Contagion Mode

[BrandedBerserk]

Most here crying probably salty they can't exploit it like the maximum security trophy lmao. 

[Squarevii87]

1 minute ago, psycho_clank314 said:

I find it hilarious that some people just can't deal with not having a 100% profile. Got the plat and NG+ runs, not worried about doing HC at the moment. Maybe I'll do it later, maybe I won't. You people can just play it once and move on you know?

trophy obsessed, a very dangerous thing

if you play games and the first thing on your mind are the trophies then you have issues

[Sendai-Horatio]

2 minutes ago, Squarevii87 said:

 

if you play games and the first thing on your mind are the trophies then you have issues

You only have issues if they're part of the trophy requirement or else why would you bother collecting them?

[ghostlybonesss]

I don’t understand why people post on this thread (or any other) just to spread animosity towards individuals who enjoy going for 100% on their lists. Spend your efforts elsewhere rather than being condescending towards people just living their trophy life how they choose to. 

Edited March 14, 2023 by ghostlybonesss

[Squarevii87]

1 minute ago, ghostlybonesss said:

I don’t understand why people post on this thread (or any other) just to spread animosity towards individuals who enjoy going for 100% on their lists. Spend your efforts elsewhere rather than being condescending towards people just living their trophy like how they choose to. 

the same goes to them,why they post on this thread when you can move on and play games that are more easy for 100%

dude this thread is for callisto protocol dlc trophies ,there is no reason to come here and cry oh why they didnt add super easy trophies,oh my trophies are 99.99% how i can keep going to live with that

[Chaos_Bladez]

I would assume most people like DLC/update trophies when the game is good. It is weird and a bit disappointing when a good or great game gets a big update and there are no trophies like God of War's post-launch New Game Plus patch. 

 

But the long and short of it is, The Callisto Protocol game sucks a lot and isn't worth revisiting, so the pull of these trophies just means more pain. It also doesn't help that most of these aren't like "try the new mode," they're "beat the entire game again."

 

I should note that I don't particularly always care about keeping 100% (as is the case here). I am just pointing out what others likely think.

[Squarevii87]

13 minutes ago, Chaos_Bladez said:

I would assume most people like DLC/update trophies when the game is good. It is weird and a bit disappointing when a good or great game gets a big update and there are no trophies like God of War's post-launch New Game Plus patch. 

 

But the long and short of it is, The Callisto Protocol game sucks a lot and isn't worth revisiting, so the pull of these trophies just means more pain. It also doesn't help that most of these aren't like "try the new mode," they're "beat the entire game again."

 

I should note that I don't particularly always care about keeping 100% (as is the case here). I am just pointing out what others likely think.

nope you are wrong,their problem is not if the game is good or bad,is that they cant accept anything that is not 100% on their list

shovelware (games) spoiled alot of people here

Edited March 14, 2023 by Squarevii87

[IDiivil]

Okay, so gave this a go. Easier than hardcore in terms of enemy balance, drops and so on. But then again even on hardcore, that was not a big deal, as you can just melee all the enemies as long as the system doesn't break.

 

... which brings me to what killed me on my first attempt. Dodging into a meat grinder in the chapter 3 gondola section. Basically, whatever you do, make sure you don't fight near ledges, environmental death machines or even walls. That's pretty much what gave me the most trouble on hardcore as well – the combat system breaking in a way that causes the enemies to skip their animations, so they hit you.

 

On a brighter side, I think I got some information on how the game knows whether you've died or not. On Contagion you get one autosave that updates every time you reach a new chapter. Additionally, the instant you trigger a death animation, the game updates your save file to include the death. So I'm guessing cloud saving will work, if that's your cup of tea. Still not a walk in the park as you do have to clear every single chapter without dying. Should be a fun challenge though.

