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Dead Island |OT| Island of the Dead

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SuperÑ

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Stitch said:
rage mode. makes you stronger or whatever.

so I tried to play co-op but it's broken on PC. nice.
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Do you have to "trigger" rage mode? I've seen the yellow bar decreasing when hitting the running zombies, but they still run at me *o*
 
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Derrick01

Banned
I don't mind the respawning zombies but it's the respawning "events" that have me a little irked.

Like I came across a zombie beating on a door to some shed, looked like a fitting room and when I killed it and opened the door another zombie flew out into me. Scared the shit out of me.

Then I play again later and I come across the same place and run into the same thing happening. It makes me feel like I'm not really doing anything since almost everything is just getting replaced when I reload.
 
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Enco

Member
Derrick01 said:
I don't mind the respawning zombies but it's the respawning "events" that have me a little irked.

Like I came across a zombie beating on a door to some shed, looked like a fitting room and when I killed it and opened the door another zombie flew out into me. Scared the shit out of me.

Then I play again later and I come across the same place and run into the same thing happening. It makes me feel like I'm not really doing anything since almost everything is just getting replaced when I reload.
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Well that sucks.

Also, why do people say coop is broken? That's the main reason for my purchase.
 
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WDFHaldimath44

Member
I dunno what is so messed up about my steam version, but I can't get it to run with any sort of quality. I can run Witcher 2 on high settings, but when I boot this up, with EVERYTHING on low, I get insane diagonal white lines going through every interior environment, and my frame-rate won't go above 15. It gets even worse when I strafe, but if I am running forward, it seems to work better. Not to mention that the lag in the mouse when I am in the menus is almost unbearable. At the top menu, it runs smooth and the mouse movement is spot on, but the second I load up, it's a nightmare.

I even went so far as to uninstall on steam and re-install, and create a new character (I was only a few hours in, so no big deal).

My framerate wasn't the greatest before this "patch" but it was at least playable, and I had the settings on high. Now, post patch, I have it on low, and can't even play it.

I am loving this game from what I could play, I just pray that this "patch" they put out isn't the final one, because if so, my Dead Island experience might be fucked. :(
 
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cleveridea

Member
DidntKnowJack said:
The whole "Go into Fury mode" thing has me a bit confused. I don't know what the visual cue is when I get Fury, or how to activate it. (PS3 version.) I thought I just hit a button (circle) when it became active, but nothing happened.

I'm also regretting my decision to use the firearms chick. I found one gun early on, but I can't even use it until I hit level 10. (6 right now.) And I'm not crazy about her skill tree. I'm tempted to start over but I've already put in a good 6 hours into this. Blah.
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YOU WILL KNOW LOL

She brings out her personal gun, and you get to shoot fools! Very nice and the skill tree has nice stuff like set enemies on fire,

you need maxed fury gauge and HOLD DOWN circle not just press it, its very obvious when its triggered as the view totally changes and highlights enemies in red

Note you must have a point in Fury to be able to use it
 
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cleveridea

Member
Got my digital artbook and "map" from amazon for preordering

the artbook is gorgeous

the map is just for that tiny starter island LOL. fail.
 
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cleveridea

Member
I don't know what it is about zombie games, my wife HATES the loud noises of melee whacks and groans.

so am waiting for her to leave house, as I refuse to play without nice loud sound LOL
 
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JambiBum

Member
Stitch said:
rage mode. makes you stronger or whatever.

so I tried to play co-op but it's broken on PC. nice.
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No that isn't what the yellow bar is. The yellow bar is your experience meter. The rage mode meter is the circle that goes around the fist.

Also the fist will flash a little when your rage mode is ready to activate. You have to make sure that you have a skill point in your rage tree in order to use it. When it is ready you just hold down the B button. Assuming you are on the 360 version of course.
 
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Dan Yo

Banned
ThaddeusMcGee said:
Yeah I popped it in for the first time last night, played just the prologue, and then immediately jumped into a co-op game with friends. It's definitely fun to gang up on zombies, but I must admit I had no clue what the hell was going on, where we were going, or why. The compass markers appeared intermittently, but since I didn't know what quest we were doing, I just followed everyone else. Quest givers would give me the "Hey thanks" speech, then follow up with "I'm still waiting for you to do X". I also kept getting the message "THIS QUEST WILL NOT BE WRITTEN TO YOUR PROFILE" which doesn't sound promising. Honestly I think I'd want to re-start alone and jump into co-op later, to help lower level folks. Not sure how to break it to my co-op pals though. Maybe I'll just do two playthroughs.
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Yup, basically what happened for me. my friends just kept running around and accepting quests, and we'd run off and do something and I'd have no idea why or what the heck was going on. With no system in place that at least requires all players to accept a quest together or be present while quest-relevant dialogue is being said, it makes everything feel a bit disorganized.

