Junior Adventurer's Guild - October: Deus Ex + Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption SPOOKY HALLOWEEN DOUBLE FEATURE

[Red7]

If you don't play the game, you don't have a say btw.

You have an equal number of guild badges as me btw
Actually I forgot I have more because I asked for my Starwind one to be hidden

I've covered games, you know.

vergil was covered by more things and fluids im sure

[Luckmann]

► The Long Road to Hong Kong

It's what journos deserve.


Sorry, zogbot, gotta pre-emptively turn you and your friends off.


They'll forever be known as Team Toilet.


You bet your *** they're not responding, Waltuh.


13 Zogbots, 2 Golems, and a Pimp.
Someone call Netanyahu, it's anudda shoa.

Anyway, brother made it.

Bring it, *****.


Well ****.


#JustRussianThings


I stun the shabbos goybots silently first, and then I execute them with a knife and hide their bodies. No-one will ever know.


Let's not forget our fellow Mexican prisoner, Miguel!


Asking the real questions, and the General spits facts back (not included).


An oath like this should be taken by any civil servant.


And we're off, straight to Hong Kong and to meet Tracer Tong, with no more detours!

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MOTHERFUCK-!

And as I leave for Hong Kong and conclude for the day, I thought I'd share where I'm at:

[Trickster]

What program can I use to take screenshots in the vtmr? ShareX didn't work.

[Finarfin]

What program can I use to take screenshots in the vtmr? ShareX didn't work.

Just do manual Screenshots. Alt + Prints Screen and then copy past into Paint

[Jordy]

I use Lightshot for screengrabs.

[Trickster]

What program can I use to take screenshots in the vtmr? ShareX didn't work.

Just do manual Screenshots. Alt + Prints Screen and then copy past into Paint

For some reason, it's not working.

I use Lightshot for screengrabs.

Not working in this game either.

[Tweed]

I use Bandicam most of the time, but then I bought a license for that a really long time ago. I don't really recommend being a paypiggy.

[Jordy]

What program can I use to take screenshots in the vtmr? ShareX didn't work.

Just do manual Screenshots. Alt + Prints Screen and then copy past into Paint

For some reason, it's not working.

I use Lightshot for screengrabs.

Not working in this game either.

All you do is press print screen and use the cursor to select the area you want to copy. Then you can copy, save, upload to a url and various other options.
Shift + Print Screen instantly saves the screen.

Not played vtmr but can't see why anything would stop it from working.

[Trickster]

I found a solution. Surprisingly, the game has this option without any additional tools. All you have to do is press f12 and search in game folder.




I love it when things like this are added to games by default.

[Finarfin]

I found a solution. Surprisingly, the game has this option without any additional tools. All you have to do is press f12 and search in game folder.




I love it when things like this are added to games by default.

Hmm, seems like my UI is kinda ****** compared to yours

[Trickster]

I found a solution. Surprisingly, the game has this option without any additional tools. All you have to do is press f12 and search in game folder.




I love it when things like this are added to games by default.

Hmm, seems like my UI is kinda ****** compared to yours

Hmm, maybe change the resolution?

[Jordy]

I found a solution. Surprisingly, the game has this option without any additional tools. All you have to do is press f12 and search in game folder.




I love it when things like this are added to games by default.

If you're playing it through Steam then that's just a normal Steam thing.

[Trickster]

In teutonic knight base right now. Things got a lot easier when Christof learned Blood Magic (Theft of Vitae) and Wilhem learned resurrection (Awaken)




Edit 1:

Just escaped the Teutons and bought some cool armor. Now we're balling.

[Luckmann]

► Hong Kong Hijinks!

Hahaha. No.


It's just a prank, bro.


Just a prank.


No need to be mad about it, it's just a prank bro.


OH COME ON!


We don't need the Chinkoid Political Police bothering us.


Deus Ex could not be made today.

In a game that drops redpills left and right, this being one of the things that'd kill it is both hilarious and depressing.

Such a vibrant culture.


It was, in fact, not a mistake.


Not where I thought I was going when I snuck into the vent in a walk-in freezer.


