I only occasionally pick up ammo for a gun I don't have; in order to make things easy the game limits your ammo finds to whatever gun you have equipped

I'm surprised it took that long for someone to post that. Really the ONLY two weapons you need are the plasma cutter and the pulse rifle. Everything else is just too fucking slow/weak/oh god I've blown my own face off to matter. Plasma cutter works for pretty much every single situation except OH FUCK THERES 30,000 ENEMIES where it's fun to hit the alt fire on the pulse rifle and cry in a corner.

Also after getting through the horrible crashy bridge section, I've now just arrived with the marker on the colony. But it crashed again. Gonna try and finish it tonight. The SCARE FACTORY of the game has pretty much gone away with fully upgraded suit, guns, 5 big medikits and a million bullets, and I'm only really dying to mechanical devices by accident now. The last few chapters have played more like a romp than the survival horror glory of the earlier chapters. (I blame the shop for this, like most people). I think the game is too easy on normal personally, but I don't know if I would want to replay it again on hard as it's so linear. Still, even if it's formulaic, unoriginal and unscary it's still creepy as fuck. Particularly all the people lined up with their heads masked and bullet holes in their heads in the 'temple' by the station.

I'm totally used to the controls now, but I still think this would be better in first person (if they figured out how to get the health meter on screen without a GUI still).

Also, regarding the 'invincible' enemy you'd think that having to blow it's limbs off repeatedly, box it in rooms, starve it off air, poison it, cryo-freeze it and eventually incinerate it to kill it it'd be more powerful than the weakest enemies in the game. I liked the idea and it did tend to make me panic at first..but it's so slow and weak it's not that scary. ​

Because when it's full upgraded you get something like 175 bullets in it, which means you never run out of ammo and have to reload in a fight...not that it matters because you reload so damn fast. It's also immensely powerful and you can kill most enemies just as quick (if not quicker) with a spray to the face(or chest) than aiming for their limbs. It's also more useful for the smaller crawly enemies.

Especially in bigger fights later on against fast enemies..you just don't have time to aim. You can still cut off limbs with the pulse rifle too.

Just beat the game. My savegame wasn't actually that far from the end really. Okay don't highlight this steel, beat the game first. Predictable twist with both chicks (though it was unpredictable who she was working for earlier). Still baffles me how these NPCs can wander right through the hoardes of enemies and be absolutely a-ok without firing a bullet. Final boss was shit and took me like ~1 minute. After the OH SHIT scripted moment the fight was so easy, and the boss only has one easily avoidable attack.

The ending felt SO very very very Halo, with the whole 'taking off the helmet' thing, and then it went all SS2. Dunno what people were on about earlier as this hugely scripted ending was really, really disappointing.

Also if the 'big bad evil' was that weak..why didn't 5/6 marines just drop in and kill it?

But the point is when you upgrade it, it's NOT weak and kills faster than pretty much every other gun in the game. Also it's 'instant hit' so enemies can't dodge it like they can with the big, heavy guns.

The flamethrower just seemed to be far far too weak to me, even upgraded. And it doesn't 'stop' enemies the same way being shot normally does