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Dead Space 3 |OT| Can I Play With Madness?
- Thread starter NotTheGuyYouKill
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MagicWithEarvin
Member
Streaming the game in 1080 via Origin - up to Chapter 10 and playing on Impossible if you guys wanna watch:
http://www.twitch.tv/ecunanan
Bah, keeps crashing on me. I'll try again later.
http://www.twitch.tv/ecunanan
Bah, keeps crashing on me. I'll try again later.
Played up to chapter four last night. I'll reserve judgement, but I will say this game is far removed from what made the series unique.
Can someone give me a quick rundown of the new weapons system? I'm lost. I can only hold two weapons now? Ideally, I'd like to craft some type of contact beam and ripper hybrid for ranged, and close engagements. I take it I have to find parts now, not weapons blueprints?
Can someone give me a quick rundown of the new weapons system? I'm lost. I can only hold two weapons now? Ideally, I'd like to craft some type of contact beam and ripper hybrid for ranged, and close engagements. I take it I have to find parts now, not weapons blueprints?
Cpt.Underpants
Member
When fighting the giant spider necromorph, do you guys rapidly press "F" button like a madman, after harpooning the bastard?
You have two weapons, each with two tool slots, so potentially four different weapons at the expense of secondary fire. You can find parts AND blueprints, but without parts you can't make anything (Blueprints allow for instant weapon creation from preexisting parts)
So what's the deal with sending your scavenger bot to "Resource Areas"? What exactly are they? I've been sending it out to gather loot whenever I come to a Bench or I start hearing this ringing sound. For that trophy you need to find 15 of them and so far I've got zilch. Is this something that doesnt happen til Tau Volantis?
MiniBossBattle
Member
Is it me or is everything muddy in this game? the enemies look monochromatic and the wonderful realtime shadows are few and far between.
Uhm...what? I feel like your knee deep into the most Dead Space like settings/gameplay since Dead Space 1.
To each their own I guess.
Depends on what you mean. If it's textures, then nothing can be done. The bloom setting gives the game a muddy look in my opinion and that can be turned off (but you lose light rays...).
Seriously, I'm on Chapter 6 and from Chapter 2 until now it has been very much like the original Dead Space with occasional big sprinkles (action set pieces etc) of Dead Space 2.
It's really a great merger of the two.
You want to send it out in certain locations. Use the radar function, it'll show you where to go. When you reach the spot, the radar turns into a couple pulsing concentric circles. I found a couple on the ships before I reached the planet's surface, and there are a bunch of spots out in space.
Then it takes a while and you'll get a notification that it has returned to a bench and you can get the resources and pick the bot up again.
If that's the mission I am thinking of,
getting to the Conning tower, with that Edwards guy constantly locking you in rooms and tons of enemies spawning in
There's like
3-4 in the same room, at the same time
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
The weapons crafting is sublime. Right now I'm rocking the Bolas Gun with Incendiary Charges, and I FEEL LIKE A FUCKING BEAST.
I'm really digging all the backstory content on Tau Volantis. Some fucked up shit went down there. I just reached the giant drill from the demo, and I'm thinking about trading my Bolas in for a Force gun to deal with the upcoming assholes. What difference does the Hammond's Frame make?
I'm really digging all the backstory content on Tau Volantis. Some fucked up shit went down there. I just reached the giant drill from the demo, and I'm thinking about trading my Bolas in for a Force gun to deal with the upcoming assholes. What difference does the Hammond's Frame make?
nhlducks35
Member
More ammo for your gun, but you only get 3 upper frame slots, instead of 4 up and 4 below.
indigodomino
Member
for those who pre-ordered from amazon, did you guys get your $20 credit already?? I have yet to get mine but I wondered if I should give it a few more days or contact amazon
Though the disclaimer said it may take a few days, I received my $20 credit and pre-order DLC at release.
I was sent it yesterday.
You can pay 20 tungsten to unlock the fourth upper slot.
Also it seems my ration seal issue has persisted for a entire day and two of my friends, one in Texas and the other in Canada are both experiencing the same issue. Annoying.
