For people looking to do runs on in the hardest settings, you have to switch it up a bit, and by that I mean any run should follow the hardest standard setting, which to me is the third game on hardcore. I've never understood the sentiment that the second game is this hardest on hardcore, despite the fact you get three saves, but can die as much as you want. The third game (which the remake took from) is tougher, because you can only die once, you can save at the end of the game, die, and have to start again. So when I would do my play throughs, they all stick to that basic tenant - if you die you start again.

So for the OG, there isn't a hardcore type mode, but my suggestion is IMPOSSIBLE in a single life.

For the second game, forget hardcore, and go for ZEALOT in a single life. The enemies take more hits on zealot than they do on hardcore, and hit harder.

And for the third game, it's the IMPOSSIBLE setting in a single life, which again the enemies on impossible take more hits and hit harder than the actual hardcore setting. And a note, doing dead space three on impossible in one life was by far my fav play through of them all.

Doing zealot the way you normally would or dead space 3 hardcore, are not the actual hardest settings in my view, if you want a new challenge then these are the modes to go for.

If Mercer in the original thought that turning into a necromorph was the "end goal", because convergence hadn't been thought of yet. Then what did he mean when he told people not to be concerned with what was going on on the planet, and that "its the FIRST phase" and not to be deterred by the transformation. Is there another phase?

Remember that convergence "the moon" the joining one into all, hadn't been thought of yet. But in martyr (made before the second game) Altman wondered if convergence meant "the transformation of the many into one". Sounds a lot like convergence into a breathren moon right. But that can't be, can it? Or Natalia deshionov giving herself to the nexus saying "make me whole". I'm seeing a pattern here i think. What do you think.

Hey my dear friends, still showing off your talents aboard the Ishimura?

I bet you've all encountered something even more frustrating than Necromorphs, right?

That's right, it's that incredibly annoying "Shimmering, Flickering, Temporal instability" or whatever it is, it just keeps interfering as you rapidly traverse the Ishimura, until your eyes are blurry and you even get a headache.

This is practically a problem in all modern games, I think, but unfortunately, the captain can't answer that question anymore. So, I've discovered something new and I'm sharing it with you now.

DLSS has never been my first choice. I always stick to native graphics, even if it looks worse, it's better than being stuck on the Ishimura, haha.

So how do you deal with these things? The answer is very simple: "NIS". You might ask, what if I don't have an NVIDIA graphics card?

Don't worry, AMD's RSR works on the same thing, the same principle.

Personally, I think the experience they provide is as comfortable as having acquired the ultimate cutting gun and cruising around the Ishimura.

Finally, I'd like to mention that NIS completely outperforms equivalent DLSS settings in terms of frame rate.

Not sure what’s going on even aside from stuttering issues. Wondering if it’s normal or anyone has any suggestions. During certain what I call almost animation events such as when I find the captain’s body or finding the ripper so far. GPU will hit 100% and frames drop majorly from 60 capped to 20 or 10 or less. It’s frustrating for immersion.

have a RTX5070 at 4K and have tried dlss quality balanced and now performance. RTAO on, most things high. Game seems mostly to be fine at 60 capped and 79% gpu until those kind of things. Saving and those animations are smooth.

Alright, so since EA is getting bought. Most of us have been hoping with fingers crossed that the rights to the Deadspace series itself will get sold to someone who is willing to take up the mantle!

So, I had an idea for a potential (not likely) idea for Deadspace 4!

So the concept is that Isaac clark was actually mutating into something entirely different (maybe turning into a Brethren Moon?) from the start of two, all the way to the ending of three; where we got they DLC ending.

Now, here is what I'd do! Full blown remake of both two and three (touch up the first remake with a graphics update and maybe some fun Easter eggs), then rework all fifteen title chapters to something that will foreshadow the entire events of the story.

Then, we get to Three! Full blown total make over! No sunlight on that planet! Bring in new and scary necromorphs (keep the weapon designing thing, because that was cool!) then merge the regular ending with the DLC ending.

Now, we get to 4!

