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* Dead Space 2 shows that the Slasher transformation destroys the eyes, but Slashers can't see you if you cut off their heads. What, do they track you by sound? They find you even if you're not moving!
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* Dead Space 2 shows that the Slasher transformation destroys the eyes, but Slashers can't see you if you cut off their heads. What, do they track you by sound? They find you even if you're not moving!moving!
** The transformation shown in the very beginning was into a Unitologist 'zealot' slasher, the more common varieties may still have their eyes. As for how they can still find you without their senses, perhaps the infection gives them a sixth sense that allows them to track living organisms.
** The transformation shown in the very beginning was into a Unitologist 'zealot' slasher, the more common varieties may still have their eyes. As for how they can still find you without their senses, perhaps the infection gives them a sixth sense that allows them to track living organisms.
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*** To support this explanation, there are some words spoken by Danik early in ''Dead Space 3'': he seems to think that Necromorphs are an aberration caused by the government's "heretical" experiments on Markers. This would also explain the hypocrisy of the Unitologists wanting to do the same thing (building their own Markers) they hate EarthGov for.
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*** To In support of this explanation, there are some words spoken by Danik early in throughout all of ''Dead Space 3'': he seems to think 3'' it's made clear that Necromorphs are Danik and most Unitologists consider necromorphs an aberration caused by the government's "heretical" experiments on Markers. This would also explain the hypocrisy of the Unitologists wanting to do the same thing (building their own Markers) they hate EarthGov for.
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*** To support this explanation, there are some words spoken by Danik early in ''Dead Space 3'': he seems to think that Necromorphs are an aberration caused by the government's "heretical" experiments on Markers. This would also explain the hypocrisy of the Unitologists wanting to do the same thing (building their own Markers) they hate EarthGov for.
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* This has been bothering me for a while. Why did the Valor need the Ishimura to send out a comms signal to locate it? I mean, Isaac and the crew found it just fine. Presumably the CEC wouldn't just give a team of regular engineers exact coordinates to the Ishimura if the company was keeping it a secret, so why couldn't the Valor find them? This is also disregarding the fact that they were in a 1.3 kilometer long space ship, most certainly still giving off an EM signature, firing mass driver rounds to stave off asteroids, next to the only planet in the system with a micro asteroid belt...
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* This has been bothering me for a while. Why did the Valor need the Ishimura to send out a comms signal to locate it? I mean, Isaac and the crew found it just fine. Presumably the CEC wouldn't just give a team of regular engineers exact coordinates to the Ishimura if the company was keeping it a secret, so why couldn't the Valor find them? This is also disregarding the fact that they were in a 1.3 kilometer long space ship, most certainly still giving off an EM signature, firing mass driver rounds to stave off asteroids, next to the only planet in the system with a micro asteroid belt...belt...
* Dead Space 2 shows that the Slasher transformation destroys the eyes, but Slashers can't see you if you cut off their heads. What, do they track you by sound? They find you even if you're not moving!
* Dead Space 2 shows that the Slasher transformation destroys the eyes, but Slashers can't see you if you cut off their heads. What, do they track you by sound? They find you even if you're not moving!
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** The Necromorph manages to kill the "welcoming comity", and make it's way to the Bridge. And even though the ship's AI could lockdown every room and hallway on the ship, a Necromorph could simply bypass that by the ventilation ducts and subcielings. Remember the Decontamination Chamber in Chapter IV?
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** The Necromorph manages to kill the "welcoming comity", and make it's way to the Bridge. And even though the ship's AI could lockdown every room and hallway on the ship, a Necromorph could simply bypass that by the ventilation ducts and subcielings.subceilings. Remember the Decontamination Chamber in Chapter IV?
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** This troper has heard a theory that makes sense. The necromorph killed the people who openned the pod, who weren't expecting anything other than a normal miner. The necropmorph then got into the vent system and made it's way straight to the bridge, by-passing all those soldiers easily. Once at the bridge it makes short work of the bridge crew, who wouldn't be heavily armed if they even are armed at all, and that causes the valor to crash into the Ishimurra. The remaining crew are shaken and thrown around by the sudden impact, and are reorientating themselves when the rest of the necromorphs start coming out of the woodwork.
