im playing the game on normal right now, im on chapter 7 and for the first time i feel the ripper is better than the plasma i can kill with one blade and i can hold back severall enemies back with the ripper and i still have 2 damage upgrades left i kinda which the plasma cutter was better i miss using it lol
I was wondering how to get the one trophy with playing with ONLY the plasma cutter all through the game lol. Insane. I was like how would you get enough ammo. But I know now that you put the weapons you don't use much in the storage.
@STOUTISHVOICE 41 I did find a somewhat all be it funnt strategy get the line gun and place one contact beam on both sides of a bottle while using the gravity module, and watch the necromorphs die
not on impossible but i died where you have to go out to space to destroy the gravity teathers of the meteor, when i tried to go back in i touched the thing with spikes that goes around to kill you, it was already stopped i just lightly touched it and Isaac exploded imagine in impossible lmao.
I died to the tentacle dragging me while I was stabbing the wheezers with enzyme. I laid so much bullets in the blob on the tentacle but it still didnt die and I got even more pissed with the death animation because the tentacle lets go of Isaac but he just fucking stands there and then dies. If that were me in that situation then I would've been holling ass away Edit: I beat it now
Combining impossible mode with the one gun achievement worked well for me, you max out the suit and plasma cutter really quickly and never run out of ammo or credits. Kinesis/stasis are more than good enough to deal with hordes of enemies that could be overwhelming for just a plasma cutter.
In the room before the leviathan, you can use kenesis to grab most of the items before stepping in with the leviathan. You can't grab all of them but a majority. If you don't have enough inventory space, simply drag them to the other room and they'll be waiting for you after you killed the leviathan.
The game's AI must've caught on to me doing that same thing because in new game + it gave me NO leeway for grabbing even a single one of those supply boxes before the cutscene to facing the leviathon.
I suggest playing game twice first. First on normal to get basic familiarity, then on hard mode ng+ to hone your skills inside the fire when you have all your toys to handle everything. Going to a fresh Impossible run after NG+ Hard is a cakewalk by comparison.
Also keep in mind that impossible mode is the same difficulty as hard mode the only difference is that you only get 1 life. So the monsters aren’t harder to kill than hard mode.
I'm playing hard and impossible simultaneously. I'll play a chapter on hard, then replay that chapter on impossible and learn from the mistakes I made in the hard playthrough.
My idea. I played the original games on the hardest difficulty. What would you recommend to do in order to get all trophies in those 2 runs? Do the impossible or hard run with Plasma Cutter only?
Thanks for the tips, man. Think that maxing out every single tool/suit ability should be the very first step if possible, that's what I did in my Zealot run back in DS2, but now the "danger" are the ambushes on every bad turn👀
PSA: the wall-huggers or "guardians" have an instant-kill grab attack. Don't try to run past them. One death at eight and a half hours in, but I got there eventually with a parallel hard difficulty run as training. My hard difficulty playthrough was able to run past the guardian. My impossible run got grabbed.
I’m glad that basically all the weapons seem viable in this game, even on harder difficulties. I’ve seen people play though this with an completely different loadout
For me,my loadout consisted of the plasma cutter, force gun, and contact beam. Force gun is just handy to help give yourself breathing room whenever necrosis get too close for comfort, and it’s hella useful for the stasis necros on the Valor, as one blast will also activate their stasis modules to give you some extra time to lay on hits. I would also recommend using custom controls and assign auto heal to the down arrow or whichever d-pad you prefer; last thing you want is to accidentally hit circle/B in a panic or while trying to use kinesics and end up using a precious health jet that you won’t be able to get back by reloading an auto-save.
@@phant0mdummy Totally agree with this. You might have 90% and a big med kit and you accidentally spend it by accident instead of using a small one, that hurts, basically because big ones can be sold for 5k credits.
I will be honest with you I didn't know you could do that until today. Line gun is a great gun especially at planning for enemies where you know they are coming. I can see a lot of people being real creative with this.
