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With all the gifts an EGO gear, it really seems like agents who live long enough start turning into abnormalities themselves.
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Well got the game thanks to this thread, stalled out my current run long enough to get Hod's first mission done before resetting as I couldn't even handle Green Noons due to a combination of red-weak gear, mostly garbage abnormalities, (both my tools were extremely lethal, day 6 O-04-100, and getting a day 11 memory repository with O-05-47, which is something I have zero desire to deal with for the rest of the game. This run is going entirely too well.
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Jun 26, 2020 16:49
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Bookthief posted:With all the gifts an EGO gear, it really seems like agents who live long enough start turning into abnormalities themselves. Risk of Rain comes to mind...
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Jun 26, 2020 17:12
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Bookthief posted:With all the gifts an EGO gear, it really seems like agents who live long enough start turning into abnormalities themselves. We were the abnormalities all along  !
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Jun 26, 2020 17:31
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TeeQueue posted:
There's one horrifying thing wrong with that agent. Where is their hat? Surely an agent can be wreathed in abnormal fire and wear a ridiculous hat at the same time.
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Jun 26, 2020 17:41
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PlasticAutomaton posted:Well got the game thanks to this thread, stalled out my current run long enough to get Hod's first mission done before resetting as I couldn't even handle Green Noons due to a combination of red-weak gear, mostly garbage abnormalities, (both my tools were extremely lethal, day 6 O-04-100, and getting a day 11 memory repository with O-05-47, which is something I have zero desire to deal with for the rest of the game. This run is going entirely too well. If it makes you feel better I just reset from day 40 to day 1 for the second time in a row without any real progress in between (aside from more SCPs researched and a better idea of which ones to avoid next time). The game's like that.
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Jun 26, 2020 18:20
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I think I recognize that fire aura and it takes the hat slot for some reason (???). For some reason, I've built two bases to Day 21-30 so far (Day 1 restart cause gently caress the combination I got the first time around) and I have gotten like zero hats among all the abnormalities. I've been spamming neck for some reason with there being like 4 neck slot gift abnormalities in each so far.
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Jun 26, 2020 20:20
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PlasticAutomaton posted:Well got the game thanks to this thread, stalled out my current run long enough to get Hod's first mission done before resetting as I couldn't even handle Green Noons due to a combination of red-weak gear, mostly garbage abnormalities, (both my tools were extremely lethal, day 6 O-04-100, and getting a day 11 memory repository with O-05-47, which is something I have zero desire to deal with for the rest of the game. This run is going entirely too well. I put off Green Noons until I got the day 21-26 tech. My experiences have not been TQs with sending in agents even if with roughly suitable gear (maybe bad/slow weapons or non-ludicrous Justice).
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Jun 26, 2020 22:16
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I think I'm probably going much slower than I should. I'm only on Day 14 at this point. Maybe it's because I keep grinding stats too long. On the bright side, I've got 7 Rank V employees and 2 Rank IVs, despite Day 13 being the first day I got an Abnormality above Teth class. Waws are scary, though. Everything was all handled earlier, then last day, oh, there's Second Trumpet. Well then.
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Jun 26, 2020 22:18
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Tylana posted:I put off Green Noons until I got the day 21-26 tech. My experiences have not been TQs with sending in agents even if with roughly suitable gear (maybe bad/slow weapons or non-ludicrous Justice). You can use the rhytm method - going in hard when it's safe, and making sure to pull out on time. Still, accidents do happen, especially if your gear is not up to par, so using additional protection is always advised.
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Jun 26, 2020 22:28
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Green Noons I feel comfortable taking on earlier with the right gear by gathering up all my decent employees and moving through the facility as a giant death ball.
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Jun 26, 2020 23:23
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I made a thread in Games https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3930155 I'm hoping discussion of both games can happen in a single thread but if it gets messy someone could just make a separate thread for Ruina
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Jun 26, 2020 23:28
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Hunt11 posted:Green Noons I feel comfortable taking on earlier with the right gear by gathering up all my decent employees and moving through the facility as a giant death ball. Giant death ball is the best formation.
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Jun 26, 2020 23:32
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Doobeedoo posted:Giant death ball is the best formation. Agreed. Until you mess up and have half of the death ball move into the saws and die.
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Jun 26, 2020 23:37
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golden bubble posted:There's one horrifying thing wrong with that agent. Where is their hat? Surely an agent can be wreathed in abnormal fire and wear a ridiculous hat at the same time. The abnormal fire is considered a hat, actually! 
