Precursors

[Flanged]

Well, you can either call it unoriginal or full of references; pick one.

I pick "full of references" then.  Despite all nods to other bits of fiction, this is still one of the most original games I've played in the last few years.

Eh, can anybody tell me how to deploy the beacons for the sandworm quest? 

Look for a ghost of the beacon lying around (it's a greenish transparent thing IIRC), you should be able to just walk up and use it.

Thanks Arch.  Once I've got rid of these I can get into some serious looting and selling.  i don't know if they even have a weight to them, but they take up too much backpack space.

In fairness, I set him up for the punchline 

Then allow me to congratulate you both on the production of this most excellent jest! 

 

[Cyborg Eastern European]

Yeah.
It landed you in the quotes thread.
First one in a while that actually deserved it.

 

[Elisianthus]

Hadn't even reached Goldyn and I broke the game.

Hijacked the robot in the opening mission, respawned back in it on the planet after the cutscene.

 

[wesp5]

Hijacked the robot in the opening mission, respawned back in it on the planet after the cutscene.

Hi did you do that? This shouldn't be possible in the 1.1 version at least...

 

[Elisianthus]

Aye. Realised afterwards I'd forgot to apply the 1.1 patch, which would no doubt have helped.

 

[Worbah]

Holy ****ing Jesus, Deep Shadows made a Sci-Fi game? My cock is still hard from Boiling Point, and now this? W00t!!!!

 

[Archonsod]

Psht, both it and Boiling Point's sequel were cheap on GG a week or two ago, you missed your chance

And they're both ****ing amazing.

 

[Worbah]

Psht, both it and Boiling Point's sequel were cheap on GG a week or two ago, you missed your chance

And they're both ****ing amazing.

Boiling Point's sequel? Are you really telling me that White Gold is actually honest to God real? I'd stared at the wiki page through one bloodshot eye, hitting f5 every ten seconds just to hear that it's more than a feverish dream, and now you just nonchalantly claim that it exists? For ****s sake, this is just too much for one man to take in all at once.

 

[Archonsod]

There you go.

They even make a couple of funny references to things you did in Boiling Point to boot.

 

[Trelow]

Takes a minute of downloading unzipping files to get your sound in there, but worth it.

http://www.rpgwatch.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12402

the links for Precursors are in the appropriate forum as well.

 

[Archonsod]

IIRC we5p's latest unofficial patch incorporates the sound fix.

 

[Trelow]

Well, slap my ass and call me sally. That's nice.  Good ol wesp, making awesome games, awesomer.

 

[ThinkPoesy]

Hey all, looks like no one has posted to this thread for over a year. Seems like I got into this game well after everyone else! Well, it's still tons of fun for me, and especially refreshing since I just beat ME2. Anyway, I was wondering about the russian audio pack. Since megauploads has been shut down I've only been able to find a torrent of the files. It's at 71% but it has been for a few days now. Though the Precursors wiki says to give it a week, I just wonder if anyone has another source for the files? I can't get it from beamdog as I bought the game from gamersgate. Any help would be great. Also, if anyone is still playing it, cheers and hello there.

 

[Sheriff-murder]

Has it been patched much since launch? Was a bit too unfinished when I tried it and I couldn't get into it.

 

[Wellenbrecher]

AFAIk you still need Wesp's patch to really play it. The GG version is still nothing but the cracked (!) Russian with all the voice files ripped from it.

And yes, they literally went and used a crack from some warez group.

 

[ThinkPoesy]

Is wesp's patch supposed to include the russian voice files? Cause I installed 1.5 and don't have 'em...

 

[Wellenbrecher]

Last time I used this I had to download them separately. All 700MB full of glory.

 

[ThinkPoesy]

Hm. I'm on Gli and I'm supposed to take a photograph of a meeting, but when I got where the green flag sent me I realized I didn't have a camera. Do you need to buy one, say from the Clatz, to be able to take a photo? Or is it a function you always have? If so, I haven't been able to find it yet on the keyboard. Sorry for being such a noob!

 

[Archonsod]

IIRC you should either be given one, or you have the capability to do it via something. Been a while since I did that bit.

 

[ThinkPoesy]

Ah, yeah, my bad, just had to look a little harder... though it was right under my nose. An alien eye camera that's been in my inventory the whole game, just didn't remember I had it.