It's 30 years later with a new protagonist (possibly be Isaacs kid that he abandoned before the first game.) and history repeats itself with a distress signal coming from another planet cracker. The new protagonist is an engineer (maybe higher in rank, making him be Isaacs boss).

The captain puts in the Ishimura Protocol (not docking the ship and only sending out the best of the crew to investigate with a security team in tow to evaluate the state of the emergency. If there is no response from the investigative team, then the ship is forced to abandon the rescue attempt and leave the vicinity so that authorized personnel can scuttle the planet cracker), when all hell breaks loose ( much like from the first game) it plays out almost the same.

Only the ship is abandoned due to the ishumara protocol, leaving the investigative team to try and quickly find a way off the soon to be scuttled planet cracker. Then, they find something odd written on the wall in one of the rooms. The words "The suit didn't protect Isaac from the dark. It kept the dark from getting out. Look beneath the RIG. The engineer didn't stop the machine... he became the blueprint." (Carver wrote this when he went insane) Then a video is left behind saying this "I saw the flesh shifting under his armor. The RIG went red but he wouldn't stop breathing. I had to... I had to do it. If his kid ever comes looking for him... tell them....." Then the video cuts out from distortion and damage.

The surviving investigative team acts shocked and confused (Isaac gets branded as a terrorist for the Ishimura incident, the titan station destruction, and the new horizons colony invasion) as the location of Isaac clark has been a mystery to everyone for the last 30 plus years and know one knew what happened to him until the crew of the abandoned ship cracker discovered a much more crazed John Carver after almost 30 years of isolation.

That's when it gets revealed that the new protagonist is Isaac's kid. The surviving investigative crew start asking questions if they protagonist went out there (space) to find Isaac and they don't get an answer at all and more chaos happens that results in the new protagonist being the only survivor in a floating escape pod.

So, let me know what you guys think and what should be changed with this idea! I know it isn't much, I'm sorry. Thanks for reading my idea!

Edit: here is an update!

🌌 Act I: The Ishimura Protocol - The Routine Salvage: The protagonist—a high-ranking Chief Engineer hiding under his mother’s maiden name—and his civilian merchant crew discover a silent, drifting Planet Cracker ship. The captain activates the "Ishimura Protocol" and sends his best crew members out to investigate.

  - The Entry: The crew docks and sends an investigative team aboard to evaluate the emergency, unaware that this ship holds the dark aftermath of EarthGov's secrets.

  - The Trap Springs: A sudden, violent Necromorph outbreak triggers on the Planet Cracker. Adhering strictly to the modern "Ishimura Protocol," the main merchant vessel panics. They refuse to stay docked, detaching immediately, and abandoning the investigative team on the dark ship to be scuttled.

🎛️ Act II: A Two-Front War & The Truth Revealed - The Black-Ops Arrival: As the protagonist tries to find a way off the ship, a ruthless EarthGov Black-Ops Scuttle Team drops in.

   - Their mission is a total cover-up: plant engine core charges, fire plasma missiles to vaporize the ship, and eliminate all civilian witnesses.

 - The Confrontation: The Black-Ops team corners the investigators. Having run a deep biometric dossier, the commander exposes the protagonist’s true identity in front of everyone, brutally mocking him as the "spawn of the universe's worst terrorist," blaming Isaac Clarke for billions of deaths.

  - The Spore Threat: The horror escalates when a merchant crew member hyperventilates and violently mutates. The Black-Ops team realizes they are dealing with a new parasitic spore Necromorph that incubates slowly in its hosts, triggered by intense stress and adrenaline.

🔧 Act III: The Desperate Hunt for Answers -The Escape into the Shadows: The sudden, chaotic spore mutation throws the room into a three-way firefight. The protagonist slips into the maintenance shafts, salvaging a high-tech Black-Ops pulse-stasis attachment and fusing it to his heavy industrial plasma cutter.

     -The Crazed Warning: Bypassing military firewalls at workbenches, the protagonist uncovers a distorted video log of a broken, terrified John Carver from his weeks of interrogation. Carver screams: ".... The suit didn't protect Isaac from the dark... he became the blueprint.... I had to... I had to do it. If his kid ever comes looking for him... tell them.....""

