*** Official BioShock 2 Thread ***

Gimpymoo said:
Why do peeps seem to think a game is poo if it is slighlty challenging and because they have played 100 other "Generic First person shooters TM" they have a right to never have their gaming skill challenged.
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That's not it though, it's the inconsistency. A Big Daddy is meant to be difficult to kill. So far you're no more powerful than the guy from the first game, you just have different weapons.

They should make the game challenging, but in a way that makes you feel like the enemy is having to make massive efforts to take you down on account of how powerful/impervious you're meant to be.

Also I know this woman is out to stop you and all, but in the first game I thought Big Daddys were ignored and would ignore you so long as there wasn't an immediate threat to a little sister? Are Splicers so suicidal now that they'll actually pick a fight with a Big Daddy?
 
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Enjoying the game so far.. just got into a new area with glowing corals and it looks amazing. Love the water in this game, and the sound it makes when it patters on your helmet. Jumped a few times from a random splicer attack.
 
Loving this game, despite my earlier rant about too much loot (in retrospect I think exploring the environment slows the game to a more enjoyable pace). I'm playing on hard (because I fall into the "I have played a lot of shooters" category), and I'm finding it about right (so long as you snipe people with the rivet gun).

One thing that does annoy me is if you have vita-chambers turned off and die, reloading to your previous save point takes absolutely ages as the game returns you to the main menu and appears to erase whatever level you had cached! The solution must be to leave vita-chambers turned on even if you do not intend to use them.

I really like the new hack minigame. The old pipe game just took too long and was a pain.
 
Well the story seems to suggest that all Splicers are brainwashed by that crazy woman to attack you on sight. Also according to the story you're a prototype Big Daddy and not as powerful as the more 'refined' and manufactured Big Daddies you come across in the game.

I too was a little dissapointed as to how weak you are, even to Splicers. Lead head Splicers can kill you in a few shots and there's so many of them around. Now that I have the drill charge tonic it's not so bad.:D It would be nice to be able to battle another Big Daddy but not have to worry about healing yourselft everytime you're hit.
 
Sadly this game causes horrible motion sickness for me. I'll have to look into changing the FOV to see if it sorts it. Otherwise I guess I'll just youtube the good bits of the plot :/
 
Has anyone managed to get AA working on ati cards? Nvidia users have supposedly done it using a profile in nhancer but I've seen nothing about it working with ati cards.
 
z0mbi3 said:
But wasn't that to get at their little sister?
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touché

But I'm sure the woman earlier said on the radio just why the splicers were attacking everyone and everything. Can't remember why it was but something to do with just going even more pants on head retarded from the Adam.
 
What the hell is wrong with the hacking? It refuses to work. I press b like i have set, it tries to buyout and i have no cash, i press e like it tells me in the tooltip, nothing happens, i press f like it tells me on the thing and it attempts to heal me, not hack.

*sigh* stupid game, didn't bother to tell you to press mouse 1, instead gives you a load of OTHER instructions to confuse you.

I have to agree with zombie... there doesn't really seem to be much in the way of continuity. Why would splicers intentionally attack a big daddy when there is no little sister present? Why are you just as weak as an unarmoured person? It has lost a lot of its atmosphere just because you're supposed to be the heavily armoured badass with a drill arm and can barely take a wrench hit without keeling over.
 
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Evilsod said:
What the hell is wrong with the hacking? It refuses to work. I press b like i have set, it tries to buyout and i have no cash, i press e like it tells me in the tooltip, nothing happens, i press f like it tells me on the thing and it attempts to heal me, not hack.

*sigh* stupid game, didn't bother to tell you to press mouse 1, instead gives you a load of OTHER instructions to confuse you.
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Hacking only works with its default controls which is b and f i think.

edit: oh wait it looks like you are using default controls, nevermind.
 
I'm going to have to wait for a patch or something as i cant play with this ripping. Its ridiculous, every time i turn the screen has loads of lines going down it. Ive never had this in any other game, although BS1 did it slightly, but nothing like this.
 
Firstly, ty for the spoilers in this thread.

Secondly, anyone else getting hit by the music repeating over and over. This strings piece keeps playing and its been following me for a good 5 minutes. I scream at my pc to stop but nothing happens :(. I don't want to turn it down cause at times the music can be really good, it just so happens that when its on loop its bloody annoying.
 
Hard to say, it barely uses 800MB of RAM, it barely uses 50% of my CPU crores although it does use all 4 cores, it also barely uses 25% of my VRAM on the GTX260 and also uses around 75% of GPU.
 
I have very strange bug with collecting items from corpses or desks etc. To pick up an item normally I press E. To search a corpse I also press E as promped. When it shows me the upto 3 items the corspe has, I press E again and nothing happens. I've since discovered that pressing Y gets me the top item, B the middle item and X for the bottom item (I think that's the right order)

EDIT: I set all the controls back to default and then set them again how I wanted and everything seems to work fine now. Hope it stays that way.

EDIt EDIT: Just started the game again and the problem comes back. Looks like I have to setup the controls everytime I play
 
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Is this just me or does this game not feel right with mouse and KB?

It just feels wonky and there are too many buttons to use, left click shoots the thing in your right hand gets me all the time.

So obviously i go and plug in my 360 controller thinking i can enjoy the game now. How wrong was i! they don't support the 360 pad what a joke.

Does xpadder work?
 
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