NOOOOOO YOU CAN'T CALL IT A ***** IT'S CALLED A SEX WORKER NOOOOOOOO


Happy little accidents.


I'm sorry, the only thing I wish to be is a ninja, and I have never been closer.


This is what we ninja call "a good start".


No comment.



Just another day at the office.




Yeah, well, I'm going to make this company's tomorrow look like yesteryear's bronze age collapse.


Shame.



Imagine working here and never once questioning if you might be the baddies.


Do golems start to smell after a while?


Oh, right, I had actually completely forgotten that that was the plan.


R e t a r d s


This is why you don't hire women.


With literally every guard on the floor taken out and all alarms turned off, we can release the bum to go live his best life.



I love this can opener I've got now.


Is it supposed to do this?


Yeah, OK ******.


Same energy.

And back to New York!

What's the gas mileage on one of these things, anyway?
Imagine swinging all over New York, then to Hong Kong, and then back to New York on a single tank.
That's the real conspiracy.

Big if true.

[Tweed]

If you're doing a low-tech run the dragon's tooth sword is the best lockpick in the game.

[Luckmann]

► To Hell! Again!

Prophetic.

Remember, only trust news by "the experts", guys.
The government wouldn't just go on the internet and just lie, would they?

No screaming. Only sleep.


HELLO, BASED DEPARTMENT?


Ominous.


Again, could not be made today.


"Muh dangerous ideologies!"


I am the lord of all I survey.


You can get up on this crane by climbing the crane claw dipping into the water, for extra skill points.


You also get extra skill points just for going near this box on the easternmost edge of the supership. Why?

Because **** you, that's why.

Also don't forget to jump off the ship and then climb onto it using the ladders!


There's at least four different ways to get into this ship and they all give skill points!

Remember: If you're a ninja master, you don't need explosives to sink a supertanker ship.


HIII-YAH! Great success!

They can't keep getting away with it!

[SpellSword]

I've made it to the part where you are double crossed and captured.


The loot so far hasn't been that interesting and the combat is simplistic but I'm having fun regardless.

My combat strategy so far is just grabbing every enemy with the feed skill taking them out of the fight and letting Feral Claws make short work of anything else that is non-humanoid.

[AmericanMonarchist]

Both games won? I will be chaotic and play Deus Ex despite voting for VTM.

[Luckmann]

► To Paris, with love

We land on a garbage tower, and immediately meet a homeless woman. This is where the game hits peak realism.



I don't think most people know that you can go back to her after killing the greasels to get skill points and information, because the game never hints at it and the number of "quests" that work like this are few - I think this is the only one.


I'm amazed that I have played this game maybe 5 or 6 times now, possibly more, and I still find new things.

Icarus, on a phone I clicked by accident.

Muh 6 gorillion.


Kill all politicians.



Sewer count: 8ish?


I should change my sig.


Uuuh, it's not breaking and entering, though. When I do it it's called reappropriation and commandeering.


Too slow, fucko!


Look! More sewers!


One of the key issues of Deus Ex is how the Illuminati is presented as somehow a better alternative to Majestic 12.

At times they are almost outright stated to be just as bad as MJ12, but let's be clear; **** these people.
A bullet for every Illuminatus, a **** for every banker.

These doors weren't, like, antiques or anything, right? Ah, who am I kidding, 13th-century cathedrals get remodeled all the time.


I see you there, Günther, you little fuckboy.


Always as satisfying.


It's a bit sad when you know he's been crying over the loss of Navarre and how much he hates himself for what he's become, though.

Black peepl in my Deus Ex?!? Is this WOKE?!





This but unironically.



Why the **** is the path to DeBeers through the toilet, anyway? Is this some fetish thing?



Omg a bomb. Anyway, time to go.

It is hard to overstate just what an amazing part of Deus Ex the music and ambiance is.


