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Alien: Isolation |OT| 1 Alien. 1 Ripley. No Jonesy.
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In my experience it only hears the tracker when it's really close, about 0.20 and under.
I Wanna Be The Guy
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
That game was bullshitty the first time through but exactly the same every time and the save points aren't far apart. They're completely different kinds of hard and yeah IWBTG was less annoying to me.
CuteSpaceGoblin
Neo Member
http://alienisolation.com/manual for the manuals. Useful for what controller buttons do what. I had no idea how to attack with the wrench before this.
Agreed on the lack of handholding, showing you the various effects of rewiring etc. Most of it is reasonably easily inferred: lights on/off gives you more shadows, activate doors, activate vents, disable cameras etc.
Working Joes are best evaded wherever possible as they're a pain to take down. And thats just 1 on 1. Any more of them at once and you've no chance. Distraction works far better.
About to head out of Medical here. This game is working as well as the first time I saw the film, i.e. coasting on neat, acute anxiety. Seriously good job CA if you're reading this.
duck_sauce
Gold Member
I give up on this game. There are passages where the alien is omnipresent. I cant sneak 10 seconds without it showing up behind me.
I love the mechanics of this game, but this is infuriating
I love the mechanics of this game, but this is infuriating
He can get pretty sneaky. I had him go to the side of the locker and crouch down so I couldn't see him anymore. I thought he was gone.
Reload current save.
It wasn't him being sneaky though. He literally just popped in front of me the same way a tree in the distance pops in in an open world game with lots of pop-in.
Thriller
Member
Common man don't hate! do something else for a second. Throw a flare down the hall and get the fuck out of there!
You can do this
JONESY
I Wanna Be The Guy
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
I think it would have been better if it was more like RE4. Have a checkpoint system so when you die you restart at the checkpoint, but for a permanent save you have to reach the save point. Having to repeat such large sections gets real annoying.
Yup, heard it too and went looking for the cat but there was nothing there.
Yup, I definitely heard it at one point towards the beginning of the game.
Shake Appeal
Member
If I just
, how much of the game is left?
put my weapons in an metal detector scanner thing
B-B-Bomba!
Member
Alien: Isolation |OT| Creative Assembly Cut
?? - occurred to me this morning & I thought it was neat
Around 3-4 hours.
Cave Johnson
Member
This is atrocious. It's a pity there's no gif as evidence but what you say is true definitely changes this whole rubberband AI perspective.
Shake Appeal
Member
Cool. I've been pleasantly surprised by how long the game is.
I think we're going to get some DLC that expands on her ending a bit.
Also, this seems to be carrying the same themes as the original trilogy in that every time you think Ripley has won and she'll get her happy ending, an Alien is always there and robs her of happiness.
Two ways this could go. She's picked up somehow by a scavenger ship or somehow climbs into part of the Torrens, and has to survive the Alien or Weyland Yutani. And she either escapes and goes into hiding or dies and Weyland Yutani covers it up and shows Ripley a doctored photo.
Also, this seems to be carrying the same themes as the original trilogy in that every time you think Ripley has won and she'll get her happy ending, an Alien is always there and robs her of happiness.
Mr. Luchador
Member
Yup, there is a cat noise and as your approach where it is there's some hissing and then it suddenly stops. So the cat was probably eaten.
Yeah my mistake for not capturing it. It doesn't sour my experience of the game that much because I had just saved, but if I hadn't, I'd probably have been really pissed. It felt like the game was trying to give me a jump scare. Instead, it just left me confused and disappointed.
(spoilers rom the last third, do NOT read them unless you finished the game)
in mission
in mission
14 now. DONT READ FURTHER, MAJOR SPOILERS
SPOILS:
dont know if i want to continue. loved the game so far but i dont think i can deal with multiple, unscripted aliens in a single room. i this is what i have to deal with until the end, i quit here. still loved the hell out of the game.
SPOILS:
dont know if i want to continue. loved the game so far but i dont think i can deal with multiple, unscripted aliens in a single room. i this is what i have to deal with until the end, i quit here. still loved the hell out of the game.
I liked 12, but 13 is my least favourite mission in the game so far.
I ended up just running through it.
