How do I get past the tentacle in Chapter 3, with no ammo?

[Pop_Cat]

I'm in Chapter 3 right after the Centrifuge Puzzle and before the part where the large tentacle grabs you in the hallway.
The problem is that I don't have any ammo to actually kill it, and when I try to backtrack, I can only go so far before i hit a dead end in the centrifuge room. How I can progress the game now?

[Doug]

Use kinesis and throw stuff at the vulnerable/glowing spots.

[Sovereign108]

How did you get no ammo! I had loads at that time.

[Pantherr]

Originally posted by Sovereign108:

How did you get no ammo! I had loads at that time.

I doubt that is helpful..

[[Operator] Domsch]

Originally posted by Sovereign108:

How did you get no ammo! I had loads at that time.

I´m having the same problem, the game throws credits and small medkits at me en mass, but very little ammo. Most of my credits i spend in ammo then. When watching others on youtube, 3 of 4 corpses drop ammo, in my case it´s the opposite.
But on the other hand, it somewhat increases the survival aspect, because in the OG DS the game throwed more ammo at me than i could blast onto enemies LOL

[Xelane]

You might need to load an earlier save.

Please bear in mind that it is generally a very good idea to keep multiple saves and cycle through them for exactly this reason.

[V I D A L]

Tough luck. That is precisely what Survivor Horror means.

Before RE became more of an action game.. this was always a real possibility... spending all resources making progress impossible if there was a boss or something. In classic RE dead enemies wouldn't even drop ammo like this game does.

Start over.

[Pantherr]

Originally posted by Operator Domsch:

Originally posted by Sovereign108:

How did you get no ammo! I had loads at that time.

I´m having the same problem, the game throws credits and small medkits at me en mass, but very little ammo. Most of my credits i spend in ammo then. When watching others on youtube, 3 of 4 corpses drop ammo, in my case it´s the opposite.
But on the other hand, it somewhat increases the survival aspect, because in the OG DS the game throwed more ammo at me than i could blast onto enemies LOL

I had the same issue. Plenty of money drops, but very little ammo...

[DreamPod9]

Hope you stack your saves and do it as often as possible so you don't lose progress. Otherwise, if you're the type that uses A save, start over, live and learn.

[TMAC Blade]

Originally posted by Operator Domsch:

Originally posted by Sovereign108:

How did you get no ammo! I had loads at that time.

I´m having the same problem, the game throws credits and small medkits at me en mass, but very little ammo. Most of my credits i spend in ammo then. When watching others on youtube, 3 of 4 corpses drop ammo, in my case it´s the opposite.
But on the other hand, it somewhat increases the survival aspect, because in the OG DS the game throwed more ammo at me than i could blast onto enemies LOL

I think it's the spawn director. So far I've ran into several moments when the director just threw a group of necros randomly. One play through I'm walking out of the decon room after rerouting power to ads cannons and first play through there was a leaper and three slashers as i turned the corner to get back to the elevator while my second play through it gave me nothing. I'm thinking if you're doing ♥♥♥♥ you get more ammo and you do really good it restricts ammo drops. thats my assumption.

[Rickyn227]

Originally posted by TMAC Blade:

Originally posted by Operator Domsch:

I´m having the same problem, the game throws credits and small medkits at me en mass, but very little ammo. Most of my credits i spend in ammo then. When watching others on youtube, 3 of 4 corpses drop ammo, in my case it´s the opposite.
But on the other hand, it somewhat increases the survival aspect, because in the OG DS the game throwed more ammo at me than i could blast onto enemies LOL

I think it's the spawn director. So far I've ran into several moments when the director just threw a group of necros randomly. One play through I'm walking out of the decon room after rerouting power to ads cannons and first play through there was a leaper and three slashers as i turned the corner to get back to the elevator while my second play through it gave me nothing. I'm thinking if you're doing ♥♥♥♥ you get more ammo and you do really good it restricts ammo drops. thats my assumption.

I don't think that's the case. Even on impossible I was pretty consistently stocked up on ammo. Just make sure to scour everywhere for nodes, punch EVERY dead necromorph for drops, and focus only on the plasma cutter, until you get the contact beam. Then reset the plasma cutter upgrades for 5k and go all in on the contact beam, if you manage to fully upgrade it the right trigger basically becomes the win button.

Also make sure to move any other weapons to storage because the game will only drop ammo for guns you have in your inventory. So instead of having a mish mash of ammo for weapons you don't use, you'll have more than enough ammo for the single one you do, plus focusing your upgrades on just one will mean you lower you ammo expenditure due to the higher damage. If ammo is still something you're really struggling with, learn to shoot consistently at limbs since it takes a few to actually dismember necro's now, usually saves you a couple shots which adds up over time.

[Pop_Cat]

Thank you all for the respond !
I tried throwing stuff on the tentacle, with no luck. Finally I saw I got one automatic save a bit earlier, and just went through again without using any ammo (which was a challenge as well).
I really like the game and got scared I had to play it through again, uhh.
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I understand that the limits of the ammo is part of the game and difficulty of it, but this seems to me more like blocker and poor design. Because you just need few shots to kill it, and you can't run or pass it, like with other enemies, since it is a time event.

Funny thing I found a thread somewhere from 14 years ago with the same problem in the same place :P

In all, I managed to pass through, I am more careful with the ammo and have more then one save! Thank you all for the help! ^^

[Pantherr]

Originally posted by martaesz:

Thank you all for the respond !
I tried throwing stuff on the tentacle, with no luck. Finally I saw I got one automatic save a bit earlier, and just went through again without using any ammo (which was a challenge as well).
I really like the game and got scared I had to play it through again, uhh.
----
I understand that the limits of the ammo is part of the game and difficulty of it, but this seems to me more like blocker and poor design. Because you just need few shots to kill it, and you can't run or pass it, like with other enemies, since it is a time event.

Funny thing I found a thread somewhere from 14 years ago with the same problem in the same place :P

In all, I managed to pass through, I am more careful with the ammo and have more then one save! Thank you all for the help! ^^

I'm glad you made it past that point. I don't know what difficulty you are on but, the ammo drops in this is bad. It's nearly all credits and very little ammo. Not like the original at all, at least on lower diff...

[Sovereign108]

I am on medium difficulty and I was pondering why I am getting too much ammo, surely the OG was more survival, can't remember. In any case, I explore a lot and stomp on all bodies.