Dead Space 2

[Callisto]

I wish they made a whole other sequel out of Chapter 10, soooooo good

[Cydewinder]

Don't think I've seen this posted here.

[Atreides]

omg... so incredible lol

[Callisto]

Wow...hadn't even heard of that, can't wait

[Kuya]

When i heard handcanon i didn't expect that.

[Callisto]

Oh wow, didn't realize you couldn't bring all your upgraded weapons and stuff into the hardcore mode, it's all from scratch, this'll be interesting lol

[Souj]

What's the difficulty for Hardcore? Is it Zealot, or even harder?(not taking only 3 saves into consideration)

[Callisto]

What's the difficulty for Hardcore? Is it Zealot, or even harder?(not taking only 3 saves into consideration)

Harder, enemies seem to take much more damage, potentially up to twice as much. At first I thought it was just because of not having upgraded weapons, but even kinesis throws that usually one-shot early mobs take 2. Just did the first tripod boss and it was pretty damn tough tbh. I was expecting it to be Zealot + 3 saves/checkpoint restrictions and it's not just that. The ammo pickup amounts appear to be the same as Zealot though.

[Callisto]

Not going to lie at all, I'm being all kinds of cheap and standing around to let my stasis refill naturally, this shit is hard lol

[Kuya]

They prob should have done what happens in Left4dead and have necros attack you randomly throughout, so you can never stand still for too long without getting mauled.

[Callisto]

They prob should have done what happens in Left4dead and have necros attack you randomly throughout, so you can never stand still for too long without getting mauled.

Yeah, I kinda really want something between this. I think that ammo and health are a tad scarce to have constant attacks, but it'd be really, really cool if spawns would randomize a bit, like throw different types/numbers of enemies out during set encounters, or at the very least have them come through different parts of the room more often, so you can't just camp a vent as you walk through. Would up the replayability a fair amount, but still this is a damn fine game. All I need for the platinum metal is to beat Hardcore now, which speaks not to the shortness of the game but the fact that I'm so engrossed in it I've been unable to put it down since I got it.

[greatandfoolish]

youre already trying to play through hardcore? fuck i shouldnt have let my brother play, cant let you beat me to GLORIOUS HAND CANNON

[Callisto]

youre already trying to play through hardcore? fuck i shouldnt have let my brother play, cant let you beat me to GLORIOUS HAND CANNON

I was going to do one more first back when I thought you could carry ammo/weapons over, glad I didn't lol

[Callisto]

Small edit on what I said re: Hardcore, mob strength may in fact be the same, I didn't realize that RIG upgrades increase TK projectile damage, after upgrading that it seems the same as it was when I was playing Zealot.

[greatandfoolish]

just died on my first attempt at HC, died at the end of chapter 2, so fucking close to the first save spot

[Callisto]

just died on my first attempt at HC, died at the end of chapter 2, so fucking close to the first save spot

I'm about 2-3 minutes from the start of Chapter 5 where I was going to make my first save, but had to pause it for the NHL All-Star Draft thing...I had a couple of really close calls so far. The laundry area in Chapter 2 and the first tripod boss where both close shaves health/ammo-wise.

[greatandfoolish]

i just got unlucky with an exploder enemy getting too close before i set him off, other than that i had full inventory and 2 stacks of plasma cutter ammo at the time lol, the first tormentor was easy and the laundry area i fucking rocked, i will not be able to do as well on my next attempt, thats for sure

[Callisto]

The laundry room was okish, but I ran out of Force Gun rounds and it auto-changed me to Rivet Gun right when the two crawling enemies popped out and my stasis ran out at the same moment so had to double-tap it to fire, a short span of a couple of seconds but I got hit twice and nearly died before I could stasis, change to Line Cutter, pop a health and fire away. The tripod I had just forgotten that all my guns were stock strength and it took a lot more to kill than I expected so I almost died since I just sat still shooting at first. Chapters 3/4 aren't too bad at all.

[greatandfoolish]

ill probably try again later tonight, hopefully ill remember to go back and forth alot to the 2nd shop so i dont max out inventory too soon, alot of wasted ammo/health i could surely use later

[Callisto]

uggghh

Spoiler: show

g/f felt the auditorium fight was a good time to start asking me questions, got me killed, back to Chapter 5...and she's making me watch a movie so gotta wait like 2 hours to go back to it