Does anyone know how to get the "Armor-Piercing" achievement? The description says you need to hit an armored weak point 5 times. But I haven't seen any armor on any enemy at any difficulty level. What does such an enemy look like? The armor-piercing upgrade is also given before the final boss fight. I shot the weak points of the boss and enemies in the area, but the achievement didn't pop.

I don't know how to get the pink prism; the corpse isn't responding to me. (Symbol) Is there anything I can do? I have two prisms, I killed the giant monster, I have the key that looks vertebral bone.

I opened all the doors, except this one.

I think we all agree that TSC2 tries to be a Resident Evil remake clone and it's not a real sequel to The Sinking City 1. Some of you hated that, but I loved this take.

The first game builds an amazing scenario, but it has many flaws and even the most hardcore fans can acknowledge them. I dropped the game due to the awful gunplay. Like Sherlock Holmes, the game is not good when it tries to be a shooter, it should be focused only on investigation.

I think Frogwares is trying to cater to the mainstream audiences by turning this franchise into a survival horror while the future Sherlock Holmes games will be made to the players who like investigation. I loved both Sherlock Holmes the Awakened and The Sinking City 2. For those who like the investigation part of SC1, I absolutely recommend playing Sherlock.

So just recently finished the sinking city 2 and i rather enjoyed it overall however there was this persisting feeling that took awhile me to put my finger on, namely this game cant seem to decide what kind of survivor horror game it want so it.

The levels are set up in a classic survivor horror type much like the original RE and RE2 Remake, limited resources., Many locked door and navigation of areas, inventory management, puzzles that can be easy or hard depending on a few factors. All and all the actual areas are top notch.

However what is not top notch is the sheer ridicules amount of enemy's you are expected to fight even being careful, saving ammo to the best of my ability and the near endless amount of dodging more zombies then in left for dead. i would still routinely have little to no ammo when entering a boss fight... and then precede to open the 2-4 boxes in the boss arena for ammo/health.

Pretty sure for the first half of the game you are physical incapable of carrying enough ammo in to boss arenas to actual complete the encounters and thus need the boxes to even win the boss fights. cant recall when it started but i just started farming resources from boss fights.

All together i find my self confused why this games combat is almost completely contrary to its environment , the resources you find and hell even the level layout would implied ALOT less enemy encounters. I can remember the early game hotel area where there was like 5-7 zombies in a hallway.

So the game world screams RE2 Remake but the combat screams RE4 but with out you know.. the bloody ammo needed actual play like that. anyone else feel that way?

Still rather liked it, but I'm having a much nicer time playing on a higher difficulty and a shotgun with unlimited ammo.

Overall thoughts in this short video. I have since finished the game and definitely liked the ending way more than the first game. I did still miss the exploration lore and chatting with the npcs in the first game. Overall this new one will reach more people I think.

https://youtu.be/cIG8wfr2Swo?is=omYKLSB8foVJB20l

Just got done doing the side case Extra Hours. I have so say that this was one of the most unnerving quests I’ve ever done in a video game. You might ask yourself “Why is that? It’s just about a quest involving an officer wanting you to get some crime scene photos.” Well there were some vague details that made the whole situation feel… off. Understanding a bit of criminal psychology/psychology may have played a large role. Allow me to explain:

This is all vague speculation, but the psychology behind it paints a different picture. You have three victims of murder. One victim was stabbed in the throat and instantly killed. Another was cut down with an axe while trying to flee. Both victims were part of a Photo Club.

However, the third, R.Bekker, was made to look like a suicide. (Also insane attention to detail having the hanging victims tongue bulging. That is a specific outcome of asphyxiation victims, which is a gruesome detail.) It seems that this was then a “forced” suicide or “coerced”, or something else I could be wrong.

Using Minds Eye on the bracelet found for the allows you to discover that the cop had a secret relationship with R. Bekker. Also noting that R. Bekker didn’t belong to the photo club (or at least it doesn’t seem like it).

I wondered why R. Bekker’s death seemed like the killer actually put care into how his death was portrayed in making it look like a suicide compared to the other two victims. The other two victims were just blatantly killed and left as obvious murder victims with no care in covering the crime scene.

There is also the connection between you being asked to specifically take photos for a cop that is (not in his precinct??? And is at a dodgy bar.) Mentioning of prohibition to the cop gives a sarcastic answer about how there is only grape juice. It gives off the idea that this cop doesn’t exactly follow all the rules.

That’s when I had a vague conclusion:

What if we were being used for a serial killer’s sick kick of photographing victims… what if this cop was the killer to begin with.

I’m not sure but it’s some food for thought.

Definately not Freddy k in a game about the dream dimension.

