Jensen is basically Clint Eastwood in a Blade Runner-like near future thriller. JC Denton’s voice actor tried to pull off “detached badass,” but the affectation was overt, and he spoke too quickly.
My loading times are in the 35-40 seconds variety. Any way to improve that? Is that a CPU thing (I’m on a Q6600) or a “time to upgrade to an SSD” thing? My hard drive is a 1TB Black Caviar.
stusser
1985
No, the load times just suck in this game.
jeffd
1986
It’s only when you’re loading an area you’ve already been to (e.g., rezoning, or loading a save game). The first time it loads an area everything is kosher.
My best? Some bug in how it’s instantiating the game world.
Crater
1987
I just started the game, and got to the point where they mention the door code (not a spoiler at all - it’s in a conversation that is impossible to miss)
Door code non-spoiler spoiler!
That brought a huge smile to my face.
What is the best anti-aliasing method?
I’m going to try it on Hard as suggested above. Has anyone compared the options for highlighting and objective markers and stuff? Do you get a better experience turning it all off? Just looking for opinions before I mess with it. I can’t even decide what FOV to settle on.
Pro-tip: don’t watch Deus Ex Recut right before starting this game. I could barely keep a straight face during the opening intros and dialogue.
stusser
1989
Has there been any word of a higher-resolution texture pack? The textures are obviously tailored for a console game. You can’t read any of the writing, etc.
I would love to be playing you right now, Deus Ex 3, but you don’t seem to want to get beyond decrypting 64% of the game files…
I’m getting a hang on load probably 1 in 4 times. Otherwise, everything’s running suprisingly well.
Are you using MLAA? That may be blurring text. I’ve been surprised by how much of the random in-world labels, etc. are readable.
OMG it went up to 65%! I may actually be able to play this for five minutes before bed.
stusser
1994
No I’m not. The textures get blurry when close up, like there are no detail textures swapped in. Pretty surprising, because half-life 2 had this problem licked quite some time ago.
Love what I’ve played, thinking about starting over with the no kill rule to get that achievement (not that far in).
Textures are incredibly crisp over here, for what it’s worth.
curst
1997
DX3 froze on me the second time I loaded it… it stopped just before the main menu and I had to shut it down with Task Manager. But the other two times it loaded without a hitch and it ran great for me.
Of course when I say “it ran great” I am doing my best to ignore the load times. Wow.
And in what is probably a sign of how old my laptop’s getting than a poorly-made game, I did have to reduce AA settings to the lowest possible without shutting off AA completely in order to maintain a good framerate.
Luckily that’s it in the way of complaints so far. DX3 is good enough that I think it’s matched or improved upon the previous games in every way, and it’s made Bioshock a faint watery memory. Admittedly I haven’t yet reached the boss fights that reviewers seem to hate… chances are I won’t like them either.
Wolff
1998
Not quite sure about the complaints of the boss fights. I’m not a great FPSer and I absolutely wiped the floor with the first boss (playing on Deus Ex difficulty).
Very super minor spoiler about boss fights in general
I imagine if you try to straight up fight them it could be pretty frustrating - but the game screams to you about cover through the whole tutorial - so if you aren’t using it then shrug - Pretty standard Metal Gear type boss, figure out the pattern, survive, get damage in when you can.
Does anyone know if kills from stuff like a hacked turret count against you if you’re going for the Pacifist achievement?
Okay, I’m only just through the prologue, but wow, does this feel right. A little floaty in the controls, but the look and sound are just right so far; it really is Deus Ex reincarnated. Or so I hope.
