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Dead Rising 2 |OT|: He knows his way around a zombie or two.
- Thread starter KibblesBits
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I'm good at the zombonie one for some reason. But I'm still not even sure how the sniper mission works, I get that I'm supposed to shoot the zombies and go for the ones with the orbs, but I don't understand how to win or get those blinds up in enemy's faces.
oh well.
oh well.
kyo_daikun
Member
Daigoro said:
Oh yeah it is pretty dire, takes forever to find a game, while its searching your stuck watching the same video everytime, you can't mute people if you have dickheads playing with you, you can't pause and quit out if you have to leave (got to exit the whole bloody game...) the games are all set in the same order so I end up playing ramsterball-ball buster-headache 9 times out of 10.
The list just goes on, most tacked on shit ever.
Snuggler said:
The ones with the orbs are bonus zombies and give you more points, to get the blinds up you will hear the announcer say the bonus thing is up, look at the center of the stage and there will be a tower with a fast moving target spinning around on it, shoot that to block the other players and get a load of points.
Yeah, TiR.
Good thing I'm a beast at slicecycles
My first time playing, I got around 34k, I think it was.. and the next person below me had 22k
The one where you have to go around in that big ball was really difficult for me, for some reason..
and the one where you have to put helmets on the zombies confused the hell out of me. I was so confused on how to score.
If anyone wants to join up for some TiR sometime on the PS3, let me know
Edit: Never mind... dunno where I thought I saw that $5mil trophy. >_> Thanks
AHHHH just played that stupid ball game again!! I did better than before, but fuuuck it's hard to win.
Good thing I'm a beast at slicecycles
My first time playing, I got around 34k, I think it was.. and the next person below me had 22k The one where you have to go around in that big ball was really difficult for me, for some reason..
and the one where you have to put helmets on the zombies confused the hell out of me. I was so confused on how to score.
If anyone wants to join up for some TiR sometime on the PS3, let me know
Edit: Never mind... dunno where I thought I saw that $5mil trophy. >_> Thanks
AHHHH just played that stupid ball game again!! I did better than before, but fuuuck it's hard to win.
kyo_daikun
Member
There's no trophy for 5 million $ in TIR you just unlock an outfit if you hit that much.
Edit: Beaten, PS TIR is not fun, its laggy, glitchy and for me pretty irritating.
Edit: Beaten, PS TIR is not fun, its laggy, glitchy and for me pretty irritating.
AgentOtaku
Member
Can anyone put up/link to a high res image of the loading icon right when DR2 starts?
The one with Chuck/moosehead silouette...
The one with Chuck/moosehead silouette...
Fix The Scientist
Member
The only time this game is challenging is when you fight something that isnt a zombie.
kyo_daikun
Member
Fix The Scientist said:
Well Zombies are only dangerous if there are a lot of them, if they were a significant threat they wouldn't be able to have many of them around which would then defeat the point of a zombie outbreak.
I think the enemies overall are balanced for what they need to be (except
Snowflake, damn tiger ripped the shit out of me yesterday
MiniBossBattle
Member
Man, just beat the game with S rank. I was planning on getting all the trophies but the amount of grind necessary (and without in game rewards) has made me decide to tackle my backlog.
I hate TK, painkiller and wrench = dead TK in overtime.
Jaroof said:Just finished up another game of TiR.
I won again
:lol Slicecycles always saves my ass.. I usually end up doing poor in the first game, win in the second, do poor in the third game, then absolutely destroy everyone in slicecycles.
I hate you people, the reason I never win big. There's always one guy kicking my ass at slicecycles and taking the pot.
Pandoracell said:
Wow. Have you not saved any survivors? I was over double your level at that point.
Daigoro said:
I actually had a good time with it, but that's because my friends and I cheesed the ranked mode for the achievements. Getting the four of us into a randomly selected game was hilarious due to us all talking over party chat at the same time.
AnimatorZombie said:
Hah, yeah. We had one guy that if he joined one of our servers as we were attempting to get all four of us in there, he'd never leave. Even after sending messages and everything to him. We gave up and just started a game with him in there, and he fucking DESTROYED us, even with one of us not playing the game and just trying to grief him. The dude had all the multiplayer achievements already too. So he was in there because he liked it.
That's fucked up. But again, hilarious.
CadetMahoney
Member
:lol I like griefing part too.Mar said:
Strummerjones
Member
Daigoro said:
I must be the only person who actually likes it! It's not amazing or anything, but it's fun every now and then, and there's just (barely) enough depth in most of the games to be interesting. The thing is though that really it all comes down to slicecycles because 90% of a game's points come from just that. When I first started playing it I had a few games with some of the events I didn't understand how to play, and came from having literally zero points in two games to being top overall just from slicecycles.