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ZombieFred
Unconfirmed Member
I have finished the main story after Thirteen hours and I will have to say that this is my personal game of the year. The sound and presentation of this game is masterful, one of the best done in gaming history and they deserve the praise and awards for this.
I really don't get why IGN reviewed this so low though. This game is a 9/10 for me.
I really don't get why IGN reviewed this so low though. This game is a 9/10 for me.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
In agreement.
Dunkelgrau
Member
Before facing the first enemies in the game there is this computer - what does this thing do?
And have you GAFers already realised that the enemies are beaming to you're position when you make a mistake (being to loud or something). Pretty annoying.
Later Alligator
Member
played up to chapter 13 so far... this is the first game in a long time that ive gotten and been on a mission to keep playing as i cant get enough
dunno if its just me but id love to see a sevastapol marketing type video, of the station up and running at full capacity prior to the xeno arriving. you hear me CA?
dunno if its just me but id love to see a sevastapol marketing type video, of the station up and running at full capacity prior to the xeno arriving. you hear me CA?
Later Alligator
Member
]blacky[;134007074 said:
Before facing the first enemies in the game there is this computer - what does this thing do?
And have you GAFers already realised that the enemies are beaming to you're position when you make a mistake (being to loud or something). Pretty annoying.
fuse boxes
you can reroute power to different parts of the level ex air purification, doors, etc..
Yeah, it happened behind that first big Sevastopol model in a main lobby and in the first area where you come to a maintenance jack on the door. There'd be a human just standing in one spot in the dark, not making any noise, kind of freaked me out at first so I snuck up to him. And then he just disappeared. :/ And then one of the doors where you first see the Torrens and are trying to get their attention- blinked transparent a bunch, to where I could see through it, run up to it, and of course it's still there because I haven't turned the power on ( I backed away from it and it reappeared) - why the fuck is only my game doing this, lol. I heard there were some programming errors on Hard mode- could this be why?
jacksepticeye
Member
Yeah I grinned when I saw this
Yep, that's why i gave up, and other things too.
Dunkelgrau
Member
I know but what is the matter about rerouting power to speakers or something? I did not find a change.
real_slime
Banned
Looks like the Alien is demoralising some people.
It's a shame. For what it's worth, I'm playing on normal and I've never had a single 'bullshit' death. The Alien doesn't pop up 'out of nowhere', the worst that happens is you don't pick it up on the motion tracker because it's remaining still somewhere momentarily and then suddenly moves. It doesn't randomly appear at all, you are always given some form of warning. If you miss the cue, which at times can be very slight yes, then you might be screwed, but even at a certain point in the game (gameplay spoilers)
I had one hilarious death where I was about to walk through a door that slams shut the second you step inside, but the Alien got me as I was standing in the door frame. I had to redo a maybe 10 minute long section there, but to me that feels like the peak of this sudden death system. I was running for the door cos I thought I could squeeze in there just in time and the game is just like nope, idiot! I just burst out laughing. I knew the Alien was around, I was just stretching my luck.
Also for all the people complaining about the save system, I think it makes the game. I've never attempted to save when enemies are a few feet away from me, and I've never had any problems saving. You also are supposed to listen out for that beep of the save terminals like a beacon of hope. Do that and focus your progress on save terminals, then objective markers, and you won't ever lose much progress at all. Personally I'm pretty bored of games which just checkpoint you every 30 seconds so nothing really ever has stakes and your progress is constantly being updated so that you never get that feeling of marking it off. Saving in this game is a substantial gameplay element! I understand not wanting to replay any sections at all if that isn't the way you like to play games, but I wish people wouldn't knock it as 'terrible' when actually it does what it's trying to do perfectly.
I'm obviously a fan of the game defending it, but I'm disappointed that a lot of the complaints seem to stem from misunderstanding of the mechanics, or people just not appreciating what the game sets out to do. It's all in service of increasing tension, which is a particular kind of goal that is different from what a lot of games set out to do. I just wish people were more open-minded and not so quick to blame deaths on 'ugh this is fucking random/broken' and so on. The game gives you just enough information through mostly audio and a few visual cues that you don't ever have to be blindsided, although it does ask you give the game your full attention in order to pick up on those.
