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kuribo posted:So it seems that all of a sudden, my Tab key no longer brings up the PDA, and escape no longer brings up a menu. Escape simply pauses it, requiring backspace to unpause. If you're in Taipei for the first time, try following Mina's advice to use the shower - I seem to recall someone else having the same problem there.
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Slantedfloors posted:The pre-built histories are basically just a skill template, and don't do much past a couple of comments at the start of the game (I think You also get a couple comments in Rome. But they're so minor that not even the replaying obsessives among us should bother going for it.
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I've had this game since release. I am just now trying a hard run. I'm cheesing it with a veteran pistol/stealth/toughness build with significant points invested in sabotage and martial arts. Let us see how many times I throw my controller.
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Slantedfloors posted:The pre-built histories are basically just a skill template, and don't do much past a couple of comments at the start of the game (I think Having particular skills tagged, whether by having a history or having selected them manually, changes a few cutscenes slightly, showing off your core competencies. e: ToxicFrog posted:If you're in Taipei for the first time, try following Mina's advice to use the shower - I seem to recall someone else having the same problem there. Hahaha! "Man, this place sucks. I think I'll go check out the other hubs...WTF?!" I found it even funnier if you go there last.
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Chortles posted:Thanks for the advice re: class choices, so far I'm looking at Soldier with Pistols 3, Shotguns 2, Assault Rifles 1, whereas Recruit seems to start with no points at all, so I'm not so sure about it as "my first-ever AP playthrough." Focus on one weapon. Pistols is the most highly recommended, obviously. If you're going for a "go shooting" build I'd pump up stealth to awareness, go for shotgun or pistols, then pump up toughness. I actually REALLY like toughness but eh. Tech ap. is good for brilliance, sabotage is good to assist in hacking, but I think you can just kick doors down and shoot.
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Doc Hawkins posted:Having particular skills tagged, whether by having a history or having selected them manually, changes a few cutscenes slightly, showing off your core competencies. The flying kick off the bridge to the Al-Samad Leutenant is awesome and is the number one reason to take martial arts.
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Doc Hawkins posted:Hahaha! "Man, this place sucks. I think I'll go check out the other hubs...WTF?!" This is one of my favorite paths to encounter in the game because it's so hilarious.
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Bo-Pepper posted:There are alternate buttons that bringup the menus within the PDA. Then you can navigate the PDA from there. Try "I". No, I mean escape no longer brings up anything at all. No save / load screen, no "PAUSED" during conversations, any of it.
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evilmiera posted:Did you ever get help for this? I recall having the same kind of problem, but I don't really recall the solution. Think I tried re-installing various drivers and using different settings, but it has been a while since then. No I didn't and thanks for the answer though. I really would love to play this game. I'm a big fan of western rpgs and from the first 15mins that I could stomach playing it seemed awesome and right up my alley. I just can't play the game though if it doesn't quite understand where my mouse pointer is. I'm pretty sure that is what is causing the stuttering too when I look around since it doesn't quite understand the mouse pointer then it tries to catch up to where it was when I moved.. It's like it's going back and forth between windows and the game. I have no idea what to do, but it certainly has made this game unplayable for me. I can't use radial menus or move into new areas without the game glitching to hell and back. Why do I keep buying obsidian games! They are the new Troika to me.  The only Ob game that I've been able to play all the way through without a game stopping bug has been Fallout: NV.So yeah if anyone knows how to fix this mouse situaion let me know. I already patched the game and even tried the lines in the op for the ini file (which made everything way worse). An Ounce of Gold fucked around with this message at 19:53 on Jul 12, 2011 |
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About Embassy mission... So I talked my way in and took care to only use tranq ammo and fists (and assault rifle on a couple of turrets) but Albatross sent me this message http://i.imgur.com/TgTmS.jpg like I had left a pile of corpses on the way? Conversation with Leland after was also like that. Did I gently caress up something? Mission recap had 0 kills and total kill count didn't increase either. 
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white hum posted:About Embassy mission... It sounds like he's okay with your kill count but wasn't okay with you speaking to the guards at the front door.
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white hum posted:About Embassy mission...