One thing that I found useful was having the flamethrower. Not only is it good for crowd control with stasis, is helps kill the pregnant ones without them bursting or if they do its good to kill all the crawlers. Also good for the dudes on the wall and tentacles they shoot. And the plasma cutter maxed and as much health upgraded as possible
I can attest that the Flamethrower in this game is a very great weapon. People give high praise to the Plasma Cutter, but the Flamethrower is very effective at crowd control and taking down multiple enemies. The ability to launch a canister creates a near impenetrable wall of flames that can damage enemies if they come into contact with it.
It's good to run ripper, flamethrower, line gun and pulse rifle in my opinion. It's pretty everything you need. But yes flame thrower is straight 🔥 FIRE
@@ButtChugDoug66 The thing is weapons like the flamethrower or force gun are great for crowd control, in fact, the combo force gun + stasis plus fire is brutally effective. By removing the flesh with the force gun enemies lose a ton of HP and the flames or the Pulse Rifle can quickly kill them, even with stasis with the upgrade module that has electricity (damage over time). Use the fire after the force gun shot and then freeze them all with stasis and enjoy the BBQ. I would go as far as to remove the contact beam and use this combo of weapons for crowd control.
My impossible run ended after the game spawned enemies right by the save station outside of the engine room. I used the PS cloud save trick in case I mess up and I'm not fast enough to quit to main menu. The game realised what I was doing and spawn necros that would instantly kill me once I loaded my save.
A thing I rarely see talked about is that if you are in a room with corpses, and an infector spawns, it will not be able to wake the corpses if you stomp their legs off. First time this matters is in Engineering, the most important place to do this is the Common Area in Crew Quarters. Also, before entering the Autopsy Room with the Captain's Rig.
Save when you can. Right as you die pause and exit out of your game and quit it before loading back into your previous save. Easy peasy. I would really appreciate it if you do.
Some from me as well. Maxed out plasma cutter is all you need really, or bring along the force gun for crowds, guardian or little buggers. Invest in stasis, with the aoe upgrade it can save you in a pinch and mob rooms mostly have stasis refills. Practice grabbing severed claws and throwing them in a fight, it knocks back enemies into oblivion. If you need to heal hp or energy and near a bench, upgrading your suit hp/energy brings you back to full.
Tips that helped me. Dont use anything but the plasma cutter. Dont even bother picking up anything else. That way ammo that is generated will be ammo for that. 2. Dont waste money buying power nodes. If you explore on your own. Plus doing the side missions. You will get more than enough by the end. 3. Spam and focus on getting your statis fully upgraded. This is going to give you massive breathing room when the game spams the f out of you with monsters. 4. Save often. There will be parts of the game where the game will act stupid. Monsters become massive bullet sponges for no reason. If you notice that you are using way more shots than you should to clear an area. Restart that section. I had times where Im using over 15 shots on a monster shooting at the limbs. And still nothing. 5. The game will throw curveballs at you. I cleared an entire arra. Turned around for 1 second to check a hallway. Only for it to spawn a monster on the ground to ambush or try to. 6. I honestly got lucky at the first Hunter encounter. For whatever reason. The hunter bugged out. Didnt show up until I got to the medical area where Nicole has the recording. Even when he spawned in. Only 2 Monsters came in. And they were super slow as hell. 7. Check everything. Your main priority needs to be ammo, statis, and meds. When you have enough. Upgrade the suit to at least level 5. 8. The game still has some odd glitches that can cause instant deaths. It definitely needs a few patches. Regular doors can damage Issac badly or kill him if not careful. The lift leading to the 2nd leviathan fight can also kill you. Save before getting on that platform. 9. Issac has issues running at times. You can be hitting the running action button only for him to take a few seconds to do so. This is also another glitch they will have to fix in the future. 10. Impossible mode isnt that difficult. Its more tedious, and annoying as hell more than anything. You have to save every chance you get. Save ammo and dont spray, and pray. If a section seems more difficult than it should. Restart your save to retry.
Honestly, the only three weapons you should use are the plasma cutter, contact beam, and force gun. Contact beam especially for boss enemies like Brutes and the Leviathan
For the giant brute dudes you can stasis it go around behind and shoot it with the contact beam alternate fire mode in the left shoulder and it dies instantly
It was a stressful 10 hours but I just beat impossible on my first try, the line gun and the contact beam are all you really need, max those bad boys out along with HP and carry the flamethrower for wall guardians. And of course always have like 5 or 6 healing items on you, thats where i spent most of my credits.
