RoyaleDuke
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Well, partially right then lol I mean we play as someone going there!
At least we get to see it, I wonder how the level plays out? I wonder if we'll get to see other parts of it.
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Alien: Isolation |OT| 1 Alien. 1 Ripley. No Jonesy.
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Well, partially right then lol I mean we play as someone going there!
At least we get to see it, I wonder how the level plays out? I wonder if we'll get to see other parts of it.
xBladeM6x
Member
What difficulty?
Dash Kappei
Not actually that important
ordered my PS4 copy for 37 euro's onlineEvery store here has it for 69,99. Sadly it's probably gonna take a week of so before I'll have it
Where from?
After getting my ass mashed playing on hard I decided to switch to normal. Getting my ass handed to me on normal made me switch to easy. One thing I can say is that if you hang in one place to long I.e a locker, the alien will figure it out after a few pass throughs of the area. One even came into the ducts after me. I move when I cant hear him on the monitor. Even when holding your breath sometimes the alien will snatch your ass out of the locker. Shits fun as heck. Like the ultimate horror game.
Nemesis_
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RoyaleDuke
Banned
Nemesis_
Member
The mission begins
on the outskirts of the planet. It's really rocky and very windy/blizzardy. You don't have a motion detector or any weapons - instead you have a detector that hones in on a "signal'.
You eventually step through, blow up a rock and you see the space ship in the distance. I can't remember what happens between then and now but I remember the derelict appearing really quickly up close. You enter some corridors and eventually enter a large circular area. In this area is where the Space Jockey is. Your team talks about how it could've been a life form, how it's now dead, and how it appears to be a cockpit.
You're then tasked to turn off the beacon, which is pretty close by. After that, you return to the space jockey as your team has discovered a shaft underneath it. You descend into it, and discover all the eggs. Your colleague touches one of them and dies. The flashback ends.
You eventually step through, blow up a rock and you see the space ship in the distance. I can't remember what happens between then and now but I remember the derelict appearing really quickly up close. You enter some corridors and eventually enter a large circular area. In this area is where the Space Jockey is. Your team talks about how it could've been a life form, how it's now dead, and how it appears to be a cockpit.
You're then tasked to turn off the beacon, which is pretty close by. After that, you return to the space jockey as your team has discovered a shaft underneath it. You descend into it, and discover all the eggs. Your colleague touches one of them and dies. The flashback ends.
There's not HEAPS of space to explore and it's rather cock teasish since in this moment your character is moving really slowly because they're in a big space suit so there's not a lot of room to move around or crawl. You just see
the exterior, the creepy ass corridors, the beacon (both working and not working) as well as the space jockey room
KillerKlown
Banned
I can't believe i pre-ordered just now but oh well, hopefully the game will be great!!!
Neff
Member
I'm serious. He moves so fast (even when walking) and looks around so frequently that crouch movement means you're a sitting duck unless you're out of sight. Obviously running is asking for trouble, but you need the speed of walking just to keep away from him more than you need absolute silence. If you're in the same room as him, you can crouch walk so long as he's completely 100% distracted, ie investigating a sound, playing with a flare, or eating people.
I'm patient enough and have played enough stealth titles to know the advantage of waiting, but when you have to keep jumping in and out of the same locker because the Alien won't go away, it does compel you to take 'unnecessary' risks just so you can move on.
I honestly can't tell much difference! The Alien seems to have slightly worse eyesight on normal, making encounters with him less frustrating. The Alien shows up in areas on normal that he didn't on hard, and I seem to be dying just as much, so I don't know what they had in mind when creating different settings.
I find flares work better on him, I've had him ignore Noisemakers completely. Smoke bombs don't do much in my experience either. Pipe bombs are awesome, don't have a flamethrower yet.
I also GIFfed my (and sped up, for effect) my scariest encounter with the Alien thus far. And funnily enough it's one of the randomised ones.
Ok that looks fucking terrifying christ the fucking thing follows you into the airducts even I need this game ....
OdysseusVA
Banned
Any screens from the PS4 version? 1080p?
UnrealEck
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Nemesis_
Member
I've been able to walk past him pretty regularly as long as I do it slowly and while crouching, even when he hasn't been distracted. :/ I do agree though that if you're both in a corridor, it's very hard to walk fast since he has such a greater speed, even when walking, than you. But most times I've been able to duck into another room or another corridor to break the line of sight so he doesn't come after me. It's usually during these moments that I'll turn around and throw something behind him so he'll get distracted and turn around too.
