Bjossi on 5/11/2007 at 18:34
Well, if you have the laser pistol before Engineering, I admit things would get much much easier.
Assidragon on 5/11/2007 at 18:36
I always shoot my way through the game as well, and it isn't particularly hard. If you bother researching and not missing your shots (and also pick up every bit of ammo), it's not terribly hard - definiately possible from the beginning of engineering.
ZB: because playing games like Doom is exclusively "spray and pray", and by no chance "aim and shoot anything that moves", which SS2 can be easily played as.
Mercurius on 5/11/2007 at 18:44
Quote Posted by Bjossi
Well, if you have the laser pistol before Engineering, I admit things would get much much easier.
I didn't get my first energy weapon until near the end of Engineering so all robots up until then were being dealt with via shotgun and I had to drop a lot of CMs just to get that broken laser pistol working. I was just saying that energy saved me a lot of ammo for the rest of the game and that one laser pistol really paid off in Hydro.
Quote Posted by Assidragon
I always shoot my way through the game as well, and it isn't particularly hard. If you bother researching and not missing your shots (and also pick up every bit of ammo), it's not terribly hard - definiately possible from the beginning of engineering.
ZB: because playing games like Doom is exclusively "spray and pray", and by no chance "aim and shoot anything that moves", which SS2 can be easily played as.
Shooty! :thumb:
I just assumed ZB was a pretty bad aim which would explain his love of the wrench. Not exactly sure how Doom could be classified as spray and pray considering the weapons are pretty accurate and the enemies aren't hard to hit. :confused:
Bjossi on 5/11/2007 at 18:56
Quote Posted by Mercurius
I didn't get my first energy weapon until near the end of Engineering so all robots up until then were being dealt with via shotgun and I had to drop a lot of CMs just to get that broken laser pistol working. I was just saying that energy saved me a lot of ammo for the rest of the game and that one laser pistol really paid off in Hydro.
I think the first laser pistol is in one of the cargo bays, jammed and in shoddy shape. It's a waste of resources to get that thing working, because the next laser pistol you find is not far away once you reach Hydro.
Well, I
think it is a waste of resources, I'm not too familiar with using guns in SS2. :p
Assidragon on 5/11/2007 at 19:00
Not so hard to get it working. You find a lot of auto-repair devices, and maintaining guns is really cheap at a maint of 4-5.
Bjossi on 5/11/2007 at 19:14
I don't think you find any auto-repairs until after the cargo bays. But Repair 1 is affordable, though I'd avoid it on Hard and Impossible.
Mercurius on 5/11/2007 at 19:18
Quote Posted by Bjossi
I think the first laser pistol is in one of the cargo bays, jammed and in shoddy shape. It's a waste of resources to get that thing working, because the next laser pistol you find is not far away once you reach Hydro.
Well, I
think it is a waste of resources, I'm not too familiar with using guns in SS2. :p
Hah, that's always been one of my pet peeves in SS2. You spend all these nanites and tools getting stuff to work, just to find one in the next 30 minutes, all shiny, brand new and still in its original bubble packaging.
If I had my way, the only way to get new weapons in SS2 would be to repair broken ones you get off dead enemies or hack heavily guarded armories. None of this grenade launcher with 6 frags in the middle of a hallway business.
Still, that laser pistol did its fair share of work.
I've never tried a melee playthrough as I usually stop meleeing about the time I encounter midwives. Not a coincidence either, I can't bear to get close to the damn things. During that shooty playthrough, at the end of Hydro I was in the elevator sorting my inventory and a midwife appears out of nowhere and casually walks straight into the wall outside the elevator. I jammed on the close-door button but the midwife was close enough to interfere with the collision detection I guess...one waving arm was jutting out past the open doorway.
Anyhow, she gradually slid past the wall and into the elevator and all I had in my hand was a pistol loaded with anti-personnel bullets.
There was a lot of shooting, a lot of shrieking. I survived, barely, and now I always close the elevator doors first.
Bjossi on 5/11/2007 at 19:31
That's awesome man; forgetting to close the doors of your inventory management center. :p
Finding grenades and guns scattered around the ship would be more logical if the armories of each deck weren't locked. :p
catbarf on 5/11/2007 at 19:51
I don't think I ever bothered with Repair... how does it work? Do you need tools like Maintenance?
Assidragon on 5/11/2007 at 19:57
No, it's more akin to hack. Still pretty damn worthless though. ;)
