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ChaseSP posted:I wonder if the desaturation is to encourage combat models to prefer to stay on Earth or something just due to the color and vibrancy. I dunno. Maybe it's because the City Ruins isn't on the front lines or something (especially considering the weapon story for the Type-40 Spear) but the area 2B is rolling in seems downright lovely. I mean, the little stubbies are hopping around doing their thing, but it's not like 2B is running through cyber Normandy or anything. I don't see any reason why the androids would be clamoring to get back to the cramped space stations. I guess the Moose/Boar menace could be making life on the surface a living nightmare though. GeneX posted:I mean "detain deserters holding military tech" is a fine justification for a sidequest alone, no need to mention resistance things. You would think so right? I found it weird that the operator was given that much detail. From a story point of view, 2B and 9S have regular contact with the resistance leader, so they could have easily checked in with her about it. If they had done the bare minimum of investigation and asked Anemone, then the whole mission is suddenly really suspicious right off the bat. Why didn't she just say "They are deserters, stole some military secrets, top secret stuff. Go get 'em for me?" Not like anyone could fact check that when you are the Commander. *Edit* Edvarius posted:No no, you've got it all wrong. The woman was happy that her sacrifice could be of use to her lord. And he in turn was so moved by her willing sacrifice that he personally slew and devoured the husband the next day so that he would not have to parted from so virtuous a woman. Afterward the lord carried the kitchen knife that had carved them apart with him into battle, so that his most loyal subjects could always fight by his side. drat, that's where I went wrong. I didn't have enough death in there, or any classic Yoko Taro curve-balls. Psycho Knight fucked around with this message at 23:44 on May 12, 2017 |
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Junpei posted:...suspicion towards Commander rising.  You're gonna get your backup tapes lost with talk like that.
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May 12, 2017 23:41
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Well, I'm installing it. I'm pretty sure it's not going to actually run, at least not at a playable level. My graphics card is, uh... six years old? Jesus. And it's not replaceable. Well, I did just get my bonus today... Maybe I can just play the hacking minigame? They should have an option to play the whole game with 2B using the little hacking spaceship model for people who have old computers.
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May 12, 2017 23:46
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The hacking minigame runs like poo poo for me, even though the rest of the game is fine.
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May 12, 2017 23:53
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Office to the giant hole is how this Quest went for me. I wasn't as low level as you were here so I didn't have a hard time of it but I agree, having a level recommendation would be nice. Speaking of, a typo for you: quote:We am UNDER leveled for this battle.
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May 13, 2017 00:08
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I'm gonna spitball something here. The humans dipped out of trying to retake Earth ages ago and are now on Mars or something. Actually let's go with Jupiter, call the fortune telling thing ~foreshadowing~.
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ManSedan posted:I'm gonna spitball something here. The humans dipped out of trying to retake Earth ages ago and are now on Mars or something. 
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May 13, 2017 00:32
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Now that's a series that could use the Platinum touch. 
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May 13, 2017 00:36
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So -that's- what you do in that quest? The deserters or whatever sometimes appeared at the quest locations, and sometimes just bugged out? Son of a-I must have wasted like an hour combing that Engel and skyscraper looking for those guys! 
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My interpretation of the weapon story about 42S is that because of his constant broadcasting he basically pinpointed the position of his HQ and brought the machines down on himself. Music is Prohibited, 42S.
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May 13, 2017 00:55
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This quest was the second time I died in this game (first was getting grabbed by the big guy in the desert). Not having red-eye-flash cues makes them pretty tough even if you're an appropriate level! The sidequests in this game are pretty much all worth doing. They always have an interesting story attached, even when they're more basic fetch quests. And like 90% of the time I already had the stuff they wanted 
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I wondered what was going on the with the stun animations on the deserters. It's really weird that they'd let it stay broken there since normally machines die just as you stun them and you'll probably use the finishing moves more in those two fights than you will in the entire rest of the game.
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ManSedan posted:I'm gonna spitball something here. The humans dipped out of trying to retake Earth ages ago and are now on Mars or something. There's a single human left on Pluto. The rest have all buggered off out of the Solar System. All that remains on the moon are some old service androids rigged up to drive on the lunar surface in bulldozers endlessly pushing around the same piles of dirt.
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'Fickle' is a real good description of that sidequest. When it stalled out for me, I just camped near one possible spawn point and reloaded my game until they showed up. edit: seems like an appropriate time to post this 
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Aumanor posted:There's a single human left on Pluto. The rest have all buggered off out of the Solar System. All that remains on the moon are some old service androids rigged up to drive on the lunar surface in bulldozers endlessly pushing around the same piles of dirt. He is, however, the best 
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Huh, for me they were always under the highway and then on the building. I figured the Engels circle was a red herring. Also, TDI, weren't you going to do a sidequest flowchart for Automata? Or was that flowchart basically "do the quest where you go down a hole -> do every sidequest" because really, none of them are all that bad (except the unit data one and a similar quest)?
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Yeah, an estimated danger level might help. It's not completely out of the blue for them to say that since level shows up on 2B's HUD and all.
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The level system is probably the least useful, most unnecessary thing in the game.
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Aumanor posted:There's a single human left on Pluto. The rest have all buggered off out of the Solar System. All that remains on the moon are some old service androids rigged up to drive on the lunar surface in bulldozers endlessly pushing around the same piles of dirt. Wish he would share the butt missile technology with 2B...
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May 13, 2017 02:48
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Danger danger pull up.
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AirborneNinja posted:The level system is probably the least useful, most unnecessary thing in the game.
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OmegaCake posted:What about the death system? At least that leaves bodies everywhere in boss fights for you to recover off of.