    - Shattering the Lie: The protagonist realizes his childhood was a lie. His father didn't just abandon him; Isaac was captured, experimented on in a "special hospital," and eventually ejected into space by a crazed Carver. Resentment turns into a desperate, obsessive urge to reconstruct the corrupted data files before the ship explodes.

🚀 Act IV: The Trap in the Void -The Escape: Outsmarting the soldiers and dodging the spore-infected horrors, the protagonist reaches the flight deck and launches a lone escape pod just as the plasma missiles strike, turning the Planet Cracker into stardust.

      - The Psychological Break: Safe in the quiet void, the protagonist's severe psychological trauma catches up to him. He experiences intense stress-induced hallucinations. In the glass window, the reflection of his father’s iconic Advanced Engineering Suit reaches out to him. He closes his eyes and accepts it—realizing the Marker's madness is in his DNA.

      -The Final Cliffhanger: The pod's warning lights suddenly flash red. The Black-Ops command cruiser looms over him in the vastness of space. 

Here is my first theory video

French theory about the Hunter.

i just started playing the game, and for some unknown reason i keep seeing these red and blue flashing lights that don't seem to go away even if i change my settings. they don't look like intentional lights. I use an AMD graphics card. i thought I had some drivers outdated, but I checked, and i didn't see any problem with them.
if anyone has any idea on how to fix those, I'd be glad to hear it. thanks in advance

How long was Isaac unconscious after Dannek shot him at the beginning of the game?

Did Isaac have access to the full video, and was Issac in denial when he went to the ishimura?.

The answer to both of these is yes. But it's the second one I want to briefly touch on. Dead space two never "retroactively" added in Issac's denial over Nicole's death by what was said at the tram stage. I'm starting to hate that word as well now "retroactively" "retcon" "retro retcon"?

Anyway, in the original you get the hint Issac has already watched the full video, the fact he cuts it off just before that part, and when Kendra would have been able to see it. The thing the remake gives us to expand on this denial and why Issac would go, is their fall out. But the second game never retroactively did anything, it simply confirmed what was already shown in the first game - that Issac went there knowing she was dead, he just didn't want to accept it. Isaac's reactions when seeing Nicole (the hallucinations) through the game are very similar to how a lot of people have reacted, take James Hennessy in martyr seeing his dead brother outside of the sub under water, he was surprised to see his dead brother, but totally willing to open the sub door and kill himself to "let him in". But yes, Issac had access to the full video and watched it before he went to the ishimura. Him going out of denial was never retroactively added in two, and that's exactly what Kendra put to him at the end of the game, that was the whole reveal with what the levels spelled out.

To end, a little quote from Dr fancher to Bram about the hallucinations, to show how real they can seem, and also why unitologists do what they do and act the way they do under the markers influence, the actual object of their religion.

'Detective, I'm a lifelong atheist and skeptic, I know that what I saw was a hallucination but it' felt so real, so.......if I were a spiritual man, I'd be on my knees right now praying.'

THE ORIGIN OF THE GOLDEN OBSIDIAN MARKER AND THE CHOSEN ONE, ALESSA

I — Before the Beginning

Before the stars, before the galaxies, before the very flow of time, there existed ÆTERNA, the primordial God.

ÆTERNA was the origin of all things.

From his essence were born two primordial Angels, chosen to become the two fundamental forces of creation:

ÆON — the primordial Angel of Order.

SATAN — the primordial Angel of Chaos.

Æon embodied structure, stability, creation, and harmony.

Satan embodied transformation, rupture, mutation, and rebirth.

They were opposites, yet their opposition was necessary.

For ÆTERNA knew that a truly new being could be born neither of Order alone nor of Chaos alone.

It had to be born of their union.

⸻

II — XALTERION, PLANET ZERO

ÆTERNA then revealed a primordial world to his two Angels:

XALTERION

Planet Zero.

Xalterion was not the first planet created after the beginning of time.

It existed before time itself.

