 3, and have since moved on to Chapter 4. It will not let me go back to Chapter 3 via the tram, so does this mean I have missed out for the rest of the game? I will never be able to purchase flamethrower ammo from stores?
I really hope this isn't the case.
I really hope this isn't the case.
Mr. Durden
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Anyone?Mr. Durden said:
The hell. Where the hell do you get ammo in this game? I'm always out of ammo or almost out of ammo and I've yet to see one of the weapon shops.
I'm scraping by every encounters...which was actually kind of cool, but now I'm at the part
WTF? I have barely enough ammo to kill one or two.
I'm scraping by every encounters...which was actually kind of cool, but now I'm at the part
where you go back to your ship and it blows up in Chapter 1, and you encounter 4 or 5 enemies at once.
Decado said:The hell. Where the hell do you get ammo in this game? I'm always out of ammo or almost out of ammo and I've yet to see one of the weapon shops.
I'm scraping by every encounters...which was actually kind of cool, but now I'm at the partWTF? I have barely enough ammo to kill one or two.where you go back to your ship and it blows up in Chapter 1, and you encounter 4 or 5 enemies at once.
You should be finding some just lying around, in lockers, or in those boxes with the green light. If you stomp them they break open with an item inside, usually ammo. I also don't think you get to your first store until Chapter 2, but you can't miss it when you get there (I think a message pops up explaining the store to you).
But yeah, as a general rule, you want to conserve ammo in this game. Money isn't all that easy to come by, and for a lot of the ammo (all of it except for plasma rounds, actually, I believe) you have to find the schematic first before you can even buy any from the store.
Choke on the Magic
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Ok I give up. How do I
not get bombarded by asteroids in chapter 4?
beelzebozo
Jealous Bastard
in chapter 4,
VERY fun.
fighting the brute was AWESOME. i have my plasma cutter with about 3 damage upgrades and super fast reloading and firing, so i'd just spray bullets with the rifle until the joker hunkered down, then unload with my cutter on his back.
VERY fun.
MickeyKnox
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JustChoke on the Magic said:
stay in front of those big rectangular things sticking out of the ground, go to the one directly to your right with the O2 refill station and wait out the first wave, then just leap frog between bombardments.
Downhome said:
This was a concern of mine before purchase, and I was strongly leaning towards towards the 360 version because of the superior controller and its history of superior multiplats. Actually, I was leaning towards the PC version, but I just didn't want to wait. At all.
I bought the PS3 version, ultimately, mainly because I need more games for it. And not to start up any shit, but I also saw a comparison vid on the net where the PS3 version seemed to have a small but noticeable edge in contrast sharpness. I would guess that the PS3 version's sound is better, too. I only have that version, so I can't compare, but the sound design is very impressive in its high quality (though it has small issues when it comes to the timing and composition, IMO and as dark discussed earlier, but that has nothing to do with the technical part).
I have no idea how legit that comparison vid was, but it doesn't matter either way. With either version, and yes that includes the PS3, you'll end up with a visually/aurally stunning game with very strong gameplay.
Iced_Eagle
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Kadey said:
I think they're the same Level 5 suit, but just different paint jobs.
That way you won't get a gameplay advantage of one over the other.
Personally, I have the Elite suit on the 360, and I love it. First off, all inventory slots ftw! Second, I enjoy having that brighter suit so it helps contrast my character against the dark background.
It's all about what you think looks cooler though I guess for what's 'better'.
SlasherJPC
Banned
Eltacoman said:
I have the force gun and its pretty damn good. Normal firing is close range force blast that can push enemies back. Secondary is where its at... long range projectile that has a good explosion ratio. I love it.
Also who else loves the fact that when you fire that or the line gun up close with the secondary fire that you go flying back from the force???... LOVE THAT!
Hey everyone, im really looking forward to playing this game but at the same time im avoiding reviews and spoilers like crazy. ive not gone through this entire thread in fear of spoiling stuff but i would just like to hear some general opinions from the GAF crew, is this a good game or is it merely eye candy and scary sounds????
bigdaddygamebot
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slasher_thrasher21 said:
Yeah...it's not the "force" of the guns. You're getting caught in the blast and taking damage.
The line gun shoots a mine as secondary that blows up.