 

Now on the topic of complaining about the DLC trophies and whatnot. Not going to complain, but I've never been a huge fan of trophy lists where the platinum is like a 10 hour walk in the park and then there's 200 hours of extra content in the DLC. It's just a bit disproportionate in my opinion. Additionally, have to say I'm kind of impressed at the amount of effort that went into this DLC, considering it's a "new" paid DLC mode that essentially boils down to gameplay adjustments that probably took 15 minutes to implement. Absolutely no new mechanics or anything, just that you get to replay even more The Callisto Protocol every time you die. Oh and the best part is that they bundled a mode where you really really want to avoid dying together with new death animations, because what's a better way to experience this new exciting content than doing your best to avoid experiencing it.

[IDiivil]

So, another piece of information you may want to be aware of.

 

The game itself has cloud saves. So if you download a previous save from PSN cloud, the game may offer you the in-client cloud save instead of this. The save itself has the timestamp from when it was made, which should correspond with either a chapter clear or a death. 

 

Just a heads up.

Edited March 18, 2023 by IDiivil

[Chaos_Bladez]

43 minutes ago, Squarevii87 said:

nope you are wrong,their problem is not if the game is good or bad,is that they cant accept anything that is not 100% on their list

shovelware (games) spoiled alot of people here

Yes, sorry, I should have clarified. I would say that many people adhere to what I said and are fine with good games getting more trophies, but yes, a lot of people want their eternal 100% lists and complain when new trophies are added. I would hope/assume that they make up a smaller portion of the audience, though.

[yowzagabowza]

37 minutes ago, IDiivil said:

So, another piece of information you may want to be aware of if you're not above savescumming via cloud saves.

 

The game itself has cloud saves. So if you download a previous save from PSN cloud, the game will kindly offer you the in-client cloud save instead of this. The save itself has the timestamp from when it was made, which should correspond with either a chapter clear or a death. 

 

Obviously, a way of working around this would be to play in offline mode. Just a heads up.

Woah, are you saying that if I play with online enabled and tried to save scum, the game would actually just load it's own cloud save instead? So my cloud save wouldn't apply? That's nuts. 

Whenever I get around to this (once cutscenes can be skipped) I'll be sure to play offline.

Thanks for the heads up!

[Elite_Agent_009]

Okay so i completed contagion mode again, this time in new game plus and in one sitting and the trophy for not dying popped, so its confirmed that you can do it in game plus if you want.

[TsurugiFenrir]

43 minutes ago, Elite_Agent_009 said:

Okay so i completed contagion mode again, this time in new game plus and in one sitting and the trophy for not dying popped, so its confirmed that you can do it in game plus if you want.

How long did it took you to brat ng+? 

1 hour ago, IDiivil said:

So, another piece of information you may want to be aware of if you're not above savescumming via cloud saves.

 

The game itself has cloud saves. So if you download a previous save from PSN cloud, the game will kindly offer you the in-client cloud save instead of this. The save itself has the timestamp from when it was made, which should correspond with either a chapter clear or a death. 

 

Obviously, a way of working around this would be to play in offline mode. Just a heads up.

So, I have to play offline and copy saves to usb? 

[Elite_Agent_009]

14 minutes ago, TsurugiFenrir said:

How long did it took you to brat ng+? 

Around 4 hours, 3 if you dont count cutscenes.

[IDiivil]

On 14/03/2023 at 10:46 PM, TsurugiFenrir said:

So, I have to play offline and copy saves to usb? 

 

The thing is that you can only have one contagion mode save in your list. So say you have a local save from 7pm and a cloud save from 9pm, it'll only show the cloud save if you're online. If you go offline, it'll show the local save. The cloud save clearly says "cloud save" on it, so it's not too difficult to tell apart.

 

On 14/03/2023 at 11:02 PM, Elite_Agent_009 said:

Around 4 hours, 3 if you dont count cutscenes.

 

Yeah, imagined it'd be along those lines. Think my HC NG+ playthrough was like 6 hours, and that one had some paused time, which I think contributes to playtime. Nice to know NG+ works for the trophy, since that's definitely a much easier way to go about this, seeing as you shouldn't have to worry about saving money for upgrades, meaning you can use ammo to speed up the combat encounters. Although based on the amount of drops I'm getting, I'll probably end up doing this on the first contagion playthrough too, especially on the stupid mutating enemies later on.

