Current Events > I made it to the Alien in Alien Isolation

(+) Yeah! (+)

Game is a masterpiece

Fuck those androids.
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It's a good game. I never finished it though because I really disliked the save system.
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That's as far as I got. I really liked it up until that point, but about 30 minutes of running from the alien and I had enough, couldn't see spending the rest of the game like that.

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I keep hearing from so many people how good this game was, and I own it and never once played it.
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MabusIncarnate posted...

I keep hearing from so many people how good this game was, and I own it and never once played it.

You have the chance to fix that this weekend my dude
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Iron-Tarkus posted...

MabusIncarnate posted...

I keep hearing from so many people how good this game was, and I own it and never once played it.

You have the chance to fix that this weekend my dude

But i'm playing Rock of Ages 2 and Killing Floor 2 and they are both awesome.
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It handles the "run-and-hide" genre pretty well IMO. A lot of those games tend to get frustrating towards the end because you aren't scared anymore, you're just annoyed that you can't grab a wrench from a janitor's closet and beat the monster to death. Having humans you can easily kill, androids you can kill with difficulty, and an invincible alien means you can mix and match the gameplay to give the player a break.
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Anyone who played and beaten the game know if this is true


That the aliens stop coming about half way through the game? I was gonna buy it but once i found out about this i was kinda bummed
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Buzz Killjoy posted...

That's as far as I got. I really liked it up until that point, but about 30 minutes of running from the alien and I had enough, couldn't see spending the rest of the game like that.

IIRC it was the medbay area where the alien first starts coming after you.

It's actually a little different from the rest of the game. In the med bay the alien is like patrolling and constantly hunting you, whereas in most of the rest of the game it only seems to come down and start looking for you if you make too much noise (shoot a gun, etc.)

I4NRulez posted...

Anyone who played and beaten the game know if this is true


That the aliens stop coming about half way through the game? I was gonna buy it but once i found out about this i was kinda bummed

That is not true, don't worry.
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That's when I stopped playing because I'm a wuss
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There is a section of the game without the alien but it makes sense plot wise and there is a reason for that part of the game.
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The only complain i hear about the game is that it drags on too much by the later portion of the game.
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It's that they have a couple places that could have been the end of the game but were not and when the game kept going some felt it was "you had a good place to end it but didn't".
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Itachi157 posted...

IIRC it was the medbay area where the alien first starts coming after you.

Can confirm. Medbay SUCKS

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That's a game I've been meaning to try one of these days
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Will never understand why Gamespot and IGN gave it such poor reviews... It's literally the game Alien fans had been wanting forever. All things considered it turned out pretty well.

I4NRulez posted...

Anyone who played and beaten the game know if this is true


That the aliens stop coming about half way through the game? I was gonna buy it but once i found out about this i was kinda bummed

lol wut no
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I4NRulez posted...

Anyone who played and beaten the game know if this is true


That the aliens stop coming about half way through the game? I was gonna buy it but once i found out about this i was kinda bummed

not even close.

there's a middle pacing issue that forces you to go through some boring sections because of plot... hell, i never even noticed it until i was already halfway through those sections and i finished them by the time i started to get bored xd
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Man the damn orchestra is scarier than the alien at this point.

Not that the alien isn't still terrifying.

The alien being so heavy is really screwing with me. I hear footsteps and immediately think I need to hide when he's really two hallways down and I'm fine. He's a loud boy.
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i stopped playing at the medbay because the alien was too scary and i didn't know how to get past it without dying
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Does the Alien's pathing change with the difficulty? I played on the highest difficulty and the Alien was pretty much right on top of me from start to finish, which ruined a lot of the scariness and the fun factor.
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Amazing game that kinda overstays its welcome.
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Good game it just dragged on it bit to much towards the end.

MabusIncarnate posted...

Iron-Tarkus posted...

MabusIncarnate posted...

I keep hearing from so many people how good this game was, and I own it and never once played it.

You have the chance to fix that this weekend my dude

But i'm playing Rock of Ages 2 and Killing Floor 2 and they are both awesome.

that reminds me I think I bought KF2 on the summer sale and I don't even know if I installed it.

Chicken posted...

Does the Alien's pathing change with the difficulty? I played on the highest difficulty and the Alien was pretty much right on top of me from start to finish, which ruined a lot of the scariness and the fun factor.

I've read that it's not so much a pathing issue as the alien's hearing just becomes incredibly sensitive.
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Send help

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I spent like 30 seconds in the locker than the second I step out I hear him opening the door to the room I'm in.

Just leave me alone you fuck
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Fuck I just died after an nearly an hour of sneaking through the medbay. I definitely need to move faster than I have been because there's no way that should've taken me as long as it did

I hate this alien so much.
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Well turns out I had missed a save point.

That said easy medbay fuck you alien I'm a legend.
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Iron-Tarkus posted...

Fuck I just died after an nearly an hour of sneaking through the medbay. I definitely need to move faster than I have been because there's no way that should've taken me as long as it did

I hate this alien so much.

