Silver has anti-microbial properties. It basically is toxic to bacteria. Many ancient people didn't understand bacteria, but they understood that that gross stuff didn't grow on silver and if you put silver against your wound them bad rot spirits stayed away.
Silver must be holy or something! And if its holy magic, it can probably kill that monster better than iron can.
Before following any advice, opinions, or thoughts I may have expressed in the above post, be warned: I found Keven Costners "Waterworld" to be a very entertaining film.
Silver has anti-microbial properties. It basically is toxic to bacteria. Many ancient people didn't understand bacteria, but they understood that that gross stuff didn't grow on silver and if you put silver against your wound them bad rot spirits stayed away.
Silver must be holy or something! And if its holy magic, it can probably kill that monster better than iron can.
Silver also reacts very obviously to Sulphur (sulphur being associated with evil)
Silver has anti-microbial properties. It basically is toxic to bacteria. Many ancient people didn't understand bacteria, but they understood that that gross stuff didn't grow on silver and if you put silver against your wound them bad rot spirits stayed away.
Silver must be holy or something! And if its holy magic, it can probably kill that monster better than iron can.
Silver is also used to make mirrors, which is why vampires aren't reflected.
Silver has anti-microbial properties. It basically is toxic to bacteria. Many ancient people didn't understand bacteria, but they understood that that gross stuff didn't grow on silver and if you put silver against your wound them bad rot spirits stayed away.
Silver must be holy or something! And if its holy magic, it can probably kill that monster better than iron can.
Silver is also used to make mirrors, which is why vampires aren't reflected.
A lovely scene in one of my favourite books (The Vampire Genevieve omnibus by Jack Yeovil, specifically in one of the short stories in Silver Nails) has the titular Genevieve about to go "undercover", and she's sitting in front of a mirror as she has make-up applied so her lack of reflection won't give her away; and she slowly watches her face come into view, piece by piece, a face she hasn't seen in over six hundred years.
Monsters don't have armor, or really if they did their vulnerability/allergy makes it better than steel.
Steel is better for fighting other humans due the weapons being used. When was the last time you heard of a medieval knight with a silver weapon?
I dunno, some monsters like dragons and stuff have really tough armor.
I suspect the author did that because it sounded cool.
If you see how Geralt fights a dragon in Witcher 2, he doesn't even use his silver sword for the "real" fight. He uses his steel sword to anchor himself, holds on for dear life, and then uses his hunting hook to crash it into a tree which skewers it.
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An article that discusses the Haitian population that puts a few more worries to rest.
There's an entire Haitian section of the city. The various areas all have local gangs. The Voodoo Boys are the gang from the Haitian area. But the rest of the area is filled with Haitians that are not a part of the gang.
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One very interesting note in there mentions that your background choice may actually change where you start the game.
Not sure if we heard anything about that before.
I was kind of hoping we'd see more rural sides of the game, and they did briefly show what looked to be more small town areas. The bar they showed in the very first trailer where people were playing billiards seemed remarkably cowboy, so I assume that's around some suburb or fringe of Night City.
And I'd assume the childhood hero would change something in the game, but it looks to be different than I expected. I assumed it would be the person you meet when things go to shit, but... with Keanu being Silverhand, would they set it up so that he's not the only person you could see? If he's a manifestation of your childhood hero, is it possible that Keanu plays all three... and Silverhand, Blackhand, and Arasaka are just covers to make the ghost in your machine more personal and make you more willing to do what it wants?
It does make more sense for the setting to be different depending on your background, though I believe the entire tutorial will be based on your background choices possibly. So where you start, how people react to you, your equipment, and your contacts might all be different. I like the idea as it would make the beginning vividly different depending on your backgrounds, and then after everything hits the fan, the world opens up and you're free to do whatever you want.
Nomads are a way for the RP setting to smash Road Warrior punk asthetics into a techno future in a clever fashion. For those that don't know, the USA underwent a full collapse after U.S. Intelligence services went rogue, picked a fight with rising super star Europe, and got trounced both in war that followed, and a minor civil war against the military. The end result is that 25% of Americans ended up homeless, including the environmental ruination of much of middle America.
The scene from the story trailer which shows essentially a cyber cowboy bar likely has strong influences from the Nomad faction.
Man, the default white guy V they've been showing in the most recent trailers happens to look almost exactly like one of my asshole cousins. Every time I'm like "oh it's THAT asshole."
Really nice world building. You instantly see lines of conflict between those styles, their reasons and results, and those are just very broad strokes without the finer detail of even the fuzzy fringes where it mixes and overlaps
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I want to make a cyberninja neomilitant type and a trashy ass entropic dumpster person.
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AxenMy avatar is Excalibur.Yes, the sword.Registered Userregular
Kitsch. . . it. . . it calls to me.
A Capellan's favorite sheath for any blade is your back.
I wonder how chaotic you can go.
can you really burn the city? Like, total chaos, no one winning, just pure nihilist accelerationism?
