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When you completeDead Spaceat any difficulty, you unlock some credits, nodes, and other fun things for a New Game+ playthrough. If you played it on Hard, then you will unlock Impossible Mode, which is the hardest difficulty in the game.
If you finish the Dead Space remake’s Impossible Mode, you are rewarded with a sweet new suit called the Burnished Suit. You also get to add a whole new weapon to your arsenal for another playthrough in the form of the Hand Cannon. So, you have plenty of incentives to step into Isaac’s suit for this challenge.
8Know Exactly What Impossible Mode Entails
Impossible Mode isa step above Hard,but what exactly does it mean? Before you dive in, you should learn the changes that make this a greater challenge that will punish you if you are not prepared.
Isaac and Necromorphs deliver and receive the same damageas in Hard Mode. Death and saving are the biggest alterations.You have one save slot and no autosaveto swoop in to help you out when you die. Death has greater weight asyou have to restart upon dyingfor a one-shot at Impossible.
7Save At Every Chance You Have
By having more save slots in the other difficulties, you’re able to help yourself out in various scenarios. Maybe you miss too many shots and revert to one save to redo a section to save some ammo. Some people simply like taking up as many slots as possible.
When you have one save slot, that meansyou must save every chance you get. The game does a good job of giving you points fairly frequently. Although you have a single life,you can still take breaks and take your time,as patience will carry you through.
6Stasis Is Your Best Friend
Stasis is an ability you pick up early on. In Impossible Mode, it becomes your best friend asyou can slow down oncoming enemies, so you can take your time in taking them out efficiently. At some points, things can get hectic and fast-paced, so you will want to slow down to not make poor decisions.
Dismembering is the classic element of the combat that sticks out in the Dead Space series. When facing slowed-down Necromorphs, you can take your shots precisely to take out arms and legs.
5Use Environmental Weapons (Carefully) As Often As You Can
You can get caught up in the scares and action of Dead Space, so much so that you ignore the environment. Be sure you pick up broken metal, limbs, and other sharp objects with Kinesis to penetrate enemies.Shooting a pole through a Necromorph does major damage for quick kills.
The other positive to using your environment is tosave ammo. Between saving your credits for upgrades and what you need, like ammo, you want to take every shot with thought behind it. By throwing fans from vents to cut an alien in half, you save a few shots of your favorite weapon for the next fight.
4Limit What Weapons Are In Your Inventory
You can have up to four weapons to quickly swap at any moment, but you can still carry every weapon in your inventory. Even so, you do not want to do this.
You end up collecting ammo for every weaponin your inventory.It clogs up space, and you may’t use everything unless you switch to what you can instantly select, making it detrimental to your success.
Weapon preference is an opinion, but there are some that are more useful than others that you should consider.The Force Gun, Plasma Cutter, and Line Gunall bring something to the table that you should consider using on your Impossible run.
3Make Decisive Upgrades
When you pick up nodes, you’re able to upgrade your suit and weapons. The road to upgrade makes you upgrade in a fairly linear path, with some more opening up as you get further. Still,you want to be selective about what you pick,especially later on.
Health for your suit and damage for your favorite weaponsshould be the priority. When you get toward fully upgrading weapons,you want to hit those special boosts to make them more powerful,likethe option to make your Plasma Cutter shots become flammableto cause burning damage.
2Avoid Exploring To Decrease Chance Of Lethal Randomized Encounter
Hopefully, through your other playthroughs, you have some unlocks and upgrades under your belt.You got your exploration from those runs,so on Impossible Mode, you don’t have to explore as much for nodes, ammo, and other goodies that will assist you on your journey.
Necromorphs can come at any moment. Dead Space is constantly keeping up with how you are performing, so it adjusts that with enemy spawns and more. You need to minimize your chance of dying byreducing the amount of combat to moments you cannot avoid.
1Quit And Restart When You’re Close To Death
If you are on the verge of death, you can avoid having to restart the game. Byquitting and restarting your save, you can redo the section that almost killed you.Whether that is from running out of oxygen or getting dismembered,you can prevent a frustrating death.
This method not only keeps the rewards that await you for completing Impossible Mode in Dead Space, butpreserves the achievement/trophy.If you care about your achievements or trophies, you will receiveUntouchableas further proof of this accomplishment.