The quality of opposition is incredibly variable, and I've noticed most people still haven't worked out some pretty obvious winning tactics for especially Bounty Hunter, so I've honestly never came less than first in that event, ever. A good run of dominating events nets me over $100,000, but even so I dunno if I'll bother to get the $5 mill (got about 2 million from TIR so far). I'm absolutely crap at Master Shafter though, and only came joint first once ever against some complete beginners to get the achievement. There are pretty much no tactics to save you there, if you're not as fast at hammering buttons as the best guy, you've lost, the end.
Slicycles is actually the only game i like at all. Unfortunately im sitting at the starting gate with a fucking delay because i was shit at the other games. How is that shit fair?
It also seems kind of random because of the bonus zombies getting spawned randomly. Its fun but can be frustrating as well.
It also seems kind of random because of the bonus zombies getting spawned randomly. Its fun but can be frustrating as well.
VistraNorrez
Member
I like TIR, but Stand Up Zomedy, Bounty Hunter, Master Shafter and Pounds of Flesh are rare. I think I've only played each of those played those once. Makes it hard to get the achievement.
I do kill at Slicecycles. I've won TIR twice because of it. It's like the other players don't understand they can break and do a quick turnaround.
I do kill at Slicecycles. I've won TIR twice because of it. It's like the other players don't understand they can break and do a quick turnaround.
Still haven't played TIR, too bad there isn't an offline mode for that.
Anyway, I'm at the beginning of case 6-3 and I have to say that the main DR2 mode really got me disappointed :\
I mean, you can't design a game like this, so fun (because it IS fun), big and full of things to do, and put so many time limits in.
It gets really frustrating when you have to leave survivors or psychos behind just because the next case is about to start or you have to give zombrex to the brat.
Ok, time makes everithing more "survivalish", you don't have to waste precious time, but being so "limited" and have almost no free time completely ruins the experience.
Also, the "bosses" and most Psychos are pretty lame. Couple of painkillers, a good weapon (fireaxe + sledgehammer) and they're done for. I expected something bigger, something more Resident Evil-like.
Do the Entries, Combo Cards, Presents, Stores Visited etc. carry over the next playthrough?
Anyway, I'm at the beginning of case 6-3 and I have to say that the main DR2 mode really got me disappointed :\
I mean, you can't design a game like this, so fun (because it IS fun), big and full of things to do, and put so many time limits in.
It gets really frustrating when you have to leave survivors or psychos behind just because the next case is about to start or you have to give zombrex to the brat.
Ok, time makes everithing more "survivalish", you don't have to waste precious time, but being so "limited" and have almost no free time completely ruins the experience.
Also, the "bosses" and most Psychos are pretty lame. Couple of painkillers, a good weapon (fireaxe + sledgehammer) and they're done for. I expected something bigger, something more Resident Evil-like.
Do the Entries, Combo Cards, Presents, Stores Visited etc. carry over the next playthrough?
Old Gimlet Eyes
Member
If you got that screen, you can still keep playing and rescuing survivors and defeating psychos. You can fail any Case mission at any point and still continue to play the game. I didn't actually do any Case files but the first few to open the maintenance room the first time around and just used my time to explore and level up.Valcryst said:
theMrCravens
Member
I didn't know you could earn more stuff from TIR.
I thought the Championship Jacket was the only costume.
I cashed out so many times though. Does it still count toward the 1 and 5 million ?
I thought the Championship Jacket was the only costume.
I cashed out so many times though. Does it still count toward the 1 and 5 million ?
Strummerjones
Member
Daigoro said:
I actually generally find there is a sort of "groove" you have to fall into with the bonus zombies. It comes about naturally because one person kills most of them in one pass, and they set up just in time for the next one, and they therefore usually end up pulling way ahead. I had a real eye opening session a while ago where a guy grabbed it off me and destroyed everyone else, as they all popped up directly in front of him again and again and no one else could even compete - he was in the right place at the right time again and again with nothing left for anyone else.
Also the delayed start is a red herring - there is a finite amount of extremely low scoring zombies to kill, and it only gives you a pitiful advantage if you get out most of them. It's something like say, 5000 points in a game where typically scores reach up to 200,000. I've had the 9 second penalty a few times and easily won because the game only truly begins once the bonus zombies appear.
theMrCravens said:
Yes it does. It's total ever earned that counts. Of course it doesn't seem to keep track of this, so if you cash out regularly you end up with no idea how much you've got. There's a jacket, helmet, and finally the actual TIR suit as awards for winning a whole match, earning $1mill and earning $5 mill respectively.
Valcryst said:
Time management is a huge part of the game. You're not supposed to be able to do everything on one pass (make those hard choices between who lives and who dies! :lol) I found this frustrating initially too, since I'm a completionist, but once I reconciled with the fact that I wasn't going to be able to do everything, that the world was too big to explore fully on one pass, DR became much more fun.
And if you think DR2 if frustrating, you should try DR1 with its single save slot. That was pretty nerve-wracking. In comparison, with its three save slots, DR2 is a much more forgiving game (and much more enjoyable for me).
