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I went high PSY and FYS my first playthrough and I was basically a psychic maniac. It was a great playthrough. Doing 3/3/2/4 now and it's not as fun IMO.
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I'm ok with playing a maniac for shits and giggles, but disappointing Kim breaks my heart every time. We don't deserve him.
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DreadCthulhu posted:I'm ok with playing a maniac for shits and giggles, but disappointing Kim breaks my heart every time. We don't deserve him. Hitting an all time low with Kim was my first achievement, acquired after I failed at Authority and became the fabled Meltdown Cop.
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Apr 9, 2021 00:59
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GlyphGryph posted:Most of the time anyway. For now. But he's also actively building an organization where that's not always going to be true, and things have already not worked out well at all for the other members that wanted to build a different sort of union (what with him having everyone who contested his leadership murdered and all). Once Wild Pines is gone, its no longer the Union vs the Bosses, where Edgar wins by fighting for the workers. Once Wild Pines is gone, he IS the boss, not the guy trying to fight against the boss. I expect things are going to change rather quickly. You mean the guy who is actively, deliberately conspiring to get the people under his care killed For The Greater Good (for the advancement of his own power) might be cultivating structures that lead inevitably to either authoritarian dictatorship or oligarchy? Crazy.
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Apr 9, 2021 01:00
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DreadCthulhu posted:I'm ok with playing a maniac for shits and giggles, but disappointing Kim breaks my heart every time. We don't deserve him. Telling everyone you lost your gun and badge is very funny though. Kim needs to learn a thing or two about police transparency.
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Well I downloaded the PS4 patch and all the bugs I was experiencing are still there... what a bummer
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Hirsute posted:Well I downloaded the PS4 patch and all the bugs I was experiencing are still there... what a bummer Dang. Was hoping I could grab this for the weekend. Guess I’ll keep waiting.
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Apr 9, 2021 01:15
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Randarkman posted:Ehm, the Russian liberals, or rather the moderate socialists if you're thinking of Kerensky's Trudovik faction (that would be it right?), didn't really do anything even close to betraying the communists. They got outmaneuvered, made a huge domestic mistake by sticking with the war, handing that ball to the Bolsheviks and got done away when the Bolsheviks turned on them, which was partly made possible because Kerensky never did betray the Bolsheviks or try to ally or get close to the White forces to outmaneuver push them out.
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Apr 9, 2021 01:26
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I dunno if they cut it, but it was always missable, so you may have missed it organically.
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DreadCthulhu posted:Thinking of which archetype I should use for a second run. I want something that is internally consistent and mutually beneficial instead of heavily clashing traits. For example, I briefly tried a guy who was high in physical/half light but also high in empathy, so he was constantly wanting to gently caress poo poo up, but also feeling really bad about it. Felt like there was a ton of internal conflict that you had to constantly resolve. I'm rolling as a boozed-up fashman with high FYS/MOT (1/2/5/4) and have been having a tonne of fun RPing as a Constantine type who thinks with his fists and gets by on gut feelings and premonitions. Put some points into Inland, Half Light and Authority and keep your Empathy low and enjoy playing a raging psycho who shakes people down whilst quoting race theory.
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Cpt_Obvious posted:I dunno if they cut it, but it was always missable, so you may have missed it organically. Zeta Acosta posted:did they remove the glass inspection on klassje room? It's still there, I did it in my final cut run. It's possible that it's gated a bit more strictly before behind game progress/dialogue and/or passive checks (Perception and Visual Calculus I think).
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pablo gbscobar posted:I'm rolling as a boozed-up fashman with high FYS/MOT (1/2/5/4) and have been having a tonne of fun RPing as a Constantine type who thinks with his fists and gets by on gut feelings and premonitions. Put some points into Inland, Half Light and Authority and keep your Empathy low and enjoy playing a raging psycho who shakes people down whilst quoting race theory. You and I both, bröther 
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Hirsute posted:Well I downloaded the PS4 patch and all the bugs I was experiencing are still there... what a bummer I downloaded the patch, and while I still can't access the sandcastle the voices have been fixed and I manged to get past the car section by activating the swing scene then dipping in and out of a nearby building to reset the map. The car was still white but I was able to interact with it just fine after that.
