Dead Island

[djzombie]

Despite the game crippling bugs, I am actually fairly impressed with the game.

A friend and I have been playing coop via tunngle, and we have each lost 2 or 3 characters and had to start over.

Aside from having run the same quests over 3 times because the game ate your characters, it's fun to play.

We're constantly fearing the next restart now though because we're actually farther in the game than we have been before without getting boned.

It's definitely the best first person melee system in an rpg i've ever seen.

I love that you can see your limbs, and enemies can send you flying.

The rapper's combat tree is also pretty friggen amazing. There's an ability that allows you to tackle mobs(you basically sprint at them and as you get close to them you knock them down and keep sprinting, you can do 4 or 5 mobs before you're completely out of stamina.

So I've been charging in and knocking everything down and my buddy comes in and cleans up. Originally I had gone a more tanky build, getting damage resistance in the other two trees and didn't go down the combat tree at all. Combat tree is much more fun and the meat of how I would expect to play this character the majority of the game.

[Ohemgee]

It's definitely the best first person melee system in an rpg i've ever seen.

I love that you can see your limbs, and enemies can send you flying.

I wouldn't go that far, yeah its a great system but its really bland.

Infected runs at you with piss your pants screams -> Kick to the face -> melee bash -> kick to the floor -> Kick to death


Kicking (as overused as it is) should critical a lot more (or at least target limbs better) to break or smash heads in

[Qalbert]

its all bout dat curbstomp

[djzombie]

Yeah I don't know, I can't think of any game that's done a better job at melee combat. Yes there is an easily repeatable strategy to downing zombies quickly and efficiently, but when surrounded by zombies I rarely deal with one mob at a time at this point. I'm usually swinging crazily trying to gtfo.

I am a bit confused as to why you can not equip brass knuckles in the fists weapon slot, and have to waste an entire other weapon slot to use them.

Pro tip: exploding propane tanks can kill friendlies.

Explosions have a pretty large range too, but the damage varies quite a bit depending on how close you are. I've been knocked down from the very edge of an explosion and only lost one bar of health, and I think I've been killed from full health(or close to it) by an explosion that was right on top of me.

I actually do wish there was a friendly fire setting though. Probably a bad plan with all the close melee combat and wild swings, but it would be fun as hell to cut your buddy's arm off accidentally.

[Qalbert]

"accidentally"

[Ohemgee]

Made it to part two. Walked in to the lot, got raped when playing solo by the charging thing. I miss public people

[Insanecyclone]

[testdummy]

How to fix the FOV for PC players http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comme...sland_fov_fix/

[knight_kirby]

How does one deal with like 5 infected? Seriously, I don't know how many times I died (and lost Moneyz QQ) trying to deal with them. Running doesn't really help since they usually catch up eventually.
Jumping on cars don't work cause Infected with weapons throw them at you for massive damage and I'm running into a lot of them carrying knives. They're hard to knock down and have such insane recovery that kicking them does jack shit.
Having 5 swarm you means you're dead within 3 seconds, even faster if they decide to use knives.

Also when does Katana drop? Currently on Act II chapter 8.

[Kuishen]

Alright what the FUCK is the deal. I cannot join anybody's game and nobody has ever joined mine. If I go through the Game Lobby I get "Unable to establish a connection to the game you are attempting to Join" if I hit the J button when somebody else is near, the loading screen comes up and a 5-10 seconds later it says the game I'm trying to join is no longer available. At first I thought it was the stupid POV change I made, but took it off and it still won't let me connect. What is the deal? If it was a port issue I would think that it wouldn't even let me see nearby players/list the joinable games in the lobby.

Any ideas?

[Isawa]

How does one deal with like 5 infected? Seriously, I don't know how many times I died (and lost Moneyz QQ) trying to deal with them. Running doesn't really help since they usually catch up eventually.
Jumping on cars don't work cause Infected with weapons throw them at you for massive damage and I'm running into a lot of them carrying knives. They're hard to knock down and have such insane recovery that kicking them does jack shit.
Having 5 swarm you means you're dead within 3 seconds, even faster if they decide to use knives.

Also when does Katana drop? Currently on Act II chapter 8.

If you have mods, deo-bombs or meat bait will get them off you long enough to escape. If you are forced to fight, edged weapons can cause dismemberment if aimed properly. You can also try to kick them over and curb stomp them, if you have the skill available.

Also, poison or electric modded weapons work wonders if they proc, buying you some time to move or recover stamina. Higher level mods will do higher damage and proc more often.

I didn't get my first katana till halfway through act 2.

Edit: If anyone wants to co-op on 360, add me - o Oni o :3

[Qalbert]

could always throw molotovs with reckless abandon

[Odin'sLaw]

so far I'm enjoying this game on ps3 not to happy about the stairs bug ¬.¬, only thing I'm finding a pain so far is respawn timer on the infected can be anything from 2 seconds to 10 min's and when for some reason it happens to be a 2 second respawn your just getting swarmed and going down in another 2 seconds, besides these two random bugs I'm actually enjoying the game

[Null]

Why worry about stair bug when you can fly?

[Odin'sLaw]

the ps3 European release doesn't have dev bugs

Edit of awesome: Dead Island limited edition sold at gamestation are been sold for £39.99 instead of £49:99 due to under-shipments of normal edition

[Nightmarelord]

so far I'm enjoying this game on ps3 not to happy about the stairs bug ¬.¬, only thing I'm finding a pain so far is respawn timer on the infected can be anything from 2 seconds to 10 min's and when for some reason it happens to be a 2 second respawn your just getting swarmed and going down in another 2 seconds, besides these two random bugs I'm actually enjoying the game

what setting? havent noticed this so far on grim. if you need someone to partner add me. psn is the same as my name here. im on stage 6 as i just started playing this am and ive had to weed thru the gimps..

oh wait wrong game.. search function has failed me!

[Odin'sLaw]

i would like to know what game! (presuming resistance 3)

[Wintermute]

Is it me or do the RedBulls/Candy Bars sometimes not proc at all?

On the mob spawns: Is there a spot in the Shanty Town where the Infected types spawn constantly? The things just kept coming one after another, not to mention that time two spawned in the corner just behind me.
Windmilling bastards...

Also find it awesome that I'm playing the Blade specialist and all I seem to find/get are blunt weapons.

[Odin'sLaw]

i picked logan who's the thrower and like hell if he does even the same damage throwing a weapon when i'm baseball bating some skulls

[Kwijiboe]

My Steam version has Xbox UI. For bashing in doors it told me to push my RS back and then push my RS forward.

Almost makes me think I'm entitled to a refund here because I don't want to play a shoddy product.