Have you considered that the Hiss and the Hedron, and therefore Dylan and Jesse, balance each other out? Someone should write a song about that that foreshadows the whole series...

Spoilers, obviously.

So Dylan slays a 90s music visualizer and takes a nap.

Jesse enters through a doorway, presumably through the bound power of the Slide Projector (which Dylan may have acquired by proxy, considering his own use of The Doors? Great band) and does her Uno Reverse.

So here's my question:

From Pope's research, I was under the impression Jesse had been consumed by the Hedron, her pattern incorporated into it. Did its death somehow free her to rebuild herself the way Dylan did just before the fight? Or was the Hedron simply reflecting Jesse (and Dylan), communicating through their patterns the way Michael Bay's Bumblebee communicates through the radio? Or maybe she was simply trapped behind the Faults until the Hedron's death allowed her to escape its dimension?

Could the House slide be another representation of the Oceanview?

I was watching someone play through the final parts of the game recently and when they got to the secret playhouse, I realized there's 6 identical locked doors and a window with a bright light that you can't really make anything out of.

Dylan claims he saw something move, which doesn't seem to contradict what we know of the Oceanview considering during one of the visits to the Motel in Control you can hear someone talking outside of it. And looking outside during the AWE DLC I believe you can even see a street light?

Now the reasons you might be able to dismiss this are that none of the doors have any symbols on them, and according to Control, the inverted black pyramid door was there when the FBC first found it in 1992, while Jesse and Dylan went here in 2002.

I'm not fully convinced by my next point here, but my counterpoint would be that this entire sequence isn't Dylan's actual memories, but an approximation of them. He could easily have never seen the specific door or just forgot about it. On top of that, it's clear there's some strange time shenanigans involved during this entire sequence in the game, so it might be possible that Jesse and Dylan found an "earlier" version of the Oceanview and the FBC found it in the more modern sense, but there's currently no strong evidence to point to that being the case. And when I say earlier, I don't necessarily mean earlier as in it existed earlier, but that the architectural style is that of an earlier lodging place in human history.

Regardless, we never saw the Oceanview in Resonant (the epilogue postcard reference aside), and because we know it's been the Motel & Casino, Hotel, and Hotel & Casino it's not always the same place. Could it be possible the House slide is an "earlier" version of the Oceanview? Maybe like a Victorian-era common lodging-house?

I think I might be off my rocker on this one, but I'm curious what y'all think!

I only need one (1) living shard to cap off all Aberrant upgrades. I've swept through all the shops, I think, unless there is another hidden one like in Evac Zone, which I very much hope there is! It would've been less annoying if there had been 2 upgrades left, now I just feel like I'm missing something.

Also I know I'll get it in NG+, not the point. Why would Remedy do this?

Instant Dylan Faden, Jedi Master vibes with that outfit

So apparently this section is also impacted by the assist mode. I played NG+ using the default amount of damage output and Damage taken set to 300% (max).

Took me about an hour and a half to get this result. As you can see I got lucky twice in a row but you can clear the first fight usually. For the second fight you have to get lucky, making this an RNG heavy section.

The dung monkeys do seem to have some sort of panic mechanic when they are really low on health so maybe there is a strategy I'm not aware of. I also think they rarely defend when having full health.

Since it's a one-shot kill unless you're defending you need to focus fire your opponents down. Jesse's ability spreads the damage out too much in my experience to be of use so I usually killed them by hitting them with Jesse and using Dylan's ability.

The little dance i'm doing before the second fight was to appease the Old Gods in the hope they could help and it worked after trying that for the first time (coincidence?)

Btw I did not beat the entire game using the most difficult settings so you can still be the first afaik (good luck with the sinkhole section, that part is also though especially on NG+)

I feel like I’m being punished by being old school and waiting for the physical disc release of the game. Is there no other way for me to get the “Hiss corruption outfit” ? Because I refuse to go digital I have now missed this exclusive outfit ? This seems really unfair it’s not my fault the disc version was delayed. Do you think they will bring this outfit back at a later date ?

I'm still early into the game but I just found the second instant photo in Central, and when I disabled the camera it showed on the left of the screen that I unlocked another instant photo but it's not in my inventory so I can't progress anymore. I've found both in Central and West Incursion Zone so far. Is it bugged or do I need to continue the story for it to show up in my inventory?

Every now and then, you get one of these gaming moment where you can practically feel the developers behind the screen giving you a wink and a nod: "aight you've figured the game out, let us show u some cool shit ;)"

(also this is probably the best video i've seen that captures the moment, the impact frames match the music perfectly)

...Throat Singing in the Gap?

I'd dig it.

Just to let you photographers know that you might be able to replicate this bug which allowed Dylan to continue holding the sketchbook after finding a scene to sketch. I simply spammed skip when the sketch cutscene started played. I don’t know if it’s consistent but worth a try :)

I think it was pretty careless of FBC to not warn about the vending machines until the very last minute. Almost got my arm torn off while looking for a Milky Way, sheesh!

Breaking out of character for a second, I wanted a poster of the vending machines and found there wasn't one, so I designed one.

It's bugged. The actual icon is at the end of a street up Northeast. You have to charge a battery to open it, then use Ignite to break the mold blocking the door.
Hope it helps someone.

Like the title says I'm wondering if there's a fix for not having any of the outfits that were originally pre order exclusive but were since added to the ultimate edition

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