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The Official RESIDENT EVIL 5 Thread of LOOK OUT: SPOILER TAGS CONTAIN ACTUAL SPOILERS
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Houston3000
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I played through almost the entire game so far (on 6-2) on the PS3 and haven't had the slightest hint of framerate issues. If I had never heard there were framerate issues I would of never even thought to look for them, and now, even after hearing there's suppose to be some I can't notice them for the life of me. Granted, I haven't played split screen or mercenaries yet, but no matter if I'm playing solo or online co-op the fps stay completely solid.
On the other hand the loading is amazingly fast, me and my friend were joking about it the other day. They pop up with the little back story tidbit during the loading screen and, if the text is any longer than 1 1/2 lines (which they almost all are) it's completely unreadable because it loads the game too quickly. You have to actually open the back story files from the main menu if you want to have a chance at reading them :lol .
On the other hand the loading is amazingly fast, me and my friend were joking about it the other day. They pop up with the little back story tidbit during the loading screen and, if the text is any longer than 1 1/2 lines (which they almost all are) it's completely unreadable because it loads the game too quickly. You have to actually open the back story files from the main menu if you want to have a chance at reading them :lol .
Captain Pants
Killed by a goddamned Dredgeling
Chinner said:
That was really amazing. It was probably my favorite moment of the game so far.
Captain Pants
Killed by a goddamned Dredgeling
GuardianE said:I believe he's talking about the shotgun.
So badass that it requires a different aim stance.
:lol ... Whoops... well... I still stand by what I said, that water boss was phenomenal.
I suppose it is more of a Kraaken than a Hydra.
Baloonatic
Member
USD said:
Nah it's beat the game in under 5 hours. Getting all S ranks unlocks the final figurine.
Anticitizen One
Banned
Ice Monkey said:
In the old RE games, we always heard about spencer and how he would have people taken out and that he was a master manipulator but we never really knew what his true intention was. Now we know
he wanted to become immortal/all powerful
zombieshavebrains
I have not used cocaine
GuardianE said:
I had this at the very beginning of the game. The game just loads forever. I read every single one of the History of RE until it started looping. I installed the game and it hasn't happened since.
I'm wondering how many people have not realized that you can switch Sheva between passive and aggressive behavior?Arpharmd B said:
If you switch her to aggressive she goes on a murder spree using the larger weapons. On passive, however, she sticks to smaller arms and generally focuses more on defense.
You just hold B/circle and use the d-pad to switch.
Duck Amuck said:
Time your kills. If you have 5 dudes in front of you, don't just blast them away. Pick one off, move towards where you wanna go, be it next time/combo thing, or just a choke point, kill another.
Know where time is.
Always stay reloaded.
Keep combos going.
It's just as much as map memory and knowing your weapons as anything else.
Duck Amuck said:
Combos are the most important thing in attaining a high score, or rather, one very very long combo. Make sure to know the locations of all Time Extenders. If necessary, if you're running low on enemies (you're taking them out before more spawn), wait until your Combo starts blinking before making the next kill, allowing more enemies to spawn and approach you.
Try to kill the bosses of the level late in a combo (that nets the most points). Do this by staggering kills and hitting him with bullets.
Cancel reload animations with context sensitive attacks.
If you know where the chicken is on a given level, you can kill it for 2,000 points and a +1 to your combo.
Duck Amuck said:
Learn the map. It's crucial, you need to know where the Extra time bonus are, and the bonus point chests are. You also need to know where crucial chokes are.
Don't kill enemies until you can group em up, grab a bonus time chest and use a grenade or whatever to kill multiple ones. Then run around and kill as many as you can chain while you have the bonus time. Don't be afraid to let a chain go, but don't waste time and ammo puttin together small chains <10. For the big strong enemies, save your powerful guns, (magnum, grenades, whatever) Don't be afraid to use ammo to keep your streak alive, enemies drop plenty of ammunition.
AgentOtaku
Member
Never thought I would but I finally switched to Type-D controls for good. I would say Capcom should have mapped sprint to L2 ala Dead Space but then we would have had running AND sidestepping at the same time and that would effectively break the game.
Wish the Y-Axis look wasn't so off though
Wish the Y-Axis look wasn't so off though
Applesauce
Boom! Bitch-slapped!
Dartastic said:
You eventually grab wesker from behind and sheva stabs at the weak spot on his chest. I think you have to weaken him some, not sure how much though. But that's how we did it. I can't remember if we hit the weak spot on his back or chest first before grabbing him.
Dartastic said:
Run away across a bridge that is made out of loose rock. Once you cross it you will falll down. In the next area run to the high ground and Wesker will start shooting shit at Sheva. One of Wesker's glands will be exposed on the left side of his back, shoot it and go off the high ground to a large boulder. At the boulder, perform the super combo so Sheva can join you and then run back to the high ground. Next unload everything you have into his glands once they are exposed or use the rocket launcher if you have one. You can farm rocket launchers rather easily by redoing chapter 3-1. Note that this is what happens with coop so I don't know if its different doing it solo.