I got my Tesla gun code 3-4 days before release, and my $20 credit on release day. If you've received your game and been charged for it, I would contact them, as I almost always get my credit the same day I receive the game.
indigodomino
Member
I got the DLC code as soon as soon as it shipped but not the credit, guess I'll give it today and call tomorrow if I dont have the credit by then
MagicWithEarvin
Member
Good stuff, DS3 art team:
lol what? By who?
Then don't be in the thread.
MagicWithEarvin
Member
My bad if my shots are considered spoilerish - it's up to chapter 10.
Also, there was a
section that was pretty fun on Impossible in this chapter....
Also, there was a
drill
Proceeding with Chapter 6 after clearing out that side mission of the country western guy's last stand. Current objective is to attach a remote relay to a shuttle, but Jesus there seems to be an unending swarm of necromorphs in here. I'm situated so there's only one vent they can get to me from, but I feel like I've been picking off exploding pus bag necromorphs forever as the come out one at a time. Every time I think the room is clear, another one comes out. Easy one shot kills though.
Sod off with that noise. Obviously I don't give a shit now, but it would've been nice to have been somewhat surprised. Ah well.
bitoriginal
Member
I've only played for about 4 hours but so far I'm finding this just a little disappointing.
So far it feels like they've sacrificed all tension and suspense with just throwing loads of enemies at you, and I'm finding it really detrimental to my enjoyment of the game.
So far it feels like they've sacrificed all tension and suspense with just throwing loads of enemies at you, and I'm finding it really detrimental to my enjoyment of the game.
It's stuff found in pretty much every bit of media associated with the game. If that's a spoiler then every single thing in this thread needs to be in bars. Hell no images should be anywhere in the thread. Utterly ridiculous. If you want to go in a complete blackout then you shouldn't be in this thread in the first place.
vas_a_morir
Banned
I felt that way about 2. I felt like I got desensitized to necromorphs way too fast. The only real tension in the second one was when you first reboarded the Ishimura. Otherwise, every room and every action you did sent a wave of guys at you.
Dude. Chill.
Freezasaurus
Member
So I just got "The Art of Dead Space" in my mailbox today, and it's even nicer than I was expecting. And Titan Books usually puts out solid artbooks to begin with, but the quality here is exceptional.
Krappadizzle
Member
Just no.
Some people like to discuss aspects or mechanics of this game without being spoiled. Don't be a dick. Why not make a spoiler thread and live their?
bitoriginal
Member
I agree with you, but even in DS2 there was a kinda slow burn before you got to really infested rooms. Early on in DS3 there seems to far more Necromorphs than I would expect. It just doesnt lend itself well to the control scheme. I'm okay with sluggish controls in a horror game but when you get too many enemies thrown at you it just highlights the control schemes inadequacies.
It's stuff found in media released by Visceral themselves, the spoiler argument doesn't work that way. By that same argument the mechanics could be classified as spoilers too. There are definitely games where that can easily be the case. So basic pictures of Tau Volantis are not 'spoilers' by any reasonable stretch of the imagination. Basic stuff found everywhere such as screenshots or in the demo thread.
Now as for just going to the spoiler thread, that's more talking about the game as a whole, more specifically endgame as spoilers are unmarked.
Heh, I saw someone whine about spoiling mechanics earlier in this thread. Given that the ice planet has been in pretty much all of the promotional material is is kinda fair game to post random shots from it imo.
badcrumble
Member
God, the intro chapter to this game is shitty. And not representative of the rest of the game, either. Feels like a tick-the-box item to appeal to the knuckle-dragging bro crowd.
I'm playing through DS2 right now and set pieces are fairly common, some of them even repeat themselves. The one where a leaper scuttles outside a window as you approach the work bench in front of it. Though that's probably a glitch.
Anyway, I'm midway through the Ishimura on my DS2 hardcore run and I only have one save left. I should have spread these out better, but I did not want to leave my console on. :/
It does do a bad job setting up the rest of the game I agree. Luckily squaring off against human opponents was a pre-release qualm of mine that got squashed. After finishing the game I'd say the rough split was 95-5% nonhuman-human enemies, which made me glad.
MagicWithEarvin
Member
Aw crap, I got hit with the infinite ammo glitch -___-