Ouch!   Having now moved into the sticks my broadband averages about 1Mb if i'm lucky, this download will take ages...  wish they had a facility to download the update from a website when I am at work or where it won't take forever and then allow me to dump it onto USB stick and update when I get home without the huge download.   I'm on an unlimited plan but when bandwidth is so low and i'm a skin flint that doesn't allow background downloading this hurts a little.  That being said I got the season pass so am happy its DLC and patch in one...

So, yeah. Mine was a serious question, not a moan. Which of the power settings downloads while it's snoozing?

I'd definitely recommend completing this before starting Untold Stories, I'm loving seeing how this first episode ties in with every thing I have seen throughout the game so far.

Moto70 wrote:

Fuck me that was short!

Really?! Any good though?

Elmlea wrote:

I keep putting this away for a few days every time I get killed.... still working up to another shot at the girlie cop boss.

I beat her first time but only as I'd made a ton of those shot gun/machine gun combo weapons beforehand. There's loads of the necessary stuff in the station as you're going through it.

Verecocha wrote:

Moto70 wrote:

Fuck me that was short!

Really?! Any good though?

Yeah, proper short, well under an hour if you just belt through the 'main' story.

I think it is still worth it though as I love the game and I loved how you see the story from another perspective. Also the new stuff carries through into the full game plus there are side missions and 'collectibles' that I haven't done yet.

Elmlea wrote:

I keep putting this away for a few days every time I get killed.... still working up to another shot at the girlie cop boss.

She was a bit of 'mare first time for me but second playthrough was a charm! I went in with 5 sidekicks along with 2 of the massive Teddybear auto-guns and loads of super-powerful weapons!!!

I much more enjoyed the second runthrough with everything ranked up than I did the first.

Elmlea wrote:

I haven't been doing anything with sidekicks, they always seem to get killed off way too easily... maybe I should try that. I reckon a handful of ZARs is the way to go.

Give them a decent weapon (any firearm will have unlimited ammo for them) and keep telling them to scavenge and they will find food to heal themselves. I am fortunate in that I have whichever perk it is that means they don't killed, if they run too low on health they return to the safe houses so I can go and get them again. It is certainly handy at times to have 5 sidekicks helping you out!

I've been back on this the past few days, after a very long hiatus, and i forgot how much fun it is.

I've been mulling around, taking advantage of the fact there's no deadline for the actual story missions, and grabbing all the collectibles - I have all the Frank statues, destroyed all the speakers, but i'm unsure about the amount of blueprints cause the game randomly gifts them to you (is there a way of checking?). 

Anyway, I've slowly become accustomed to the map layout, which was very daunting to begin with. It's a fantastic world they've built, with a ridiculous amount of detail given the amount of buildings you can enter (and pillage).

The psycho encounters lack the imagination of the earlier titles, but there are only so many twisted ideas you can come up with before they seem ridiculous or generic. Only a minor quibble.

I do love the fact that firearms are much more powerful in this game. I've been playing it like an extreme Resident Evil 3rd person shooter.

I'm on the final day of the timeline so I imagine the end is very close. I may NG+ it if I haven't reached Level 50 by the credits.

All-in-all a great game!

I've already maxxed out all the useful attributes, ignoring any survivor based perks cause I always fly solo. But I noticed there's an additional set that unlocks at 50. Is 50 the max level?

Well that ending was crap. Good game though. Can't be arsed with NG+ at the mo'. Plenty of other games to crack on with.

Yeah, that was the shit bit. Got the S ending.

Just finished this late tonight. 
S ending. 
52,975 zombies mulched. 
Didn't enjoy that last chapter at all. It was a perfect example of gameplay padding. Too long and tedious. Turned a game I enjoyed into a bit of a slog. Is it me or did some routes around the city close about three quarters of the way through the game? Forcing you to do some sections on foot. 
Anyway the Ultimate Shout is the weapon to craft and spam when you do have to go out on foot. 
I completed levels 48 & 49 in about 2 mins at night in one section of road with it. 

Its a pity some of the PP trials are a bit ridiculous, I.e. Use a special move like rip the head off a zombie 200 times, jeez I barely used the specials and didn't get that one until two thirds thru the game, so no way am I going to get 200 kills with it. 

Getting a large party of survivors together is a must. 
I had 6 at one point which included some story NPCs I just failed to complete their missions with them so they tagged along indefinitely - arm them all with LMGs and you are laughing, there were several psychos I barely had to do anything to because of them. And the penultimate boss was a doddle with them in tow, but I can see him being a nightmare when solo. 

Overall a cracking game, I've been saying it since DR1 came out, but I would still like a version of this without the 7 day (or whatever it was) timer.

A friend has just begged my copy off me. I won't see that again for several months.

Who's getting the DLC ? I've still played co-op but the trailer looked a right laugh

arguably the best 7.99 I have ever spent!  Massive stupid fun,  I love it.