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[forsaken1111]

Do player laid mines detonate when the player moves over them?

Yes... why wouldn't they? You have several seconds before they arm to move away from them.

If you approach any mine very slowly you can disarm it.

[lordcooper]

Just wanna say, I love all the little touches in this game. Like this, which Aqizzar, after I described it, noted to be the biggest nerd in joke ever.

The FFXXVII poster, or am I missing something?

[Levi]

For anyone who finished the game, I have a question:

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I can't figure out why Darrow had some kind of human powered quantum computer in his basement.  It didn't seem to serve any purpose other than being a cool place to have a boss fight.  It wasn't need to send out the crazy signal to the biochips, as Zhao was able to influence the biochip with a touch of a button.  It seems to go pretty much against everything that Darrow was planning.  He wanted to end augmentation, but he builds a system to connect an augmented person to become some sort of techie-god? 

It doesn't even seem like Zhao and Darrow were in cahoots, so I'm not sure why any of that happened.  I'm thinking I missed an email somewhere that explained a bunch of the plot.  Does anybody happen to have a better idea of what that part was all about?

[umiman]

It's all explained in game.

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Remember that the installation basically is a giant tube from the surface of the ocean all the way to the bottom. Such a massive undertaking requires a system that can instantly detect and repair any problems before the massive underwater pressure breaks the whole thing apart. That's the purpose of the freaky quantum computer. The thing you are fighting is just its extremely corny defense system (which, as you mentioned, doesn't make any sense). It's also hinted at that that computer itself is the thing that freaks him out into his "end all tech progress" mode as he got scared by what he created... among other things.

And yes, technically, Zhao and Darrow were in cahoots. But what happened was that Darrow got wind of what the illuminati were planning (Zhao) and decided to preemptively join them so he could mess with their plans and use them towards his own goal, which was to chase mankind off the path of human augmentation for good. This is in contrast with the illuminati who want human augmentation only for themselves.

[drkpaladin]

Huge spoilers

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 Darrow was pretty insane, I agreed that I'd rather just expose everyone, but he was insane with guilt including that computer.  Darrow infiltrated the group and betrayed them, Zhao wanted to frame the humanity front (if memory serves) but didn't trust you to do it yourself.

Edit: Ninja'd

[Levi]

Okay, that mostly clears it up.  I probably missed an email somewhere explaining that. 

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Although I would think just a bunch of sensors would have worked just as well to prevent leaks.

And that Darrow guy should stop creating things he's scared of. 

[umiman]

Okay, that mostly clears it up.  I probably missed an email somewhere explaining that. 

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Although I would think just a bunch of sensors would have worked just as well to prevent leaks.

And that Darrow guy should stop creating things he's scared of. 

If people stopped creating things they were scared off, no one would have kids. 

[Shadowlord]

Do player laid mines detonate when the player moves over them?

Yes... why wouldn't they? You have several seconds before they arm to move away from them.

If you approach any mine very slowly you can disarm it.

That explains why they detonated when I tried to disarm them using Deus Ex 1 tactics: Run straight at them and attempt to press the use button to disarm them before they can explode. Result: Explosion in my face since there is apparently no delay between detection and detonation. Even with no explosives skill in Deus Ex 1 I could run up to a LAM planted as a mine and disarm it (on Realistic difficulty) without any trouble, so I was a bit confused when doing the same thing with older mine tech resulted in instant death here.

(I ended up concluding that they were un-retrievable and just shooting them all with my pistol)

[forsaken1111]

just shooting them all with my pistol)

That's mostly what I do. I didn't find mines particularly useful when salvaged. Then again, I'm currently just blowing everyone away with heavy guns.

[Shadowlord]

LAMs (the combo grenade/mine) were more useful in Deus Ex 1, when you could stack 10 (IIRC) of each LAM in a single inventory slot and use them for a variety of purposes. I blew Anna Navarre to smithereens with a single LAM, for instance, by booby trapping the door to Lebedev's cabin after locking it behind me (She forgot to knock before barging in).

[forsaken1111]

The one time I used a mine to good effect was to plant a gas grenade mine in a point where I knew NPC's would spawn in as soon as a trigger event happened, which knocked them all out instantly. Cheaty but it helped me get by that area.

[Jackrabbit]

Just wanna say, I love all the little touches in this game. Like this, which Aqizzar, after I described it, noted to be the biggest nerd in joke ever.

The FFXXVII poster, or am I missing something?

I didn't know this, but Aqizzar is net savvy enough to have realized the monitor arch has been an internet meme since 1998.

[Shadowlord]

My first thought when I saw it was "What's he trying to build a stargate out of monitors for?"

Not to mention the sheer rarity of CRT monitors in 2027 must have made collecting all of those an expensive proposition unless someone had planned ahead and stockpiled them several decades in advance.

[Nilocy]

I don't know if this has been posted before, but I found this while reading emails.

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Sounds familiar no?

Spoiler: hint (click to show/hide)

Half-Life opening anyone? Edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNX8reyoHY4&feature=player_detailpage#t=87s

[Sartain]

I just completed the game last night and after thinking about it for while I'm starting to lean more and more towards the notion that not only does this game try overly hard to be a sequel (well prequel) to Deus Ex, it actually tries to BE Deus Ex.
Its not really so much a sequel as its an impersonation and its rather creepy actually.

Also, silly endgame is silly, total and major spoiler following

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So you find Reed, she tells you that its all going to shit, you meet a crazy-ass Hugh Darrow and (probably) talk him into repentance. Then you arrive at a very conveniently arranged computer room and is presented with four completely arbitrary options for the game ending, where two of them will basically invalidate most if not all your actions for the entire game, the third (sticking with Sarif obviously) being the only sensible choice and the fourth (destroying the facility and everyone inside, no one will ever know of this) obviously being the "canon" one since hey, you never heard about ANY of this in the original Deus EX.
Either way, you then get maybe 1 minute of pretentious monologue and then its roll credits, with no explanation on what really happens, no epilogue of any sorts concerning Megan or any of the others trapped in Panchaea, not even a snarky comment from any of the many people who can apparently patch into your headset at will.
Weak, really weak.
Don't get me wrong, I liked the game for its mechanics but it seemed rather obvious that the developers hadn't put a lot of thought into building a coherent story that wrapped up properly. Maybe they just ran out of money/time halfway through and winged it, sure seemed like it.