In Progress Let's Descend into the EΨE of Divine Cybermancy

[Baron Dupek]

Dutch tried to be tryhard cool guy and died like a sheep.
My first encounter with Deus Ex Machina was a pain but not because of him, there was spawn point for Jian commando group, not so tough but drop research stuff every time they appear. Spam grenades, miniguns and good guns + randomly ship with lazers, duh.

Can't run that farming map, I though dropping files into Maps folder will be enough, even editing maplist.txt doesn't help.

EDIT
there is some info from devs about EYE sequel, something similiar to SWAT4, oh boy
But that's after their WH40k game...

 

[Darth Roxor]

Dutch tried to be tryhard cool guy and died like a sheep.

Scripted bullshit death after toiling to keep him alive was a seriously weak-ass event :/

 

[thesoup]

The level lasts like 2 minutes if you kill him right at the start.
Yes, you can do that.

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

I feel obligated to post this.

 

[Corporate_Jew_Master]

The level lasts like 2 minutes if you kill him right at the start.
Yes, you can do that.

He'd miss a lot of brouzoufs and turret farm though. (if he can into hacking)

 

[Baron Dupek]

About hacking....

I've managed to run that farming map (now mu char is 67lvl Puppet Master), researched lot of stuff and invest in CyberTech for hacker (also got 90pts in this skill) only to discover that this fuckking minigame is scaled to player level

And after that mission with Dutch they send me to some forsaken planet to investigate few location.
Failed to convince some rasta pirate I need to hack their listening post, failing miserably.
And to pass I need to open some floor hatch, same thing.

 

[flabbyjack]

Interlude: Interdictions and malefactors

If the formatting is a little screwy sorry, this is extracted from the game's internal text files. Some of the text is 'meh', but gems are buried within, most assuredly.

History circa 2116: Inter-dimensional space travel

Spoiler

"--Historical archives loaded... ... ... -- Chronology: Years former to 2116: Dark Ages. Period from 2116 to 2250: Technological Middle Ages. From 2250 to 2379: Era of Darkness. 2380: Rebirth and departure of the new era, it's the new year 0... Year 15: Where our story begins. The history of the Earth remains a mystery because of the many wars and catastrophes it underwent. We only know that it's during this dark period (before 2116) that psychic abilities were studied and admitted by science, initially by the army (in the 1890's), then by civil science (1970). We also know that the consortium of Mega-corporations was created, at the same time as the first Martian colony."

"In 2116, the space colonization began alongside the discovery of inter-dimensional space. Then Mars proclaimed its independence and launched an offensive against the Earth with equipment unknown to the human race.This flash attack decimated 2/3 of the human race. The surviving countries formed an alliance - the Federation - in order to better counter Mars, but almost all their military equipment had been destroyed. The megacorporations, having their own war weaponry, proposed to help the Federation, hoping to extend their power and influence.During this war, the Federation used telepathic soldiers. These new troops were called the parapsychic Legion. Its role was mainly to inform, misinform, torture, spy, search for and find traitors ... At the end of the war, the legion became the Federation's inquisition, constantly gaining power and influence. It was renamed federal parapsychic army, and was separated from military command in order to keep its autonomy, but remains under Federal control."

"Mars was beaten by the Commander Kabalt's army who fought with his troops himself, remaining in the front lines throughout the battle until his victory in 2127. The planet was brought back under Federal domination after the population and the Martian's army were almost entirely decimated in bloody combat. The remaining survivors questioned by the parapsychic corps spoke of an incident on one of the most important Croon corporation's mines in Mars sector 9 where, first the population, then their leaders, became insane, frantic, and bloodthirsty, raising an army with weaponry no one had ever seen before. All the investigations undertaken after this conflict on Mars failed. The mystery of this strange Martian technology was never solved because all evidence of it was destroyed."

"In 2153, Cyber and Bio Technologies from the Dark Ages underwent great success, with a new generation of energy transmitters. But in 2158, a data-processing virus decimated the growing old intercom federal network, which was quickly replaced by a virtual matrix system that was connected to its user's thoughts via an extremely complex network of electrodes... This new network was created by Yvon Jack, who was suspected to have sent the virus. The new system is called TrKn2, but users call it the matrix, the ocean or just Cyberspace."

