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Pyrolocutus posted:Is aplauncher.exe the program I want to select when turning off AA (and according to google, anisotrophic filtering)? It's probably your video drivers forcing the AA - go into ATI Catalyst if you have an ATI card, or whatever the Nvidia tweaking equivalent is, and turn off AA there.
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Happydogska posted:Ok, I'm downloading this now through Steam. Playing through as a recruit my first time sounds enticing, but how boned will I be on skill points? Tiny inner ear boned, arm boned, or entire skeletal structure boned? Is recruit a viable way to play the first time through (I get that it's a class rather than a game difficulty, and thanks to those that have explained this), or is it more geared toward a new game + experience, where the player laughs at the more naive main character and uses the lack of skill points as a way to make a repeat playthrough more challenging? Definitely the latter. There's some jokey dialogue changes and you start off with no skills. But you'll be fine as long as you don't spread points too thin and focus in on 3 skills or so, including one gun skill. It'll just take longer to get going at the beginning.
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RentACop posted:Something about the stealth knife stab animation skeeves me out, a few of those and I stuck with non-lethal the rest of the time Someone once mentioned it was the 'correct' way to actually knife someone in the throat but hell if I know.
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Jul 6, 2011 03:26
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Ingram posted:So no one knows how to fix the FOV? I found this, see if it helps http://alphaprotocol.wikia.com/wiki/FOV
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Jul 6, 2011 05:12
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Golashes posted:Does the 360 pad fix problems with the camera sperging out and jumping you into a random direction? That's seriously been a borderline dealbreaker for me. Actually yeah I think so, I've never had the issues. The camera stutter seems to be caused by level assets loading in the background as you're progressing through the mission. The APEngine.ini fixes in the OP should mitigate most of that.
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Jul 6, 2011 08:19
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It's not like the pistols in, well, any other game where you go tap-tap-tap-tap. Wait for the crit reticle to line up, one bullet one kill.
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Jul 7, 2011 04:46
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This is from a few pages back but I know some people are having the game crash after the launch menu. I had the same issues and they're driver related. Clean out your old drivers, reinstall PhysX. Go to the AP install directory, go into Support/DirectX/ and load DXSETUP.exe. Reboot after that's done and see if it works.
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Jul 8, 2011 05:11
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Jose posted:Man, I'm at the end of Rome and trying to fight Marburg as stealth/martial arts is ridiculous. I'm just getting destroyed every single time. Doesn't anyone have advice? The fact he blocks constantly at the end of a combo and it only does a tiny bit of damage once his armour is off is making it near impossible to do proper damage to him Lay a mine down near you, when he charges you it will strip his entire armor bar.
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Jul 8, 2011 15:22
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CCKeane posted:There is no need to min/max anything. The game won't punish you. Yeah this isn't Mass Effect :p
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Jul 8, 2011 18:59
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HappiestBatman posted:So, I've run into a bug that's stopped me from progressing. In Rome, I saved the Jibril al-bara party for last out of the initial three missions. Everything goes well until the second part and I try to identify the guard named Peter van der Graaf. Mina doesn't say anything about him and the controls are locked in place like they're waiting for her info. Someone had a fix for this in the old thread but I can't seem to find it right now. IIRC there's a missing Mina audio file that it's trying to play when you ID him. First off try verifying your Steam cache, check for any missing files. If it still doesn't work, upload your savegame somewhere and post the link in the thread, I can probably play past that checkpoint and send it back.
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HappiestBatman posted:Just tried verifying and it didn't work, unfortunately. So here's a link to my save file Here's your save file back. Rename it to the original savegame name, then dropping back into the folder should work. He's a Dutch flower baron btw  .
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Jul 9, 2011 17:17
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LAWLandMine posted:Trying a fresh install on Steam but I have a feeling it isn't gonna do much. Reinstalled physx and updated Nvidia drivers. Try going into the AP install directory, go into Support/DirectX/ and run DXSETUP.exe. Reboot once you're done.
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Crazy Legs posted:I'm doing my first run of the game and decided to be a spy. I realized I am a god awful spy half-way into the Taipei missions so most of my missions turn into either me setting off an alarm by failing a hacking or lockpicking minigame or getting spotted and having to shoot everyone. That's okay, you can roleplay an incompetent spy! There's no game overs for failing at stealth.
