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The Taffer's Post this week is a break from the norm. I had tons of fun putting it together, and I hope everyone has tons of fun reading it, looking at the pictures, downloading the audio, and so on. This Taffer's Post is not for everyone though ... it has spoilers for nearly every LGS game, especially System Shock 1 and Deus Ex.

Ain't skeert? Good! Here is the column version of The Taffer's Post - Satirical Cybernetics, and here is the forum version. Please comment!

Well, we (me and my friend) we're sitting in pascal class messing around on our piece of shit Macs and we discovered simpletext which has the same voice as CATS from All Your Base. We had also been talking about modding and what not, then it just came to me after screwing around with simpletext a little and making CATS say stuff like "All Your Deus Ex Are Belong To Us." I was like wow... I can use this voice in a mod... It just grew from there.

Deus Ex: Disclosure will take you on a dark journey of discovery, spanning vast and varied locations, ranging from deserts to the darkest depths of the Puerto Rican rainforests, and cities to canyons. Who can you trust?

Set in 1917, you are a playing a human that got murdered and turned into a ghost. The ghost you are playing, don't want to die and try to find a way to return to life. When you turn into a ghost, you suddenly see that the world is full of ghosts and other dead creatures. When you talk to a ghost, he tell you that there is a power, that can turn a ghost(or other dead creature) back to life, and that no one knows where the power is. The power is the wish of every dead creature. You start to investigate the mysterious power, to learn it, and to know where it is hidden. When you start to investigate, you are going deeper and deeper to the world of the dead, traveling to weird places in the world.

www.deusex-fr.com

I'd like to thank Skaarj for being extra patient with me lately. Thank you very much Skaarj...glad to see you're keeping the French site still going.

Thanks, MDA, for pointing this out to all of us.

"Every game has a main character, and every one has to have something about them that appeals to the players. Some are badass, others are always calm, while some are just plain old hilarious. If you don't have a game with a good storyline, and a main character (usually played by the gamers) to fit the storyline, you don't have a game at all."

JC Denton comes in at #4 out of 10. Not bad for a game that won over 30 awards this past year. Below is what they had to say about our bro JC.

4. JC Denton

The best human-type machine I've every seen. He would be #1 for the 'Top 10 Coolest Cyborgs', but unfortunately, that isn't the category, but #4 of all time is still good!

Pros: He's just totally cool, mainly because of the way he looks, the whole trenchcoat look is what does it. To be the main character of such a great game helps his coolness a bit too. No other cyborg can beat this guy.

Cons: He isn't human, imagine what a pain it is going through metal detectors? It would get annoying after a while I would think. I guess you could get used to it though.

You can get the whole top 10 list right here.

As I said before a good game draws the player completely into the gaming world. Deus Ex accomplishes this by providing oodles of atmosphere. Overall the game is a dark gritty affair with moody appropriate music. Great level design with multiple solutions allows total immersion into the game.

Enough said. Get the whole review right here.

If you thrive on hype, or missed the dead tree edition, click here for IGN's Deus Ex 2 rhetoric hyperbole.

(Yes, I am excited about DX2 just like the rest of you, but I am too cynical to let it show. ;)

Click here.

Yes, it's cropped. If you want the full image, go buy the GoTY Ed! Muaha!! Er, or ask someone to send it to you. Don't ask me. :)

>Originally posted by Digital Nightfall:
> I snicker when I hear that they are redoing the AI from the ground up.

> It uses the Unreal engine. Of COURSE they are redoing the AI from the
> ground up! That's like saying "we are making all new missions from the
> ground up!" Golly Mosses.

Yes, a very astute observation. The Unreal Warfare AI is designed for a very different type of game -- one that involves a lot very fast-moving AIs brandishing futuristic, high-powered weapons. It's totally combat-centric, with no stealth, no bows or swords, minimal use of audio, and environments which, while exceedingly gorgeous, have very few objects you can interact with.

I've always been an adherent of the theory that an AI has to evolve within the environment of the specific game you're creating, and quite often, even seemingly minor changes to the gameplay can have a dramatic effect on the way you architect and develop the AI.

