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eraser7278;n10774651 said:
this one time, in cyberpunk, i made this super cool character... but then they got shot in the head and died, so i was sad... the end.

dude, what if we have this difficulty mode in Cyberpunk 2077 called "Living on the Edge" where you can save in order to continue to play the next day, but if you die it's game over and you lose everything?
 
Lisbeth_Salander;n10775071 said:
dude, what if we have this difficulty mode in Cyberpunk 2077 called "Living on the Edge" where you can save in order to continue to play the next day, but if you die it's game over and you lose everything?
Some folks like 'hardcore' mode.
Personally I think they're insane, but hey ... it's their choice.
 
ok, this time i'll tell you kids a real story. March 17, 2013 (i know because i still have the text log). so i was playing in an online text game of cyberpunk, my character Nicky "the knife" was a hitman who had sold his soul to the Italian mob to the tune of 40k worth of bioware. another player in the game was running a small time gang leader in the hood. normally we would have gone on peacefully coexisting, as the game up to this point had yet to experience lethal PVP. however, the thing is this small time gang leader decided to muscle in on another gang in order to gain their turff... and this loosing gang paid protection money to the mob, you can see where this is going.

so one day a mob lieutenant gave me the other player's picture and said he needed to be "taught a lesson." there was some equivocating by the GM on this issue after the fact, but when you tell a hitman to solve a problem, how do you really expect that is going to play out? So anyway, the next evening we bumped into each other on a side job for some third party and i saw my chance. I effortlessly stalked my target through the city, looking for the right time and place to make my move... and then this player has his guy walk into a club where amateur cage-matches are held. I observed him for a bit and noticed he was talking a good game to some recruits about warrior spirit and what have you, while in the background the GM is describing the fight in process, which ends in a FATALITY. The player thankfully didn't pick up on this little tidbit as he was busy monologuing, so I went over and called him out in front of his fresh recruits, let's give the kids a show or was that warrior spirit talk all bullshit, etc.

I goaded him into the ring easy enough, won initiative by a landslide, and proceeded to punch him in the face for 9 points of damage... which then doubled to 18 because head hits suck. a bit of a tantrum followed, with him questioning the lethality of hand to hand strikes, applicability of called shots in melee and the rules for loosing limbs, but after a while it finally sunk into this guy that yes, he just had his skull caved in with one punch!




so a couple life lessons for the children. 1. never ever piss off the mob, 2. don't send a hitman unless you want the target dead, 3. never ever get yourself into a cagematch where you don't understand the rules ahead of time.


did i mention my hitman had a theme song? they played it whenever he showed up to his "legit" cover job at a mob owned strip club.
 
I may have mentioned this before.

My favorite has always been the time a female player hung her hubbies character (male) for raping his brothers character (female).
I give her kudos for staying "in character".
 
had a crazy crit parade take place last night i thought i'd share. so the team was tasked with moving some stuff in a stolen van, but as we were loading it corps cops swooped in on AV-bikes. one of them kept following the van trying to decide if he would shoot it or not, i was tailing the van on my bike to act as a blocking vehicle... but we hadn't expected airborne response. so my fixer rolls high on human perception and the GM lets me know this guy is a turn or two away from making the van Swiss cheese, so I did the only thing i could think of and gave him something else to shoot at. I pulled out my dinky 11mm pistol which i knew wouldn't even dent this thing's fender, and fired a few rounds to get his attention... one of them comes up a crit 10. gm then has me roll on the vehicle hit location table to see which piece of metal it would ping off, i rolled a 3 for a crew hit! roll damage, which comes out pitifully low... the gm asks if i was loading AP rounds so i double checked, i had forgotten all my 11mm ammo was API. so we both whip out blackhands to check the wording "sets materials on fire 50% of the time" so he asks me to call odd or even. damned if his roll didn't come up even. I didn't kill it, but I forced the pilot to make a hard landing because his flight suit WAS ON FIRE!

had any of those rolls come up different, my round would have been as effective as a BB gun, but as it turns out the dice gods smiled on me this night :D
 
Ive recently started playing the Witcher 3 (again) and when you wake up Ciri in the hut she tells Geralt how her and Avallac'h have been traveling to other worlds, naming one world in particular where the people have metal in their heads and fly around on floating ships, could this be a suggestion that Ciri and Avallac'h traveled through the world that CP2077 is set in? Could there maybe a minor cameo of them both appearing in a cut scene briefly? or maybe just an Easter egg hint for CP2077? either way, I'm getting very excited for this game!
 
Korg64;n10873071 said:
Ive recently started playing the Witcher 3 (again) and when you wake up Ciri in the hut she tells Geralt how her and Avallac'h have been traveling to other worlds, naming one world in particular where the people have metal in their heads and fly around on floating ships, could this be a suggestion that Ciri and Avallac'h traveled through the world that CP2077 is set in? Could there maybe a minor cameo of them both appearing in a cut scene briefly? or maybe just an Easter egg hint for CP2077? either way, I'm getting very excited for this game!
Easter egg.
It's highly improbable we'll actually meet, or even see, Ciri in CP2077.
But ... anything is possible ...
 
GinWashi;n10900781 said:
What would Arasaka’s 1 kiloton nuke be like to give a representation I placed a 1 kiloton surface burst between the twin towers.
https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/?...i=20,5,1&zm=14
Nice find!
Beats the hell outta the carts and tables I still use from my time in the service (I was, among other things, a Nuc-Bio-Chem Warfare specialist. In the course of 20 years you tend to pick up a few "side jobs" while in the service.)

Where exactly (or as exactly as we can determine) between LA and San Francisco do we think Night City is located?
I'd like to use this to nuc the area where Arasaka Tower is located.

The only problem I see with this tool is the only options are air or surface burst, and as I recall the one used was in the basement, so the effects radius would be around 25% smaller.
 
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eraser7278;n10901531 said:
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand, now you're on a watch-list. welcome to the club!
I've been on the watch list since 1974.
Maybe I should be welcoming you?
 
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