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Title: Wow, how do I still have my sanity?
Post by: G0atmaster on February 20, 2007, 02:50:40 am
I just played Deus Ex Machina with MS Sam's voice doing fillers.  Let me tell you I have never been more frustrated in my life than I was listening to Sam drawl out every individual character of the Shivans' leetspeak.  If I here another series of "Backslash slash backslash slash" or "verticalline underscore verticalline" I'm gonna go nuts!!

Anyway, great campaign.  I had a lot of laughs.  Speaking of the ETAK mssion, is there any way to not die of "Unknown Causes" or is that the informal end to the campaign?

So far I've completed the Aeos Affair, Transcend and (afaik) DEM.
Title: Re: Wow, how do I still have my sanity?
Post by: CP5670 on February 20, 2007, 02:52:09 am
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I just played Deus Ex Machina with MS Sam's voice doing fillers.  Let me tell you I have never been more frustrated in my life than I was listening to Sam drawl out every individual character of the Shivans' leetspeak.  If I here another series of "Backslash slash backslash slash" or "verticalline underscore verticalline" I'm gonna go nuts!!

Actually, that would sound very appropriate in DEM. :D I need to try it again with the voices.
Title: Re: Wow, how do I still have my sanity?
Post by: Dysko on February 20, 2007, 06:37:35 am
Then don't try JAD2, or you'll hear "asterisk asterisk asterisk asterisk asterisk" for a lot of time. :)
Obviously, it's a joke: try JAD2 at your earliest opportunity (but deactivate MS Sam :nervous:)
Title: Re: Wow, how do I still have my sanity?
Post by: Goober5000 on February 20, 2007, 09:32:48 am
I just played Deus Ex Machina with MS Sam's voice doing fillers.  Let me tell you I have never been more frustrated in my life than I was listening to Sam drawl out every individual character of the Shivans' leetspeak.  If I here another series of "Backslash slash backslash slash" or "verticalline underscore verticalline" I'm gonna go nuts!!
:lol: That could be a parody in and of itself. :D

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Anyway, great campaign.  I had a lot of laughs.
Thanks. :)

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Speaking of the ETAK mssion, is there any way to not die of "Unknown Causes" or is that the informal end to the campaign?
It's one end.  You're a red-shirt, after all. :D

Assuming you rescued the Iceni, you have to quickly hit Alt-J, Escape, and Alt-J again to complete the campaign successfully.
Title: Re: Wow, how do I still have my sanity?
Post by: G0atmaster on February 20, 2007, 10:54:09 am
well, I've turned cheats on, made the Iceni Invulnrable, the 4 cains and 2 rakshasas come in, I use cheats to kill the cains (force weapons to Shivan Super Laser, deactivate Invulnrability on them and blast em), and make the iceni invulnrable, and I kill both the rakshasas when they're no longer invulnrable per the mission, then the Iceni tells me to plot a course for them, but no matter where I am when I press 1 they always say "there's no room to maneuver we're all gonna die!!!" and I lose.
Title: Re: Wow, how do I still have my sanity?
Post by: Blaise Russel on February 20, 2007, 11:59:53 am
It's hard to manoeuvre when you're surrounded on all sides.

All sides.
Title: Re: Wow, how do I still have my sanity?
Post by: G0atmaster on February 20, 2007, 01:25:50 pm
I'm getting the hint, but I thought I already tried what you're thinking.  I'll try again when I get home.

P.S. they're not surrounded anymore once I blast the cains and rakshasas with SSL's... =P
Title: Re: Wow, how do I still have my sanity?
Post by: NGTM-1R on February 20, 2007, 01:30:00 pm
I just played Deus Ex Machina with MS Sam's voice doing fillers.  Let me tell you I have never been more frustrated in my life than I was listening to Sam drawl out every individual character of the Shivans' leetspeak.  If I here another series of "Backslash slash backslash slash" or "verticalline underscore verticalline" I'm gonna go nuts!!

Longhand leet ftw.
Title: Re: Wow, how do I still have my sanity?
Post by: G0atmaster on February 20, 2007, 02:23:44 pm
seriously lol.  It almost pwned my sanity.
Title: Re: Wow, how do I still have my sanity?
Post by: Mad Bomber on February 20, 2007, 09:27:10 pm

Longhand leet ftw.

Percent sign ampersand dollar sign! And colon semicolon too!

:D
Title: Re: Wow, how do I still have my sanity?
Post by: Dark Hunter on February 20, 2007, 11:58:52 pm
I just played Deus Ex Machina with MS Sam's voice doing fillers.  Let me tell you I have never been more frustrated in my life than I was listening to Sam drawl out every individual character of the Shivans' leetspeak.  If I here another series of "Backslash slash backslash slash" or "verticalline underscore verticalline" I'm gonna go nuts!!

Oh come on, that was one of my favorite parts!  :D
Title: Re: Wow, how do I still have my sanity?
Post by: G0atmaster on February 22, 2007, 12:46:10 am
lol/


OK.  So I plot out a vertical escape course, they tell me i'm brilliant, warp out, and no matter whne I do, whether it's before the Iceni gets all the way out and I get the "come home" message, or while it's still  warping out, or even before it warps out, whenever I hit alt+J, my ship explodes due to "Unknown Causes."  Is that supposed to happen?
Title: Re: Wow, how do I still have my sanity?
Post by: Backslash on February 22, 2007, 01:50:26 am
Percent sign ampersand dollar sign! And colon semicolon too!
He's speaking in tongues, Sam!  :D
Title: Re: Wow, how do I still have my sanity?
Post by: Goober5000 on February 22, 2007, 12:08:19 pm
OK.  So I plot out a vertical escape course, they tell me i'm brilliant, warp out, and no matter whne I do, whether it's before the Iceni gets all the way out and I get the "come home" message, or while it's still  warping out, or even before it warps out, whenever I hit alt+J, my ship explodes due to "Unknown Causes."  Is that supposed to happen?

Assuming you rescued the Iceni, you have to quickly hit Alt-J, Escape, and Alt-J again to complete the campaign successfully.
Title: Re: Wow, how do I still have my sanity?
Post by: Snail on February 22, 2007, 12:16:25 pm
Someone posted a help thread saying that the last mission of DEM was running real slow and kept crashing. Someone else replied saying that Goober did it just for fun... :)
Title: Re: Wow, how do I still have my sanity?
Post by: G0atmaster on February 22, 2007, 12:28:43 pm
lol ok...  Is THAT the way I get around the evil mission designer's last dastardly trick...