"Space colonization continued through 2250, when a planet was discovered in sector Taurus 27. The planet was baptized Jade thanks to its green color. After a few months of terra-forming, a team of construction workers discovered a wreckage; a strange and huge black vessel. The Federation sent a military detachment accompanied by various scientists to study inside the vessel where they found an artifact that looked like a black and gold human war hammer with multiple inscriptions on its handle."

"Extraterrestrial people made contact 6 hours after this discovery, claiming the lost wreckage and the hammer as theirs. This race was called Orus. The Federation ordered its detachment to bring the hammer back with them to their lunar research base as fast as possible, thus ignoring the Orus request. 20 hours after this exchange, a war broke out. The humans were very quickly crushed by the technological and psychic superiority of their attackers. The war was one of rare violence. The Orus fought like they were already dead... In what would has been the final Orus assault, the fifth of March, 2253, an unknown Force attacked Orus and humans. Their vessels looked strangely like the wreckage discovered on Jade. The wreckage disappeared during an attack on the supposedly secret lunar base, along with the mysterious Forces, that disappeared as quickly as they had come."

History circa 2280: An injection of alien culture

Spoiler

"Orus and Humans signed a peace treaty, Orus even sharing some of the knowledge and technologies known to them with the humans. They explained that the army with black vessels was a mystery to them, but that they had found old texts in a ruin on a remote planet which spoke about Jade and the wreckage, as well as the great threat it represented. The Orus mother planet remains unknown to the human race, along with the majority of their culture. The Orus are a humanoid race, with an organ which is considered to be a third eye in the middle of their forehead. Their nation is composed of warriors directed by a theocratic system. Orus have a very powerful caste of fighting monks: the Nemesis, which only the rare human could integrate, the first being the honorable Najîn (name given by the Orus) in 2277, some say he is still living today, others think that this could be pro-friendly Orus/Human propaganda."

"The Federation, with its 1200 planets, signed an alliance pact with Orus in 2280. In 2283, the alliance was attacked by an unknown people of human type, but with technology equivalent to the Orus one. Their vessels were the same as the Force that had attacked in the past and the wreckage found on Jade. Close to a century later, after huge and bloody battles, where the enemy dominated, the situation was mysteriously overturned over by a Nemesis raid. The war finally ended into 2379 when the Alliance forces, directed by commander Allan Tekaros, the Orus war master Taller Nayan Chaän, and Najîn, invaded the black planet XechPrimus, cradle of the invader according to the official version, but only an advanced post, according to rumor."

"The circumstances of this war remain mysterious. The black planet might have only been a minor base of an empire much more vast. But in 2380, the forces that be declared this as the year of Federation Rebirth, and hence renamed it the year 0. In the year 14, Satchen, a rebellious warlord master with an army composed of a few billion soldiers, tried to invade Zarech. The Federation destroyed the planet in response. There are symbols on Satchen's flags which hadn't been seen since the black planet wars. It's at this moment that the Federation decides to make the following information public: in 2312 they had created, hand in hand with the Nemesis, 13 fighting legions."

"Each legion lives on a fortress planet, containing 50,000 men. Among them, 10 nemesis-level masters, and their own master of war (of master nemesis level). It has also been learned from the Orus that the Nemesis name was rather recent. Some say that this name came following high treason of half of the Nemesis during the black planet conflict, but no one knows anything more... We only know that the parapsychic army tried to exterminate of the Nemesis, failing miserably."

"The parapsychic Army and the Nemesis are the only two institutions authorized to train and use people with psychic gifts. These gifts are latent in all people; a shock or specific training can awaken and increase them. The parapsychic army and Nemesis seek psykers and telepaths throughout the Federation. When they're found, they have two choices: either join one of the two factions, or be eliminated by the parapsychic army which considers all independent telepathist or psyker as a potential danger. Nevertheless each megacorporation seeks and non-officially uses telepathists for security, industrial espionage, recruiting, etc... Federal army also uses psykers, formed by the parapsychic army, that they have nick-named: war conjurors. The parapsychic army and Nemesis have a difficult time locating new telepathists and psykers. --Shutdown--

Analysis of the Psychic Prelude to the Metastreumatic Force

Spoiler

"0011. At the beginning --Status OK....... Files loaded...-- -Shinji's thinking— Shinji Osajima lives in a world which has lost all sense of moral reference. When he walks the streets of the megalopolis, he notices that the number of tramps is constantly increasing while mutual aid and compassion lessen. Since the catastrophe called the Croon incident, Federation social security and welfare have become a myth, even though the main argument for world unification of the space colonies was in fact, a brave new world, for everybody."

