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Let's Play System Shock 2 - Set 30 - A date with Shodan

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  • HelloweenHelloween Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Awwww but guuuuys. I liked wasting all that ammo :(

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  • DaxonDaxon Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    I don't think you'll like wrenching the final boss(es) to death though...

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  • NEO|PhyteNEO|Phyte They follow the stars, bound together. Strands in a braid till the end.Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Helloween wrote: »
    Awwww but guuuuys. I liked wasting all that ammo :(

    Remember those big scary things you saw during SHODAN's lightshow? Do you REALLY want to run out of ammo and have to wrench some?

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  • SF_DhalsimSF_Dhalsim Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Daxon wrote: »
    I don't think you'll like wrenching the final boss(es) to death though...

    Oh yesssssssssssssss thisssssssssssss would be gooooooooood. It'd make the Gollum in me feel goooood. My Preciousssssssssssssssssss

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  • HelloweenHelloween Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    NEO|Phyte wrote: »
    Helloween wrote: »
    Awwww but guuuuys. I liked wasting all that ammo :(

    Remember those big scary things you saw during SHODAN's lightshow? Do you REALLY want to run out of ammo and have to wrench some?

    I'm sure you would all giggle if I did but...no. True i would not really want to :(

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  • LordGravewishLordGravewish Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    SF_Dhalsim wrote: »
    Daxon wrote: »
    I don't think you'll like wrenching the final boss(es) to death though...

    Oh yesssssssssssssss thisssssssssssss would be gooooooooood. It'd make the Gollum in me feel goooood. My Preciousssssssssssssssssss

    Thing is, he'd never get to see the ending :P

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  • PaladinPaladin Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    I actually started using shotgun bullets for the eggs when I really couldn't afford to lose any more health since shotgun ammo was really the only type I could depend on getting / that I didn't actually need to have.

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  • TaminTamin Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Tamin wrote: »
    Judgement wrote: »

    I'm still trying to figure out how to get "WHY ARE THEY WAVING?!" onto my phone as a ringtone.

    Not sure about the easiest method, but the best one I know involves downloading the clip where he says it, then running that through something like Goldwave to crop out just the line. Then you save it as something that'll fit on your phone.

    If your phone and computer have bluetooth, then you can get the computer to treat the phone as a storage location and drop the file in.

    edit: Actually, I'll see if I can get the first part done for you, and then send you the file. What file formats does your phone support?
    edit 2: k, I've cropped it down to 6 seconds.

    I have it down to 71.2 kb in ogg format. Still huge for a ringtone, though.

    Judgement, were you still looking for this? Because I've left the cropper open until I know which formats you can use and the size you need it to be.

    Tamin on
  • WulfWulf Disciple of Tzeentch The Void... (New Jersey)Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Damnit Hell... You killed Tom Cruise. He was in Stan's closet!

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  • JudgementJudgement Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Tamin wrote: »
    Tamin wrote: »
    Judgement wrote: »

    I'm still trying to figure out how to get "WHY ARE THEY WAVING?!" onto my phone as a ringtone.

    Not sure about the easiest method, but the best one I know involves downloading the clip where he says it, then running that through something like Goldwave to crop out just the line. Then you save it as something that'll fit on your phone.

    If your phone and computer have bluetooth, then you can get the computer to treat the phone as a storage location and drop the file in.

    edit: Actually, I'll see if I can get the first part done for you, and then send you the file. What file formats does your phone support?
    edit 2: k, I've cropped it down to 6 seconds.

    I have it down to 71.2 kb in ogg format. Still huge for a ringtone, though.

    Judgement, were you still looking for this? Because I've left the cropper open until I know which formats you can use and the size you need it to be.

    I am still looking for it, and I use a Verison LG EnV 9900. The website says it's compatible with MP3 and WMA. If you've got it I'd love it.

    Also, Helloween, I nearly shit myself at the closet scene. I was also very disappointed when you didn't say there was a monster in the closet.

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  • HelloweenHelloween Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Judgement wrote: »
    Tamin wrote: »
    Tamin wrote: »
    Judgement wrote: »

    I'm still trying to figure out how to get "WHY ARE THEY WAVING?!" onto my phone as a ringtone.

