I was afraid it wouldn't, so I originally didn't try that mode because I'm somebody who could get lost in an empty corridor. Now that I at least know that feature is there...
Nightmare was not really that much more difficult compared to hard mode, except for the point where you need to blow up the two reactor cores with an army of industrial joes coming at you from left and right and all you got is maybe two bullets for the bolt gun. That's just insane. This seegson comms part is easy even in nightmare if you just crouch a lot and move when the joes aren't looking. Trying to kill every one of them is pointless. Just avoid them. When the joes turn their back it's time for you to move forward. Patience is the key to this game.
I completed the game yesterday for the first time, I did it on hard mode. The part on the reactor is pretty simple on hard mode, it still gives enough bolt gun bullets to barely take them all out without the use of other weapons, but I don’t wanna imagine how difficult it would be with few bullets for the bolt gun. I have a question though, how difficult did you find the sudden attack by the working joes in the showroom on nightmare? Does the game still give you that big stash of items before having to fight all the 5 of them?
"patience is the key to this game" so fucking true when I was first playing this game I was having a hard time but as soon as I started playing it more patiently it became a million times easier, and I mean very patiently like more patiently than most survival horror
You aren't kidding with everything having super senses. Played it on Hard first time, and while it definitely wasn't easy, it was at least somewhat realistic/fair in terms of what other things could see and hear. That and the map is crazy helpful for someone like me who has no sense of direction. I hope to at least find the flamethrower eventually, because that was clutch in certain situations.
4:08 You could run and take the elevator. That will probably reset their alert levels. This is good to know and really helpfull, i'm going to try it out!
@@Zen-sx5io Oh yeah! It actually works, androids start walking away but they didn't reset to their official routines sometimes. It feels kinda random with them. I also tested it with the Alien who, once I used the elevator and returned, was always back up in the vents waiting for me to make a sound.
@@Prismotean It works most of the time, today I escaped the Alien in the elevator but found that the elevator was leading me away from my destination so I went back but the Alien was waiting for me and he killed me before the game even faded back in after the elevator black screen.
What sucks about this game is that you can't control how loud you are. Ripley yanks open everything to hide in, which is pretty annoying. I wish it was more like Splinter Cell were you could control the speed of your movements and therefore be quiet as fuck.
Yeah, the way she swings lockers and bashes the rewire panels against the walls never seems to make a difference when I'm playing, but it's still super unnerving.
Ty for this sir! Great job! As a person that plays BioShock on survivor, without purchasing anything, no weapon upgrades, one save per lvl to TRY and find a challenge and bring about that old school Resident Evil feel. This was helpful. I'm thinking I may try this on easy as it's more physch than reflex. Ty
I'm about to try it on easy because recommended Hard is a little too frustrating. Did you feel guilty for playing on easy or rather, did you regret playing easy difficulty for being way too easy? Thank you for your time!
I remember one time that alien jumped into a vent we were in in the ground, scared the poop out of me, I had no idea he could go into a vent at that point, I had never seen him do it before and we'd been playing for well over 20 hours because I had to limp very slowly through this game mode
im pissing my pants on medium here, no ty! and i frighten easily and take 20 min after each hiding spot to dare to come out again, this is gonna take me a month xD
I'm a actually playing in nightmare and a moment the alien spawned to kill some humans I was far so I decided to complete my objective and he saw a little bit of my body during his sprint for the other human so after he ran on me xD
Nobody: Ripley: *50 metres away from android with back turned minding his own business Ripley: *peaks at android for .001 of a second Android: *stops. "Hmm strange" Motion tracker: *Beeps/this fucker out here hiding Android: Why not ask me about Sevastopol's safety protocols Actual experience but like that idle beep it does when you don't have it out can be heard ;-;
I started the game on this mode because my kid put it on when I wasn't looking, let me tell you this was ridiculously hard I was stuck for a very long time and I died well over a hundred times. I know this because there isn't achievement if you die over a hundred times in a playthrough. When I finally beat it I was so proud cuz that is a very rare diamond club right there. Usually one of the hardest games I've ever played when on this setting.
