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Post by Kappa Neko on Jan 14, 2024 20:18:17 GMT
That said I treat it like I would real life city driving. I take it slow, stop when I need to stop, obey the signs and keep an eye out at all times for other idiots on the road. Yeah that's no fun. I thread through traffic on the motorcycle like a manic and THAT was fun! Don't understand how anybody would ever want to drive a car in this game. Motorcycle is superior in every way. I never stop at a traffic light, I just dodge oncoming traffic. I have zero spatial awareness in cars in first person though for real. I kept driving onto the sidewalk... I felt like a granny who can barely look over the steering wheel, lol. And cars are super floaty. I would do involuntary 360 spinning at moderate speed trying to turn a corner. Maybe that's actually realistic, dunno. Got no time to drive as slow as in real life, lol! The funniest accident I had was epic. Car rammed my motorcycle hard. Didn't even see it coming. V flew off it and it caught fire and burned out. Couldn't use it anymore. Laughed so hard once the shock wore off, hahaha. Also seriously impressive damage physics! First time a car hit V crossing the street like a lunatic was a real jump scare! Happened about ten more times, lol. I'd just dash through traffic like V had a death wish.
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Post by talyn82 on Jan 15, 2024 0:31:35 GMT
i just finished the game and let me say the ending I got has made me depressed. I won't get into it since I just finished it and want to put it out of my mind. I will say however I had an inkling that V wasn't going to have a happy ending, but I still thought people were just overexaggerating. But no it was depressing. But I like the idea of going out a legend. There's a quote the Kurgan says in the first Highlander movie that I thought about after the ending, and it was "It's better to burn out than fade away."
Now unto my overall impressions of the game. The storytelling was fantastic. I don't know if there's any validity to the rumor that CDProjectRed had let go of most of the developers who made The Witcher 3, but they must've kept the writers. The game has many memorable characters such as Jackie who was my brother in arms, Takemura who I did not trust at first but he grew on me, Panam, Judy, Johnny and many more. They were all well written. Even the characters from the Phantom Liberty dlc were great. Also I have gained some new respect for Keanu Reeves and Idris Elba. I know they were getting paid but the fact that they devoted so much time to a role in a video game shows how much gaming has become mainstream in the last 20 years. Anyway right now my head is filled with too many thoughts on the game that I have to log off the computer and re-organize my thoughts into coherent sentences.
In closing CDProjectRed has regained my respect. I just wish publishers would let the developers finish the game properly before rushing it out to release.
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Post by skekSil on Jan 15, 2024 1:57:10 GMT
There's a quote the Kurgan says in the first Highlander movie that I thought about after the ending, and it was "It's better to burn out than fade away." Dexter DeShawn asks you directly at the start of the game: " Quiet Life Or Blaze Of Glory?" And Johnny reminds you of this question in his speech in Arasaka ending.
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Post by talyn82 on Jan 15, 2024 2:11:27 GMT
There's a quote the Kurgan says in the first Highlander movie that I thought about after the ending, and it was "It's better to burn out than fade away." Dexter DeShawn asks you directly at the start of the game: " Quiet Life Or Blaze Of Glory?" And Johnny reminds you of this question in his speech in Arasaka ending. Yes, I do remember Dexter Deshawn's question when he first meets V. But for some reason after my ending I remembered the quote by Kurgen from Highlander 1. But yeah tomorrow night I will check out the other endings. It's just that the game for me was an emotional rollercoaster. Like I said in my post by the end my mind was all jumbled up, and after the ending I needed some time to reorganize my brain.
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Post by talyn82 on Jan 15, 2024 2:13:40 GMT
Yeah that's no fun. I thread through traffic on the motorcycle like a manic and THAT was fun! Don't understand how anybody would ever want to drive a car in this game. Motorcycle is superior in every way. I never stop at a traffic light, I just dodge oncoming traffic. I have zero spatial awareness in cars in first person though for real. I kept driving onto the sidewalk... I felt like a granny who can barely look over the steering wheel, lol. I also prefer the motorcycle over driving a car in game, and I also have zero spatial awareness in cars which is why I would crash into poles and pedestrians.
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Post by Kappa Neko on Jan 15, 2024 9:24:53 GMT
In closing CDProjectRed has regained my respect. I just wish publishers would let the developers finish the game properly before rushing it out to release. Had the exact same reaction. The shitstorm after release had me all depressed thinking another of my favorite developers got ruined by (publisher) greed. My ex played it at release on PC and said performance was fine and the story was good. But I still got all depressed that games just get released in a bad state even by the studios I love. But man, having played it in its current state was AMAZING and I shouldn't have let the hate at the time get to me. I had no idea how good the story would be. I remember people saying it's not as good as W3 (and too short) but I disagree. Especially now with the superb expansion. It's every bit as good, in fact Cyberpunk got to me more. The Witcher world isn't a happy one either and I love the books. So playing W3 was special. But V's story and the story of all the other poor fucks in this game had me in tears like few other games. I much prefer the setting of W3 but Cyberpunk is just as good maybe even better storytelling. So faith restored indeed. But Cyberpunk proves to me that you can only fix a game if the storytelling was already great. Which is why Starfield is unfixable to me. The storytelling just isn't very good and the world doesn't feel alive. Don't want to annoy people with my Starfield hate again but Cyberpunk like BG3 just drives home that good storytelling and proper cinematic presentation is so important. Feels like everybody but Bethesda understands that now. Super hyped for CDPR's next game now!
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Post by talyn82 on Jan 15, 2024 10:47:39 GMT
Had the exact same reaction. The shitstorm after release had me all depressed thinking another of my favorite developers got ruined by (publisher) greed. My ex played it at release on PC and said performance was fine and the story was good. But I still got all depressed that games just get released in a bad state even by the studios I love. But man, having played it in its current state was AMAZING and I shouldn't have let the hate at the time get to me. I had no idea how good the story would be. I remember people saying it's not as good as W3 (and too short) but I disagree. Especially now with the superb expansion. It's every bit as good, in fact Cyberpunk got to me more. The Witcher world isn't a happy one either and I love the books. So playing W3 was special. But V's story and the story of all the other poor fucks in this game had me in tears like few other games. I much prefer the setting of W3 but Cyberpunk is just as good maybe even better storytelling. So faith restored indeed. But Cyberpunk proves to me that you can only fix a game if the storytelling was already great. Which is why Starfield is unfixable to me. The storytelling just isn't very good and the world doesn't feel alive. Don't want to annoy people with my Starfield hate again but Cyberpunk like BG3 just drives home that good storytelling and proper cinematic presentation is so important. Feels like everybody but Bethesda understands that now. Super hyped for CDPR's next game now! As much as I love The Witcher 3 (and I really do), Cyberpunk in my opinion has a better personal story. I love characters from TW3 like Geralt, Ciri and Regis, but the characters in Cyberpunk were amazing. I mean Jackie's death got got to me like no other death in gaming, and V's fate in my ending broke me as well. I too almost believed the hate Cyberpunk got. But I took the chance and it was well worth it. I almost didn't buy the Phantom Liberty dlc because owners of the dlc were making ridiculous claims on GOG.com. To me both The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 along with Baldur's Gate 3 are the top three games of all time for me, and that's that I've been a gamer since I was a small child back in the 1980's. All three games are masterful pieces of great storytelling and the games should be used as the new standard in storytelling by both developers and publishers. As for games being released in bad shape I blame the publishers. Take Knights of the Old Republic 2 for example. Due to the publishers greed the game was released in a buggy and incomplete state due to ridiculous deadline set by said publisher. Like I said The Witcher 3, Cyberpunk 2077, and Baldur's Gate 3 should be the new standard in gaming development.
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Post by Kappa Neko on Jan 15, 2024 13:52:03 GMT
The Witcher 3, Cyberpunk 2077, and Baldur's Gate 3 should be the new standard in gaming development. Absolutely! And not just for RPGs, Horizon Zero Dawn is another example of really good storytelling with a beautiful amazing open world. Even action games can be more emotional than what some of my former favorite studios are delivering these days. I am SO happy that CDPR is still on top of their storytelling game. W3 at the time was the closest thing to a perfect blending of story driven and open world to me. Proof that it can be done (DAI was an example of how not to do it, beautiful as the world was). An open world does not have to dilute the narrative. It can enrich the immersion greatly. Now W3 I cannot divorce from all the background I had by having read the novels. So I'll never be able to tell how emotional the game was by itself. Geralt was dear to me as a complex character from the novels. I played W2 back in the day on console before I even knew it was based on a book series and it left me emotionally cold. Great plot but weak emotional impact. Found Geralt super boring. So either CDPR has gotten A LOT better at it with W3 or I was projecting a lot of book knowledge to fill in the gaps. Having read so many wrong takes on Geralt's character from gamers it's probably the latter. But with Cyberpunk there's no doubt CDPR are among the best game storytellers right now. They keep getting better and better at it. Super hyped for the next Witcher game even if it's not about Geralt, that's fine. Do your own thing, it should be great too.
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Post by talyn82 on Jan 15, 2024 21:42:12 GMT
Now W3 I cannot divorce from all the background I had by having read the novels. So I'll never be able to tell how emotional the game was by itself. Geralt was dear to me as a complex character from the novels. I played W2 back in the day on console before I even knew it was based on a book series and it left me emotionally cold. Great plot but weak emotional impact. Found Geralt super boring. So either CDPR has gotten A LOT better at it with W3 or I was projecting a lot of book knowledge to fill in the gaps. Having read so many wrong takes on Geralt's character from gamers it's probably the latter. Oh I found Geralt emotionally boring in the first game. Because of it I struggled to finish the game. I did eventually but it was tough. In TW2 Geralt got a bit better but was still boring. He truly shined in the third game. He had emotions he was no more a robot. One of my favorite scenes in TW3 is when he finds Ciri and thinks she's dead. That was the first time I'd seen him being loving to another person. But about Cyberpunk I agree I think the writing in that game trumps anything that came before by CDProjectRed. Cyberpunk is my favorite game of theirs followed by TW3. Like you said before I now eagerly look forward to their next game.
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Post by ergates on Jan 16, 2024 10:12:58 GMT
OK I now know what you mean when you say you can't see anything in first person driving view. I found the Ken Block car, and was pretty darned excited. Here was an awesome-looking vehicle with weapons.
Except when driving the darned thing I quickly noticed that I couldn't see a sodding thing! The field of view from the cockpit is really, really narrow and it feels like driving blind. I guess some vehicles are just designed to be driven in third person, but that's not very immersive. I ended up ditching it and going back to my trusty original car, which has a nice, wide field of view and a nice big windscreen. It gets me where I need to go, it's fine.
On a motorcycle I feel very vulnerable, it's just not for me.
I also finally got myself a really decent weapon in the form of a handgun called Death and Taxes which makes short work of enemies. I've even taken out quite a few Cyber-psychos with it and it does the job.
Here's some other issues I don't quite understand at the moment:
I can upgrade weapons and, manufacture new weapons and Quickhacks. I get that.
I've made a few Tier 3 Quickhacks but cannot equip them. Logically this would be because my operating system is still only Tier 2 and you can't put a Tier 3 Quickhack on a Tier 2 OS - that makes perfect sense.
So, the way to upgrade my OS is to visit the Ripperdoc, and indeed I already upgraded my OS to Tier 2 ages ago.
But when I visited him this morning I was unable to upgrade my OS any further. Clearly I'm missing something, or lacking something - either components or some skill or another.
But the game doesn't make it clear precisely what I need to upgrade to the next tier. There's a series of symbols above the OS - a golden figure of a man, a couple of others, but the game doesn't tell you what these symbols mean - or if it does I'm missing it through stupidity, or unfamiliarity.
So if anyone knows the answer to this, please let me know.
Second: For weapon upgrades I need crafting components - obviously this is the game's main bottleneck.
I can make Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 4 and even Tier 5 components, but not Tier 3 and I have no idea why. I'm aware that scrapping gear creates more components, but I'm uncertain why I can't make my own Tier 3 components when I can make all the other tiers.
Third: When using Quckhacks I sometimes find that I get a 'blocked' message when trying to use them against certain enemies - for example I can use 'Bait' to distract some people, but on others it says 'Blocked'. Why is this? Are some enemies immune? Or is it that they kind of 'outlevel' the Quickhack and I'd need a higher tier of it for it to work?
Again, any help would be appreciated. I'm finding Googling the answers to be very hit-and-miss and many tutorials are still based on the old pre-2.0 patches and no longer apply, plus I'm desperate to avoid spoilers at all costs.
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Post by Kappa Neko on Jan 16, 2024 13:07:16 GMT
I can make Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 4 and even Tier 5 components, but not Tier 3 and I have no idea why. I'm aware that scrapping gear creates more components, but I'm uncertain why I can't make my own Tier 3 components when I can make all the other tiers. You can buy the blueprints. You probably got the other ones as loot at some point. I had to buy one or two as well to get the full crafting chain. Definitely very useful for netrunners. Look for the quickhack symbol when you browse vendors on the map. About the cyberdeck, I don't remember if the tiers are progress gated in any way, sorry. Not sure about blocked quickhacks either. I mostly used damage hacks. Don't remember any issues with those but my memory is generally shit.
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Post by ergates on Jan 16, 2024 14:20:12 GMT
I hade no idea there were vendors who sold crafting mats. OK I'll check that out, thank you.
Am I a Netrunner then? Guess I am, given that I keep dumping points into Technical Ability and Intelligence and my Netrunner skill bar keeps on going up, though Headhunter still is the one I have the most points in.
As it's my first playthrough and still figuring things out I don't really have much of a coherent plan for making a proper focussed build and am just dumping points into anything I think seems cool or useful. That will change in my second playthough (whenever that is) as I gain more insights into how stuff works or doesn't work and I can start planning ahead. Right now though it's all very 'seat of my pants.'
I am enjoying the whole Netrunner/Quickhack thing though. I generally like sneaky/infiltration types of gameplay rather than rushing in guns blazing so this lends itself very well to my style. I've done two main missions and one Gig now where I just crept through the entire installation using only non-lethal force and not being spotted, hiding the bodies, disabling cameras and security. I find this kind of thing great fun.
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Post by skekSil on Jan 16, 2024 15:43:02 GMT
As it's my first playthrough and still figuring things out I don't really have much of a coherent plan for making a proper focussed build and am just dumping points into anything I think seems cool or useful. That will change in my second playthough (whenever that is) as I gain more insights into how stuff works or doesn't work and I can start planning ahead. Right now though it's all very 'seat of my pants.' You can reset your attribute points (body, reflexes, cool and so on) once per playthrough, but you can reset your perks as much as you want. So while you are limited in the amount of builds available to you, you can still try quite a lot of combinations.
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Post by Kappa Neko on Jan 16, 2024 16:40:23 GMT
I looked up builds briefly and settled on quickhacks and smart weapons because it sounded most like something I'd enjoy. At some point I had so many points to spend I got the attributes for 3 trees maxed out and even started dumping points into body so I could move that dumpster for one sidequest, lol.
I didn't think too much about which perks make the most sense to get early on. I just did whatever within the intelligence and ability tree and the game was easy enough that I wasn't punished for anything I did. At some point halfway through the game I felt totally OP. Smart SMGs are totally silly. Normal difficulty is a breeze.
If I ever replay I'll do a melee build because that's the only thing I ignored completely.
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Post by flyingsquirrel on Jan 17, 2024 17:42:42 GMT
Some random tidbits:
Did I miss an explanation as to why there are airships over Dogtown dropping packages with red flares? I've seen this happen a bunch of times, and whenever I try to go see what the packages are, they're surrounded by hostile Barghest soldiers (and in one case the Barghests were in a firefight with the Voodoo Boys).
I can't help but think that Male V sounds a lot like Adam Jensen from Deus Ex and Female V sounds a lot like Jack from Mass Effect 2/3. I even ended up changing my female V's hairstyle to something a little more "punk" because I found myself imagining Jack when she speaks. I do think the game would have benefited from allowing third-person views outside of driving and photo mode. I tried using a mod, but (1) it crashed the game almost immediately and (2) when I did flip to third-person, it showed V standing with her arms outstretched at 90 degree angles.
I came across a group of Wraiths having some sort of outdoor dance party in the badlands. Do they eventually talk to you and/or turn hostile if you hang around long enough? I half-expected them to shoot at me just for driving by.
I decided to give Claire's sidequest a miss when I discovered that not only did it require driving a car rather than a motorcycle but that it also involved lethal shootouts. I know Night City is a rough, violent, borderline-lawless place, but that felt OOC for a V who uses nonlethal weapon mods and turned down the one gig that sounded like a straight assassination. In my first playthrough, I didn't even get that far and skipped it just because it involved cars.
At one point there was a text message reporting that Nibbles the cat (the one that you can adopt from around the corner from V's apartment) had found a new home, and I was a little annoyed because I assume that meant someone had taken him from V's apartment, but he was still there last time I stopped in. Is the idea that the message was actually for somebody else reporting that V had adopted Nibbles?
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Post by Kappa Neko on Jan 17, 2024 19:32:44 GMT
Oh, speaking of the cat... it must have been bugged in my game. I found the note next to the trash can. There's a cat bowl in V's apartment but the cat is nowhere to be found. That was very sad... Male V sounds like Adam Jensen?!? Damn, maybe I need to replay... I didn't think of Jack for female but kinda fits. A less crazy, not quite as foul mouthed Jack. I can see it.
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Post by ergates on Jan 18, 2024 10:11:15 GMT
OK thoughts so far on some elements of the game: Mission to track down Delamain's rogue vehicles. When I first picked this up I thought: "Here we go, another boring series of fetch quests." And indeed I was expecting pure filler, tedious padding similar to the kinds of things I've encountered in some other RPGs, including Bioware RPGs. I was expecting to have to just drive to a location, tag the rogue car, get a completion credit, and then repeat ad nauseum. Consequently I put off doing them until earlier this week. Instead the first car I encountered went psycho and tried to kill me until I hopped onto the bonnet and repeatedly shot the engine. OK... that wasn't what I was expecting, so much for expectations - so I did another and the scenario was completely different. So I did them all, and each was a unique experience. I particularly liked the one involving the 'evil' pink flamingos... and if that wasn't enough the entire thing lead to a cool mission at Delamain's HQ. This is how side missions SHOULD be done, offering the player an actual experience, rather than meaningless time sinks. Some other developers would have done exactly the latter, left it at that - and boasted that their games had "100+ hours of content." So massive kudos for CDPR. Next the races.... of boy. My first mistake during the qualifying race was to choose the Ken Block car and use it third person "because it's fast." Yeah right! Imagine strapping a rocket engine to a supermarket trolley. It goes like a bomb until it meets the first corner. The Ken Block car doesn't actually corner in the normal sense, it behaves far more like a hovercraft, the wheels seem to lock when cornering, causing it to drift in a wide arc. Naturally I crashed, and crashed, and crashed, and crashed resulting in a miserable last place in the race. Eventually I reloaded an earlier save, went back to the apartment and bought a new car. The Heller has excellent handling, but is slow. I bought a cheap, orange-coloured thing (forget it's name). It has a top speed of around 115 MPH but some experimentation with it convinced me it handles pretty well - back to the race. After around 10 reloads and re-attempts I finally managed to come third after learning the circuit and managing to get around it without killing pedestrians or smashing into walls. I was unable to keep up with the lead cars as mine was a bit too slow, but third was fairly respectable for someone like me who royally sucks at racing games. For the next race I reluctantly parted with more credits and got the exclusive Porsche, which I then had to track down as it had been stolen by a bunch of gangbangers. Armed with this faster new car I headed to the next race, only to discover that I had to use Claire's car as it was an off-road track. This time it took me a mere three reloads and I won the race, which was nice. I'll see what's in store for the others when I get to them. Finally, Judy and her mission 'Pisces.' I think I blew this one and made a bad choice. Spoilers ahead: The objective here is to reclaim The Clouds from the Tigerclaws gang who currently control it. I didn't trust Maiko from the start, she was clearly out for herself and likely to screw us over at the first opportunity.
So when it came to the final room I made a knee-jerk decision to stop listening to her spiel and just go hostile on the Tigerclaw guys.
Afterward I once-again refused to listen to anything she had to say and ended up killing her, which somewhat pissed Judy off, but apologising seemed to smooth over the awkward moment. I didn't regret my actions at the time as listening to Maiko's plan just seemed like buying more of the same crap for the dolls, meet the new boss, same as the old boss - I figured that freeing them from the Tigerclaws altogether would have the best outcome.
So later when I met Judy for Pyramid Song (which caused me to grin from ear-to-ear because I'm a Radiohead fanatic, and the mission's named after the song on Amnesiac, and the lyrics actually fit the mission's scenario really well) it was revealed that my gambit for The Clouds had been a massive mistake, and the entire place had been levelled in a revenge attack. I guess I should have just let Maiko take over after all.
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Post by Kappa Neko on Jan 18, 2024 13:02:43 GMT
Right, I never did the races because fuck cars in this game, lol. That's the only sidequest I didn't do. I almost didn't do the boxing ones either thinking I wouldn't be able to pull it off. Became obvious immediately that no skill was required. I didn't even really block, I just spammed the hit button. And Vik's face at the end was worth it. Love that guy!
I also ignored most NCPD markers. That's the kind of padding I don't care about. Oh, I didn't complete most of the main game gigs either because they were boring to me. The PL ones were all great though.
As for sidequests in general: I actually found most of them disappointing unless they were personal quests of your buddies. Those were awesome. But those "see what happens" ones were usually super short and not very interesting. Also as mentioned, the gigs were mostly disappointing. They were just busywork to me. Go and sabotage/steal/rescue over and over. Doing them once was fine but not ten more times. There's no story here really.
The main story stuff and of course the entire DLC were all much much better than pretty much all of the sidequests. So this game isn't really the best example of sidequests done right to me. There's the personal stuff of your friends which is great but unevenly distributed. River didn't get a lot of content. That annoyed me. The girls got a lot more love. But sidequests involving random people were pretty meh. So it's like 30% great and 70% meh for side content imo.
I'd give this game a 10/10 regardless.
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Post by ergates on Jan 18, 2024 13:15:00 GMT
The scanner missions exist purely for grinding, XP gear and levels. They serve no other purpose, so I appreciate that they exist times when I just want to do nothing more than mindless grinding. I've done a few Gigs, they're OK really, just short 'go there, kill that, pick up that' side content for when you want to grind, but with moderately more substance and variety. They're nothing special but they serve a purpose as the main content and major quests are enough of a game in themselves.
I've completely ignored the boxing missions as, like you, I just assumed that they would be for people who put a lot of points into, and really doubled down on melee combat in their build and were really, really good at doing all the block/avoid/power attack/block/avoid stuff that you got taught in the tutorial.
If they're as easy to win as you say then I might take a look.
Not sure what the 'PL missions' you mention are, maybe something that comes later in the game.
I've yet to meet this River character too, they aint in my game yet.
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Post by Kappa Neko on Jan 18, 2024 13:39:22 GMT
If they're as easy to win as you say then I might take a look. Not sure what the 'PL missions' you mention are, maybe something that comes later in the game. They ARE that easy. I didn't die once. You fight just bare handed. It's just hit or block. Very simple. Doesn't matter if you put any points into melee. I suck at punching stuff usually in any game. Here it's really easy. PL=Phantom Liberty The gigs of the DLC are MUCH better and actually varied and fun.
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Post by ergates on Jan 18, 2024 14:42:45 GMT
Ah, I don't have the DLC yet, so that explains it.
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Post by skekSil on Jan 18, 2024 18:29:10 GMT
They ARE that easy. I didn't die once. You fight just bare handed. It's just hit or block. Very simple. Doesn't matter if you put any points into melee. I suck at punching stuff usually in any game. Here it's really easy. They are harder at harder levels. I'm pretty sure you are allowed to use Sandevistan and Berserker during fights, Gorilla Arms are a definite help too, and you can eat every drug available before the start of a round.
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Post by Kappa Neko on Jan 18, 2024 18:54:07 GMT
They are harder at harder levels. I'm pretty sure you are allowed to use Sandevistan and Berserker during fights, Gorilla Arms are a definite help too, and you can eat every drug available before the start of a round. That makes sense. As it should be. Played on default. I ignored consumables for 99% of the game. I kept forgetting they are a thing. And gameplay was so easy on Normal it wouldn't have made much of a difference probably. If I ever replay I should increase the difficulty.
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Post by flyingsquirrel on Jan 18, 2024 18:56:39 GMT
The main story stuff and of course the entire DLC were all much much better than pretty much all of the sidequests. So this game isn't really the best example of sidequests done right to me. There's the personal stuff of your friends which is great but unevenly distributed. River didn't get a lot of content. That annoyed me. The girls got a lot more love. But sidequests involving random people were pretty meh. So it's like 30% great and 70% meh for side content imo. If you do the Phantom Liberty gig with the two corrupt cops trying to get out of trouble with a drug lord, the right dialogue choices will end the quest with the drug lord cracking up laughing at everyone's collective idiocy and letting them all go as a reward for the entertainment value. As for the cat being bugged, my recollection is that you have to put cat food (which you might have to buy from a vendor) in the bowl around the corner from V's apartment, and then next time you come back, the cat is sitting there and you can adopt him. As for the Pisces/Pyramid Song quest, I'm not sure if there's a way to obtain a favorable outcome for everybody. I shot Maiko with a non-lethal gun on my first playthrough and talked my way out of a confrontation with her the second time, and both times Judy reported at least one of the dolls involved in the takeover attempt being killed. I'm not sure what happens if you just go along with Maiko's plan, but I suspect that Judy would be pissed and that the dolls still wouldn't have their freedom.
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Post by Kappa Neko on Jan 18, 2024 19:13:15 GMT
If you do the Phantom Liberty gig with the two corrupt cops trying to get out of trouble with a drug lord, the right dialogue choices will end the quest with the drug lord cracking up laughing at everyone's collective idiocy and letting them all go as a reward for the entertainment value. As for the cat being bugged, my recollection is that you have to put cat food (which you might have to buy from a vendor) in the bowl around the corner from V's apartment, and then next time you come back, the cat is sitting there and you can adopt him. As for the Pisces/Pyramid Song quest, I'm not sure if there's a way to obtain a favorable outcome for everybody. I shot Maiko with a non-lethal gun on my first playthrough and talked my way out of a confrontation with her the second time, and both times Judy reported at least one of the dolls involved in the takeover attempt being killed. I'm not sure what happens if you just go along with Maiko's plan, but I suspect that Judy would be pissed and that the dolls still wouldn't have their freedom. I cam put food in the cat bowl??? Mind blown, lol. I might try that sometime when I fire the game up again to check out the other life path beginnings. Yeah I don't think there's a good ending for the Clouds business. Even if you don't kill Maiko and go along with things the situation isn't great. And I think one doll dies on that mission in any case. When you pick Maiko the Tiger Claws are still mad of course. No happy endings in Nights City... That other outcome of the cop mission sounds hilarious. I need to remember this. Thanks.
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