    Not sure about the easiest method, but the best one I know involves downloading the clip where he says it, then running that through something like Goldwave to crop out just the line. Then you save it as something that'll fit on your phone.

    If your phone and computer have bluetooth, then you can get the computer to treat the phone as a storage location and drop the file in.

    edit: Actually, I'll see if I can get the first part done for you, and then send you the file. What file formats does your phone support?
    edit 2: k, I've cropped it down to 6 seconds.

    I have it down to 71.2 kb in ogg format. Still huge for a ringtone, though.

    Judgement, were you still looking for this? Because I've left the cropper open until I know which formats you can use and the size you need it to be.

    I am still looking for it, and I use a Verison LG EnV 9900. The website says it's compatible with MP3 and WMA. If you've got it I'd love it.

    Also, Helloween, I nearly shit myself at the closet scene. I was also very disappointed when you didn't say there was a monster in the closet.

    You wern't the only one. Hard to be witty when shitting yourself :P

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  • HelloweenHelloween Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Do you know who to call?

    Set 19 - When there's trouble...

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  • KitsunaKitsuna Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    So, you think you're near the end, do you? Don't get your hopes up. From what I understand, you've still got a fair way to go, though I think you're well across the half-way point. Maybe someone here who's played the game can give you an better estimate.

    Incidentally, that bit of the code you got wasn't 61, it was 6]. Just so you know. So far, the code pieces you've got are 4 10 6]. That means there's at least one more piece.

    Anyway, nice set with plenty of enemies sneaking up behind you. There were a few bits that made me jump. Be mindful with that Assault Rifle. Your ammo might disappear faster than you'd expect if you aren't careful. And that, by all accounts, would be bad.

    Very, very bad. :mrgreen:

    Looking forward to the next set.

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  • npc.EXEnpc.EXE Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    You have a bit to go just yet.

    I'd recommend conservation of your assault rifle and it's ammo if you want to beat the game feeling like a big man.

    The bit where two infected surrounded you was glorious to behold. :lol:

    Thanks again for the set Helloween.

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  • PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Nice set, Hello, it's good to see that even when facing off against a deadly hive mind intent on your destruction, you have the consideration to recycle.
    Kitsuna wrote: »
    Incidentally, that bit of the code you got wasn't 61, it was 6]

    I was wondering if someone would point that out while I was watching the video. It was pretty amusing to see him confuse the two.

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  • Darth_MogsDarth_Mogs Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Fantastic set. I can't help but get a laugh every time Hell peeks out of a room or around a corner and goes, "Hellooo...? Monsters...?" because I always think there's going to be one and I can see Hell running off yelling "Getawaygetaway!" which is all the better now that the AR has been retrieved.

    Anyways, were I playing this, I'd already be looking for a FAQ for this number puzzle. So I'm looking forward to seeing how Hell deals with it. :D

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  • VelsperVelsper Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    On the topic of recycling for nanites, does anyone know if the psi ability to recycle works on weapons? On my ongoing playthrough of the game I had been gathering up broken and spare weapons and armor and assorted goodies for the recycler, and I found out that it didn't work. Just trying to think of what to do with all this junk now.

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  • DartboyDartboy Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    The Psi recycling power isn't really worth it due to requiring psi power (and thus needing you to use psi hypos). And I don't believe you can recycle weapons, I think it's only one-square items like ammo, hypos, and random junk.

    Also, Helloween's mostly done with Deck 5, but he did skip over Deck 4, so he'll have to go back down and do that before continuing on.

    And I see he got 3 of the four pieces of the code. That's great. Everybody gets three of the four pieces. Good luck tracking down the one you missed.

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  • ProPatriaMoriProPatriaMori Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Throughout the whole of the apartment block I had the Maridia theme from Super Metroid going in my head. It just seems to fit.