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Slantedfloors posted:You're reading it wrong. He's congratulating you on doing it with minimal casualties, even if he disagrees with how you got in. This email always struck me as a weird missing tag. Albatross wants you to sneak in through the back door (he's all about stealth), but that automatically flags you as having killed Marines. When you walk up and "introduce" yourself, he's upset that you've blown your secrecy (which flags you as having hosed up, but only with him). That's the way it's always come across to me anyway, because that's the only way you get the "didn't kill Marines" flag. Also, you won't lose rep with Albatross and there's only more time after that when you'd run into him anyway. I'm referring to Brayko's mansion, although I think you can hire a hitsquad for the train yard, but I don't remember if that has to come before the Embassy mission. EDIT: I was wrong and corrected it. GO FUCK YOURSELF fucked around with this message at 20:10 on Jul 12, 2011 |
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Slantedfloors posted:You're reading it wrong. He's congratulating you on doing it with minimal casualties, even if he disagrees with how you got in. Oh, I thought he was lecturing me about leaving too many corpses
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So ready to go on my America Fuckyea run with shotguns on veteran
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the_american_dream posted:So ready to go on my America Fuckyea run with shotguns on veteran I hope you picked the beard that's larger than the rest of your head.
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white hum posted:Oh, I thought he was lecturing me about leaving too many corpses He's still stupid though. I mean, even if you kept all the VCI/G22 goons alive, they still attacked a loving US Embassy and killed a bunch of loving Marines. That poo poo is going to be investigated by every single loving intelligence agency and police organization in the loving world.
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Chinaman7000 posted:I hope you picked the beard that's larger than the rest of your head. With either a ushanka or swamp hat. This is obligatory.
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SymfonyMan posted:So yeah if anyone knows how to fix this mouse situaion let me know. I already patched the game and even tried the lines in the op for the ini file (which made everything way worse). I've never heard of an issue like that, but people with other mouse issues have reported that playing with a controller worked fine even when the mouse controls were completely hosed, so if you can stomach aiming with a controller you might try that.
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Holy gently caress I never took the time to read the Hand-to-Hand tree and just discovered the flying knee after 2 playthroughs with maxed out hand-to-hand 
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Scorchy posted:loving weird. Go into Documents/Alpha Protocol folder and rename your APGame folder to something else, then restart the game and see if it's still doing it. Not only did this work, it reduced my load time too.  Thanks!I wanna say, too, that I love how if you play this game like an anti-social killing machine, the game does a really good job of making you feel like you're no better than a terrorist. When I chose to execute the guy at the abandoned shop in Rome, I cringed a little when Mike simply said, "Shut up and let me do my job." It sounded like something a terrorist from 24 would say. Also, walking up to Madison when she's in your hideout, looking at her, and just saying, "Bitch."
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kuribo posted:I wanna say, too, that I love how if you play this game like an anti-social killing machine, the game does a really good job of making you feel like you're no better than a terrorist. When I chose to execute the guy at the abandoned shop in Rome, I cringed a little when Mike simply said, "Shut up and let me do my job." It sounded like something a terrorist from 24 would say. On the flip side...when/if Mina tries to deconstruct this approach in the end game, Mike will have an answer for drat near everything. You are never actively punished or told one course of action is explicitly, OOCly wrong. Obsidian. 
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Nehru the Damaja posted:You also get a couple comments in Rome. But they're so minor that not even the replaying obsessives among us should bother going for it. Tech Specialists get some bonus cutscenes, though how much of that is from an increased Sabotage skill I don't quite know. Specifically Tech Specialists can do both options at the Brayko mansion just like a Veteran. Mina goes, oh Mike we can't do both, you have to pick one. And Mike's just like, sure you can do both, just upgrade this and hack that, easy peasy  .
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ToxicFrog posted:I've never heard of an issue like that, but people with other mouse issues have reported that playing with a controller worked fine even when the mouse controls were completely hosed, so if you can stomach aiming with a controller you might try that. I don't own a controller, but if I can't find a fix then I may go out and buy one just to play this game.
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poptart_fairy posted:On the flip side...when/if Mina tries to deconstruct this approach in the end game, Mike will have an answer for drat near everything. You are never actively punished or told one course of action is explicitly, OOCly wrong. He really won't. Mina's got a good set of varying "what the gently caress, Mike?" speeches for each approach, but Mike's response is always the same and really limp-wristed, basically amounting to "nuh-uh!" It's especially priceless if you've gone the psychopath route, as Mike is talking about how agonizing and morally challenging his missions are after shooting half the world's espionage profession in the head with a wisecrack and a smile.
