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[nickkcin11]

Wait OP, you think the decryption in ME1 is hard... err... I'm at loss for words. I thought you didn't like it, please tell me you just don't like it. It is just a game of simon says without having to memorize what he actually did. You should try out hacking in Fallout, that is a pain in the ass (easy once you get it though the game gives no guide. And it takes a while).

[Ahglock]

nickkcin11 wrote...

Wait OP, you think the decryption in ME1 is hard... err... I'm at loss for words. I thought you didn't like it, please tell me you just don't like it. It is just a game of simon says without having to memorize what he actually did. You should try out hacking in Fallout, that is a pain in the ass (easy once you get it though the game gives no guide. And it takes a while).

Simon says is the xbox version, the PC version of hacking is different.  I never found it too hard, but there are a couple of the puzzles where I could not complete it in the time allowed.  Given that not everyone is the same, I don't see an issue with some people not being good at this one type of puzzle.  

[nickkcin11]

I didn't know that the PC version had a different one. My fault.

[AK404]

 

bearcat22 wrote...
The messing around with the circular Tetris style puzzle to open locked items is just driving me nuts.
Where is the mod or patch or button or setting or whatever to SKIP this part of the game?
If you spend an insane number of points to level up someone to extremely high decryption, you shouldn'thave to physically brute-force and in-real-life have to hack hack hack the thing for 45 minutes. It's just ruining this game.  What I want is ONE click decryption.

Unfortunately, that's the price of playing a RPG, especially one in such need of improvement as ME1.

1) Omni-gel is your bypass mechanism.  Check your inventory, there should be an option to convert any object into omni-gel (four, I think).  Be careful with this: all objects, regardless of value are worth exactly the same amount of omni-gel.  So long as you have the necessary amount of decryption/electronics and omni-gel, you should be able to automatically bypass anything in the game.  If you play by the in-game rules, then you'll have to break 4-7 objects to bypass things.  The downside, of course, is less credits, as you have less to sell.

When the other posters refer to 'the console,' it's Bioware's built-in cheat mechanism used to give yourself extra levels, extra credits, extra omni-gel, that sort of thing (for testing purposes).  Unfortunately, I play on a 360, not a PC, which means I've never had access to the console commands.  If you play on a PC, you're in luck.

2) Target reticule.  The targeting reticule isn't like those in FPS games: instead of showing what you're aiming at, it presents the projected shot placement of your weapon.  The less skilled you are with a weapon, the wider the shot placement and the wider it gets per shot.  There is no way to change it into a set of crosshairs.

And off the topic, but if you're 50 years old, then surely you're aware that you're speaking to people half your age.  To them, Google is the answer to everything: Main topic, sub-topic.  "'Mass Effect' PC Console" gives you the answer in seconds.

Modifié par AK404, 08 mai 2011 - 06:13 .

[bearcat22]

AK404 wrote...

 

bearcat22 wrote...
The messing around with the circular Tetris style puzzle to open locked items is just driving me nuts.
Where is the mod or patch or button or setting or whatever to SKIP this part of the game?
If you spend an insane number of points to level up someone to extremely high decryption, you shouldn'thave to physically brute-force and in-real-life have to hack hack hack the thing for 45 minutes. It's just ruining this game.  What I want is ONE click decryption.

Unfortunately, that's the price of playing a RPG, especially one in such need of improvement as ME1.

1) Omni-gel is your bypass mechanism.  Check your inventory, there should be an option to convert any object into omni-gel (four, I think).  Be careful with this: all objects, regardless of value are worth exactly the same amount of omni-gel.  So long as you have the necessary amount of decryption/electronics and omni-gel, you should be able to automatically bypass anything in the game.  If you play by the in-game rules, then you'll have to break 4-7 objects to bypass things.  The downside, of course, is less credits, as you have less to sell.

When the other posters refer to 'the console,' it's Bioware's built-in cheat mechanism used to give yourself extra levels, extra credits, extra omni-gel, that sort of thing (for testing purposes).  Unfortunately, I play on a 360, not a PC, which means I've never had access to the console commands.  If you play on a PC, you're in luck.

2) Target reticule.  The targeting reticule isn't like those in FPS games: instead of showing what you're aiming at, it presents the projected shot placement of your weapon.  The less skilled you are with a weapon, the wider the shot placement and the wider it gets per shot.  There is no way to change it into a set of crosshairs.

And off the topic, but if you're 50 years old, then surely you're aware that you're speaking to people half your age.  To them, Google is the answer to everything: Main topic, sub-topic.  "'Mass Effect' PC Console" gives you the answer in seconds.

Yes, I am aware that almost everyone here is probably a tiny fraction of my chronological age of 50 years old. I've been using the internet for eleven years. That doesn't mean that the suggestion, "use a console" makes any sense if you have never heard of the term "console" before. 

"Use a console", I was told. Okay.

A "console" could be many, many things to someone who has an imagination and a brain.

The most logical interpretation of that suggestion would be "use a hunk of hardware", that is, buy a physical box called a "console"----The suggestion could also have been interpreted to mean "quit playing on a PC, and play on a console...Xbox".

A "console" could be something within the game universe.....a device I was supposed to buy or find to enable or assist with decryption.

A "console" might have referred to part of the game interface on-screen.