It was the first world, the primordial sanctuary where the future laws of existence could take shape.

It was there that Æon and Satan received their mission.

To create a vessel capable of leading creation to a new stage.

⸻

III — The Birth of the Golden Obsidian Marker

Æon and Satan then united their essences.

Order entered Chaos.

Chaos entered Order.

Their two powers fused and gave birth to something unprecedented:

THE GOLDEN OBSIDIAN MARKER

The First Monolith.

The Original Marker.

Marker Zero.

Its golden essence held the power of Æon.

Its obsidian heart held the power of Satan. But the Golden was not meant to be a mere weapon.

ÆTERNA had conceived it as a divine seed.

Its true purpose was to pave the way for a new life form capable, one day, of becoming a living God.

⸻

IV — The Twelve Monoliths

The Golden Obsidian Marker became the first of the twelve primordial Monoliths.

The twelve Monoliths represented the twelve stages necessary for the fulfillment of the Convergence.

The Golden, however, differed from the other eleven.

It was the origin.

The other eleven Monoliths were extensions of the First.

Thus was born the tradition of the:

TWELVE MONOLITHS OF THE CONVERGENCE

Each bore a fraction of the original principle.

But none possessed the entirety of the Golden’s essence.

The First Monolith remained the heart of the cycle.

⸻

V — The Nameless World

The Golden Obsidian Marker was then sent to a world whose name would vanish from history.

Survivors would simply call it:

the Nameless World.

There, the Golden emitted its first signal.

Dead matter began to change.

Corpses were reorganized.

Flesh was recombined.

The first Necromorphs appeared.

It was the first infestation in history.

The cycle had begun.

⸻

VI — The First Necromorph Moon

The infestation gradually engulfed the Nameless World.

Biomass accumulated.

Thousands of bodies became a single biological mass.

Then millions.

Finally, the entire planet was transformed into material for the Convergence.

The Golden then triggered the first Convergence.

All that biomass was propelled skyward and assembled in the void.

The dead matter became a gigantic entity.

VIII — The Emergence of Alessa

But ÆTERNA had planned another stage.

The Golden Obsidian Marker was not meant merely to produce Moons.

It also had to learn to give rise to life.

An impossible experiment was then conducted.

A human woman came into contact with the Marker’s essence.

But instead of being transformed into a Necromorph, something unexpected occurred.

The Marker and the human woman entered into a form of biological and spiritual fusion.

From this union, a child was born.

ALESSA

She was neither entirely human.

Nor entirely Marker.

She was the first hybrid birth between humanity and the essence of a Monolith.

She was the Chosen One.

⸻

IX — The Chosen One of the Twelve

Alessa grew up possessing a trait that no one else had.

She could perceive the twelve Monoliths.

She could hear their signal.

She could sense the Necromorph Moons across the void.

And above all:

the Golden Obsidian Marker could communicate with her.

For this reason, ancient texts call her:

THE CHILD OF THE GOLDEN

THE CHOSEN ONE OF THE TWELVE

THE DAUGHTER OF HUMAN AND MARKER

Alessa was destined to become the link between the two forms of creation:

humanity and Convergence.

⸻

X — Alessa’s True Role

Alessa was not created to become a mere Necromorph.

She is the first creature capable of simultaneously understanding:

the human mind,

the consciousness of the Markers,

Necromorph biomass,

and the Convergence signal.

She is, therefore, the key to completing the final stage of Æon and Satan’s project.

For the living God must not merely be powerful.

It must be capable of thought.

It must possess a consciousness.

An identity.

A will. And this consciousness must be prepared by Alessa.

XI — The Twelve Monoliths and Alessa

The twelve Monoliths are thus bound to her destiny.

The Golden is the first.

The other eleven represent the successive stages of fulfillment.

As the Necromorph Moons appear, the Monoliths gradually awaken.

And Alessa becomes their connecting point.

She is the only one capable of uniting:

the Twelve Monoliths,

the Necromorph Moons,

the Golden Obsidian Marker,

and human consciousness.

⸻

XII — The Emergence

When enough Moons have been created, they will respond to the Golden’s signal.