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Oh no! Disaster has struck for my traumatised agent! After doing six consecutive no-kill missions in a row, those bastards I brought along with me killed a number of chinese special forces. AND THEN SUNG GOT KILLED. OH GOD I WAS JUST TRYING TO SAVE THOSE PEOPLE WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME?!? All the Stephen Heck in the world cant console me.
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The Viper posted:All the Stephen Heck in the world can't console me. Both you and I know that this is untrue, so why post it.
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The Viper posted:All the Stephen Heck in the world cant console me. Steven Heck breaks the fingers of people who call him "Steve". I wonder what he would do if he knew you spelled his name wrong. Anybody?
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Davin Valkri posted:Steven Heck breaks the fingers of people who call him "Steve". I wonder what he would do if he knew you spelled his name wrong. Anybody? The goddamn bees?
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I missed it the first time during the end game mission, and I don't want to miss it this time around. Where is the room with Mina and Scarlett(?) in it?
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Operation YEAAAHHHHH!
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Vizrt posted:I missed it the first time during the end game mission, and I don't want to miss it this time around. Where is the room with Mina and Scarlett(?) in it? Scarlet: After speaking to Parker/Deng on the big screen, turn and go down the hall. She's in the first door on your right. Mina: When Leland/Westridge is making his little "YOU MUST CHOOOOOOSE" speech, she's in the door on your left.
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Oxxidation posted:Scarlet: After speaking to Parker/Deng on the big screen, turn and go down the hall. She's in the first door on your right. Couldn't open that door. I guess I didn't meet some requirement this playthrough. Was able to find the other one though, thanks.
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Vizrt posted:Couldn't open that door. I guess I didn't meet some requirement this playthrough. Was able to find the other one though, thanks. The door can always be opened. There is no requirement, unless you maybe neglected to get in touch with Scarlet in the final hub.
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Oxxidation posted:The door can always be opened. There is no requirement, unless you maybe neglected to get in touch with Scarlet in the final hub. Ya, I didn't bother with her this playthrough. Figured that was why. I'll have to include it in my next run. Just unlocked Veteran, but I think I'm going to give it a break for a bit before I do my third run. I haven't messed with gadgets at all, so I think I'll use them heavily the next time around. Also, outside of the first meeting I haven't interacted with Sie at all. So going to make that a priority. The second run was pretty cool though. During the final mission I was able to turn both Marburg and Parker. Also, I didn't know that the last boss could be Westridge or Leland. I actually didn't encounter Westridge at all during the final mission this time.
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Vizrt posted:The second run was pretty cool though. During the final mission I was able to turn both Marburg and Parker. Also, I didn't know that the last boss could be Westridge or Leland. I actually didn't encounter Westridge at all during the final mission this time. Westridge only cares enough to show up if you've put America at risk with your actions - killing American agents/soldiers or partnering with Al-Samad/Halbech. Otherwise he fucks off while the going's good. Slantedfloors fucked around with this message at 23:56 on Jul 12, 2011 |
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Vizrt posted:Ya, I didn't bother with her this playthrough. Figured that was why. I'll have to include it in my next run. Westridge is only there if you take Leland's offer to side with Halbech, or spare Shaheed and agree to help him bring down the United States when you meet him at the final hub. Otherwise he just goes "too old for this poo poo" and does a quick fade once it's clear that Alpha Protocol is out of his hands.
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Who can't you kill or allow to be killed in this game? Fairly certain that you can't kill Grigori, Hong Shi, or Heck and that you have to choose between SIE or Albatross. Anyone else?
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Pretty sure Albratross doesn't need killing, he just leaves you alone like he did for me. Going to give it a break before my veteran run through, full psychopath with shotguns and grenades. Can anyone recommend a similar game? I've completed Deus ex a load of times and completed the leak of the new one, need something to last until the full release.
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BattleMaster posted:Who can't you kill or allow to be killed in this game? Nope, that's it; aside from what's written here, anyone in the game can be made dead by the end of the game.
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