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Seriously! Is it just me or is the first boss an expert shot with his grenades :(

How do I kill him? I've given him about 50 shotgun shots to the face and he still doesn't drop :/
 
Seriously! Is it just me or is the first boss an expert shot with his grenades :(

How do I kill him? I've given him about 50 shotgun shots to the face and he still doesn't drop :/

From playing the leaked beta i decided to take a rocket launcher with me and shot about 4 rockets in his face :D

First time against him i think i relied on an upgraded shotgun and emp and concussion grenades.
 
Seriously! Is it just me or is the first boss an expert shot with his grenades :(

How do I kill him? I've given him about 50 shotgun shots to the face and he still doesn't drop :/

Just keep running around a pillar. Pop around, shoot him in the face with the shotgun then get cover again. When he throws a grenade, use this time to run over to the other side of the room. Whilst he's walking over shoot him in the face with a revolver. Rinse and repeat.
 
Loving this game, just got the fletchette upgrade for the machine pistol, So fun shooting around corners with it!
 
Found the controls a lil bit clunky, but not too bad. I hate toggle iron sights, and I prefer toggle cover :) The wrong way round! Haven't found a way to fix iron sights yet.

Oh yeah, and the NPCs look like they are constantly drunk :) They should tone down the wobble, it's a bit too distracting. Otherwise, really enjoying the first proper mission, sneaking around goons, taking them down and picking their pockets.
 
It's definately a funny game.

Some of it unintentional, I've found it impossible not to laugh at some of the dumb stuff the AI has done so far. On the other hand the easter eggs are great, touches like some of the screens I've seen so far do make it easier to like the game.

There's other things that are funny but I'm not quite sure if that's intended. For example it's hard not to laugh at the comments made by the bad guys as they're searching for you when half a second later you pop out and put one in the skull. I say I'm not quite sure because Splinter Cell Conviction (also a Ubisoft game) did the exact same thing. If I were the developers I'd claim the humour was intended there, because it certainly doesn't work on any other level :p.

I did the exact same thing (well lethal takedown in my case).

It's the games fault, in very few other games would the thought process move so quickly from I wonder if I can get my money back, to I'm going to kill this guy and get my money back :D.


I had this hilarious episode in the police station when I decide to hide all of the policemen who I had silenced in a vent. Probably managed to fit about 5/6 guys in there in total. Later on when I got discovered by some other police, I ran to that vent and hid. The police walked over to the vent, bent down and had a quick look inside to discover is stuffed with mangled colleagues. Their reaction: "Hmmm...nothing to see here" and the returned to their offices.

I guess its hard to have a open ended game that is set in a city and make it believable because the player could do so many things that the AI wouldn't account for.
 
QR Codes

The QR codes on boxes and other things in the game are real. Scan them off your screen with a cellphone to read the hidden messages.
 
8 hours? Think ill wait till it comes down in price... a lot! I hear E.Y.E: Divine Cyberman is very good.

I highly doubt someone managed to complete this in 8 hours. Seriously, if you explore and do all the side quests etc, which do add to the story, it will be a lot more like 30 hours. Hacking everything. 8 hours maybe to gung ho. But even then, 8 hours doesn't sound right to me.

There are camera's that you can shut off but I haven't seen a great deal of turrets or robots so I've completely ignored that route.

Given that bosses need a lethal approach its worth dumping all your upgrades into 1 weapon. I'm working on a super pistol atm. With its Silencer it is awesome for non-lethal playthroughs. A single shot behind a target in a problematic position will make them turn around, works even better combined with Reflex Booster if there are 2 of them but stood in an awkward spot.

Some of the turrets and robots come in handy later on. Does Pacifist only count as bullets from your gun, and your lethal takedowns? Maybe you can still use robots/turrets on Pacifist. Not sure though. I found it handy being able to shut down turrets and robots in some cases.

As for bosses, if you can grab the Typhoon system, it really owns the bosses :p Worth it for that IMHO. But depends where else you want to spend points. You can get away without the Icarus landing system for example. I also wasted some points getting a silly fortify aug that I really didn't end up using. I also missed some Praxis packs in Heng Sha. So overall, I could have probably had 2-3 more really useful augs than I actually did. The inventory is pretty good to have. Didn't find a need for punching through walls, so I didn't get that. Maybe I lost 4 Praxis kits, and wasted 2 overall. Hacking is definitely worth it though. So much XP and cool stuff you can find. Especially if you have level 4/5 hacking. Some really sweet stuff.
 
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8 Hours sounds like lies to me...

I am playing an hacker / stealth route not killing anyone and from the start > end of the factory level Steam reports 3Hours of play (nearing 4 I would think) - fully exploring too
 
I got like 5 weapon mods, how do I mod weapons?

Press the gun or mod and press combine and it greys out all incompatible items.

