2661

I wish they were a bit more transparent about those bonus things. I would like to see a description for how I got it and how many I can get and have gotten.

Also I’m really annoyed that a side quest in china cannot be completed without a lvl 3 hack, meaning you can complete the whole thing except the last little part which requires a hack lvl 3. If there was a key code for that part the internet doesn’t know it.

2662

I’m in China and I would dearly love to know where the hell I can get a silencer for my pistol.

2663

shop in first china area

There is a shop inside the brothel. It’s not hidden, but the door is the same color as the wall so you can miss it easily.

2664

The silenced sniper rifle only showed up in those other places because you installed the DLC. I started playing before getting the DLC, and opened the storage unit near the basketball court, clearing it out. It had several things, but a silenced sniper rifle was not one of them. Later, I installed the DLC, did a mission, and came back - suddenly, there was a silenced sniper rifle there, and it had not been there before. When you install the DLC, it not only gives you the items at the beginning of the game, it also populates several places in the world with those items.

2665

I got one as soon as possible on my lethal playthrough, and just ditched it recently. I found that there were very few instances where there was enough range to use it…otherwise, the combat rifle worked just fine for distance fighting. Yeah, the sniper is nice because 1 headshot will pretty much kill any human, but get a silenced combat rifle, and a few shots with the automatic in the head will do the same. Or one shot with the 10mm pistol with the AP enhancement…

Sniper rifle takes up too much space for the utility it gives you, imho.

2666

The thing is, the 10mm can kill any human with a headshot too, once you put the armor piercing upgrade on it. And it’s silenced, and it fires a lot faster.

Generally, I found that all the really big weapons ended up just being a pain in the ass because they took up all your inventory slots.

On hard, the Stun gun and 10mm got the job done almost always… with me falling back to the shotgun and then the Revolver when I needed really big damage.

Honestly, if you upgrade the revolver, it seems to do more damage than anything else, including the crazy guns like the plasma rifle.

2667

Even fully upgraded, I noticed several times that the 10mm pistol wouldn’t always kill heavy-type enemies with a single headshot. I changed tactics and resorted to using the tranq gun on them instead.

2668

Is the Augmented bonus stuff a separate code or is it unlocked with the main game key? Like a moran, I got the regular edition and now want the extra stuff. I would be glad to buy an another copy if I could get the Augmented stuff on my already registered account and then gift the other key. If it is activated with the main key, however, I will just wait until they make it regular DLC, which may or may not be too late for me. Really enjoying the game, though.

The main character is totally doing an Eastwood impersonation in the VO, and it really seems like they went for an Eastwood-meets-Neo with a splash of Deckard for his character. Was that the same motif for the earlier Deus Ex games?

2669

I finished the game and I’m not sure where to put it among recent RPGs. It had its ups and downs, like it was caught between the engaging intrigue of Deus Ex and the near blandness of Invisible War.

Mechanically, I nearly lost it with all those terminals to hack and crates to loot. Not a step in the right direction for the genre. I also don’t recommend Hard difficulty. Too much reloading at certain parts.

My biggest disappointment: not enough amazing parts. My favorite ones were the dialogue battles, a few rooms with inspired Blade Runner style architecture, and a couple of sections where I got to kick ass. But it had nothing like the chilling moments in Deus Ex. Or maybe I was younger then and more easily impressed.

Either way, finishing an RPG always leaves me with a warm glow.

2670

I’m only about half way through and I’ve seen a few impressive scenes that were very cinematic. Like the cityscape view when you finally get up high in the second hub.

I also just had a great combat/strategy moment:

fight near the end of the first visit to china

After the lady goes into her panic room I was pretty overwhelmed in my first attempt to take out the large number of bad guys that show up. After dying, the next time I placed the three frag mines I’d been carrying around at the entrance, in the middle of the first big room, and at the first landing. They worked perfectly and took out about half the bad guys. The rest were then pretty easy to finish off.

2671

Whoever thought that DX needed boss fights needs to be shot in the fucking head.

2672

minor spoiler about long-term weapon choice in this game

The game stops giving out 10mm ammo toward the end. They kind of push you toward the heavy weapons that are lying around at that point. Just go with it.

another fun method

Sprint, cloak, Typhoon. They even come out as a circle for you.

2673

I only have one of those three augments, though. ;-)

2674

I had ‘fun’ with the boss fight before the final hub. That is if you define ‘fun’ as saving and reloading over and over again while cursing loudly. Typhoon, my Typhoon, why did you abandon me in my hour of need?

2675

Gus, if you’re still stuck,

hints

[spoiler]I kept doing the suggested method - right flank cover area, the red barrel explosions are pretty critical, and there’s not a lot of room for error in terms of getting prompt kills. If you don’t have / don’t like the laser sights, iron sights might help, I used them.

Weirdly, the fight seemed not all that bad immediately after I’d beaten it. Maybe the cover spot we’re picking is actually terrible. If there are any red barrels on the upper right levels I missed them; they were the last guys I had to take out. Be sure to have an EMP ready for the big mech if you don’t already.[/spoiler]

Spoilers re “Snake” achievement:
Snake. Snake. Snaaaaaaaaaake!

Odd fight. The geometry of the room is such that you’re kind of guided into a long evasive plinking match while your health regens; I couldn’t figure how you could do anything else without his burst damage wiping the floor with you, especially after I’d invested a few minutes running around the darned room. I never died, which was a DX bossfight first, but it was fairly tedious.

2676

Anyone figure out what the codes that appeared on the 29th are for then?

2677

If it’s the room I’m thinking of and if you’re patient…

There’s a vent on the right side (facing toward the goal exit) that will take right to the couches. Once there, stay inside and if you have the cone view stealth enhancement, you can wait until they are all facing away from the vent. It may seem like it will never happen, but it will, and then book through the exit–crouched of course to stay quiet–and once through hug the right wall.

I went through most of the game stealth and no cloak, so I did a lot of waiting.

2678

PEBCAK, man. Just accept your choices and move on. Doing that seems detrimental to uninterrupted enjoyment of a game (with long loading screens) where even if you “screw up,” you’re not screwed.

My friend and I pissed off Tong, and then pissed off the bartender downstairs after doing a job for him, and kinda thought we were at a standstill. Took us a moment to get the story moving forward, to find a vent that forced a cutscene of a convo you see Tong having with some dude in ridiculous armor.

2679

Yeah. I greatly enjoyed the conversation system. Maybe because I enjoy the attempt at player empathy that isn’t exactly a win/loss scenario. I lost a couple of the conversation, but never felt as though I was punished as the game proceeded onwards. It didn’t detract from the sheer sense of victory when I did win a few specific arguments.

which ones

I particularly enjoyed the one with Zelazny and felt bad-ass justified in letting him continue his mission of vengeance. Ends may not always justify the means, but him turning himself in would have resulted in far worse consequences in the fiction of my mind.

I also felt the loss when Sandoval killed himself, but didn’t feel the need to reload. I chalked it up to my own failure and dealt with it, moving on.

2680

Ugh, going for Gun Nut Achievement with the 10mm pistol was a bad bad idea.