I feel like 2 or 3 guns is the sweet spot instead of carrying 4. One precision gun, i.e. Plasma Cutter or Pulse Rifle (Plasma Cutter is the clear winner imo), one AOE/CC weapon (Ripper, Flamethrower, Force Gun, or Line Gun) and one weapon for bosses or big boy enemies, which honestly is just the Contact Beam. I feel like having 3 guns is the sweet spot for a good spread of ammo drops and using your nodes
The little bugs are super annoying in this game, particularly in impossible mode. If you accidentally kill the pregnant not shooting at the limbs it's mandatory to use AOE weapon, even the stasis with the secondary effect that shocks targets. A couple of runs to know the spawn locations as well as the number of enemies appearing in the critical moments is very important.
Some good tips in this video. But a major element to making impossible easy is stomp spamming it dose 3 times as much damage to enemies than melee swing cus the stomp hits both legs and breaks them off than allowing you to stomp their head an arms doing this with stasis is a winning combo early in the game level up stasis and just keep going back to stasis refill stations so you can set up for your stasis stomp combo and basically stasis stomp combo any group of enemies that be about two deep anymore than that you gotta shoot some of them or you'll waste your stasis and take hits and you don't wanna get hit cus its expensive to heal. Also if you can keep poles or explosive barrels on you, you can open doors while kenticly holding things so you can walk around with basically another free kill to open up with before the stomp stasis combo.
I've beat and played the hell out of Dead Space since the original. Today I found out during my Impossible playthrough that getting too close to a Guardian will trigger a scripted instakill. I was too slow to dashboard and I lost my progress. I was on chapter 10.
When you come across a path that is obstructed always telekinesis through the gap and most often than not you’ll find goodies like ruby conductors, ammo, and health packs.
1:27 actually if you only use 1-2 weapons for most of the chapters it will save you more inventory space and give more ammo for guns you want to use more often. Weapons for my build was the plasma cutter for whole game + flamethrower for weakening targets limbs or the force gun that can do the same thing but better. Once you maxed out plasma cutter go for max suit then max out force gun = easy game. Also if you die just pause the game and exit to main menu as long as you do this fast enough before death screen you won't get save erased.
my personal fav set up ive been running is plasma cutter (very generally useful weapon especially for dealing with a bunch of enemies) ripper (super ammo efficient especially upgraded it can kill 2 slashers with one blade) flamethrower (for the swarm little guys and for the wall guardians because one flame wall can insta kill the wall guardians) and line gun. (for defense because upgraded one trap turns into 3 lines and i can cut of choke points)
@scrambling blambles not really. Every other weapon I put in storage instantly as I got them so I wouldn't get those ammo pick ups. I also would use any pipes I could find since those are insta kill and I would abuse stasis recharge stations and would only melee if I could. (Stomping a stasis enemy you can kill them before they hit you) I did have an excessive amount of line gun and flamethrower ammo since I only used those for very specific scenarios being wall guardians and holding a choke. You can also cheat out ammo by not reloading and using a power node to upgrade capacity. I gained so much ammo by doing that trick
@scrambling blambles I also only been upgrading plasma cutter and ripper and suit upgrades. Flamethrower doesn't need any upgrades to kill wall guardians in one flame wall and line gun traps are pretty good on their own but I would upgrade that last if you can
I died in chapter 4 when you encounter the brute, while you are stepping through these "electric platforms" that spark electricity sometimes, and then they stop shortly. Well, as soon as i heard the brute stepping towards me, i ran back behind the wall where i was coming from, but then the electric platforms on the ground didnt stop sparking electricity, i guess to prevent the player to run away from the brute. Well i think i ran to soon, because i managed go back behind one platform, that was just not sparking electricity, as soon as i heard it. But then i couldnt process around it, because it was permanently sparking lightnings, once i was behind it. So i had to run through it to get to where i need to go, and then died because apparently the lightnings do hit you 2-3 times, and i thought it just "gets you once" when you step in it. Yeah, quite stupid and painful do die like that, but at least i now know i will face that thing immediately when i hear it coming.
