you have to repair this gear thing using parts of the neighboring gears and another piece off on a shelf. I moved the shelf piece and put it in place when one of those "facehugger" things came up at me and I had to A-tap him off. Well, he took my health down to two little red bars. I finish up the puzzle and that creates a checkpoint.

Having next to no health, no medpacks, and practically no ammo I hit the button to advance the story and at least 2 of those super-slashers come out at me. I'm so totally fucked.

"This was done on normal difficulty and the room that replenishes the items requires a power node for access.


The Save Station in the is located on Chapter 14 after the anti-gravity section. Shortly after You'll eventually reach the anti-gravity section. After you pass the anti gravity section, you go through two doors and on your right will be a door requiring a power node for access. This is room that replenishing the items. You'll find the Save Station two more doors if you head left from that T intersection.

Steps (read description above to locate starting point):
1. Unlock the door with a power node. Title above door: 6: Secure Storage, Power Node Access Only ** UPDATE 2/1: You should be able to collect the items from this room **
2. Advance through two more doors to reach a Store, Bench, and Save Station.
3. Save at Save Station after the anti-gravity section on Chapter 14.
4. Reload the save point by quitting to main menu ** UPDATE 2/1: Alternative: Reload the save point by choosing "Restart Checkpoint" **
5. Back track to the anti-gravity area (most of time you can go directly to the room). Once you get back to the anti-gravity area, go back through the last two doors and go into the room on your right. This is the room that required a power node to open. Inside this room is where I find either 2 power nodes, 1 ruby semiconductor, and/or 3k credit.
6. Go back to Save Station and save the game.
7. Repeat steps 4-6

NOTE: if you start finding only credits in the room, try going all the way back to the switch in the antigravity area, then go to the room. Doing this has reset the 2 power nodes for me."

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I mean, every time Nicole would appear, I would have no idea what she was saying. I could make out some of it, but it was just too garbled for me to understand. But Isaac would respond like I was supposed to hear it. Strauss too, for that matter.

I know right. It's a bummer. I really really like the mythology that they have created for the Dead Space world. Unfortunately, a lot of the story gets lost in DS2 because stuff is either hard to hear coming from Nicole or is just plain convoluted. It took me my second playthrough to finally understand the needle/eye thing as being the trigger to unlock the marker related codes in Isaac's head. (And BTW....WTF on that needle shit!!!!!)

I really want to know more about Unitology and the Markers and what exactly is going on. It's crazy to me there are so many other outlets for the game that serve as cannon to the story of the Dead Space universe. 2 regular games, a console exclusive game (prior to the PS3 version), two movies, two comic series, and a book. All in 2 years. I can't think of another IP that started as a game and is spread across that much varied media where they are all essentially placed in a chronological order and carry over story elements. It awesome if you want to immerse yourself, but it means that you really can't just play DS and DS2 and understand everything that's going on. Not to mention they don't spell out things intentionally in order to keep the story going. I think I would like to read the Martyr book though as that seems to deal 100% with the founding of Unitology and the finding of the first Marker on Earth.

Isaac seeing the new marker and saying "I built this"...WHAT!? They used the eye/needle thing to get the "marker codes" from his brain and those were somehow used to build a new marker? Even on my second play through with the subtitles on, I feel like this isn't explained well at all. The whole "convergence"/"make us whole" thing doesn't make any sense to me either.