Topic: Returnal

@nessisonett 2.5s on dash is pain! Good job managing the fight with that.
I got the 200% integrity naturally some time in the middle of my playthrough but I have to admit I farmed the 30 proficiency one on one of those squid-spawning things just shooting them for like 10 minutes straight (maybe more). Otherwise I never went past 27.

@Voltan What were your stats after finishing act 2? I was pretty chuffed with 15 hours and 33 deaths but I feel like others here will have destroyed that 😂

@nessisonett It was 22 hours and 27 deaths for me. 15h is pretty quick!

@nessisonett @Voltan You guys destroyed me then. Think I’m like 48 hours and 59 deaths.

@nessisonett Nice one! I also did act two in one run and it was, indeed, intense fun. The Scar is pretty spooky.

Got 3 out of 6 sunfaces now. With a dab of luck, I'll finish this game tomorrow eve.

@render And your stats are better than mine! I'm three days in and at 94 deaths. Slow and steady.

Is there an upper limit for health? Finished a run through acts 1 to 3 at 240%(ish).

@render Good work beating act 2. Yeah, that ending... Are we still avoiding spoilers? Brutal.

@PossibLeigh Cheers! I’m kind of amazed I did it, and actually pretty miffed that I didn’t get the job done yesterday as it didn’t actually seem like the worst boss fight.

Well done all you guys that managed 6 all the way through in one go though. It was a pretty cool level I must admit.

Absolutely avoiding spoilers. I’m taking the advice from @Voltan and I’m going to see about getting act 3 done 👍😀

Did a run of Act 1 there, beat all three bosses but didn’t get a single sunface despite exploring every room in each biome! Insane run, mostly due to a great level 10 Hollowseeker which I couldn’t justify letting go even when I got to level 15 proficiency. Maxed out my 15 artefacts, ended up on 235% integrity. Got a datacube in each biome, 5 parasites too for the trophy. The Nemesis trophy finally popped too!

Considering tonight’s success was after necking half a bottle of Echo Falls like the classy gent I am, perhaps alcohol unlocks latent abilities within me, like Rock Lee from Naruto.

@PossibLeigh Not sure if a typo but there are 6 sun face fragments. Exactly 1 in each biome.

Rolled the credits last night! It was kind of an emotional roller coaster: I was really in a trance-like zone after a 3 hours session 🤣 but after a super intense fight with the boss of the 6th biome and a very cool ending for some reason the trophy didn’t pop up, as didn’t the trophy for act II. Weird:/ On top of that I have been having troubles ejecting the ps5 discs since then. I have to turn the console off and gently pat it and then it lets the disc go...so the game ending experience was kind of marred for me. Will surely spend more time with the game though, so addicting ...

@nessisonett Congrats! I got that one but not the act completion trophy - so annoying! Will be doing act III and hopefully they will both pop up...

@nessisonett I’ve heard that Blue Nun can give you a massive integrity boost but it reduces efficiency a ton and you can’t open doors with keys for s**t 😆

@Feena Congrats for finishing act 2 as well. I can’t wait to get started on act 3 too. Shame you’ve had a few glitches there though. Hopefully you can unlock both of those missing trophies.

@nessisonett Have you experienced the 5th house sequence? The artifacts won't appear until you do.

@Voltan Yep, typo. You've previously told me there are 6 and I listened.

@render @nessisonett Thanks - good to know they're generally hated and troublesome, and it's not just me I'll try the void beam next time if I can ... this time I only had the fairly short-range lightning alt-fire, which wasn't helpful.

Congrats, @render @nessisonett @Feena et al!

I’m also in the “completed act II gang” as of this morning. I carried on my run from last night and beat the boss first time (that’s all but the first two bosses defeated first time).

Stats!

And my build for the end;

The adrenaline leech artefact saved me at the end as I got battered by two of the big squid things and had no health left. Luckily I then came across the respawning mini squids so farmed those to get back to full health.

It seemed very generous for the last boss to throw health out for you too.

And @render the boss fight video for you. I had to pause just at the start of the fight as my dog decided to start climbing all over me as the intro sequence for it was playing!

@nessisonett 15hrs but 33 deaths? I like your kamikaze style!

My 17 deaths the forum record then?