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[Bright-Light]

Kind of a dumb question - but should I be 100% clearing each zone so early in the game? I've cleared about 4 zones 100% and I still only have smoke as my power.

Do the additional powers come late in the game? Seems like I'm clearing a lot of areas before I get some other powers to mess around with inside those zones.

This is my first Infamous game - game is unbelievably fun. And I generally can't stand open world game like this...

Glad your enjoying it.
But yeah, sounds like you are playing it a little bit "wrong".
My advice would be, from where you are now, do the story missions until you get 2nd power, then have fun clearing a couple of zones, then go back to story until the 3rd then clear some more.

Smoke is my fave power for combat, but traversal is easier/quicker when you get the 2nd.

 

[Fornaximus]

Is it just me or that the

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concrete powers

are just not good enough and the lack of

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karmic bomb

makes them more useless.

It's very half-assed.

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No karma bomb, no execution animation, two buttons do the same move, etc. Would have been cool to end the final boss with a concrete karma bomb instead of just whittling her health down with basic pew pew pew's.

 

[mrklaw]

for hat trick i wiped out a regular bunch of DUP, waited until one surrendered, shot him once with smoke, once with neon, and finished him off with

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video

as long as you don't aim for the head he'll take the punishment without dying.

as for the DSSA, remember you don't have to actually use 2 seperate smoke stacks. you can simply bounce off the exit of the same smoke stack twice, or even use the same smoke stacks entry point. that's what i did. just bounced on a roof fan twice and comet dropped some regular DUP out of those trucks.

can you switch powers quickly at some point in the game? I thought you have to absorb something to switch?

also, damn me for quoting your spoiler and reading it in the quoted text. Oh well.

 

[Dr. Zoidberg]

Started the game last night. Playing good first. Got to the City and cleared a couple zones. I was a huge fan of the first two games and despite my dislike of Delsin's look from the first time I saw him I was excited for this. Initial Impressions:

- Game is gorgeous
- I feel the platforming controls for Cole were tighter in the first two games but they aren't bad here
- Wish I could use L1/R1 for Zoom/Fire. Guess I'm just used to this from previous games
- Delsin is as annoying as I had feared. It's no deal-killer but he seems to be either incredibly dumb or an asshole and I can see where people are saying the story would make more sense if you are playing evil
- Story and dialog seem pretty hamfisted so far. I don't like where they've taken the story and it's not where I'd expected/want it to go after Infamous 2 but that's just me
- Game makes my PS4's fans very loud after only a couple minutes of play. Barring spinning drive noise, the PS4 is easily the loudest console I've ever owned. I wish I had one of the quiet ones or Sony had designed the thing with better cooling.

 

[Topsu]

Anyone else having problems with 5.1 audio? Rear channels are muted. Very annoying with npc dialogue and helicopters for example. Any fixes?

 

[Sid]

Whoa, the city looks unbelievable at night in the rain. Next gen is here.

It really does.

 

[Carl]

Any tips on getting the Hat Trick and DSSA trophies?

Bit late but easiest way to do Hat Trick is just use smoke bombs then stasis then finish them off with another power. Smoke bombs and stasis do zero damage so no chance of killing them accidently.

DSSA is a little harder. I stopped a APC near a vent, shot up it, boosted back into the same vent i just came out of then got them. Still counts (You can also keep boosting into the same vent to get 45 seconds in the air, thats the way i id it)

 

[Unknown One]

Funny, I did hat trick without even noticing. I didn't even know about that trophy.

 

[SolidChamp]

The EU Infamous PS3 bundle does not include Cole's Legacy correct? How big of a deal is it to miss that content? I'd like to jump into the PS4 wagon but the bundle is the only one in stock over here and it's running out fast.

It is totally irrelevant and does nothing to forward the story and has hair-thin connections to the first two games.

You're not missing out on anything if you don't get it.

 

[codhand]

The framerate during the

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first half of the

final boss fight was amazing.

agree.

the framerate was good sometimes, sure 60 would be better, but im in that small niche crowd that enjoys the fact it's unlocked, i havent tried Killzone since the patch, maybe ill see if i prefer that to the unlocked framerate there

 

[Raptor]

Finished my Good Run on normal, that was an amazing ride IMO, great game, started immediatly the Expert Evil Run, but I got some questions.

For expert I only press "Options" and changed to expert on the options before making Delsin move, is that the only thing I have to do or I needed to change the Difficulty Setting earlier or something?

For the Papar Trail Side Mission, I have to do it all again on this run right?

 

[Napalm_Frank]

It is totally irrelevant and does nothing to forward the story and has hair-thin connections to the first two games.

You're not missing out on anything if you don't get it.

Concider it done. Happy new ps4 owner. Grabbed MGS5 demo to boot.

 

[Chabbles]

Kind of a dumb question - but should I be 100% clearing each zone so early in the game? I've cleared about 4 zones 100% and I still only have smoke as my power.

Do the additional powers come late in the game? Seems like I'm clearing a lot of areas before I get some other powers to mess around with inside those zones.

This is my first Infamous game - game is unbelievably fun. And I generally can't stand open world game like this...

