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Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying
That is absolutely 100% a shot at Star Citizen.

It's also probably the funniest thing in the game.

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Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying

Crepuscule Adepte posted:

One thing that's not immediately clear is that there's actually a lot of timing related things going on already. On my first run, I got in trouble for being late even without ever interacting with the computer outside the office. Real time apparently matters in this case, so if you distracted by, say, reading the codex, you're probably going to be late.
Yeah, to the game's credit it tries pretty hard to prevent the player from just going around and running down the conversation option list with every single NPC. There are lots of time limits, sometimes explicit and sometimes subtle, and lots of paths that lock out other paths. To compensate there are usually a bunch of ways to solve each deduction (in this case, that Frodo is in Twisted and Perverted) and even if you miss all the explicit evidence you can often guess right.

Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying
I took the clan route here and now I regret it. This is much better

Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying
What really dragged the game down for me was the XP system. While certain skills are biased towards costing certain types of XP as you might expect, every skill costs at least 1 of all four flavors, which means whenever you get an RP choice that gives XP (they become fairly easy to spot, they're kind of meaningless "reaction" junctions that always have 4 choices) you're discouraged from picking the choice that seems most appropriate and encouraged to check which type of XP you need and then to try to figure out which choice will give that type. I hate when games do this. You can just have one kind of XP. If it's good enough for Disco Elysium it's good enough for you.

I ended up just cheating to buy every skill and explore as much of the game as possible in a single playthrough without worrying about it any more.

Sindai fucked around with this message at 04:47 on Sep 28, 2022

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