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** This troper has heard a theory that makes sense. The necromorph killed the people who openned opened the pod, who weren't expecting anything other than a normal miner. The necropmorph then got into the vent system and made it's way straight to the bridge, by-passing all those soldiers easily. Once at the bridge it makes short work of the bridge crew, who wouldn't be heavily armed if they even are armed at all, and that causes the valor to crash into the Ishimurra. The remaining crew are shaken and thrown around by the sudden impact, and are reorientating themselves when the rest of the necromorphs start coming out of the woodwork.
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* What's the deal with Dr. Mercer? Was he nuts before the Marker, or was he driven that way like some of the other? Insanity seems to be one of the first symptoms of the virus.
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* What's the deal with Dr. Mercer? Was he nuts before the Marker, or was he driven that way like some of the other? others? Insanity seems to be one of the first symptoms of the virus.
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**** I always just assumed that Kendra used her position as the teams computer expert to cut off the last half of the message. After all, if Isaac thinks she's alive then he's motivated to help, but if he knew she was dead all along then he'd probably be useless to Kendra's palns.
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**** I always just assumed that Kendra used her position as the teams computer expert to cut off the last half of the message. After all, if Isaac thinks she's alive then he's motivated to help, but if he knew she was dead all along then he'd probably be useless to Kendra's palns.plans.
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** This is actually pretty easy to explain: [[ChurchOfHappyology Unitology]] is a ''BroadStrokes'', theology-wrapped depiction of the basic facts behind the Necromorphs. In other words, Unitologists don't ''know'' anything about the reality of the Marker and Convergence; the Church tells them only that the dead will return to the living and all humanity shall be "made whole", which presumably is depicted as some sort of harmonious accord in which all wants, losses, pain, sorrow, etc will be gone forever. They don't know that, in reality, the dead will return as [[OurZombiesAreDifferent nightmarish undead abominations]], or that "becoming whole" means "being killed, reanimated and assimilated into a HiveMind of necromorphs". Tellingly, in about the 10th level, you'll pass a looped video where the insane Dr. Mercer is preaching to his fellow believers to embrace conversion and they all turn and walk away in disgust. The only Unitologists who actually worship necromorphs are those who have been driven mad by the Marker's mental influence, which is noted in later games as specifically fostering delusions of reverence to make it easier to convert victims into necromorphs.
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* Probably one of the biggest headscratchers in the entire game is, if Nicole was [[spoiler:dead the entire game]] what was happening when Nicole appears in the mining deck and unlocks a door for Isaac? Isaac is apparently trying to protect [[spoiler:a person that doesn't exist]] from necromorphs.
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* Probably one of the biggest headscratchers in the entire game is, if Nicole was [[spoiler:dead the entire game]] what was happening when Nicole appears in the mining deck and unlocks a door for Isaac? Isaac is apparently trying to protect [[spoiler:a person that doesn't exist]] from necromorphs.necromorphs.
* This has been bothering me for a while. Why did the Valor need the Ishimura to send out a comms signal to locate it? I mean, Isaac and the crew found it just fine. Presumably the CEC wouldn't just give a team of regular engineers exact coordinates to the Ishimura if the company was keeping it a secret, so why couldn't the Valor find them? This is also disregarding the fact that they were in a 1.3 kilometer long space ship, most certainly still giving off an EM signature, firing mass driver rounds to stave off asteroids, next to the only planet in the system with a micro asteroid belt...
* This has been bothering me for a while. Why did the Valor need the Ishimura to send out a comms signal to locate it? I mean, Isaac and the crew found it just fine. Presumably the CEC wouldn't just give a team of regular engineers exact coordinates to the Ishimura if the company was keeping it a secret, so why couldn't the Valor find them? This is also disregarding the fact that they were in a 1.3 kilometer long space ship, most certainly still giving off an EM signature, firing mass driver rounds to stave off asteroids, next to the only planet in the system with a micro asteroid belt...