At the very least a well thought out neutral route like FNV would be greatly appreciated.
Witcher had like 36 endings if you count all the flavors, and some were really vastly different. They are probably gonna end up with way more even if they try to not overdo it, just by having different starting points...
And anyways.. What's a neutral ending? Nothing changing isn't neutral, it's a good ending for those who gain from the status quo. But changing that makes it not neutral, too..
I wonder how chaotic you can go.
can you really burn the city? Like, total chaos, no one winning, just pure nihilist accelerationism?
At the very least a well thought out neutral route like FNV would be greatly appreciated.
Witcher had like 36 endings if you count all the flavors, and some were really vastly different. They are probably gonna end up with way more even if they try to not overdo it, just by having different starting points...
And anyways.. What's a neutral ending? Nothing changing isn't neutral, it's a good ending for those who gain from the status quo. But changing that makes it not neutral, too..
I used neutral but honestly I guess it doesn’t really apply . In FNV the example I used if you didn’t like any of the ingame factions you could tell them to go fuck themselves and do things for yourself . In VTM bloodlines I believe there was a similar choice at the end iirc. I just dislike getting to the end of a game and being forced to side with x because you have to pick one of them. It’s not deal breaking still going to get the game just a personal quirk.
Haha, reminds me of the political factions in Skyrim. To me, that was the least interesting portion of that game and I only ever eventually choose a side to get the achievements.
Edit: I should also say, because it was also one more excuse to keep playing Skyrim. Even now, it calls to me....
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“There are no happy endings, because nothing ends.” ... also, "Ah, turn blue!"
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Immortality in cyberpunk terms has gotta mean uploaded to something, right? I mean, that's what I'm expecting.
Also how immortality is usually portrayed as a curse... I wonder which way they'll go with it.
Since it probably means being free in the net, a boundless source of information and entertainment, I'm sure for hacker types it'd be a paradise. I am curious as to how this is a "true" immortality chip however, since aside from ghost Johnny, we've already been told in the press releases your first big quest is trying to find Alt Cunningham (another net ghost).
At least in Oblivion there was a very definite right answer.
Hail Sithis.
slightly OT, but
I'm doing my very first Oblivion playthrough right now, and I'm going through the Knights of the Nine plugin feeling VERY awkward...
... until one of the Knights is like "yeah you gotta send Umaril into the Void"
and then my Speaker leans forward on her chair like "Did you say I gotta send somebody to the void?"
(I also plan on doing Shivering Isles, and tbh going straight from HAIL SITHIS to BY THE NINE makes a lot more sense if you're gonna become Sheogorath)
Huge interview with a ton of interesting details. Just one:
GC: How much do you deal with sexuality in 2077? As a European developer you’re likely to be a lot less puritanical about such things than an American company. They were implying last year that there is a lot of nudity in the game…
PS: [laughs] Yes, a lot. But this is a game for mature players and the maturity is there in all kinds of ways, from the philosophical background of the game to the topics of the game, and also the sexuality is there as well. As a player you can pick the different body types for yourself, you can pick the different voice that you have. So you can… say you have a female voice but match it with a male body. And then you define how other characters perceive you. So basically, how they address you.
GC: Do you mean pronouns?
PS: It’s not exactly that but it gives you that effect. So you’re basically deciding how you define yourself. And in the game the romance and sexuality, it’s really present. Because we are sexual beings, that’s obvious.
GC: It’s not obvious in games. There’s almost no sexuality in games.
PS: We are CD Projekt, so it’s obvious to us. [laughs] Sexuality was very present in The Witcher games and I think here it’s even more present, but I think here we are a bit more mature because we are allowing the player to craft their own character a bit more. And also, in the customisation screen, if you want to have stronger female features on your male character you can do it. If you want to have male features on a female character you can do it. If you want to be a character that is less easy to define you can also do it. So it’s really up to the player as to what they want to do.
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I really want that to be enough but I'm still worried that they're just quickly backpedaling and hoping that "has a character creator without a binary gender choice" is good enough so they can get back to showing off armblade ninja ultraviolence
I really want that to be enough but I'm still worried that they're just quickly backpedaling and hoping that "has a character creator without a binary gender choice" is good enough so they can get back to showing off armblade ninja ultraviolence
The algorithms required to do on-the-fly 3d modeling aren't really something you quickly backpedal to.
I really want that to be enough but I'm still worried that they're just quickly backpedaling and hoping that "has a character creator without a binary gender choice" is good enough so they can get back to showing off armblade ninja ultraviolence
The algorithms required to do on-the-fly 3d modeling aren't really something you quickly backpedal to.
None of that was described in the interview.
Just that you can pick how you look and it's independent to your character's gender.
I don't really think it's a back pedal though. It's increasingly common for how games set up character creation these days and their issue has never being not featuring trans/nb people but how they consistently seem very into the fetishization of bodies with the fall back of just 'well it's cyberpunk so that's our whole ass excuse'.
