GnomeTankWhat the what?Portland, OregonRegistered Userregular
edited March 2010
Yah, there's no way I was going to finish the research on Paupers Drop, as there were only two or three Brutes there after you get the camera...unless they respawn like normal splicers over time. I'll try and complete it in the pumping station area that I'm in now
If I'm not mistaken, there are unlimited Brutes in the game, so you'll definately be able to max the research on them.
Same with Alphas. At the very end of the game, you will need to destroy two pipes. If you don't destroy them, I'm pretty sure Brutes and Alphas continually respawn until you do. Possibly some variants of Splicers as well (Houdini and Leadhead I think, maybe Spider), but I think they were only there at the start and didn't continue to respawn like the Brutes and Alphas.
I had already maxed research long before this, but when I got to this point, I didn't look up and see the big glowing pipes I was supposed to destroy, so I had tried to destroy the wrong pipes. Then after I finally noticed the correct pipes, I stayed and destroyed Brutes and Alphas for a while just to see if anything happened if I didn't destroy the pipes (and in the few minutes that I waited, nothing did).
I'm absolutely in love with this game except for one caveat - the auto-save system.
Now I'll happily admit that I should've been saving a bit more often than I was, but I just lost a little over 2 hours of gameplay because I didn't save and the console locked up - I restart the game and I'm back at the very start of the area.
I'd like to think that it'd save after every 'Moral Choice' event, but apparently it's only when traveling to a new area. Lost 3 Little Sisters and a shitload of research..... Argh. I'm so mad at the game I can't even play it right now.
Maybe tomorrow. Apart from that, though, brilliant game.
GnomeTankWhat the what?Portland, OregonRegistered Userregular
edited March 2010
I'm that "super paranoid save guy" who saves after basically every event I think is important. In games that count the number of times you save, I easily break 100 saves in most cases. I think it's a hold over from my old JRPG days.
Sinclair Solutions Tester Pack, which will include a rank increase to level 50, two new playable characters, 20 new trials, a third weapons upgrade for each weapon and five additional masks,
will cost 400 Microsoft Points on the PC and Xbox 360 and $4.99 on the PS3.
More downloadable content for both BioShock 2's single player and mulitplayer will be made in the coming weeks, 2K Games said in their press release this morning.
Its funny that they have time to make this DLC so fast, but apparently dont have any time to fix that freezing bug in their own MP, well I only saw it like... 25 times, so who cares right.
I...will probably buy it, because I am a terrible whore for Bioshock.
Also I actually like the multiplayer, and don't get any of the bugs associated with it.
It is only 5 bucks too, to be fair. Here in Australia we pay 15 bucks for things like the Borderlands DLC. So for me, cheap DLC is just as good as free.
But one concern that does spring to mind; won't this cause either a bunch of OP level 50s running around with new weapons smashing the lowbies, or alternatively if they split it so you're required to have the DLC to play with DLC folks, a very small and fractured community?
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But one concern that does spring to mind; won't this cause either a bunch of OP level 50s running around with new weapons smashing the lowbies, or alternatively if they split it so you're required to have the DLC to play with DLC folks, a very small and fractured community?
Maybe they'll go the WaW route and allow you into games and lobbies, but as soon as the match starts it says "you can't play this cause you're cheap" and kicks you.
Goddamnit, I can't find a single match. I'm stuck at level 10 cause it seems like there's no one within 50 miles who wants to play. I guess that's what you get for living in a backwater.
Maybe time to take a poke around the config files, see if I can adjust some things so that it's more lenient with matchmaking.
But one concern that does spring to mind; won't this cause either a bunch of OP level 50s running around with new weapons smashing the lowbies, or alternatively if they split it so you're required to have the DLC to play with DLC folks, a very small and fractured community?
Maybe they'll go the WaW route and allow you into games and lobbies, but as soon as the match starts it says "you can't play this cause you're cheap" and kicks you.
There's no reason to separate people with DLC from those without. People with the preorder characters can already play with everyone else, and people who are level 40 can still play with level 1s.
And it's not like you get all that stronger from leveling up, you just get more options to fill the limited amount of equipment slots that you and everyone else has.
(Assuming the new weapon mods in the DLC aren't crazy things like "Pistol becomes the golden gun and kills in one shot" or something)
The only time they'd need to separate players was if they released new maps, which makes me wonder how they're going to handle that.
The only time they'd need to separate players was if they released new maps, which makes me wonder how they're going to handle that.
New maps as DLC kind of sucks.... I mean it's the one thing I really want as DLC for my multiplayer games and it's the one thing I'd most assuredly buy, it's just that apparently that doesn't apply to everyone else, since it seems so hard to find DLC map games sometimes. It just splits the community too much. I definitely wouldn't get any for Bioshock 2, since the community isn't really that big to begin with.
I haven't bought this yet but I'll get around to it someday. As such I'm still in a blackout and not reading but:
Bioshock3 should be you are just a dude struggling to survive in Rapture, weighing the strength of plasmids and all their negative side affects on your normal as fuck body against survival when choosing how to proceed.
we wont be in Rapture anymore? cause that's what I gathered from the ending...
