-Isaac talks
-he has hallucinations
-tighter controls
-stasis and kinises are more useful and look cooler
-stomp and swing attack animations are faster and have a lot less recovery
-Visceral games lived up to it’s promise, instead of nerfing plasma cutter they buffed the other weapons:lovin:
-Issac can move freely though 0 gravity
-center screen aiming
-art style is a lot more distinct, I loved the tight corridors of the Ishimura but in the sprawl there’s a lot more opportunity for diversity
Um…what do I do in the gravity control room? I tried slowing down the gyro scope and tossing trash into it, I tried fitting the canisters around the bottom floor into the wall sockets on the top floor. I’m lost.
First hack the console. You need to get it right like 4 times, shouldn’t be too hard once you understand you try to find it when its blue not red. Then stasis the center rotating thing and look slightly up, there should be panels you kinesis so it can hold the rings in plce. Repeat for each ring.
Also javelin gun is beastly. 1 shot kills and when you stick it in them and press alt fire it unleashes lightning all around the javelin in the necromorph. Also one shot stops the “sequence”.
I never got a chance to try the multiplayer. How would you say it compares to L4D, since that seems like a similar style from the impression I’m getting from all these trailers. Is it particularly stacked toward one side or is there anything that seems OP on the necromorph side or human? How would the necromorph types compare to the L4D infected?
Judging from all the youtube vids of multiplayer it looks like necros are strong as hell up close but at a severe disadvantage from mid or long range and it takes teamwork to get get kills with necros.
I’m not really sure which version to get. Ps3 has extraction in hd with move support, pc is obviously the best choice graphics and control wise, and 360 will have the biggest online community.
I assume every shooter is easier to get headshots and turn around in with m+kb compared to 360 pad, though I guess I’m an outlier since I play just as well on 360 pad. Ps3 pad IMO isn’t as good for shooters mostly due to triggers+bumpers>r buttons.
I remember thesix (is he around anymore?) saying Dead Space pc had laggy controls.
I think the PC control issue might have come from hardware problems on some PC’s. Some experienced laggy controls while others did not. I certainly didn’t feel any lag and played both the PC version and the 360 version at a friends.
@orochizoolander I have the original on pc and it does have laggy controls but to fix it you just need to fix some of the settings in options, which I forget atm. It was in the graphics options. Though if you use a xbox pad the lag is not there at all so it might truly be a hardware problem in the first place.
much of the atmosphere of the first game seems lost for me. no sense of isolation, tons of baddies thrown at you non stop. i dunno, i liked the confined, claustrophobic vibe of the ishimura. my main problem with dead space was the abundance of ammo removing any sort of fear from the game, this looks to have been worsened in this one by turning it into a full on action game complete with big mosnters running around. Was going to buy but now i’m not sure
the “control” issue had to do with aiming with the mouse. they programmed it to have some sort or RIDICULOUS “mouse smoothing” to the point where it “lagged”. meaning you would move your mouse 3 inches to the left and would have to wait a full second, maybe 1.5 seconds, for the aiming on the screen to catch up VERY smoothly to what you were attempting to aim at.
generally you want your mouse and on screen pointer to have a 1:1 ratio of movement, but in deadspace it was more like 1:2.
there are a lot of games that have this “lag”, which isnt really lag but intentionally programmed that way (why? i have no idea but i wish there was an option to play without it). for example left for dead 1 and 2 both have it and so does metro 2033. however it isnt as noticeable and can be adjusted to more easily.
The version that also gives you HD Extraction for free without having to buy the latest shovelware system
the version where you just get DS2, but in higher res, and at a lower price
or the one where you not only JUST get DS2, but also the joy of playing online (not free) with the highest concentration of mouthy pro-KKK preteens from the UK and US. And that’s about it. Big bonus, if you’re into that kinda thing.
Yeah I think I would try to play it on the hardest difficulty I can on the first playthrough. I would say most people fear failure rather than the atmosphere after a certain point because they get desensitized to it. If the higher difficulties make me go in resource management mode I’m all for it.
I think multiplayer would be fun. Looking at the vid posted it’s similar in the fact that necromorphs will die a lot more than the humans, but doing suicide runs and going all out just to stop their objective is the goal not a deathmatch (though they do get points for kills, which I hope don’t switch the balance to where it’s more beneficial to go all out and kill everything instead of completing the objective). Though I was surprised humans respawned. I thought it would be where you would wear them down during the course of the stage and then finally finish them off, but this seems like a nice change of pace.
@Rhio2k I don’t remember the last time i used game chat. I normally just party up with a friend or something. Though I could tell people are probably cussing at me for not responding back when I’m talking in a party while playing something like dead ops.
I’m gong to pick it up for pc because online multiplayer is a big deal for me. I hope I can find HD extraction standalone cheap on amazon after launch.