You might want to leave some till end game as you can continue playing after finishing the story with everything maxed out, and just go nuts. You wont regret it.

 

[le.phat]

The final boss battle was frustrating for all the wrong reasons. Really weird design choice to transform that battle in a tutorial. Looked incredible though, but again, such a weird choice to confine that boss to a small surrounding.

 

[sneaky77]

So I just got to the part where you get the third power

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and you can't use the other two, I hope they come back

man that whole thing is such a deflating momentum killer on the game with all the fun I was having.

 

[StreetDisciple]

The final boss battle was frustrating for all the wrong reasons. Really weird design choice to transform that battle in a tutorial. Looked incredible though, but again, such a weird choice to confine that boss to a small surrounding.

The end boss was very easy imo. She did three moves over and over again. Once you memorize them, they are easy to dodge.

 

[I Wanna Be The Guy]

For expert I only press "Options" and changed to expert on the options before making Delsin move, is that the only thing I have to do or I needed to change the Difficulty Setting earlier or something?

I would also like to know this before I start my evil expert playthrough.

 

[SniperHunter]

I need to state this again

the game looks really awesome on Vita! ^_^

 

[I Wanna Be The Guy]

I need to state this again

the game looks really awesome on Vita! ^_^

More importantly it plays awesome on Vita. Perfect control scheme.

 

[MR ARCADE FOREVER]

I'm thorn between trading in this game towards credit or keeping it for the future dlcs... Gamestop is offering $40 in store credit until April 20th.. Do you guys think there will be good stuff on dlc enough to justify keeping the game???

 

[OldGangWarily]

Just finished my Evil playthrough.

The ending was O.O

 

[Jim]

Anyone else having problems with 5.1 audio? Rear channels are muted. Very annoying with npc dialogue and helicopters for example. Any fixes?

I found the mix perfect when I selected the Home Theater option in the audio menu. Surrounds were actually too loud at first, but that's because of how my speakers levels were set.

 

[calder]

Platinumed it yesterday. got almost everything done on the first playthrough, but I wasn't looking forward to the evil playthrough as I thought some of the boss fights on expert would be too aggravating.

Shouldn't have worried, cruised through on expert with actually less trouble than on normal. I only bothered getting shards when I basically stepped on them and still had enough upgrades - there's at least a half dozen minor skills I never used anyway like the 'jump up during a glide' stuff.


First PS4 platinum, which is apt since Infamous was my first PS3.

 

[Ken Masters]

Just wanted to say I was excited about Cole's Legacy side missions....

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it was shit, and just incredibly lazy. Disappointed in sucker punch for even advertising this trash bonus

 

[Neuromancer]

Just wanted to say I was excited about Cole's Legacy side missions....

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it was shit, and just incredibly lazy. Disappointed in sucker punch for even advertising this trash bonus

They were pretty blah, but at least you get a cool jacket out of it.

 

[Ken Masters]

Are there future DLC plans for this game?

 

[luxarific]

Just wanted to say I was excited about Cole's Legacy side missions....

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it was shit, and just incredibly lazy. Disappointed in sucker punch for even advertising this trash bonus

Yeah, I agree. I liked Cole in the first two games (1 more than 2) and this was pretty

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lackluster DLC. Best bit was when Zeke was like "Cole would be proud of you" and Delsin was like "uh, ok, thanks?". It's obvious he has no idea why he should even care about Cole and his history as outlined in the first two games.

The jacket was nice though (liked it better than Delsin's standard getup).

 

[Kuldar]

Are there future DLC plans for this game?

Yes, they talked about a big DLC in the same scope than Festival of Blood.

 

[perineumlick]

Without going into too much detail (not started it yet) what is the window for changing the difficulty for the trophy to count? In I2 I think it was anytime before the end of the fight against

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The Beast

.

I played up until Delsin contacts the first Conduit before I changed to Expert, and I still got the trophy. I thought I had fucked up too, because it didn't pop up at the credits, only when I continued post game lol.

 

[Cubed]

Even after getting the Platinum a week ago and earning 100% on both my Hero and inFamous playthroughs, I still find myself popping this sucker in just to explore the world and play with the powers/physics.

I just spent 30 minutes trying to stack cars with the "force-push-like" Neon move.

 

[Pop]

Even after getting the Platinum a week ago and earning 100% on both my Hero and inFamous playthroughs, I still find myself popping this sucker in just to explore the world and play with the powers/physics.

I just spent 30 minutes trying to stack cars with the "force-push-like" Neon move.

I've been playing an hour at a time here and there after getting my platinum.

 

[Raptor]

I played up until Delsin contacts the first Conduit before I changed to Expert, and I still got the trophy. I thought I had fucked up too, because it didn't pop up at the credits, only when I continued post game lol.

Nice, I did changed it before moving Delsin just to be sure.

 

[Giggzy]

My apologies if this is a stupid question... How do you change the difficulty?

I just started the game (I just entered Seattle after crossing the bridge), but I don't remember it ever asking me what difficulty I wanted to play on.

 

[Deleted member 752119]

I started this up over the weekend, have the first 3 districts 100%, going the hero route I'm loving it so far, though wish there was more variety in side missions ala Infamous 2.