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Jun 27, 2020 00:16
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green...noons goons  or possibly neens
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I really like green noons, in that they're easy when you know what you're doing and an absolute wall if you don't. As you progress in the game you'll get nice enough equipment and beefy enough agents that you can just hit "suppress" followed by fast forward, but even when you first meet them they're perfectly doable unless you're really undergeared. Some tips: - The only damage leaving them alive does to your facility is the brutal murder of dozens of innocent clerks, which generally costs you nothing of value. (Sorry Zeta, but you know it's true.) If you think you're even remotely in danger of losing someone, just pull them out, abandon the fight, and go heal. The giant robot will still be there when you get back, and it won't have healed in the meantime. - Don't put anyone in front of them who's at risk of dying to one or two measly chainsaws to the face. That means no-one in Zayin armour, no-one in armour with red vulnerability, and no-one with fortitude less than III. Those people can still help if you give them long-range weapons, just as long as you have a melee frontline. Alternatively, they can just hide in a corner. - On a related note, green noons are generally the hardest thing you have to deal with at this point in the game, so why not optimise your equipment for them? Everyone with high fortitude gets Teth+ armour with a decent red resist and ideally white (good) or black (better) weapons. Then you've got a pre-built murder squad for when the ordeal comes up. - Don't try and manage four noon fights at once unless you have high-powered agents or a really good reason. You'll lose focus on one of them and then someone important will die. Just put all your heavy hitters into one or two squads and deal with one or two fights at a time, letting the others rampage until you're ready to deal with them. - They do their damage in bursts - a few chainsaws followed by shutting down for a nap. If they're shut down, and there's someone in your murder squad who's looking low, be ready to run and heal the moment they wake up. - Use your anomalies! In TeeQueue's case, that might mean using the mirror to get some high-fortitude agents and using the portrait to effectively make an invincible fighter. Other facilities will have different anomalies to work with, but most will have at least one or two useful tricks available. - If all else fails, you can just sort of... work around the marauding killer robots until the day is over. They're not escaping abnormalities, and they don't give you a LOB penalty. Taking a laissez-faire approach to chainsaw murderbots might sound like cheese, but I'm pretty sure it's the developer-intended strategy. pumpinglemma fucked around with this message at 00:26 on Jun 27, 2020 |
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Jun 27, 2020 00:24
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I love that last tip. It's theoretically correct, even if it sounds completely insane. They just move too slowly to be a threat to anyone who's actively trying to avoid them.
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Jun 27, 2020 00:27
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I guess this LP is a blessing. Got 1.78 Mhz back on day 2, with an abnormality we haven't seen on day 3, and day 4 Mirror of Adjustment  Now I don't have any instinct trainers, which is kind of a big problem, but you know what that's a bridge I'll jump off when we get there.
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Jun 27, 2020 05:39
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There are several HE's that can train a 2 Fort guy adequately, and getting to 2 Fort only costs 1 LOB so it's not like it's a major thing. Plus the mirror kind of mitigates that lack regardless. I used it as an impromptu justice trainer on my first set.
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Jun 27, 2020 05:47
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2 Fort 3 Temperance
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Jun 27, 2020 05:52
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Keldulas posted:There are several HE's that can train a 2 Fort guy adequately, and getting to 2 Fort only costs 1 LOB so it's not like it's a major thing. For a second there I interpreted "2 Fort" as meaning the Team Fortress 2 Map. That had me confused for a little bit. Also, unrelated but in the MTG Card Design Thread I made this, though some of you might like it  I just love how much of a poo poo post it looks like, despite it making perfect sense in context.