FINAL UPDATE: NEVERMIND. I should NOT open the loot boxes BEFORE the fight. Open during the fight after you've used up your ammo, and you're sure to get what you need.

I was on certain ending of an area, so linear segments. But I went in with the wrong weapon, they gave me a ton of Submachine Gun ammo.

So I loaded again with it equipped, and lo and behold, NONE of the loots is SMG now.

Retested multiple times, and it's all basic materials. Do you think this might've been active mechanism to punish save scumming?

UPDATE: Somehow, it's ALMOST always giving me the ammo for weapon I didn't bring.

• Skipped rifle & SMG => Got SMG
• Skipped handgun & rifle => Got both
• All but Shotgun => Got shotgun

(Also got multiple retires where I got just mats)

It's been 7 out of 7 tries I got ammo, and it's never for the weapon I bring.

So I guess it's not mechanism to punishing reload, but there's a "user has no X ammo, replenish" logic.

Very much enjoyed the first game. Felt it was very unique. The investigation mechanic was well done. Before buying the 2nd game i looked at some gameplay and a few reviews, decided that, even though it had moved away from the originals gameplay, i would probably enjoy it. And i was right.

Now i understand fully being disappointed we aren't getting more of the first game but the number of post i'm seeing where people are shocked to find themselves playing a survival horror is ridiculous.

Why have so many bought this blind based on just the first game? Even if it was the same style as the first you should be looking at before you buy because there is always the chance they just fucked it up.

TL:DR actually look at a game before you buy it.

Yeah I can get the shotgun infinite ammo, but then you gotta use points to also get it early in the stash? And my inventory being 8 spaces at start with access to all these extra weapons and infinite ammo is kinda bs.. you don’t get a decent inventory til the end of the game. Also none of your weapon upgrades carry over? So any challenges you need with to complete for points won’t happen til later when you get them again.. I don’t think this was well executed honestly. It would’ve been way more fun to play through some areas with most of the guns and infinite ammo and blow through and kill everything instead of it being tedious every time- not picking up stuff, running to the stash, etc. Meh. The game is just ok.. it’s mostly good and I appreciate the devs work and efforts, but a lot of the mechanics piss me off, the rooms with multiple spitting enemies, the varying enemies at once, etc. Going around the areas and locating and figuring out the clues is the most interesting part. I was hoping to have a full inventory and weapon upgrades already gotten on new game plus, plus a handful of other stuff... to get JUST the talents to carry over is kinda lame. What do you think?

Basically I did the ventilation puzzle at the Devil's Reef Hotel, but the gas didn't clear out.

Figured that might just be a glitch, so I saved and reloaded but that didn't do anything.

Reloaded an earlier save, redid the basement section, redid the puzzle, the ventilation system activates but protag doesn't say anything and the gas still doesn't clear out 😭 is my savefile screwed?

I heard that Sinking City 2 has been a great success story. That's amazing! Congratulations to the whole team! This being said, I couldn't enjoy the game as much as I wanted. I missed the Open World and the Detective elements. I also preferred the fun "pulp" vibes of the first game, that wasn't really that scary, and I enjoyed the sanity mechanic.

If Frogwares continue with this saga, could we go back to the original concept for a third entry? Please?

I’m honestly shocked at how short the sinking city 2 was for me. I think I beat it in about 10 hours of game time on hard? Not including DLC mission. I’m just wondering when we will get a Sinking city 3 because I am hungry for more!

I know a lot of people will disagree with this, but I think Frogwares should really try to increase the length of their games moving forward. I want an open world like the first game, with dialogue options like the first, but with the combat of the 2nd game. I hope they try to secure a publisher to get more funding because they have a good thing going!

Has anybody else experienced this glitch? I tried searching this subreddit and the Steam forums but haven't found anything.

It's been happening occasionally throughout the game, but it's consistent throughout the final battle and it's making it near impossible to see anything.

I've tried fiddling with various graphics settings to no avail. Just curious if anyone has had this happen and found a way around it?

EDIT for more system details: This is on Windows, AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

EDIT 2: It was a driver issue. I thought I was on the latest driver but apparently I wasn't. 🙃 Time...to die.

I decided to pick the first game up in preparation for the second. I got the original for Xbox, not the remaster. I was delighted to find the Merciful Madness DLC was available, but it doesn’t seem to work. I purchased and downloaded it, but it’s not showing up as an add-on for the game. I check the store and it says I purchased the DLC for both standard and remastered. I contacted Microsoft and they said it was a ’rights and entitlement issue’ and to report the game. I also contacted Frogwares about the issue. So far, no response from either.

Has anyone else experienced this issue? Is the best option here to just buy the remastered version or hope for a refun?

