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Holy Calamity! posted:Yeah you can, that's the only way I'd know about it! I'm playing the 360 version Really? I've tried to get it and never found it. And I've seen other people note that it's impossible to get. Can you be more specific in spoilers? [I'd note that I play the PC version.]
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Jul 6, 2011 00:15
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Going to play through the game again on recruit. How good is martial arts? Is it best to get huge health and armour and run around or go for stealth instead?
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Jul 6, 2011 00:18
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Midnight Voyager posted:Really? I've tried to get it and never found it. And I've seen other people note that it's impossible to get. Can you be more specific in spoilers? [I'd note that I play the PC version.] Hmm, I'm trying to remember the exact exchange that prompted me getting it- I think it was refusing Albatross' offer for help and telling him I'd already gotten someone better after previously immediately hanging up on Westridge when he was trying to brief me in Saudi Arabia. If it wasn't that exchange I'm pretty sure it was something with Albatross, I've been generally negative towards him this entire run. Sorry my memory's hazy, I've just been playing for the last few hours. I definitely got it though, I went back to the perk list to read the description because it caused me to laugh so hard once I got it after hanging up on Albatross.
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Jul 6, 2011 00:21
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Jesus Christ where did the last six hours go. This game really is underrated. I find the combat enjoyable enough, though I wonder how the hell someone would ever manage to pure stealth this thing. Stealth seems more useful for setting up shots than anything.
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Jul 6, 2011 00:22
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Running around invisible stabbing people or whatever the takedown is was so much fun last time. I remember just completely clearing out rooms like that
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Jul 6, 2011 00:25
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Zorak posted:Jesus Christ where did the last six hours go. Pure stealth would be a ton of waiting at first, but once you get the later ranks of Shadow Operative and Brilliance (resets all cooldowns) you're an unstoppable killing machine. It's definitely not the way the game's meant to be played, however- a mix of stealth and gunplay or martial arts is the way to go. Stealthily kill as many people as you can and quickly off the rest with your other abilities. I find the combat incredibly enjoyable on every Veteran run, you're pretty much always an unstoppable killing machine and it's fun to take out entire rooms as quickly and efficiently as possible. I don't even take equipment anymore, I just get 15 EMPs so I never have to stop for anything  Jose posted:Running around invisible stabbing people or whatever the takedown is was so much fun last time. I remember just completely clearing out rooms like that Yeah, the stealth takedowns are visceral as hell and  as a result. I can't help but let out happy-go-lucky "Murder!" cry when Mike takes someone out.
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Jul 6, 2011 00:25
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Wow hacking really sucks poo poo. I'll never be able to do this.
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Jul 6, 2011 00:54
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Evil Agita posted:Wow hacking really sucks poo poo. I'll never be able to do this. Can someone describe why it's so awful for those of us playing on consoles? For us it's literally "move the thumbsticks" so all the rage towards that particular minigame is pretty funny
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Jul 6, 2011 00:57
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For me the problem is that the boxes move so loving slowly and the one moved with the mouse can be a bit wonky to aim sometimes. It's not that bad though.
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Jul 6, 2011 00:58
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Holy Calamity! posted:Can someone describe why it's so awful for those of us playing on consoles? For us it's literally "move the thumbsticks" so all the rage towards that particular minigame is pretty funny Moving the right-hand code fragment is really counter-intuitive. It's controlled by the mouse but it doesn't follow the cursor. You have to keep moving the mouse in the direction you want to go, as if you were continually turning the camera. The left-hand fragment is WASD so that's fine.
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Jul 6, 2011 00:59
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Every time I want to hate this game for some pedantic, mechanical reason, it reels me back in with good writing and interesting characters. I just finished Saudi Arabia and the game instantly became way better.
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Jul 6, 2011 01:03
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I'm having some mouse issues which is making the hacking thing more annoying. I think my computer can ALMOST run the game fine, and I'm having fun other than the hacking.
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Jul 6, 2011 01:11
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Setzer Gabbiani posted:So yeah also grabbed this during the sale, aside from the stuff in the OP, here are some other universal tweaks that every UT3-engine game should have. First off, in APInput.ini Repost for the new thread
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Jul 6, 2011 01:12
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Hooray, time for one of my favorite missions in the game: Identifying Jabril Al-Bara w/ the sniper rifle. I love it because I have decided to always massacre everyone in attendance rather than going through the trouble of identifying them. The game allows you to do this as long as you leave no survivors. It doesn't even piss Mina off too much, oddly enough.