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Jun 27, 2020 11:14
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Day 14: Story Music: story 4   This line. Half of you are chuckling right now, and the other half are confused. Let me explain this joke: I've mentioned the terrible translation before, and out of the entire thing, a single line stood out as being so bad it was amazing.  Filling a water bottle with bear became a community joke, and when the game got retranslated this line was changed as a nod to the original mistranslation.  Sometimes I wonder what it would feel like to be intoxicated. One time, I was infected with a virus that prevailed throughout the net at the time. It caused me to perceive everything ten times slower… They say intoxication is similar to that. Excuse me… Manager? Your facial expression is hard to read today. >Are you going to sabotage the company?  Every conversation between us is recorded and monitored. Let me give you an answer. I only exist as part of the system. Such a plot does not exist, nor will it ever be written. Even if it were, it would not succeed. The screen flashes red repeatedly here, which means that she's lying.  --- >Will you ever harm me?  When I said I was different from the others, I detected disbelief in your facial expressions. Perhaps I am beginning to like you. Sharing emotions with someone is a precious experience. I have never had any plans, nor do I have any will to harm you. Let's be real: we all saw this one coming.  --- Routes Merge Here In summary: Angela wonders what it's like to be drunk, mentions she was infected with malware that made her perceive time 10x slower at one point, and... oh yeah, she's planning to sabotage the company and kill us, I guess. Let's all pretend this is a surprise.  Music: Forgotten Entrance of Memories   I assure you, it’s just for counseling purposes. Netzach, actually…  This is ridiculous! That guy’s already got his hands full, and now he has to take her stupid counseling? Poor Eugene. What can an employee do against a Sephirah’s orders, anyway? I doubt she really cares about us. She’s just doing this to make herself feel superior! More work for us, I guess. ... *The screen fades to black, and then fades back in.*  Uh… well this is just for counseling, yeah. While most of the time '...'s seem to be the AI judging us, I feel like Hod's are her worrying about us judging her.  Why won’t they appreciate my kindness? I thought I was the nicest Sephirah who cared the most for the employees. The other Sephirot are so occupied with their own work that they don’t even care about how their subordinates end up. The corporation treats them as if they’re expendable resources. I’m not a “Cold-blooded Machine” like Yesod. I’m not haphazard like Malkuth. And I’m definitely not a “oh-it-can’t-be-helped” person like Netzach. Just, why… In summary: On today's Very Special Episode of Lobotomy Corporation, Hod tries doing Enkephalin after overhearing her employees complaining about her counseling programming. She then complains to X about how nobody appreciates her, and (quite accurately, admittedly) badmouths her fellow Sephirot.  ...and here it is: the first Suppression mission. Hod requires us to defeat four different Abnormalities, and right now we have exactly 4 Abnormalities which can breach: Rudolta, Scarecrow, Forsaken Murderer, and Punishing Bird. For us to do this tomorrow, we'd have to defeat that monstrosity. We're not going to do that tomorrow, and because we're not doing it tomorrow we have no reason to continue opening Training-we'd have to clear the mission to get any more cutscenes anyways. So:   I figured after hearing about the suicide, I should see how things are run myself. Eh. ...Eh? Don't really care. Is that the sort of attitude a Sephirah should have? I'm gonna' mosey back over to my department. Later. ...hey! Don't just ignore me!Next time, on Lobotomy Corporation: Mr.Black ascends to godhood by smiling really hard.  Manager. We need to talk. Bishop? Sure… what brings you here? Did you click on the links in any emails? Download something from a site that you were linked? Anything like that? No, nothing of the sort. Why? I installed some custom programs onto the server to monitor network activity, and- You did what? Why?! Not the point. I caught an unauthorized program running in the system. It looks like a masterpiece-it's designed to circumvent the company's usual checks. If I hadn't had something running, it wouldn't have been found. Well... that's... very good work! Thanks for letting me know. You're missing the point, sir. I traced it back to your terminal. With all due respect... since you didn't open anything suspicious, and you do most of your work by teleconference, it must be you who installed it. Gh..! Then there's the personnel files. I looked through them, and it turns out that we have no records of an 'X' ever applying for a position here at all. You just showed up one day. ... Between that, the program, and the way this facility's been run lately… Who are you, really? I… need time to think. Don't mess around with me, Manager. No. Seriously. Tomorrow. Work's starting in ten minutes, and I don't have time to get it all ordered before then. We'll talk after work. ..Fine. Don't think about trying to get rid of me during the day. I was a Grade 7 Fixer before I landed this job. ...those are definitely words that I know and recognize.  ...Seriously? Well-even with the rust, there's nothing in this facility that'll be able to take me out. That's all you need to know. I wouldn't dream of it anyways. Not a lot of people willing to work under Malkuth for as long as you have. ...she's not that bad, once you get used to her. Pft. You've got a crush~ What are you implying?! Bishop and Mal-kuth, sitting in a- I-I'll contact you again tomorrow! You'd better be ready then! ...Ah, hell.
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Jun 27, 2020 11:29
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xelada posted:For a second there I interpreted "2 Fort" as meaning the Team Fortress 2 Map. That had me confused for a little bit.  
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Jun 27, 2020 11:36
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Hod's mission was one I had to restart for. Picking blindly, I didn't even HAVE 4 anomalies that breached when she handed that out. I had two, and one of them was Punishing Bird.