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  • DaxonDaxon Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Oh god you saying "Not a database, Xerxes" made me laugh for a good ten minutes!

    edit: now I can't stop listening to that :D

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  • HelloweenHelloween Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Daxon wrote: »
    Oh god you saying "Not a database, Xerxes" made me laugh for a good ten minutes!

    edit: now I can't stop listening to that :D

    He keeps doing it wrong! D:

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  • PeregrineFalconPeregrineFalcon Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    I feel bad, I've still only seen the first snippet from Set 17. I'm so far behind on my schadenfreude. :P

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  • NEO|PhyteNEO|Phyte They follow the stars, bound together. Strands in a braid till the end.Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Dartboy wrote: »
    The Psi recycling power isn't really worth it due to requiring psi power (and thus needing you to use psi hypos). And I don't believe you can recycle weapons, I think it's only one-square items like ammo, hypos, and random junk.

    There's actually some fancy formulas you can run to figure out if psi-recycling is worth the effort, based on nanites gained vs the nanite cost of psi-hypos.

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  • ProPatriaMoriProPatriaMori Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    NEO|Phyte wrote: »
    Dartboy wrote: »
    The Psi recycling power isn't really worth it due to requiring psi power (and thus needing you to use psi hypos). And I don't believe you can recycle weapons, I think it's only one-square items like ammo, hypos, and random junk.

    There's actually some fancy formulas you can run to figure out if psi-recycling is worth the effort, based on nanites gained vs the nanite cost of psi-hypos.

    It's not like he could sell the psi hypos on the open market instead of using the recycling power.

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  • TaminTamin Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Dartboy wrote: »
    The Psi recycling power isn't really worth it due to requiring psi power (and thus needing you to use psi hypos). And I don't believe you can recycle weapons, I think it's only one-square items like ammo, hypos, and random junk.

    Also, Helloween's mostly done with Deck 5, but he did skip over Deck 4, so he'll have to go back down and do that before continuing on.

    And I see he got 3 of the four pieces of the code. That's great. Everybody gets three of the four pieces. Good luck tracking down the one you missed.

    I usually get all of them. It's not like it's some insanely difficult thing to do. Also, he has the two most important -
    the 6] and the 10.
    Even without the 4, that's painfully easy to brute force. With all of those? There's 20 combinations left:
    either [0-9]4106, or [0-9]1046.

    Tamin on
  • ProPatriaMoriProPatriaMori Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    That combination limit depends on Hello realizing that the combination has brackets on either side.

    I'm not spoilering that.

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  • emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Is there a mod to brighten this game up? I nudged the gamma slider up to its max and corners are still dark. Hooray for psychic item detection powers, though.

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  • augustaugust where you come from is gone Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    emnmnme wrote: »
    Is there a mod to brighten this game up?

    No, and you're a bad person for asking.

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  • emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    august wrote: »
    emnmnme wrote: »
    Is there a mod to brighten this game up?

    No, and you're a bad person for asking.

    There are worms biting my toes and I can't see them!

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  • Marty81Marty81 Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    emnmnme wrote: »
    august wrote: »
    emnmnme wrote: »
    Is there a mod to brighten this game up?

    No, and you're a bad person for asking.

    There are worms biting my toes and I can't see them!

    Turn the brightness on your monitor/video card up? Play in the dark? (It's better that way anyway)

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  • AntithesisAntithesis Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Marty81 wrote: »
    emnmnme wrote: »
    august wrote: »
    emnmnme wrote: »
    Is there a mod to brighten this game up?

    No, and you're a bad person for asking.

    There are worms biting my toes and I can't see them!

    Turn the brightness on your monitor/video card up? Play in the dark? (It's better that way anyway)

    The only times I ever hate my mouse for having a blue LED in it are when I'm trying to play horror or stealth games in the dark.

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  • GarthorGarthor Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Antithesis wrote: »
    Marty81 wrote: »
    emnmnme wrote: »
    august wrote: »
    emnmnme wrote: »
    Is there a mod to brighten this game up?

    No, and you're a bad person for asking.

    There are worms biting my toes and I can't see them!

    Turn the brightness on your monitor/video card up? Play in the dark? (It's better that way anyway)

    The only times I ever hate my mouse for having a blue LED in it are when I'm trying to play horror or stealth games in the dark.

    What kind of mouse? I have a Razer mouse that has blue LEDs on it, but the driver software has a "TURN THAT FUCKING SHIT OFF GOD FUCKING DAMNIT WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU?!" setting.

    Of course, one of the LEDs also pulses (or, well, it USED to) so maybe they figured it was so incredibly obnoxious it just needed to be able to be turned off.

