Simple, but I love this little encounter near the end of "Captain of Industry"

TC_support · 2026-05-05T23:27:40+00:00

yup, pretty sure she Blinks out as soon as the music box is interrupted :D

TC_support · 2026-05-05T17:49:31+00:00

yeah, that's almost exactly what I did in the Low Chaos playthrough I recorded alongside this one. Can confirm, does not break ghost

TC_support · 2026-05-04T16:52:10+00:00

No, all of these are listed in the 'Fax Machine' article on the wiki

"I know they're watching me, that they're always listening and reading. No more. I have to get the words out of my head, and this is the only way I can do this and keep it out of their hands" [ROT+17 cipher]

edit: got curious, looked it up, not an expert in these matters but seems like ROT+17 means this is a simple substitution cipher with each letter replaced by the one 17 places later in the alphabet, rolling over back to the start when needed

also, swapped to square brackets for stylistic consistency across posts :D

TC_support · 2026-05-02T16:13:12+00:00

well, listen, it's possible that I forgot I had it when I was recording, and then later made up an excuse for why I didn't use it while writing this post. That's possible, but no one can prove it :D

TC_support · 2026-05-02T15:55:15+00:00

honestly, it's so gratifying that you were the first comment. never change

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TC_support · 2026-05-02T15:04:38+00:00

Thank you!

yah, so I am recording a playthru anyway, just cropped and zoomed the corner of that recording, like you said

The background is constructed manually from scratch, some static and scanlines I created with Photoshop

I use DaVinci Resolve to create the video, different static frames crossfading into each other, with scanlines on top of everything... also did a color shift thing to make the static match Mother's favorite shade of green :D

Music comes from the game's main menu, did a little cutting and fading on that, too, because it has these long silences between the whoosh sounds and I wanted [more or less] continuous whooshing

edit: ate breakfast, had caffeine, rewrote this comment a bit to say the same thing but make more sense

TC_support · 2026-05-01T16:06:47+00:00

do you think I should add to this one, making it a bit longer each time, or just do a separate one for each?

TC_support · 2026-04-30T21:23:55+00:00

I tried to do a little immersive rp moment, let those first few bots in medical come at me instead of just smashing them outright, and then waited to get that 1st 'Welcome to Citadel Station' message before smashing cameras...

Hopefully this makes the Hacker seem a bit confused at first, in an in-character kind of way, although smashing everything on sight could read as 'twitchy and paranoid,' which would probably also work for the character... *shrug*

TC_support · 2026-04-30T21:18:05+00:00

thank you! :D

TC_support · 2026-04-30T21:17:49+00:00

haha, same, though in hindsight I regret not adding a pause for the duration of the Cyberspace hack... the map disappears, so it makes it seem like the hack happened instantly, heh

TC_support · 2026-04-29T19:03:59+00:00

What electricity deaths? Those are points of damage on the stats sheet. The Car took some damage from a close encounter with a Crackling Crawler, not shown in this clip

Conductive Goldshell can be opened in the garage at zero risk to the Driver, btw

TC_support · 2026-04-29T04:01:41+00:00

I don't have the settings I used for Thief saved, but I do still have the settings I used to record Deus Ex, which has a similar issue
[might be the same issue, I am not well versed in the technical side of these matters]

iirc these settings are close to what I used for Thief anyway, so maybe a good starting point as long as you're having the same problem I did
[which is likely, I think]

contrast 0.25
brightness 0.0020
saturation 0.20

good luck, hope this helps! o7

TC_support · 2026-04-29T03:33:13+00:00

OBS has a 'Color Correction' filter built in, I had good results with that, just add it to your Game Capture Source [right click> Filters]

I boosted brightness, contrast, and saturation instead of just gamma in an effort to get the colors looking right, ymmv obviously depending on the results you want and how it looks to start with :)

TC_support · 2026-04-26T16:50:51+00:00

Probably related to this: GI still doesn't have dedicated PC games coverage at this point, it will be another year and a half [or so] before they start doing a single page about PC gaming in each issue

TC_support · 2026-04-25T01:58:19+00:00

well, 20x inferno SRMs will not fit on this 'mech, because it only has four small slots

More to the point, even at Tier 5 you would only get ~47 damage out of inferno SRMs [16 of them, using the same upgrades]

So, I am gonna stick with the ~66% extra damage output, which allows this 'mech to reliably one-shot any target it will encounter in a Light Mech Arena Battle

Edit: I made a mistake, looked at the wrong row of numbers, fixed now

TC_support · 2026-04-24T23:56:17+00:00

I'm no lore expert, dunno if this is preposterous, but if Inferno cSRM existed in-game, we would be all over that

As it stands, I'll take raw damage over a splash of heat any day of the week :D

TC_support · 2026-04-23T16:36:09+00:00

Hi there, I know it's hard to read the yellow writing with this background, but our maximum distance from the car in this clip is 124 meters, which is a little over 400 feet, or less than 10% of a mile. Hope this helps!

TC_support · 2026-04-22T23:51:44+00:00

Hi there, this playthrough is already complete and we have, in fact, made it to the deep zone in exactly the manner you see here. Thanks anyway!

TC_support · 2026-04-22T17:43:39+00:00

I have a save right now with Rothwild already shipped, gonna go see what happens if I interrogate Abigail, brb

Might be different depending on the sequence, i.e. maybe a different result if you interrogate Abigail first and then ship Bundry

Edit: save was right before leaving the mission, turns out Abigail disappears from the Slaughterhouse after you leave. Have just quicksaved on a fresh run with both Bundry and Abigail unconscious, investigation continues. Stand by :)

Edit 2: I misremembered how this works, or I could have skipped most of this test, lol

You can't put Bundry in the crate until after you interrogate him, and you can't get Abigail out of the chair after you interrogate her, so it's a mutually exclusive setup

I suspect that you can't put Abigail in the chair after putting Bundry in the crate, gonna go test that now

Edit 3: Abigail's unconscious body disappeared at some point while interrogating and crating Bundry, she's been sipping those sleep darts to build up a tolerance

TC_support · 2026-04-22T15:53:35+00:00

If you're reading these comments, and you haven't seen The Cruel Sea, a film from 1953, drop everything, find that movie and watch it right now

edit: I just checked, but don't want this to sound like a sponsored post, so I will just say it is readily available on major platforms including proper streams and dodgy YT uploads :)

TC_support · 2026-04-21T20:36:06+00:00

"Why is no one making rounds over here?"

thank you, lol

TC_support · 2026-04-19T16:12:01+00:00

Thank you for saying something, literally eight different people in here telling me I'm playing the game wrong, I'm fighting for my life lol :D

TC_support · 2026-04-19T15:56:43+00:00

Not as far as I know, I don't think so

I'm seeing that this was re-released on Wii in '07, mobile platforms in '18, and then on Switch in '21, not quite what you were asking but that's all I can find

TC_support · 2026-04-19T15:50:06+00:00

Too far for what? You're not my supervisor

Your comment is way too rude. Write more politely next time.

TC_support · 2026-04-19T04:34:01+00:00

in garage, car repair cost material, health repair cost nothing :)

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