Deus Ex 3

Guido_Jones · 2011-09-07T10:02:23.000Z

Chris Nahr:

What, all of them? I thought only the first couple were a bonus.

I have never seen a AUD anywhere in my game.

stusser · 2011-09-07T10:32:40.000Z

All the pre-order bonuses work like that. You start with one in your inventory, and then they’re randomly itemized throughout the game world in lockers, on corpses, etc. If you don’t have the bonus installed, those lockers and corpses select from a shorter list for their loot.

Dreamshadow · 2011-09-07T10:35:52.000Z

Posted in wrong thread…

Grifman · 2011-09-07T10:43:01.000Z

Dreamshadow:

I spent about two hours last night playing the Area Control MP mode online as a Tactical Marine. I discovered that I really liked it. A fair number of players were playing Devastators and assault marines (Sorry, I’m not a chaos kind of guy, so I’ll be using the Space Marine terms here) and Tactical Marines seemed a little light on representation. It was very interesting playing the middle ground. I had to listen for the sound of Assaults launching and landing and being ready to move. I got creative and was even able to stun a couple when they went melee wild towards me. Ended up killing them with stun/melee/ranged combos. I also learned to do a little scouting and watch where friendly assault marines were dying. It told me a lot about where the Devastators were hunkering down at control points, slaying people. Most of the other Tactical Space Marines I saw were going sniper, and very few learned to change their snipe location after dying… made it very easy for me to continually come up behind them and melee them to death.

It was a fine middle ground, but after a couple of rounds I didn’t feel outclassed there. Yes, there was the usual lag issues from playing on Xbox Live, but overall I felt challenged, not frustrated. There is a chance I’m just fortunate enough to be playing while everyone is a new player, but I’m very happy with the single and multiplayer so far.

What is this Deus Ex game you’re playing? Never heard of it before :)

Dreamshadow · 2011-09-07T10:55:29.000Z

Grifman:

What is this Deus Ex game you’re playing? Never heard of it before :)

Oh frell…

instant0 · 2011-09-07T11:01:45.000Z

The pre-order hacking item is awesome. Good thing you can run the debug console to get more of them.

Chris_Nahr · 2011-09-07T13:13:10.000Z

stusser:

All the pre-order bonuses work like that. You start with one in your inventory, and then they’re randomly itemized throughout the game world in lockers, on corpses, etc. If you don’t have the bonus installed, those lockers and corpses select from a shorter list for their loot.

Oh, okay then. It’s not really necessary anyway thanks to a proliferation of nuke and stop viruses.

stusser · 2011-09-07T13:32:50.000Z

I didn’t have any preorder bonuses, and I wasn’t exactly starving for those viruses throughout the game. I did invest in hacking augs, though.

instant0 · 2011-09-07T13:46:34.000Z

stusser:

I didn’t have any preorder bonuses, and I wasn’t exactly starving for those viruses throughout the game. I did invest in hacking augs, though.

Well, on the second play through I just wanted to ‘get on with it’ so the auto-hacking items were invaluable.

Demon_G_Sides · 2011-09-07T16:12:40.000Z

Yeah, I pimped my hacking to Five asap, and grabbed a few other hacking skills, but not enough to call my character a hack-master or anything. I only really had a problem with one specific hack, but that was early game and I had previously blown through my aids while attempting an equally difficult hack. I never really worried except for a few specific level-5 hacks.

stusser · 2011-09-07T16:35:02.000Z

Demon G Sides:

I had previously blown through my aids

<beavis>heheheheheheh</beavis>

Razgon · 2011-09-07T23:39:50.000Z

I normally don’t care much for it, but man, the steam achievements are insanely broken in this game. I completed the game, and don’t even have the “I completed the game” achievement? And probably have about half of what I should have. Is that normal for steam achievments or is it because of the game itself?

Chris_Nahr · 2011-09-07T23:54:42.000Z

Strange, I got all the Steam achievements that I should have gotten.

Hunty · 2011-09-08T01:27:08.000Z

instant0:

Well, on the second play through I just wanted to ‘get on with it’ so the auto-hacking items were invaluable.

They’re also very useful for hacking security terminals that are in a guard’s line of sight when the guard is covered by a security camera or turret. Stay crouched, chuck an AUD on the machine and wait for the hack to complete (and the guard to wander off, if he notices the noise). Then creep over, cloak, stand up, quickly switch off the cameras, crouch, uncloak. You’re then free to have your wicked way with the guard unsupervised. This has been very helpful at a few points for me going for the no alarms/no kills achievements.

Another tiny thing I noticed last night: If you hold down middle mouse whilst using a computer it unlocks your view from the screen so you can glance around. Mostly useless but nice to know.

TurinTuramba · 2011-09-08T02:14:43.000Z

Razgon:

I normally don’t care much for it, but man, the steam achievements are insanely broken in this game. I completed the game, and don’t even have the “I completed the game” achievement? And probably have about half of what I should have. Is that normal for steam achievments or is it because of the game itself?

Sounds like you lost internet connection for a while.

Razgon · 2011-09-08T02:23:55.000Z

TurinTuramba:

Sounds like you lost internet connection for a while.

Really? Deus Ex is an “always online required” game if you want acheivements? Thats pretty silly! Oh well, its not like I care (Although apparently, I do!) but I just find it somewhat annoying.

Omniscia · 2011-09-08T04:03:51.000Z

Hunty:

Another tiny thing I noticed last night: If you hold down middle mouse whilst using a computer it unlocks your view from the screen so you can glance around. Mostly useless but nice to know.

I think you can also hold down the left and right mouse buttons simultaneously to achieve the same result.

The (mostly helpful) things you learn from paying attention to the loading screens!

Chris_Nahr · 2011-09-08T04:17:44.000Z

Using the gamepad, you can just move the right stick without holding down any buttons. :p

TurinTuramba · 2011-09-08T05:35:31.000Z

Razgon:

Really? Deus Ex is an “always online required” game if you want acheivements? Thats pretty silly! Oh well, its not like I care (Although apparently, I do!) but I just find it somewhat annoying.

No, I think that’s the way it works for all steam achievements. If you are offline when you earn it, the achievement does not register on steam. At least that happened to me with various games.

Saxman_72 · 2011-09-08T05:39:06.000Z

Razgon:

Really? Deus Ex is an “always online required” game if you want acheivements? Thats pretty silly! Oh well, its not like I care (Although apparently, I do!) but I just find it somewhat annoying.

I wasn’t getting any achievements at all for awhile when I started the game. I manually logged out and back into the community and the game “apparently” synced up all my achievements.