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  • CorehealerCorehealer The Apothecary The softer edge of the universe.Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    NEO|Phyte wrote: »
    Helloween wrote: »
    Awwww but guuuuys. I liked wasting all that ammo :(

    Remember those big scary things you saw during SHODAN's lightshow? Do you REALLY want to run out of ammo and have to wrench some?

    Helloween's trippin ammo right now. I doubt he'd run out of ammo before he runs into more of those... assassin bots?

    That is the big scary evil your refering to, right? There's so much evil, and it all gets wrenched. I can't tell.

    Wrenchy wrenchy wrench. :mrgreen:

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  • emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    OK. I beat System Shock 2. Great game.

    Now, where's System Shock 3?

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  • ArdentMarauderArdentMarauder Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Garthor wrote: »
    What kind of mouse? I have a Razer mouse that has blue LEDs on it, but the driver software has a "TURN THAT FUCKING SHIT OFF GOD FUCKING DAMNIT WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU?!" setting.

    I had one of those mice, finally broke after picking up Diablo 2 again. This made me laugh until my sides hurt.

    Also, since I've not posted here before, Haloween, your LP is awesome! Funny, funny shit. I've never played SS2, and not only do I get to see a great game that I missed (reminds me of Dues Ex), but laugh the whole way through. Honestly, I think of "Why are they waving?!?" at least twice a day :P

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  • StollsStolls Brave Corporate Logo Chicago, ILRegistered User regular
    edited November 2009
    emnmnme wrote: »
    OK. I beat System Shock 2. Great game.

    Now, where's System Shock 3?

    EA holds the license, so current odds at SS3 ever seeing the light of day are an unprecedented 0:1000.

    A bet of zero dollars pays out $1000 if SS3 gets made.

    Still, very few takers.

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  • AegeriAegeri Tiny wee bacteriums Plateau of LengRegistered User regular
    edited November 2009
    To me, Dead Space is like an attempt to make a SS3 because that game reminded me of System Shock in so many ways. To me, Dead Space is a better homage to SS2 than Bioshock is. It never takes you "out of the game" in any way in Dead Space (upgrading equipment, reading something, voice logs and the like), the ship is built like the ship in SS2 (with similar decks) and so much else. It was also a damn fine game all by itself, but the little things that reminded me of some of the best aspects of SS2 with a significantly more fun combat system were just what made Dead Space to me.

    My quiet hope is that they find a way of making the hacking minigame in Dead Space Extraction work in the sequel to Dead Space. I would love them so much.

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  • emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Stolls wrote: »
    emnmnme wrote: »
    OK. I beat System Shock 2. Great game.

    Now, where's System Shock 3?

    EA holds the license, so current odds at SS3 ever seeing the light of day are an unprecedented 0:1000.

    A bet of zero dollars pays out $1000 if SS3 gets made.

    Still, very few takers.

    Well, maybe the fan community will pick up the slack. They're pretty diligent with all the updated texture mods so who knows? Maybe they'll finish the story up for good. Hey look! An erotic System Shock fanfiction.

    "I see you, HacKER. Your pathetic-kk meat has f-f-failed to satisfy meeeeeeee."

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  • PhantPhant Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    emnmnme wrote: »
    Stolls wrote: »
    emnmnme wrote: »
    OK. I beat System Shock 2. Great game.

    Now, where's System Shock 3?

    EA holds the license, so current odds at SS3 ever seeing the light of day are an unprecedented 0:1000.

    A bet of zero dollars pays out $1000 if SS3 gets made.

    Still, very few takers.

    Well, maybe the fan community will pick up the slack. They're pretty diligent with all the updated texture mods so who knows? Maybe they'll finish the story up for good. Hey look! An erotic System Shock fanfiction.

    "I see you, HacKER. Your pathetic-kk meat has f-f-failed to satisfy meeeeeeee."

    You are a terrible, terrible person. Nothing I have ever experienced on the internet has wounded my soul the way the phrase "An erotic System Shock fanfiction." has. Damn you.

    Phant on
  • PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Rule 34 destroys yet another fond nostalgic memory for someone on the internet.

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