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Dead Island |OT| Island of the Dead
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FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
Papercuts said:
WTF? Really?
Neuromancer
Member
OK weird. So basically, if you save and quit mid mission you're fucked.FlyinJ said:
Ploid 3.0
Member
Sinatar said:
I tried my normal gamma edit in a building, then changed it back to the middle and it looks too bright. I think it's best if I use the gamma tool because my tv or windows setting is probably just set a bit too bright. The game looks good to me one click away from the text being invisible into that background.
Here's a pic of the same area with gamma in the middle. To me it's darker on the web browser, but in game its pretty bright.
I should probably change my tv settings. I always wondered why my video recordings turned out so dark. Figured it was the program I used to record.
Proposed Law
Member
Far Cry 2 is one of my favorite games this generation and this definitely has some of it's qualities. I like the open world feel (not completely open like Far Cry, but close) that makes me want just to explore. I've only played about 3 hours, but I really surprised how much I've enjoyed it so far.
I've decided to play on 360 and it seems that I've experienced some save issues. Wasn't sure if this was a 360 problem like it is on the PS3, but I just lost about an hour of game time. Definitely not alot of lost time compared to others, but still this isn't cool. Has anyone else lost time on the 360? I made sure to finish a quest before quitting and it even showed the saving icon. I fired it back up and there I was at the beginning of the chapter with 3 side quests gone and alot of exploring gone. Too bad that this problem is taking me out of this game and might be a reason to stop playing for now.
I've decided to play on 360 and it seems that I've experienced some save issues. Wasn't sure if this was a 360 problem like it is on the PS3, but I just lost about an hour of game time. Definitely not alot of lost time compared to others, but still this isn't cool. Has anyone else lost time on the 360? I made sure to finish a quest before quitting and it even showed the saving icon. I fired it back up and there I was at the beginning of the chapter with 3 side quests gone and alot of exploring gone. Too bad that this problem is taking me out of this game and might be a reason to stop playing for now.
I'm having a tough time with the Thugs. I'm playing as the blunt weapons expert, and I can't get a hit off without him hitting me back. Only way I can beat him without taking damage is throwing a propane tank at him.
Anyone have some tips for me?
Loving the game so far, seems like there's any endless stream of missions. You go on one and then you find two more.
Anyone have some tips for me?
Loving the game so far, seems like there's any endless stream of missions. You go on one and then you find two more.
Pewp said:
Move in until he throws a punch and step back away from it then dart in and hit him while he's recovering and dart back out. If you get a sledgehammer, it had more reach than the thug does so use that on him. If you manage to take out both arms, all he can do is headbutt you which is shorter than the arms obviously.
Users on the Steam forums have discovered how to edit the FOV setting, disable motion-blur, possibly mouse acceleration, and possibly bloom, but it requires unpacking the data0.pak file, changing some xml settings, repacking the file and hex-editing a game DLL to accept the modified pak file so you will be risking a VAC ban unless you disable VAC mode.
Hopefully Techland's "not-a-console-port" devs will actually make it not a port by giving a user-friendly non-VAC bannable way to tweak these options.
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2106453
Hopefully Techland's "not-a-console-port" devs will actually make it not a port by giving a user-friendly non-VAC bannable way to tweak these options.
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2106453
My god is this game good. About 3 hours in and loving every second. PC on my TV with 5.1 and 360 controller, analog combat.
I'm playing the blunt weapons guy, and I have some good advice:
I have 4 open quick weapon slots. I put my most powerful blunt weapon into one of them, and throwable knives/machettes/scythes/etc into the other three.
I'll throw the 3 blades at an incoming enemy and usually take them out before they get to me. If not, they're most likely writhing around on the ground. In that case I just pull my three blades out of them and throw them again into the zombie until it's dead. Last resort is using my blunt weapon.
This is really good for not only being able to kill the guys before they get to me, but also thrown blades seem to degrade extremely slowly, if at all.
I'm playing the blunt weapons guy, and I have some good advice:
I have 4 open quick weapon slots. I put my most powerful blunt weapon into one of them, and throwable knives/machettes/scythes/etc into the other three.
I'll throw the 3 blades at an incoming enemy and usually take them out before they get to me. If not, they're most likely writhing around on the ground. In that case I just pull my three blades out of them and throw them again into the zombie until it's dead. Last resort is using my blunt weapon.
