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  • Steel AngelSteel Angel Registered User regular
    http://steamcommunity.com/app/346940/discussions/0/527274088385481715/

    Latest bug fixes up! They added a grenade launcher in case anyone wants to make a PC decker that can dps like Is0bell

    I believe that was already in the game, it was just only available at one vendor in the Strangler Bao mission.

    There are a few items only available from mission specific vendors like that like the shock glove or armored business suit but having one so early felt weird.

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  • Minerva_SCMinerva_SC Registered User regular
    Ahhh, I loaded a game were I'm in a battle and Is0bell's grenade launcher is gone. Though when I loaded it the first time it was there, then I reloaded when things went south and it's now gone. Why god why...

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  • TalonSETalonSE Registered User regular
    edited September 2015
    The ol' M79 grenade launcher only holds one round but combine it with the cyberarm autoloader and BOOM, you can fire as many rounds as you have AP thanks to free reloading after every shot. It's hilarious.

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  • yossarian_livesyossarian_lives Registered User regular
    The autoloader on my street sam felt like cheating, so much dakka. I still like Duncan's grenade return upgrade the best. Chucking back some random duder's grenades never gets old, or any less hilarious.

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    The grenade launcher was always available!... if you had the foresight to buy it in the beginning of the game

    Though, that upgraded one wasn't

    Also this patch is basically just the beta patch they released a week ago, was hoping there'd be some new shit in it

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  • ArchsorcererArchsorcerer Registered User regular
    Do the armors available early in the game provide some kind of bonus? Nothing is mentioned in the description.

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  • StollsStolls Brave Corporate Logo Chicago, ILRegistered User regular
    edited September 2015
    And here we are: the not-yet-comprehensive skillchecks guide for Hong Kong.

    Final etiquette tally, for the interested:
    Academic: 19
    Corporate: 9
    Gang: 4
    Security: 8
    Shadowrunner: 14
    Socialite: 8

    Many of the Academic and Shadowrunner checks are backround lore and extra conversations; Gaichu has like half a dozen of the academic checks by himself. Still, their use is definitely favored this time around. Security comes in a bit more during the endgame, though one of its checks apparently fails regardless of subsequent dialogue (the conversation in question seems to require a disguise). Gang is basically not used after Outsider, while Corporate and Socialite are close in the ratio of occurrences to use in puzzle solutions.

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    Do the armors available early in the game provide some kind of bonus? Nothing is mentioned in the description.

    It's all just armor rating, none of the armor in the game gives attribute bonuses or health anymore.

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  • ArchsorcererArchsorcerer Registered User regular
    edited September 2015
    That's sad to hear.

    Was there a reason for such change?

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  • TalonSETalonSE Registered User regular
    Allegedly it was due to players wanting to play dress-up with the armor and then complaining that their preferred styles didn't have the proper boosts for whatever build they were running so HBS just nuked the entire idea of armor boosting anything. Not sure I believe that although I am still running around in the starting armor on my 2nd playthru because it's the only style that has both arms visible and I like the look of the exposed cyberarms. (Why yes, I did ask for this.) Surprisingly, only having 1 point in armor hasn't really been an issue for my rifle using Street Sam on normal difficulty either. I'm pretty sure I couldn't have gotten away with it in Dragonfall though.

  • ArchsorcererArchsorcerer Registered User regular
    edited September 2015
    I managed to see there is a few amulets that boost a stat now.

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  • 3cl1ps33cl1ps3 I will build a labyrinth to house the cheese Registered User regular
    I managed to see there is a few amulets that boost a stat now.

    Yep, there's +1 for Willpower and Charisma and +1 to both.

  • ArchsorcererArchsorcerer Registered User regular
    Hopefully a new campaign can bring some improvements. The amulets tell me they wanna add sockets to armor.

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  • ArchsorcererArchsorcerer Registered User regular
    edited September 2015
    You can give Dante
    spells
    ?

    For real?

    EDIT: I need to try it.

    "Yo dawg, I heard you like Fireballs..."