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4/4/1/3 with conceptualization focus lets you get most of the passive checks early game, you won't be able to miss much day 1 except some drug/sex stuff with electrochemistry. There's booze and skills that let you put points into shivers and a thought that gives +3, and some clothing, not to mention perception getting possibly like +8 from clothes and thoughts. Literally nothing got by me by the end of day 3. I could sense, perceive, intuit and conceptualize anything. There are skills that give +10xp and +2 real for encyclopedia, +10xp for conceptualization, with 4 in encyclopedia and 5 in conceptualization at the start of the game you can level up 10x times per day or more. There's also +4 for saying commie stuff and +1 for clicking on new orbs in the world. and hardcore gives +5xp for all the smaller quests. Also did you know your ledger changes your stats if you hold it, different stats depending on how you interacted with it Antonymous fucked around with this message at 01:44 on Apr 9, 2021 |
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Apr 9, 2021 01:41
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Antonymous posted:4/4/1/3 with conceptualization focus lets you get most of the passive checks early game, you won't be able to miss much day 1 except some drug/sex stuff with electrochemistry. There's booze and skills that let you put points into shivers and a thought that gives +3, and some clothing, not to mention perception getting possibly like +8 from clothes and thoughts. Literally nothing got by me by the end of day 3. I could sense, perceive, intuit and conceptualize anything. But what was your net worth when you ended the game?
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Randarkman posted:But what was your net worth when you ended the game? *makes sign of the cross*
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Vagabong posted:I think I found the only other voice acting change that I dislike outside of Titus; the orignal VO for the helmeted Merc felt properly unstable in a way the new actor doesn't convey. Oh yeah, I remember realling liking the old one "PIGFUCK!"
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pablo gbscobar posted:I downloaded the patch, and while I still can't access the sandcastle the voices have been fixed and I manged to get past the car section by activating the swing scene then dipping in and out of a nearby building to reset the map. The car was still white but I was able to interact with it just fine after that. OK yeah I got the car to work now too, and it seems more stable, hasn't crashed in a while now.
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Apr 9, 2021 02:40
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Goddamn I love how the cryptozoologist says "GARY"
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weekly font posted:Are there any playthroughs of the OG game (unless you know of a good Final Cut one that started) where someone actually takes the time to discuss some of the game’ssymbolism and politics? Likely the only way I would be into an LP of this but need something to hold me over cause I’m too busy to really sink my teeth in at the moment. Yeah, this is a great one: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5dr1EHvfwpNZ5nYHgJtTgRr4no7m-UWY The guy often pauses to ramble about political side topics the game got him thinking about, and he's pretty lefty
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DreadCthulhu posted:Thinking of which archetype I should use for a second run. I want something that is internally consistent and mutually beneficial instead of heavily clashing traits. For example, I briefly tried a guy who was high in physical/half light but also high in empathy, so he was constantly wanting to gently caress poo poo up, but also feeling really bad about it. Felt like there was a ton of internal conflict that you had to constantly resolve. That's what I'm running with right now (ditching a high int/mot communist art cop because I felt too constrained by the drive to get ALL THE FREE XP, dopamine cramping my style) and I think you've got it the wrong way around : PSY/PHY Harry is *deep* in self-loathing, and that manifests as a need to alleviate the pain by loving poo poo and/or himself up as well as a burning need to prove himself to just about everyone he meets who would DARE look down on him (when they don't even know how loathsome he *really* is ! loving assholes !). And it's a self-reinforcing loop because after he calms down or sobers up he understands he's just hurt people/disappointed Kim again, which sends him right back into self-loathing, etc etc. No conflict whatsoever, just