"Shinji reminisces about his childhood and his youthful holidays in the mountains, with nature. Already then, the mountains were in bad shape, but now, they're a disaster that no one can spare a care for. People are more interesting by the conquest of space and the creation of new colonies in the borders of known space, a recent development, and growing rapidly over the last 50 years. There's even an annoying antigravity vehicle, preaching about the benefits of colonization, that flies past his flat every single evening."

"It comes as no surprise that individualism and self-consciousness have become the leading qualities in the modern human being. At best, the human takes refuge in clannishness, family and work or, as the psychic conditioners (nick-named thus by some workers close to unnameable social movements) trained by the parapsychic corps like to call it: company spirit. In the worst case, human is infantile, narcissistic, aggressive, superficial, uncultivated, distressed and wondering why."

"It's not any worse than all the spiritual movements which swarm about everywhere, it's in fashion. It sells well and allows people to escape their pathetic reality. In any case, this is the message from Shinji's favorite station, Channel 909, without mentioning their false pretenses inspired by old religions and old spiritual movements but lacking their essence."

"Ah! Information! The most invaluable produce, the most sought-after. The media is king and format people as much as it educates them. Paradox or complementarity? But the media governs all life and all human desires, not unlike in animism's time with its primitive ones, media defines normal behavior, conformism, and standardization of society with codes of conduct and uniform, that may seem different... The matrix, an ocean, this parallel computer universe becomes a refuge... Virtual reality gets one up on real life. Hackers are the new stars of this world in constant mutation."

"Is it surprising? Shinji thinks not. These days everything is for sale; money and economy replace religion. Profits replace humanity. A financed murder is less expensive than a dinner in a restaurant.
And, just like every Friday evening, Shinji eats in a nice restaurant, The Singing Dragon. He's looking for a woman. He's immediately attracted to this dark-haired, green-eyed woman."

Beginnings of the Metastreumatic Force and its role in the creation of EYE, as archived in Temple HQ

Spoiler

"--Shinji, the predator, and the wolf— It will be her because, just like every Friday night, Shinji looks for a victim. After a long and heavy dinner, Shinji feels overly full, but he notices that beautiful girl and the frail young man who accompanies her have finished their feast and are about to leave. Our killer follows them to the underground car park. After a short hesitation, he awkwardly slices the throat of the girl's lover with a fast blow of wakisachi. The girl is terrorized and starts to howl, not for long; Shinji reaches for his electric club and knocks his victim cold."

"Just like every Saturday, Shinji tortures and rapes a woman in his cellar. Once his sadistic pleasure completed, he decapitates his victim, with no loss of emotion. And like every Sunday, Shinji goes to bury the bloody and mutilated body of his victim in the Elato forest which is venerated by the Ancients who called it the Sanctuary. Shinji has accomplished this same ritual for 12 long years, ever since his return from the colonial wars."

"But today, the atmosphere is even stranger than normal. Suddenly, he sees a white wolf on a small hill which looks at him fixedly. The wolf without opening his jaws, communicating as a spirit to a spirit, asks Shinjii, What are you doing? Frightened, Shinji tries to dissimulate his sinister deed, but then, realizing the abnormality of a speaking wolf, he stops to answer the animal, with a What in the...? Shinji is now dead, the wolf surely killed him, and yet he feels a pain in his throat... Moreover he doesn't feel peaceful, nor free, but distressed. He feels his body as if he's imprisoned inside. His conscience sinks gradually into a dark rage, a pure madness, even for him. A mysterious force seizes him."

"-- The incident, the destruction – A man witnessed the murder during his jogging round, only he doesn't describe a wolf to the federal police who question him, but a strange creature, two meters tall. Two days after this bloody death, the zone has been entirely zoned-off and quarantined by the federal army. During the quarantine, the soldiers assigned to the zone said to have seen and heard several strange things prowling about, and their numbers seemed to increase gradually and steadily increase. Then on one rainy morning, there were an intense light and then an explosion which destroyed everything over a surface of several hundred thousand square kilometers."

"Only the forest was saved. The Federation pretended a terrorist attack from an orbital targeting station in an attempt to bury the story. The news of the incident and the quarantine were revealed by a famous news channel, preceding the soldiers' testimonies, censured by the Federation. The revelation was a shock to the population who interpreted it as a sign indicating the end of the world, and many of the spiritual fanatic groups claimed that it was a divine sign. They joined together and developed the idea that these creatures were beings superior to humans and had come to punish the declining world, and to guide the righteous on their path."