I also find it easier to judge where he is because of Surround sound.
It's completely randomised, honestly. Looking at people's achievement order on Xbox Live has them encountering the Alien in an earlier mission than what I did. There are "canon" appearances that are more scripted, but he definitely appears randomly.
Do Pipe Bombs work on him? I've noticed the description doesn't mention they work well on the Alien so I've been reluctant to use one since they're so expensive to make.
Flares are a good idea, I just don't like the idea of having to light up an area permanently and restrict my movement options. I guess if he's not close enough he won't hear the noisemaker. But I've never had an issue where he's completely ignored one......yet
Yeah, from what I can tell the game has two "stories" of vents. There's the vents you travel in for whatever reason and they're connected to a higher level of vents that the Alien can use to jump around the level. The player can't access these.
I know this is directly in contradiction to Neff's experiences but I've never felt the Alien "pop up" out of nowhere that he wasn't meant to be. If you follow his blip on the motion detector he's quite clearly jumping from vent to vent, albeit very quickly.
There's also times, like in that GIF, where I've thought the motion detector was picking up the Alien in a neighbouring room, jumped into a vent, and then horrifically realised the Alien was literally in the walls of the same vent I've just entered.
When you think about it, it's an error that should be obvious and easy to avoid (if you work out how far away that blip is and if the wall is indeed that thick) so I also don't find it particularly unfair.
RoyaleDuke
Banned
Damn that really is a tease but still, it sounds excellent and a nice little portion to play especially for the fans.
Thanks for the reply! I appreciate it.
Also, does the design of the
Derelict
how long do you think we'll be waiting for the AMD codes? I should be easily able to wait a few days but I'm bummed at missing the bonus content from the preorder - which I assume will be a paid DLC later on?
tempted to buy from the B/S/T thread or GMG and then sell my code when it arrives, but that would be stupid, right?
tempted to buy from the B/S/T thread or GMG and then sell my code when it arrives, but that would be stupid, right?
OdysseusVA
Banned
Yeah, I've seen those screens but they're coming up as 1024x576. I'm on mobileGAF and have images disabled, so I'm clicking the links to view. Are they full resolution for you?
Nemesis_
Member
I definitely got an
Alien vibe from it rather than a Prometheus one. Similarly, the space jockey was super big. Like huge, I don't remember it being that big in Prometheus. Makes me wonder if FOX cared about continuity or anything regarding it.
I'll do a proper run through and upload it when I get a chance next. I'm just endeavouring to finish the single player at the moment so I'm a bit busy.
And for anyone wondering, there's optional collectibles hidden away called NOSTROMO Logs. I've only found one, but I assume there are quite a few as achievements are tied to them.
They're a great throwback for fans of the original film - here's one of them I recorded just as a sample: http://xboxclips.com/video.php?uid=...s556&vid=ee55db6f-7ed4-45cc-8ebd-615f8dc04991
Intheflorsh
Banned
I caught myself thinking the same thing, but I can't. That's just what they want you to do, man.
For what it's worth, they were also late delivering the Murdered: Soul Suspect codes when that game came out. I think it took a day or two until the codes were delivered.
RoyaleDuke
Banned
Oh man that makes me so hyped, the ones from Prometheus were cool but it needed more of the Giger aesthetic, it didn't have enough of that biomechanical flair.
It's good to hear, it sounds like this is the Alien game we've all been waiting for in regards to a lot of things(aesthetics, design principle, sound, tone).
I'll have to jump in when I have money, which is usually never lol.
I guess it's not appropriate for stealth sections since it's making sounds the alien should hear. And maybe canon.
RoyaleDuke
Banned
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that considering Aliens takes place 50 years after the events of the first movie, and this game takes place only 15 years after the events of the first movie, it probably hasn't even been invented yet or the fact that it could be Colonial Marine gear that engineers and scientists and civilians wouldn't have access to.
But I'm going to go with, it hasn't canonically been invented yet.
Nemesis_
Member
It does beep? Or am I missing something? It's been a long time since I've seen Aliens >_>
Intheflorsh
Banned
It took them 35 years to add some beeps? She probably just has it muted.
It does beep?
Maybe you watched a PS4 stream? The beeps come from the controller speaker.
Because the game is based on Alien, not Aliens. That simple.
