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thepopstalinist posted:So wait, this has probably already been covered but can Albatross still be your handler after you pop Sis? I'm assuming he won't show up in the endgame if you do. You can apologize your way out of it even though letting Sis lives helps you build up good rep with him much faster.
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thepopstalinist posted:So wait, this has probably already been covered but can Albatross still be your handler after you pop Sis? I'm assuming he won't show up in the endgame if you do. Yes, you can convince him that it's in his best interest to help him take down alpha protocol. You can also goad him into attacking alpha protocol to get revenge on you, but I don't think that works to get him as your handler.
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Oct 19, 2011 12:13
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Soonmot posted:Yes, also Sis is like 16 you pervert. Well, poo poo. I didn't look at her dossier closely and assumed she was early 20s. Doing a suave, veteran no-kill Thorton run at the moment. This is a veteran only thing I think (unless I've not been paying any attention) but you can bash down doors with locks on them. Usually it'd set off an alarm but if you have Spy's Luck it's free instant lockpicking for life. There's so much bloody detail in this game. Already looking forward to doing a psycho Thorton run with SMGs (really the only combat discipline I haven't properly tried).
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Oct 19, 2011 12:28
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PTizzle posted:Well, poo poo. I didn't look at her dossier closely and assumed she was early 20s. Breaking down different doors is based on how high your fist punching skill, another pretty cool perk of it that some people forget about. Like you said, spy's luck + fists like rock = no lockpicking doors, ever.
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Oct 19, 2011 15:33
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CharismaticHorsey posted:If only someone could find a way to make it Mike's model for the entire game. There is a way, IIRC, but it involves hex editing your savegame after every mission to keep it on or something. There was a guide on how to do it on the official forums shortly after the game came out.
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Oct 19, 2011 18:20
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Dr. Stab posted:Yes, you can convince him that it's in his best interest to help him take down alpha protocol. You can also goad him into attacking alpha protocol to get revenge on you, but I don't think that works to get him as your handler. Who frees you from the medical room if Sis is dead? Does Albatross just remote unlock the thing like Heck does if he is the handler? Does a random G22 goon show up and free you?
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Oct 20, 2011 00:03
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Hey, I've finally gotten around to playing this game since I got it on the steam sale and it owns, but I have a quick question. I'm using a PS3 controller and it works fine except for lockpicking, where I pretty much have to get lucky or I'm screwed thanks to the L2/R2 buttons. Is there anything I could edit in the game settings or .ini to get it to work properly? Specifically it's the lock parts with the area really high on the bar, I can never get them to set exactly right.
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Ryaomon posted:Hey, I've finally gotten around to playing this game since I got it on the steam sale and it owns, but I have a quick question. I'm using a PS3 controller and it works fine except for lockpicking, where I pretty much have to get lucky or I'm screwed thanks to the L2/R2 buttons. Is there anything I could edit in the game settings or .ini to get it to work properly? Specifically it's the lock parts with the area really high on the bar, I can never get them to set exactly right. According to earlier in this thread, the PS3 controller doesn't work well with the lockpicking minigame. An Xbox 360 controller will do it fine, as will the mouse+keyboard, but the PS3 triggers and motionjoy don't seem to be sensitive enough for it.
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Oct 20, 2011 01:10
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Ryaomon posted:Hey, I've finally gotten around to playing this game since I got it on the steam sale and it owns, but I have a quick question. I'm using a PS3 controller and it works fine except for lockpicking, where I pretty much have to get lucky or I'm screwed thanks to the L2/R2 buttons. Is there anything I could edit in the game settings or .ini to get it to work properly? Specifically it's the lock parts with the area really high on the bar, I can never get them to set exactly right. If you're using motionjoy, setting the L2 and R2 deadzone to 0 will fix it right up.
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RoboBlaster posted:If you're using motionjoy, setting the L2 and R2 deadzone to 0 will fix it right up. Yep, that worked, thanks man.
