Volitions Advocate on 5/1/2015 at 08:13
I just finished beating it on Nightmare yesterday.
It wasn't fun. Literally wasn't fun. I see lots of reviews about how frustrating and un-fun this game is. I think they're just not used to games that don't hold your hand. Maybe I was lucky and didn't see any of the alien glitches that others complained about. It never bee-lined to exactly where I was every single time I left a locker or anything like that. But Nightmare difficulty... yeah.. not really much fun.
But Nightmare mode. WTF. I have literally seen it teleport. From a vent in the roof where it was drooling all over the floor, I skirted around it and walked into a door where it greeted me face to face before its last drop of spittle hit the floor from the vent. And the motion tracker is useless. It's nightmare mode in the vein of Doom's Nightmare difficulty. Only do it if you're really just... a masochist.
Renault on 5/1/2015 at 17:04
Alright, I'll bite. So why did you do it then? Blow 20-30 hours just to say "I did it?"
Volitions Advocate on 5/1/2015 at 23:41
basically yeah.... Plus an achievement.
I might just be a bit obsessed.
Slasher on 11/1/2015 at 08:39
I was looking for that trauma kit today when I stumbled across a group of trigger-happy humans in a certain U-shaped corridor. I ducked into one of the side rooms to plan my next move when the music suddenly started to build. I pulled up the motion tracker and saw one dot moving really fast toward a stationary dot. Gunshots out in the corridor. The two dots meet. Someone screams. One dot disappears. Music fades. Thanks pal!
TriangleTooth on 11/1/2015 at 13:07
Quote Posted by Volitions Advocate
I just finished beating it on Nightmare yesterday.
It wasn't fun. Literally wasn't fun. I see lots of reviews about how frustrating and un-fun this game is. I think they're just not used to games that don't hold your hand. Maybe I was lucky and didn't see any of the alien glitches that others complained about. It never bee-lined to exactly where I was every single time I left a locker or anything like that. But Nightmare difficulty... yeah.. not really much fun.
But Nightmare mode. WTF. I have literally seen it teleport. From a vent in the roof where it was drooling all over the floor, I skirted around it and walked into a door where it greeted me face to face before its last drop of spittle hit the floor from the vent. And the motion tracker is useless. It's nightmare mode in the vein of Doom's Nightmare difficulty. Only do it if you're really just... a masochist.
If that's in the latter section of the game
That's intended, there are a couple of rooms where there are two aliens, not even just the hives or end sequenceVolitions Advocate on 14/1/2015 at 17:18
I've discovered Open Broacasting Softare. It's worlds better than FRAPS, which I actually paid for a few years ago.
Here's me screwing around with it a bit.
Yesterday I retired my Radeon HD 5870 for a new R9 290 so I thought I'd take a gameplay video because i'm going to sell the old card. In any case. Here is a twitchy few minutes of me playing Survivor mode. First video is on the old card, 2nd is on the new.
A:I is apparently so well optimised that I can run it at a rock steady 60 fps even on the old card. So there doesn't seem to be much difference between the video. If nothing else, have a good laugh at how panicky I was playing.
I'm pretty sure in the first video @ 2:50 I hit every single key on the keyboard before I regained my faculties.
[video=youtube;GjU6RCzHcok]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjU6RCzHcok[/video]
Volitions Advocate on 14/1/2015 at 17:19
[video=youtube;6j6aGogY3Y4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j6aGogY3Y4[/video]
Slasher on 18/1/2015 at 18:16
Am I right in thinking:
a.) the alien won't attack synthetics under any circumstances.
b.) the little white LEDs on certain throwables will make you more visible if you carry them around equipped.
Volitions Advocate on 19/1/2015 at 06:36
The alien doesn't give a crap about the androids. It completely ignores them. Missed opportunity on part of the developers imho.
It makes things really tense for you if they're in the same room and the droids are hostile toward you, but I would have loved to see the alien knock one over because it thought a Joe was just a piece of machinery in its way, and then the Joe getting all indignant and trying to choke the alien to death. Might have made for some interesting STALKER style fly-on-the-wall moments. As it stands they basically just say "What are you?" and try to talk to it.
I don't know about the lights, but I know if you're carrying a lit molotov around you stick out like a sore thumb and everybody notices. Same goes for having your flamethrower out an on the ready. Also people who kindly tell you to get lost will get really pissed really quickly if you ready your weapon.
Every IED blueprint also has 2 revisions that you can find in the game to improve on them. One thing I've noticed with most is that if you have v3 of the blueprint, they all turn into noisemakers when you plant them as a mine. This isn't really always what you want when you're trying to set up an ambush or cover your back. I once placed a molotov as a mine in a duct behind me because there was a vent that the alien could access and sneak up behind me. I expected it to sneak up behind me because it kept killing me that way. So I dropped the molotov and it starts spewing all this noise. So instead of the alien dropping in behind me about 10 yards away and getting smoked by the molotov. It dropped in the room in front of me that I was trying to cross and went through me to get to the molotov. I crawled as fast as I could but it almost caught up to me and triggered the molotov just as I was standing over it. Didn't go well for me.
van HellSing on 19/1/2015 at 21:05
Asfar as the alien not attacking synths goes, I found myself actually giving thought to it. Could it be, that the alien just doesn't see them as either a host or a potential threat? This fits with my theory (a friend also had the same idea) as to why the alien on the Torrens seems reluctant to go after Amanda. She's wearing a space suit. The alien might not even be sure if you're a living creature.
The only time I've seen the alien attack an android was by accident, as I was already being attacked by the synth when the alien came up behind it and swiped it across the room with its tail to get to me. Easily one of the most memorable situations I've had with the game.
