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They're one time. Don't worry too much about where you use them though
Bloodporne
Member
I did Madhouse without using unlocks, but beat Normal first so I had a basic familiarity of what was to come.
Tips
- Basic handgun ammo is practically worthless, either use enhanced or avoid enemies altogether.
-There are autosaves, just much fewer than Normal and not paced the way you'd expect. Look for the spinning icon on the top-left corner of the screen.
-You get 1-3 cassette tapes per save room, and there are single tapes to be found via exploration. Rolling save files is recommended so that if you happen to royally fuck up, you can go back to a slightly earlier one.
-The Mutated Jack fight is a serious ammo check. Conserve heavy artillery (i.e. shells) as much as possible. Health items aren't as big of a deal because of guarding.
- Save your neuro rounds. You'll know when to use them.
-There are autosaves, just much fewer than Normal and not paced the way you'd expect. Look for the spinning icon on the top-left corner of the screen.
-You get 1-3 cassette tapes per save room, and there are single tapes to be found via exploration. Rolling save files is recommended so that if you happen to royally fuck up, you can go back to a slightly earlier one.
-The Mutated Jack fight is a serious ammo check. Conserve heavy artillery (i.e. shells) as much as possible. Health items aren't as big of a deal because of guarding.
- Save your neuro rounds. You'll know when to use them.
I read that for every locked box there is lock pick. You just need to find them.
Bloodporne
Member
Is there a way to keep the chainsaw by the way?
I want to fuck up The Molded with that thing especially because they can be dismembered.
I want to fuck up The Molded with that thing especially because they can be dismembered.
Less action and more survival horror based on the demo and the intro chapter of the game. I always expected combat but not combat as annoying as I'm finding the latter half of this game. =/
ISee
Member
Both combined will make you immune to damage while blocking. In general they only work while blocking, no idea about the dmg mitigation with only one though, probably 50%.
Don't think think is true. I still took (notable) damage while guarding, but I wasn't using any of the post-game unlocks to stack. Are you confusing them with the essence/secret of defense items?
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Not that chainsaw, but
there's another unlockable circular saw that you get for beating the game in under 4hrs, that thing on easy/normal basically fucks up normal molded in a second.
^ minor unlockable spoiler.
Inuteu
Member
Offshore Breeze
Member
This pretty much sums up exactly how I feel as well.
The enemy variety is my biggest complaint hands down. It's a real shame too because the boss fights were all unique and pretty excellent but man was I tired of the Molded after about the first few encounters. I wasn't even halfway through the game before I was telling myself "this is all I'm gonna fight the entire game isn't it?" They really lose their eerie factor fast when it's the only damn thing you ever fight.
All in all though, excellent game and I loved it. It was a very pleasant surprise as I enjoyed the demo but wasn't extremely intrigued. Looking forward to trying out Madhouse as my wife actually booted the game up and started it on easy.. so I just went along. Way too easy, lol. Finished in about 10 hours and for the 2nd half of the game I was pretty much swimming in ammo and dozens of health items.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Slight correction there, its not the coins. If you have the art and essence of defense items (unlockables from beating the game) together in your inventory, THAT completely negates damage when blocking, even on madhouse
yes it is but the molded can sometimes hit you hart. 2 hits and you are dead. Boss fights are easy peasy with it
chainsaw Jack, spider Mag and final form jack are a joke with it on all difficulties
Those are the scrolls. The coins are different.
Bloodporne
Member
That sounds really cool actually. I'll get the game at a later point again and run through some of this stuff surely.
So I only ever got the
3 coin & 5 coin upgrades (health and reload boosts?) in the courtyard trailer. Are these the only upgrades, outside of the 9 coin Magnum, available on Normal or did I miss some?
One my favorite moments would be
getting my ass handed to me by Lucas several times only to utter destroy him the fourth or so time. I saved all my grenade launcher shots for his last phase and blasted three right in his face, incredibly satisfying.
I think the lack of variety is the biggest issue. There is only handful of puzzles and 3 of them are shadow puzzles.
Well atleast the story DLC is free.
Banned Footages aren't story related right?
Jawmuncher
Member
I definitely agree with that. Harder difficulty no, more variety in puzzles definitely.
As you said there was way too many shadow puzzles. There's actually 5 if you count doing the same one twice and the optional one.
The assault coin is definitely worth it. Without it I kept dying to Jack in the
chainsaw duel. I would get him to take a knee twice to be able to l2 r2 him in the back but then he would get up and I wouldn't be able to finish him off. with the coin he died while i was sawing him the second time
I would like them to be harder too but I think RE should just have puzzle difficulty toggle like Silent Hill. It is such a good thing to have and I don't get why RE never copied it.
edit.
Wait. What is this assault coin people are talking about? I only have defensive coin afaik.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
That is correct, Madhouse has more upgrades and more coins to compensate. But easy/normal have just those 3 cages.