a well-oiled self-destruction machine. Most depressives will relate. EDIT : by comparison, INT/MOT Harry was much less complex. INT skills keep patting him on the back for being a very smart boy while MOT ones keep calling him a hero cop and a hustling superstar. Both sets of skills make for a pretty down-to-earth & result-oriented detecting machine, too - once you're past all the vomiting you're able to get the body down AND find all of its nasty little secrets by lunch day 1. Be sure to keep PSY down so as to stay away from those icky emotions and sail away on the sea of peace of mind and raw efficiency that only purestrain denial, dissociation and art snobbery can lay before you. Kobal2 fucked around with this message at 09:17 on Apr 9, 2021 |
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Kobal2 posted:EDIT : by comparison, INT/MOT Harry was much less complex. INT skills keep patting him on the back for being a very smart boy while MOT ones keep calling him a hero cop and a hustling superstar. Both sets of skills make for a pretty down-to-earth & result-oriented detecting machine, too - once you're past all the vomiting you're able to get the body down AND find all of its nasty little secrets by lunch day 1. Be sure to keep PSY down so as to stay away from those icky emotions and sail away on the sea of peace of mind and raw efficiency that only purestrain denial, dissociation and art snobbery can lay before you. Yeah, that's pretty well described tbh. I was able to power through most quest in a jiffy with all of those traits working nicely together and I didn't need to feel like poo poo for Kim. Although I got to say that Drama is highly amusing and I need to do a character that fully specializes in it. Are there certain traits that are practically useless for actually advancing in the game and are there only for the lulz?
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DreadCthulhu posted:Yeah, that's pretty well described tbh. I was able to power through most quest in a jiffy with all of those traits working nicely together and I didn't need to feel like poo poo for Kim. Although I got to say that Drama is highly amusing and I need to do a character that fully specializes in it. I'm fairly confident Electro never (or hardly ever) *actually* helps. Or when it does, it's only in a very tangential fashion, as in "help you detect the opportunity of scoring moar booze/smokes/drugs", which could in turn push you over the cliff for a given check. Very funny all around though, of course. Half-Light also rarely seems really helpful - whenever it tells you to do A Thing, it's wrong/dumb/paranoid poo poo - it can even get you killed (in collusion with Physical Instrument, by pushing you to ASSERT DOMINANCE over the Hardies). It does read some stuff better than Big Brain though, so it's not a 100% fucko skill. Esprit de Corps seems kind of pointless as well - it's good world building, flavour, atmosphere, subtle hints about Kim's behaviour and so on but it doesn't actually *do* poo poo as far as I can tell. EDIT : Thought cabinet-wise, plenty of thoughts are taking the piss, but the only truly useless one is Homosexual Underground - it'll only make fun of you for spending 8 hours trying to puzzle out your own sexuality, and open up one line of dialogue with Kim who'll a) reiterate the 8h joke in disbelief and b) quickly state that yes he's gay and can we go back to copping now ? Kobal2 fucked around with this message at 11:40 on Apr 9, 2021 |
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The only thing that slightly annoys me is when there's no dialogue option that sincerely reflects my views but rather makes a joke of them. Like there's one dialogue with a response that's like "blah blah blah, FEMINISM!!" in a way that implies I'm picking the option because The Cop is pretending to be a feminist and I'm like... can't I just actually be a feminist? Dudes can be feminists. I even have a Thought about it. Edit: not that I'm a dude
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Simone Magus posted:The only thing that slightly annoys me is when there's no dialogue option that sincerely reflects my views but rather makes a joke of them. Like there's one dialogue with a response that's like "blah blah blah, FEMINISM!!" in a way that implies I'm picking the option because The Cop is pretending to be a feminist and I'm like... can't I just actually be a feminist? Dudes can be feminists. I even have a Thought about it. I think that's supposed to be a reflection of what a mess HARRY is. LIke anything he latches onto, even if it's something that's itself good in the world of the game or IRL, is going to be warped in his mind to some cartoonish extreme.
