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Epic High Five posted:got a feeling that I'm going to need to collect myself in preparation for this day 3 Billie Jean wife encounter aren't I No joking: Yes.
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:No joking: Yes. thanks, I'm gonna put it off until I'm less depressed and exhausted I think
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Oct 21, 2019 00:09
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Can you make enough money on day one to not need help with rent?
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Freaking Crumbum posted:
As Kim said approximately 1000 times your job was to solve the murder and not get involved with the Union or White Pines. The Union conflict is basically background noise to the murder. You are a bit character in a larger story as Joyce says an unimportant place in an important time. And yes I realize this might sound like bullshit or weak or whatever  I don't think the game is going for a meta commentary on the nature of videogames but I can see how you might think that. The gun can be found by doing all of Evrarts tasks. I don't think you would have liked it more had you done all the sidequests since mostly they serve as universe building or thematic tie ins Like I posted earlier some people are going to be very displeased with the ending but its really hard to say why without massive spoilers. Hub Cat fucked around with this message at 00:58 on Oct 21, 2019 |
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Oct 21, 2019 00:12
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Parallelwoody posted:Can you make enough money on day one to not need help with rent?
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Oct 21, 2019 00:18
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Hub Cat posted:The Phasmid always shows up. if that's the case, it's a bummer that the game is not as reactive as it appears to be. i mean, of course there's entire lines of dialogue that you don't see if you don't have certain gear or thoughts or whatever, but it's all kinda useless if they all point to the same end point in retrospect, i feel like the conversation you can have with the dice maker and the lore you can get from the abandoned shop are self-reflective commentary by the game's developers this game seemed like it was in development limbo for five-ish years and then suddenly drops, but i wonder if the version that got released wasn't some amount of "gently caress it, these are the features and assets and elements that we got, ship it and cut our losses" whereas the fake company in the game tries to come up with that 10,000^10,000 combination game and goes out of business. kind of like "we wanted this game to be even bigger than it is, but we were smart enough to know when to pull out rather than commit the sunk costs falacy
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Oct 21, 2019 00:21
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Wait, so I gotta worry about getting 30 Real too? poo poo I'm hosed I'm only at 20 and it's 9:30 at night. Why am I so hosed? ~Refuses help from others. You got yourself into this mess, get yourself out. Oh right.
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Oct 21, 2019 00:24
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Oct 21, 2019 00:26
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I thought it was weird that I instantly knew that this person was the wife of a cryptozoologist, and the cryptozoologist himself before I even spoke to them, but then goddamn what a slow burn joke. 
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Oct 21, 2019 00:29
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Synthbuttrange posted:I thought it was weird that I instantly knew that this person was the wife of a cryptozoologist, and the cryptozoologist himself before I even spoke to them, but then goddamn what a slow burn joke. Wait what? gently caress. gently caress how did I miss that one
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Oct 21, 2019 00:31
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Parallelwoody posted:Can you make enough money on day one to not need help with rent? 130 Real worth of coins and postcards? Not a chance. I'm on Day 4, with high Perception which means more stuff found, and I probably have not much more than 80 Real in total from stuff just found lying around, and I've spent 40 of that on rent. I also can't seem to sell anything at the pawnshop anymore. (Is this because I persuaded the guy to sell me the boombox for 4 instead of 12?) ...And I'm stuck. WTF is this "Look for Ruby on the coast, but if you can't, go back and try to pass an "Impossible"-level roll in a obscure skill" bullshit? I actually managed to pass that check once, but even success was literally just "*skill shrugs shoulders* and not actually helpful. I *have* looked, no one has seen anything, I don't see anything. I also don't stand much hope of opening the defrosting freezer, because all having the Prybar Mark 2 does is eliminate the -10 penalty for not having the Prybar Mark 2. Not much chance for a Physical Instrument: 3 character to pass. It's a little annoying that I can't help the high-tech technology person *as* a smart, technology-sorta-getting person, and I don't want to savescum for things I deliberately built myself to be not good at. No, I'm not starting drinking again. Stabbey_the_Clown fucked around with this message at 00:42 on Oct 21, 2019 |
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Oct 21, 2019 00:37
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I love how the question you can ask the corpse with Inland Empire (late spoilers)actually turns out to be true, in a sense. "What killed you?" "Communism."