Always be careful around the environmental kill areas. There's a glitch in the game too where after you run into he first tentacle that grabs you its literally invincible. If you're noticing that you are absolutely lasering the weak point and its about to kill you, try exiting back to main menu and doing it again. Although the game just updated a couple days ago, I don't know if quitting to main menu has been patched.
@@MinhNGUYEn-uq2nt Yea, ya gotta be careful. Don't use the rifle especially, the damage isn't good enough. But plasma cutter should work, if a whole mag didn't kill it then yea, it just glitches. Idk why, but it is really annoying.
Honestly I didn't have too much trouble. If you pause fast enough when you die, I think before the flatline sound, you can just reload your save. I only had to do that a couple times, but it saves the pain of having to restart the whole game again. I dunno if they patched it though, I did it not too long after the game released.
Honestly, if you've played all 3 Dead Space games (or even just gone through the first 2), I think you're pretty much set on playing Impossible right off the bat. But there are like 2-3 events in the game that could literally mess up your run if you didn't know about it beforehand (i.e. The nuke room on the Velar)
I used a plasma cutter all the way through. Selling pretty much anything unnecessary so I can get as many power nodes as I can. Also I can basically circumvent the permadeath by immediately pausing if I die. I just reset to my last save and since I saved every chance I got I rarely lost much progress.
Just start upgrading health and the plasma cutter then when you get the flamethrower the game is done game is a lot easier after chapter 3 then during 6 it gets really annoying and after that no other chapters are that bad good luck
I found using only the plasma cutter worked best for me. I focused on maxing the Plasma cutter first and the rest of the nodes go into upgrading the suit. Plus having one gun only spawns just that particular ammo so ammo shouldn't be an issue. Having more guns on your person and you're splitting the ammo drops between all the guns. Also spam the saves lol I would pause and exit out when only have half health to redo a section. better. The chapter with the weezers was brutal for me. Very little save points.
After I completed on Impossible with just the plasma cutter. The playthrough was actually a breeze after chapter 4. The first 3 had me a bit nervous especially with the environmental hazards but I wasnt too nervous since I played the dead space trilogy multiple times and the remake twice. Plasma cutter carries hard after chapter 4 and by chapter 7 your suit and plasma cutter would be 80% upgraded. IMO they should definitely revamp impossible mode by adding phantom necromorphs. I wouldn't introduced them right in ch.1 cause that would be unfair. I think they should be introduced in the end of ch 3 at the engine room and gradually make more appearances chapter by chapter.
They appear in impossible mode but you have to complete impossible mode first and then go NG+ for them to appear in your second impossible mode but that's not that funny, because you are already with 60+ nodes available, suits and upgrades.
Whether anyone's just playing it now, like myself. I disabled auto save on the ps5 (you can do it for just the one game) and manually save at the end of each session. So if you die die then you can use the good cloud save to overwrite the death/finality/tv smashing ps5 save (of nothing). I haven't tried it yet to see if it works, there's no reason it shouldn't. I'm doing this for all the glitchy stuff that is beyond our control. Like kids unpausing the game for you, they didn't get the comedy value they were expecting 😄😄😄😳
I know it’s not smart, but in the beginning when the enemies don’t hit AS hard I was taking hits over using ammo with a hard shift to defense in chapter 5. By this point I had 500 plasma cutter rounds which got me through the rest of the game.
If they remake Dead space 2 I'm positive they will have limited saves for the highest difficulty. The OG DS2 had I think 3 saves max. It was the hardest trophy I ever earned 😸
@@khora3845 I completely misinterpreted what the description said. When it mentioned only one save file, I thought they meant the player could only save once.
do you have any tips on how to keep the game crashing? because damn this game crashes alot. i have 15 hours into it and at least 1/4 of that time is just rebooting the damn game after a crash.
They could have made this mode a lot harder by removing customary saves and instead doing obligatory autosaves every 5 minutes! That would make this mode a lot more intense!