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This loving game. Just finished my first playthrough. Went silenced pistol/assault rifle, snuck around until I got caught and then just started blasting people. I didn't keep any particular alignment, just played the conversations as felt right. I love that pretty much any way you play this game is right. I'm planning another playthrough with a shotgun-toting, kill happy recruit. After that it'll be a veteran playthrough where I follow Batman rules. Thanks for pointing me to this game, goons!
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Musuem mission problems as SMG/Shotgun rear end in a top hat Trying to rescue Madison. Elevator opens, kill all the dudes besides the hostage taker. Cannot get a headshot with these weapons and devices don't work. Do i need to reload my safehouse auto-save and equip a pistol/assault rifle?
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Vadun posted:Musuem mission problems as SMG/Shotgun rear end in a top hat Trying to rescue Madison. Elevator opens, kill all the dudes besides the hostage taker. Cannot get a headshot with these weapons and devices don't work. Do i need to reload my safehouse auto-save and equip a pistol/assault rifle? Get as close as you can without him killing her and wait. The guy holding Madison should lose his grip on her momentarily and she will duck. It will give you a wide shot window. If you miss the first chance, I think it will do it again if you wait long enough.
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Torsade de Pointes posted:Get as close as you can without him killing her and wait. The guy holding Madison should lose his grip on her momentarily and she will duck. It will give you a wide shot window. If you miss the first chance, I think it will do it again if you wait long enough. Any shot that hits the goon without harming Madison works? Can't get an instant kill with these weapons
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Vadun posted:Any shot that hits the goon without harming Madison works? Can't get an instant kill with these weapons I'm sure you'd be fine with a sg knockdown.
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Vadun posted:Any shot that hits the goon without harming Madison works? Can't get an instant kill with these weapons I think so, though it's been awhile since I remember doing it. I definitely remember him dropping Madison to give you a much better shot, as opposed to the normal bobbing his head from one side to the other.
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thepopstalinist posted:(1) A Sis "romance" was planned but Avellone successfully got it cut. Apparently the only reason that stuff was in the game was because of publisher mandate. Thanks, Bioware! (1) You're sure about that? That doesn't fit with the claims that Sis was just a boss fight in her first iteration. I think the romance that got canned is the one that was planned with Grey De Lisle's character's, someone named Uli Booi or something. The whole character was given the airlock in her case. (2) The ones I've 'heard' express a rather strong dislike of romances are Sawyer and Avellone, I don't know about any others.
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X_Toad posted:(1) You're sure about that? That doesn't fit with the claims that Sis was just a boss fight in her first iteration. I think the romance that got canned is the one that was planned with Grey De Lisle's character's, someone named Uli Booi or something. The whole character was given the airlock in her case. I think this is was suppose to be Uli Booi? I don't know what the gently caress either.  She was suppose to be voiced by Grey 'Catwoman' Delisle but she got cut halfway through.
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In Training posted:Breaking down different doors is based on how high your fist punching skill, another pretty cool perk of it that some people forget about. Like you said, spy's luck + fists like rock = no lockpicking doors, ever. OH MY GOD I...I told a bunch of people that you could always bust down doors instead of using lockpicks. I kept saying "you can just bash," and they were like "no, you can basically never bash you liar," and I was like "you're full of poo poo, go play DA2." I went big into martial arts in most of my playthrus! I didn't know! This loving game, only sad. 
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Hahaha, the Taipei safehouse is loving amazing.
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El Seano posted:Hahaha, the Taipei safehouse is loving amazing. I wonder how many people spent 5 minutes walking around mashing buttons, thinking the house was bugged, like me 
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X_Toad posted:(1) You're sure about that? That doesn't fit with the claims that Sis was just a boss fight in her first iteration. I think the romance that got canned is the one that was planned with Grey De Lisle's character's, someone named Uli Booi or something. The whole character was given the airlock in her case.