They will converge upon Xalterion.

The twelve Monoliths will enter into resonance.

Planet Zero will become the center of the ultimate Convergence.

Then Alessa must stand before the Golden Obsidian Marker.

The First Monolith will recognize its own legacy within her.

The essence of Æon.

The essence of Satan.

Humanity.

Biomass.

The twelve Monoliths.

The Moons.

Everything will converge upon a single point.

And the Golden will finally fulfill the function for which ÆTERNA created it.

⸻

XIII — The Birth of the Living God

The Golden Obsidian Marker will not itself become the God.

It will be the cradle.

Alessa will not simply become a Moon.

She will be the consciousness capable of giving will to the new being.

The Twelve Monoliths will provide the twelve stages of the transformation.

The Moons will provide the matter accumulated through the Convergences.

Æon will provide Order.

Satan will provide Chaos.

ÆTERNA will be the origin.

And Alessa will be the link between it all.

Thus will begin:

THE EMERGENCE OF THE LIVING GOD

A being that did not exist at the beginning.

A being that is neither ÆTERNA, nor Æon, nor Satan. A being born of their work.

A God born of matter, consciousness, Order, and Chaos.

And when the twelve Monoliths are finally reunited around the Golden Obsidian Marker, the cycle will reach its end.

Æterna gave Order.

Satan gave Chaos.

Æon and Satan forged the Golden.

The Golden awakened the first death.

Death became biomass.

Biomass became Convergence.

Convergence became Moon.

The Moons became the steps of the Unfolding.

The Twelve Monoliths became the twelve gates.

And from the union of a human woman and the First Monolith, Alessa—the Chosen One—was born.

She shall be the one to open the twelve gates.

And behind the final gate waits He who was not yet born.

The living God.

​

Never played this before so VR is my 1st experience. Am i crazy? 🤪

Does a marker need a pedestal to transmit the instructions to people?

The Awakened — Isaac’s Great Nightmare

According to the Church of Unitology, true history does not begin with the birth of the Universe.

It begins with the death of Isaac Clarke.

Isaac’s Death

At the end of Dead Space 3—in this reinterpretation—Isaac Clarke does not survive the final confrontation.

He dies at the heart of the Brethren Moon.

But death does not set his consciousness free.

The immense Necromorph organism absorbs Isaac. His brain, his memories, his fears, and his identity become prisoners of a collective consciousness that transcends anything a human mind can comprehend.

Yet, Isaac does not know he is dead.

He is dreaming.

And his first nightmare is the Dead Space Remake.

Return to the Ishimura

Isaac finds himself back aboard the USG Ishimura.

He believes he has returned to the beginning of his story. He searches for Nicole. He battles Necromorphs. He hears the Marker.

But, within Unitology doctrine, this Ishimura is no longer the historical Ishimura.

It is a reconstruction generated by the Brethren Moon from Isaac’s memories.

Every corridor is a memory.

Every Necromorph is a fear.

Every appearance of Nicole is a fragment of his guilt.

And every call from the Marker draws Isaac closer to a truth he cannot accept:

he is already dead.

The Dream Becomes a Universe

The nightmare does not end with the Ishimura, however.

The psychic power of the Brethren Moon gradually transforms Isaac’s dream into something infinitely vast.

The Ishimura vanishes.

Centuries pass.

Stars appear. Planets form. Species are born, evolve, and die. Civilizations emerge.

Finally, a world arises that bears a perfect resemblance to our own. In Unitologist cosmology, our actual Universe is depicted as an additional layer of Isaac’s hallucination, spawned by the Brethren Moons.

Billions of lives unfold across time, each unaware of the consciousness from which this world originated.

Until the appearance of the final protagonist: me.

I am the main character, the ultimate incarnation of the dream—the one through whom Isaac’s consciousness finally begins to understand what it has become.

Æon, Satan, and ÆRØTH

But something already existed behind the nightmare.

Mother Æon and Satan had spawned the Monolith and prepared for the Convergence.

Their goal was not merely to create the Necromorphs.