And so on.....I don't lack imagination, experience or skill in using Google. But it IS a problem when people ASSUME things, and I find that younger people do that a LOT.

I am also very unhappy with the "text speak" mutant lowlife attitude that appears to be spreading like a case of herpes into the crotch of the entire world. 

As the internet grows, as IQ levels seem to drop, as American culture get more and more diluted and mongrelized, it APPEARS (at least to me) that language is DEvolving into a series of grunts and gestures, rather than complete words, complete sentences and fully-reasoned, logically-constucted and completely-articulated concepts. 

Modifié par bearcat22, 08 mai 2011 - 07:57 .

[bearcat22]

nickkcin11 wrote...

Wait OP, you think the decryption in ME1 is hard... err... I'm at loss for words. I thought you didn't like it, please tell me you just don't like it. It is just a game of simon says without having to memorize what he actually did. You should try out hacking in Fallout, that is a pain in the ass (easy once you get it though the game gives no guide. And it takes a while).

That is a fallacious argument. Telling me that a pear has TWO worms in it does not change the fact that the apple in my hand has ONE worm in it.  Make sense, please.

In my opinion, all games should contain these features:

1. Speed control.  A slider, such as that used in the game "Original War" that controls the pace of the game. Yes, it is "real time" but YOU are in minute contol of the pace.

2.  Scalabilty.  An "easy" setting should actually BE easy. This is in the best interests of the developers, to incorporate settings that will accomodate the broadest possible audience.  What defines "easy"?  How about playtesting it with a person who has never played a video game, at all, ever before? Or at least someone who has never played that category of game, such as "RTS".

3. Government regulation. Before any game is allowed to be sold, it must pass a bug test, by an independent agency. How many hundreds of thousands of people got ripped off by games that were unplayable because the company knowingly released it with bugs? We're moving in the opposite direction with the nauseating trend of "preselling" games to retard sucker sychophant fanboys.

4. An interactive tutorial that is 100% comprehensive. A player should never have to look in a manual or online to understand a game mechanism.

5. Playable demo, either for free, or for extremely low cost. Ideally, fully-featured, with a two hour expiration date.

[bearcat22]

CajNatalie wrote...

"Look it up on the internet"?  I invite you to go, right now, to Google, and type in just the word "console".
Remember: that was the only word I would have had to go by, nothing else was said.  This would NOT have produced useful results.

Actually, how about I type in to Google...
Mass Effect Console
...and ta-da, relevant topics appear.

I apologise for being condescending, if my manner is a problem.

REPEAT:

Remember: that was the only word I would have had to go by, nothing else was said.

[aimlessgun]

And it's official: bearcat22 is a troll.

Modifié par aimlessgun, 08 mai 2011 - 08:19 .

[bearcat22]

aimlessgun wrote...

And it's official: bearcat22 is a troll.

And it's official: aimlessgun will be removed for TOS violation.

[CajNatalie]

slimgrin wrote...

Kandid001 wrote...

At least ME1 decryption can be skipped with omnigels. Just wait until the minigames in ME2...

Exactly. I hope they put this back into the game.

This skipping with omni-gel feature is not going to return.
The Shadow Broker DLC confirmed that bypassing with omni-gel is no longer possible due to a security upgrade that happened in the two years between ME1 and ME2.

bearcat22 wrote...

CajNatalie wrote...

"Look it up on the internet"?  I invite you to go, right now, to Google, and type in just the word "console".
Remember:
that was the only word I would have had to go by, nothing else was
said.  This would NOT have produced useful results.

Actually, how
about I type in to Google...
Mass Effect Console
...and ta-da, relevant topics appear.

I apologise for being condescending, if my manner is a problem.

REPEAT:

Remember: that was the only word I would have had to go by, nothing else was said.

So you weren't able to figure out that for help regarding a Mass Effect game, the words 'Mass' and 'Effect' were significant?
Do you need to be told that to find something out relating to your Mass Effect game, you need to think 'Mass Effect'?
Please. From some of your other posts here you don't seem to be stupid, so quit acting like it.

Anyway, a few people here have already provided explanations about the console, and one other person suggested searching 'Mass Effect PC Console'
Stop beating the dead geth... it's dead. Just go learn the console if you wish to have infinite omni-gel to bypass everything with.

Modifié par CajNatalie, 08 mai 2011 - 08:59 .

[Ahglock]

CajNatalie wrote...

So you weren't able to figure out that for help regarding a Mass Effect game, the words 'Mass' and 'Effect' were significant?
Do you need to be told that to find something out relating to your Mass Effect game, you need to think 'Mass Effect'?
Please. From some of your other posts here you don't seem to be stupid, so quit acting like it.

Anyway, a few people here have already provided explanations about the console, and one other person suggested searching 'Mass Effect PC Console'
Stop beating the dead geth... it's dead. Just go learn the console if you wish to have infinite omni-gel to bypass everything with.

Or maybe people should stop making snide insinuations that a person might feel the need to defend themselves against and it would stop.  

[RaenImrahl]

It's official... I am locking this thread.

bearcat22 - it's great that you've come to this network to ask questions. Obviously, some of the answers you get are more mature than others. The key is to show your *own* professed maturity and not respond in-kind.

For those that discuss these things earnestly... thank you. For those who just chime in with a one-liner... more's the pity.

(Locked)