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its actually more like 5-7 books

  • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    It would’ve been better as a full-on visual novel imo, it’s probably the best written game I’ve ever played but the gameplay is kinda tedious. Walking around the map is sluggish, the interactions with objects feel janky and I really dislike the RNG skill checks. I could never get through a whole playthrough because of that. But despite all that, it’s still undeniably a masterpiece.

    • Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.net
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      10 months ago

      and I really dislike the RNG skill checks.

      I disagree, I think the skill check enhances the character building, failing them often produces more interesting outcomes than passing, and passing them can create brief moments of victory for Harry. On my first play-through I was failing shit constantly except my build was pretty good for things directly related to the investigation, so it kind of worked for an RP were Harry was a washed up mess but he had been a good detective, so his past skills were shining through his amnesia and failure.

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      10 months ago

      Issues like this is why I like mods or built in cheat available. Any tedious part (Palworld breeding time…) can be shortened with mods/cheats, have to control yourself to not abuse it though.

        • zkrzsz [he/him]@hexbear.net
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          10 months ago

          https://www.nexusmods.com/discoelysium/mods/16

          Features

          Fast Travel                          Adds four discoverable fast travel points.
          Set Run Speed                    Up to 3x run speed
          Set Money             0-999 
          Set Skill Points                   0-100
          Set Attributes                     (Intellect, Psyche, Physique, Motorics)
          Force Checks                      Always pass or always fail
          Lock Appearance                Changing clothes updates stats but not appearance
          Toggle HUD                         Turn on/off the in-game HUD for screenshots
          Add all clothes                    Adds every clothing item to your inventory
          Unlock all thoughts     Makes every thought available for research
          

          Install note (GOG version doesn’t work):

          so for those that dont get it still , what you do is unzip the file open the file folder there should be 5 items in total. You copy those items into game folder where it has the .exe which is the game itself . I ran the game from the folder itself like someone in the comments suggested and it opened up for me.


          Alternative: https://www.wemod.com/cheats/disco-elysium-trainers

    • Alsephina@lemmy.ml
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      10 months ago

      I really dislike the RNG skill checks

      Same. That’s pretty much my one complaint about the game.

      I just want all the dialogue man

    • Philosoraptor [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      10 months ago

      It helps that very, very few of the skill checks (two or three, I think) actually need to be “passed” in order to progress. Failing actually helps build the narrative, and almost never locks you out of progressing. You can play it so that you savescum in order to pass every check, but you’re missing a significant amount of content that way, and the experience is arguably better if you just roll with it. The failed rolls almost always lead to something fun.