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Deus Ex: Human Revolution Review.
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Post by
Rankkor
I still dont have the game =( but I found this image on the internet :P cookies if you can figure out what movie is this easter egg referencing......
http://www.shrani.si/f/10/qb/1jFvjOIt/threeseashells.jpg
Post by
281850
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Post by
Rankkor
I want to say "Demolition Man".
you my friend have earned an internet cookie :P yes, that is a reference to the infamous "3 seashells" of Demolition Man. Which grossly were used as toilet paper in that strange strange future.
Post by
Thror
Why don't you just buy it off Steam, Rankkorr? Easiest way to get a game to your pc instantly.
Post by
Rankkor
Why don't you just buy it off Steam, Rankkorr? Easiest way to get a game to your pc instantly.
/sighs.....
really long story.
A short version is: Since my country is in the grip of a madman dictator, we're under a permanent economic lockdown. All video-games related to violence are banned (And I mean a full-blown ban, any videogame store caught selling them is shut down, and its owner gets at least 5years in prison)
Because of this, original games are no longer sold here, only pirated versions. And I cant buy original games off the internet because I cant exchange my currency (Bolivares) to a foreign one (Like Dollars) and I doubt Steam accepts bolivares.
To make matters worst, while EVERYONE in the world is able to use paypal to buy on the internet (they accept any currency and pay to the store in dollars, or the applicable currency) we're not, since paypal in venezuela is also under the lockdown, meaning I could only use paypal to buy stuff INSIDE the country.
I cant import it because it would cost me a small fortune to be able to travel to a foreign country, buy the game and get back here.
so, since I cant A: buy it retail, B: buy it off the internet or C: travel to another country to buy it there, my only option is to wait till a cracked pirated version arrives to the venezuelan black market.
I cant say I like piracy, but when the original product is not sold here (and never will be sold here) I dont have another option (other than not playing)
Sometimes I get lucky and a pirated version is avaliable within a couple of days of the original being launched. Other times I'm not so lucky (had to wait almost an extra year to play assassin's creed 2). I'm just hoping I dont have to wait that long for a pirated version of Deus Ex Human Revolution :S
Post by
Thror
Wow. That's extreme. I kinda do not understand the way you speak of exchanging currency though. As far as I know, in bank payments, currency is not an obstacle. o_O How do you pay for Wowhead premium? I doubt Wowhead would accept Venezuela currency specifically...
Post by
Jubilee
I've had a working pirated copy for a couple days now =/ If you want it I won't link it here, but I can send you the info my email if you email me from my profile.
Post by
Rankkor
Wow. That's extreme.
I kinda do not understand the way you speak of exchanging currency though. As far as I know, in bank payments, currency is not an obstacle.
o_O How do you pay for Wowhead premium? I doubt Wowhead would accept Venezuela currency specifically...
That's true everywhere else but here. Lets asume you're british, so you got your bank account with euros. You also own a credit card, and you wish to pay for something on e-bay. You do a simple bank transaction and the bank itself exchanges your euros to whatever currency its needed depending on where is the website you're buying from.
In venezuela, I have a bank account, I got my bolivares there, though I dont have a credit card (they charge WAY too much to own it, and even more to use it) if I try to make a bank transaction the bank will not change those bolivares to an international currency because my government will not allow it. Bolivares can only be exchanged via an organization called "CADIVI" them and only THEM in the ENTIRE WORLD accept bolivares, and exchange them into whatever other currency.
So, if you're not from venezuela, but you still wanna visit this country and you need to exchange your dollars/euros/yens/ect to bolivares, you need to go to CADIVI, get clearance from our government, and then they will exchange your money to bolivares. Its more extreme for venezuelans, I gotta get clearance from them to exchange bolivares to dollars, I can only exchange a limited amount per year (300 dollars per year for internet purchases, 4000 dollars per year for traveling, ect) and they SELL me the dollars at an inflated rate after paying the government an ABSURD TAX that only gets higher the more higher the ammount I'm paying is.
Its kinda complicated to explain since english isn't my main language, but the TL;DR version is: we're screwed. (just us)
As for my premium account, that's a gift from wowhead, since I used to be part of the localizer team. Alas my job didn't allowed me to do as much as I wanted, so now I'm no longer part of the team, but they gave me this parting gift.
I've had a working pirated copy for a couple days now =/ If you want it I won't link it here, but I can send you the info my email if you email me from my profile.
now this is intresting, the guy at the black market store, told me that either today or tomorrow he'd have the game (Then again, last time he said "Saturday or Sunday" and on neither day he had it)
I'll be going to his store today and tomorrow, and if he doesn't have it yet, I'll contact you, because seriously, I CANNOT KEEP WAITING I WANNA PLAY THIS
NAW!
Post by
Thror
Alright, first mission, on the highest difficulty, played "brute style"... is NOT easy. So far I cleared two rooms! Gosh I am looking forward to having more augs.
I found it is good to shoot people from a higher ground with cover, and to open the fight by sniping someone. It is also good to shift positions when I am under cover and shot at by suppressing fire (Suppresing fire is when someone shoots in your general direction to force you to stay in cover, and to get some shots at you instantly when you pop out of cover. Popping out of cover
into
suppressing fire = swift death.). Simply pop out somewhere, get a few shots off, and then shift positions. The enemies shoot at the former position and you are free to get a few shots off again. If some of them were trying to flank you, you could try to avoid that too. (best way to avoid flanking is starting the fight off higher ground, where enemies would have to go through a choke point to reach you, or where enemies can not reach you, because they are stupid and can not climb ladders.) Thinking of it, you could also trick the enemies into "flanking" a fake position, and use it to surprise the flankers from behind.