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Jun 27, 2020 11:54
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Keldulas posted:Hod's mission was one I had to restart for. Picking blindly, I didn't even HAVE 4 anomalies that breached when she handed that out. I had two, and one of them was Punishing Bird. I didn't finish that mission until day 21, when I finally got my fourth abnormality that both breached and could be suppressed. Intrigued that Angela has some sort of plot against the company. Against the player I can understand - there's no reason to believe LobCorp considers its managers any less expendable than its clerks; it's easy to imagine there being plans in place to dispose of any managers that don't meet standards. But a plot against the company says much about her loyalties... Meanwhile, I don't think I would have noticed that bear line if I'd played on the old translation. Where I live the local accent pronounces Beer and Bear the same, so it'd pass while I suddenly wonder why I'm imagining Angela talking like an east anglian hick.
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Jun 27, 2020 12:15
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Maybe it is part of the company she has issues with. One of the wings, which some angels are said to have thousands.
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Jun 27, 2020 17:31
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mizure posted:Hod, no!! Choose hugs, not drugs!
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Jun 27, 2020 18:19
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Imagine your first breaching Abnormality to be a unseen HE, then Rudolta, then a WAW, then another WAW, then an Aleph. I think I cleared that quest on like day 23. Did make some things about it much easier tbh.
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I officially call Abnormalities levels be pulled out of developers rear end. I had to restart to day 1 twice only because I got two different ZAYIN abnormalities whose apparent purpose is only to screw with player and kill everyone.  I'll probably stop playing for a while to let LP run ahead, so I would continue to be able to participate in story discussion blind. Another thing I noticed: positions of departaments (at least ones we opened) correspond their position on Tree of Life if you turn it upside-down, with surface (connected to through Control lead by Malkuth) representing physical world, and depths representing the divine. Makes me wonder what monstrous abnormality we uncover when we get all the way down.
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MiiNiPaa posted:Another thing I noticed: positions of departaments (at least ones we opened) correspond their position on Tree of Life if you turn it upside-down, with surface (connected to through Control lead by Malkuth) representing physical world, and depths representing the divine. Makes me wonder what monstrous abnormality we uncover when we get all the way down. Probably Angela's mom, who'll grab her by the ear and ground her for sacrificing countless human lives to extract energy from abnormalities, again.
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Jun 28, 2020 08:14
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MiiNiPaa posted:I officially call Abnormalities levels be pulled out of developers rear end. I'm not sure if anyone's bought it up here, but there is some precedent for an inverted Tree of Life -- the Tree of Death, which represents the hoarding of knowledge and power, rather than the spreading of divine knowledge and all that good stuff. It might say something about the Very Trustworthy and Good corporation we work for.
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Jun 28, 2020 09:45
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MiiNiPaa posted:I officially call Abnormalities levels be pulled out of developers rear end. There are a few blatant lie descriptions yes.
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Jun 28, 2020 17:37
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Having now played the game, I have a greater appreciation for this LP and how it's turned out. Thank you for introducing this to me TeeQueue! As the game has gone on, Clerks become greater nuisances cause of their inability to stay alive.
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jimmydalad posted:Having now played the game, I have a greater appreciation for this LP and how it's turned out. Thank you for introducing this to me TeeQueue! As the game has gone on, Clerks become greater nuisances cause of their inability to stay alive. I'm glad you're enjoying it! I know I make the game look much easier than it is, so here's wishing you a smooth enough ride through the game.  Sinner Sandwich posted:I'm not sure if anyone's bought it up here, but there is some precedent for an inverted Tree of Life -- the Tree of Death, which represents the hoarding of knowledge and power, rather than the spreading of divine knowledge and all that good stuff. It might say something about the Very Trustworthy and Good corporation we work for. I didn't know about this, but considering this entire corporation is a giant ball of death it makes a lot of sense.
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Jun 28, 2020 20:56
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TeeQueue posted:I'm glad you're enjoying it! I know I make the game look much easier than it is, so here's wishing you a smooth enough ride through the game. I'm pretty much giving a live play-by-play commentary in the Lobotomy Corporation thread so I'm pretty sure you know how my run is going .
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Jun 28, 2020 21:06
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It could be going a lot worse, then!
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Jun 28, 2020 21:09
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Ratoslov posted:Probably Angela's mom, who'll grab her by the ear and ground her for sacrificing countless human lives to extract energy from abnormalities, again.
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Scalding Coffee posted:Evil Angela. The one we are dealing with now is the "good" one. But by this logic, won't Evil Angela want to protect the company and us at all costs?
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Quick, someone photo-shop goatees onto Angela and all the Sephs.
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