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I just started playing again, and a while ago I guess I installed Shifter, didn't play it, and forgot I had ever done it. That lead to what was probably the most confused Liberty Island playthrough ever. "What? Since when have there been different kinds of soda? Where did these rockets come from? WHAT HAPPENED TO MY PRECIOUS LASER SIGHT! "Oh, and is there anyway to tune down the GUI upscaling? I've been looking and having no luck.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:Exactly. It's just like how Call of Duty 4 is the usual dumb Tom Clancy military shlock but (back before it got so popular and everybody had to hate it because BROS and HIPSTERS liked it) everybody was raving about how the scene where you got nuked and died and the gun ship was so moving and emotional; games are an interactive medium, presentation and implementation is more important. Well, I know for me that scene lost all its impact when MW2 came out and they seriously kill you like three times in that game. Deus Ex managed to present itself so that even when so-and-so betrays such-and-such, and it's the third or fourth betrayal in as many hours, it still felt fresh.
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Nov 27, 2010 07:11
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I can't find it anymore, but wasn't Joe Green in one of the bylines for the mockup newspaper that came with some editions of the game?
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Jan 17, 2011 00:23
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Furret Basket posted:
But...But... My laser sight! I love my pinpoint accurate 10mm Pistol too much to deal with the fact laser sights don't work right with Shifter. Or did they change that?
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Jan 17, 2011 00:42
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Vic posted:Okay sorry my bad it was another med bot. Still I don't think many people know about it.  I never, ever would have thought to look there for anything, even though it's marked. Is this only in a mod, or was it in vanilla?
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Jan 18, 2011 18:25
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stratdax posted:That isn't what I said at all. Stealth is fine. I used it to avoid combat in a lot of places. But I'm saying that the game basically forced you into combat in some other places. I don't see how you could simply stealth your way through the entire end-game, for instance. Sometimes you can replace stealth with Adidas-Fu. Hit the speed augs and maybe turn your skin into armor and get the gently caress out of dodge. If you can get to your goal quick enough you can avoid a lot of threats.
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Jan 28, 2011 03:43
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Nelson Mandingo posted:Always kill everyone in the 'Ton, then jump out the window. Nope. I know Shifter fixed it, but in Vanilla no matter how many people you kill, Paul dies if you leave through the window.
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Jan 29, 2011 01:35
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I was talking about it with a friend at work and someone walking by wondered why we were talking about a game called "Day of Sex". Awkward moment right there.
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Sep 9, 2011 02:27
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FactsAreUseless posted:This is true. Biomod really might as well be a new balance patch for vanilla Deus Ex. It gets rid of a lot of the trap options in the augs and tweaks the skills a bit. The other changes are all pretty minor. It's a must-have even for a first playthrough. Doesn't it do something weird with the laser sight? I know there's one mod I haven't been able to get into because it messes with my pistol usage.
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Oct 24, 2013 17:44
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I just realized I was thinking of what happens when you put a scope on a pistol that has a laser sight.  .
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Oct 24, 2013 17:51
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Keith Atherton posted:I have all the PC Gamer magazines from 1999-2007 or so. I need to find the issue where they reviewed Deus Ex I'm trying to find the CGW one. I think they ended up giving it like three and a half stars or something on the lower side like that. E:Found it! I was right, three and a half stars. http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/issues/cgw_195.pdf It's on page 109. Ugly In The Morning fucked around with this message at 17:21 on May 4, 2017 |
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May 4, 2017 17:05
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Willie Tomg posted:CGW was a great magazine back in the day and the review for DX freakishly even handed in acknowledging that games like DX point out how stupid stars-out-of-five systems are and we will never see it's like again Yeah, they even went back to a starless review system for a while before it folded. Man, that magazine ruled.
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May 4, 2017 20:09
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If you wanted to buy the Power Rig from that issue of CGW to get your DX on with, you would be dropping the equivilent of 8 GRAND in today's money for a smoking hot 933 MHz processor and 256MB of ram. drat, computers have come a long way in 17 years.
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May 4, 2017 21:01
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:Alpha Protocol is great for this. It gives you special perks depending on your playstyle. The game recognizes if you kill people, knock out people, or even just sneak by them. It also had the two best end-of mission stats in games: Orphans created, and medical bills. The amount a kill/takedown added was variable based on region, too- a kill in china will never create more than one orphan. It also reacted to who you kill. Killing CIA operatives on the level where you infiltrate the listening post blows back on you and whatnot
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Jul 3, 2017 23:10
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Hey now, sometimes it's uncompressed video. Metal Gear Rising was terrible about that.
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Isn't the delay on releasing Xen because it won't be a straight remake, but refusing rd levels more in line with the rest of the game?
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Nov 2, 2017 11:38
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Carpet posted:Most of the time there wasn't any need to buy anything from anybody. Maybe Smuggler's LAMs if you needed them for the ship. I mean, that’s the case now, after we’ve all been playing this game for nearly two decades. Going in the first time, I definitely agonized over my spending on mods and ammo.
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Feb 9, 2018 23:38
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Yeah, even Mid Game JC is obscenely powerful. MD kind of threw the system off a bit but HR was great at making mechs physically powerful but lacking the options that he had.
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Apr 29, 2018 04:17
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:Yeah the fact that one energy bar recharged meant that the obvious min/max solution is to just always use that one bar and no others. I think the Directors Cut did something about this but I havent played it. Any unfinished energy bar recharged, but the first bar would recharge even when you kicked it. It meant that all your powers basically had a one bar life cycle, because takedowns were so drat powerful and also would usually need to be used sequentially.
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May 13, 2018 04:38
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This game is a legal adult as of about a week ago. Holy poo poo time flies.