Environmental sound does not make sound in game, just for player. Knocking something down or opening and closing closet doors for example do not make in-game sound for NPC to interact with.
The jump between difficulties is steep. I tried Hard and was fine until I got stuck redoing an area over and over midgame because the xeno wouldn't go away. Downgraded to Medium and I finished the game with 650 flamethrower fuel and a maxed inventory! Still did a lot of hiding though. 😂
I’m trying to kill an android with a jack for the achievement but once I get two hits in the alien instantly drops down the vent and won’t leave it’s so hard to kill an android without the alien saving the android the most I got was six hits before alien found me under a desk.
4:01 Why didnt you just jump into a floor vent til they stopped looking for you rather than try to pointlessly take them on? You gave up way too easily lol
No health bar is just a way for the developers to artificially increase the difficulty without any work. I'm thinking of doing nightmare but I'm not looking forward to unfair deaths. Update: Completed it and as it turns out the Alien isn't really much more of a danger, your number 1 enemy is the androids. At least with the Alien you can scare it away with the flamethrower and if you die then the game gives you a little head start when you respawn back at your save point. You'll only kill a couple in your entire playthrough as ammo and items are so scarce . The Working Joes are almost as strong as the Alien but if you are at full health the game allows you to be grabbed once unlike the Alien where if it grabs you its always death. You wont always be at full health though unless all you craft is medkits.
Well, you could hide in the vent and wait. If you wait quietly for several minutes, the Joes won't prioritize your search any more and start resuming their normal work. However, their senses might be heightened for a while especially in nightmare mode- this is how the AI learns! 🫣
Hold B to look at your ammo and flashlight battery life on Nightmare mode, it does tell you. And the tracker is EXTREMELY helpful on this mode because it shows you where to go.
@@crawlingamongthestars3736 Simply put: do not play this mode without headphones. Your eyes and ears are your best bet. I pretty much solely use my tracker to check which way to go. It's also handy to have out to just hear a bleep so you can get an idea if there is anything nearby if you're not hearing much in your surroundings, but only have it out for very brief periods.
Xen The Jackal Yeah, I pretty much agree. I ended up beating the game on this difficulty, after quite a bit of effort, and yeah, wore headphones the whole time.
It was literally a nightmare to play on that diff but I made it after screaming, whining, the Working Joes and the xenomorph owning me like a little gaming bitch! Shame about the game freezes that I experienced way too much. Of all the glitches and bugs in that game, those were unacceptable.
I had one electric stick for my _whole_ Nightmare game! Unknowingly and fortunately, I saved it at the right sequence to get rid of a Working Joe (where you first discover the torch to open doors).
amazingdany, Hard difficulty is a great transition into Nightmare mode.. But, ideally before hitting nightmare mode it's quintessential to know the ins and outs of the game in its entirety before attempting nightmare mode.. It took me a good bit to beat it.. I suggest you body the fuck outta it on medium difficulty to have shit locked mentally youll need to be prepared.. But just so you know, you will die a lot! Lol
Imo Hard mode was the best way to start this game. Nightmare looks interesting too for an even harder challenge. But personally I dislike the unfair lack of collectible items in these types of games. Hard has just enough to protect yourself, but it appears in this one you are seriously lacking firepower haha
If you pull up your inventory wheel, you can see the amount of tools you have and the amo you have for your weapons, as well as the battery life for your flash light. The only thing you can never see at any point is your health
I found that about five revolver shots in a row from as close a range as you dare finishes them off. Possibly with a whack from the maintenance jack as well. Haven't got the shotgun yet, so I can't say if that's any quicker. Androids really are best avoided! :-)
so funny thing happened, i started a game of this on nightmare mode for my first playthrough. i got through a decent amount of the game (i think im about halfway currently) but then i stopped playing for a long time. when i came back i forgot what difficulty i chose and i though all these things were normal,,,, i thought i would have to find map terminals to get the map and that the scanner just never works in general to keep the broken futuristic but still old aesthetic that the series has
to me it seems hard by the fact of small amount of items but the rest seems to be the same as AI goes. Did the same tricks than in easy mode in certain parts of the game and worked the same way without anything noticing me. The only real problem are more than one enemy type like a part where you need to run away from one of those robots but at the same time not make any noise or the alien kills you. Same with facehuggers + aliens.
The great thing about nightmare mode is that I've played Isolation so many times that I know where everything is by heart so I don't need a map, but this level is so much more difficult that it feels like playing the game for the first time.
Most games get this wrong - you're actually more likely to be noisier moving while crouched. I mean, try squat walking or crawling on all fours versus tip-toeing. Just a thought.
Wish there was a mode that disables literally everything. Map, motion tracker, no weapons. And you have to stealth through the entire game. You can have a lot of medkits and flares but that's about it. The mode would be called "Hell."
There are sections that make that impossible though surely A couple sections where you have to take out the joes (esp the one where you obtain the keycard)or *shudder* the facehuggers
Idk if nightmare mode thing or something. This sound in the game is very dull, I hear normally when something is nearby, but I hear nothing further. (Sorry I am not a good English speaker)
@@frostythetraveller1223 hm. Wonder if it changes in nightmare. Im playing through hard mode right now myself. Dont think I'll ever want to do nightmare lol.
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Motion Tracker still has the pointer that shows you the way to the next objective. It´s your best friend in Nightmare as the map is out of the action.
I was afraid it wouldn't, so I originally didn't try that mode because I'm somebody who could get lost in an empty corridor. Now that I at least know that feature is there...
Just realized it after finishing the game 😂 i was running all around the map hopefully i've remembered where i was going.
Yeah but it’s sucks at tracking anything since it’s broken, it won’t give you distance and it only gives you a rough idea of where anything is.
Amanda: *breathes* 50 meters away.
Working Joe: "Come with me, please."
Bwahaha!
You really shouldn’t be here
@@workingjoe5044 Oh god
whatever kat, I’m going to catch you
whatever kat, don’t run
Here the alien is psychic
I curse that alien like anything
Player: *opens something quietly as possible*
Music: *plays coffin dance*
Player: oh shi-
Nightmare was not really that much more difficult compared to hard mode, except for the point where you need to blow up the two reactor cores with an army of industrial joes coming at you from left and right and all you got is maybe two bullets for the bolt gun. That's just insane. This seegson comms part is easy even in nightmare if you just crouch a lot and move when the joes aren't looking. Trying to kill every one of them is pointless. Just avoid them. When the joes turn their back it's time for you to move forward. Patience is the key to this game.
I completed the game yesterday for the first time, I did it on hard mode. The part on the reactor is pretty simple on hard mode, it still gives enough bolt gun bullets to barely take them all out without the use of other weapons, but I don’t wanna imagine how difficult it would be with few bullets for the bolt gun.
I have a question though, how difficult did you find the sudden attack by the working joes in the showroom on nightmare? Does the game still give you that big stash of items before having to fight all the 5 of them?
"patience is the key to this game" so fucking true when I was first playing this game I was having a hard time but as soon as I started playing it more patiently it became a million times easier, and I mean very patiently like more patiently than most survival horror
Was more scary than hard
How the heck did you do the nest in Nightmare??
If she breathes, she must come with me (please).
You really shouldn’t be here
OSU. 1 .BETTA. Don’t run
This is a safety breach and will not be tolerated
I’m going to catch you
You're getting hysterical
So technically you become a mouse...
Exactly :)
Hmmm... Is someone there?
@@workingjoe5044 Want an EMP?
snake spies on ocelot because time paradox, this is futile
Imagine being forced to beat the game on nightmare... what a nightmare that would be
You aren't kidding with everything having super senses. Played it on Hard first time, and while it definitely wasn't easy, it was at least somewhat realistic/fair in terms of what other things could see and hear. That and the map is crazy helpful for someone like me who has no sense of direction. I hope to at least find the flamethrower eventually, because that was clutch in certain situations.