It's a shame. For what it's worth, I'm playing on normal and I've never had a single 'bullshit' death. The Alien doesn't pop up 'out of nowhere', the worst that happens is you don't pick it up on the motion tracker because it's remaining still somewhere momentarily and then suddenly moves. It doesn't randomly appear at all, you are always given some form of warning. If you miss the cue, which at times can be very slight yes, then you might be screwed, but even at a certain point in the game (gameplay spoilers)
when you get the flamethrower, you always have that as a reprieve in case there is a moment when you just don't have time to escape.
I had one hilarious death where I was about to walk through a door that slams shut the second you step inside, but the Alien got me as I was standing in the door frame. I had to redo a maybe 10 minute long section there, but to me that feels like the peak of this sudden death system. I was running for the door cos I thought I could squeeze in there just in time and the game is just like nope, idiot! I just burst out laughing. I knew the Alien was around, I was just stretching my luck.
Also for all the people complaining about the save system, I think it makes the game. I've never attempted to save when enemies are a few feet away from me, and I've never had any problems saving. You also are supposed to listen out for that beep of the save terminals like a beacon of hope. Do that and focus your progress on save terminals, then objective markers, and you won't ever lose much progress at all. Personally I'm pretty bored of games which just checkpoint you every 30 seconds so nothing really ever has stakes and your progress is constantly being updated so that you never get that feeling of marking it off. Saving in this game is a substantial gameplay element! I understand not wanting to replay any sections at all if that isn't the way you like to play games, but I wish people wouldn't knock it as 'terrible' when actually it does what it's trying to do perfectly.
I'm obviously a fan of the game defending it, but I'm disappointed that a lot of the complaints seem to stem from misunderstanding of the mechanics, or people just not appreciating what the game sets out to do. It's all in service of increasing tension, which is a particular kind of goal that is different from what a lot of games set out to do. I just wish people were more open-minded and not so quick to blame deaths on 'ugh this is fucking random/broken' and so on. The game gives you just enough information through mostly audio and a few visual cues that you don't ever have to be blindsided, although it does ask you give the game your full attention in order to pick up on those.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Yeah, I've been collecting a handful of glitches as I go.
music will randomly just kick on immediately after a save - I've gone in an elevator and had the mission parameter change to a completely different mission's objective - killed a Seegson security guard, saved, came back, and the character model was gone, but his holstered gun was just hovering in the air over where he should have been.
edit: Alex reminded me about the hands-on-fire glitch, got that one too. Made the flashlight redundant for as long as that lasted.
Part of the reason I think I was having such a problem with Mission 12 is that doors were not triggering the events they needed to trigger, so I'd just end up running around to different save points/reloading save points and trying them again.
music will randomly just kick on immediately after a save - I've gone in an elevator and had the mission parameter change to a completely different mission's objective - killed a Seegson security guard, saved, came back, and the character model was gone, but his holstered gun was just hovering in the air over where he should have been.
edit: Alex reminded me about the hands-on-fire glitch, got that one too. Made the flashlight redundant for as long as that lasted.
Part of the reason I think I was having such a problem with Mission 12 is that doors were not triggering the events they needed to trigger, so I'd just end up running around to different save points/reloading save points and trying them again.
Dunkelgrau
Member
As I mentioned above even normal enemies are popping out of nowhere. Never faced the Alien, though.
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ZombieFred
Unconfirmed Member
You know, in many ways this game feels like a game that was designed around the early 2000s than around what most modern AAA games try to do these days (although it seems that this is starting to fade out) and I really love it for it. I think the save system is perfect and helps make the game on keeping you on your toes and worrying because you actually have to make a lot of effort to keep alive than being hand guided. It's awesome.
Yeah, sometimes things popping out of nowhere gets ridiculous. I had a situation where I was running from an android and popped into a locker with nothing in sight and an android materializes in front of the locker a second after I got in it and pulls me out.]blacky[;134009135 said:
Only really significant glitch I experienced was at the very end, I caught on fire, and tried to put it out and my hands were always on fire after that.
I was in the very last act of the game and just wanted to finish it. It made aiming and killing the facehuggers much harder.
This is what happened with me with the alien. He walked away and left the room and a few seconds after I stopped holding my breath it ripped open the locker. It didn't come out of a vent or anything and there was only one entrance to the room, which I was looking directly at.
Shock_Wave
Member
I would love to play more main story content rather than the challenge maps CA will release.