    You know how it goes. :)

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  • Hahnsoo1Hahnsoo1 Make Ready. We Hunt.Registered User regular
    edited September 2015
    Jacobkosh wrote: »
    I won several fights in the final missions by having Gobbet haste Duncan, who full auto'ed on two enemies in cover to negate their cover bonuses, then Gobbet used her remaining AP to Flush a third enemy, then my pistoldecker with a Ruger Thunderbolt chainshotted the three exposed dudes, killing the two guys Duncan had weakened, then Bursting on the third. First round, three party members activated, three bodies dropped. Bing, bang, bong. Triominos!

    Nobody says "triominos." But I just did, I guess.
    "Triominos" is now officially your new street name, Jake. Aren't you also the guy that had unfortunately coined the phrase "Don't Jake this roll"? :D

    EDIT: The next time I roll a character in an RPG, I'm seriously considering "Bing Bang Bong" as my nickname, which will probably be deprecated to "Triple BBB" or "B-cubed".

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  • RchanenRchanen Registered User regular
    Have they fixed the Cyberware Affinity 6 bug yet?

  • ArchsorcererArchsorcerer Registered User regular
    Played the Neville Ma run. It feels like there is a lot more text now.

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  • ArchsorcererArchsorcerer Registered User regular
    PC Gamer talking to Jordan.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKN8Vq1jK6s

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  • HefflingHeffling No Pic EverRegistered User regular
    Hahnsoo1 wrote: »
    Jacobkosh wrote: »
    I won several fights in the final missions by having Gobbet haste Duncan, who full auto'ed on two enemies in cover to negate their cover bonuses, then Gobbet used her remaining AP to Flush a third enemy, then my pistoldecker with a Ruger Thunderbolt chainshotted the three exposed dudes, killing the two guys Duncan had weakened, then Bursting on the third. First round, three party members activated, three bodies dropped. Bing, bang, bong. Triominos!

    Nobody says "triominos." But I just did, I guess.
    "Triominos" is now officially your new street name, Jake. Aren't you also the guy that had unfortunately coined the phrase "Don't Jake this roll"? :D

    EDIT: The next time I roll a character in an RPG, I'm seriously considering "Bing Bang Bong" as my nickname, which will probably be deprecated to "Triple BBB" or "B-cubed".

    We're doing this show in *puts sunglasses on* Three Bee.

    Hahnsoo1
  • chiasaur11chiasaur11 Never doubt a raccoon. Do you think it's trademarked?Registered User regular
    Heffling wrote: »
    Hahnsoo1 wrote: »
    Jacobkosh wrote: »
    I won several fights in the final missions by having Gobbet haste Duncan, who full auto'ed on two enemies in cover to negate their cover bonuses, then Gobbet used her remaining AP to Flush a third enemy, then my pistoldecker with a Ruger Thunderbolt chainshotted the three exposed dudes, killing the two guys Duncan had weakened, then Bursting on the third. First round, three party members activated, three bodies dropped. Bing, bang, bong. Triominos!

    Nobody says "triominos." But I just did, I guess.
    "Triominos" is now officially your new street name, Jake. Aren't you also the guy that had unfortunately coined the phrase "Don't Jake this roll"? :D

    EDIT: The next time I roll a character in an RPG, I'm seriously considering "Bing Bang Bong" as my nickname, which will probably be deprecated to "Triple BBB" or "B-cubed".

    We're doing this show in *puts sunglasses on* Three Bee.

    Who's your friend who likes to play, his rockets makes you yell "Hooray!"?

  • ArchsorcererArchsorcerer Registered User regular
    Did Is0bel's run. This was missing.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRsPheErBj8

    I would have been chased away from the place with gunfire and drones. :P

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  • ArchsorcererArchsorcerer Registered User regular
    edited September 2015
    I've read a little from the ending and I get some
    classic fiction monster vibes from what I've played of the game.

    "Duncan, I have feeling we are not in Kans-, I mean, Seattle anymore." :P
    Duncan has a Teen Wolf thing going about him. Racter wants to become a lich. Strangler Bao looks like Frankestein. And Gaichu is easy.

    Tsang and Cheng have an Oz's witches dynamic.

    Is Gobbet the Cowardly Lion? :D

    The original crew (non-stretch goals) seems inspired by the Wizard of Oz for sure.