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Oct 21, 2019 00:40
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I've been focusing intellectual skills but mostly stuff like Inland Empire and Conceptualization. I'm a little worried I'm going to start hitting walls when my fantasy cop-world collides with the real one.
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Oct 21, 2019 00:45
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:130 Real worth of coins and postcards? Not a chance. I'm on Day 4, with high Perception which means more stuff found, and I probably have not much more than 80 Real in total from stuff just found lying around, and I've spent 40 of that on rent. I also can't seem to sell anything at the pawnshop anymore. (Is this because I persuaded the guy to sell me the boombox for 4 instead of 12?) There are many, many modifiers to the Shivers check, and a whole ton of clothing that can give a bonus. Go do quests on the coast, you are not on a time limit. Just talk to everyone.
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Oct 21, 2019 00:46
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:...And I'm stuck. WTF is this "Look for Ruby on the coast, but if you can't, go back and try to pass an "Impossible"-level roll in a obscure skill" bullshit? I actually managed to pass that check once, but even success was literally just "*skill shrugs shoulders* and not actually helpful. I *have* looked, no one has seen anything, I don't see anything. By the time I had the chance to roll that skill, I had enough modifiers that my chances were over 90%. Those modifiers seemed to mostly come from side stuff.
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Oct 21, 2019 00:46
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Buy up all the books and read them. A brainy detective can get a lot of xp from those
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wiegieman posted:There are many, many modifiers to the Shivers check, and a whole ton of clothing that can give a bonus. Go do quests on the coast, you are not on a time limit. Just talk to everyone. This 100%, there are only a few things you can miss on a specific time limit and they are not relevant to the main plot. There is a point of no return but the game makes it absolutely clear when its going to happen and it is not time related. The biggest missable that I've noticed is talking to the old guys playing in the crater Hub Cat fucked around with this message at 00:52 on Oct 21, 2019 |
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Oct 21, 2019 00:50
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PantsBandit posted:I've been focusing intellectual skills but mostly stuff like Inland Empire and Conceptualization. I'm a little worried I'm going to start hitting walls when my fantasy cop-world collides with the real one. Conceptualization seemed to get a fair amount of active skill checks throughout the entire game, along with Empathy and Suggestion IE and Shivers and Perception felt like they were firing passive checks all the drat time, but barely ever came up as active check options i think every skill in the game has at least 1 "Impossible" or "Legendary" skill challenge just for completeness sake, but there's definitely certain skills that seem to get called wayyyyyy more than others i started as a 4/2/4/2 detective and after the second day, the number of active fitness checks seemed to drop off significantly
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I think everyone is going to have a bit of a bias towards whatever stats they have pumped on their first time through, because it feels like a lot of the passive checks don't even show up in dialogue unless you have a certain number of points in it. I'm doing a 4-1-1-6 build right now, and red passive checks(and voices) are almost completely absent.
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Oct 21, 2019 00:59
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Regarding Volition and Endurance skill checks: did anyone notice if your character being damaged affects the roll?
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frajaq posted:Regarding Volition and Endurance skill checks: did anyone notice if your character being damaged affects the roll? Yes
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wiegieman posted:There are many, many modifiers to the Shivers check, and a whole ton of clothing that can give a bonus. Go do quests on the coast, you are not on a time limit. Just talk to everyone. I've got +9 worth of modifiers (including the special phone call, no negative mods), and an additional +2 from clothing, which gives me a 58% chance. I have one free skill point. I've done almost all the sidequests I can find. One of the remaining says "it'll take a while", two others require me to pass a Physical Instrument check which is even worse, so my prospects for getting more skill points right now are slim. I'm just saying that the game has been promoted, players have been saying, "don't worry, build how you want", and "failing checks is okay", then - unless I'm missing something - the game railroads you here so that there is only one way to proceed.
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k, I am going to steer to The Last Dream even though I haven't finished the case because I think I have a much better order of narrative in my mind to do stuff and I just want to see how bad for you an incomplete ending can be. Are there any triggers or should I just kill the rest of this day and straight to bed?