I am planning to roll Combat Rifle / Shotgun / Sniper Rifle with mostly upgrading the Combat Rifle and Shotgun. For augs, I definitely want to max arms (no recoil, maxed inventory), then upgrade eyes for concussion grenade immunity, lungs for gas immunity, and i forgot what for EMP immunity -> full immunity to everything except for Frag grenades. (It is pretty awesome when you can throw a gas grenade under your feet. It kills humanoids extremely fast.) I also want the Typhoon and Cloaking augs, Typhoon mainly against robots, because I am not going to carry a rocket launcher... and Cloaking for cover-haxing.
(I wrote this post slightly guide-style on intent.)
Update: Lol nevermind, once I started using cower-haxing and got adjusted to the quick kills (going fancy with headshots is a waste of time when a few shots kill you, and enemies only take three shots to take down), and the rest of the first mission went like a charm.
Post by
LookOut
Lets asume you're british, so you got your bank account with euros.
Just wanna correct you on this one. The UK doesn't use euros but pounds. Ireland on the other hand DOES use euros.
With that said, I only just started playing Deux Ex (I play WoW too damn much *sigh*), so I can't really add anything useful to the conversation :)
Post by
207044
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Post by
Thror
How to kill the first boss in Deus Ex, on hardest difficulty, all-out-shooter style, in 5 easy steps?
1. Toss an EMP grenade in his direction
2. 6 shotgun shots from point blank right into the head
3. Throw an EMP mine under his feet
4. Reload your shotgun
5. 6 shotgun shots from point blank right into the head
6. ?
7. enjoy cinematic
The base where the boss was located was piss easy to shoot out btw. I always open the fight with a rocket launcher, which I use to dispatch the biggest threat (read: a combat mech or a turret), that action always makes enemies sound the alarm and makes them all shoot at me, and then I proceed to kill everyone with headshots. You can aim at someones head while in cover, and then pop out just for a sec to make the shot, extremely simple. And Adam doesn't really die fast, with full EMP/Concussion/Gas resistances and maxed out damage reduction. A shotgun shell from point blank is still an instant kill though.
Post by
pnkflffytutu
I did not find the rocket launcher...
Post by
Thror
One is in Detroit and one is in the base with the first boss (you should search places more carefully :3 ). It takes seven billion inventory squares though. An EMP grenade would have exactly the same effect as the rocket launcher though (it kills mechs instantly). Except it is less jovial.
Post by
Rankkor
since the first boss is covered in the beta (which is the only thing I've been able to play so far T_T) I can offer an even better strategy.
Scattered arround the room, there's several canisters, Some are red and fat, others are slim and with a hazzardous material tag.
Just grab the slim canisters and trow them at barret, these will choke him with poison gas. While he's coughing from the gas, grab the fat barrels (Explosive barrels BTW) and trow them at him.
Did this even on the hardest dificulty and was able to beat him without firing a single shot on easy and normal (on hard I ran out of canisters, but I only had to empty the clip of my pistol once)
Thanks for that link jubilee, the game is being downloaded, but due to my EXTRA-CRUNCHY slow internet, over the past days all I've been able to download is 40% of it, gonna take at least another week and a half to get it done. Still, its better than wait a month for it to be on the black market stores over here.
Post by
Thror
I also managed to kill him in a "sneaky way" with my first, sneaky character. I had looted a Sniper Rifle earlier in the base, and after I have thrown a fire extinguisher in his face, he was blinded for a second. I quickly ran into one of the side-rooms and ducked into cover. He didn't know where I was, so he was just circling the room and throwing grenade volleys everywhere (he almost killed me with one). I just waited until he turned his back to me, then I sniped his head. You could repeat this procedure infinitely until you win, I suppose he would fall after 2-3 rounds on Normal. It only took me one shot, but I already emptied a few combat rifle mags into him before I found the extinguisher.
And yeah the "how to" I posted earlier here is not the safest way, I just wanted to kill him the brutest and least covery way possible. What better way to do that than stand right in front of him and shoot him in the face.
Also, while he might have been in the demo, I wanted to avoid giving any specifics about him :B Like his name. I even felt bad for giving away the gender of his, kinda.
Post by
Rankkor
meh, why? he's shown to be a boss even on the trailer :P there's more than 4 scenes of him beating the crap of adam while yelling "I'LL SEND YOU TO HELL!" (A line that sadly, is never said on the actual game)
The game has 4 bosses, and even though I haven't played it, I already know 3 of them, since you see them all in the tutorial level. The only boss who's identity I dont know is the fourth one, since a friend of mine told me it was quite a nice surprise, but the other 3 you kinda see them comming when they slaughter everyone on the very tutorial 5 minutes after starting the game.
Post by
pnkflffytutu
The first boss does say the line "Tell them...TELL THE I SENT YOU TO HELL!"
Post by
Thror
Yeah, I was also expecting Adam to say "I'll never stop looking!" at some point, but he didn't.
Post by
pnkflffytutu
I think he might say that for the motherly ties quest
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