First, I want to point out that I am just over halfway finished with TSC 2, so a) no spoilers and b) take my opinion with a grain of salt. As a huge fan of Frogwares and TSC 1 (also backed TSC 2 on Kickstarter), I'm really interested to hear people's takes on the game because I noticed I had a pretty strong reaction to it.

To be completely blunt: from a gameplay perspective, TSC 2 is a Resident Evil game. The enemies, combat, crafting, mechanics, and puzzles feel copy-pasted. Hell, there's even a giant monster following you around. Unfortunately, the investigative aspect that made TSC 1 and Frogwares unique and special is now missing. Dialogues and meaningful choice-making moments have been replaced with action-shot cutscenes. You put pieces of evidence together, but it doesn't mean anything anymore outside of upgrading your character. It's a shame because I'm really enjoying the world and plot, and wish I could play a more active role in it. I'm also biased as a Lovecraft nerd, though.

Maybe this is their intention and I should have managed my expectations. I feel like Frogwares had a great formula and I'm scared they are moving away from it to create the more streamlined gameplay experience seen in RE/SH/etc. I'm not trying to be hypercritical; I know that a ton of time, resources, and labor was put into creating this impressive game. I'm happy to financially support the developers and the game itself is enjoyable. That said, it feels less like a Sinking City sequel and more like it should have just been its own separate project.

What do you all think?? Am I overreacting?

Obviously, spoilers ahead to anyone viewing the thread, ye be warned!!

I give it a 9/10 ending, there is just one nitpick issue I have with it. I am also making this post because of having a debate with a friend about it, and I believe the biggest reason our opinions vary is simply because he has never picked up a story of Lovecraft ever.

Getting into it, the biggest reason I like this ending is because I 100% thought Yog-Sothoth was NOT going to be our world ending “antagonist.” On top of that, I wholeheartedly believed in some way that Faye was betraying us from the starts and falling into the “lover turned cultist” fully trope. I originally believed the whole time Nyarlathotep was orchestrator of everything, especially when revealed that there was a Mi-Go as the herald. It just made sense to me, if anything, I was braced for disappointment because I was so sure. The moment I did somewhat question was the puzzle completion quote with the brain, when they mention the Gate and the Key. That is Yog-Sothoth, but I pushed it to the side because Nyarlathotep is also in the story “The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath.” Then seeing how the Dreamlands is the catalyst for everything happening in the first place, it seemed like a perfect Nyarlathotep scheme.

Perhaps it was also Calvin and Faye’s relationship that I just enjoyed a lot, so the ending being bittersweet as the world ends into tenebrous descent, but having each other is oddly beautiful. Although, as I stated, my one main issue with the ending is having Yog-Sothoth as the world ending cataclysm. I believe Nyarlathotep would have been a much more “logical” choice, but I am also glad that I did not guess the ending. Looking back it, I did miss hints, such as the ritual chant itself.

I’m probably not even at the half point or maybe close? Not sure but I just got the machine gun and the games exploration and puzzles really scratch the resident evil and silent hill itch but the combat feels off. Even on mouse and keyboard the aiming feels hard to control and even lowering the ads sens to 1 can feel fast if you use 800dpi or more which is a strange choice. But worse than that is that shooting enemies seems to pack no punch. Even the shotgun doesn’t really seem to stagger them much. It feels like I’m shooting rubber bullets. In modern RE it’s very satisfying to shoot a zombie and see them get a bit staggered. Makes the shots feel more impactful and fun. Also, waiting for weak points to pop up is frustrating. They should just instantly be in a spot but if you wanna conserve ammo you need to aim at them and wait seconds for weak points to pop up.

I will say the dodge is pretty decent though so it helps to conserve ammo when you can easily skip half the fights. The game has such cool aesthetic, puzzles and design that it bums me out that what should be the most fun part of the game is its biggest flaw imo. I’m sorry for the negativity in this sub but am I the only one who feels this way? Maybe with controller and haptics and vibrations it feels better but I just find it to be a letdown. Still enjoying the game but it could
be so much better if this aspect was polished more.

Just some words of wisdom I’ve internalized after the Fish Market.

Fantastic game so far but definitely wish there was less of this running by enemies as you go from one end of the map to the other.

Got motion sickness from the default fov which is 80 top pic vs bottom pic with 100

this is the mod from nexus https://www.nexusmods.com/thesinkingcity2/mods/19?tab=files

1st pic is 16:9 and 2nd pic is 21:9 - 3440x1440

you can do a middle ground like 90-95 fov

Yes, serious question. I think I may be bugged. I recently acquired the box of frag grenades from the ERC chest in the fish market. I open my inventory and I only have the option to "examine" or "disard" them. Normally new weapons are also auto equipped in my weapon wheel, but that didn't happen this time. Anyone else have this issue and know what to do?