Best looking game I've every played, being a console only gamer.

Remote play on the Vita is decent as well, though the frame rate is a bit off putting.

 

[Pai Pai Master]

My apologies if this is a stupid question... How do you change the difficulty?

I just started the game (I just entered Seattle after crossing the bridge), but I don't remember it ever asking me what difficulty I wanted to play on.

Open the map and hit Triangle for the options/save menu.

 

[-Pyromaniac-]

My apologies if this is a stupid question... How do you change the difficulty?

I just started the game (I just entered Seattle after crossing the bridge), but I don't remember it ever asking me what difficulty I wanted to play on.

press start (errr, options) then press triangle. It's right below save game and all that.

 

[-Amon-]

My apologies if this is a stupid question... How do you change the difficulty?

I just started the game (I just entered Seattle after crossing the bridge), but I don't remember it ever asking me what difficulty I wanted to play on.

In the options menu, just under the save / load game prompt if i remember well.

 

[T.O.P]

Lucky for me i didn't play as a bad guy the first time around, i'm hating everyone lol

Except for big bro obv

 

[Allonym]

Delsin also has unlimited potential. The core relays and shards has the same effect as power stations and blast cores for Cole.

Both Cole and Delsin bypass the training periods with those. I'll say Delsin has even more potential because he's not limited to one skillset. The reason his powers are not the same is because he adds his own style on the powers. It was said in one of the video demonstration before the game launch. I think it's the one where there was a guy properly playing.

Can't say that I agree with you considering that Cole would eventually develop the same skillset as Kessler, if not moreso. So he'd be endowed with super human speed, time travel, the ability to create energy constructs, the ability to invade other's minds, etc. I really don't think Delsin would approach Cole in terms of overall power. Delsin is reminiscent of Rouge or Hope Summers and Cole is...hmm I'm having trouble determining a proper superhero comparison because his powers seem to evolve and transcend the base of electricity, so he's hard to categorize

 

[EXIE]

Anyone finding the puzzles in the Paper Trail really hard? I think I must have resorted to a walkthrough about 5 times so far. They really should have included hints for people who are stuck, half the time I have no idea what I'm supposed to be looking for and where to look. That one bit in episode 2 when

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you use the numbers in place of words on Kriley's website to put into the intranet

, seriously WTF?

 

[Giggzy]

press start (errr, options) then press triangle. It's right below save game and all that.

Awesome, thank you (and the other two, kind posters).

Off topic question for you Pyro, have you been playing RoS? Haven't seen you post in the OT

 

[bananafactory]

Anyone finding the puzzles in the Paper Trail really hard? I think I must have resorted to a walkthrough about 5 times so far. They really should have included hints for people who are stuck, half the time I have no idea what I'm supposed to be looking for and where to look. That one bit in episode 2 when

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you use the numbers in place of words on Kriley's website to put into the intranet

, seriously WTF?

I don't mean to be a jerk, but I managed to figure them all out. Granted, some of them took a lot of time and thought, but the challenge has made solving everything extremely rewarding.

 

[Miles Quaritch]

Yea it seems to happen when neon dashing in the direction of the sun. It can get annoying.

Really bloody annoying, but the really strange thing is that I didn't encounter it until after finishing the main story....

Still, it hasn't interfered with my love of neon running through the entire city....just a shame some of the bridges are out.

 

[ProfessorMoran]

Need more papertrail. When is part 3 coming up?

 

[EXIE]

I don't mean to be a jerk, but I managed to figure them all out. Granted, some of them took a lot of time and thought, but the challenge has made solving everything extremely rewarding.

No offense taken. I just never seem to be able to solve these kinds of puzzles without a nudge in the right direction.

 

[FHIZ]

So I'm doing papertrail part 2 and just had to look up how to unlock the phone... what am I missing that would tell me how to do this without looking up a walkthrough on the internet? Having to do so is really taking me out of it.

The mechanic I specifically had to look up was

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adding 3 to each number to get the right code

 

[EXIE]

So I'm doing papertrail part 2 and just had to look up how to unlock the phone... what am I missing that would tell me how to do this without looking up a walkthrough on the internet? Having to do so is really taking me out of it.

The mechanic I specifically had to look up was

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adding 3 to each number to get the right code

On the

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Heaven's Hellfire poster the hint is “Good things come in threes”

. I would never have worked that out on my own.

 

[The_Hitcher89]

I played up until Delsin contacts the first Conduit before I changed to Expert, and I still got the trophy. I thought I had fucked up too, because it didn't pop up at the credits, only when I continued post game lol.

Cheers

Dunno why it doesn;t just give you the difficulty options when you select New Game

 

[Goreomedy]

Need more papertrail. When is part 3 coming up?

Fridays.

Around 7:00pm Eastern, if last week is typical.

 

[Cthulhu_Steev]

There was a daycare playground with cartoon racoons and Sly w/friends drawn on the wall. I need to find it again and take a picture.

Yeap, I snapped that one! I'll put it in spoiler tags in case people would prefer to find themselves

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God dammit, spoiler tags don't work around an image?