The force gun shoots a longer range "ball" of sorts with a large burst radius.
Up close with the secondary fire for those weapons isn't a good thing. The secondary fire on the "contact laser" or whatever it's called is wicked though. Kindof a point defense system that sends the mobs up close and surrounding you scattering.
SlasherJPC
Banned
bigdaddygamebot said:
Ah thanks for pointing that out... didn't know that you took damage. I was too involved with how bad ass it looks when you fly back.
bigdaddygamebot
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Arcipello said:
If you need more than 35 pages of
"Holy FUCK"
"ZOMGWTFBBQ!"
"Really lovin' this game."
Dude...what ARE you looking for? I'd say if you HAVE read the thread and still think it's potentially "eye candy" and "scary sounds" and nothing else. Don't buy it.
If you're expecting a hand job, try gamefaqs.com.
bigdaddygamebot
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slasher_thrasher21 said:
No problemo. It's easy to get sucked into the combat.
Some advice. Conserve your ammo. I'm on medium and pretty far into the game. (A little over half)
I have been somewhere between "moderate to who gives a fuck" with ammo conservation. I'm a sad fella now.
There are fights I come across that all I use now is telekinesis and the "launch" attack.
SlasherJPC
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bigdaddygamebot said:
Oh trust me I know. I am on hard and just got to chapter 8. There has been areas where I died continously and had to rethink my strategy over and over again.
Good times.
bigdaddygamebot
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Eltacoman said:
You're confusing it with (chapter sixish, sevenish spoiler)
the part where you're racing along the perimeter of an asteroid to get to a safe spot so that you're not clipped by these massive rotating arms that insta-gib you. When all of a sudden you see the planet that the Ishimura is orbiting around and you get to see the MASSIVE crater that the Ishimura caused during the planet-cracking. And then you say "whoah" and you forget all about the fact that you're in a vaccuum and then tri-tentacled fetuses attack you and you're fighting for your life...and you've forgotten you're in a vaccum and oxygen is depleting....and then you kill the tri-tentacled fetuses and remember that you need to shoot the generators for the exterior gravity tethers and you've forgotten you're in a vaccum and oxygen is depleting more.
And then you hear the heavy death rattle of Isaac as he struggles for breath and you're racing through your inventory to find a bottle of O2...good times.
And then you hear the heavy death rattle of Isaac as he struggles for breath and you're racing through your inventory to find a bottle of O2...good times.
SlasherJPC
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bigdaddygamebot said:
LOL I did that last night and yeah... what a rush. Damn that instant gib-a-nator!
Still in Chapter 2. EASILY a GOTY contender.
I love it when in Chapter 1,
It's not always what you see that scares you, but what you don't see...
I love it when in Chapter 1,
when you're in this hallway right in front of the bathrooms, the lights go completely dark and you hear that tell-tale scratching sound of the necromorphs. Scared the crap out of me, as I tried to see them in the dark using the crappy flashlight on the plasma cutter. Ended up running into the bathroom like a little girl. Of course, no creature ever showed up, but the THOUGHT that a creature could suddenly appear out of the dark in front of you was enough to scare the crap out of me.
It's not always what you see that scares you, but what you don't see...
jaaz said:
That's why some of us think the game might actually play better, in terms of tension and atmosphere, by turning off the music mostly because it is often a cue for the player that enemies are appearing. I wanna do that, but not until after I beat the game once. I'm gonna be replaying it on Hard when I finish it, so that + no music and just the ambient and enemy sounds should be a deliciously creepy experience.
bigdaddygamebot said:
Well like i said i have NOT read the thread for fear of spoilers (ive done it before with games) so its nice to get a summary of overall impressions rather than reading all about actual gameplay moments, enemies, cool weapons etc etc... i would rather experience all that myself.
SlasherJPC
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Seiken said:
Dead Space is better then sex... till its over... then its back to sex. :lol
Arcipello said:
Well, what more do you want people to say? Everyone's been saying it's awesome, and it holds something like a 90 on Metacritic. If the genre and style of gameplay appeal to you even remotely, you owe it to yourself to check it out. It's Resident Evil 5 on crack, and in space.
After all the praises in this thread you think this?Seiken said:That's it, I can't handle it anymore. Thanks GAF.
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