Seriously, why do games do this? Like many others, I have a crippling fear of spiders. I was really enjoying this game until I found them (even the tiny ones rattled me). It's downright ridiculous that I have to walk through a spider nest and fight big scary spiders. It reminds me of the first AVP game which had facehuggers that jumped on your face - I wasn't ever able to finish it because I was too afraid.

I don't want to sound like a sissy boy, but is there any way I could make this easier? Like...skip this part without it bugging out on me, or give me unlimited strength so I can 1hit them, or some kind of patch that turns them into something less horrifying?

Or atleast, could someone tell me how long it will take me to do this, or if I could just run through. It's really freaking me out, and I want to finish this game.

I just found out you can jump over the spider pit instead of falling in. Is this going to bring me where I want to be and not have me missing any important triggers?

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Originally posted by Mr_Putter:
Seriously, why do games do this? Like many others, I have a crippling fear of spiders. I was really enjoying this game until I found them (even the tiny ones rattled me). It's downright ridiculous that I have to walk through a spider nest and fight big scary spiders. It reminds me of the first AVP game which had facehuggers that jumped on your face - I wasn't ever able to finish it because I was too afraid.

I don't want to sound like a sissy boy, but is there any way I could make this easier? Like...skip this part without it bugging out on me, or give me unlimited strength so I can 1hit them, or some kind of patch that turns them into something less horrifying?

Or atleast, could someone tell me how long it will take me to do this, or if I could just run through. It's really freaking me out, and I want to finish this game.

Some people are afraid of the dark, others of small spaces, others of water.

If they removed spiders because some people are afraid of them they should remove other things that people are afraid of.

I, for one, think the spiders in DM are cute and fuzzy. Look at that furry hair... (Although they annoyed me in the game)

Please use the edit button if you have something to add. It is there for a reason.

Also someone made a "mod" that disabled the spiders and turned them into non aggressive ghouls or whatever model they used. So they didn't attack you or anything... But I do not know where that went.

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Originally posted by Mr_Putter:
I don't want to sound like a sissy boy, but is there any way I could make this easier? Like...skip this part without it bugging out on me, or give me unlimited strength so i can 1hit them

So actually you're not afraid of spiders! you just cant pass them! why didint you said that in the first place?! I know that spiders in Dark Messiah,like in Arx fatalis are very realistic, but seriously.....

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Cute and fuzzy ahahahahaha lol......

Also, you might want to use fire to RAAAAAPE them...

Just fight over your fear, yeah, its a thing videogames can do...

Hmmm
what about playing another game?
Why not?

PS
an UBI game of course...

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Originally posted by Fender3D:
Hmmm
what about playing another game?

No.......!!!!!
we want people to buy this game! to play it! so they(Ubisoft)will make a sequel!

@Mana: Lots of people are afraid of spiders. You pretty much confirmed that by mentioning that there is a patch. They could easily stop using them; they are cheap scares. Not many people are afraid of water, never heard of one. I'm not too keen on the dark, only because I'm afraid there is facehuggers in that dark....


@shaegar: 1 hitting them would mean they wouldn't be in my face as much and I wouldn't have to deal as much. Even better would be if I cud 1 hit fire ball them.

@Fender: It came with my graphics card, and it was fun up until now. Plus ubi games seem to piss me off, just played Beyond Good and Evil and it was a buggy mess on PC.

So really I guess my main question now is: I can just jump over the pit before it breaks (I found a video on youtube of this). Is this going to ruin any scripted event or take skill points away, and will I end up where I need to be?

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Originally posted by Mr_Putter:
Plus ubi games seem to piss me off, just played Beyond Good and Evil and it was a buggy mess on PC.

Don't blame the game before you fully inspected your PC. Did you install the 1.01 patch?

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Beyond Good & Evil v1.01 [5.6 MB]
ESRB: Rated TEEN for Comic Mischief, Violence.

- Fix crash on processors without SSE.
The game now doesn't crash when executed on processors whit no SSE support.
Older Athlon/Duron processors doesn't support SSE extended instruction set.

- Antialiasing support
Users with fast graphic cards and almost 64MB of VRAM can enjoy full anti aliased
graphic. To enable antialiasing run the "Beyond Good & Evil Settings" application,
go to the "Advanced Setting" tab and move the "Antialiansing" slider to "On".
WARNING: Do not force antialiasing on the graphic card control panel that will result
on black screens and corrupted graphic.

- Shadows can be disabled
If you want to reduce further the VRAM consumption you can disable shadows.

- Lower screen resolution available
If you want to reduce further the VRAM consumption you can choose screen resolutions
under 640x480

- Improved sun special effect
Now the sun special effect works on any graphic card and has a better behaviour.

- Improved water blur effect
Now the water blur effect works with no graphic glitches.

- Speed up water reflection
Now if you set the water detail to low you obtain a better speed up.

- General speed up
Changed many things to gain speed where possible.

Skipping that spider pit (this is not the only one) won't cost you skill points, but you'll have a hard time escaping from the next passage without killing another horde. Not to mention several next parts where you'll have to beat many of them. Seems you can't distinguish between real life and a game. They're only pixels, moved by AI... like everything in the game.

No, I didn't install the patch, because I went on the forums and it said if your processor supports SSE (which mine does), installing the patch could be really bad. I also have a really good system and fully updated graphics drivers.

And apparently I can't distinguish. Phobias aren't a choice.

Your phobia can't distinguish, you can. But you allow it to control you, even when you know the spiders aren't real.