Just get to waits you can't miss it from there
Did you ever find the flamethrower
@@coolkid9967 I did. I'm not sure if you can miss it, I just didn't remember exactly when you got it.
@@zZrEtRiBuTiOnZz I don’t think you can miss it cuz Waits give it to you around like mission 7
4:08 You could run and take the elevator. That will probably reset their alert levels.
This is good to know and really helpfull, i'm going to try it out!
So, how did It go?
@@Zen-sx5io Oh yeah! It actually works, androids start walking away but they didn't reset to their official routines sometimes. It feels kinda random with them. I also tested it with the Alien who, once I used the elevator and returned, was always back up in the vents waiting for me to make a sound.
@@Prismotean It works most of the time, today I escaped the Alien in the elevator but found that the elevator was leading me away from my destination so I went back but the Alien was waiting for me and he killed me before the game even faded back in after the elevator black screen.
What sucks about this game is that you can't control how loud you are. Ripley yanks open everything to hide in, which is pretty annoying. I wish it was more like Splinter Cell were you could control the speed of your movements and therefore be quiet as fuck.
Yeah, the way she swings lockers and bashes the rewire panels against the walls never seems to make a difference when I'm playing, but it's still super unnerving.
The hiding spots don't make noise that enimies can hear
Or even DbD ffs lol.
Ty for this sir! Great job! As a person that plays BioShock on survivor, without purchasing anything, no weapon upgrades, one save per lvl to TRY and find a challenge and bring about that old school Resident Evil feel. This was helpful. I'm thinking I may try this on easy as it's more physch than reflex. Ty
I'm about to try it on easy because recommended Hard is a little too frustrating.
Did you feel guilty for playing on easy or rather, did you regret playing easy difficulty for being way too easy? Thank you for your time!
I remember one time that alien jumped into a vent we were in in the ground, scared the poop out of me, I had no idea he could go into a vent at that point, I had never seen him do it before and we'd been playing for well over 20 hours because I had to limp very slowly through this game mode
haha great work!
If that is how overpowered the Joe's are, then the bug must be terrifyingly insane.
Yea! It's really scary and strong!
im pissing my pants on medium here, no ty! and i frighten easily and take 20 min after each hiding spot to dare to come out again, this is gonna take me a month xD
Haha good luck!!!
Unrelated but I remember purposely running to an elevator to see how close I could bring the alien towards me before closing the door lol so good
Always a fun risk to take lol,just hope you saved recently before cause the odds usually aren't un your favour even running just a short distance
3:50 this is silly ! you don't even on his line of sight !
I'm a actually playing in nightmare and a moment the alien spawned to kill some humans I was far so I decided to complete my objective and he saw a little bit of my body during his sprint for the other human so after he ran on me xD
And obviously he killed me
Good luck!!
Nobody:
Ripley: *50 metres away from android with back turned minding his own business
Ripley: *peaks at android for .001 of a second
Android: *stops. "Hmm strange"
Motion tracker: *Beeps/this fucker out here hiding
Android: Why not ask me about Sevastopol's safety protocols
Actual experience but like that idle beep it does when you don't have it out can be heard ;-;
Why are you running?
Nightmare mode
You : *Blinked*
Alien : I’m right behind you
If I was a school teacher I'd show them Alien Isolation then next time they run in the halls be like, "why are you running?" Lool
I started the game on this mode because my kid put it on when I wasn't looking, let me tell you this was ridiculously hard I was stuck for a very long time and I died well over a hundred times. I know this because there isn't achievement if you die over a hundred times in a playthrough. When I finally beat it I was so proud cuz that is a very rare diamond club right there. Usually one of the hardest games I've ever played when on this setting.
Environmental sound does not make sound in game, just for player. Knocking something down or opening and closing closet doors for example do not make in-game sound for NPC to interact with.