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Jul 6, 2011 01:15
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I simply cannot get this game to work. It's on Steam, so it should have the proper patches and such, but it just crashes immediately upon start up. Or, more accurately, it just 100% refuses to start up at all. Any ideas? edit: Sorry if this has been mentioned, I just don't see it anywhere. 
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Holy Calamity! posted:Can someone describe why it's so awful for those of us playing on consoles? For us it's literally "move the thumbsticks" so all the rage towards that particular minigame is pretty funny The box for mouse is REALLY sensitive. I've got a stupid expensive nerd mouse and sometimes had trouble picking the spot I wanted. If you could just bind it to WASD and the numpad or arrow keys, it'd be perfect. nucleicmaxid posted:I simply cannot get this game to work. It's on Steam, so it should have the proper patches and such, but it just crashes immediately upon start up. Or, more accurately, it just 100% refuses to start up at all. Any ideas? What exactly happens with refusing to start? Does Steam do anything? do you get to the game screen and crash out? I had trouble loading some Steam games yesterday. It might have nothing to do with AP.
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Got this cause of this thread and the Steam sale yesterday, started playing right as the download finished and didn't stop until I beat it at 4am. Holy crap this game is good, sure the combat isn't perfect but it's still fun. I did my first playthrough as recruit w/ stealth/pistols/melee, and the stealth is annoying but workable if you are careful. My only complaint would be that there are very few missions that it's possible to go undetected. I have already started a second playthrough and love all the things I have missed and the different dialogue options.
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Jul 6, 2011 01:23
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Holy Calamity! posted:Can someone describe why it's so awful for those of us playing on consoles? For us it's literally "move the thumbsticks" so all the rage towards that particular minigame is pretty funny The left code is driven by WASD which works great especially given that it's on a grid. The right code, however, is moved with the mouse. This works decidedly less well. Imagine, if you will, drinking a handle of vodka, while sitting on your hand until it is good and numb, then try playing Minesweeper. It's laggy, moves like it's under water and they don't even disable the mouse pointer so that's flying all over the drat screen yet has very little relation to how the right code box is actually moving. I picked this up from the Steam sale and movement in general seems kind of bad. I feel like I'm only just barely in control of Mike. Maybe I have something set wrong. edit: shadowzero313 posted:Repost for the new thread I did what was in the OP but not this, maybe this will fix things. Valen fucked around with this message at 01:33 on Jul 6, 2011 |
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Jul 6, 2011 01:25
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shadowzero313 posted:Repost for the new thread Thanks dude! That mouse smoothing tweak has just made this game fun.
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Nehru the Damaja posted:What exactly happens with refusing to start? Does Steam do anything? do you get to the game screen and crash out? I had trouble loading some Steam games yesterday. It might have nothing to do with AP. I get to the launcher. Then I click play, I get what looks like a loading icon over my mouse, then nothing happens. At all. If I watch the task manager, the game starts, then just ceases to run a few seconds later, with no real change to my screen. It fails to actually launch. edit: I've done all the tricks listed, from disabling HID compliant whatevers, and running it in xp compatibility mode. Yngwie Mangosteen fucked around with this message at 02:00 on Jul 6, 2011 |
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Jul 6, 2011 01:26
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http://i.imgur.com/VuKMY.jpg That dude actually hanged like that after I shot him. Ragdoll physics derp.
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Jul 6, 2011 01:57
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Anyone know how to adjust the FOV? It's kind of making GBS threads me...
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Jul 6, 2011 02:09
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Zorak posted:Jesus Christ where did the last six hours go. Shadow Operative and Brilliance turns Mike into a throat punching poltergeist. It's fantastic.
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Jul 6, 2011 02:11
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Holy Cheese posted:http://i.imgur.com/VuKMY.jpg I once shot a guy and he turned into a giraffe: 
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Jul 6, 2011 02:12
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shadowzero313 posted:Repost for the new thread quote:MaxMultisamples=(antialiasing never seems to really work on the software level, so just force it through CCC or nVidia CP, making whatever number here irrelevant) What is CCC? Also, thanks for reposting that. About to jump back in to see what the changes look like now. Edit: Ah, thanks. Vizrt fucked around with this message at 02:35 on Jul 6, 2011 |
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Vizrt posted:What is CCC? Catalyst Control Center. ATI/AMD's driver control panel.