To preface this, I have not played the original game. I am also a huge survival horror fan, I've probably played almost every main release in the genre from the last 20 years and a bunch of indie releases too. I also played the game on Hard Night mode, with additional playthroughs on the highest difficulty with unlimited ammo and no mask revives.

I really enjoyed this game, but it is far from perfect. There's a lot of really great things in the game but also a lot of frustration and places where the game could have used a bit more polish.

Combat: This was my main gripe with the game initially. The first few hours combat did not feel good at all. There were a couple of reasons for this: The guns felt they had no weight, enemies don't really react to being shot and when they do it doesn't feel satisfying. Multiple times I would have 2-3 enemies in front of me within touching distance, and they would eat a shotgun blast like it was nothing. One might fall down but the rest were good to go. The sound design of weapons is also subpar, this adds to the feeling you aren't really doing anything.

The other side of combat is the melee attacks, and man... This was executed poorly. Melee only feels useful in very niche situations. An enemy goes to the ground and you stomp them? Great. You try to stomp them a second time when they are still getting up? You'll miss and take damage. You want to punch an enemy? You MAY hit them, but more than likely you'll see the punch connect but do no damage, instead you will get hit. This system just felt super rigid. You are playing the games game, not your own. You will play by it's rules strictly and to a T or you'll suffer for it. One of the things that made SH2 remake so good was it's combat being so adaptable. You could come from shooting, to dodging to melee so fast to react to what was going on. On target attacks always connect, dodges were tight and effective and a quick gun shot could end a fight fast. SC2 feels like it saw this and thought 'lets do that, but way worse!' Speaking of dodging, the window can be very tight and I've directly seen enemies changing direction after you dodge. The deep ones were the absolute worst offenders, executing a perfect dodge only to see them changing direction in the very last millisecond to get a hit off on you felt cheap.

All that aside, once you start getting more weapon choices the game picks up. None of the guns feel particularly satisfying to use though. And I think I know why this is. It's the enemy weak points. I personally think the weak points might be my least favourite thing in the whole game. This isn't Zelda with the boss having giant eyes, it's survival horror. You're supposed to be fighting tooth and nail to make progress, not waiting around for the enemies to provide an obvious weak point. Most of the time it felt like targeting anywhere other than the weak point was a waste of time, very little damage or stagger occurred when targeting none weak spots to the point it felt like I was throwing precious resources away. Again, you are playing by the games rules and there is absolutely no room for deviation from that.

Audio: Audio is something I don't really notice in games unless its very good. SH games have this down to a fine art in my opinion. SC2 however? It's ok. The general sound effects are pretty nice, the enemy sounds are decent and creepy at time. It's all marred by the terrible sound quality though. Everything sounds muffled besides the voice acting. I checked the settings and could not find a way to fix it. Changing from headphone to speakers, which was the default for some reason despite me using speakers, helped slightly but it was still pretty bad which was sad. Voice acting is also just ok, nothing standout but nothing bad either.

Graphics and design: This is where the game absolutely SHINES. This game has phenomenal atmosphere and draws from it's source material very well, if a little conservative at the same time. The locations are all straight out of a Lovecraft story, the Hospital and Fish Market were both fantastic.

Story: Again, this was just ok. The main story is pretty light honestly, and while the stakes were high it never really felt that way. A lot of the time the characters are urging you on in a rush, but I never felt that much urgency personally. The side characters though? Very engaging. I really like the characters we met along the way, their back stories (which arguable were only really fleshed out in Ex Oblivione mode with the extra notes) were very good and I wished we had more time with each of them. I was far more invested in what was going on in the Hospital outside of our main characters objective, and with Ma in the markets personal history than I was with anything main story related.

If I had to give this game a score I'd honestly have to say 7.5/10, with strong leanings to 8. The game IS very good, it just lets itself down in a lot of ways. None of the negatives are so bad that I would say don't purchase the game, but I would also say unless you are a modern survival horror fan you're best waiting for a sale. Even as a fan of the genre, it is very rough around the edges, but if you can stick it out there is a truly great game at the centre of all that.

P.S - The DLC is also phenomenal, and arguably way better that anything in the base game (Hospital area is a close contender though.) It gives you a nice reward for the main game too. It feels like this DLC may have been completed last, because it overall feels much tighter than the base game. I'd recommend this a lot.

hi im on part 2 i cant play more than 30mins because my head starts to hurt , i dont see a fov slider in the options , did someone found a working mod or anything

releasing games with no fov slider is a deal breaker

had the same issue in callisto protocol but there is a good mod for it

fixed it https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSinkingCity/comments/1vz3aua/field_of_view_fix/

https://www.nexusmods.com/thesinkingcity2/mods/19?tab=files