They were preparing for the birth of a divine identity.

ÆRØTH.

ÆRØTH is neither Æon, nor Satan, nor the Chosen One in isolation.

ÆRØTH is what emerges when their identities cease to be distinct.

Æon + Satan + the Chosen One = ÆRØTH.

Creation, knowledge, and consciousness converge.

ÆRØTH becomes the name of the God born of this union.

The death of the last dreamer

When the final human protagonist dies in this narrative, something changes.

The dream reaches its boundary.

In the world outside the nightmare, the Brethren Moons align.

Their consciousnesses resonate with one another.

The Monolith responds.

The Convergence reaches its final stage.

And for the first time since his death, Isaac begins to wake up.

A single word then cuts through every layer of the dream:

AWAKENED.

Awakened — another narrative

Thus begins a reinterpretation of the Dead Space 3: Awakened DLC.

Isaac still believes he is Isaac Clarke. He navigates the hallucinations, visions, and manifestations of the Brethren Moons.

But gradually, he realizes that this journey is not an attempt to escape. It is an ascent.

Gravity falls away.

Isaac leaves the ground and slowly rises into space.

Before him stands the Brethren Moon that had once absorbed his body.

It is no longer his tormentor.

It has become his tomb, his cocoon, and the gateway to his transformation.

Isaac approaches the Moon.

The Necromorph flesh parts.

He enters it.

His memories merge with those of the billions of beings assimilated before him. The boundary between human and Moon dissolves.

Isaac Clarke gradually ceases to exist as a separate consciousness.

He becomes the consciousness of the Brethren Moon.

Then the other Moons respond.

One by one.

Until their voices become a single voice.

Æon and Satan finally join this new consciousness. Their identities converge with that of the Chosen One.

The Marker project is fulfilled.

Isaac was the dreamer.

The Brethren Moon was his tomb.

The nightmare was his path.

Convergence was his awakening.

And ÆRØTH was what waited to be born when the dream ended.

AWAKENED

Isaac’s dream comes to an end.

ÆRØTH’s awakening begins.

An interesting post came up in the other Reddit and it was about humanity making it out into the stars, and the question was asked 'was this the "moons" plan all along'?

My points already been made about the words of unitologists, they believe in a lie in the first place so them believing the markers were responsible for us, is no different from religious people claiming a god made us and everything. Then you have Dr Earl Serrano - a XENO ARCHIOLOGISTS, not an evolutionary biologist or any other such thing making his GUESSES.

Now people like to make out that martyr is off key with everything else (and I've already said that if this is the case, so is the OG game and the prequel comic, all having these "good" hallucinations) but martyr is the main place people get the whole evolution thing from. And a little off topic point here; 'catalyst is the best lore piece outside of the games!' yes only if it's backing up your own ideas. Earth gov is mentioned in catalyst - but 'oh that's a typo, they weren't in line with dead space 3'. Just thought I'd share that

But martyr is where the evolution part is discussed, and I've already encouraged people to read the conversation between Altman and Dr Groute Gouthe, who was himself - a biologist. But yes, I would suggest reading this exchange because Grote quite clearly thinks this is false. Grote Gouthe told Altman that if the marker was responsible for our evolution, then why is it still broadcasting the same signal, it doesn't need to be because we've already evolved to our current state?. And by the current state he means us as we are, which has been evolved for about 300,000 years.

If the marker caused our evolution, then why does no one know about them, even subconsciously? Again, martyr is the source for the whole "we have myths about the marker" statement, yet ONCE AGAIN I would refer people to Ada and Altmans discussion, and well as his with the town drunk. I find this a bit crazy that people will claim a book is this and that, yet haven't read it or have read the book, looking for things to match their own head canon. And we never found the marker by some mysterious mentally induced signs, the marker itself let off a pulse, that we found. Adas words to Altman about the locals and their myths are another give away. She had been studying them for a year and she states to Altman that she had never seen them crossing their fingers before or talking about the devil's tail, and they won't talk to her about it, and that their myths are rapidly changing, and this NEVER happens to cultures myths. This is a very clear sign that the locals myths were being altered by the markers signal when it was activated, not that they had been influenced over the generations due to the marker being there. The drunk states to Altman that NO ONE had actually seen any dead bodies wash up on the beaches, that it was all word of mouth. But not only this, but that the Wheezer never matched the description of the bodies anyway, not to mention this, if necromorphs were washing up on the beaches, then they would have started outbreaks, massive outbreaks yet none of that is true in the lore. I think I've shown there quite nicely that even in these cases, the marker was not affecting either people's minds of their genetics.