It's hardly subtle
Also the theme they're trying to get across is religion run sates are bad right?
They only destroyed purgatory, the prison. The rest of rapture is still intact.
I think they are just on the other end of the spectrum, theme-wise, from bioshock one.
we wont be in Rapture anymore? cause that's what I gathered from the ending...
It's hardly subtle
Also the theme they're trying to get across is religion run sates are bad right?
I think the theme is that the total extreme of any philosophy is massively flawed.
Yea
I don't really see them leaving the city for any future games. at the end of the day, the fun part that sets the game appart from others is rapture, and they know that.
I'd expect any future games to focus on telling simpler stories and be more of an excuse to explore rapture.
Heck, it would be fun if the next/last one was the world powers finaly discovering Rapture. Three way fights between rapture locals, GI's and Russian soldiers would be an interesting twist. It'd need some serious refining on the story and plot points, but I'd pay to play it.
we wont be in Rapture anymore? cause that's what I gathered from the ending...
It's hardly subtle
Also the theme they're trying to get across is religion run sates are bad right?
I think the theme is that the total extreme of any philosophy is massively flawed.
Yea
I don't really see them leaving the city for any future games. at the end of the day, the fun part that sets the game appart from others is rapture, and they know that.
I'd expect any future games to focus on telling simpler stories and be more of an excuse to explore rapture.
Heck, it would be fun if the next/last one was the world powers finaly discovering Rapture. Three way fights between rapture locals, GI's and Russian soldiers would be an interesting twist. It'd need some serious refining on the story and plot points, but I'd pay to play it.
I like that idea.
I'd like it if while this was going on, you get recruited by Tenenbaum, who wants to make sure that Adam and everything else doesn't spread out into the world, so you go on a mission to destroy Rapture.
I doubt they'd do this, as it would cut off the possibilities of any more games if you succeed (until you do more prequels. Bioshock Reach, anyone?), but it would be a good finale.
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So scout is a pretty cool power. Too bad that half the time I use it, I can't use plasmids again when returning to my body.
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SteevLWhat can I do for you?Registered Userregular
edited March 2010
Heh, I ran into a bug one time where I attempted to hack a drone. It despawned in the middle of the hacking sequence. As a result, I had the little hacking meter stuck on my screen with the needle bouncing back and forth. I also couldn't pick anything up, because pressing F did nothing. I had to save and reload in order to get rid of it.
Or something of that ilk, I'm done with Rapture, I want to go back to spaaaaaaaace
True. I've never played a system shock game, but from all the folks i've talked to, it had a bit of a dark humor feel to it. (bioshock had more of that sort of thing in the first game, but not near as much in the second it seemed).
I could stand an updated romp through a space station, being hounded by a maniacal paranoid computer AI, boosting yourself up with powers, and of course, hitting things with a wrench.
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SteevLWhat can I do for you?Registered Userregular
edited March 2010
I remember playing a demo of the original System Shock when we got our first PC in 1995. I had no idea what the hell I was doing, but it felt like a combination of a point + click adventure game mixed with an FPS. I never really thought of it again until Bioshock.
Or something of that ilk, I'm done with Rapture, I want to go back to spaaaaaaaace
You'd probably like Dead Space. It has the whole audio/text log/RPG-like leveling of weapons and suit/horror elements/"can I trust this dude?" stuff going on, and it's quite amazing visually too.
Though, to be honest, it does lack subtly. They telegraph the "twists" waaay too much. Still, it's good.
Or something of that ilk, I'm done with Rapture, I want to go back to spaaaaaaaace
You'd probably like Dead Space. It has the whole audio/text log/RPG-like leveling of weapons and suit/horror elements/"can I trust this dude?" stuff going on, and it's quite amazing visually too.
Though, to be honest, it does lack subtly. They telegraph the "twists" waaay too much. Still, it's good.
Don't read any more about, don't think about it. Just buy Dead Space tomorrow, bring it home, turn the lights out, and start playing.
No, you won't hate my guts for this advice. Well, maybe once or twice along the way. But you'll thank me soon afterward, trust me.
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Did the do-gooder ending, and it was far from as strong as the good ending in BS1. Plus, what happened to Tenenbaum or the surface guy looking for his kid? Did I miss some key diary explaining their fates?
Oh, and Elenore saving Lamb? For fuck sake... She had no trouble nudging me along killing that reporter guy.
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I had already maxed research long before this, but when I got to this point, I didn't look up and see the big glowing pipes I was supposed to destroy, so I had tried to destroy the wrong pipes. Then after I finally noticed the correct pipes, I stayed and destroyed Brutes and Alphas for a while just to see if anything happened if I didn't destroy the pipes (and in the few minutes that I waited, nothing did).
Now I'll happily admit that I should've been saving a bit more often than I was, but I just lost a little over 2 hours of gameplay because I didn't save and the console locked up - I restart the game and I'm back at the very start of the area.