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Jun 24, 2018 01:56
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KillHour posted:Goddamn I feel old. Right? I remember reading ads for it in CGW before it came out and getting hyped, and now that was 18 goddamn years ago.
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Jun 24, 2018 02:26
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aparmenideanmonad posted:Old men...are the future! “Electronic old men” basically sums up the SA forums to be honest
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Jun 24, 2018 02:30
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People keep telling me to git gud when I saw I don’t like Bloodsouls games, but I’d like to see how they do with Liberty Island. Which, you know, had good design.
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Jun 24, 2018 05:32
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feelix posted:The type of person who hears "Dark Souls is hard" and responds with "yeah but Deus Ex, no, not HR or MD, the original" wears a fedora and won't shut the gently caress up about atheism I just didn’t like Dark Souls and got annoyed by being told it was because I didn’t git gud enough. There’s tons of people who had a hard time with liberty island, anyway. It was a pretty big change of pace from a lot of other FPS’s when it came out.
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Jun 28, 2018 22:02
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Jeoh posted:You can't skill down Pistol unless you're running one of the mods, though. You'll always start at Skilled, even in you downgraded when creating the character Exactly. Free experience points, motherfucker! The only better exploit is pausing while lockpicking/multitooling.
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Jun 28, 2018 22:40
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Jeoh posted:Grenade jumping (and climbing) is fantastic too. I think Deus Ex gave me my love of jankyass games.
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Jun 28, 2018 22:44
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Tacky-rear end Rococco posted:I don't know where this rear end thing comes from, it's definitely the small of the back. That’s when you use the GEP gun, the most silent takedown.
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Jun 29, 2018 00:03
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Willie Tomg posted:revision would have been really good if the modder were a smarter person and realized that everyone wanted DX in a modern renderer and nobody, anywhere, on earth, ever, wanted His Vision of level, item, and gameplay changes I don’t get why people never seem to understand the whole “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” thing applies to them.
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Yeah, doesn’t it shift away from the injoke humor after the first level? Never gotten around to playing it but it’s on my list.
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Jun 29, 2018 16:39
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jojoinnit posted:For every hated mechanic there's always somebody who loves it (except Monkey Kombat obviously). For me it's Alpha Protocol. I just find matching those words in time so drat satisfying, I've literally never bothered to unlock the thing that lets you auto hack. I think that was hated on PC more than console. The mouse input was read as an analog stick instead of a pointer, which was super counterintuitive. But put me down as another one that liked the DXHR hacking. It was weirdly zen until the timer started, then it was like “oh poo poo nononono”
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Jul 6, 2018 02:36
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goatsestretchgoals posted:I'm 20 pages and 2 years back, but throwing a corpse at a wall hard enough to make it explode needs to trigger the "what a shame" line.  this thread moves slowly. I tried to play DX on my laptop, but it’s a Dell and not recognizing the adapter, so it’s always in low power mode. Somehow, that slows my laptop enough to make DX basically unplayable.
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John_A_Tallon posted:CPU throttling is a thing laptops do in power saver mode. Go into your power settings and change it so that it doesn't throttle the CPU when in battery mode so you can play the game. Dell has a thing where it does it at a BIOS level if it doesn’t recognize the adapter. Not that it matters, just went to double check and the screen is busted. Whomp whomp.
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Palladium posted:I'm sure I'm not the only one who played DX1, got to Hong Kong, found the Dragon Tooth Sword and went from an agent who can't shoot straight to death incarnate. Have you heard the gospel of the one true savior, a 10mm pistol with a laser sight on it?
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Jul 22, 2018 01:33
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Tacky-rear end Rococco posted:Do not heed the lies of this false prophet. Prod with the prod and gep with the GEP. Though the GEP is, was, and forever will be the most silent takedown, it can’t headshot all day everyday like the 10mm.
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Jul 22, 2018 01:38
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Casimir Radon posted:GMDX made the odd choice of having you shoot pretty straight, but nerfing the hell out of the sword. Is that the one where they split its damage into five separate hits so you couldn’t bash doors with it anymore?
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Jul 22, 2018 01:40
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Tacky-rear end Rococco posted:It's pretty funny how comically overpowered they made the 10mm in HR, probably as a tribute, except that in the original the 10mm was never that good. Who are the people it's really good for killing? Oh, right, the good guys that you join later on. Who are the people it's really bad at killing? The actual antagonists of the game If you mod it pretty heavily the only thing it really struggles with are the power armored MJ12 dudes. It’s great against MiBs and MJ12 troopers, especially with a master pistol skill and damage mods.
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Tacky-rear end Rococco posted:Well, OK, I guess. But this is a game where you can fire from the hip with a sniper rifle. And you have spent your precious skill points on mastery of pistols at the cost of all the actual good skills. A newb's mistake. Save every damned point until you can advance no farther on a given path, so you can explore every nook and cranny of the levels. Combat skills are for suckers until mid-game at least. At least It doesn’t involve spending points on swimming, the objectively worst skill.
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Samuel Clemens posted:Yeah, it's so cheap, you might as well put some points into it to make the water sections less tedious. Maxed regen is amazing. I remember the first time I got it up to max and just facetanked my way through a giant firefight.
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Tacky-rear end Rococco posted:I'd love a game that incorporated a reality-based unconsciousness mechanism. Add in “maybe they’re on bath salts and just won’t go down” and you’ve got my vote. Like, the tranq darts are annoying as far as the gameplay goes but it’s more realistic than they usually are. Even if you’re dosing someone through an IV it takes a bit for them to go down.
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Thinking about it, it would be pretty cool if there were ways to dose people with sedatives outside of the darts. Put it in food items, or gas them through the vents then put on a rebreather and sneak past them during nap time, that kind of thing.
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