Dead Space 2023 is so stingy with ammo it almost renders the game unplayable on EASY MODE!

[AUTISTICWEREWOLF]

I've just finished playing Dead Space 2008 just to see how much ammo you get playing through on easy mode. Turns out playing Dead Space 2008 you get a ton of ammo enough that it does not in any way hinder game play. Dead Space 2023 is totally screwed up in that ammo is rare. There are times I run out of ammo in Dead Space 2023 especially trying to kill the bullet sponge Leviathan. All the enemies in the game are bullet sponges to a degree.

I hate how games are optimized for people with hyper able bodied people whose only vocabulary is Get Good! Games that are designed only for people who play hardcore difficulty is killing gaming. Dead Space 2-23 is another instance of a great game turned into garbage because developers sell out to professional gamers at the expense of casual players!

Thanks to the developers Dead Space 2023 is burning rubbish nothing more!

[Orion]

Originally posted by AUTISTICWEREWOLF:

I've just finished playing Dead Space 2008 just to see how much ammo you get playing through on easy mode. Turns out playing Dead Space 2008 you get a ton of ammo enough that it does not in any way hinder game play. Dead Space 2023 is totally screwed up in that ammo is rare. There are times I run out of ammo in Dead Space 2023 especially trying to kill the bullet sponge Leviathan. All the enemies in the game are bullet sponges to a degree.

I hate how games are optimized for people with hyper able bodied people whose only vocabulary is Get Good! Games that are designed only for people who play hardcore difficulty is killing gaming. Dead Space 2-23 is another instance of a great game turned into garbage because developers sell out to professional gamers at the expense of casual players!

Thanks to the developers Dead Space 2023 is burning rubbish nothing more!

The Dead Space games are like, probably among the easiest games out there, you literally pick plasma cutter and click on legs then arms. You need to be pretty bad at games to fail this badly, and on easy mode. Boy, I started hardcore for my first playthrough and didn't die once. Ammo did become a bit scarce, but that's why you're able to carry THREE other weapons on you. Use your weapons effectively and manage your ammo. This isn't your everyday zombie game.

Use the force gun or flamethrower to soften up enemies or keep them at bay. While pulse rifle is weak, it's also pretty good at dealing with swarmers and if used in tandem with something like the flamethrower, it can be real deadly. The line cutter is a plasma cutter on steroids and is VERY good, but limited by a slow fire rate and less ammo. The ripper is fairly decent with it's standard firemode, but if you use the alternate to shoot out ricocheting saws it's really good, especially if you soften up an enemy first with the force gun or flamethrower. Contact beam is also good at softening up targets, it's also good at obliterating them with it's secondary. Stomp corpses after every battle or mid battle if you've got the time for a chance to get ammo and explore whatever you can, and of course don't forget about the storage rooms.

You want genuine advice? Then keep what I've said here in mind. Don't run and gun, manage your munitions carefully and make effective use of all your equipped tools to maximize damage output and hopefully minimize ammo usage, don't forget to stasis if you're in a rough patch and don't forget to also use objects in the environment such as explosive canisters or pointy bits and explosives from dismembered limbs for quick and easy kills without wasting ammo, and of course use your earned nodes to enhance your weapons' damage so enemies require even less ammo to deal with. Figure out where things went wrong, learn why they went wrong and improve yourself. Do not blame your shortcomings on the game when from what I've read here and played myself, it's absolutely you who needs to improve. Learn from your mistakes, and keep pushing.

Also, like the others here have said, you can just equip ONE weapon(preferably the plasma cutter) and put the rest in storage and you'll find ammo only for that weapon.

[tallgeese]

You can use claws from dead enemies or from enemies you've dismembered, as well as environmental weapons.

There are spear-like objects scattered the environment as well - these will 1 shot most enemies. They are marked by white and white-blue indicators at the end. You can rip them off pipes and break tables (tables will hold 4 of these makeshift spears, useful for clearing out rooms).

Your standard enemy will die when hit by 2 dismembered claws or 1 makeshift spear.

Also there are red explosive canisters everywhere you can use as well.

Also all of the vents that necromorphs appear out of have fans, you can kinesis these fans and use them as weapons.

TL;DR - kinesis is OP.

[Frontier Psychiatrist]

...I'm on hard, I have around 99 ammo for the plasma cutter and I've reached chapter 4. You' need to get better. Use kinesis more often. Also, only keep the guns you want to use in your inventory, that way you'll only pick up ammo for those.

[Sïckosis]

Kinesis the explosive balls the Leviathan spits out and throw them back at it.

