When used upon brittle, frozen rocks riddled with faults, it can split them open in one or two shots in skilled hands. This causes intense localized shear effects as well as a tunnelling thermal expansion. On impact with the target, bolt cohesion fails frontward first, penetrating the target with a focused jet of superheated matter. The Plasma Cutter is very accurate, utilizing three blue lasers to indicate the desired cutting plane. It is capable of firing bolts vertically (primary firing mode) and horizontally (secondary firing mode). The Plasma Cutter delivers a cohesive pulse-stream, or 'bolt', of ionized plasma when fired. It's Dead Space's version of the 'HCE Magnum,' 'Gravity Gun,' or 'Lancer-Chainsaw.' I just don't feel like I'm playing Dead Space unless I have a Plasma Cutter set to horizontal and pre-aimed at knee-height.' Congratulations on your purchase of a Schofield Tools 211-V Directed Energy Plasma Cutter! The 211-V combines power and reliability in a portable form factor, allowing for one-handed operation.

But it definitely impacted my enjoyment of the game.Īfter the first 2 games, I felt like the Plasma Cutter was the defining feature of the Dead Space series. Now maybe this was done on purpose to force the player to play 'Engineer' and build a more effective weapon or maybe the developers were trying to steer away from how the previous two titles were treated as 'one-gun-challenge' campaigns. Later in the campaign (and on 'new game +' play-throughs), you can outfit the gun with enough +3 Damage, +3 ROF, and +3 Reload circuits that it borders on 'overpowered.' But this doesn't change the fact that the Plasma Cutter feels bad in the early chapters.

The quick enemies plus the lack of 'stagger'-effects also makes the Plasma Cutter feel worse in DS3. The workbench system in Dead Space 3 really ruined how the Plasma Cutter feels as a starter-weapon because you are no longer able to push your first 5-7 Power Nodes to pump its damage in the early chapters of the game.

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