Aside from the main theme, I can't say that I ever remembered any of the music in Deus Ex, and I think that goes for most people. But the recurring leitmotif, weaved into scene-appropriate themes, throughout the entire game, it just adds an amazing edge to wherever you are. For something that is ultimately a fairly focused game and experience, Deus Ex has a surprising number of different facets to it when put under a microscope, ensuring that despite the gameplay often boiling down to something formulaic, it never feels formulaic; from the "welcome to the job" atmosphere of UNATCO, to the "secret agent man" after being captured and taken to UNATCO, to the oppressive atmosphere of a Paris under siege. And the ambiance and the theme music is just excellently woven into and an expression of this, while always tying back to the same type of music, with the recurring leitmotif and recurring percussion.

There could've been rock-y elevator music at UNATCO, industrial punk in the warehouse district, and orchestral wailing in Paris, and none of that would have been out of place, but there's not. Instead there's something that manages to be both different and yet the same, and never jarring, not even once.

It's just so ******* good.

[Trickster]

Continue my suffering in dark ages. Haus de Hexe. The last room in the library is terrible.
3 Tremere Lords which can one shot you and even if they didn't, you can't do anything with them. Their one hit will be enough to make the entire party fall into annoying insanity mechanics and start eating themselves instead of following your commands.
The only solution I found is to use Entrancement to mind control them and to make them fight each other.



It's not a satisfying victory. But we have what we have.



Edit 1:
Finally got through all three locations. It's time for final boss.

Edit 2:

So many efforts.



And for what? "Sorry Christof your nun is in another castle". Also,

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the death of our party member.

I swear, the game trolling us. We've killed more vampires than the entire Holy Inquisition, and we're no closer to Anezka than we were before. Which means the bloody crusade continues. And we're a long way from redemption.

[Tweed]

Aside from the main theme, I can't say that I ever remembered any of the music in Deus Ex, and I think that goes for most people.

You have insulted me sir.

[Luckmann]

► Vanden*berg*, what a cohencidence

I have no idea who she's actually talking about.


Vandenberg has some really great environments, but I just don't have much to say about them.


(it's funny because he's missing an eye)


Literally the only one with a good parent-child relationship in Deus Ex.


That just can't be good.

Generally speaking you just don't want AI's to express pleasure.

I just never understood what was up with her face.
It's pretty much the only time in the game I feel like the game is trying to tell me something but it's lost in translation due to technology restrictions.


Why the **** land here instead of on the massive ******* building?


Why the **** would MJ12 keep Tiffany at a ******* gas station?


thatsthejoke.jpg


What a cute little hive of ants.


Too bad I'm the kid with the magnifying glass.


Always wanted one of these. Hopefully it's not controlled with an XBOX-controller.


So easy to miss. An extra 200 skill points, right there, if you can avoid drowning.


This is how a true samurai enters a missile bunker!


But this is the path of the ninja.

They both end up in the exact same ******* stairwell.

What are you doing in a locked bathroom?
https://i.ibb.co/sjfhr1B/image.png

Get ******, ****.

[Trickster]

Lmao, the guy here wasn't joking about cuckoldry. As I understand it, our nun was corrupted by evil vampire clan Tzimisce

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and their dicks.

The dialog gives a transparent hint about how exactly she was turned to the dark side and corrupted.

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According to her, they did a lot of “delightful things” to her, and now she's defiled

Feels bad man. I think we need to warn players about this kind of plot detail.



Cristof is like: I don't give a **** what you say, woman. You're coming with me.



Falling wall clearly doesn't like vampire love stories and trying to end this.



And yet, for our Christof, the Dark Ages are finally over. It's time to awaken to the 20th century.





Update 1:
Whereas the difficulty used to be ridiculously hard, now we're literally a terminator. Maybe such a weird balance was created by the developers intentionally to give us a sense of progress, because we were a neonate and now we're an ancient vampire from the dark ages, I don't know.

[rusty_shackleford]

@Trickster your image uploads broke, the postimg upload sucks
gave you vault access if you want to host your stuff there, feel free to use it for whatever
https://vault.rpghq.org/

[Trickster]

@Trickster your image uploads broke, the postimg upload sucks
gave you vault access if you want to host your stuff there, feel free to use it for whatever
https://vault.rpghq.org/

Thank you. I'll appreciate it.

[Luckmann]

► Finale

5 minutes after landing, and I've seemingly killed or disabled more than the nuke did.


Wait, did we just nuke normie US army personnel?