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Finished the game and wow, what a great lovingly crafted experience. Especially the skill check to have a conversation with the phasmid at the end. It was just so emotional and really felt personally to me like the big payoff in my project to try and "fix"/save Harry. The music track there was also fantastic. The music all round was fantastic. It's been a really poo poo and depressing year in terms of gaming i think and to get a absolute gem like this at the tail end of the year feels really indescribably good. There are still good games being made. Only question i have is regarding the victims armor: Can you find the leggings and avoid being shot in the legs? If so, what happens at the Tribunal then? Dongattack fucked around with this message at 01:17 on Oct 21, 2019 |
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Oct 21, 2019 01:12
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Alright. I finished the game at just under 30 hours. I'm a slow reader and playing on what is probably the lowest requirements for the game. My laptop is super hot and the game ran pretty slow. Once I get better hardware I'm gonna do a couple more playthroughs. It was so worth the hassle though. I love this game and everything about it. I haven't even finished a game in a *while*.
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Dongattack posted:Finished the game and wow, what a great lovingly crafted experience. Especially the skill check to have a conversation with the phasmid at the end. It was just so emotional and really felt personally to me like the big payoff in my project to try and "fix"/save Harry. The music track there was also fantastic. The music all round was fantastic. re: your second question (late game spoilers) it doesn't do anything. Greaves only go up to your knee, and you're shot in the thigh.
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Dongattack posted:It's been a really poo poo and depressing year in terms of gaming i think and to get a absolute gem like this at the tail end of the year feels really indescribably good. There are still good games being made. 
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Grapplejack posted:re: your second question (late game spoilers) it doesn't do anything. Greaves only go up to your knee, and you're shot in the thigh. To go further I rolled double 6s one time and still got shot by the second shot even with the boots on
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Oct 21, 2019 01:38
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How high was your authority stat? D:
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I just started and don't know what I am doing, but I think I might have hosed myself. I jumped across a gap to the docks, and talked to the fat man. He mentions my gun, which instantly kills my poor 1 morale default thinker character. I don't seem to be able to go back and do other things either. How screwed am I?
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Filthy Monkey posted:I just started and don't know what I am doing, but I think I might have hosed myself. I jumped across a gap to the docks, and talked to the fat man. He mentions my gun, which instantly kills my poor 1 morale default thinker character. I don't seem to be able to go back and do other things either. How screwed am I? If you have any morale boosting health thingos, you can click them the moment you take damage all up to the point where you have a psychotic break
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Filthy Monkey posted:I just started and don't know what I am doing, but I think I might have hosed myself. I jumped across a gap to the docks, and talked to the fat man. He mentions my gun, which instantly kills my poor 1 morale default thinker character. I don't seem to be able to go back and do other things either. How screwed am I? You're fine. Take a different approach. Talk to someone else. Investigate other things. Oh. The end of your post. Uhhhhhhh.
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Eat The Rich posted:You're fine. Take a different approach. Talk to someone else. Investigate other things.
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Oct 21, 2019 01:48
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Filthy Monkey posted:I don't even know who else I can talk to. The door off the docks seems to be locked. There is only the easy-guy, who I have exhausted my conversations with, and my partner. You can accumulate enough morale healers to finish that convo safely. Get 3. They are all over the place.
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Oct 21, 2019 01:52
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Filthy Monkey posted:I don't even know who else I can talk to. The door off the docks seems to be locked. There is only the easy-guy, who I have exhausted my conversations with, and my partner. If you enter the office at night, there is a card that lets you out of the area at the coffee machine, see if it's there at your point.
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Finished the game this morning, just finished my second playthrough. Amazing piece of work, massive props to the devs. Can't believe I hadn't heard of this before my husband randomly mentioned seeing it on twitter, this was incredibly good.
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I think the biggest question the game presents is: The Pale is going to swallow the world eventually. Is this *disco* or *not disco*?
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i think i would have rather the game be set on actual earth, except obviously things are different (*cough* the pale *cough*) than have the game be set on an entirely different world that is artificially similar to earth but historically different from first principles. having to ingest so much of the fantasy "this guy begat this guy who begat this guy who begat etc." was painful, like going too deep into J.R.R. Tolkien lore and reading the silmarillion and just being overwhelmed with all of the fake history that doesn't matter almost at all for anything in the game. if anything, it took me out of the action to have to mentally try and parse all of the fake history every time it came up
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Arglebargle III posted:I think the biggest question the game presents is: The Pale is going to swallow the world eventually. Is this *disco* or *not disco*? It definitely is, funky baby. Also, wtf at all you namby pamby clean-shaven fools crying about one dead guy. It'll be fine, and its an appropriate time to have a drink or two.
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