"-- First contact, last breath— At the same time, an old secret society was called upon by the Federation to take care of the forest issue. This group was called Secreta Secretorum had existing since before the dawn of time. For the Federation, this new force was the same one which had been so destructive during the disastrous report of the Croon incident, but very quickly the group proved that this Force hadn't any resemblance with the one that the Federation so dreaded."

"As soon as the group was in place, the mysterious Force that the group called the metastreumomic will sent a messenger. This messenger was captured, studied and killed. In the official report, the creature attacked first using its messenger status to surprise the members of the group. Then Secreta Secretorum and the army jointly launched a raid into the forest to purify it. "

"The raid was a failure; no one survived. The zone was declared forbidden. The group created the E.Y.E project to create an army of warrior monks, with one major specification; the messenger's DNA was used to create a legion of 1100 soldiers. Each member of E.Y.E was also cybernetic with next-generation technology. The first aim of E.Y.E was to avert all actions of the metastreumomic will. To reach this goal, E.Y.E, along with elite soldiers of the army, launched a new raid to pacify the forest that met with rapid success."

"-- Radicalization, and more destruction - This action had other less happy consequences. The powerful group of fanatics radicalized their action and launched reprisal action by simultaneously launching several old nuclear missiles all across the Federation. The many planets and areas that were saved owe their lives to the good work of the federal information services. The shock was terrible for the population who demanded revenge. The group gave E.Y.E the responsibility of pacifying the fanatics. With Federation agreement, the cleaning operation was met with rapid success."

History of New Eden, as archived in Temple HQ

Spoiler

"-- New Eden, new hell – Taking advantage of the general chaos and its role in the destruction of the fanatic groups, Secreta Secretorum builds a fortress on the still irradiated ruins of the old religious megalopolis of Orteosa. This reinforced megalopolis is baptized New Eden. Ten years later, the influence and the power of the mega corporations, united within the consortium, exceeded those of the Federation. Only the group remains influential and powerful. It becomes increasingly independent, going as far as founding its own army, which immediately has no equal."

"New Eden won't be spared from vice and corruption; the megalopolis spirals quickly down. Crime and chaos destabilize the government in place. The E.Y.E project moves in and quickly rectifies the situation rather quickly, at the same time gaining influence within the group. The rise in power of E.Y.E starts to worry the leaders of the group who decide soon afterwards to put E.Y.E to sleep. ... But not for a long. Strange events begin to occur elsewhere within the Federation."

"-- The call to arms, the end of an era---- Left and right, the dead return to the life to attack the living. Half-man, half-animal creatures start to walk the earth and strange creatures attack spaceships and the colonies, that up until now had been spared. E.Y.E is reborn, but divided into two authorities which were also divided into sections to limit its power. Its mission was again to thwart any action that they believed to be of the metastreumomic will."

"Then, terrifying and huge creatures appeared and lead whole legions of the dead, beasts, and strange abominations. In a seven-years war this army decimated 70% of humanity. Then attack stopped just as mysteriously as it had started. Almost all of the federal territories were devastated, in ruin, reduced to lifeless deserts because of the chemical and nuclear attacks used to try to stop the creatures. Once again, population trauma was enormous, and many listened speeches by various extremist spiritual movements who preached that the end of their universe was close and the creatures of the Force were sent to punish them of their head strong pretention and vice. The popular mass became paranoid towards the leading authorities, thinking that government had known the truth and hadn't done what was needed."

"But the most disturbing fact concerned the reports about humans fighting alongside the mysterious legion. Other strange fact: New Eden was only slightly attacked and barely worried, for the moment in any case... -- Independence, decline— Benefiting from consortium and federal weaknesses the group reached supreme power in the New Eden colony founding a rigid dictatorship."

