Yeah it’s less dystopian and more futuristic *dark* fantasy in these cases. It also reminds me of something I posted yesterday that could’ve been the most extreme example that has actually existed already in a sort of microcosm, but I probably wouldn’t categorize it as either of the above.
Excellent, that was actually what I was looking for. I might give the game another go. Don't suppose you know if they fixed that bug where one copper is perma aggroed on you, so as soon as you get close enough for them to spawn in you get a wanted level? That and the 1.5 update that broke the levelling/weapon damage rebalance mod was what stopped me playing the game.
Pfft, Children of Men? I think we;re heading for Threads.
Nah, we're gonna go full Robocop...well, more so than it already has, at any rate.
Uh, Cyberpunk 2077 and (especially) Threads are both worse than Robocop as settings go.
I was kind of going off on a tangent in the name of pessimism.
Personally, I think The War Game has the edge on Threads when it comes to utterly fucken grim.
British industry had to be destroyed to save it from trade unions...apparently.
Well, your post makes sense in the context of talking about Cyberpunk 2077, dystopian futures etc, which I think is what the children of men reference was about, I just felt like turning it up to 11.
Not seen that one. Is it British and in back and white? I think I've seen clips on a music video (among threads, the day after tomorrow and a Russian one I forget the name of)
Yep yep, late 60s, B&W, done in the style of a documentary. Very bleak.
How dare workers think they have rights!
It does feel a lot like GTA5, Cyberpunk edition doesn't it? While I appreciate night city is meant to be a new build just south of Monterey in California, I always felt the bad parts of it should have looked more like the Bronx from 80s and 90s gangsta films. Decaying tenements, burnt out cars, constant police sirens and the sound of distant gunfire, a lot of the original artwork had that feel.
There's hostile gang member almost every corner that'll outright shoot you just for walking past them.
Sure. But it's bright, and walkable, and there's mostly free flowing traffic, and the roads take you to places, and the potential for random violence is confined to the colourfully dressed gangs doing crimes in progress.
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The arcade cabinet can be found near the Protein Farm fast travel point in the Badlands, in an abandoned church. One of the scores on the leaderboard for Arasaka Tower 3D is FF06B5 and was set by PLHSTR (Polyhistor, the owner of the arcade carbinet). Spoiler warning for the mystery of FF:06:B5 ahead, if you're looking to discover it for yourself!
This is where it gets wild. Waiting around in server room 971229 on floor 52 until the timer reaches 270 seconds will unlock a secret maze on floor -10. Within this map, eight QR codes can be found. A group of sleuths figured out the QR codes were actually parts of a larger image - a three by three square forming one massive QR code.
The group decided to run the partially completed QR code into a website which recovers data from QR codes, and discovered it contained a Python script to play noughts and crosses. After testing out different arrangements of the smaller codes, the group found a version which was "most" correct and, crucially, could be restored by up to 30 percent. This meant in theory, they could complete the bigger QR code.
However, the group realised they didn't need to find or create the missing piece of the QR code due to something called Reed-Solomon error corrections. These are algorithms which can be used to correct signals or recover data from transmissions. If you're thinking that sounds familiar, then cast your mind back to Idris Elba's character in Phantom Liberty. Solomon Reed. Yup, this is no coincidence.
Using the Reed-Solomon algorithm on the incomplete QR code gave the group a Python script for a game of noughts and crosses against an AI that's unwinnable.
There's still plenty of mysteries to solve for the FF:06:B5 community however. How exactly does an unwinnable game of noughts and crosses relate to everything? And who are the other names, ARMSMG and ANTVRK, on the leaderboard? What's with the laptop which presumably belongs to TyRos and shows a grid of pairs of letters - similar to the letters found in The Witcher 3?
As FF:06:B5's detectives continue to follow the trail and solve a little bit more of the puzzle, more questions appear. And it's fascinating to watch.
You can hack enemy from stealth, eventually they'll try to trace you but there's a skill that let you counter hack the person doing the trace and you can kill them before they find you. Its not pure stealth, but the stealth tree is "cool", and you can get most of the benefit of it by investing 2 perk point in it and then going intelligence for the rest