    EDIT: This one is more fitting.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U016JWYUDdQ

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  • Captain MarcusCaptain Marcus now arrives the hour of actionRegistered User regular
    I really am liking the BBS this time around. Especially the bit with the poetry
    They make a poetry bot and it escapes. Later they're discussing some AI that accidentally became sentient and only posts PC reviews when it shows up in the thread and merges with JIVEBOT

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  • StollsStolls Brave Corporate Logo Chicago, ILRegistered User regular
    I really am liking the BBS this time around. Especially the bit with the poetry
    They make a poetry bot and it escapes. Later they're discussing some AI that accidentally became sentient and only posts PC reviews when it shows up in the thread and merges with JIVEBOT

    In an amusing case of life imitating art, this has spawned actual poetry battles over on the Site That Shall Not Be Named.
    Including various posters imitating Jivebot and Codex, both separately and together.

    I hope they're just posters, at least.

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  • jakobaggerjakobagger LO THY DREAD EMPIRE CHAOS IS RESTORED Registered User regular
    I just started this, having a rare weekend of alone time, so I'm not reading the whole spoiler-filled thread yet. Just wanted to say, after spending a lot of time and frustration trying to get the game installed and finally re-downloading all of Steam, so far it's worth it.

    I like the setting, I love the characters and what little I've seen of the plot so far seems promising. Maybe HBS played the Nightmare Harvest mod? Sure is a lot of talking about dreams.

    I'm playing an adept because kung fu, which is a bit underwhelming so far. Once I actually can afford some spells I'm sure I'll be a badass though.

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  • cB557cB557 voOOP Registered User regular
    jakobagger wrote: »
    I just started this, having a rare weekend of alone time, so I'm not reading the whole spoiler-filled thread yet. Just wanted to say, after spending a lot of time and frustration trying to get the game installed and finally re-downloading all of Steam, so far it's worth it.

    I like the setting, I love the characters and what little I've seen of the plot so far seems promising. Maybe HBS played the Nightmare Harvest mod? Sure is a lot of talking about dreams.

    I'm playing an adept because kung fu, which is a bit underwhelming so far. Once I actually can afford some spells I'm sure I'll be a badass though.
    Remember that melee characters are best as supports for ranged characters, generally. Hitting an enemy with any melee attack will remove cover bonuses, so you can significantly improve your team's killyness by running around in cqc, punching every enemy once and then letting your team's guns swiss cheese everything.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited September 2015
    So long, Algernon. Guess he decided to settle down in Berlin.

    Or saw Kowloon Walled City and said hell no.


    I'm neck deep in Phantom Pain, but I still hope to devote a day or so to this along the way. My thoughts so far is that it isn't a breath of fresh air like Dead Man's Switch or a great thing made better like Dragonfall, just more of the same goodness.

    I still appreciate the new setting and gameplay tweaks.

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  • vagrant_windsvagrant_winds Overworked Mysterious Eldritch Horror Hunter XX Registered User regular
    Algernon passes through once. I saw him between missions one time. But yeah, he probably wisely decided to GTFO.

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  • Rhan9Rhan9 Registered User regular
    What the hell is his deal anyway? Actually something, or just an Enigmatic Wanker(tm)?

  • ArchsorcererArchsorcerer Registered User regular
    He is the character of one of the developers. I think Absinthe is based on his wife.

    Not sure if they are still there working in HBS.

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  • jakobaggerjakobagger LO THY DREAD EMPIRE CHAOS IS RESTORED Registered User regular
    cB557 wrote: »
    jakobagger wrote: »
    I just started this, having a rare weekend of alone time, so I'm not reading the whole spoiler-filled thread yet. Just wanted to say, after spending a lot of time and frustration trying to get the game installed and finally re-downloading all of Steam, so far it's worth it.

    I like the setting, I love the characters and what little I've seen of the plot so far seems promising. Maybe HBS played the Nightmare Harvest mod? Sure is a lot of talking about dreams.

