Insta-Death in Silverhand Flashback. How to avoid?

[kishkumen]

Hey there. On hardest difficulty, when you meet Rogue at the club and have to shoot your way out of it, I instantly die after entering the Porsche and a couple of Corpos in Cars turn up behind us.
Whilst the driver is talking their bullets already rip through the car, my life goes half down. And the game makes me turn slowly and turn my head out of the window only to catch the last bullet that finishes me off. I often only manage to get 1 or 2 shots out before death.

Anyone else having problems with that part? Do I need to reload an earlier savegame and get more life and armor?

[sergioxba]

Thanks to level scalling that part is almost impossible. The enemies probably have V's level and Johnny just can't survive. V's stats AFAIK do not affect Johnny's.
The only way I could pass that part was lowering the difficulty. Johnny is taking shot and losing life inside the car, when the game gives you control to aim you already lost more than half HP and unless you are lucky and hits headshots on the drivers before the other half goes, in seconds, there's no way.
I gone to normal, passed this and gone back to very hard right after. I know that this is not what you wanted but is all that I can say.

[kishkumen]

does that kill an achievement like "completed the game on hardest difficulty"?

[Jámez Bondo]

I turned difficulty down for that particular section. Even hitting both drivers in the head right away did not save me. It's definitely a problem caused by level scaling.

[kishkumen]

So its a a bug?

[♠.brT]

I got lucky in this section after several deaths the enemies just stopped shooting at Johnny. Maybe they took pity on my soul. I don't know but yeah that section is borderline impossible on very hard difficulty.

[♠.brT]

Originally posted by kishkumen:

So its a a bug?

I wouldn't say "it's a bug". I also don't think this issue is specific about level scalling, as the chase sequences from before patch 2.0 from the Nomad start as well as the prologue with Jackie were extremely difficult before also -. It's just a problem of the game that CDPR never addressed that may have become slightly more obvious, but was always there.

[vile]

Originally posted by kishkumen:

does that kill an achievement like "completed the game on hardest difficulty"?

That achievement doesn't exist.

[Blur]

i had same problem in nomad start during chase at the border, no matter what i do i got killed in same exact spot having same hp. its really just impossible on very hard

[Dr.Abscondus]

True. I hate the scripted sequences. You only have partial control of your character, you're fighting the camera, and the game gives you the most useless gun possible. The chase with Goro in the car where those motorcycle ninjas are after you was the worst one for me. A really cheap mechanic.

[BIGDOJO]

for these i just turn up aim-assist to maximum and they are no problem.

[kishkumen]

it seems to be a lot of luck. I once managed to kill 2 shooters but then the 3rd one gets me. I never made it through that sequence without dying on hardest difficulty.

[valium]

It is beatable on very hard, this AND the nomad lifepath, you just have very little margin for error. You need to land headshots asap to reduce the damage you receive.

[gza]

Yea this section is appalling. In fact, all of the scripted driving sections are really bad. It's embarrassing.

It's really pot luck, try kill the closest to you first.

[IL'dar]

Originally posted by valium:

It is beatable on very hard, this AND the nomad lifepath, you just have very little margin for error. You need to land headshots asap to reduce the damage you receive.

When you die in Quake, that's an error on your part, here you have no movement control and enemies do not always hit you. Sometimes Silverhead may get hit twice even before he gets out the window to shoot, wich is realistic I guess, but very dumb for a glorified cutscene.
For people who don't remember, or don't know - this part was also hard during release of the game, but CDPR lowered the difficulty in one of the patches, don't remember wich one, so it's not a bug, but definitely an oversight that is back again.

[Blackheart]

I managed second try on very hard. Just shoot three guys that are leaning out of cars shooting you, then shoot drivers. Probably helped that I had focus perk though. But yeah, that part is brutal.