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*** Aside from the fact that willing participants in ritual sacrifices were rare - there was almost always some degree of coercion - all of those believe that dying will give them a better future. Harem of virgins, afterlife with the deity you're being sacrificed for, that sort of thing. With necromorphs, you get a (probably very short) future as a slavering monster. That's a pretty strong difference.
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Probably one of the biggest headscratchers in the entire game is, if Nicole was [[spoiler:dead the entire game]] what was happening when Nicole appears in the mining deck and unlocks a door for Isaac? Isaac is apparently trying to protect [[spoiler:a person that doesn't exist]] from necromorphs.
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* Probably one of the biggest headscratchers in the entire game is, if Nicole was [[spoiler:dead the entire game]] what was happening when Nicole appears in the mining deck and unlocks a door for Isaac? Isaac is apparently trying to protect [[spoiler:a person that doesn't exist]] from necromorphs.
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***** Maybe the Hive Mind and thus the necromorphs was already on the planet long before the Red Marker and the Isimura Incident happened, the Red Marker was created and placed on that planet specifically to keep the Hive Mind dormant, while the Titan Marker was created by Unitologists in order to make necromorphs because of their insane belief that was God's work, thus explaining the differences between the two markers and their functions.
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** The marker causes insanity, even if she wasn't effected by that she was feeling suicidal, thus not thinking logically. Or if Isaac knew she was dead he wouldn't have come looking for her, sparing him possible death by necromorph.
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** The marker causes insanity, even if she wasn't effected by that she was feeling suicidal, thus not thinking logically. Or if Isaac knew she was dead he wouldn't have come looking for her, sparing him possible death by necromorph.necromorph.
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Probably one of the biggest headscratchers in the entire game is, if Nicole was [[spoiler:dead the entire game]] what was happening when Nicole appears in the mining deck and unlocks a door for Isaac? Isaac is apparently trying to protect [[spoiler:a person that doesn't exist]] from necromorphs.
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**** This could be a useful way of reconciling the difference between the Markers' methods in Dead Space 1 and 2. Given what we learn of the Markers in Dead Space 2 and 3, their purpose appears to be to [[spoiler:influence the target species to replicate them - resulting in the creation of the copy Markers, like the red one on Aegis VII - ]]with the aim of triggering a Convergence Event. A Convergence Event, as suggested at the end of 2 [[spoiler:and confirmed in 3]], requires a 'critical mass' of dead or Necromorph tissue in order to [[spoiler:generate and complete a Necromorph Brethren Moon like the one above Tau Volantis]]. However, the Markers presumably rely on the target species not realising they're dangerous, and keeping them around in dense population centres. The Marker on Aegis VII is in the ass-end of nowhere, presumably with insufficient human and Necromorph corpses on either the colony or the Ishimura to trigger Convergence. Consequently, the Red Marker has to render the Necromorph outbreak dormant, presumably so that humans can possibly return to the planet and colonise in greater numbers. Even Kendra's theft of the Red Marker plays into its hands, as it would likely find its way via EarthGov to a more populous area, ripe for Convergence.
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** More to the point, keep in mind that you live in a world where a) people believe that blowing themselves up, killing and torturing other etc, will gain them entry to heaven and a harem of virgins. And where ritual sacrifice was practiced for CENTURIES, often with WILLING participants. Not even getting into the area of ritual self-mutilation.
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** More to the point, keep in mind that you live in a world where a) people believe that blowing themselves up, killing and torturing other etc, will gain them entry to heaven and a harem of virgins. virgins And where b) ritual sacrifice was practiced for CENTURIES, often with WILLING participants. Not even getting into the area of ritual self-mutilation.
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** More to the point, keep in mind that you live in a world where a) people believe that blowing themselves up, killing and torturing other etc, will gain them entry to heaven and a harem of virgins. And where ritual sacrifice was practiced for CENTURIES, often with WILLING participants. Not even getting into the area of ritual self-mutilation.
