Dog Problems
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Sounds fun. Is he meant to mostly use bare hands?
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Dead Island Riptide |OT| More of the same, deal with it
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Sounds fun. Is he meant to mostly use bare hands?
SlasherJPC
Banned
8 mb patch just showed up on 360 version. Curious what fixes were in that.
CaptainZombie
Member
These reviews are just way all over the place.
Karak
Member
No.
On IRC I was told the first patch was some bugs and maybe even a FPS fix. We will see if thats true or not or if thats actually the first patch and not a 0 day set of fixes.
SlasherJPC
Banned
Got the go ahead I could stream from Deep Silver. 360 version live stream! Starting in just a few minutes.
Karak
Member
Awesome! Though I have to say I am a little pissed that you were made to wait to live stream when it was leaked early and people have been doing it. I wish they would have let you just do it right away
Dead to Rights
Member
Because deep down inside we both know Logan is simply the greatest. Honestly who doesn't love the Loganator?
Mr.LightMan
Member
Just picked up the game can't wait to play.
NoirVisage
Banned
I trust you, pre-ordered, I'll watch yours and the other Gaf members reviews to get an idea of what I'm in for!
Krappadizzle
Member
Just got this gifted to me. Will be streaming on the PC maxed out when it unlocks.
SlasherJPC
Banned
If take your level and build. If you only had a level 15 character, then make sense. If you had a higher level character. Something didn't work right. As for your equipment, you do start off fresh with that.
No it was lvl 35. What happened was it wasn't importing the character I clicked on, it imported the first on the list (which was a lvl 1), I tried importing again and used the keyboard and he imported properly.
whassupbun
Member
How are the servers on PS3 this time?
My friend and I were always being disconnected and had to keep trying for a long time before we could join each other's game, we planned to play Riptide on the 360 because the connectivity issue was so severe on the PS3. But today I found out about the character transfer feature so if I want to do that I'll have to keep playing on the PS3. I'll stay with it if the servers are more tolerable this time.
My friend and I were always being disconnected and had to keep trying for a long time before we could join each other's game, we planned to play Riptide on the 360 because the connectivity issue was so severe on the PS3. But today I found out about the character transfer feature so if I want to do that I'll have to keep playing on the PS3. I'll stay with it if the servers are more tolerable this time.
Square Triangle
Member
Super bummed about the midnight. Myself and another dressed up in full zombie getup wity props. Only had 10 people out of 70 preorders show up.
Krappadizzle
Member
So what the hell. Can anyone join another game on PC? I can't join a random player or my buddies. Extremely annoyed I can't play a co-op game when the co-op game comes out.
SJRB
Gold Member
I hate how he talks about it but doesn't actually show it in his VIDEO.
Why does every review site recommend it to play with friends? Everytime I watched this being played in coop it was only a slaugherfest without any structure and be finished as quick as possible. Meh.
True. I wish the throw skill was a bit better, such low percentage.
True. I wish the throw skill was a bit better, such low percentage.
JumpJeff84
Member
Agreed. I see Dead Island as a game to play solo and take your time with, explore at your own pace etc...
Karak
Member
It can totally be played single and, as I said before, its VERY fun, or these games at least, are very fun this way.
CaptainZombie
Member
I love the exploring aspect quite a bit. The only thing that drives me nuts a little at times is the wonky combat and respawning of zombies. I understand that an area could possibly repopulate with time, but clearing out certain sections where you would think they would never enter again they do. If we get a DI2 or Dead World 2 hopefully some of these other things are fixed, along with the leveling up of the zombies.
True, but playing co-op doesn't have to be a laugh-fest. My favorite scenario is when I get a good partner who will just cover my back, sweeping and looting moving along with me (and I with him) and almost playing co-op like two solo people. So good.
Steelcase and backpack get...
I went to a launch event in NL and I got the same steelcase.
without the game in it, goddamnit
Karak
Member
Oh sorry. I wasn't saying it has to be. Not at all. I have a couple go to reviewers who play with me on these style games. What I was saying is that Dead Island Singleplayer and just exploring without worrying about anyone else time or demands on life...is pretty damn cool.
WTF?
My thoughts exactly. I did get a cool t-shirt (XXL though, I'm like medium/large at best), but I wish they actually gave the game. The event was for press + regular people and everyone got that same steelcase without a game in it. You could clearly see how people were disappointed
Something for the people thinking about picking this up that might want to jump between co-op and single player, the save system is sort of dumb.