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Valen posted:Catalyst Control Center. ATI/AMD's driver control panel. I have to say after switching to an ATI card I have had a lot less trouble with drivers, everything just works. A bit like the nvidia ones used to.
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Jul 6, 2011 02:42
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Lynx posted:I once shot a guy and he turned into a giraffe: I really really really hope this happens to me after punching a guy in the throat. Between this and the hilarious cartwheels enemies do after being shot I can forgive the game's shortcomings. Now if only my video card would stop overheating.
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In case anyone was wondering, I figured out what was wrong. I had NVIDIA PhysX drivers installed from an old card, but I'm using a Radeon card now. Uninstalling them allowed the game to install the right one, and now it works. 
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Jul 6, 2011 02:58
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Lynx posted:I once shot a guy and he turned into a giraffe: That reminds me of playing Mass Effect and fighting Liara's mother, Benezia. There were so many biotic effects going off during that fight my first time through that they started to glitch and merge and my character turned into taffy slowly dissolving into syrup and sinking through the staircase. It was hilarious to watch, but sadly I could not have screenshot it.
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Holy Cheese posted:I have to say after switching to an ATI card I have had a lot less trouble with drivers, everything just works. A bit like the nvidia ones used to. Funny you should say that. Just yesterday I was having a hell of a time figuring out why model and UI textures in The Witcher (the first one) got all blurry. Turns out it was because of some CCC settings, which for some reason stopped working properly after the last time I updated my ATI drivers. Who decided it would be a good idea to have a whole other set of graphical settings in addition to what the application has?
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Zorak posted:Jesus Christ where did the last six hours go. Yeah all the boss fights means you need some solid combat skilss, regular stealth skills are really amazing though for going to town on regular bad guys. Especially when you get Brilliance ability and can spam the cloak ability back to back. Plus it resets all the emergency stealth skills.
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404notfound posted:Who decided it would be a good idea to have a whole other set of graphical settings in addition to what the application has? Presumably, people who were sick of going "goddamnit, this game would look so much better with mipmapping and FSAA and anisotropic filtering, but it's a console port made by retards and there's no way to enable those in-game" and decided to make it possible to force them on in the driver. The real problem isn't the fact that you can do this, it's the fact that the default isn't "let the program decide" and/or that a driver update might change the settings behind your back.
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nucleicmaxid posted:In case anyone was wondering, I figured out what was wrong. I had NVIDIA PhysX drivers installed from an old card, but I'm using a Radeon card now. Uninstalling them allowed the game to install the right one, and now it works.  Also,  and congrats on being able to play now.
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Rabbit Hill posted:I'm on my second playthrough, playing as a recruit, and in the very beginning Greybox stage I only got one training course -- weapons training with Mina as my handler. Is that the only course available or did I miss any other(s)? I'm actually at the Saudi endgame stage now but I'll go back and start another game if I missed something (I want to experience EVERYTHING). No offence, man, but you just made the funniest post in the thread. "It's my second playthrough, I'll surely be able to experience everything I missed out in my first!  "Again, no offence, though I think it's really sad that most modern RPGs have it set up that two playthroughs are all you need to see everything a game offers 
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Something about the stealth knife stab animation skeeves me out, a few of those and I stuck with non-lethal the rest of the time
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Trying to redownload this from Steam and give it another go, but the drat thing's downloading at like 50kB/s. So annoying, I want to get back into the CYOA-disguised-as-a-game
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RentACop posted:Something about the stealth knife stab animation skeeves me out, a few of those and I stuck with non-lethal the rest of the time Someone once mentioned it was the 'correct' way to actually knife someone in the throat but hell if I know.
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CommissarMega posted:No offence, man, but you just made the funniest post in the thread. "It's my second playthrough, I'll surely be able to experience everything I missed out in my first! Really it's more  than .Ledneh posted:Trying to redownload this from Steam and give it another go, but the drat thing's downloading at like 50kB/s. So annoying, I want to get back into the CYOA-disguised-as-a-game Try switching to a less heavily loaded server - Russia's been good to me today.
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