    I'm playing an adept because kung fu, which is a bit underwhelming so far. Once I actually can afford some spells I'm sure I'll be a badass though.
    Remember that melee characters are best as supports for ranged characters, generally. Hitting an enemy with any melee attack will remove cover bonuses, so you can significantly improve your team's killyness by running around in cqc, punching every enemy once and then letting your team's guns swiss cheese everything.

    I actually did not realize this! And I've played a lot of the previous two games. Maybe I was just never under enough pressure to motivate me to really study the systems closely?

  • ArchsorcererArchsorcerer Registered User regular
    Is there a way to check your teammates' karma distribution outside runs?

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  • StollsStolls Brave Corporate Logo Chicago, ILRegistered User regular
    Is there a way to check your teammates' karma distribution outside runs?

    Not that I'm aware of; just the character sheet for active party members, but I don't think there's a way to check their stats otherwise.

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  • TertieeTertiee Registered User regular
    jakobagger wrote: »
    cB557 wrote: »
    jakobagger wrote: »
    I just started this, having a rare weekend of alone time, so I'm not reading the whole spoiler-filled thread yet. Just wanted to say, after spending a lot of time and frustration trying to get the game installed and finally re-downloading all of Steam, so far it's worth it.

    I like the setting, I love the characters and what little I've seen of the plot so far seems promising. Maybe HBS played the Nightmare Harvest mod? Sure is a lot of talking about dreams.

    I'm playing an adept because kung fu, which is a bit underwhelming so far. Once I actually can afford some spells I'm sure I'll be a badass though.
    Remember that melee characters are best as supports for ranged characters, generally. Hitting an enemy with any melee attack will remove cover bonuses, so you can significantly improve your team's killyness by running around in cqc, punching every enemy once and then letting your team's guns swiss cheese everything.

    I actually did not realize this! And I've played a lot of the previous two games. Maybe I was just never under enough pressure to motivate me to really study the systems closely?

    There's a number of aspects to combat that are not immediately obvious. Thrown weapons like Detrich's knives also remove the cover bonus on a successful hit. I didn't notice units in light cover only take 1.0x damage and those in medium/heavy only take 1.0 or 0.5x damage until I came across one of the Kickstarter updates about it after I finished the game.
    Is there a way to check your teammates' karma distribution outside runs?

    Not sure if the same applies in Hong Kong but in Dragonfall right before you go on the mission inside the party select screen you can see their skills in one of the tabs.

    jakobagger
  • ArchsorcererArchsorcerer Registered User regular
    edited September 2015
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  • NeadenNeaden Registered User regular
    Does anyone know if there is a fix for the PC Decker having a cyberweapon and a random pistol while decking? It's put my game to a halt and made me think about just restarting as a mage.

  • JacobkoshJacobkosh Gamble a stamp. I can show you how to be a real man!Moderator mod
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    Neaden wrote: »
    Does anyone know if there is a fix for the PC Decker having a cyberweapon and a random pistol while decking? It's put my game to a halt and made me think about just restarting as a mage.

    That never happened to me. That's really weird.

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  • ArchsorcererArchsorcerer Registered User regular
    Is everyone happy with the full crew treatment?

    I wonder if that's the reason cash is scarce this time.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    I'm focusing on getting my core Mage spells going. The crew are on their own until I get my Thunderbolt on.

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  • Rear Admiral ChocoRear Admiral Choco I wanna be an owl, Jerry! Owl York CityRegistered User regular
    Stolls wrote: »
    And here we are: the not-yet-comprehensive skillchecks guide for Hong Kong.

    Final etiquette tally, for the interested:
    Academic: 19
    Corporate: 9
    Gang: 4
    Security: 8
    Shadowrunner: 14
    Socialite: 8

    Many of the Academic and Shadowrunner checks are backround lore and extra conversations; Gaichu has like half a dozen of the academic checks by himself. Still, their use is definitely favored this time around. Security comes in a bit more during the endgame, though one of its checks apparently fails regardless of subsequent dialogue (the conversation in question seems to require a disguise). Gang is basically not used after Outsider, while Corporate and Socialite are close in the ratio of occurrences to use in puzzle solutions.

    Hahaha yesssss
    I picked Academics totally on a whim thinking "Well this was shit-useless in the last two... how bad could it be this time?"

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