First Impressions

[ZIGS]

If you think TNM is dark, go play Redsun 2020

Don't get me wrong, I also loved that mod (but that level in the mall... ARGH!!)

[Duke Floss]

I actually think they got the lighting contrast a little better than DX.

[chris the cynic]

Biocells be damned. The first aug upgrade I get goes directly to my light.

[Jonas]

That is generally the best option. I always spend so much time fumbling around in vent shafts and sewer tunnels, upgrading the light is easily the best investment in the game

[Kee715]

I have yet to find a single Aug Upgrade

It is rather dark, but when I play it with the ENB thing I hope it is not unplayable, with regular DX I am using the light when I almost never did before...

[gamer0004]

Is there a medbot anywhere in the downtown district? (I don't need to hear it's location, just whetehr or not there is one).

[Kee715]

I do not think so, I have yet to find one...

The only one I have found is in PDX HQ

Did I miss something?

[AgentSmithereens]

Visit them before talking to Phasmatis and you'll see

Mostly they're there to make it seem like a proper apartment building rather than just one apartment.

WTB more posts like this

If you're talking about the PMs where Phas gets annoyed at you getting lost, then yeah, I see, but still, for such a small map it wouldn't be too hard to just set up a few tiny rooms or something. If you look at the apartment building from the outside, in Downtown, then it looks a hell of a lot bigger, but meh, I'm hardly in a position to criticise your mod-making skills And what does WTB mean?

Here are some points about the Downtown map; I haven't completely explored this yet so I'm probably missing a lot of things.
- Putting Your Nose In Other People's Business Award; from now on I'm breaking every box, trashbag or bin I see.
- the whole map is exceptional with so much to explore. The fact that I've spent 2 hours on it and still haven't reached the northern-most sector of it shows that.
- the DX mod billboard
- the DX Matrix poster in Rent n Repent Videos
- Spector Street
- the fact that when I got rid of the Noobz gang, it appeared as a news article on the bulletin
- the Invisible Sandwich thing - I'm not quite sure what it's for, but it looks interesting
- SymGeosis

By the way I'm assuming I'm playing the game incredibly slowly compared to most other people - the first map took me just over an hour, and Downtown 2 hours with still loads to explore. How much longer than 15 hours can I expect it to take? What was the expected time for these 2 maps?

[Ajare]

Really enjoying the mod so far! Like half the population of the planet (it seems) I had kept clear of it during development due to worries that it was a big self-insertion-injoke lovefest, but that's mostly not true I'm very pleased to see. In fact, I find the world very surreal, which I love.

Levels are a little large and dark (will there ever be a DX level set during the day?) and I have a few other quibbles (who wouldn't on something this big) but overall I'm amazed. Good job all round!

[chris the cynic]

Isn't Burden of 80 Proof set entirely in daylight?

[Ajare]

Isn't Burden of 80 Proof set entirely in daylight?

Probably, I haven't played many DX mods.

[Jonas]

There's a really good reason why DX always takes place during the night: Daylight makes it really hard to sneak.

But uh... you'll see.

[Trestkon]

Levels are a little large and dark (will there ever be a DX level set during the day?)

Keep playing....

[TheXGhost]

you guys know you can increase the brightness WAY more that you can in Deus Ex, so that you dont always need the flashlight? I keep it at .70, but I have to re-adjust every time I start the mod.

[gamer0004]

I've been playing the mod for some hours now, and these are my "first" impressions:

+Great catchy music, fits the atmosphere perfectly.
+Awesome Conversations
+Fun missions
+Voice acting
+Beautiful architecture/mapping
+Amount of details
+New gameplay mechanics
+Humour.

-Some small bugs and glitches
-Punishment for doing wrong too harsh*
-A bit too dark in some places.
-Too many inf/inf or inf/100% locked doors.**


*For instance, when I kill somebody on the street, but nobody sees me doing it, the firewall guys still attack me when I return if they found the body. Or when I killed a guard in the basement of the apartments, they knew it was me. But none of the guards had actually seen me doing it (except for the dead guy, but he was kind of... dead).
**For instance, the doors near the guy who claims to be abducted by both WorldCorp and the Goats (as far as I understand). Two inf locked doors, but when I kill Alpha I can use his keys to get there through his Bar... Then why lock them? There's not even anything interesting ot whatever... If you want to protect the back rooms of the bar, why don't lock the back door instead of two different doors for no apparent reason?



Compared to other mods for DX, TNM is I think the best I've ever played. Burden of 80 proof is the only real competitor. Burden was a highly compressed tsunami of awesomeness, whereas your mod is more awesome, but that awesomeness is not as concentrated.