"But the lure of gains and profits and corruption resurfaced quickly, rapidly strangling the young independent colony, thus forfeiting power to revolutionary groups and other opponents to the regime. In this climate, the Federation launched a cabal against the group by revealing old mistakes and slip ups of the group. The E.Y.E elite was officially dissolved by Secreta Secretorum to calm the popular masses. But this was not enough to calm Federal vengeful hatred who placed the colony under embargo. --Shutdown--"

 

[flabbyjack]

ghostdog you will have to wait and see if anybody else wants a crack at the key. Be patient... time is an illusion

In case you failed to read and deduce properly in the prior post's wall-o-text, the player is able to discover in Temple HQ that they are an undercover agent into EYE from its parent organization, known as the Secreta, and that our goal is to diffuse the growing tensions between Culter Dei and Jian, with the ultimate goal of overthrowing federation forces and stemming the metastreumatic tide, which as far as I can tell is a psychic assault from a third highly advanced alien race

Chapter 4: New Eden (finally!)
This LP is going to take a little turn: EYE is becoming more of an existential nightmare. I will be adding my own hints and explanations into the text, so if you are floundering on the nature of existence in your first play-through of EYE, this should help clarify things. Or it will confound things unnecessarily. Maybe both.

Current difficulty settings
Enemies: Master-level (Second to highest, just below Ghost-level)
Reinforcement rate: Normal. Respawning enemies really threw me for a loop the first time I played this game.

Spoiler

Welcome back, this is the place where dreams and reality meet.

Back to Temple HQ for some upgrades

You may notice me alternating between two characters, they are both at same point in the story. This means, there are 4 separate timelines of the main campaign going on. 2 characters x 2 save slots (Solo and Multiplayer). This is somewhat unecessary, as the PC is already able to bend reality and time to his will, somewhat

Some fuckers in Temple HQ had this to say to us, as PC was ending one of his Cycles --

Don't count on it, buddy.

One thing you should understand about EYE is that at any time you can select 'Load Temple HQ (solo)' from the main menu and teleport there to buy upgrades, weapons, and load side-quest maps which are unlocked as you progress through the campaign.
In the previous New Eden industrial complex level, we made a surprising 27k brouzoufs by playing on a high difficulty. That's enough to unlock the Stealth implant. I'm also adding the S6000 assault rifle to this Chapter

ABILITIES UNLOCKED: STEALTH IMPLANT (Consumes energy)
WEAPON UNLOCKED: S6000 ASSSAULT RIFLE

http://eyedivinecybermancy.wikia.com/wiki/S6000
The S6000 is my gold standard for clearing (most) campaign levels, it has two levels of zoom, great accuracy for headshots at range, 100 ammo, and of course comes in full auto mode.

So we haven't 'unlocked' things like the
* Skin (Dermal) Armor: Like sword-blocking all the time
* Power Conversion: Converts health to energy, at higher levels there is very little health loss)
But that's not going to prevent me from using them. Especially power conversion since that saves precious precious time which I would rather spend playing.

So we are going with both options (A) and (C). Yes, we can do that. We are a transdimensional being, after all. Or this could all be a dream, or nightmare. More on that later.

Suddenly, a vision of the far future.

Spoiler

Maybe a little too far? No time for prescience. From the chatter over the comm, the Feds know our current location. Thanks a lot for snitching, Thorn. If I see you again next cycle I will crucify your heathen ass on a pike before you betray me.

We approach the door to the street

Suddenly the guard has his thorax eviserated and an elite soldiers barges in, only to be gunned down by automated sentries.

Revealing New Eden in all its smutty sexy glory --

Too bad its crawling with greasy fucking feds.

We forcefully eject the blood from their bodies using rudimentary close-ranged psi force. It's not an effective tactic, but it has its uses (At melee range, guns become unusable)

Some adverts.

We assassinate the general, who is out wandering back alleys of course.

Then we bribe the colonel.

There is a lever next to this Marker. Do we pull it?

Inside is a trasendental manduco, who said he needs to gather three artifacts or be trapped with an endless cycle? Sound just like us. MAKE THIS LOOPING NIGHTMARE END!

We run into a Fed in the employ of the Consortium. He wants us to do a hack. We complete the assignment and receive precious precious brouzoufs.


Back to the safe-house.

We celebrate our victory by shooting up some H with our new looter friend.

He sends us to pick up the cyber brain. No waves this time, bros. In and out. Clean, surgical, precise.

We cloak our way to the target location, and meet up with some scummy looter right by the transaction point.

"Spinazo: Yo! Sup dude! You're the homeboy making all this mess in town? That's soooooo crazy, man. This whole place is on lock down by those Fed bastards!"

"Yeah, that's me. You seem to know a lot about the lockdown."
"Spinazo: Oh yeah, man! I know everything that's going down in the hood, dude. I see every fuckin' thing! Seriously, man, I'm the living truth, baby!"

