oh interesting, ill check the reddit for that. i have one main story quest to get 15k and i cant get there… and then to get the Akria looking bike its like 58k… so i hope the glitch is there, or a maybe a save editor mod.
Here’s the method I used:
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Glitching ATMs in a cyberpunk game seems very genre appropriate, really. I think in Deus Ex the rewards were often trivial sadly.
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one of the quests has a person that has 5k on them and if you drop them in a trunk, you can then farm the item bag that glitches out of the trunk, and then just run a short loop to collect. it took about 40 min to gather 1mil. It is plenty of money so im happy.
I am totally the guy who uses the vendor glitch in Dragon Age Origins to have infinite gold to get the best gear and become an absolute killing machine. I’m here to have fun and nothing is fun about grinding to get a slightly better set of gloves.
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I play RPG’s for story, not for forced level grinding to extend the game. If your story is only 12 hours, embrace it and make it the best 12 hours of my month. Don’t make me waste 75 hours to get to that.
I am looooooooving cyberpunk 2077. i cant wait for the expansion, and what ever is done next in the world.
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Regarding glitches to gain money, I’ll admit I’ve been doing similar things if the game I’m playing allows it. For example, whenever I played S.T.A.L.K.E.R Shadow of Chernobyl (and Call of Pripyat), I always fire up CheatEngine and give myself a few million rubles right at the start. I want to enjoy the game and explore/shoot stuff without dying every 10 seconds due to crap gear. I don’t want to spend several hours farming bandits/military/mercs to gain the same amount of money.
I did the same with Terraria when I played it again last year. I duped many of the materials I had gained several years ago to save myself time. I want to build, explore, kill bosses, try the new items, etc. I don’t want to redo the grind I already did before. If I was able to cheat on Division 2, I would have done it already, but alas, I have to grind the old way.
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I don’t have time top grind like i did as a kid, or the attention span to do so. Its just not fun for me. I want my story, i want to save the world/destroy it.
Oven had a semi-recent revelation of sorts I’m regard to tabletop gaming that basically when I was under 20 I had so much more free time that I put up with a lot of stuff from games I wouldn’t touch today. The older RPGs where ‘solo play’ was a thing to make new designs and such or just baroque rules that required 3-4 books to parse out stuff. I just don’t have time fo that today!
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Having run RPG events for a bunch of kids, they don’t have the patience for it now either. (Not a kids these days rant, just the way it is) This was very similar to the conversation I had with someone about Car Wars going to a card based rather than spreadsheet system.
I don’t tend to play grindy games. But I do like slow progression games, as long as I am making progress I am happy.
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I would like to be saying I am playing M.U.L.E. because I bought it on sale from Good Old Games. It is awful. I forgot this was the PC version from back when you had four colors (black, white, cyan and purple) and a single speaker that boops and beeps. I couldn’t find a way for at least five minutes to get DosBox to come up so I could shut it down. I will bring a Commodore 64 back out of storage before I ever touch this game again.
On the other hand, MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries is pretty good. It’s a little disconcerting to see the GPU riding close to 100% processing time in Task Manager, though. I think the video card is in the middle of what’s supported and/or that I have four monitors hooked up (but only one is used by the game).
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Just bought Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes. Gonna try and get my outside chores done on Tuesday so I can sit around and play it all day Wednesday.
I’m not sure what I need to make it work (a controller?) but it’s definitely in the archive.org emulator.
No Man’s Sky, 50% off and 6 years later it’s a pretty fun game. Multiplayer is entertaining.
I’ve been thinking about getting this when I in have a computer again. I am planning on playing it on the Oculus. I tried it on my old computer, but I could never get it to launch, so I returned it.
I went to a 12 hour board game event up the street yesterday and had a blast.
I played a bunch of games I’d never heard of before:
Creature Comforts
Dragon (something)
Scout
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The first was a pretty involved game, but quick and easy to play.
The others were pretty quick card games with simple rules. Apparently Scout is very popular and almost always out of stock. It was a lot of fun, and very simple.
The Dragon game was really simple. It’s a 2 player game. There is a deck of 20 square cards: 5 of each number 0-3. Each player is dealt 8 cards and 4 are discarded so you can’t be sure how many of each are in play. One at a time, you strategically place a card to make a grid 4x4. I won’t get into how it scores, but one player is scoring on the columns while the other uses rows. You can see how number theory and placement would all be taken into consideration.
This group has a meeting every Thursday night. I think it’ll be a lot of fun to get out for this. We haven’t done anything social for 20 years, really.
I started over with MechWarrior 5 Mercenaries because I saw I was making some stupid mistakes like thinking I had to stay put while repairs were in progress. I’ve reached a point where I wonder if a particular mission is just unwinnable. The one at the end of the main storyline was because you need everything maxed out just to survive.
I’ve been ignoring those this time 'round to get money in the bank and better mechs. When I decided I was ready to take on the early mission at Cole Harbor, the both the employer and the target faction really hate me. A total of 29 'mechs and tanks appear and the last round has assault 'mechs. After failing about 4 times, I decided I didn’t care about earning anything from the contract, which was negligible anyway due to the aforementioned ticked-off employer and target. Even with assault mechs of my own, I can’t do it.
The game will randomize some events to prevent you from going to the same spot and anticipating what’s there. I’m thinking that it also changes the difficulty based on your standing with the factions instead of just adding or subtracting what you can earn from the contract. I don’t remember it being this hard before.
Have you tried being less good?
I’m still playing Division 2 and put Witcher 3 on hold again due to sick kids (don’t have time to focus on the story because of it). Almost 300 hours into Div2 now and it’s still fun. I tried getting into other games like X-Com last month, but I got annoyed at how the missions are essentially “spot the alien first or else” and how the RNG was favoring the aliens. I was playing on Normal, no mods, and while I did expect a painful RNG, I guess I just don’t have the patience for it currently.
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