Look at this from the perspective of the serviceman: Your base gets nuked, and for some reason, people in black show up inside of your own base and starts killing everyone for seemingly no reason, and then some dude in a trenchcoat shows up wearing sunglasses in the middle of the night, rambles about the Freemasons and says he's there to arrest their leader, Elon Musk. So you hand him the codes to get into the most top-secret installation in the country.

Rare run-in.



Taking the plunge. Main entrances are for losers; winners always go for the dynamic entry.


Remember, many places in Deus Ex, even top-clearance facilities, have ****-poor security, and that the default security code is "security".

Security!

Nighty night.


I hope they're ready for a surprise.


Elvis = Illuminati CONFIRMED???


Fancy.


Jesus Christobal Denton being a ******.


Jesus Christobal Denton being based.


Based AI just turning off the power to government buildings.

Yeah, just sit in there and stew, Xi Jinping-Pong.

LEAVE THE ALIEN SUPERCOMPUTER ALONE!


thatsthejoke.jpg


Rest in ****, fagbag.


Death to all urbanites. Let the era of archeofuturism begin.

Done.

It is hard for me to overstate just how much I love Deus Ex. @rusty_shackleford said earlier, either in this thread or in the chat, that Deus Ex wasn't really special, and that the 90's were just full of conspiracy stuff, and it was popular for its time. I think that that is partly true - I don't think Deus Ex could have, or at least would have, been made at any other time, and we see modern failures in Mankind Divided and Human Revolution; games that are "OK" but that doesn't carry the spirit of Deus Ex very well, and fails to captivate.

But I also think that that is wrong, and does a disservice to Deus Ex. Deus Ex isn't great just because its "conspiracies", but because of how it blends real-life existing conspiracy theories into its narrative and mixes it with actual facts that relate to these supposed conspiracies, with a heavy dose of genuine social criticism mixed in; and that's genuine criticism based on genuine facts - not what passes for "social criticism" in the post-Occupy Wall Street era - and it manages to do so from multiple different angles. Not always necessarily very in-depth, but the Illuminati's approach is presented as valid, without digging itself down into the demonstrable failures of the old world it helped create, but there's also the NSF's criticism of big government and capitalist corruption, all of it interspersed with philosophical ideas relating to government.

While "conspiracies" were popular in the era of the original Deus Ex, I can't think of anything else that did this, in terms of popular media. X-Files had "conspiracies", but it ultimately didn't extend farther than "aliens" and "coverups"; it didn't exactly namedrop the Rockefellers or the Trilateral Commission. The Net (1995) had hackers and a shady corporation and bribery, but it didn't discuss problems of unhindered mass surveillance. And this was even pre-Patriot Act, pre-"AI", pre-boomer net, pre-so much. In many ways, I think that Deus Ex hits the right notes for the same reasons why Dan Brown's book were so popular - a near-perfect blend of the real and the fictional, but I'd argue that Deus Ex goes the extra mile by discussing things that surround those real tidbits, tying it all together.

It doesn't pretend to "teach a lesson" or "have a message", and is never condescending to the player, either. It's as much an exploration as it is a coherent story, and I think that it's sad that the world was never truly expanded upon, as Deus Ex left ample room for more.

As for the GMDX mod that I was playing through, I think it's a solid 7/10. I would say that it largely stays true to the original game in most aspects, with some genuine objectively good improvements in there that never detracts from "the original experience". Most of the time I had to think long and hard whether this is how something worked in the original game or not, and which areas were new and which weren't. At other times, things stand out like a sore thumb, and is sometimes a bit buggy, so I cannot in good conscience recommend it to a completely new player, but I can absolutely recommend it to an old one looking to play through the game again without being taken out of the feeling of the original, unmodded game, which is not something I can say for Revision when I played it years ago.

Anyway, on to Vampire on monday or so. Going to be interesting, as I have never played it.

[Oyster Sauce]

@Vergil

[Vergil]

@Vergil

This made me light headed and I need to go lay down.

[rusty_shackleford]

@Vergil

Is he gay

[Oyster Sauce]

@Vergil

Is he gay

surely not....