Dartastic said:
In the volcano? When the fight begins, run away until the bridge collapses. You'll see the game highlight a spot on his back which you must shoot. After a while, you should trigger a scene where you goes back up after Sheva who should run forward. You have to shoot him until she can climb back up a ledge after nearly falling. Then, he comes back to the middle area where you have to shoot him in the back. When he does the tornado thing, however, you must run up to him and use the context sensitive prompt (which I think restrains him) so that Sheva can attack.
I've only done this in CO-OP, however, so I'm not sure what the AI will do
I've only done this in CO-OP, however, so I'm not sure what the AI will do
Ice Monkey
Member
Captain N said:
i think the mistake a lot of people might make is just
pulling it incessantly
shoot the plug with a sniper rifle or such when your partner restrains her. THEN you start pulling it after someone throws her on the ground and you get a prompt to start pulling it.
Ice Monkey
Member
Big-E said:
replying before reading further posts, but even though I think I would have preferred it if he stayed
neo-like before dying, I don't think wesker turned into as much of a vagina monster as everyone else, he stayed relatively similar but now had uroboros armor on because he grabbed a huge chunk of uroboros armor from the rocket. Uroboros looked like that throughout the entire game, so you cant expect him not to kinda resemble the rest of what uroboros looked like, can you? I actually thought he looked very tyrant-like in his last form, heart beating on the outside and huge right arm and such.
brandonh83
Banned
I'm still alive. I haven't posted in the thread since my bitchfest about having to wait until Friday to get it because of the SPRING BREAK ICE STORM. When I did get home with the game the stupid college internet service was down and I'm just now able to get online. Anyway.
I've beaten the game and as a huge Resident Evil fan I was far more satisfied with this than I was RE4. And while there are things I didn't like about RE4, that's still a major compliment because I generally loved RE4. For me, personally, the story was... I don't even know how to explain how much better I thought the story was and certain parts of the plot
was an absolute joy as a long time fan.
Gameplay wise I'd rank it about alongside RE4, not really any better or worse. Though I gotta say, this RE had the best boss battles in the series by far. Music was great, story was great (hey, fanboy-wise anyway), atmosphere and graphics were incredible, and Sheva didn't get on my nerves, except for her constant choice to arm herself with the pistol instead of better firearms in her arsenal when we were trying to take down some of the... nastier nasties.
Anyway, I was very satisfied with the game and I can't wait to play more of it when I get free time.
I've beaten the game and as a huge Resident Evil fan I was far more satisfied with this than I was RE4. And while there are things I didn't like about RE4, that's still a major compliment because I generally loved RE4. For me, personally, the story was... I don't even know how to explain how much better I thought the story was and certain parts of the plot
discovering the very first ever Umbrella lab, as well as where the virus originated, and the battles with Wesker and his death
Gameplay wise I'd rank it about alongside RE4, not really any better or worse. Though I gotta say, this RE had the best boss battles in the series by far. Music was great, story was great (hey, fanboy-wise anyway), atmosphere and graphics were incredible, and Sheva didn't get on my nerves, except for her constant choice to arm herself with the pistol instead of better firearms in her arsenal when we were trying to take down some of the... nastier nasties.
Anyway, I was very satisfied with the game and I can't wait to play more of it when I get free time.
Ice Monkey
Member
Jax said:
I've seen the mercs lag you talk about, pretty sure its a bad connection problem between you and the person you're playing with. It only seems to happen when i play with someone in japan or spain, like where you press square to bust a time bonus or double press square to quickly bust through a door and it takes 2 seconds longer than it should.
ALSO wow I don't understand all this PS3 version complaints, I've played through the entire game on both 360 and PS3, even through unlocking all the characters on mercs, and the only damned difference I noticed was ONE trip through the mines on PS3 where the framerate dipped, and that was apparently due to connection lag also or it was just a fluke because my second time through it the framerate didnt dip whatsoever.
Ice Monkey
Member
Chinner said:
My problem with the hydra is that with
STARS Wesker in the mercenaries
darkjedi187
Member
jmdajr said:
Me too!! Cannot wait to get the hydra.
beelzebozo
Jealous Bastard
finished chapter 1-1.
this game is ACE.
oddly i'm having none of the control issues i had with the demo, which i don't understand at all. must've been some minor tweaking? maybe i'll double back and check out the demo again just to try and suss what's been done. still wish the f.o.v. were back a bit farther occasionally.
this game is ACE.
oddly i'm having none of the control issues i had with the demo, which i don't understand at all. must've been some minor tweaking? maybe i'll double back and check out the demo again just to try and suss what's been done. still wish the f.o.v. were back a bit farther occasionally.
Ice Monkey
Member
Duck Amuck said:
I seem to be amazing at surviving in mercs and routinely get the people i play with to an A rank on all the levels on both ps3 and 360, but I can never manage to get an S rank for the life of me, and do TERRIBLY score-wise on solo apparently except i never die.