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Silver must be holy or something! And if its holy magic, it can probably kill that monster better than iron can.
re: spoiler tag, That's one of my favorite small dialog exchanges in the Witcher series.
"Oy, a Witcher eh, I hear you carry two swords, one for people and one for monsters."
"They're both for monsters"
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Silver is also used to make mirrors, which is why vampires aren't reflected.
A lovely scene in one of my favourite books (The Vampire Genevieve omnibus by Jack Yeovil, specifically in one of the short stories in Silver Nails) has the titular Genevieve about to go "undercover", and she's sitting in front of a mirror as she has make-up applied so her lack of reflection won't give her away; and she slowly watches her face come into view, piece by piece, a face she hasn't seen in over six hundred years.
I might be due a re-read of that soon.
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If you see how Geralt fights a dragon in Witcher 2, he doesn't even use his silver sword for the "real" fight. He uses his steel sword to anchor himself, holds on for dear life, and then uses his hunting hook to crash it into a tree which skewers it.
An article that discusses the Haitian population that puts a few more worries to rest.
There's an entire Haitian section of the city. The various areas all have local gangs. The Voodoo Boys are the gang from the Haitian area. But the rest of the area is filled with Haitians that are not a part of the gang.
Another one about the area outside the city.
One very interesting note in there mentions that your background choice may actually change where you start the game.
Not sure if we heard anything about that before.
I was kind of hoping we'd see more rural sides of the game, and they did briefly show what looked to be more small town areas. The bar they showed in the very first trailer where people were playing billiards seemed remarkably cowboy, so I assume that's around some suburb or fringe of Night City.
And I'd assume the childhood hero would change something in the game, but it looks to be different than I expected. I assumed it would be the person you meet when things go to shit, but... with Keanu being Silverhand, would they set it up so that he's not the only person you could see? If he's a manifestation of your childhood hero, is it possible that Keanu plays all three... and Silverhand, Blackhand, and Arasaka are just covers to make the ghost in your machine more personal and make you more willing to do what it wants?
It does make more sense for the setting to be different depending on your background, though I believe the entire tutorial will be based on your background choices possibly. So where you start, how people react to you, your equipment, and your contacts might all be different. I like the idea as it would make the beginning vividly different depending on your backgrounds, and then after everything hits the fan, the world opens up and you're free to do whatever you want.
The scene from the story trailer which shows essentially a cyber cowboy bar likely has strong influences from the Nomad faction.
Man, the default white guy V they've been showing in the most recent trailers happens to look almost exactly like one of my asshole cousins. Every time I'm like "oh it's THAT asshole."
https://podcast.tidalwavegames.com/
( the?) four defining art styles of the world
can you really burn the city? Like, total chaos, no one winning, just pure nihilist accelerationism?
Either they're retractable, or really, really impractical. The latter would totally fit the style of form over function
At the very least a well thought out neutral route like FNV would be greatly appreciated.
Witcher had like 36 endings if you count all the flavors, and some were really vastly different. They are probably gonna end up with way more even if they try to not overdo it, just by having different starting points...
And anyways.. What's a neutral ending? Nothing changing isn't neutral, it's a good ending for those who gain from the status quo. But changing that makes it not neutral, too..
Also how immortality is usually portrayed as a curse... I wonder which way they'll go with it.
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I used neutral but honestly I guess it doesn’t really apply . In FNV the example I used if you didn’t like any of the ingame factions you could tell them to go fuck themselves and do things for yourself . In VTM bloodlines I believe there was a similar choice at the end iirc. I just dislike getting to the end of a game and being forced to side with x because you have to pick one of them. It’s not deal breaking still going to get the game just a personal quirk.
Edit: I should also say, because it was also one more excuse to keep playing Skyrim. Even now, it calls to me....
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Since it probably means being free in the net, a boundless source of information and entertainment, I'm sure for hacker types it'd be a paradise. I am curious as to how this is a "true" immortality chip however, since aside from ghost Johnny, we've already been told in the press releases your first big quest is trying to find Alt Cunningham (another net ghost).
slightly OT, but
... until one of the Knights is like "yeah you gotta send Umaril into the Void"
and then my Speaker leans forward on her chair like "Did you say I gotta send somebody to the void?"
(I also plan on doing Shivering Isles, and tbh going straight from HAIL SITHIS to BY THE NINE makes a lot more sense if you're gonna become Sheogorath)
https://podcast.tidalwavegames.com/
You fucking made me reinstall WItcher 3.
I hope you're happy.
Huge interview with a ton of interesting details. Just one:
The algorithms required to do on-the-fly 3d modeling aren't really something you quickly backpedal to.
Still not pre ordering though.
But i am getting hyped.
None of that was described in the interview.
Just that you can pick how you look and it's independent to your character's gender.
I don't really think it's a back pedal though. It's increasingly common for how games set up character creation these days and their issue has never being not featuring trans/nb people but how they consistently seem very into the fetishization of bodies with the fall back of just 'well it's cyberpunk so that's our whole ass excuse'.