Which is not to say you can't share AI between different games. We're trying as much as possible to share AI code between Thief 3 and Deus Ex 2, for example. We're building a (currently unnamed) shared AI engine that currently supports the AI needs of both games.

But of course, that's only possible because the games themselves have so much in common -- I'd have a hard time imagining that you could ever share code between, say, an action game and an RTS. What the term "AI" means is totally different from one genre to another.

Also, we expect to build a lot of game-specific AI stuff on top of the engine as the games themselves grow and evolve and we come up with Thief-related AI features that DX2 doesn't need or want, and vice versa.

Keep on taffin',

Part I
--Deus Ex
--Mods for Deus Ex
--Multiplay

Part II
--First game that hooked Warren
--Warren's gaming background
--Gaming schools
--Advancements in gaming

Part III
--Unreal Technology
--Deus Ex 2 and Thief 3
--Nvidia
--Harvey and Randy Smith

Part IV
--Getting to know Warren

DX-M Interview with Sheldon Pacotti

The bottom line is: I need someone to help me making it. I've already gotten another mapper, but I need one (maybe two) more, and a coder, a modeller or two and a sound guy!

You know what to do fellas. If you've got the skills that pay the bills, then give the Tempus website a look over, and send Jonas Waever an email to get this project up and started.

I must apologize to Jonas, because I didn't get this posted until now. I was busy last week, and visited my sister in Virginia this weekend. Please accept my apology Jonas.

Sorry Lassies and Gents. Posting material from magazines which are still on sale is a break of copyright (we are such crooks! ;). The scans from PCGUK will be taken down until August, when the mag will no longer be up for sale. Thanks for understanding.

Harvey Smith, aka Witchboy, has offered up some of his views on level designing on GameSurge. Nothing spectacular or groundbreaking in the interview, but we've got to plug our boy whenever we can. Well, o.k., maybe Harvey isn't 'our boy', but hey, it gives me some pleasure pretending he's, like, our homeboy and sh**. I guess I can call him 'our boy' in the sense that he's the Project Director on Deus Ex 2 and get by with it in the vain of the community.

Well, anyways, enough of my self-debating. GO GET WITCHYYYYY! And yes, I know I'm being a drama queen.

BackDoor runs up to Ol'Ebie and gives him a great big hug and smoocharoo for doing such a good deed for the DX community. Well...o.k....maybe not a smoocharoo.

We've got 8 new map shots of a map called Inversion, as well as a special treat - a DXF Black and White tattoo for people to put on their creatures. We've also updated the team page.

Short and sweet, and so are the screenshots. Get the screenshots by clicking on this here highlighted sentence...the one you're currently reading, you dummy

Not that you really want it, but BackDoor's Ramblings #4 is on its way. I've ran into some very serious delays. It's hard for me to write lately because of some things going on in my personal life. What's going on with you BackDoor, you ask? Is it family? Is it love life? Oh boy, is it Deus Ex again? No. The answer is somewhat trivial and hard to explain, but let me try.

Anachronox. There, I got it off my chest. I've been wrapped up in this game ever since I got it on Thursday. Anyhow, I highly recommend it to all Deus Ex fans that loved the story element in Deus Ex. There's even some Deus Ex pun in the game that makes for a good laugh. Check it out, and if it's your type of RPG, then grab it, because you won't be disappointed.

For more info on how this game plays, see my post right here.

Setting:Los Angeles,California 2087

J.C's era is now considered "The Golden Age"by many.There is no Democracy.The world is ruled by terrorists.They rule by fear.Fear of Nuclear Bombs.Any group brave enogh to figh the terrorists has joined the Society Of United Lands(SOUL) SOUL is the piece of decency in the world.They no that they need to secure all the nukes they can.As James Neurecto,your job is to secure a nuclear silo owned by Scorpion, one of the largest terrorist organizations.It is a risky op.The last group to go to war w/ Scorpion was completely eradicated.You'll need to get all the info you can.Good Luck!