|
Upgrade with acid pools last longer and just vomit all over everything forever.
|
#
?
May 5, 2021 14:33
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 10, 2024 01:09 |
|
|
I nearly got Phrike last night, on my second real try. Those purple ball patterns on the third phase seem really hard to avoid, and you can't dash through the purple ones, yeah? The game is good when it does crash. Here's hoping for today's patch to fix the issues.
|
|
#
?
May 5, 2021 14:37
|
|
|
Reached the credits. Got there in 17 deaths and 23 hours of playtime. Probably going to keep at it for another 23 hours because goddamn does it feel great to play.
|
|
#
?
May 5, 2021 15:47
|
|
|
a foolish pianist posted:I nearly got Phrike last night, on my second real try. Those purple ball patterns on the third phase seem really hard to avoid, and you can't dash through the purple ones, yeah? You can dash through those (at least I'm pretty sure...) It's the solid purple beams you gotta watch out for, and I don't think you'll run into those for a little while yet. Color isn't usually the distinguishing feature of projectiles. Their shape is the most important way to visualize what they're gonna do, and for the most part color just helps your brain distinguish between them when the room is full of bullets going in every direction. Only really two cases of color indicating that this attack is different and bad compared to the usual version. And then there's the loving homing missiles which come at you fast, with minimal warning, and their shape is the sound of Selene screaming.
|
|
#
?
May 5, 2021 15:50
|
|
|
Thundarr posted:You can dash through those (at least I'm pretty sure...) It's the solid purple beams you gotta watch out for, and I don't think you'll run into those for a little while yet. Aww man, I'd read somewhere that you can't dash through the purple, and that belief probably cost me the boss fight. 
|
|
#
?
May 5, 2021 16:14
|
|
|
I discovered on the Returnal subreddit last night, that melee attacks result in an invincible iframe for your character, and so if you can time that correctly in boss fights, you can use it to avoid a lot of attacks.
|
|
#
?
May 5, 2021 16:17
|
|
|
14 hour run through biome 1 seems insanely broken. What were you even doing? The biomes are not that large and only about half the rooms actually have enemies. Was this cumulative over several attempts? Or were you like checking every plant and cranny for hidden pickups? 14 hours is more time than it took me to beat Bloodborne. Biome 1 should take 20-40 minutes to zoom through to get your health bar upgraded before going to biome 2.
|
|
#
?
May 5, 2021 16:17
|
|
|
I reached the credits (just over 24 hours, 37 runs) but my trophies didn't pop and the survey activities are gone from my PS menu. Hmmm...
|
|
#
?
May 5, 2021 16:40
|
|
|
f#a# posted:I reached the credits (just over 24 hours, 37 runs) but my trophies didn't pop and the survey activities are gone from my PS menu. Hmmm...
|
|
#
?
May 5, 2021 16:50
|
|
|
I’m feeling pretty good about myself and nobody else cares so I’ll share it here - I beat the boss of Biome 1 and Biome 2 for the first time . . . In the same run. This run is just so stacked so far and it’s going super well. Onto Biome 3.
|
|
#
?
May 5, 2021 16:51
|
|
|
mikeraskol posted:I’m feeling pretty good about myself and nobody else cares so I’ll share it here - I beat the boss of Biome 1 and Biome 2 for the first time . . . In the same run. This run is just so stacked so far and it’s going super well. Onto Biome 3. I believe in you!
|
|
#
?
May 5, 2021 16:55
|
|
|
mikeraskol posted:I’m feeling pretty good about myself and nobody else cares so I’ll share it here - I beat the boss of Biome 1 and Biome 2 for the first time . . . In the same run. This run is just so stacked so far and it’s going super well. Onto Biome 3. Have fun* storming Beksinski-land! * running in terror from robots
|
|
#
?
May 5, 2021 16:56
|
|
|
Blind Rasputin posted:Biome 1 should take 20-40 minutes to zoom through to get your health bar upgraded before going to biome 2. Biome 1 should take 20-40 seconds to zoom through to get to the shortcut that lets you get to progression.
|
|
#
?
May 5, 2021 16:56
|
|
|
Got my first clear of boss 3, and took that run to boss 4 too. That's a pretty harsh story event between the two biomes. Poor Selene.
|
|
#
?