I don't like doing quests without at least some sort of context or story motivation for doing them, even if the story is pretty light in the game to begin with.

Regardless, my main complaint with the game remains the lack of a better system for handling player deaths than just taking the lazy route and offering unlimited respawns. A cue from other co-op games like L4D, Lost Planet 2, or Gears of War would've been much better for keeping some tension while flying through missions.
 
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codhand

Member
I don't know what it is about zombie games, my wife HATES the loud noises of melee whacks and groans.
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If I even mention Borderlands around my friend's wife, she gets so heated for the very same reasons. So this past weekend I made a point to mention the sequel in front of her to my friend just to be a dick.
 
Evolved1

Evolved1

make sure the pudding isn't too soggy but that just ruins everything
Um... why is the sound so fucked up and choppy on PS3?
 
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JambiBum

Member
Dan Yo said:
Yup, basically what happened for me. my friends just kept running around and accepting quests, and we'd run off and do something and I'd have no idea why or what the heck was going on. With no system in place that at least requires all players to accept a quest together or be present while quest-relevant dialogue is being said, it makes everything feel a bit disorganized.

I don't like doing quests without at least some sort of context or story motivation for doing them, even if the story is pretty light in the game to begin with.

Regardless, my main complaint with the game remains the lack of a better system for handling player deaths than just taking the lazy route and offering unlimited respawns. A cue from other co-op games like L4D, Lost Planet 2, or Gears of War would've been much better for keeping some tension while flying through missions.
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It does require you to be present for main quests. It will have a red circle around the area all players need to be. Side quests though it does not.

Also, there is a penalty for dying. It's just like Borderlands where you lose a percentage of your money. It's just hard to notice unless you are paying attention. Although I do agree that the penalty should be higher.
 
Stitch

Stitch

Gold Member
JambiBum said:
No that isn't what the yellow bar is. The yellow bar is your experience meter. The rage mode meter is the circle that goes around the fist.
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haha ok sorry. And I was wondering why that stupid rage bar takes so long to fill up.

edit: a new patch omg omg omg omg omg
 
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Dog Problems

Banned
Recent patch notes, according to Steam forum.

Complete list of improvements:

Multiplayer and Matchmaking improvements
• Maps are now correctly synchronized when player joins during map loading
• Games now filter correctly in lobby
• After joining a coop game enemies now spawn correctly

User guidance improved. (Quest guidance, UI, shop)

Additional interface polishing
• Map tracking now works correctly after loading checkpoints
• Health and stamina bars of enemies now display correctly in coop.
• Locations of invisible NPCs are no longer shown
• More than one player can now use the same ladder simultaneously
• Focus on items in shops is not changing after operation (sell, buy)
• Additional Interface polishing
• Fixed displaying gather rings near some door

Player death behavior improved
• Respawn position now saved when playing in cooperative mode
• If player dies whilst inside vehicle, menu will now be hidden

Save game mechanics extended
• Added distinction between quest checkpoints and other saves

Minor animation fixes
• AI animation now displays correctly after fast travel or travel through portals

AI improvements
• Improved enemy awareness (zombies)
• Enemies reaction to fire adapted
• Enemies are now able to successfully reach player on some arenas
• Shooting enemies no longer spawn infinitely

Balancing changes in difficulty, majorly for second playthrough
• Item level will be calculated correctly when playing in second playthrough
• Kick interrupting reload now adapted, after clip wis inserted reload is treated as successful
• Health regeneration is now disabled during grab.
• More HP for all escorted NPCs
• Removed all instances of Butcher during escorts
• Purna can gain bonus rage from both “Grim Inspiration” and “Inspiring Kick”
• Only "Walker" type enemies increase the extra XP of the "Combo" skill from Xian’s Survival skill tree

Pause Option added
• Added information about players requesting pause (Coop)

Looting rules improved
• Thrown items now cannot be picked up by another player for 5 minutes.
• Items from just-opened containers cannot be picked up by another player for 5 seconds.