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AG3 posted:I wonder how many people spent 5 minutes walking around mashing buttons, thinking the house was bugged, like me Every safe house, just in case.
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You know it never occurred to me before just now, but when playing as a veteran, Mina's face blurs into the face of the Gelatto shop guy. Total telegraph right at the start that she's NSA. In case you didn't get that intel on a previous playthrough.
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She used to work for them, sure, but are they really the organization whose agenda she's pursuing? Why would The NSA want to take down Halbech and Alpha Protocol? More questions left for a sequel.
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Doc Hawkins posted:She used to work for them, sure, but are they really the organization whose agenda she's pursuing? Why would The NSA want to take down Halbech and Alpha Protocol? The whole game is why. Given what Halbech and their agents in Alpha Protocol are doing across the world, why wouldn't the NSA want to take them down?
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How about, it could go either way: I'd find it pretty easy to believe that one covert intelligence agency was not following a directive to bring about the wholesale destruction of another one from the same country. When I think of the NSA, I think of wiretappers, not The Patriots (though of course, in my interpretation, Mina is part of a super-conspiracy like that), but obviously if that's the way the story was laid out in the sequel, I'd accept it as just how things are in superspy world.
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This xkcd comic made me think of one of the email replies to Steven Heck.
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Dominoes posted:This xkcd comic made me think of one of the email replies to Steven Heck. "Dear Randall, please shut the gently caress up."
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In Training posted:Breaking down different doors is based on how high your fist punching skill, another pretty cool perk of it that some people forget about. Like you said, spy's luck + fists like rock = no lockpicking doors, ever. So that's what does it!
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Edit: I'm an idiot and looked in the game folders instead of my documents. Sorry.
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I just started playing this and am having a terrible time with the hacking minigame. The right hand code done with the mouse moves very slowly but at least it works. The left hand code says to lock it in with F, but actually locks in with Spacebar. However, 50% of the time pressing spacebar also moves the code one position to the left and the other 50% of the time it doesn't. This forces me to guess whether to put the code template on the code or one space to the right. Any suggestions?
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Senethro posted:I just started playing this and am having a terrible time with the hacking minigame. The right hand code done with the mouse moves very slowly but at least it works. The left hand code says to lock it in with F, but actually locks in with Spacebar. However, 50% of the time pressing spacebar also moves the code one position to the left and the other 50% of the time it doesn't. This forces me to guess whether to put the code template on the code or one space to the right. Any suggestions? Did you try the fixes in the OP?
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Senethro posted:I just started playing this and am having a terrible time with the hacking minigame. The right hand code done with the mouse moves very slowly but at least it works. The left hand code says to lock it in with F, but actually locks in with Spacebar. However, 50% of the time pressing spacebar also moves the code one position to the left and the other 50% of the time it doesn't. This forces me to guess whether to put the code template on the code or one space to the right. Any suggestions? I assume you didn't change any of the keybinds, so I've not heard of that bug before. Gosh, I really should get the PC version! Has anyone else had this problem?
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Category Fun! posted:I assume you didn't change any of the keybinds, so I've not heard of that bug before. Gosh, I really should get the PC version! Has anyone else had this problem?
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I had the mouse problem but just resorted to playing the game with the 360 controller.
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The game treats your mouse as an analog controller during hacking minigames, so it has a fixed move speed. Pretend you're pushing a 360 controller and not using a mouse.
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This game is fun and my dude is beardy, lining up pistol crits from behind cover is fun and powerful as hell. How come I should've avoided Recruit on 1st playthrough? I'm not having any trouble and next time I get a veteran!
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Started this game now that I have a computer that can run it well, although I've only gotten up to the first mission. Ran into a rather hilarious bug where I am holding 2 handed gun(shotguns, assault rifles) handles in the wrong hand, still pointed forward, so my other hand sits there like it wants to hold the gun, while the gun just points in random directions(does still fire straight though).
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