May 5, 2021 17:08
|
|
|
Saw the credits last night after 29 hours and 19 deaths. Very good game, will probably be in my top 3 of 2021 if I had to guess. I am intensely curious to see what is revealed in the true ending, but I'm going to force myself to play through and see it organically rather than running off to YouTube haha. EDIT: Hollowseeker with Serrated 2, Portal Beam, Retarget, Oscillator carried me through 6. Baggot fucked around with this message at 17:42 on May 5, 2021 |
|
#
?
May 5, 2021 17:38
|
|
|
First run I got all the way to biome 3 before dying. The next 10+ (?) I barely got out of biome 1, as I was trying to maximize my efforts there to get at least a few artifacts and integrity boosts before moving up. Then this morning I got the integrity repair per level of adrenaline artifact, a bunch of integrity boosts, and just Leveled Up My Game and beat biome 3 (skipped 2 entirely). Looking forward to pushing forward from here. Game good but I don't have a lot of time to play so losing a run on 30 mins of biome 1 just to rerun it was starting to hurt.
|
|
#
?
May 5, 2021 17:59
|
|
|
Can I invite one of you over to my house to beat some of this game for me? :P
|
|
#
?
May 5, 2021 18:00
|
|
|
Casnorf posted:I believe in you! I bit it in one of those orange door-sealed-tons-of-enemies challenge rooms. Though I got pretty far in Biome 3. Couple of questions: 1. Once you’re into the further biomes should you just rush to that one as quickly as possible? I tried that and it bumped my proficiency up to 9 pretty quickly but my health was low, I didn’t get a new weapon and I got smashed. 2. Maybe I’m missing something but are Ether and learning weapon traits the only permanent upgrades in this game (beyond the story/boss gated items like grappling hook)?
|
|
#
?
May 5, 2021 18:07
|
|
|
Anything that you scan is sort of a 'permanent' upgrade in that it is added to the pool of items that is now available.
|
|
#
?
May 5, 2021 18:21
|
|
|
mikeraskol posted:1. Once you’re into the further biomes should you just rush to that one as quickly as possible? I tried that and it bumped my proficiency up to 9 pretty quickly but my health was low, I didn’t get a new weapon and I got smashed. quote:2. Maybe I’m missing something but are Ether and learning weapon traits the only permanent upgrades in this game (beyond the story/boss gated items like grappling hook)? Overdrift posted:Anything that you scan is sort of a 'permanent' upgrade in that it is added to the pool of items that is now available.
|
|
#
?
May 5, 2021 18:28
|
|
|
I said come in! posted:Can I invite one of you over to my house to beat some of this game for me? :P Nice username/post combo.
|
|
#
?
May 5, 2021 18:28
|
|
|
I said come in! posted:Can I invite one of you over to my house to beat some of this game for me? :P Anyway, realtalk, the correct approach is a situationally shifting balance of prep and rush. You'll be boosted in a further biome but not have got the parasites and upgrades that make that biome a ton easier -- health is not one of those upgrades, by the way -- so to a large extent you just have to analyze and decide when it's best to move on. I probably tend to progress slightly too early, if I'm being honest, because after a while I find myself sorta sleepwalking through bits I've done a bunch. Which means I absolutely then gently caress it all up immediately.
|
|
#
?
May 5, 2021 18:41
|
|
|
I said come in! posted:Can I invite one of you over to my house to beat some of this game for me? :P Does share play work with Returnal? If so you could probably scam somebody on your friends list to help remotely so you can clear content while maintaining Covid guidelines!
|
|
#
?
May 5, 2021 18:48
|
|
|
I think I just caught the game loading. Ran up to a door and it said ‘lock jammed, unscrambling code’ or something, then opened half a second later
|
|
#
?
May 5, 2021 18:50
|
|
|
Thundarr posted:Does share play work with Returnal? If so you could probably scam somebody on your friends list to help remotely so you can clear content while maintaining Covid guidelines! Yes, it does (on both PS4 and PS5).
|
|
#
?
May 5, 2021 18:51
|
|
|
Had lots of locked doors with a dlc suit but swapped to original, game ran perfectly. Game updated today, just suffered a crash on my first run, about 40 minutes into an absolutely terrific setup to my attempting the Nemesis fight again. RUDE.
|
|
#
?
May 5, 2021 19:17
|
|
|
What did the update even fix/change then? I would have thought the crashes would be a priority.
|
|
#
?
May 5, 2021 19:33
|
|
|
I thought the patch doesn't go live for another 20 minutes? They said there would be patch notes when it does though.
|
|
#
?