If you start off playing by yourself, and end up being close to another player in the same area around the same quest, you can jump into their game. But if you do, you'll lose whatever quest progress you currently have. And side quests you've completed that they haven't done yet, you'll need to re-do.
Character levels/skills, current experience, inventory and money are fine, but I was surprised that I had to go back and re-do some of the stuff I had finished before joining, even after exiting the co-op and jumping back to the game to play by myself.
If you start off playing by yourself, and end up being close to another player in the same area around the same quest, you can jump into their game. But if you do, you'll lose whatever quest progress you currently have. And side quests you've completed that they haven't done yet, you'll need to re-do.
Character levels/skills, current experience, inventory and money are fine, but I was surprised that I had to go back and re-do some of the stuff I had finished before joining, even after exiting the co-op and jumping back to the game to play by myself.
Karak
Member
My thoughts exactly. I did get a cool t-shirt (XXL though, I'm like medium/large at best), but I wish they actually gave the game. The event was for press + regular people and everyone got that same steelcase without a game in it. You could clearly see how people were disappointed
Holy shit man. I mean this when I saw that fucking sucks beyond my ability to explain in a post. Jezuz.
Melchiah
Member
The screamer is apparently another new enemy type. Can't wait for friday to come.
So the Ram can now storm through gates and doors? Cool if so, as I found it pretty amusing, that I could block them in the prison by closing the bars.
Melchiah
Member
I guess that's just for a cutscene. I loved letting them run into fire in the first one
edit: Also first thing to do - disable as much hud as possible (dmg numbers, health bars).
Shame. Well, it might make some parts easier, if there are Infected involved as well, like in the first.
EDIT: Nah, I like to see the damage done. =)
JumpJeff84
Member
Installing my copy of the PC version now.
Wondering which character to use...I used Sam B in the first game, but I'm not gonna be importing, as I played the first one on 360.
Wondering which character to use...I used Sam B in the first game, but I'm not gonna be importing, as I played the first one on 360.
I imagine it'll be pretty trivial to port over. Heck I copied the deadisland.exe into the riptide directory and was able to use helper for some tweaks already.
Wait...how does that work ? Do you run the game using the old exe, doesnt make sense :/
Yeh...pretty crazy. It was one of the most documented issues of the first game, pure laziness on the devs for not addressing it
I couldnt believe it myself when I first fired it up to find it was still there
Helper won't run if deadisland.exe isn't present, so just copy it into the riptide directory and point helper there.
Dog Problems
Banned
I think there's a bug involving the inventory and what you have equipped. I had two different pairs of brass knuckles equipped, crafted a weapon using the Nail'd mod and a bat, it equips and now both of my knuckles are gone.
The 360 has some area's that look a lot better then the last game but other times,the screen tearing rears it's ugly head and also,like mentionned a few times,the framerate when there's a lot going on gets really bad...I also had 2 huge glitches so far,lost all the sound midway into the prologue and got a weird delayed reaction pop-up,while I was in the cut-scene after the event,that told me a survivor died,press X to go back to the main menu...if I would let it go the voices from the cut scene where playing and the game was moving along,but just the sounds...
Besides that lol,it's good so far,(just about 1 hour in).
Besides that lol,it's good so far,(just about 1 hour in).
SlasherJPC
Banned
Same as before as far as I can tell. Levels them appropriate to each persons level and somehow figures out the damage variables.
Oh so the lvl1 guy will not have a problem fighting lvl 36 zombies?
This is a cut and paste game. Wish I hadn't bought it.
Also, I said it before, I'll say it again. I want a hybrid control scheme. I just want to be able to analog attack when I want to (one-on-one with zombies) as it's more fun, but sometimes I want to just quick attack when there's two or more zombies around. There was literally no improvements from the first game. Everything is the same. Why did I give them my money?
Also, I said it before, I'll say it again. I want a hybrid control scheme. I just want to be able to analog attack when I want to (one-on-one with zombies) as it's more fun, but sometimes I want to just quick attack when there's two or more zombies around. There was literally no improvements from the first game. Everything is the same. Why did I give them my money?
LQX
Member
So both were in your Steam inventory before redeeming? Did you by chance have the first game? And if so, were you able to gift the GOTY version?