Depth of "stashes" and gamepaly questions.

[ZippyDSMlee]

I have a few questions I cant seem to find easy answers for,will ash trays and garbage cans be used to hold stashes and such or are they strictly art deco?

A quick question about plasmids are they one time use items or add to your list of powers?

Do the weapons have a skill system to mess with or is that handled threw weapon upgrades?

Is their a skill/stat system?


From my understanding Bioshock is a simplified FPS RPG based when compared to SS2 and DX.

If these can be answered in another thread please close this and direct me to where my questions can be answered,thank you for your time.

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[One0Shot]

I dont think they have said anything about this but it would be cool to take something seemingly useless out of the trash and put it to use.

[ZippyDSMlee]

I dont think they have said anything about this but it would be cool to take something seemingly useless out of the trash and put it to use.

I wouldn't say useless ,odds and ends lil health items and such even adam,I just hope they have learned to balance since SS2,while it was great game the entropy+rarity of money to buy the stuff you need from the vending machines kinda made the game a nightmare to play :X


I just hope the restrictions in place do not hurt the fun of the game and I'd love to hunt and have "unscripted" encounters with stuff so I can balance my inventory.

Has anyone said anythign abotu location damage?
when use a limited ammo setup location damage becomes important and changing it for different creatures can really add to the game play, for instance either the "face" or legs/feet the big daddy/can be its weakest location unlike a head shot to more humanoid character you'd only gain extra damage with no chance to kill in one shot.

Altho I doubt such location damage would be used in this game,sadly most see location damage as a gimmick for realism and few have tried to use it as a effective gameplay tool.

even for console gameing this can be done with auto aim helping to zone in on the head if you can get it within target area.


Over at the Falout 3 forums some of us have been talking about a FPS RPG game the size of morrowind but havign the skill and equipment of FO and having percentage based rolls based on stats/equipment/skill to not damage/damage/critical damage/blind/cripple locations its broken down to weapon armor and stats/skill the player just needs to aim (for this hashing of it there is no to hit roll IE if the player aims and misses its there fault if some shots do no damage its because you got a sucky weapon).

I would die and fan girl sqee(note I am a fan boy :P) if someone made a FPS of the size of TES with location damage and heavy RPG elements however without location damage it becomes a elder scrolls knock off and something I would rather not fool with.

no one knows what FO3 will be my bet is TES knock off, as for Bioshock its looking better and better maybe if they released some more gameplay videos I could make my mind up over pre ordering it....but Bioshock is not the only game I am thinking abotu preordering I will hold off 6 months before the Star craft 2 launch before I decide if its pre order worthy or not :P.

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[Irrational_Alexx]

will ash trays and garbage cans be used to hold stashes and such

Yes.

plasmids are they one time use items or add to your list of powers?

Powers.

Do the weapons have a skill system to mess with or is that handled threw weapon upgrades?

Upgrades.

Is their a skill/stat system?

Kinda sorta, but very streamlined.

Alexx Kay, Designer, Irrational Games

[ZippyDSMlee]

Yes.



Powers.



Upgrades.



Kinda sorta, but very streamlined.

Alexx Kay, Designer, Irrational Games

quick ,to the point ,thank you!

[ZippyDSMlee]

I have other quick questions someone can toss a answer at they it was presented adam is your moeny and you "mana" or energy for powers you,or do you have your on plasmid energy gauge?

when it comes to hacking adam is sued to hack will there be tools to lessen the adam used?

[Irrational_Alexx]

I have other quick questions someone can toss a answer at they it was presented adam is your moeny and you "mana" or energy for powers you,or do you have your on plasmid energy gauge?

when it comes to hacking adam is sued to hack will there be tools to lessen the adam used?

Once upon a time, ADAM served lots of different game functions. Over the course of development, that changed. Now ADAM is only used for character growth, the money is "Dollars", and Plasmids are powered by EVE (Fictionally derived from ADAM). Does that help?

Alexx Kay, Designer, Irrational Games

[ZippyDSMlee]

Once upon a time, ADAM served lots of different game functions. Over the course of development, that changed. Now ADAM is only used for character growth, the money is "Dollars", and Plasmids are powered by EVE (Fictionally derived from ADAM). Does that help?

Alexx Kay, Designer, Irrational Games

Wondered how that was balanced out, I was having some nightmares over adam being used for everything, sure you could stick it everywhere but ti would undermined it a bit I would think, wow thinking about it the game has come a long ways from SS2 my only 2 complaints on SS2 was entropy and money was a nightmare not enough moeny to keep in Psi power thus handicapped a psi user,entropy was genius but it needed to be 2-3X in shoots fired so you would have it but not have it lock up in a gun fight it would do it every 3 or 6 gun fights, I also wished the random encounters dropped more moeny/upgrade chips a bit of leveling on it would have been awesome played it lots with entropy off too all in all like Fallout a game beyond its time, I hope Bioshock gains the money and prestige SS2 didn't really get..but deserved.

SO adam is now strictly "EXP" and money is used for buying stuff like plasmids?

From want I managed to put together from the old long E3 demo was Adam is for leveling and or money is for buying,plasmids might be bought with adam to make the choices more interesting.

I'll cut the rambling and cut to the meat of the questions so I don't confuse myself with banter/convo I suck at

Adam is for leveling will it be used for plasmid buying?

Money is used for buying stuff will it be used for hacking?

bah it looks like I need to find a place to preorder it..I wont touch EB/GS best buy will do tho would rather prefer a "first tear" retail store tho...mmm...*grumbles and wanders off* LOL

[MultiVaC]

streamlined

After what happened with DX: IW, "streamlined" is probably the most frightening words in the game developer lexicon Except for maybe "Starforce" or "game may cause uncontrollable self-cannibalization".