PropagandaOfTheDude
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PropagandaOfTheDude
11mo ago
Here we are. Director's Cut only.
Reworked Bosses
Now remember that the reworked bosses is incredibly important for this DLC and the main selling point for many fans. The reason the Deus Ex Human Revolution bosses were unfaithful to the original source was that the game itself was outsourced to another company to create the boss battles so it didn't really follow as close to the other work done on the game as it should have. Leading to the bosses being more like a generic FPS instead of having multiple viable options based on how you developed your character.
They did not add ways to avoid bosses completely however they have given you various options on how to deal with them depending on how you progressed with your character.
Hacking is now a viable way to deal with bosses
Boss 1 Example: [...]
Boss 2 Example: [...]
I elided the spoilery bits.
Maybe?
I recall playing the original Deus Ex with a stealth assassin. The game took care to provide killphrases for two of the minibosses. And then—whoops!—I had a devil of a time trying to deal with Walton Simons(?) at Area 51 armed just with a sniper rifle. Apparently if I had just spent a moment to knock him unconscious in the previous mission he never would have appeared...
I think the key frustrations for DE:HR boss fights boil down to a couple of things.
- You have to carry along weaponry on mission after mission so it'll be available during the four boss fights. For most of the game, that meant a fully tricked-out revolver, based on wiki advice. Then I added a grenade launcher. They take up room, especially when added to a tranq rifle and a stun gun.
- You'll find the usual game designer trope where your weapons don't really do much until you've dealt with some precondition.
- Pretty much every time I save spammed and retried and then looked on the wiki for hints and then won, I explored the area after the fight. Lots of weapon/ammo caches, and other rooms and corridors besides the main "arena". So maybe they did design them to support hiding and sniping. (Your non-lethals won't work.) But when the cut scene ends and the mini-boss is in front of you, there's a very strong tendency to just start unloading.
There's a DLC The Missing Link where the final boss is just a guy, and sneaking over and doing a takedown works just fine. That was nice.
PropagandaOfTheDude
11mo ago
Although the origin of QTE are often attributed to interactive movie laserdisc video games that showed video clips stored on a laserdisc like Dragon's Lair (Cinematronics, June 1983), Cliff Hanger (Stern, December 1983) and Road Blaster (Data East, 1985), these left little room for more advanced gameplay elements.
Ha! Thanks.
PropagandaOfTheDude
11mo ago
Only downside is that I went in with a particular playstyle that I enjoy from shooters, and its sometimes been hard to get the cyberpunk leveling to play well with my preferred playstyle.
How well does it handle stealth? I have been a first-person sneaker fiend since Thief.
I recently finished Deus Ex: Human Revolution as...a stealthy hacker.
I've been playing cyberpunk 2077 Resident Evil: Village. It's the first time that I've played anything labelled "survival horror", and I'm trying to calibrate my expectations.
I'm getting flashbacks to playing Dragon's Lair and Space Ace in the arcade. (Yes, I'm old.) The designers really like to take over your controls so they can show you an "exciting" cinematic, then hand the controls back suddenly to you. (The one indicator is a "[S]kip" prompt at the bottom right corner of your screen.)
Is this an RE:V thing? A Capcom thing? A survival horror thing?
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
- Extroversion: 1
- Emotional stability: 98
- Agreeableness: 5
- Conscientiousness: 26
- Intellect/Imagination: 80
To quote Tom Wolfe, my emotional stability has a center of gravity like a 102-inch High Point Vinyleather sofa.
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
"The ship lurched to the port side."
"The ship of state lurched to the right."
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
James Rhodes was Iron Man at times. Sam Wilson was Captain America at times. There have been various Captain Marvels.
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
My beef with revolutions in particular is that the war stuff is fucking BORING. The mechs the humans use are stupid designs with exposed cockpits, and there's only the one mech unit, and the machine forces consist of squids and a giant drill.
Yes, I remember thinking "They replaced special effects martial arts with this?"
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
Set up some location where you can put your awake, active child down, and safely not pay attention to your child for a while. Maybe that's one of those plastic fence things in the middle of the room. Maybe it's a dedicated room. (Move all grabbable items out of reach. That may even mean moving electrical outlets up to your eye height.) You have some time before this becomes important, but now's the time to plan.
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
Over 20 other studies have consistently failed to find any benefits of more than 1.6g/kg/d of protein. [. . .] This recommendation often includes a double 95% confidence level, meaning they took the highest mean intake at which benefits were still observed and then added two standard deviations to that level to make absolutely sure all possible benefits from additional protein intake are utilized.
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
Hlynka confusing extroversion with intelligence once again.
The extroverts are the people that you'll interact with when you go to east Africa, so there's some selection bias.
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
I'm not sure that the movie is supposed to be set in 1996: the jury selection in particular only really makes sense either before Batson or in an alternate universe where it never happened.
Per the novel's Wikipedia page, the events are set in 1984, two years before Batson.
...and I see that you sort of mention that with "plausible for 1984".
Having been both a student and teacher at MIT, my personal explanation for men going into science is the following:
1. young men strive to achieve high status among their peer group
2. men tend to lack perspective and are unable to step back and ask the question "is this peer group worth impressing?"
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
"Screed".
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
Don't just ask her in a way that suggests that you are excited. Be excited. Pick something that you want to do.
"Hey, I'm going to <EVENT> on <DATE>. If you'd like to come with me, I'd enjoy your company. Let me know by <OTHERDATE>."
Then do it and have fun. Even if she says no, even if she says yes and flakes.
"Are you asking me on a date?"
"If you're there with me, sure."
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
Really? I recall BCAA powder tasting like death.
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
(Let's not quibble about the fact that Urdu and Hindu are pretty much the same language with a different script, that's beneath us)
Not knowing either, my mental model is that the spoken languages map in the same way that American English and British English map. Different vocabulary for various things, but once you internalize the truck/lorry pairing (for example) you're okay. Is that the case?
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
I'll link to the Status 451 book review that everyone always links to:
What if fanatics made a serious and nearly successful attempt on the life of the President of the United States?
What if those fanatics got into the Capitol building and committed a mass shooting on Congress while it was in session?
What if those fanatics conducted bombing sprees, for years, in multiple American cities?
And what if people really did do every one of those things, and you’d never heard of them? That’s the story of Puerto Rican separatists.
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
I mix those little squeeze bottles of drink flavorings with mineral water for my ersatz sodas. I also drink it by itself.
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
Like how Kameron Hurley and Seanan McGuire and Ann Leckie are all decent writers but such insufferably hateful harpies that, like Scalzi, I can't stand to read them anymore.
Without going into too much detail, Seanan McGuire appeared on my radar recently. What informs your description?
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
I see a lot of stuff on the internet about being "healthy at any size" but it's always women under the age of 45 who seem to be the poster children for this stuff.
Phase one is beauty and fashion and dating instas.
Phase two is complaining about unfair beauty standards.
Phase three is assertions that chronic health problems have nothing to do with weight.
Phase four is turning into a shut-in due to immobility.
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
I think you underestimate ironic Nazi slogan larping.
That's like 90% of 4chan.
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
Sometimes it was just easier to do than put it back on three minutes later at your next stop.
My mental model now has a Twitch "Lounge section" for non-gaming stuff.
Edit: And when I go to https://www.twitch.tv, it looks like Youtube For Games.
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