This is really good for not only being able to kill the guys before they get to me, but also thrown blades seem to degrade extremely slowly, if at all.
am i the only one who kinda digs the rap?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsAxKMr08M4
WHO DO YOU VOODOO BITCH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsAxKMr08M4
WHO DO YOU VOODOO BITCH
Incendiary
Banned
Picked this up today: Went to four different stores and the first three were all sold out of copies, and the fourth store only had two copies left. That bodes well for NPD, I think?
The game itself is pretty fun, especially with friends. After we found a car, we spent a whole lot of time dicking around driving terribly and running over zombies. I think it'll be fun. Seems like a melee-focused Borderlands with zombies from the quest set-up.
The game itself is pretty fun, especially with friends. After we found a car, we spent a whole lot of time dicking around driving terribly and running over zombies. I think it'll be fun. Seems like a melee-focused Borderlands with zombies from the quest set-up.
This game would be amazing if it weren't such a mess on the PS3.
Lag/hangs on an offline game.
Map randomly goes haywire and decides to display nothing.
Quests decide not to trigger.
And the usual performance issues.
Now it just needs to give me a corrupted save file message tomorrow.
Lag/hangs on an offline game.
Map randomly goes haywire and decides to display nothing.
Quests decide not to trigger.
And the usual performance issues.
Now it just needs to give me a corrupted save file message tomorrow.
GhostRidah
Member
This hotel is pretty creepy
Ploid 3.0
Member
GhostRidah said:
Yep, one of the rare times it really force you to manage your flash light use. Well for me since my game is set based on he gamma setting working like it should. Loved it, and felt a bit uncomfortable. When I made it outside after all that I was so happy to see daylight, but then I nearly died as I was reminded that I wasn't in Kansas.
Better versionSalsaShark said:
XANDER CAGE
Member
This game is a total mess on PC for me. No co op, shitty graphics options, tearing. Sweet.
Games shouldn't get a free pass for having "ambition" if they can't get basic shit right.
Games shouldn't get a free pass for having "ambition" if they can't get basic shit right.
BigJiantRobut said:
No co-op appears to be a temporary thing -- I've played hours of co-op and it's ran great and was really fun.
Shitty graphics options -- wat? elaborate on this.
Tearing: there's a way to manually activate vsync, I believe....though I run the game without it and I don't really notice bad tearing.
I'd hardly consider it a total mess. It's not perfect and there are some pretty inexcusable issues, but we've seen bigger titles have even more problems on PC (cough GTAIV)
XANDER CAGE
Member
Your shadow uses the hilarious first person animations so you look like slender man every time you run
smh
welcome to dead island we take ourselves very seriously here
smh
welcome to dead island we take ourselves very seriously here
FleckSplat
Member
Anyone else get another ~73 MB patch yesterday after the first one? I don't know what it did.
FleckSplat
Member
Enco said:
Thanks. It's about the same size, so I thought it was the same patch again.
Off topic, I'm playing on PS3 Slim, I've had four system freeze/crashes (currently a level 16ish character) where I had to fully restart my PS3, anyone else had this issue? Every ten minutes or so, my ps3 sounds like it is spinning the Blu-ray disc back up which leads to a bad stutter/ frame skip, every 10 minutes or so, and a weird sound from the CD drive.
Still love this game though, definitely did not eat dinner or complete any normal human function from about 6pm to 2am.
Still love this game though, definitely did not eat dinner or complete any normal human function from about 6pm to 2am.
Barack Lesnar
Banned
It's for the controller. I'm using the 360 windows pad and the analog combat is awesome.Gattsu25 said:
Btw early game creepy moment:
talking to that guy in the middle of the blood red pool and him telling you he just killed his wife, dad, and brother and had no choice (they were infected) was really creepy. Love this game
Evolved1
make sure the pudding isn't too soggy but that just ruins everything
Heavy said:
I like the analog control... until there's more than two zombies on screen. I'm just having trouble with the clunkiness of it. Especially if you want to target specific body parts while fighting multiple enemies. It takes camera control away from you while you attack and I don;t know... it's pretty frustrating. This game is handing me my ass over and over again. I actually like that, but much of it is from fighting the controls, not the zombies.