Advanced stasis is broken AF. I'd recommend doing that questline, especially if you're also doing a one-gun run. It adds AoE damage to stasis for some mild crowd-control.
same, didnt realized that till chapter 9, saved at the room right before the nuke and found out i could save it again. Then i accidentallly blow up the nuke, the save file automatically downgraded to hard. 5h30min progress down the drain :( After restart i found out i could prevent the save file from rewrite by return to main menu, so got my achiv yesterday, saved the game whenever i can and cheated death 3 times XD
@@user-cm7fg5zv5n So if you save and then die... does it start back up from last save on Hard Mode or even stay on Impossible Mode? Or does it just restart from Chapter 1?
i did impossible in one try after beating the game by only using the plasma cutter, it was quite a cake walk once you got those damage upgrades you get so much ammo it's insane. They should have fine tuned the ammo they give to the player more lmao
I just beat it on hard with just the plasma cutter to get the one gun achievement. I think I'll do the same in impossible mode. I did die a couple times because I was being dumb. This is probably my best bet to beat it in impossible mode.
so i’m a little confused about Tip 4: Save Often. doesn’t the difficulty setting before you start a fresh Impossible run tell you that you only have ONE save usage? and if so, does that negate the use or possibility of saving every time you get to a save station? 🤔😅
my first try on impossible after playing through hard and medium went frustratingly badly. I made it back to the kellion, and after the cutscene the necros were tanking 7+ shots to the limbs and wouldnt die. i ran out of stasis and ammo and they got me.
The Kellion is a quick ramp up in difficulty, especially since on Impossible regular stasis is ineffective against the speedy marine necros. You want to aim their center of mass to break their stasis modules and then shave off at least one leg before they recover from stasis to slow their stride. The shooting range has plenty of ammo you can pick up, even if you don't want to fight the necros that would spawn if you activate the range.
Anyone get stuck on chapter 3: activate control console? I couldn’t get past that objective despite multiple interactions with the console, and the elevator in Centrifuge section doesnt turn on for me. I didn’t have previous chapter save file as I was playing on impossible mode with only one sage slot 😢
Not being able to save the game, or having only limited saves, would not be impossible. There's plenty of games out there with in-game challenges or achievements/trophies that require you to beat the game on the hardest difficulty setting with zero deaths and no saves. One straight shot shot through the game in one sitting, basically. Not allowed to die even once. And not even allowed to save even once (and autosaves are disabled).
A few more tips: 1. In rooms you know the reanimator necromorph is going to show up (ie the morgue or crew common area) dismember all the dead bodies in those rooms with your stomp ahead of the encounter. With no bodies to animate, they have no choice but to just attack you instead, giving you way fewer enemies to deal with. 2. Use your kinesis to stockpile exploding canisters, stasis canisters and any impaling tools in rooms you know a necromorph onslaught will be coming (in engine room) this gives you quick kinesis kills to thin the herds. 3. I maxed out the ripper. It does good damage and often knocks the enemy backwards so it can't hit you.
I’m about to start my impossible run and I’m nervous as hell. Not from basic enemies. But from the leviathan battles and the Valor Nuke disposal parts. I died a ton on them. Not looking forward to it
For the Leviathon I had to remap my keybindings so I could hit sprint and a left or right at the same time. Just sprint sideways from the tentacle attacks. Grab and throw the bombs as fast as you can so they hit the Leviathon itself and not the next bomb it spews. For the nuke disposal, there are two poles in the room that you can kenesis into each suicider.
Other people have tried that and it works. Sounds like a you problem. I didn’t die on my run but I did have to unplug my Xbox mid run and it quit the game entirely so I didn’t get the benefit of quick resume but it let me load back in as normal no lost progress.
Gave up after I got dog shit bugs. Hope they fix it cause man I honestly kinda just gave up. I put so much effort and I’m actually doing really good but no I get some dumb fuck glitch and boom gameplay over
Here's my thing: When I check online, it says that Impossible Mode is unlocked by beating the game on Hard Mode at least once. But I beat the game on Normal, and found that Impossible Mode was unlocked from the start. It even gave me the warning message when I started playing it. Do you have to play through Hard Mode first in order to playthrough Impossible Mode successfully?