"Okay, spill your guts. And if I'm convinced, I'll let you live."

"Spinazo: What? What the hell, man? Okay, brace yourself then, because I'm gonna tell ya every goddamn thing! You have to know that I'm part of the infamous Lord De Lagal's cosmos looter group. And you see, man, we just want to raid New Eden, this fuckin' city full of aristocrat fat cats! So we just cased downtown, kinda stealth like. Except those damn Feds spied us! You know, dude, they deployed their pigs at the speed of light! They locked down all sectors, closed the access doors. That shit was crazy! We didn't even get a chance to start looting or raping! I ain’t even talkin’ about killin', we didn’t get to do even fifty! My boss, the Lord, that damn prick, decided that we all assemble for a counter-attack on the northern gates. And then, those cop fuckers are there again! So many of them! So in the confusion, we grab one of them, so we can find out what the fuck's goin' on!"

"Then what?"
"Spinazo: Then nothin'! He died before he could talk! Alright, man, we're gonna attempt another counter-attack to pierce through that Federation meat shield, and if it fails we ain’t stayin’ in dis hood, no mo!"

"That's it? What a waste of time..." //end


We cloak-up and approach the exchange site. 3 fed elites, 1 Secreta traitor.

Suddenly, the feds turn on the Secreta traitor.

Good riddance. They just made our life easier.

It's almost as if they sense our presence ▒

We obliterate their craniums with a hail of hot depleted uranium (You were expecting lead slugs?). Bye bye, meatsacks.

On the way back, the streets are absolutely crawling with federals.

We return to the safe-house, shoot up some more H (works great when combined with the adrenaline pumper -- speedballing!), and analyze the cyberbrain.

Looks like our works not over... wish I knew what was on that *#$(ing brain.

Off too the bar! Too bad alcohol won't work on us now that we have an artificial liver.

Look familiar? :\

I don't go to bars much, but that has more to do with my dislike of people than it does with alcohol. If I did go to a bar, it be like this one --

The first thing you notice is the muffled bass of techno-metal music shaking the walls.
The bar oozes style and has its own soundtrack recorded by one of the developers and his band

Sup.

Fuck you too, lady.

That's a strange way to say 'hi'. This fool probably be trippin. We probe his mind and extract the information. They're lucky we didn't turn this place into a bloodbath.

An EYE patrol hits the streets. Bout bloody time, boys. To bad they are so far from p0wnage compared to the endless sparm of federal forces.

We approach the apartment block, and suddenly the door bursts forth and a maniac comes out screaming. He must be protecting something valuable.

The apartment block has been converted into a sort of hidey-hole for looters, who could very rarely be seen (or heard) skirmishing with the Federals
We quickly find the briefcase and end the level. This is either a senseless scavenger hunt or a simple "Walk To Point A" depending on how much sleuthing you want to do, and attention you pay to the NPC dialogue and levels.

 

[Baron Dupek]

So finally passed earlier issues and few things.
In armory you can grab one ammo pack and then - just click on empty spaces in backpack, pretty handy.
You recover energy faster when crouching (still no way to toggle crouch).

And foung cheap strategy for hacking - spaming Mask (decrease enemy Attack) and Attack.
Still don't understand what the Hacking skill change.

 

[Jaedar]

Hacking makes your bar go faster afaik. I think its scaled to difficulity level, but the enemies have basically the same stats throughout the entire campaign. Not so cool if you ask me.

 

[Baron Dupek]

Finally finished this game. There is about 5 maps + one final depended of your choice. C&C? Well, both of them are assholes and one is goverment.
Ending was humble,

Spoiler

it was one great illusion, Rahman and Mentor are dead and the whole time player talk to himself.

I feel bad somewhat because game was short and layed in my "backlog" for long time.
Propably the only RPG+FPP hybrid (maybe except STALKER ) where shooting was great.

Game should be finished 4 times but I refuse because one mission, where my objective was to assault stronghold.
Mission started, game frozed. So launched game again only to discover that there is different objective ("Escape"), there is only basic equipment, no PSI&character improvememnts and my character dropped from 75lvl to 11lvl.

 

[DwarvenFood]

Hm, so how much more after the dreadful 'Dutch' mission ? That one is just murder, can't seem to pass it. Fucking elevators, how do they work.