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** Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
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** Astrophysics is funny stuff. Depending on the distance between chunk'o'planet and planet-proper, the gravity well created by the planet could still have a pull on the chunk'o'planet. The larger the chunk'o'planet, the further out it has to be to maintain stable orbit. As a point of comparison, Luna is (at closest point) 356,400 km away, and is 0.0123 Earths by Mass. While there is *some* orbital decay, it's marginal. Essentially the Earth and Luna orbit around a common point, somewhere around a third of the way through the Earth. Now (by eyeballing it) the chunk'o'planet was not far enough away from the planet that it'd ignore the mass of the planet and stabilize in orbit. Make sense?
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* After having played Dead Space 1 and watched Dead Space: Downfall, I have to wonder why so many people in the DS universe seem to be utterly insane to various degrees. My main problem is the Unitologists, who seem utterly convinced that being horribly mutilated and transformed into undead monsters to be tormented eternally in unspeakable ways is a GOOD THING. Even the most dedicated Christian would balk if they somehow discovered Heaven was actually an endless torture session, which is essentially what becoming a necromorph is. Yet despite the blatantly obvious facts presented to them, the Unitologists continue to try and build more markers and spread the necromorph infestation wherever they can. How does this make any kind of sense? A few hardcore fanatics are one thing, but this many indicates either a pretty major underlying problem or a serious case of writer's block on behalf of the developers.
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* There is something that has been bothering me for awhile. The "colony drop" at the end. I mean releasing huge chunck of crust and letting it fall down. Is that actually possible? Putting aside realism of actual planetcracking. Will that piece fall down on the planet? I was under the impression that Ishimura was in space, and not floating in the planet's atmosphere. Is it because of said planet's gravity field? Why did said piece fell so fast? Why did it fell at all? Shouldn't it say float around the planet like some space station?
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** You have a fair bit of a problem if you can't tell for yourself what your current physical condition is...
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*** The "division of church and state" thing in Dead Space is pretty much a lie. According to the prequel novel, unitology was founded by maybe-maybe not rogue members of the Earthgov. That and the presence of the very legal Ishimura on an illegal mining operation implies a shism between factions of the Earthgov that follow the church of Unitology and the rest.
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*** Not really, the whole building a colony thing is part of the standard planetcracking process. The workers and miners are here to survey, map the interesting ressources, prepare the planetcracking itself by digging into the crust. They are very numerous, thus need a whole logistic of more workers, up to and including a police force, to work correctly. I guess that once they're done, the planet having been cracked, they dismantle the colony and move on to another planet.
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** It happens in real life.
** It happens in real life.
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** It happens in real life.necromorph.
** It happens in real life.
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** It happens in real life.
** It happens in real life.
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* As far as I'm concerned, the biggest [=WTF=] of them all, and the one that most causes my willing suspension of disbelief to crack, is Nicole's message. I mean... how deranged do you have to be to ''want'' your beloved to [[spoiler:watch your suicide while it happens]]? Why the hell didn't she [[spoiler:say her goodbyes, switch off the camera, and then off herself]]?
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* As far as I'm concerned, the biggest [=WTF=] of them all, and the one that most causes my willing suspension of disbelief to crack, is Nicole's message. I mean... how deranged do you have to be to ''want'' your beloved to [[spoiler:watch your suicide while it happens]]? Why the hell didn't she [[spoiler:say her goodbyes, switch off the camera, and then off herself]]?herself]]?
** The marker causes insanity, even if she wasn't effected by that she was feeling suicidal, thus not thinking logically. Or if Isaac knew she was dead he wouldn't have come looking for her, sparing him possible death by necromorph.
** The marker causes insanity, even if she wasn't effected by that she was feeling suicidal, thus not thinking logically. Or if Isaac knew she was dead he wouldn't have come looking for her, sparing him possible death by necromorph.
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** Depends on the bullet. If you were using the pistol, you'd have a small-scale grenade on your hands, judging by wounds inflicted by it in DeadSpace. In an era where armor is about ten times better than current models, that would be really useful. Hence why squads intended to pacify people wearing such armor would use a weapon like that.
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** Depends on the bullet. If you were using the pistol, you'd have a small-scale grenade on your hands, judging by wounds inflicted by it in DeadSpace.Dead Space. In an era where armor is about ten times better than current models, that would be really useful. Hence why squads intended to pacify people wearing such armor would use a weapon like that.