The jump between difficulties is steep. I tried Hard and was fine until I got stuck redoing an area over and over midgame because the xeno wouldn't go away. Downgraded to Medium and I finished the game with 650 flamethrower fuel and a maxed inventory! Still did a lot of hiding though. 😂
I’m trying to kill an android with a jack for the achievement but once I get two hits in the alien instantly drops down the vent and won’t leave it’s so hard to kill an android without the alien saving the android the most I got was six hits before alien found me under a desk.
Alien and android have a love relationship.
4:01 Why didnt you just jump into a floor vent til they stopped looking for you rather than try to pointlessly take them on? You gave up way too easily lol
I just beat this game on Hard but I could never do Nightmare mode because it looks way too hard. Hard is good enough for me lol.
oh yeah cause of some old dcuo vids
The cringe will kill me
No health bar is just a way for the developers to artificially increase the difficulty without any work. I'm thinking of doing nightmare but I'm not looking forward to unfair deaths.
Update: Completed it and as it turns out the Alien isn't really much more of a danger, your number 1 enemy is the androids. At least with the Alien you can scare it away with the flamethrower and if you die then the game gives you a little head start when you respawn back at your save point. You'll only kill a couple in your entire playthrough as ammo and items are so scarce . The Working Joes are almost as strong as the Alien but if you are at full health the game allows you to be grabbed once unlike the Alien where if it grabs you its always death. You wont always be at full health though unless all you craft is medkits.
who are you and why am i subbed lol
Your father
Well, you could hide in the vent and wait. If you wait quietly for several minutes, the Joes won't prioritize your search any more and start resuming their normal work. However, their senses might be heightened for a while especially in nightmare mode- this is how the AI learns! 🫣
Ripley: Blows nose from Elevator Shaft
Joe: You’re getting careless. I heard that
Lol
"The AI is super op" it is almost like it is a "perfect killing machine"
This could require my attention
What are you doing here?
@@workingjoe5044 oh no
I believe this is the canon way Amanda Ripley had to deal with
This is an entirely unauthorized alert, please stop interfering.
Let me help you😅
I'm going to catch you
You are testing my patience.
Don’t you understand what’s going on here?! Why aren’t you listening
Stun baton: Hello
Hold B to look at your ammo and flashlight battery life on Nightmare mode, it does tell you. And the tracker is EXTREMELY helpful on this mode because it shows you where to go.
It's extremely helpful, but at the same time a giant pain in the ass, because it often is glitching and malfunctioning.
@@crawlingamongthestars3736 Simply put: do not play this mode without headphones. Your eyes and ears are your best bet. I pretty much solely use my tracker to check which way to go. It's also handy to have out to just hear a bleep so you can get an idea if there is anything nearby if you're not hearing much in your surroundings, but only have it out for very brief periods.
Xen The Jackal Yeah, I pretty much agree. I ended up beating the game on this difficulty, after quite a bit of effort, and yeah, wore headphones the whole time.
that's a pointer?? i thought it was just there for show wtf
what would B be on console? and does it say your health?
Did the robot hear the crafting sound?
What was that?
Strange
@@workingjoe5044 You want some molotovs baldy?
Rómulo Prieto, i am built to withstand temperatures up to 1,210 degrees
@@workingjoe5044 Leave me alone 😢
RIP ripleys quads from permanent sneak mode
I finished on my initial first game. WHOA.
Hard and lower diffs must be easy as pie compared to this one.
Yea man it's tough!
It was literally a nightmare to play on that diff but I made it after screaming, whining, the Working Joes and the xenomorph owning me like a little gaming bitch!
Shame about the game freezes that I experienced way too much. Of all the glitches and bugs in that game, those were unacceptable.
I had one electric stick for my _whole_ Nightmare game!
