another dead rising question s:

can you get survivors you're escorting to just stay put in the toilet for a bit whilst you do something? i set a target marker for the back of the toilet, but they always end up following me and eventually become zombie chow. am i doing something wrong, or is it not possible?

i know! i just replied to the another board about which game brings out the worst in you, and it has to be dead rising. it's awesome, but just so frustrating at times. just all the getting stuck in the ponds, and whenever i walk into one of them frank punches/stabs them and they just sort of flail and roll about like idk... a coma victim being prodded with a cattle rod is the only thing i could compare it to.

thanks for that though (:

escorting survivors in Dead Rising is probably the most frustrating thing you'll ever do on the Xbox 360.

However, if you follow these simple tactics, it'll make it a little bit easier.

1. Don't try to save everyone. Unless you're going for Saint Achievement and have the Mega Buster and level 50, you aren't going to do it.

2. At the very start of the game, head over to the Hunting Shack (Cletus won't be there yet). Take a bunch of shotguns. Give those shotguns to survivors who can wield weapons. Survivors with shotguns are incredibly effective at defending themsevles (and each other). guns also have unlimited ammo when equipped by a survior.

3. Survivors defend themsleves better when you use the UP on the D-pad ("go over there") instead of the "Follow Me" command. Survivors will go to the spot you tell them and defend themselves.

4. When you rescue the survovrs, take their shotguns from them right before they go down the air shaft, and save the guns for the next batch of survivors.

I can save every survivor in the mall each time I play that game, and the Mega Buster isn't necessary. Just as long as you have at least 3 shotguns for survivors, and have katana, kitchen knife, steel rod and other melee weapons for Frank, you can easily finish the game with lots of time to spare. The HARDEST set of survivors to save is the black couple in the shoe store (the injured man). That's the hardest one because you have to kill the Psycho in the supermarket, get the medicine for Ben, rush over to Wonderland Plaza and save the couple all within like 5 minutes.