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XausF1 posted:In the 10 years I've been playing Deus Ex I have literally never done a 'no computer skill' run. Is it frustrating? Fun? Worth doing? I did that in my last playthrough. It's pretty interesting because you have to do some digging a few times when mandatory computer use comes up. For instance (Ocean Lab spoiler) the username/password to access the UC computer in the Ocean Lab is on a datacube at the bottom of the electrified pool of water, below the floating MIB corpse. I didn't even know that existed because I'd always just hack it!
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Dr_Amazing posted:Oh man I grabbed this from a bargain bin at Radio Shack. They took it a step further and put the price sticker over the text saying it was a demo.
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Started playing The Nameless Mod. It's really quite good. there are a fair few in-jokes but I imagine most of them go over my head and I don't notice. I think the concept is pretty funny and consistently executed rather well. Most of the silly internet meme references come from stupid characters that are supposed to be stupid. (Like the many newbies.) I was ready for something seriously front loaded with "internet humour" meme crap, since that's what I had been led to expect but it's mostly devoid of that really. If you haven't tried it, I recommend it. Best part so far is having a conversation with someone in a fan fiction shop (ha ha) about the various AIs in Deus Ex for 20 minutes. Really interesting stuff.
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XausF1 posted:In the 10 years I've been playing Deus Ex I have literally never done a 'no computer skill' run. Is it frustrating? Fun? Worth doing? Not too hard, since you can usually evade security systems or disable them with weapons or multitools. I think it's fun if you've spent most of your games disabling security, since it adds another element to evasion and combat.
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Furret Basket posted:If you haven't tried it, I recommend it. Best part so far is having a conversation with someone in a fan fiction shop (ha ha) about the various AIs in Deus Ex for 20 minutes. Really interesting stuff. This part is amazing and worth watching a video of. Basically you run into some guy in a book store and he starts talking about shitloads of awesome stuff about Deus Ex. If you're still reading this thread, I guarantee you would find it interesting. I'll do some hunting and see if I can find a video of it. A lot of the info comes from the Deus Ex Bible. edit: best I could find was a Lets Play with no game sounds. oh well. SolidSnakesBandana fucked around with this message at 01:04 on Mar 14, 2011 |
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Mar 14, 2011 00:58
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:edit: best I could find was a Lets Play with no game sounds. oh well.
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:This part is amazing and worth watching a video of. Basically you run into some guy in a book store and he starts talking about shitloads of awesome stuff about Deus Ex. If you're still reading this thread, I guarantee you would find it interesting. I'll do some hunting and see if I can find a video of it. A lot of the info comes from the Deus Ex Bible. Anyway, I said I'd do it a while back, and I finally did - [url=http://www.moddb.com/downloads/biomod-10[/url]. I'm pretty much done with it for now, so no more changes, at least for the next while. As the 1.0 implies, all the major bugs have been fixed and I think it's safe for anyone to try now, even people playing for the first time. Lork fucked around with this message at 02:36 on Mar 14, 2011 |
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Mar 14, 2011 01:37
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Lork posted:I think somebody posted a transcription in this very thread, but you'd have to dig through it, of course. I'm only seeing links to betas 6-8 there
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Mr. Clark2 posted:I'm only seeing links to betas 6-8 there
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Oh cool, you removed the Shifter skill thing where you end up with way more skill points than you'd have otherwise, making it all a bit too easy to max things out.
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Looks like its been authorized, so I changed the link back to let you see the changelog and so on.
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quote:-Reduced forward momentum when mantling Thank god, that killed me so many times. quote:-Fixed the ordering of the difficulty levels for challenges as it was based on a misconception Do you have to do anything to enable challenges? I've played through with 0.8 twice now and have seen nothing challenge-related, and the README just says that there are challenges, nothing about how to enable them.
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ToxicFrog posted:Do you have to do anything to enable challenges? I've played through with 0.8 twice now and have seen nothing challenge-related, and the README just says that there are challenges, nothing about how to enable them. Press escape, it's under the main menu.
