Reon
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Anybody here play Silent Hill 3 recently? It's positively infuriating me. I'm enjoying the characters, the story and the atmosphere but this combat is driving me up the wall. I'm not new to the Silent Hill franchise, I've beaten 1, 2, 0 and Downpour and haven't had problems with the controls in the older ones before this.
Maybe this is a stupid thread but I love Silent Hill and I'm at wit's end with this, I really hope I'm just missing something. For some reason I just can't get Heather to aim downwards at half-sized enemies, like dogs or slurpers. When I hold R2 she aims directly at them, but then proceeds to shoot or knife over their head instead. For some reason I've been able to get it working maybe 20% of the time with the shotgun or the handgun if I re-aim over and over, but never with the SMG. I don't remember having to manually aim up or down in Silent Hill 1 and 2, but checking the controls guide for 3 it doesn't say anything about that. I really want to finish this game but I can't keep running past these enemies and wasting healing items trying to shrug off the damage. I guess as a benefit I've gotten good at juking everything except the slurpers.
Here's a video I took demonstrating what I mean. You can see Heather aim at and track the enemies but still blasts right over their heads.
Halp?
EDIT: I don't know if it helps at all but I'm playing emulated on PCXS2. I do have the original game and the ROM I'm playing is one I've dumped myself off of the disc.
Maybe this is a stupid thread but I love Silent Hill and I'm at wit's end with this, I really hope I'm just missing something. For some reason I just can't get Heather to aim downwards at half-sized enemies, like dogs or slurpers. When I hold R2 she aims directly at them, but then proceeds to shoot or knife over their head instead. For some reason I've been able to get it working maybe 20% of the time with the shotgun or the handgun if I re-aim over and over, but never with the SMG. I don't remember having to manually aim up or down in Silent Hill 1 and 2, but checking the controls guide for 3 it doesn't say anything about that. I really want to finish this game but I can't keep running past these enemies and wasting healing items trying to shrug off the damage. I guess as a benefit I've gotten good at juking everything except the slurpers.
Here's a video I took demonstrating what I mean. You can see Heather aim at and track the enemies but still blasts right over their heads.
Halp?
EDIT: I don't know if it helps at all but I'm playing emulated on PCXS2. I do have the original game and the ROM I'm playing is one I've dumped myself off of the disc.
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