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Its like the thought says, the Detective's RFA has been submerged under years of drinking, toxic masculinity, and various other forms of self-abuse, even before the catastrophic memory loss; it should be no surprise that his feminism is as incoherent as the rest of him.
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Apr 9, 2021 14:09
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Anyone feel like the voice acting isn’t that impressive? I wanted new areas and a continuation of the story.
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Brazilianpeanutwar posted:Anyone feel like the voice acting isn’t that impressive? I wanted new areas and a continuation of the story. It's solid, and more importantly just a lot, allowing more people to enjoy the game. In comparison I think I miss the old Cuno and Titus, but if I hadn't heard them before the new ones are fine. It would be nice if the console versions weren't as buggy as people seem to be reporting. But, other than the bugs, the DLC has delivered what it said it would. I could probably give you like 95% odds the story of the Detective will never be continued. They had a cool world, and decided to make a buddy cop movie/game in it to make the world accessible. More of the world may appear in game form or other forms, but this story is done. Of course fans not knowing what made what they love good is human nature and the economic pressure of this might make them make another game with the detective, whereupon the chance that they've already blown all their good ideas about him may become brutally apparent.
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Kobal2 posted:I'm fairly confident Electro never (or hardly ever) *actually* helps. Or when it does, it's only in a very tangential fashion, as in "help you detect the opportunity of scoring moar booze/smokes/drugs", which could in turn push you over the cliff for a given check. Very funny all around though, of course. You just need more points in your physical skills, bub 
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If you go for RFA the game implies Harry really, genuinely is a feminist, or at least was. Its just... yeah, dude is hosed up, so much like any other ideology he espouses it gets hosed up in turn, so it ends up being fairly indistinguishable from someone pretending to be a feminist because Harry is hosed up. Also your thoughts argue about stuff and you dont have to say or agree with everything they suggest. Harry will think all sorts of weird, dumb, or lovely things, and your Harry can discard those thoughts as inappropriate despite your Authority skill insisting you have no choice to make this poor distraught woman cry until she wants to kill herself because she dared disrespect your Authority by turning you down for a date (it doesn't mention the reason though) GlyphGryph fucked around with this message at 14:36 on Apr 9, 2021 |
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I’m on PS5 and I think I’ve encountered a bug that won’t let me progress. When I go to meet the lady who has your gun at the boardwalk late at night, some dialogue pops up as soon as I approach, but the prompt to continue never comes up, soft locking the game. Is this a known bug? Do I have to just wait for a patch?
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Brazilianpeanutwar posted:Anyone feel like the voice acting isn’t that impressive? I wanted new areas and a continuation of the story. I would actually argue that it's pretty drat impressive, considering it's a Free DLC.
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There is a saying in Estonian: fear has big eyes. So Half Light and its big bulging fear-filled eyes may notice things the other skills miss.
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Simone Magus posted:The only thing that slightly annoys me is when there's no dialogue option that sincerely reflects my views but rather makes a joke of them. Like there's one dialogue with a response that's like "blah blah blah, FEMINISM!!" in a way that implies I'm picking the option because The Cop is pretending to be a feminist and I'm like... can't I just actually be a feminist? Dudes can be feminists. I even have a Thought about it. Harry is a walking political parody, which means his only possible approach to feminism is shrieking misogynist or accusing the mailbox of supporting the patriarchy. If you want a balanced, functional man who promotes equal rights for everyone regardless of gender then Harry is not your dude. Edit: If it makes you feel better, Harry makes fun of all political positions, especially the political position not to have a political position. Cpt_Obvious fucked around with this message at 15:58 on Apr 9, 2021 |
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man nurse posted:I’m on PS5 and I think I’ve encountered a bug that won’t let me progress. When I go to meet the lady who has your gun at the boardwalk late at night, some dialogue pops up as soon as I approach, but the prompt to continue never comes up, soft locking the game. I may have found a workaround for this in case anyone else is hampered by it. Apparently if you hold the left stick towards them as you approach and the dialogue begins it bypasses this bug. Gonna try it
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