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Whoops.  I've seen that menu so many times I don't read it anymore, my brain just fills it in from memory. Thanks.
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ToxicFrog posted:Thank god, that killed me so many times. One of the most hilarious moments I've had in DX was when I was at Castle Clinton, mantled on a box and practically sling-shotted my way over a wall and out of the level.
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So I was looking at this rather well-known picture from Ion Storm's early days, and I seem to have found a mystery: Look at Spector's shirt. The DX logo is flipped. At first I assumed the whole picture was mirrored, but the Eidos logo in the background is not. My working theory is that Romero's very presence can locally corrupt reality. Later that day Spector was shocked to discover all the banknotes in his wallet now have Romero's face on them.
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Just remember, that guy on the left is Walton Simons.
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And also Morpheus. And also WHERE IS ANACHRONOX 2 TOM WHERE THE gently caress IS IT ARE YOU TOO BUSY BEING BALD OR WHAT
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Cray posted:And also Morpheus. And also WHERE IS ANACHRONOX 2 TOM WHERE THE gently caress IS IT ARE YOU TOO BUSY BEING BALD OR WHAT He did have a stroke last year. BUT WHAT THE gently caress HAPPENS TO SLY BOOTS, YOU BALD SONOVABITCH I NEED CLOSURE
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Crappy Jack posted:He did have a stroke last year. Well that sort of experience should remind him of the fragility of human existence and the need to focus on what's really important in life: making another funny science fiction game for a small niche of angry nerds.
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Lork posted:I think somebody posted a transcription in this very thread, but you'd have to dig through it, of course. http://www.nanoaugur.net/dx/bible/ - It's after the bible itself, text-search "nameless mod" on the page to skip to it.  If you want to actually listen to them (athough I don't think this is all of them): The Illuminati, The Priory, Clearances, Templars, Helios, Echelon, Oracle, America, JFK EDIT: If you guys want some more readin', this is a site that was (is?) maintained by the people those two TNM characters were based on: http://theosek.sitesled.com/ Tecman fucked around with this message at 12:21 on Mar 15, 2011 |
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I just grabbed the new Biomod but I'm having a weird problem with it. The game won't let me rebind Jump/Mantle. I can jump normally with the usual key (space) but I can't mantle, and in the list of keybindings it says "none" by Jump/Mantle. When I change it in the options, exit, and reopen the options, it's back to none. I can rebind any other key just fine. Has anyone else had this problem? It could easily be something with my DX installation since I've had it over the course of two hard drives and a bunch of mods. I may just reinstall and be done with it. CaptainWinky fucked around with this message at 13:35 on Mar 15, 2011 |
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CaptainWinky posted:I just grabbed the new Biomod but I'm having a weird problem with it. The game won't let me rebind Jump/Mantle. I can jump normally with the usual key (space) but I can't mantle, and in the list of keybindings it says "none" by Jump/Mantle. When I change it in the options, exit, and reopen the options, it's back to none. I can rebind any other key just fine. Same here. I always rebind jump to Alt, but it won't stick in Shifter/Biomod - last versions as well as the ones before.
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Cray posted:So I was looking at this rather well-known picture from Ion Storm's early days, and I seem to have found a mystery: Anybody else just want to punch Romero in the face whenever you see a picture of him? It doesn't even have anything to do with video games or how he killed Ion Storm, he just looks like a fuckin' prick.
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Cray posted:Holy poo poo, it's videogames.jpg
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Recent pic of The Romero: Say what you will of the man but  does he have some luxurious hair.
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Actually that's pretty loving terrible hair. I always wondered when he was going to break down and just admit he wants to work in porn.
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Hard Clumping posted:Anybody else just want to punch Romero in the face whenever you see a picture of him? It doesn't even have anything to do with video games or how he killed Ion Storm, he just looks like a fuckin' prick. How about this picture? John Romero posted:This is me, Kevin and Adrian posing for a pic during DOOM II development. I'm always looking nutty in pics - cause i'm nutty! Rei_ posted:Actually that's pretty loving terrible hair. I always wondered when he was going to break down and just admit he wants to work in porn. Maybe that infamous ad campaign was not actually for Daikatana.
