Deadron
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It’s actually pretty freaky when you hit a Big Daddy with lots of fire…they get encased in carbon.
So far, I’m surprised at how some reviewers have stressed the difficulty of taking down Big Daddies. Perhaps it gets tougher later, but at this point (on Medium, in the theater area) it’s certainly taken some thought and resilience, but I haven’t found them too difficult yet.
I’m definitely getting pretty good at it. I had a “friendly” with me, started a fight with another one, then let them duke it out while I lobbed in some frag grenades. $200 and good times.
Actually it gets much easier later with better tools and more fire power.
Also, thanks Andrew and madkevin- I’ll have to search that crawlspace out. Could have sworn I looked but obviously not.
I am having some technical difficulty in the early game, my game is freezing up as soon as I get in the bathyscape to depart from the Medical Pavilion. I hear music and see the loading screen to get to the next section for a few seconds, then everything goes black and I have to Ctrl-Alt-Del to jump out and kill the unresponsive Bioshock. I apologize if this has been covered (I searched ‘Medical Pavilion bioshock’ but the only hit was Tom’s spoiler topic and I’m dodging that one for now) but has anyone else had this problem? I got the beta Nvidia drivers before installing the game, that’s about the only slightly off thing I can think of.
Shut off Advanced shaders- it did the trick for me.You can leave everything else on- takes away some of the ‘pretty’ but it still looks good enough.
A control question! I’m trying to decide whether I should play with mouse & keyboard or the 360 pad on the PC. I like playing with a gamepad, but… how is the turn speed? And is it true that the keyboard weapon switching key (Shift) pauses the game but the gamepad weapon selection doesn’t? Because that would be decisive. I hate being rushed when a game offers so many choices!
Gamepad weapon selection pauses the game.
Very good, then I think I’ll stick with the gamepad.
Playing on hard, the Big Daddies got progressively nastier as the game went on. You can use some tricks to avoid their attacks all together (tripwires and electro-gel), but you can never go toe-to-toe with one without getting your ass kicked.
Wow… electing to play a shooter with a control pad over a mouse? That’s just unnatural.
Jab
1790
The pc shift menu stops the action , but it doesn’t let you select both plasmids and weapons to use at the same time.
Right, that’s pretty much what I was talking about. Set a string of tripwires and proximity mines, launch a heat seaking RPG at him to get his attention and take a nice chunk off his health and then run. Generally he falls down dead well before getting near you.
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I’m pulling out of all Bioshock threads, as I just bought the game today.
I haven’t been processing any of the information I’ve really read from these, so I don’t think I’m too bad off.
Just left the Demo area when I decided I needed to do some school work.
I’ll see you all when I’m finished.
Thanks SG, that appears to have done the trick for me as well, I’m able to proceed.
Kunikos
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… and I thought that trackball users were mad. That’s just nutty. :)
Playing an FPS with a gamepad is like eating a steak with your tongue wrapped in duct tape.
Ah, it’s the people with PC-induced degeneration of motor skills, now sadly incapable of using dedicated game controllers…
The gamepad turn speed by default is slow, but there’s an option to change it. Pausing during plasmid/weapon selection works pretty well, although occasionally it seems to get “stuck”, requiring you to select something of the opposite type from what you intended to unstick it.
I too prefer to play with a 360 controller. The aiming is a bit harder, but I like that, and find the analog movement more immersive than the always running orthogonally WASD movement.
While I generally agree, when I perused the Something Awful forums and see the ‘Bioshock PC’ discussion full of ‘why won’t my game run’ and ‘holy crap the game just froze on me’ where the ‘Bioshock 360’ discussion is ‘damn that part scared me’ and ‘wow this game is awesome’, I will gladly put up with the inconvenience.
Slight Plasmid spoilers for anyone that has not finished the Farmer’s Market:
I would like to take this opportunity to say that I wish that every game allowed me to assail my enemies with SWARMS OF ANGRY BEES. I’m not even sure how effective that plasmid is, but it now has a permanent slot on my roster regardless.