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The thing about the minigames is that the difficulty on all the critical path locks and doors are really easy. All the super hard ones just lead to stuff like side loot and bonuses that are suppose to reward players who invested in Sabotage or in the armor upgrades. You're never really stuck moving forward in the game because you're locked out of a minigame you can't beat.kuribo posted:So it seems that all of a sudden, my Tab key no longer brings up the PDA, and escape no longer brings up a menu. Escape simply pauses it, requiring backspace to unpause. loving weird. Go into Documents/Alpha Protocol folder and rename your APGame folder to something else, then restart the game and see if it's still doing it.
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Jul 12, 2011 18:36
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Nehru the Damaja posted:You also get a couple comments in Rome. But they're so minor that not even the replaying obsessives among us should bother going for it. Tech Specialists get some bonus cutscenes, though how much of that is from an increased Sabotage skill I don't quite know. Specifically Tech Specialists can do both options at the Brayko mansion just like a Veteran. Mina goes, oh Mike we can't do both, you have to pick one. And Mike's just like, sure you can do both, just upgrade this and hack that, easy peasy  .
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Kitfox88 posted:I just finished the museum mission in Rome, where I chose to disarm the bombs. I have a question regarding something available on Clearinghouse right now, though. It's the third tier stealth armor, but buying it will require basically all my funds at the moment. I'm just curious if I'll need money immediately for intel or such that'll pop up shortly, or if the armor'll vanish from the purchase list before I can get more cash. I don't want to miss my chance to get it if so. You can always sell extra ammo and that sort of thing, it's usually enough to buy you the intel you need. As for the armor - select it and go into the 'extra info' part, it should say which faction is selling it. I think it's G22 but I don't remember exactly. As long as you don't do anything to piss them off entirely then it should continue to be available for sale.
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Jul 13, 2011 22:26
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Doc Hawkins posted:Finally downloaded these, and they're jammin'. I wonder if the game was ever actually slated to feature a "C-130 Tailgating Party at 10,000 feet"? I think Compte mentioned there use to be a mission that took place while you were jumping out of an airplane?
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Jul 14, 2011 03:56
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Oh crap, he was Darkwing Duck. 9 year old me loved that show.
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Jul 17, 2011 20:44
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Hah, this is my 5th or 6th playthrough and I got an entirely different level I hadn't even seen before. For the first time I tried to piss Scarlet off at every turn and at the end I ended up meeting her at an outdoor cafe instead of the hotel. I remember reading there use to be a 'date' mission with Scarlet at a cafe that was cut, and I guess this was reusing the level assets. It also had one of the best Suave Thorton lines: Scarlet: I guess my wardrobe speaks softly. Thorton: And I carry a big 'stick'. Scarlet: Nice.
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Jul 17, 2011 23:48
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BSAKat posted:In Taipei In the Triad Base mission, is there a way to get into Eric Chung's room without tripping an alarm? I can get to the back of the room to close the sluice gates and open the safe, but if I so much as glance at the window there are three assholes looking in and immediately spot me/rush through the door/sound the alarm. I remember doing it without tripping the alarm. That computer in front of the window - it's designed to be used by those with Remote Hacking.
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Jul 18, 2011 07:35
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I still can't believe the game lets you do this at the Rome chateau party. http://steamcommunity.com/id/scorch/screenshot/540648201821806274/ Murderous psychopath Thorton strikes again.
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I think one of the devs here mentioned Veteran was kind of the developer's cut version of the game, so some stuff that was a little too weird or 4th wall breaking was thrown into there.
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Jul 20, 2011 06:01
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epitaph posted:It'd be cool if somebody who's less lazy than me could map out a conversation in AP and a conversation in Mass Effect along the lines of what was done for a level in Deus Ex; it'd highlight the desparity even more. They showed a slide like that at the PAX 2010 talk, the part where they talk about the level design starts at 29:30 or so. This was the reactivity tree for the Moscow train depot: 
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CommissarMega posted:Between this and DA2's reviews, I learned that game reviewing is a crock of poo poo. These days I just use gaming sites as release date announcers, nothing more. As bad as DA2 was, it still sold twice as many copies as this game 
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Nice Shirt posted:Just twice? Given the sort of reputation this game has elsewhere on the internet, I expect it's closer to something like four times as many. Well EA said DA2 sold 2 million. AP sold 700k after a month; I'd imagine after a year and various sales they would have reached 1 million by now. So contrary to popular belief this game didn't completely bomb or anything. Of course, Sega execs publicly threw this game under the bus just after it was released, but I'd think it was partly due to the long development and costs, and not just entirely because of gross incompetence.