You don't have to but it is recommended. Hard mode is the same as impossible mode with the only differences being permadeath mode and only one save slot but the enemies all hit the same and take the same damage.
@@erzatitaniawins Hey, thanks for responding. Yeah, I finally learned through an article that it's best to start Impossible Mode after beating Hard Mode on New Game Plus. Interestingly enough, I actually just beat Dead Space 2 on Hardcore Mode hours ago. I used an exploit within the Weapons DLC that essentially allows you to farm Detonator Shells continuously. I at least have the Hand Cannon unlocked in Dead Space 2. Now it's time to go for the Hand Cannon in the remake. Appreciate your advice.
@@joshuaverde5362 definitely I really like playing it , I love the game , irrelevant of difficultly level . I’m an old git , so know I know there are limitations to my skill abilities 😂
I just bought the game Starterd play in midium dificulty cause is my first time playing dead space find kind of hard with some boses more if u dont have your weapons upgrade. I will try imposible other time i just bought the game two days ago i did the creditis thing have allot of money, i think the weapon u unlock imposible is good but is not like crazy good
I wouldnt recommend the Pulse Rifle. Has no further utility to add to the Plasma Cutter. You'd need a bunch of ammo to use the grenades efficiently and that on the other hand would limit the inv. space for your other guns' ammo. If you're going for Cutter upgrades primarily anyway, why sell a pulse rifle ammo drop for several hundred credits if this drop could've been 6 plasma cutter shots, which equals to more or less 2-3 dead necros. Pulse Rifle drops at this point are worth less credit-wise and combat-wise because the amount would kill 1 necro max. I'd say if you feel comfortable and know the game by heart Plasma Cutter only is not a bad choice. Otherwise I'd say Plasma Cutter, Contact Beam and Force Gun (ordered by upgrading priority). By the end of a hard walkthrough you'll have potentially a maxed out cutter, contact beam and a mid-way upgraded force gun. Cutter the Allrounder, Contact Beam for armored necros/twitcher or brutes and force gun as a last resort to create space in hectic situations. I'd say if you know the game by heart you'd have the most fun by using plasma cutter and line gun maxed out bc of the crazy utility of the mines... but only if you know the encounters and spawn points (more suitable for a NG+ run).
@@ballpeengene Remember Hard mode is the same as Impossible mode. The only difference is the permadeath in impossible mode but I have already explained how to get around that with dashboard exiting or going back back to the main menu before seeing the black screen of death. I heard someone comment that they would play a chapter in hard mode then switch and play that chapter in impossible mode. I don't know if that helps or not. The hardest part of impossible is the start in my opinion since everything is at base stats but once you gain nodes and start upgrading everything it gets easier. Also you don't have to fight everything that would waste your ammo and health packs. Hope that helps.
Besides the money thing? Lol Also I think you can turn on aim assist and QTEs as one button press Even on impossible stuff like that makes a huge difference in damage taken when the crawlers get on you, or when you’re grabbed, especially in a place like the flame rooms
Q? I know you mentioned. But. I can save any time I see a save area . / right. Like going before a boss. And after. If I missed understand. Let me know. Because. This is only trophy 🏆 I am missing. Thanks. 😊
believe it not, my understanding around the "only one save" was to run as far into the game up until level 8 or 9 and then safe and use your advice on quitting before death. I agree, not as hard, but they could have limited the safe override to only 5 times or something.
So there is no way to play Impossible Mode with New Game+? Are you always forced to start grind everything over? I am a bit confused why there’s no Impossible Mode for New Game+
@@erzatitaniawins Oh wow. I might of heard that somewhere amongst my confusion of trying to figure out exactly how to access it with New Game+ :p Dang. I was anticipating to jump to Impossible with New Game+ Thanks for clearing that up.
@@erzatitaniawins Really sucks you have to worry about grinding and updating all over again all the whilst trying not die to do the entire game over again. That’s really what you have to go through? That’s overboard for me.
Am I the only one that thinks the pistol upgrade that knocks enemies down with melee attacks is EXTREMELY useful? Especially for when you’re out of ammo?