May 5, 2021 19:38
|
|
|
I updated to 1.003.001 at 1:31pm est, and it began the instant I turned on so it was pushed even earlier than that.  Unless there was another update prior? Idk, my house was disconnected for a couple days so maybe I missed something.
|
|
#
?
May 5, 2021 19:53
|
|
|
There was a patch a couple days ago with no notes, that's probably the one you got.
|
|
#
?
May 5, 2021 20:01
|
|
|
Mmkay, my bad then. Today is 1.003.003 and is indeed live now.quote:Patch Notes: https://housemarque.com/news/2021/5/5/returnal-patch-133 cvnvcnv fucked around with this message at 20:08 on May 5, 2021 |
|
#
?
May 5, 2021 20:06
|
|
|
https://housemarque.com/news/2021/5/5/returnal-patch-133quote:Patch Notes: lol jinx
|
|
#
?
May 5, 2021 20:09
|
|
|
Oh WOW biome 5 is a slog
|
|
#
?
May 5, 2021 20:10
|
|
|
Nice, now I can feel confident running around with one of the pre order outfits. Or at least have a reason to yell at them if it turns out to still be broken.Aidan_702 posted:Oh WOW biome 5 is a slog It really is, but at least there's a consolation prize: there's no boss, so don't worry about using up resources to stay alive in fights with regular enemies. Thundarr fucked around with this message at 20:18 on May 5, 2021 |
|
#
?
May 5, 2021 20:15
|
|
|
Aidan_702 posted:Oh WOW biome 5 is a slog The return and upgrade of the rocket lads from biome 3 is just so unwelcome. Funny thing is, I think I know why they give me so much trouble - I would swear the hip fire tracking on them is way less accurate than any other flying enemy. They also don't seem to stagger in 5.
|
|
#
?
May 5, 2021 20:15
|
|
|
Has anyone else had a challenge room reset after clearing it? I was doing my second ever run in the 6th biome and this happened.  I cleared it earlier in my run, later came across a respawn room and charged it. Much later in the biome I got killed by a mini boss and respawned. Having left some items in the challenge room I decided to return to the room just to fill up my now-empty inventory and was definitely shocked whenever I had to do the whole challenge again. The previous clear of the room was my first clear in biome 6 so I don’t know if this is normal or not but the room definitely seemed way harder the second time. Edit: for those having issues with overloading, when you get towards the end of your clip, try just holding the trigger instead of tapping. Even if you keep holding it the game won’t count the press during the overload mini game until you release it and press again l. Huge Lady Pleaser fucked around with this message at 20:30 on May 5, 2021 |
|
#
?
May 5, 2021 20:26
|
|
|
Update bad. "Fixed incorrect healing behaviour when resting in Helios" seems to mean you are now disallowed from resting in your ship at all, and I got this error just a few minutes into my first run... Edit: Sorry, it seems you can rest in your ship only once now. Because beds are single-use consumables. cvnvcnv fucked around with this message at 20:42 on May 5, 2021 |
|
#
?
May 5, 2021 20:33
|
|
|
Wow, should have kept playing before I posted. That error continued to pop every few seconds then I closed the game down and got a notice my save data had been removed due to corruption. I just downloaded my PS+ uploaded save data from the 2pm hour so hopefully I'm not screwed. I'd turn the game on to find out but uhhhhhhhhh
|
|
#
?
May 5, 2021 20:38
|
|
|
Had an amazing run where I had a bunch of health and Medkit and astronaut and when I finally got back to Ixion (thank gently caress for the portal!!!!) I discovered that my P9 Hollowseeker does basically zero damage to them! Are there damage resists or different types of damage? My first attempt was with a lvl 7 Pylon Launcher and I was chonking him quite fast, but my Hollowseeker was doing so little damage that my gigantic well of Integrity wasn’t even enough to get to Phase 3. This is after nearly one-shotting them with pylon launcher. What can I do to prevent this? What can I look out for to make sure it doesn’t happen in?
|
|
#
?
May 5, 2021 20:42
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 10, 2024 01:09 |
|
|
hollowseeker's damage output is really dependent on its skill loadout. most of its traits like Waves, Portal Beam, Shrapnel and Serrated Projectiles are about adding more oomph to its very weak base fire, so you want as many of those as you can get, plus a high base damage modifier
|
|
#
?
May 5, 2021 20:44
|
|
