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[Nils]

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Even then I still get hit because DS2 Twitchers are as robust as Enhanced Pukers, if not more.

^ Good that you mentioned that. What ARE Enhanced necromorphes? Are they just stronger versions of the regular kind?

I have a feeling I may have fought an enhanced slasher or something before. I can think of two times where I fought a black skinned slasher. They were MUCH harder to kill than the normal kind. I ended up emptying a full clip of plasma cutter and switching to Pulse rifle to kill it.

[Zepher Tensho]

Yes, black skinned Necromorphs are known as Enhanced. They have reached a higher state of mutation, and as you already know, they are hard to kill. Statistically, they have double the HP and attack power of normal necromorphs. The farther you get in, the more you will see. Now's the time to start stacking power nodes into your RIG's HP if you haven't. You're gonna need max HP towards the end of the game.

[Nils]

I love camping behind doors and walking in and out of them while shooting necros. Kinda troll-ish and nooby but I don't really care xD

[Zepher Tensho]

Hey, its survival. I take advantage of cheap tactics too.

[Echo-279]

Wait, in Dead Space 2, don't you get the Handcannon from beating Zealot?

[Nils]

So I was walking around and I found two bodies stuck to the wall. I'm guessing its some kind of necromorph. It was just moaning over and over again, I shot it a few times with the plasma cutter and I guess it died.

What was it? o.O

[Zepher Tensho]

@Echo, no, you get it for beating Hard Core

@Nils, those were "immature" guardians. Theres no reason to waste ammo on them, there are perfectly harmless. They're just there to disgust you.

[Nils]

Oh.....I actually WASTED ammo on them? Damn. Ammo is hard enough to find as is.

[Zepher Tensho]

Yea just ignore them lol. Or hit them, if you can reach. Its fun to give them a spurt or two of the flamethrower, cuz then they burn to death >=3

[Nils]

^ Yeah it does. I like burning things xD

Anyway. Got through Chapter 4. That flamethrower worked like a charm against the brutes. I got a few new weapon schematics though.

I think it was force gun and Contact Beam.
Are they any good?

My current weapon loadout is: Plasma Cutter, Ripper, Pulse Rifle, and Flamethrower.

Should I switch any of those out for new weapons?

[Zepher Tensho]

Trade out the flame thrower for either the contact beam or force gun. Depends on what you wanna do.

The force guns primary fire is a short range conic blast that does little damage but will blow away any enemies in your face. The secondary fire is a bomblet that knocks back and damages anything it hits.

The contact beams primary fire is an extremely high powered energy blast. Very good for brutes or 1 HKO on enhanced enemies. The secondary fire is a shockwave that blows away anything in a 360 degree radius around you.

[Nils]

Hmmm. I think ill go with Contact Beam. I need to try it out and get a feel for the weap first.

[Zepher Tensho]

Be warned that the ammo is rare and expensive. Not that you'll use it a lot. But it is a very good weapon to have for boss fights like The Leviathan, and various tentacles.

[Nils]

Hmm. Then again. All ammo is expensive xD

[Zepher Tensho]

Well lets compare

1250 for 25 Pulse rounds
1100 for 6 plasma rounds (I think)
2000 for 1 contact energy round. Yea. Its stupid expensive.

[Nils]

Yeah.....xD

I'm on Chapter 6 at the moment. What are those necromorphes that have those yellow balls? I killed a few coming out of some vents and like a paranoid idiot, I stomped on one and was rewarded with a red health bar xD

[Zepher Tensho]

Pfft why'd you stomp on it XD

But yea those are Exploders (complex name right?)
Shooting them in the explosive sac is the easiest way to kill them. And everyone around them. >=3 Or sever the arm and uses kinesis to toss it at enemies.

Oh, and how'd you like the Hunter~ (chapter 5)

[Nils]

Oh the hunter was great. I used Stasis and played freeze tag with him for a while. Then it got kinda boring and I froze him permanently

[Zepher Tensho]

I was half afraid you'd waste all your ammo on him XD
I know I did.

[Nils]

Well.

I DID use a good bit of ammo on him. Thankfully I HAPPENED to listen to Kendra (Or was it Hammond?) who said that it was impossible to kill him.
In all honesty, the Hunter kinda scared me with its glowing eyes xD
Don't laugh. Glowing eyes actually scare me a bit xD

That was probably the first fight I ever REALLY used stasis. Its very useful. Pity there is so little stasis energy.