[Kitt 🌟 Stargazer]

The only parts of the game that I had ammo management issues were dealing with the hunter first encounter, and only on the first run because I was stuck with him and only had ammo for my Flamethrower ( which is worthless against him lol ). Hell, I often sell ammo to the vender even early on to quickly get more nodes and upgrades for my rig and weapons.

They give you plenty of ammo in this remake.

[Pack 4 Potatoes]

You gotta go for the limbs. Cut them off!

[Mighty Molecule]

None of these comments are addressing the broken tension system with ammo vs those now-infamous 100 credit drops. One run I'm around 120,000 credits and zero ammo by Chapter 4 using necro spears and fire extinguishers most the time. Another I'm backtracking thru level 3 security clearance corridors and still picking up plasma cutter ammo left because of inventory constraints on a level 4 suit because the ammo drops like tears in rain. Thoroughly broke.

[Starkiller]

I had exactly the same thing in my first run on medium. And now in my ninth round exactly the same. 100 or 400 credits and some ammo every now and then. When I posted this here, I was torn apart by know-it-alls.

[Helios Megistos]

What the heck is this nonsence, I'm by no means a pro or hardcore gamer if anything I'm appallingly average in terms of skill across the board when it comes to video games. Dead Space Remake/2023 is not all that hard or difficult. If you struggle play on easy like I do the first time around to learn the game and then turn up the difficulty as you get better. Heck use the advice from the classic movie Aliens, short controlled burst. Aim and fire at a specific spot, use rapid fire from the pulse rifle for fast enemies or it's grenade when upgraded for groups, stasis for though enemies and don't let yourself get cornered if possible. A great strategy for brutes or black necromorphs (the tougher ones that spawn now and then and the NG+ variations of them) is simple to use the buzz saw and just hold it near ground level it works really well. This isn't Dark Souls, I hate the gut gud reply as much as your average person but in this case, get good or lower the difficulty there is no shame in it.

[WiFiN]

Check out the guide for combat here in steam community, it will help.
TLDR: Remake has a mechanic that adds "layers" to enemy body. You have armor, skin, muscle and bone. In original game cutter was a solution for everything, but in remake you need to "peel" enemies first with explosions, flame, or force damage, then switch to cutter and finish the job. Otherwise you are wasting cutter ammo.
Also use kinesis whenever possible. Claws and red explody stuff is a no-brainer, but you can even use fire extinguishers.
Circular saw has practically infinite ammo and as soon as you upgrade line gun, one trap can completely destroy even improved slasher.

[Unmotivated]

you know you can BUY ammo from the store, right?

[Volker]

If ammo is seriously an issue, you can just have 2 weapons of your choice equipped and then put everything into the storage at a store. That way, the game will only spawn ammo for THOSE 2 weapons.. Some places though will spawn pulse rifle ammo no matter what, usually just before a boss fight. On my first run I did Plasma Cutter only and by the time I got to chapter 3 I had more ammo spawning than I had inventory space, so I was SELLING ammo and then turning it into power nodes for upgrades.

[Unmotivated]

Originally posted by Volker:

If ammo is seriously an issue, you can just have 2 weapons of your choice equipped and then put everything into the storage at a store. That way, the game will only spawn ammo for THOSE 2 weapons.. Some places though will spawn pulse rifle ammo no matter what, usually just before a boss fight. On my first run I did Plasma Cutter only and by the time I got to chapter 3 I had more ammo spawning than I had inventory space, so I was SELLING ammo and then turning it into power nodes for upgrades.

this is how you do it.

[Cephei]

This game is unfortunately super easy and it's impossible to run out of ammo. I only need to try impossible mode, but i'm affraid it will be too easy as well.

[Xymnala]

I feel like the reason why people say they are out of ammo is they jump in on hard mode, grab every weapon in the game and walk around with them in their inventory, and only put in like 3-4 nodes into each one, making every weapon as inefficient as possible.

You are not going to get good ammo efficiency without upgrading the damage on your slice and dice weapon of choice and making it efficient to kill with. This can also be supplemented with actually using the environmental items well, like using exploding canisters on Guardians instead of 200 pulse rifle shots. Usually if there are exploding canisters around, there is a reason! They give you like 8 for the Leviathan, and there is usually like 2-3 around most wall guardians. Heck, they are even far more generous and give you the stasis bombs from DS2 and extra stasis refills in various rooms that the original DS didn't have as well.

The other complaint I hear is that the enemies drop 100 credits regularly. So what? In Hard and even moreso on Impossible in the original game, half of the enemies didn't drop anything at all, and took more shots to kill, and if you weren't precise you just run out of ammo flatout. And if you get a bad section, you can just reload it anyways, this is true for both games.

It is meant to be a challenge, Dead Space is meant to be a Survival Horror, not a Rail Shooter. Manage your inventory well and it will carry you.