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wilco - 12 May 2014 10:42 AM

Iznogood - 11 May 2014 10:38 PM

Edit: And I quite liked day 5

This is impossible day 5 consisted of (I’m not sure where is starts):

I liked exploring the place, and I actually enjoyed the stealth section, though I might be a minority in that

wilco - 12 May 2014 10:42 AM

Well, I could say I didn’t like this part Fortunately exploring the swamp house and Tesla society was more fun with some good puzzles

For some reason I liked Sesan better than the swamp house but Tesla Society was the best part when it comes to puzzles, exploration and avoid dying.

I just put a lot of posts about help with puzzles and help with anti-aliasing settings, etc. into one thread over at the “Hint Requests & Technical Problems” part of the forum:

The big “Tesla Effect” help thread

Please use that thread from now on for all technical issues with the game, and for all help with puzzles and savegames and whatnot.

Thanks!

Finally I managed to go through Tesla Effect. I had a bug in a one of the last puzzles in chapter 9,the Power Routing Station puzzle, which made it impossible to complete it. I was literally stuck for hours without realizing it was a bug. @Wilco and some other people on the forum were trying to give me advise on how to solve it, but after countless of efforts I realized that there was something wrong. I decided to watch a game play video of the last parts of the game after that puzzle, and ironically the only parts left of the game were a few video sequences for 35 minutes.

Overall, I’m very happy with the game. I’m deciding if I should give it 4 or 4.5 stars. The only thing that I did not like was that the inventory/detective puzzles were way to easy. They were actually pretty well done and integrated into the environment, but you are given waaaaay to many hints on how to solve them (Tex basically spells out the solution for you most of the times), which takes away all the fun and thought process that could have been. There were also too many hidden object hunts that did not make sense and felt forced. A few of them would have been OK, but not for 6 instances. Overall great story, good acting, interesting locations, good inventory puzzles (most of the time) A great Tex game. Keep em coming.

Antrax - 13 May 2014 03:44 AM

Don’t you think it makes more sense to have separate threads for technical issues and puzzle help?

Yeah, but a few of them are because people are doubting whether or not they’ve hit a bug, or if they just missed something with the puzzle they’re stuck on, so it can get muddy.

Still, there’s now two threads:

The big “Tesla Effect” puzzle help thread
The big “Tesla Effect” technical help thread

Lambonius - 13 May 2014 12:02 PM

So there are now FOUR separate threads for people who want to discuss ambiguously specific nuances of Tesla Effect.  Bravo, Sirs.

No, there are only two. One catch-all thread, and one to specifically discuss spoilers (that should be avoided for anyone who hasn’t finished the game yet). Several new games have a spoiler and a non-spoiler thread, nothing unusual about that.

The Adventure subforum and the Hint Requests & Technical Problems subforum are entirely different parts, with entirely different goals in mind. The puzzle help and technical help are not there to discuss anything, they’re to ask for and/or provide help to people who are stuck in the game for various reasons.

Surprisingly my favorite Tex Murphy. Beat the game on gamer and got Hard-Boiled without a walkthrough of any sort…I couldn’t stop play (But I forced myself because of work). This had to be the coolest outcome of any of the Tex Murphy games. Great atmosphere. Great to explore the homestreet we grew to love in fully realized 3d. Great to see all classic characters return, with a few exotic(erotic?) characters that I was happy to interact with.

This was a great adventure. This is how you do FMV right in the modern era. Sure there were plenty of environmental bugs and models that were missing smooth normals, but overall, this was a Triple A adventure title that did it right and then some. I could only imagine how the game will look and play on the Unreal Engine 4. Also I somehow noticed the game used the UFPS character controller plugin. Not that I have a problem with that. lol

Niclas - 13 May 2014 03:26 AM

Overall, I’m very happy with the game. I’m deciding if I should give it 4 or 4.5 stars. The only thing that I did not like was that the inventory/detective puzzles were way to easy. They were actually pretty well done and integrated into the environment, but you are given waaaaay to many hints on how to solve them (Tex basically spells out the solution for you most of the times), which takes away all the fun and thought process that could have been. There were also too many hidden object hunts that did not make sense and felt forced. A few of them would have been OK, but not for 6 instances. Overall great story, good acting, interesting locations, good inventory puzzles (most of the time) A great Tex game. Keep em coming.

I actually didn’t think so. it may seem easy, but I think with real first person controls, there wasn’t anything mechanically blocking us from exploring a room properly. I thought the puzzles/detective aspects were pretty on par with previous games. It was the controls that made it rough for me, but I didn’t know better back in the day until Unreal came out on the PC.

AG’s review is up!