Are you using noisemakers and such to distract him?
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He's mostly okay, but there's some shitty scripted kills that are bullshit. Sometimes he'll pop through a vent to instakill where he couldn't possibly be because they don't want you to use a certain hallway. Fuck that!
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I used the noise maker the last attempt where I died.

Made it through without using any consumables at all when I got it.

There was one part where I was searching a room and he doubled back 2-3 times and kept me stuck in there for 3-5 minutes. Apart from that it went beautifully.
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Cookie Bag posted...

The only complain i hear about the game is that it drags on too much by the later portion of the game.

It does. The game would have been better off ending like 2-3 hours before it did. And that's not something you'd normally say for a game, but by the end of the game I was just annoyed. You can tell the devs artificially extended the game.
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Iron-Tarkus posted...

I used the noise maker the last attempt where I died.

Made it through without using any consumables at all when I got it.

That was the only part of the game I found them to be really useful.

As an aside, the AI for the Alien adapting to your distractions is really good. I remember trying to test out its learning on the hardest difficulty. I dropped a noisemaker and then immediately hid in a nearby locker. The Alien jumped out of a vent, slowly approached the device, stared at it with a sort of puzzled look for about 3 seconds, took a glance around, and then ran off back into the vent.

Dropped a second noisemaker in the same spot and hid in the locker again. This time, the Alien approached it and only glanced for a split second, then began patrolling the area and looking behind desks and such to see where it came from. It stopped in front of the locker I was in for a couple of seconds, but didn't detect me. It eventually retreated back into the ceiling again.

Dropped the noisemaker a third time. This time the alien jumped out of the vent, immediately came to the locker I was hiding in, pulled me out and killed me.
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Cowered under a bed as the alien walked by. He walked by a second time about 10 seconds later before pissing off into the vents. 10 seconds after that some guy walks by like nothing is happening.

I'm definitely throwing the guy under the bus when the alien comes back.

edit: There's actually 3 of these assholes.
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DreadedWave posted...

I never finished it

^

those androids just pissed me off too much tbh
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Well I was laughing at how those loud assholes got what they deserved but apparently I'm a loud asshole too. RIP

Alien just got a quad kill.
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the alien itself is cheap tbh, even on normal.

poorly made game, but for the IP its probably the best we'll ever get
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I made it all the way through medical. Got my trauma kit and got out without dying once. I'm definitely getting better at this.

Highlight of that section was I was hiding from another scavenger and waiting for him to leave the room. I needed to go right down the hallway I saw him go left so I thought I would just swoosh on past him. He took about 3 steps down the hallway, yelled 'oh shit', fired a single shot at the alien, then ran where I needed to go and died.
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Medical is probably the hardest section in the game to get through. You have no idea where to go and the Alien is constantly patrolling. It gets easier with the odd difficulty spike. You get into a rhythm really and you know how the thing thinks.

I barely used the lockers or anything like that. Keep moving. Best hiding spots are tables and under furniture since you can generally bounce between them quicker.

Jiek_Fafn posted...

He's mostly okay, but there's some shitty scripted kills that are bullshit. Sometimes he'll pop through a vent to instakill where he couldn't possibly be because they don't want you to use a certain hallway. Fuck that!

You can see the droll coming out of these vents.
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my favourite part was when I was hiding in a floor vent, threw a noisemaker to distract the alien in a big way, only to aim too low and throw it right at the edge of the vent opening and have it bounce back in my face.

I had never felt such panic
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Darmik posted...

I barely used the lockers or anything like that. Keep moving. Best hiding spots are tables and under furniture since you can generally bounce between them quicker.

This is true.

And don't forget to use the tracker. I thought it was very handy
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MorbidFaithless posted...

And don't forget to use the tracker. I thought it was very handy

If anything I'm overusing the motion tracker. Sometimes I just can't tell if it's just gotten in or out of the vent and being able to see he's infront of me but not visible is a nice tell that it's in the vent and I can move.
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I saw somewhere that the Alien can actually react to the beeps of the tracker. I'm not sure how true that is though
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Darkninja42 posted...

I saw somewhere that the Alien can actually react to the beeps of the tracker. I'm not sure how true that is though

it's very true, hiding in the locker with the tracker active will make him spot you 100%
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SSJKirby posted...

Darkninja42 posted...

I saw somewhere that the Alien can actually react to the beeps of the tracker. I'm not sure how true that is though

it's very true, hiding in the locker with the tracker active will make him spot you 100%

Believe it depends on difficulty.
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Wait..the game has weapons??

I thought it was another shitty Amnesia rip-off with Alien slapped on it.
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FF_Redux posted...

Wait..the game has weapons??

I thought it was another shitty Amnesia rip-off with Alien slapped on it.

That's where games of this genre could take a lesson.

It has three different enemy types. Humans can shoot at you, but you can shoot at them, so it's not hard to take them out. Androids are more durable, so it's better to avoid them if you can, but you can kill them if you have to. The alien is, of course, invulnerable and has to be avoided. Until you get the flamethrower which temporarily scares it off....until it gets fed up. So you don't get bored because they can mix and match the hopeless hiding with proactive murder.
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Iron-Tarkus posted...

Fuck those androids.

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