Besides a patch (needed or not), your PC should be within the system requirements and well maintained (drivers updated etc), did you post a clear description of the errors / issues, your dxdiag, and was it all judged by an expert? You never posted on this forum: http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/frm/f/401101532

First few (there were many) problems I solved by searching that forum... the remaining slowdowns and graphics glitching, while significant and irritating, weren't really effecting my progress. I posted on a different forum but mostly I got "that never happened to me", so I just sucked it up for the 8 hours or so that game took me.

It's the principle though. In my experience with many, many games from the last 15 years or so, I've come to know and even expect that a lot of games won't run right the first time you boot it up. But this is a modern game we're dealing with here. No other game released that recently have I had these kinds of problems with.

As for my spider problem, I guess I'll play it tommorow in the daytime when it's not so freaky, and if I can't do it I'll just play mutliplayer/a better game. BTW, phobias aren't rational, so who knows whether I'll be able to get through. I don't have it as bad as some, but games really shouldn't be a chore to get through.

Furthermore, if I thought that removing giant spiders from a game comprimised its integrity I wouldn't be complaining. I'm not mad about AVP having facehuggers (despite my not being able to play it), because removing them would likely take something away from the game. With this, they could have easily taken them out, or replaced them with something less people are afraid of (again, I'm not the only one). It really seems like a way to get a cheap scare, and is completely unnecessary for this game.

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Originally posted by Mr_Putter:
And apparently I can't distinguish. Phobias aren't a choice.

For Godness sake man!are you a man or a sissy?
If you are a man then behave like one!and stop wasting our time with your silly phobias!
like we have nothing better to do here than listen to your spider issues!
just take the bloody sword and kill'em all!!!! Is not that hard!you only need some......MANHOOD!!! Now go get them!
And dont come back here unless you've killed all those spiders!and no jumping across the spider's pit! what are you? a coward?! bring me some sreenshots with the dead spiders as prove!

Well, after a lot of pumping myself up I was able to get through the first spider nest thing...Most I just used charm to take it down to 1, them I'd use some fire to finish.Also played w/ headphones off and sitting hella back from the PC.

However, I finished that and I came to more spiders. There's a really irritating bug where it won't draw a sword when I click the shield button. I just hear clanking, then no sword or shield, and I can't pick anythign up. Anyone know how to fix this? I came to another batch of spiders and instead of a nice sword and shield I get clanking and spider in my face so I had to stop playing for a while.

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Also played w/ headphones off

LOL! Yeah, the sound in this game is terrific!

Good you 'heroed' yourself together, i hope you get to really enjoy the battles against evil.
Umm, you DID install the patches 1.01 and 1.02 (if you play the DVD version and not updated through Steam)?
On the other hand: when you carry (let's say a sword and then you select it again (via a numeric shortcut or the inventory) the effect is you'll hide it again. Also when you select a shield you don't get automatically the sword up as well. Open your inventory and look at the top-right corner, there you can put your favorite 'standard' weapon outfit. Put (=drag) the shield and sword you want to combine there.

A tip: try to kill spiders from a distance using the Long Bow.

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Originally posted by Mr_Putter:
Well, after a lot of pumping myself up I was able to get through the first spider nest thing...Most I just used charm to take it down to 1, them I'd use some fire to finish.Also played w/ headphones off and sitting hella back from the PC.

However, I finished that and I came to more spiders. There's a really irritating bug where it won't draw a sword when I click the shield button. I just hear clanking, then no sword or shield, and I can't pick anythign up. Anyone know how to fix this? I came to another batch of spiders and instead of a nice sword and shield I get clanking and spider in my face so I had to stop playing for a while.

And the screenshots?
untill i see them i dont belive a word you say!
and just stop wasting our time with your spider problems!
Right now we have other concerns!like the...SDK or a new Dark Messiah!!I know they seem minor compare to yours!
Spiders!....spiders never change!

there is no need to be scared of them really, they are only a little scare to make people jump. i really hope they make a second dark messiah but with a new variety of monsters =D

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Originally posted by Mr_Putter:
@Mana: Lots of people are afraid of spiders. You pretty much confirmed that by mentioning that there is a patch. They could easily stop using them; they are cheap scares. Not many people are afraid of water, never heard of one. I'm not too keen on the dark, only because I'm afraid there is facehuggers in that dark....


@shaegar: 1 hitting them would mean they wouldn't be in my face as much and I wouldn't have to deal as much. Even better would be if I cud 1 hit fire ball them.

@Fender: It came with my graphics card, and it was fun up until now. Plus ubi games seem to piss me off, just played Beyond Good and Evil and it was a buggy mess on PC.

So really I guess my main question now is: I can just jump over the pit before it breaks (I found a video on youtube of this). Is this going to ruin any scripted event or take skill points away, and will I end up where I need to be?

I for one, am mortally afraid of deep waters. It took me a great deal of courage to go get that shiny thing from the bottom of that one water pocket, but i did it because i wanted to see what it was.

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Originally posted by Obliteraattori:
I for one, am mortally afraid of deep waters. It took me a great deal of courage to go get that shiny thing from the bottom of that one water pocket, but i did it because i wanted to see what it was.

O my God,first we are afraid of spiders and now we are afraid of water??
What will be next?
Somebody will come and say:"When i was young i was attacked by seagulls and since then im afraid of them.
And here i was playing Dark Messiah!
What a cool game i said to myself!
That was until i arrived at the island!
I jumped out of the boat and there he was standing right in front of me! just like 12 years ago!
He had red eyes and white fedders!
I just pass out and when i woke up i was back in Stonehelm!I cant remember anything!!
Those bloody seagulls "
Get over it people!
I think this is the reason that this game isnt selling how it should:because of the spiders and the deep waters!
People are too afraid to play it

Why are you making fun of this?