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XausF1 posted:Recent pic of The Romero: That's a really flattering angle: 
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...of SCIENCE! posted:That's a really flattering angle: My brain involuntarily changed "flattering" to "fattening"
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Underflow posted:Same here. I always rebind jump to Alt, but it won't stick in Shifter/Biomod - last versions as well as the ones before. You only have to rebind once you install biomod for the first time. After that, it will show up as unbinded but still work regardless. Also, to mantle you need athletics trained to advanced. Even if it says nothing is bound to the jump key, it still works.
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Red Mundus posted:You only have to rebind once you install biomod for the first time. After that, it will show up as unbinded but still work regardless. Also, to mantle you need athletics trained to advanced. Ah okay, thanks. Curious about how mantling will alter gameplay. Gonna try a non-lethal run with athletics, and the strength and speed augs maxed out. Btw, last tun in vanilla I tried the vision aug; great fun seeing through walls.
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is there any way to tweak the size of the HUD outside of the Deus Exe setup page? I'm playing at 1920x1080, and I would like something between the 'loving Huge' and 'Goddamned Miniscule' options that gives me.
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Underflow posted:Ah okay, thanks. Curious about how mantling will alter gameplay. Gonna try a non-lethal run with athletics, and the strength and speed augs maxed out. Btw, last tun in vanilla I tried the vision aug; great fun seeing through walls. As insane as this sounds I would actually recommend the run silent aug. Mantling helps mitigate the loss of the speed augs and running around smashing people with the baton is so satisfying. Fast-paced non-lethal stealth indeed. This only applies to Biomod though as vanilla run silent is poo poo.
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Red Mundus posted:As insane as this sounds I would actually recommend the run silent aug. Mantling helps mitigate the loss of the speed augs and running around smashing people with the baton is so satisfying. Fast-paced non-lethal stealth indeed. Vanilla silent running is completely useless once you realize that if you turn on the speed run and crouch, you still run around really fast and are completely silent.
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I'm fairly sure this is actually incorrect. Running with Run Silent is faster and far less annoying to bootRed Mundus posted:This only applies to Biomod though as vanilla run silent is poo poo.
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Iggles posted:I'm fairly sure this is actually incorrect. Running with Run Silent is faster and far less annoying to boot Try it sometime, you can easily move at running speed while crouched with the speed aug in vanilla, or you can move so fast that you can stab anyone before they have time to notice you. It's pretty much the most overpowered aug in the game.
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Red Mundus posted:As insane as this sounds I would actually recommend the run silent aug. Mantling helps mitigate the loss of the speed augs and running around smashing people with the baton is so satisfying. Fast-paced non-lethal stealth indeed. Oh gently caress; saw this too late. Installed speed out of habit, but I'm out of tranq darts and gas grenades and have no idea how to tackle the Mole People/LaGuardia segment now while still getting as many goodies as I can. Biomod lets you overwrite previously installed augs though, right? Also noticed that the latest Shifter seems to have lost its additional skill point bonus system. When downing humans, that is; I did get 10p for disabling the botlet on LI.
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Underflow posted:Installed speed out of habit, but I'm out of tranq darts and gas grenades and have no idea how to tackle the Mole People/LaGuardia segment now while still getting as many goodies as I can. If you are just the right mix of bold, crazy, and lucky, you can "sneak" by using speed to silently leap past enemies while they're looking away, land somewhere they can't see you, then turn it off and stealthily skedaddle to a good hiding spot when they run over to find out what the hell made that giant THUD OOF sound. It's extremely touch-and-go, but I managed to make it work at the airport level. The mole people tunnels, on the other hand, are always a bastard to sneak through because of how cramped and crowded they are 
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Deus Ex (and Thief, System Shock, Ultima Underworld, Terra Nova, and Flight Unlimited) designer Doug Church has been hired by Valve. And yes, speed aug + crouch works in vanilla and was in fact my main tactic the first time through the game.
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