 

[Baron Dupek]

Hm, so how much more after the dreadful 'Dutch' mission ? That one is just murder, can't seem to pass it. Fucking elevators, how do they work.

That's half of the playthrough.

 

[Cassidy]

Shinji Osajima lives in a world which has lost all sense of moral reference.[...]And, just like every Friday evening, Shinji eats in a nice restaurant, The Singing Dragon. He's looking for a woman. He's immediately attracted to this dark-haired, green-eyed woman.

--Shinji, the predator, and the wolf— It will be her because, just like every Friday night, Shinji looks for a victim. After a long and heavy dinner, Shinji feels overly full, but he notices that beautiful girl and the frail young man who accompanies her have finished their feast and are about to leave. Our killer follows them to the underground car park. After a short hesitation, he awkwardly slices the throat of the girl's lover with a fast blow of wakisachi. The girl is terrorized and starts to howl, not for long; Shinji reaches for his electric club and knocks his victim cold."

"Just like every Saturday, Shinji tortures and rapes a woman in his cellar. Once his sadistic pleasure completed, he decapitates his victim, with no loss of emotion. And like every Sunday, Shinji goes to bury the bloody and mutilated body of his victim in the Elato forest which is venerated by the Ancients who called it the Sanctuary. Shinji has accomplished this same ritual for 12 long years, ever since his return from the colonial wars."

"But today, the atmosphere is even stranger than normal. Suddenly, he sees a white wolf on a small hill which looks at him fixedly. The wolf without opening his jaws, communicating as a spirit to a spirit, asks Shinjii, What are you doing? Frightened, Shinji tries to dissimulate his sinister deed, but then, realizing the abnormality of a speaking wolf, he stops to answer the animal, with a What in the...? Shinji is now dead, the wolf surely killed him, and yet he feels a pain in his throat... Moreover he doesn't feel peaceful, nor free, but distressed. He feels his body as if he's imprisoned inside. His conscience sinks gradually into a dark rage, a pure madness, even for him. A mysterious force seizes him."[...]

I wonder what RK47 thinks about such a wondrous piece of Lore.

 

[RK47]

Raping a dead woman isn't fun.

 

[DwarvenFood]

flabbyjack did you abandon this experiment ?

 

[flabbyjack]

Actually it's not abandoned, just not posting updates. I just finished my 3rd playthrough but biffed the Federal ending, so now it's back to the start! The idea is when I get to the true ending I'll post it and spoil it for everybody!!!111

 

[Baron Dupek]

The idea is when I get to the true ending I'll post it and spoil it for everybody

PURE EVIL!!11

Spoiler

Actually, I saw the ending and it wasn't impressive.

 

[theSavant]

I thought this game could be something like Deus Ex, but when I watched a Lets Play it was just weird and nothing and empty.

 

[Baron Dupek]

This game is cheap rip-off french answer to the WH40k, sometimes you sense some drugs influences or whatever.

But shooting is best thing, especially when you play dozen modern shooters nowadays where shooting is boring and have no power at all.

Hope OP deliver that bunch of spoilerish stuff finally.

 

[Jaedar]

The true ending sure is.... something.

 

[DwarvenFood]

it was just weird and nothing and empty.

Thus representing my inner soul so perfectly.

 

[Cassidy]

This is how I see it:

Spoiler

Circe is the woman Shinji raped before the "wolf spirit" trapped his soul in an eternal purgatory and/or also the wife the Player Character himself tortured and killed in a fit of insanity, and the Synicles represent the victims of that Shinji guy in the lore. Or perhaps because all EYE agents were made from cloned Meta-streumonic DNA from the messenger of the Meta-Streumonic force, and that Messenger could have been what the Warp transformed the RK47 Osajima into, they share residues of his memories. The protagonist is in a looping purgatory or something similar and either dead with his soul forever trapped in the Warp or his body is undergoing that Necro-Cybermancy, thus his soul is separated and all happens in some kind of Immaterium, which is why you can never "die" in-game

 

[Maverick Beyond]

Anyone here unlocked the Arrancadora?. I'd never find the research. Is it good?.

 

[flabbyjack]

Anyone here unlocked the Arrancadora?. I'd never find the research. Is it good?.

Yes it's good. It has an area-effect and does huge damage. I used to when grinding up to level 120 (on a cheat map) to one-shot Deus Ex Machina's in the face. Aside from making $$$/exp quickly, you can also unlock all the upgrades on the cheat map.