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The dialogue battle thing isn't quite the same in DX. On the surface there's 3 choices like in AP, but 1 of them is the usually the correct answer and 2 are wrong answers. The goal is to 'win' the conversation, so it's more like a multiple choice quiz. AP doesn't really have 'wrong' answers, just divergent outcomes.
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Comte de Saint-Germain posted:Human Revolution is pretty much strictly better than AP in every single gameplay category you can name. I honestly prefer a lot of AP's stealth stuff better. I find a lot of DX:HR's AI detection errs on the side of BS especially on higher difficulties, and between the complete pointlessness of the lethal options, and the ridiculous reliance on chowing down candy bars to punch more than one person in a row, it gets kind of stupid. AP's stealth is way overpowered in comparison, but at least I can feel more like a badass in there instead of a dumbass. I do wish AP had body dragging though.
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You can pistol down the patroller underneath where the tower guard can't see, then hug the barriers on the left side and bypass him. Or just snipe him down with a rifle/toss a grenade up there.
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Category Fun! posted:Oh boy, a Steam sale! How about we dust off the spoiler tags for all the new people joining the thread? I think Waffleimages ate most of my screenshots in the OP, you may want to put up some new ones. Feel free to use this one http://steamcommunity.com/id/scorch/screenshot/540648201818186364/?filter=app_34010
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Young Freud posted:Okay, finally started playing this game. Despite going with level 2 Stealth and Pistol/Chain Shot, I completely blow on the orientation runs (save the Gadget/Grenade area) and the first Saudi mission (Nasri). It seems any attempt at stealth fucks up, I have to go through at the four big open area setpieces with the guards on heightened alert, including one where I managed to stealth all the way through, only to have a guard appear once my Awareness expired and alert everyone to my presence. For the first mission, it seems that the only good weapon are my fists, as I have to mag dump my pistol into someone to potentially kill them and the SMG can't hit the broadside of a barn. I just run screaming into the guys and beat the poo poo out of them. Also, the deactivate alarm and computer hacking minigames frustrate the hell out of me. Just know that with pistols, don't go pew-pew-pew like with other games. Always wait till the reticle turns red and aim for the head, even when you're under fire. One bullet should be one kill. But if you're having success with the rifle then just stick with that? Even if you're stealthing, you can buy special subsonic bullets that are silenced. Again with that, it pays to wait till the reticle lines up. You can respec all your points once, at the of Saudi Arabia.
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Those would only help with jerky camera movements. The mouse doesn't line up in the hacking minigame because it's using the mouse as an analog controller, so it's weird. It should line up for the menus though - what's going on there?
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fuckpot posted:I have encountered a possibly game breaking bug. First, don't use the quick load button, it's messed up as you saw. Use the manual reload screen. Second, there should be an autosave at your last safehouse if that doesn't work.
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Dominoes posted:Now I see why people are recommending not using Hard and recruit on a first playthrough: The warehouse and ruins missions in Rome feel impossible. I don't know what order you've done the hubs in, but making friends Russia can make that first one way easier. The second one - bring lots of gadgets.
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Dominoes posted:Does anyone else think the graphics blow? The other RPGs I've been playing, Witcher 2 and Deus Ex HR look much better. This reminds me of Mass Effect 1 graphics. Yeah I think the graphics are outdated. In particular, the art direction is a too retro and low contrast, and it never manages to 'pop' particularly well. On the other hand, the facial animations are far beyond those other games, DXHR especially. There's a lot of facial emoting the characters in AP do that you have to base your split-second responses to.
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Pretty sure I've seen Sis stay around to help you fight in Parker's room if you don't pick another handler in between.
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Who cares if the weapons are good, they're GOLD
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S.D. posted:I'm also trying SMGs. Any tips for these? It's hard going from pistol headshots to lead-spraying rooms, and the Bulletstorm ability feels kind of finnicky - the SMG low accuracy beyond short range and how enemies generally don't cluster up make me end up taking a lot of damage. Yeah it's the Matrix basically. Put points into Toughness, completely ignore the cover system and run right up to people blasting them in the face. Yes your reticle is the size of the entire screen, but it doesn't matter if you're 5 feet away.
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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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Computer Opponent posted:I picked this game up during the summer steam sale, and have been looking forward to it after reading this thread. Once you enable the X360 controller the mouse stops working I think. You should be able to move around with the controller though if it's plugged in properly.
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