KillHour posted:

There's... a safe in Manderly's office?

Cardboard Fox posted:

Is the Lightsaber the best melee weapon in the game? I just got it and I'm tearing bitches up. I don't even bother going Solid Snake on them anymore.

BlackCircle posted:

I save on lock picks by using the GEP gun

Tanith posted:

Are there any compelling reasons to use the shotgun over any of the other weapons, the overly plentiful ammunition notwithstanding?

Casimir Radon posted:

Good work Ion Storm, it's not like I even had to cheat or do anything clever to find this on my first playthrough.

Samopsa posted:

Jesus Christ, IW! What the HELL is up with the loading? Each transition/load takes about 40 seconds on my brand-new rig, and shows the desktop for 5 seconds before starting to load

Is this normal? Goddamn, I can't play this poo poo like this.

Jetsetlemming posted:

It has nothing to do with the map being Subtractive. They actively set that surface to nodraw to save on performance, because they didn't expect anybody to see it. Also, back when IW was made, with the Unreal 2 engine, there wasn't an Additive-based mode in Ued. That was added for Unreal 3 and on.
I still prefer working with Subtraction, though.

Perfect Potato posted:

I had 7 multitools. I used one. I now have 6 multitools. I found a new multitool. Inventory full. What. What are you talking about, Invisible War? My inventory isn't full, I just had 7! I did not meet whatever arbitrary multitool cap that's in this game. Why does this multitool take up an entirely different inventory space? Is it a special multitool? A king among multitools??

I do not like you, Invisible War. And stop changing my resolution settings, I had to go through a lot of trouble to set those at 1680x1050 and you keep changing them back when I'm not looking.

The UI is so bad.

Cardboard Box A posted:

Since Invisible War comes fully patched I assume that you cannot kill people by throwing dead bodies at them? That was the best part about the original unpatched game.

Xander77 posted:

The game crashes latter, when it can't find her (something both DX games did for some odd reason)

Red Crown posted:

I've got a quest (IW spoiler): Kill JC Denton. No, I mean before you're supposed to. In the sanctuary, it appears that the radius of grenades goes inside his little chamber. Also, if you contact det spider grenades they'll spawn inside. Since they follow you, they'll push him around, but he'll stay inside the chamber. I don't have any explosive grenades, but I know the radius of smokes, flashbangs and EMPs affects whatevers inside...

Xander77 posted:

It makes sense to track the status of those NPCs you have plans for - that is, "if status=dead, then=do something". If you have no such plans and "if dead, then=crash" you're probably doing it wrong.

Spatial posted:

Never noticed this before. When you meet the Luminous Path guy on Tonochi Road he says that the they're watching over you. He wasn't kidding! The roof above:

Bk. posted:

Stephany Maxwell, the science chick standing just outside the big blast doors that lead to Dr. Savage in Vandenberg, never talks to me.
I click on that bitch and she just won't say anything. This has happened in all my play-throughs so far, and she seems to be the only NPC in the entire game that doesn't say anything when right-clicked on.
What's the deal?

Mathemagician posted:

Is it just me or does SA make smilies blurry or something?



I was bored

Commander Keenan posted:

The Supreme Court posted:

Have you tried loading from a save where you're not dead?

Arcsquad12 posted:

Plus, the Illuminati really don't give a poo poo about race to begin with. They're a global conglomerate of scheming James Bond villains of all stripes and ethnicities. Why would they want a racism metaphor to help control the world when they can do it through banks and fearmongering? Augments are being scapegoated, sure, but throwing ten percent of the planet under the bus seems bad for business considering how massive augmentations had been for the past fifteen years. Why would they let a MECHANICAL APARTHEID event happen? How does that benefit them when guys like Darrow and Page are augmented already? Deus Ex has always been about class struggle, so throwing a forced racism metaphor over top of that makes the whole thing collapse.

Increased police presence, I get. Disarmament of military augments, I get. Registration for augments, I get. But ghettos, purges and a magical aug city in the desert ala District 9? Are you serious? Clanks as a racial slur when you already had people calling augments "Augs" and "Hanzers" in the last game? Power armored police troopers to act as your faceless mooks? Come on, there's being pointed and contemporary and then there's being so on the nose you are the nose and the face and you've just been hit with a frying pan.

They should have started pushing for stuff like Taggart's aug registration bill while biotech companies begin probing the markets with the nanomachine augmentations of the first game, not putting up MECHANICAL APARTHEID.

It's becoming harder and harder to see how the Square Enix published Deus Ex games filter into the old games, because nothing in them ultimately matters twenty years down the line.

Also, visually, the Human Revolution and Mankind Divided games feel incredibly pretentious. Not the aesthetic itself, I like the neo art-deco black and gold. It's the visual language of the games that drive me up the wall. The Icarus metaphor makes no goddamn sense but they use it because it looks cool. Riots in the streets and pulled-from-the-headlines newscast footage without any substance to back it up. It's Evangelion levels of bullshit in video game form.

Willie Tomg posted:

Have they put the aug upgrade canisters back on Realistic? Because that was the dealbreaker for me, and "its Realistic and so there should be less fun things for you to do in the early game" made me surprisingly pissed off, when it came from the mod author.

Willie Tomg posted:

The commentary tracks for the HR director's cut are highly revealing. All the staff are really, really intelligent and interesting. All the managers and producers are incredibly oblivious meatballs getting high on their own piss. Literally half the staff commentary nodes are "we had this great idea, but the producers either spiked it for time or else Eidos trained us to the Unreal engine which was basically incapable of anything other than a straight FPS with stealth elements, but listen, the original idea we had was really cool okay??"

Willie Tomg posted:

There's a playlist LP here, from a goon smart enough to hush up while there's content going if you're just absolutely dying to kill the time at some point. Even scrubbing through it quick, the opening walk is triggering me a little, lol

Mary Demarle: A lot of the augmentation discussion in early development among the team came from Vasili's arm, because it involved a lot of conversations about augmentation in the white-collar workplace while also visually setting up a major plot point in the third act
Jean-Francois Phuccphais: That's why we show the arm! Oh, here's an explosion.

Cat Mattress posted: