Firefreak on 20/9/2011 at 17:09
See (
http://www.deusex.com/themissinglink) here (or any other of your gaming resources)
> During Adam's quest for the truth in Deus Ex: Human Revolution, he mysteriously vanishes for three days.
When was that?
As far as I can remember now, Adam is either flown around the globe,
frozen or sent to the next mission by the time he opened his apartment door. And I'm not even trying to dip into any body issues (Even the "I could use a shower" was unfulfilled)
PS: finished DE:HR yesterday night - weee :) Today evening: watching making-of video.
mothra on 20/9/2011 at 19:25
aehm, the part where you seal yourself inside a container to get to where ever they took the kidnapped scientists.....even pritchard says that you were off the grid for a few days.
insert DLC here, I thought on my first playthrough :)
gunsmoke on 20/9/2011 at 19:34
Quote Posted by mothra
insert DLC here, I thought on my first playthrough :)
Same here. Did anyone else incorrectly assume that they would have a Moon and/or White House level (the ones cut from the original)?
Dia on 20/9/2011 at 19:34
Most definitely looking forward to this! Because of the danger of online accounts being hacked (Xbox, Sony, etc.), I've refrained from any DLC's ..... up until now. Or at least up until this October.
And yeah; it would've probably been when he seals himself in the cryo unit at the Hengsha docks, which, if he ends up captured & tortured during that time, would explain why he's in such bad shape when he lands in Singapore. At least my character was: I'd hoped that the cryo unit would regenerate him, but he still only had one energy cell when the Singapore level opened. ;)
He also could've used a shower.
Srsly.
DDL on 20/9/2011 at 20:07
Quote Posted by gunsmoke
Same here. Did anyone else incorrectly assume that they would have a Moon and/or White House level (the ones cut from the original)?
As I recall, the moon level was cut from the original coz it was silly (though they did put ebook in HR indicating possible future luxury moon accomodation, which I think was a nice nod), and the white house was cut coz it was boring as hell. Turns out the white house isn't an interesting combat location (who knew?).
Also I guess having a white house level would tend to ascribe more importance to the presidency than..well, any of the DX games do (it's all smoky rooms with shadowy industrialists, Bill Hicks-style: "*puff puff puff* Here's your agenda, Mr President"), so I'm kinda glad that didn't happen.
This DLC looks..odd, I have to say. I mean, it sounds like an aug reset, which would only really be desirable/interesting/worthwhile if the aug system really had any serious choices (and you'd made stupid choices), which is doesn't (and you can't*). So really it's just "smack people in the back of the head without all your cool shit until you can put all the cool shit right back in".
:p
*except admittedly that one that shows you hack percentages
Jason Moyer on 20/9/2011 at 23:39
Quote Posted by DDL
Turns out the white house isn't an interesting combat location (who knew?).
It could just be because I haven't played it in so long, but I seem to remember the White House level in Splinter Cell being one of the best levels in the entire series.
Edit: Yeah, I guess it's my memory, since the level I'm thinking of was the CIA HQ.
SubJeff on 21/9/2011 at 21:39
Quote Posted by DDL
*except admittedly that one that shows you hack percentages
I still don't get this. You can see what percent chance you have of hacking form the start can't you? What am I missing?
Malleus on 21/9/2011 at 21:55
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I still don't get this. You can see what percent chance you have of hacking form the start can't you? What am I missing?
I never got that upgrade, but I think with that on you can check the percentage for any node (you can only check nearby ones by default) and it also tells you what stuff Data Stores contain and maybe also what exactly a given API does...? Basically, you can plan ahead and check the whole network before you start the actual hacking.
Pyrian on 21/9/2011 at 22:09
'Course, the percentages were based on the node level, which you could see without the aug. :p I could, however, conceive of a use for the upgrade to that aug, which allows you to look inside datastores without capturing them. "Do I really want that?"
DDL on 21/9/2011 at 23:02
Though quite a lot of them (especially toward the end) had capturable antivirus nodes, which automatically got you everything anyway. They were probably using Norton, or something.
The hacking was..odd, overall. Initially I was often really really scraping by, hoarding my precious viruses, and often disconnecting and retrying if the backtrace started too early, but by about midway (and the stealth aug really really pays off) I had about 30 of each virus but still almost never used them, this time because there was rarely any need.
And by the end I was so sick of the whole thing (and had like, 50k credits because I foolishly went around farming guns to sell, and 5 or 6 unused praxis kits) I just entered codes wherever possible.
The minigame was quite clever (and a lot easier once I realised you could do stuff to different nodes simultaneously), but I don't think it should've been quite so rewarding. You end up hacking even when you have the code, just because you'll be guaranteed some exp, and possibly cash and viruses too.