Minor graphical glitches fixed.
• Rectified occasional graphical glitch with NPC's hands bend
• Animations now display correctly when trading
• Stomper animation now displays correctly when same target is hit by another player

Sound bugs fixed
• Volume of pickup's engine has been increased

Quest bugs removed
• All side quests in Laboratory can now be successfully completed
• Potential walkthrough blocker removed when quest "Knockin' on Heaven’s Door" is completed before talking to Dominik during "On the air" quest
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Concept17

Member
Old notes.

Servers are still down. No FOV or any other options to be seen. Not sure what we got here. My best guess is its a patch to fix problems when connecting online, and they have not yet flipped the switch back on.
 
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Enco

Member
Concept17 said:
Old notes.

Servers are still down. No FOV or any other options to be seen. Not sure what we got here. My best guess is its a patch to fix problems when connecting online, and they have not yet flipped the switch back on.
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So the people saying that there would be another patch by Friday release are right?

I thought as much (hopefully).
 
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Dead Prince

Banned
Concept17 said:
There was a new 73mb patch that just came up about 10 minutes ago. No official word on what it contains. MP servers still down.
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does it still say version 1.0.0? i guess it probably does lol. they really need to at least warn us ahead of time.
 
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Owzers

Member
Dead Island arrived from Gamefly yesterday and i've only put about an 30-45 minutes into it but the game doesn't seem like it's for me, it seems rather "pointless" and empty of interesting things, a large island full of zombies and an abundance of fetch quests.

I always want games to be more than they are though. With this so far, i wish it was more strategy focused around the survivors and the buildings you hold out for. I felt Borderlands was pretty pointless too, especially playing multiplayer with other people, usually I'd just be running around never really knowing what or why i'm involved in the quest but just shooting junk with people. Dead Island with someone hopping into my game felt more or less the same, especially with them taking all the weapons so i had to beat zombies with broom handles...
 
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GhostRidah

Member
Game is running slightly better for me but it always ran good for 30 minutes and then random freezes would start until I restart the game, will see if it happens again.

Still no multi player though...
 
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The perfect Dark

Banned
So you know...I play the Ps3 Version (as I said earlier)...but...this is it... sorry, I'm done with Techland and I'm done with this bug sh*t.

Played 'til chapter 10 (Act 3) today...autosave...

started my Ps3 minutes ago.

Last save: Chapter 7 (Act 2)

No weapons saved
No sidequests saved
No mainquests saved

so I lost...let me think....8 hours today because of this buggy crap.

I'm done.

My last product from Techland.

edit: Level saved, Level stats: deleted

It says: Level 20 , EP : 0

LOL
 
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Dead Prince

Banned
The perfect Dark said:
So you know...I play the Ps3 Version (as I said earlier)...but...this is it... sorry, I'm done with Techland and I'm done with this bug sh*t.

Played 'til chapter 10 (Act 3) today...autosave...

started my Ps3 minutes ago.

Last save: Chapter 7 (Act 2)

No weapons saved
No sidequests saved
No mainquests saved

so I lost...let me think....8 hours today because of this buggy crap.

I'm done.

My last product from Techland.
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ouch.
 
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Neuromancer

Member
The perfect Dark said:
So you know...I play the Ps3 Version (as I said earlier)...but...this is it... sorry, I'm done with Techland and I'm done with this bug sh*t.

Played 'til chapter 10 (Act 3) today...autosave...

started my Ps3 minutes ago.

Last save: Chapter 7 (Act 2)

No weapons saved
No sidequests saved
No mainquests saved

so I lost...let me think....8 hours today because of this buggy crap.

I'm done.

My last product from Techland.

edit: Level saved, Level stats: deleted

It says: Level 20 , EP : 0

LOL
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What the fuck
 
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Sullichin

Member
Derrick01 said:
I don't mind the respawning zombies but it's the respawning "events" that have me a little irked.

Like I came across a zombie beating on a door to some shed, looked like a fitting room and when I killed it and opened the door another zombie flew out into me. Scared the shit out of me.

Then I play again later and I come across the same place and run into the same thing happening. It makes me feel like I'm not really doing anything since almost everything is just getting replaced when I reload.
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Yeah.. I feel like there's 0% sense of progress in this game. Things seem to reset, zombies come back to life, and they level up with you. Am I missing something?
 
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