Resident_UA
Member
Finally got a chance to play this. I think this is the best Resident Evil game since RE4. It isn't even close for me. This is exactly why I enjoy these games. I hope they stick to this formula!
or get the item for beating the game in under 4hrs
I think I may need to just swallow my pride and do this. Madhouse is proving to be more frustrating than I expected
Risible
Member
I'm no prude and I curse like a sailor, but
Marguerite's
Bloodporne
Member
Someone needs to steal that family's copy of Devil's Rejects on no doubt VHS in general, they're clearly taking their fanboyism a little far.
It's pretty damn hard but I managed to beat it last night with just the
Albert
secret of defense.
Why do some people think that boss fight is
Lucas
Jack
Jawmuncher
Member
I do think people who post on neogaf aren't representing a lot of the people who are playing the game. For example my friend is more towards the casual crowd and he's having a lot of trouble on the games puzzles and figuring out where to go. Though he's slowly getting it.
So I can't even imagine how some other people are handling this.
So I can't even imagine how some other people are handling this.
Bloodporne
Member
I don't know, came off that way to me seeing how I dealt with
Lucas
Jack
It would've honestly not bothered me if it turned out that it was indeed a gigantic, living pile of human feces seeing how they flushed the entire plot down the toilet right after anyway.
To those saying this game isn't that scary lol are you playing in VR?
This is one of my favorite gaming experiences ever and part of it is capcom nailing a return to form in a sense, coupled with their fantastic implementation of VR
Love the house designs love the gameplay so far , Jack scares me so many times lol
This is one of my favorite gaming experiences ever and part of it is capcom nailing a return to form in a sense, coupled with their fantastic implementation of VR
Love the house designs love the gameplay so far , Jack scares me so many times lol
Report back on how scary you're finding the game in a couple of hours. It could very well change, because it did for me.
Thanks again for that. I cheesed right through it that way, lol. Now I am on
spider Marguerite.
Well I don't have VR but THAT area in the Old House is fucking scary. I think the
ship
Fucking finally managed to beat the first fight on Madhouse difficulty. Took me over twenty tries, not even exaggerating. Now I'm having quite a lot of fun again because I realized (spoiler about the Madhouse difficulty itself)
. This mode really is no joke!
that the item and enemy placements are not the same as they are on normal difficulty
Polioliolio
Member
I feel you. The first part of the game was the best. Then it's nothing but generic goopy monsters till the end.
Almost every other RE game has multiples more monster variety than this one.. The Moulded get old, fast.
While I didn't hate the game at all personally, I've begun to realize more on subsequent playthroughs that the game is pretty front loaded with all of the more unique encounters and scenarios in the first couple of sections.
I'm starting to think that one of the reasons the marketing was so secretive was that there wasn't really much to show in the first place. The game is pretty short and even quicker once you know what to do, and the Baker estate is smaller than the Spencer mansion. Also (some mild spoilers here) of the 8 hours it took me to do my first playthrough
the Bakers were only stalking me for about 10 minutes of it, the rest was just molded, which got old very quick.
SuperEpicMan
Banned
I suspect I might have just locked myself out of a puzzle :/
I am at the section where I just found the pieces to assemble the burner, but right after assembling it I realised I needed one of the parts for the spider silhouette puzzle. Is there a way to disassemble the burner?
It's a completely separate item. I suggest you keep burning stuff.
I Wanna Be The Guy
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
Just finished it. Last few hours were easily the worst part of the game. I found myself really wanting the game to end. Great game but it's a shame about what happens to the game after you beat
. That felt like the real final boss. I mean the game had already started to go downhill before that, but after that is when it really gets to can this just end already territory. Was the actual final boss even actually a boss? Because that felt scripted as fuck.
mutated Jack
Bloodporne
Member
SuperEpicMan
Banned
The final boss killed me a few times on Madhouse. You have to deal enough damage to it to get to each scripted part. I disagree with all the complaints about how action-packed it is near the end. It's really not. I thought the
ship
Mia flashback
BareKnuckle
Member
Here is a link with details about all the DLC included in pack one and a video:
https://lastlifeclub.com/2017/01/30/resident-evil-7-dlc-pack-volume-one-details/
It is a site I work for, just don't click it if you're a hater but I can't find this info elsewhere.
https://lastlifeclub.com/2017/01/30/resident-evil-7-dlc-pack-volume-one-details/
It is a site I work for, just don't click it if you're a hater but I can't find this info elsewhere.
I Wanna Be The Guy
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
Running past everyone is exactly what I did since I assumed I'd need my ammo for the final boss. Lol.
Yeah the last boss is really disappointing. I was fucking ready to unload on whatever abomination the game had in store for me with all this crazy amount of ammo. Then it never happened.
Like always with this series I hoarded like crazy throughout the playthrough and used as little ammo/items as possible, had a ton of stuff in storage by the end.
The same thing happened when I played REmake last year, hoarded like heck and ended up with an entire armory towards the end. A lot of it unused.
Will definitely be a lot more liberal with ammo/item use when I do another playthrough of 7.
Bloodporne
Member
This always ends up happening to me as well. I get so OCD with my item use, I'll reload the last save if I miss a few headshots or something along those lines. It was painful to have to use pistol bullets to hit the
potential exploading crates in Lucas' maze.
I read some talk of a
double barreled shotgun somewhere in here I thought, is that true? If yes, give me now.