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May 13, 2017 03:30
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Seeing piles of corpses near bosses is the best. Also the one or two corpses in safe zones. "How the gently caress did you even die here?!"
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Synthbuttrange posted:Seeing piles of corpses near bosses is the best. "Is there going to be a fight here later, or are you just that poo poo?"
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Aumanor posted:There's a single human left on Pluto. The rest have all buggered off out of the Solar System. All that remains on the moon are some old service androids rigged up to drive on the lunar surface in bulldozers endlessly pushing around the same piles of dirt. I appreciate this Star Control II Reference
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chiasaur11 posted:"Is there going to be a fight here later, or are you just that poo poo?" They hit the self destruct button by accident
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Yeah, the one thing the game doesnt clarify, so a lot of people dont experiment with it, is that the self destruct is not the same thing as the black box reaction. It's a self destruct feature for 2B's skirt.
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It's legitimately running much better than I was expecting, in that it actually starts up! 30 fps on the menu screen, and at times the gameplay even approaches vaguely playable at 15 fps. Half a second of input lag that no settings are denting, the whole thing's in slow motion, and the audio is desynced. Everything's turned down all the way or completely off (including global illumination with FAR), so it looks like crap. Honestly, for a six year old laptop that was never intended for gaming, it's pretty drat impressive. Still, I was hoping to play along. I'll probably put a new computer in the works, but it's not a priority. Eh.
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OmegaCake posted:What about the death system? I don't think TDI touched on that too much but it at least serves a thematic purpose. Unlike the level system which has only served to level gate and get me murdered by enemies I can't harm so I can experience the death system. AirborneNinja fucked around with this message at 04:29 on May 13, 2017 |
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Synthbuttrange posted:Seeing piles of corpses near bosses is the best. I mostly found a corpse of the same player at the beginning of maybe half the encounters of the game. Maybe they were playing on Very Hard on a blind run through? Maybe that was a big mistake? AirborneNinja posted:I don't think TDI touched on that too much but it at least serves a thematic purpose. It was mentioned. Losing chips is the most annoying thing that can happen, and does serve any thematic purpose either since it's just a gameplay mechanic. I do want a more obvious sign that an enemy is out of your league like the Red Skull above enemies that will loving one shot you in Witcher 3, but I guess I don't have as much of a problem having a barrier to entry to areas. Opinions aside, do enemies have different patterns or new attacks on harder difficulties or is it just you dying faster? Fabulousvillain fucked around with this message at 05:58 on May 13, 2017 |
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May 13, 2017 05:54
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Fabulousvillain posted:Opinions aside, do enemies have different patterns or new attacks on harder difficulties or is it just you dying faster? Bosses are faster and Engels shoots more missiles but I've hardly noticed anything major. Everyone shoots more bullets at least
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The death mechanic is the one gameplay mechanic of the game I straight-up dislike. Losing chips is an awful feeling, and there's one or two parts in the game that make getting a corpse back almost impossible.
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Ah, hilarious 2B freefall pose. No, I can see that it's designed to maximize air resistance and so slow her down. But her uniform wobbles open butt...
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KamikazePotato posted:The death mechanic is the one gameplay mechanic of the game I straight-up dislike. Losing chips is an awful feeling, and there's one or two parts in the game that make getting a corpse back almost impossible. The bright side is that you can always just reload a save. And yeah, it does suck if you go to some of the areas that have very high level enemies early in the game.
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Coughing Hobo posted:Now that's a series that could use the Platinum touch.
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Sylphosaurus posted:As long as they keep Kojima from it I'd love to see a Platinum take on Zone of the Enders. I admit his work is far from flawless and know he's not everybody's cup of tea but you shut your GODDAMNED MOUTH
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Karia posted:It's legitimately running much better than I was expecting, in that it actually starts up! 30 fps on the menu screen, and at times the gameplay even approaches vaguely playable at 15 fps. Half a second of input lag that no settings are denting, the whole thing's in slow motion, and the audio is desynced. Everything's turned down all the way or completely off (including global illumination with FAR), so it looks like crap. Are you using FAR (Fix Automata Resolution)? NieR: Automata down scales your game, then up scales it again. It actually makes the game run worse on high end GPUs, and pretty bad on low end GPUs. That's part of what impacts your FPS, on top of some lighting options you can disable in FAR. The main FAR discussion thread should let you know what you can disable to enhance your FPS. Or you can Google it and get some good answers. NieR is really poorly optimized for PC, but I don't think they expected it to sell as well as it did. Eponymous posted:I admit his work is far from flawless and know he's not everybody's cup of tea but you shut your GODDAMNED MOUTH Naw, Kojima is a an amazing conceptual designer, but without a good editor or someone to tell him NO THAT'S loving STUPID STOP IT, he's not that great. Taro is far better at what Kojima wants to do: Use games as a medium for story telling. See: NieR. The Repo Man fucked around with this message at 10:02 on May 13, 2017 |
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The Repo Man posted:Are you using FAR (Fix Automata Resolution)? NieR: Automata down scales your game, then up scales it again. It actually makes the game run worse on high end GPUs, and pretty bad on low end GPUs. That's part of what impacts your FPS, on top of some lighting options you can disable in FAR. The main FAR discussion thread should let you know what you can disable to enhance your FPS. Or you can Google it and get some good answers. NieR is really poorly optimized for PC, but I don't think they expected it to sell as well as it did. Literally in the paragraph you quoted: Karia posted:(including global illumination with FAR)
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apocalypticCritic posted:Literally in the paragraph you quoted: Welp . That's what I get for reading through something too fast.
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