I did notice that you can rack up a pretty solid bonus by using someone with a machinegun, not killing anything and having everyone follow you, then grab a combo time box and do a quick 180, and unload all your ammo into the mob. Then just camp the rest of the time like the huge ladder in the mines, the top of the house or the river in public assembly, the square house upper level in the village (RE4 village remake), the catwalk in the missile area, the 2-foot high raised platforms or the jumpy-area-monsters-cant-attack-only-jump-at-me in the experiment facility, the jumpy...etc...jump-at-me boxes on the ship or the house with the jumpy...etc...jump-at-me in the prison.
dskillzhtown
keep your strippers out of my American football
beelzebozo said:
I don't know what it is but I had all kinds of trouble with the controls when the demo came out, but I played it again over the weekend and it was smooth as butter. So now I am going to pick up the game.
Baloonatic
Member
The online really is amazing. One of the smoothest online experiences I've had.
Future PhaZe
Member
GuardianE said:
Its something quite a few people have complained about. Game goes into loading screen and just sits there. Never was that big of a deal to me and only happened once earlier, but it hit me a second time at the worst possible moment...
The good thing is that 5-3 boss isn't that bad at all once you know what to do :lol.
Houston3000
Member
I haven't tried it on the guys you're talking about but even on Veteran, the Stun Rod kills the Parasite head monsters in one blow.DunpealD said:
AgentOtaku
Member
What's so great about the Stunrod? ...I haven't decided to buy it yet but clearly the kids here love it!
So what's the scoop?
So what's the scoop?
Ice Monkey
Member
Captain N said:
Probably can't, havent gotten that trophy yet at least and was wondering why, but if you have the trophy i guess, its much faster when you shoot the plug.
Dartastic said:
I can beat the entire last level of the game VERY quickly, here's what you do, especially if you'll be trying to get an S rank at some point.
1. run straight to the first lever and grab. wait for door to open.
2. run straight to the second levers and grab, deletes enemies, spawns reapers.
3. run up to the upper catwalk, reapers will follow. lay down 6-7 proximity mines in groups of two on top of one another, and groups far enough from each other that they dont explode each other, kills or almost kills the reapers, nets 10k gold
4. run straight down to waterway on left lever side, wait for gate to open.
5. run straight to minigun, decimate JJs, grab keycards, go to wesker.
6. grab rocket launcher, turn off lights, wait till he cant see you, shoot him, shoot rocket, QTE, run away, rinse, repeat, QTE, stab him with syringe.
7. QTE, QTE, QTE, QTE on plane
8. get to volcano, shoot huge crumble-able rock, run past crumbly bridge.
9. chris can go get an expensive treasure, dont shoot wesker until sheva gets across second crumbly bridge and gets arthritis
10. shoot wesker in the back to get him to jump to crumbly bridge, shoot second huge crumble-able rock if you need extra time
11. QTE smash huge rock as chris.
12. run straight to peninsula, checkpoint
13. shoot wesker once in the back orange spot when his arm goes up, he does tornado.
14. after tornado, shoot him once in the chest, then CHRIS ONLY runs up to him and gets arthritis, sheva comes up and arthritis-stabs him.
2. run straight to the second levers and grab, deletes enemies, spawns reapers.
3. run up to the upper catwalk, reapers will follow. lay down 6-7 proximity mines in groups of two on top of one another, and groups far enough from each other that they dont explode each other, kills or almost kills the reapers, nets 10k gold
4. run straight down to waterway on left lever side, wait for gate to open.
5. run straight to minigun, decimate JJs, grab keycards, go to wesker.
6. grab rocket launcher, turn off lights, wait till he cant see you, shoot him, shoot rocket, QTE, run away, rinse, repeat, QTE, stab him with syringe.
7. QTE, QTE, QTE, QTE on plane
8. get to volcano, shoot huge crumble-able rock, run past crumbly bridge.
9. chris can go get an expensive treasure, dont shoot wesker until sheva gets across second crumbly bridge and gets arthritis
10. shoot wesker in the back to get him to jump to crumbly bridge, shoot second huge crumble-able rock if you need extra time
11. QTE smash huge rock as chris.
12. run straight to peninsula, checkpoint
13. shoot wesker once in the back orange spot when his arm goes up, he does tornado.
14. after tornado, shoot him once in the chest, then CHRIS ONLY runs up to him and gets arthritis, sheva comes up and arthritis-stabs him.
Note, entire last level can be beaten with a fully upgraded ithaca with very few ammo for chris, 7 proximity mines, and a sniper rifle for sheva when they get separated at the
volcano
Houston3000 said:
Sounds like the Stun Rod is really strong.
AgentOtaku said:
It's your "alternative" knife, but still takes one slot away. I've only played amateur so I can't say how useful it is on the other difficulties, but it's extremely useful even against the normal zombies as well as the fat ones. The only disadvantage is the lack of range and you have to be careful to adjust your tactics to the close range fights.
AgentOtaku said:
It has longer range than the knife (or comparable range with Chris, I suppose), kills most enemies in only a few hits, has a chance of readying them for a context sensitive attack, and looks hilarious.
Against Big Man Majini, it just tears them apart because each hit stuns.
The reason it kills parasites in one hit is because it acts like a flash grenade in that respect.