I highly doubt someone managed to complete this in 8 hours. Seriously, if you explore and do all the side quests etc, which do add to the story, it will be a lot more like 30 hours. Hacking everything. 8 hours maybe to gung ho. But even then, 8 hours doesn't sound right to me.

If you ignored everything but primaries and didn't collect anything else or explore then 8 hours, likely. But yeah, if you did anything else, no way could you do it in 8.



Some of the turrets and robots come in handy later on. Does Pacifist only count as bullets from your gun, and your lethal takedowns? Maybe you can still use robots/turrets on Pacifist. Not sure though. I found it handy being able to shut down turrets and robots in some cases.

As for bosses, if you can grab the Typhoon system, it really owns the bosses :p Worth it for that IMHO. But depends where else you want to spend points. You can get away without the Icarus landing system for example. I also wasted some points getting a silly fortify aug that I really didn't end up using. I also missed some Praxis packs in Heng Sha. So overall, I could have probably had 2-3 more really useful augs than I actually did. The inventory is pretty good to have. Didn't find a need for punching through walls, so I didn't get that. Maybe I lost 4 Praxis kits, and wasted 2 overall. Hacking is definitely worth it though. So much XP and cool stuff you can find. Especially if you have level 4/5 hacking. Some really sweet stuff.

Meh, first boss was easy enough. First 3 times I rather stupidly didn't bother moving when he chucked grenades at me. 1 EMP grenade (this stunned him nicely and slowed him down a LOT), 1 Frag and lots of pistol shots, run away to the other end, another Frag and lots more pistol shots, done deal. Oddly enough he didn't even scratch me. (Give me Deus Ex btw).

Hacking a turret/robot is by your hand so it'll count. What annoys me is the only turret I've found (since the start) I couldn't even find a security hub that controlled it!

Icarus Landing System has quite a few opportunities it seems. At least, the stunning on landing part. Hacking has a ton of rewards though, so many terminals and random alarm panels to hack.
 
Just finished the game at 22 hours, although I spent at least 3 hours of that AFK at the menu screen while I went and did other stuff, and I finished all the sidequests except one and had plenty of time to explore. Great game, and I going to have to do a 2nd play through at some point as I did intend to go through and get the pacifist achievment but I had to abandon going for that to save Malik.
 
I've put 15 hours into it so far and going on what people have said I'm only about half way through... I could easily have put twice as much time in so far exploring side locations, etc. I pretty much rushed the china section, mostly playing fairly balls to the wall, maxed hacking, maxed armor, upgraded pistol shooting stuff in the head/emp grenades on anything that won't die with one shot to the head. Its messy but I don't feel as connected to the game as the first one so rushing through a lot of the copy n paste stuff.
 
Meh, first boss was easy enough. First 3 times I rather stupidly didn't bother moving when he chucked grenades at me. 1 EMP grenade (this stunned him nicely and slowed him down a LOT), 1 Frag and lots of pistol shots, run away to the other end, another Frag and lots more pistol shots, done deal. Oddly enough he didn't even scratch me. (Give me Deus Ex btw).

Hacking a turret/robot is by your hand so it'll count. What annoys me is the only turret I've found (since the start) I couldn't even find a security hub that controlled it!

Icarus Landing System has quite a few opportunities it seems. At least, the stunning on landing part. Hacking has a ton of rewards though, so many terminals and random alarm panels to hack.

First boss is easy yeah. 2nd and 3rd not so easy though ;) Certainly not without an armor upgrade I found. I used Typhoon on the last boss. Easiest thing ever ;)

Yeah, hacking is definitely worth it. Just not the fortify aug that I got, as I only got the first level, and then didn't really use fortify that much. I found nuke and stop worms a lot more useful :)

There are quite a few turrets and robots later on. At least disabling them comes in handy. Much easier to disable than sneak, as they count as alarms too. So for no alarms I imagine it could help a lot :)

Seems new nvidia drivers+win7 updates have stopped the odd effects/artifacting i was getting on peoples faces during conversations :D

Which Nvidia drivers are these? Because I'm already on 280.26 which seems to be the most recent.
 
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I have just got to China for the first time and I have been playing for about 20 hours so far. This really is a game you can take you time in and get your moneys worth from, especially if you stop to read the all emails and newspapers and look for easter eggs.

Re: QR Codes; I did not think to try to scan them! Another timesink.. hooray! :D
 
I have just got to China for the first time and I have been playing for about 20 hours so far. This really is a game you can take you time in and get your moneys worth from, especially if you stop to read the all emails and newspapers and look for easter eggs.

Re: QR Codes; I did not think to try to scan them! Another timesink.. hooray! :D

Any chance someone could post images of the QR codes? I bought mine on Steam :(

Wish I'd gone for boxed Augmented now :(
 
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