Unknowingly and fortunately, I saved it at the right sequence to get rid of a Working Joe (where you first discover the torch to open doors).
amazingdany, Hard difficulty is a great transition into Nightmare mode.. But, ideally before hitting nightmare mode it's quintessential to know the ins and outs of the game in its entirety before attempting nightmare mode.. It took me a good bit to beat it.. I suggest you body the fuck outta it on medium difficulty to have shit locked mentally youll need to be prepared.. But just so you know, you will die a lot! Lol
for some reason, the alien was more unpredictable on hard difficulty.
Pretty sure Joe's can't go in vents
They can't
Good thing they can't because it'd be a really creepy visual if they could.
Imo Hard mode was the best way to start this game. Nightmare looks interesting too for an even harder challenge. But personally I dislike the unfair lack of collectible items in these types of games.
Hard has just enough to protect yourself, but it appears in this one you are seriously lacking firepower haha
With headphones on the breathe at 0:38 scared tf outta me. 😂
hehe whoops :D
What i hate about this is how as soon as you get out of a hiding spot even if u make no noise the xenomorph just runs straight back to you
If you pull up your inventory wheel, you can see the amount of tools you have and the amo you have for your weapons, as well as the battery life for your flash light. The only thing you can never see at any point is your health
“It’s a little bit more difficult”
Haha - yea it's bonkers hard but you gotta admit, it's so fun!
Do enemies like the Working Joes take more shots to kill?
They take more shots, the harder the difficulty. If you can get a headshot a few times in a row you can kill them.
I found that about five revolver shots in a row from as close a range as you dare finishes them off. Possibly with a whack from the maintenance jack as well. Haven't got the shotgun yet, so I can't say if that's any quicker. Androids really are best avoided! :-)
Not seeing health bar stinks can very well waste precious med kits
Crafting makes noise, lots of noise
so funny thing happened, i started a game of this on nightmare mode for my first playthrough. i got through a decent amount of the game (i think im about halfway currently) but then i stopped playing for a long time. when i came back i forgot what difficulty i chose and i though all these things were normal,,,, i thought i would have to find map terminals to get the map and that the scanner just never works in general to keep the broken futuristic but still old aesthetic that the series has
to me it seems hard by the fact of small amount of items but the rest seems to be the same as AI goes.
Did the same tricks than in easy mode in certain parts of the game and worked the same way without anything noticing me.
The only real problem are more than one enemy type like a part where you need to run away from one of those robots but at the same time not make any noise or the alien kills you.
Same with facehuggers + aliens.
Not very funny if enemies have super vision
if working joes could chase you in vents....
The great thing about nightmare mode is that I've played Isolation so many times that I know where everything is by heart so I don't need a map, but this level is so much more difficult that it feels like playing the game for the first time.
Most games get this wrong - you're actually more likely to be noisier moving while crouched. I mean, try squat walking or crawling on all fours versus tip-toeing. Just a thought.
Wish there was a mode that disables literally everything. Map, motion tracker, no weapons. And you have to stealth through the entire game. You can have a lot of medkits and flares but that's about it. The mode would be called "Hell."
There are sections that make that impossible though surely
A couple sections where you have to take out the joes (esp the one where you obtain the keycard)or *shudder* the facehuggers
Please tell in nightmare mode there no 5 aliens and just one
This is a REAL nightmare.
Just a little more hard passes hard easy nightmare barley passes the first mission just a little more hard*cough* cough *
I am always wondering what kind of device create such realistic gravitation on spaceships
Idk if nightmare mode thing or something. This sound in the game is very dull, I hear normally when something is nearby, but I hear nothing further. (Sorry I am not a good English speaker)
If youre using your TV audio then of course you'll have bad sound. I use headphones and it sounds great. Sound is very useful actually.
@@I_am_a_cat_ I'm using headphones, I survived hard mode then come to the nightmare, I can't hear the alien's footstep so well like it used to be.
@@frostythetraveller1223 hm. Wonder if it changes in nightmare. Im playing through hard mode right now myself. Dont think I'll ever want to do nightmare lol.
You sound really unhappy about all this.
Never mind holy shit you were hilarious in this