Jeff Stephen
Member
Played this with a friend last night and we pretty much played through the main story in one sitting. We had large chunks of free time waiting for cases to start up and I'd say we've had at least 13-14 (game) hours with absolutely nothing to do. Wiped out just about every psychopath and saved all survivors except for the 3 Poker players in the casino.luxarific said:
Co-op achievement unlocks after
defeating Sullivan.
If anything DR2 is guilty of giving players too much spare time to fool around in Vegas and in future sequels I'd definitely like to see less of this.
I would have much rather had an improved Infinite mode than TiR. Fusion Frenzy with Zombies is dumb, coupled with the awful game mechanics that make it unbearable.Daigoro said:
Infinite mode could have been much better, especially if it had a Save mechanic where when you loaded, your save was deleted to prevent reloading.
Old Gimlet Eyes
Member
The free packs are required to play co-op with people who have actually purchased the skills packs. Ninja and Sports outfits were pre-order bonuses, while the Solider and Psycho skills packs are new to download. Might check them out later today to see what they are all about.Deepack said:
Coin Return
Loose Slot
Just bought it, haven't used it yet but it sounds cool:bathala said:
New attacks/animations are always good.
Strange thing I noticed, perhaps a bug, in the PC version: my achievement for killing 5 psychos hadn't unlocked despite my killing at least 6 in my current playthrough.
So I checked the notebook: Antoine and Brandon showed up as located (orange) not dead (red).
For those two, the killing blows/shots were dealt by survivors. So it seems I need to personally kill them to get them to register as dead. Anyone else had this issue?
So I checked the notebook: Antoine and Brandon showed up as located (orange) not dead (red).
For those two, the killing blows/shots were dealt by survivors. So it seems I need to personally kill them to get them to register as dead. Anyone else had this issue?
Coin Return said:
I've only seen the new animation with the meat cleaver, but grabbing a zombies head, exposing the neck and hack-hack-hacking away at it is pretty fantastic - scary Chuck is Scary (with a capital S!)
Looking forward to seeing the other two tomorow, and the bonus animations in the other 2 Skill packs I haven't got yet.
KibblesBits
Member
demon arm said:
Yes, that happened with me when I encountered Antoine with some well armed survivors.
KilgoreTrout
Banned
Aigis said:
Use vehicles.
MiniBossBattle said:
Yeah, the final boss battle just didn't work for me conceptually. The entire game is about making weapons. And then
they strip you of everything for the final battle for melee or pipe/wrench attacks
melee so thank god for the mixed drinks.
Other than that final fight, I loved the game, -almost- better in every way than the first. I'm wondering how they're going to follow this up though. We've had a mall, we've had Vegas, what's next? A gigantic cruise ship?
kyo_daikun
Member
Finished TIR trophies last night, I noticed when I joined a lobby with 3 people in it that 1 would always grief the crap out of me and one would moan over microphone to let him win, I kicked their arses still.
I finished the game today, though i gave up on overtime and just watched the final final cut scene on youtube. I want to love Dead Rising 2 but i can't. It feels, to me and a lot of other people apparently, that Dead Rising 2 is a mirage of fun. My major complaint with the series for now is the weapons.
1. Weapons break frequently.
2. A heavy emphasis about this game is the ability to craft weapons.
Now, one might say " what's the point of weapon fetching if it's just going to break in a minute"
And to that i say: I'm glad i sold my copy of the game. I'm playing the game wrong. 95% of the time i'm running past zombies because killing them is just a chore. " I don't want to waste my health items and weapons just killing random zombies" So basically this game is worthless. I'm not sure what i want out of the game, maybe more rpg elements or more action elements. The psychos were okay for the most part and the story seemed tolerable if not completely thin the majority of the game and then piled on at the end. In conclusion: Dead Rising 2 fails as a game Xp
1. Weapons break frequently.
2. A heavy emphasis about this game is the ability to craft weapons.
Now, one might say " what's the point of weapon fetching if it's just going to break in a minute"
And to that i say: I'm glad i sold my copy of the game. I'm playing the game wrong. 95% of the time i'm running past zombies because killing them is just a chore. " I don't want to waste my health items and weapons just killing random zombies" So basically this game is worthless. I'm not sure what i want out of the game, maybe more rpg elements or more action elements. The psychos were okay for the most part and the story seemed tolerable if not completely thin the majority of the game and then piled on at the end. In conclusion: Dead Rising 2 fails as a game Xp
sillymonkey321 said:
If you have to fetch weapons, you're making a lot more work for yourself than you need to. There is always at least one combo available in every maintenence room. If you run out of weapon, just visit the next combo room. MMA gloves with nails is incredibly effective and you can make 2 plus wolverine claws + a defiler without going more than 15 feet outside the safe house. Combo weapons are plentiful if you are willing to work with what is on hand rather than what you want.
KibblesBits
Member
kyo_daikun said:
Did you have to do ranked mode for TK's favorite?
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