Intheflorsh
Banned
That motion tracker isn't even in the original Alien. It first appeared in the sequel.
samueljustice00
Member
will it unlock in a couple hours if I VPN to Aus/NZ? Or is that still an unknown
Nemesis_
Member
Ripley specifically says when she picks it up "Some kind of motion tracker, it's been heavily modified".
Guess that's how they explain it.
Neff, I've just picked up the Level 2 Noisemaker blueprint. Much louder noise that lasts for longer too.
One thing I will say I don't like about this game is that there is no way to determine if someone is friendly or not. I am currently playing it like a murderer, so I'm killing most humans I come across. I found some in a lobby, snuck up on them, and then killed them only to be sent to a game over screen.
Similarly, I've been sneaking around this one area where an Android was patrolling trying to avoid his line of sight so the Alien doesn't appear either. Suddenly I fuck up, and he sees me, but he just says "hello" to me or something and walks off. Considering every other Android has been the complete opposite, it was relaxing if not annoying I wasted so much time, haha.
Also worth noting I've not made a single sound in this one mission and while I can hear the Alien in the vents he hasn't appeared on the actual game floor once.
Visualante2
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AHA-Lambda
Member
Any word on how many missions are in this? I'm trying to divide my playtime effectiv so I can finish it before the evil within comes out xD
From past experience GAME are actually really good at get games in early if you buy them online.
I remember get Uncharted 2, Deadly Premonition and Demon's Souls from them early.
From past experience GAME are actually really good at get games in early if you buy them online.
I remember get Uncharted 2, Deadly Premonition and Demon's Souls from them early.
Apparently the game is in native 1080p/30FPS on PS4 - there's some very good technical analysis in this video for the PS4 version - http://bit.ly/1BIeoNn
It's practically spoiler free.
TGO
Hype Train conductor. Works harder than it steams.
They mostly deliver early, mostly
Τhe only thing that gfx lacks is anti alliasing. Every stream or video I watch has a lot of jaggies, but maybe it is just the quality of the streams/videos, dont know.
It becomes the 7th October in New Zealand in 30 minutes so hopefully someone can try it and let us know...
speakerlog
Member
I really badly want to play this game but I don't think I can because of my inherent fear of a xenomorph hunting me around a map without so much as a pulse rifle to protect me. I may just play the first few sections of the game where I assume there is no Alien? and see how I go haha
J
JoJo UK
Unconfirmed Member
Are these part of the Nostromo edition you can pre purchase on XB1? I had this pre purchased on XB1 but cancelled it (second time doing that lol), but now after this I really want to get it again... I just don't really enjoy horror/survival games but LOVE the Alien movie... I'm so conflicted!Last Survivor is available now and is playable. Crew Expendable is locked (presumably until the game goes up). It's installed on my system, but is behaving like a locked pre-order. Xbox One.
Anyway, just finished up Mission 9 I think. Pretty fantastic and atmospheric missions. I took a few screenshots of it, I know a few people had questions about this. But it's also spoileriffic so don't click if you want to be truly surprised. I do know some people were hanging out to see this kind of stuff make an appearance, though.
DONT CLICK IF YOU DONT WANT TO BE SPOILED I WARNED YOU (although honestly it's not a huge part of the story)
SERIOUSLY CONSIDER WHAT YOU ARE DONT
http://abload.de/img/vlcsnap-2014-10-06-11swzxf.png
http://abload.de/img/vlcsnap-2014-10-06-11kryyh.png
http://abload.de/img/vlcsnap-2014-10-06-11ulxxa.png
http://abload.de/img/vlcsnap-2014-10-06-129jp5h.png
By the way, I'd totally do a stream of Last Survivor for you guys but for some reason Twitch won't let me. But it will for other games.....is the Twitch app really that smart?
I also GIFfed my (and sped up, for effect) my scariest encounter with the Alien thus far. And funnily enough it's one of the randomised ones.
/dead
That would add to the experience for me. not knowing who is and isn't friendly. Although it would be better that if you killed friendly the game didn't go "game over" but more gave a consequence
would make you think through your encounters in a careful way. Like reveal yourself but in a way where you can escape quicklyHere :
http://gamegpu.ru/action-/-fps-/-tps/alien-isolation-test-gpu.html
Keep in mind : they only tested one area of the game. Results may vary depending on what map is being benchmarked, for all we know maybe there are significantly more taxing areas.