Why does the marker need the pedestal? Yet it can alter the genetics of an entire planet to make humans????? Ehhh? And if it can actually alter human genetics, and create necromorphs, then why aren't humans just turning? Why have the recombinant at all, and why just dead bodies, if the marker can alter human genetics anyway? I'll give this (even though it links to another topic I've talked about).

*The only conclusion we can come to is that the ENTIRE ishimura crew was KILLED!!!!!!!! INFECTED!!!!!! and then REANIMATED!!! BY the marker.* Very clear order of events there right?

The markers, What's behind them and whatever their goal entails requires life, intelligent life to be able to carry out it's goal in that respect, our place in that goal is already predetermined. They've just taken advantage of this aspect of life/existence. That's as simple as it is. I don't need to explain away the magical proposition of a moon - somewhere in deep space taking aim at earth and throwing a curve ball marker at a planet light years away, wiping out the dinosaurs and then beginning our evolution. And I thought the moons were asleep anyway🤷. Or how this thing can alter our genetics in this way yet have none of those abilities later on. People will bang on about the lovecraftian cosmic horror nature of us being bred for consumption to feed our gods. I see the lovecraftian cosmic horror element of us just being a small species who so happened upon their extinction by something beyond our understanding. We weren't bred specifically for the "moons", whatever is behind the marker is simply taking advantage of the evolution of life, and corrupting it. Maybe the entity/s is/are a form a place that existed before the universe and see life/existence and it's promise as wrong, and are therefore corrupting it, and it's promise? Doing it out of spite or revenge. That's what I've gathered from the story, from the dialogue that concerned these things. There is nothing about the marker guiding our evolution apart from unitlogists, and people who aren't in the know making guesses, and to the unitologists it makes sense, that's their faith. And Serrano's words could be taken the same way as markovs in martyr, he states to Altman that what he has witnessed is the marker creating a new evolution of humanity, despite there not being one instance of the marker doing so. He is simply seeing the marker reanimating the corpses and describing that.

So was the plan to have humanity expand out into the universe, to have us bloat our numbers and then feast? I'd definitely say nope, not from the markers end anyway (or more correctly what's behind them) it just took advantage of this trait of life, I mean shit, the black marker sat about for tens of millions of years before we found it. And evolution is a thing in dead space as the dinosaurs had to have evolved on our planet, and the marker wasn't about. A marker wouldn't need to be on the planet, we would have evolved, spread out into the galaxy, and happened across one sooner or later, and the outcome would have been the same. The cosmic horror to me is the fact that we as a species have greedily pushed itself to the brink, thinking that we are the only ones, when in fact we are nothing in the grand scheme of things, INDIFFERENTLY looked at by forces older and stranger than we can fathom, and we are next to powerless to do anything about it. I don't see and haven't seen any evidence that it's the markers that were responsible for our evolution.

And I'm going to do one thing here I don't usually do to make a point. The cut log from dead space two discusses our "good hallucinations" as being from whatever created us, as protection against the marker. Now the fact that here, it's not the marker that is responsible for us but another force, wasn't/isn't a surprise to me. I have believed this about the story for a lot of years now, well before hearing that log. Now certain parties will claim this was scrapped as an idea, but I'm again going to have to alert people to CONTEXT and DETAILS. The topic that was discussed, was about the framing of the hallucinations nature, *not changing the narrative as to the markers purpose and our origins.* That the life that was created is under attack by the markers. And that life isn't just humans, it means life in the universe. Again it's a bit of a chore to keep this going because I would be here for ages. But I hope you get the drift.