I'd like to think that it'd save after every 'Moral Choice' event, but apparently it's only when traveling to a new area. Lost 3 Little Sisters and a shitload of research..... Argh. I'm so mad at the game I can't even play it right now.
Maybe tomorrow. Apart from that, though, brilliant game.
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Sinclair Solutions Tester Pack, which will include a rank increase to level 50, two new playable characters, 20 new trials, a third weapons upgrade for each weapon and five additional masks,
will cost 400 Microsoft Points on the PC and Xbox 360 and $4.99 on the PS3.
More downloadable content for both BioShock 2's single player and mulitplayer will be made in the coming weeks, 2K Games said in their press release this morning.
Source: http://kotaku.com/5486582/bioshock-2s-first-expansion-pack-hits-march-11
Its funny that they have time to make this DLC so fast, but apparently dont have any time to fix that freezing bug in their own MP, well I only saw it like... 25 times, so who cares right.
Also I actually like the multiplayer, and don't get any of the bugs associated with it.
It is only 5 bucks too, to be fair. Here in Australia we pay 15 bucks for things like the Borderlands DLC. So for me, cheap DLC is just as good as free.
But one concern that does spring to mind; won't this cause either a bunch of OP level 50s running around with new weapons smashing the lowbies, or alternatively if they split it so you're required to have the DLC to play with DLC folks, a very small and fractured community?
Mass Effect 2 has spoiled you rotten.
Maybe they'll go the WaW route and allow you into games and lobbies, but as soon as the match starts it says "you can't play this cause you're cheap" and kicks you.
Maybe time to take a poke around the config files, see if I can adjust some things so that it's more lenient with matchmaking.
There's no reason to separate people with DLC from those without. People with the preorder characters can already play with everyone else, and people who are level 40 can still play with level 1s.
And it's not like you get all that stronger from leveling up, you just get more options to fill the limited amount of equipment slots that you and everyone else has.
(Assuming the new weapon mods in the DLC aren't crazy things like "Pistol becomes the golden gun and kills in one shot" or something)
The only time they'd need to separate players was if they released new maps, which makes me wonder how they're going to handle that.
New maps as DLC kind of sucks.... I mean it's the one thing I really want as DLC for my multiplayer games and it's the one thing I'd most assuredly buy, it's just that apparently that doesn't apply to everyone else, since it seems so hard to find DLC map games sometimes. It just splits the community too much. I definitely wouldn't get any for Bioshock 2, since the community isn't really that big to begin with.
i am terrible at shooters
Get all the gene tonics to improve the Drill and upgrade it to full then ? :winky:
Drill Charge is great, but they should have given you that stomp too, you know the one that the Big Daddies use.
Heh, good idea. I gotta say, melee is about a thousand times more satisfying in this game than in other shooters.
Bioshock3 should be you are just a dude struggling to survive in Rapture, weighing the strength of plasmids and all their negative side affects on your normal as fuck body against survival when choosing how to proceed.
For anyone having difficulty with BioShock 2:
So in Bioshock 3...
It's hardly subtle
Also the theme they're trying to get across is religion run sates are bad right?
I think they are just on the other end of the spectrum, theme-wise, from bioshock one.
maybe your inventory is full?
I think the theme is that the total extreme of any philosophy is massively flawed.
Yea
I'd expect any future games to focus on telling simpler stories and be more of an excuse to explore rapture.
Heck, it would be fun if the next/last one was the world powers finaly discovering Rapture. Three way fights between rapture locals, GI's and Russian soldiers would be an interesting twist. It'd need some serious refining on the story and plot points, but I'd pay to play it.
I like that idea.
I'd like it if while this was going on, you get recruited by Tenenbaum, who wants to make sure that Adam and everything else doesn't spread out into the world, so you go on a mission to destroy Rapture.
I doubt they'd do this, as it would cut off the possibilities of any more games if you succeed (until you do more prequels. Bioshock Reach, anyone?), but it would be a good finale.
Full of money at the very beginning of the game?
I could go for some more System Shock now
Or something of that ilk, I'm done with Rapture, I want to go back to spaaaaaaaace
True. I've never played a system shock game, but from all the folks i've talked to, it had a bit of a dark humor feel to it. (bioshock had more of that sort of thing in the first game, but not near as much in the second it seemed).
I could stand an updated romp through a space station, being hounded by a maniacal paranoid computer AI, boosting yourself up with powers, and of course, hitting things with a wrench.
Though, to be honest, it does lack subtly. They telegraph the "twists" waaay too much. Still, it's good.
Don't read any more about, don't think about it. Just buy Dead Space tomorrow, bring it home, turn the lights out, and start playing.
No, you won't hate my guts for this advice. Well, maybe once or twice along the way. But you'll thank me soon afterward, trust me.
Fort Frolic:
"How much is that doggy in the- doggy in the- doggy in the- doggy in the-"
Fort Frolic was freaking crazy. It was everything a crazy broadway gone hellish nightmare realm should be, and I love it so.
Oh, and Elenore saving Lamb? For fuck sake... She had no trouble nudging me along killing that reporter guy.