Edited March 18, 2023 by IDiivil

[EightBitArtist]

12 hours ago, FreshFromThaDeli said:

Can't believe they still haven't given us skippable cutscenes. They are taking advantage of trophy hunters to artificially increase play time at this point so appease the Publisher. 

 

the only thing that will appease the publisher is people buying the game and them breaking even lol. this game has lost the publisher money. they couldnt care less about a handful people replaying the game 7 times for bronze and gold trophies.

[Optinooby]

Hopefully we can get this topic back on point...

 

Does anybody know what happened with teh customized difficulty that was spose to be part of Contagion in the roadmap. All I can think is that its unlockable or just not added, has anybody got to Contagion NG+ yet and if so, does it become customizable?

Edited March 14, 2023 by Optinooby

[TsurugiFenrir]

The waterslide pipe is the worst. Any idea how to dodge the spinning fans? 

[Teh_Zombz]

how many playthroughs is required now? thinking of getting this soon ?

Edited March 14, 2023 by Teh_Zombz

[potential91]

22 minutes ago, TsurugiFenrir said:

The waterslide pipe is the worst. Any idea how to dodge the spinning fans? 

First fan stick to the left, second fan stick to the left, third fan go to the middle, fourth fan move to the left

[Optinooby]

1 minute ago, Teh_Zombz said:

how many playthroughs is required now? thinking of getting this soon 

 

Too early to tell, minimum of 4 I think if possible to upgrade everything in 2 Hardcore playthroughs, though I dont think it is by what ive read.

 

You need a Maximum Survivor, a Hardcore and Hardcore NG+. The hardcore NG+ unlocks the normal NG+ trophy.

 

And I guess a Contagion playthrough which I doubt pops Max Surv as Hardcore doesnt

 

Minimum 4, but maybe 5 for upgrading all weapons. I can sort of understand the Hardcore and Contagion trophies, but the Hardcore NG+ is a bit of an oddball.

[potential91]

6 minutes ago, Optinooby said:

 

Too early to tell, minimum of 4 I think if possible to upgrade everything in 2 Hardcore playthroughs, though I dont think it is by what ive read.

 

You need a Maximum Survivor, a Hardcore and Hardcore NG+. The hardcore NG+ unlocks the normal NG+ trophy.

 

And I guess a Contagion playthrough which I doubt pops Max Surv as Hardcore doesnt

 

Minimum 4, but maybe 5 for upgrading all weapons. I can sort of understand the Hardcore and Contagion trophies, but the Hardcore NG+ is a bit of an oddball.

 

I've done 4.5 so far, max security, Ng+ Ng++ (half a playthrough for all upgrades)

Hardcore, hardcore plus (can't do all upgrades here as all items are worth half the value or more than normal game)

Currently on 5th playthrough for permadeath (and looks like if the save scum gotta be offline post just above is true then gonna be a 6th)

 

You could end up losing the half playthrough if you're good at upgrades on your first 2 playthroughs so at the moment 5 is probably the minimum 

 

Edited March 14, 2023 by potential91

[xblakestone]

Yeah a lot of playthroughs for 100%

These are mine so far:
1 = Maximum Security
2 = Hardcore
3 = Hardcore+
4 = Minimum Security
5 = Minimum Security+ (these are for "fully upgrade all weapons" trophy)
6 = Contagion Mode

[amurnin100]

£8 for a difficulty option… Scammed :/

 

https://imgur.com/a/KavB5cx

Edited March 14, 2023 by amurnin100

[yowzagabowza]

32 minutes ago, xblakestone said:

Yeah a lot of playthroughs for 100%

These are mine so far:
1 = Maximum Security
2 = Hardcore
3 = Hardcore+
4 = Minimum Security
5 = Minimum Security+ (these are for "fully upgrade all weapons" trophy)
6 = Contagion Mode

I've only done four and had 100% before Contagion Mode released.

1-Normal

2-NG+ on Max Security, upgraded everything

3-Hardcore

4-Hardcore NG+

I sold almost all of my health (in every playthrough) and didn't buy ammo until I had upgraded everything on Max Security, which wasn't really necessary but whatever. 

 

Contagion with no deaths will be 5.