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E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy is an indie Cybyerpunk shooter with Co-op! It does not look to have the flashy commercial-ness Deus Ex 3 will, but from what I have read E.Y.E has a lot of depth. This came out of nowhere for me. RPS had a couple of articles on it this week and it launched on steam today.

Here are the Highlights from the steam page:

Multiplayer co-op modes directly influence solo play, and vice-versa. The limits of solo and multiplayer games are finally left behind.

Psychological and mental trauma management.

25 weapons, different shooting modes, dynamic precision, drilling shots, iron sighting, extended zoom.

Complete hacking system with game play impact

9 devastatingly subtle PSI powers.

More than 20 NPC with non-scripted, fully reactive and efficient AI, endowed with a sense of initiative. Bloody close combat with technical detail. Incredible physical movement realism thanks to Source Engine physics.

Excellent replayability - primary and secondary missions, dynamic environments, non-linear level progression, and random NPC spawn, type and appearance. Death doesn't penalize players: no need to restart the current mission.

Open-level gameplay for hours of fun without reloading.


Official Site

Really long FAQ

The 1st video on the steam page shows a varity of ways the game lets you approach combat. Looks to have enough complexity to have some staying power. Has anyone else heard much about this?

It is downloading now will post some thoughts once I have played it.

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RPS has a write up on it today. It looks interesting, but not quite interesting enough to drop $18 on it when the release of Deus Ex: HR is right around the corner. I'll certainly be keeping an eye on it, though!

Man. I loved Shadowrun.

wordsmythe wrote:

Man. I loved Shadowrun.

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Having watched the videos and read a bit, it sounds interesting and quite complex, but I'm no further to deciding whether I'd like it. Besides being some cyberpunk-FPS-RPG-singleplayer/coop game, I don't have much feeling for it. Perhaps I need to watch some extended gameplay videos when they hit youtube.

Nice price though.

I would love to tell you about it but I cannot get to launch it past the opening splash screen..

Just bought the game based on trailers alone. I will list my impressions once I got's them.

Tagged for interest. I just saw this on Steam, and the videos are intriguing. I look forward to reading your impression, Strangeblades!

The game loaded fine and I am playing it right now. I am in a tutorial area (a cave with duck and jump options)

* Initial impressions are this game takes its own fiction-material seriously. How seriously? I have zero kills in something called Secretra Secretorum.

* From the trailers and the gun I picked up in the cave I list this game's influences as:

1 Equilibrium - http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi3375760153/

2 Warhammer 40K, specifically the Inquisition. See three pictures below.

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* It also reminds me of Stalker and Metro 2033. It offers little hand-holding although there are many tutorial videos a player could watch from within the game.

* A lot of RPG elements and character creation/advancement decisions.

* Shooting feels good. Nice and solid with good sound on reloading and firing.

* I maxed out all the visual settings and the game looks fine. It might not be whiz-bang-wow but it does a good job of evoking (invoking?) a moody mood.

* I killed a monster. Didn't see those in the trailers I enjoy their funky and varied look. From space alien crabs to werewolf types as seen in these screenshots taken from their website. Photographic evidence below

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More impressions to come.

PS: Rock Paper Shotgun has a preview up at:

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/07/29/thoughts-on-e-y-e-divine-cybermancy/

Just bought it.

If I'm to be honest with myself, it was purely as a stopgap to avoid losing my mind waiting for DX:HR. I guess we'll see if it's a good one.

I like the art style, but what's a "devastatingly subtle" psionic power? Creating an error on the guy's tax return so he'll be audited?

Wow. There is a lot to learn in this game. I am reading the press kit PDF just to glean some info not easily apparent.

OK, I bought this and downloaded it, but when I tried to run it AVG detected it as a virus. What's up with that?

A false positive most likely. Submit it to AVG so they can take a closer look at it and improve their software.

Yeah, it seems AVG isn't detecting anything specific but is treating it as malware because it executes from the filesystem, window is not visible, executable is packed, and it "injects code." That last one is pretty dire, and earned it AVG's most severe rating.

(More intermittent updates)

* Just learned about permanent drops in ability scores due to dying too many times. Yikes. And cool.

* Ha ha. Madness can really be entertaining. You could wind up shooting your friends and hearing noises that came from nowhere.

Eh, Sold.

LobsterMobster wrote:

OK, I bought this and downloaded it, but when I tried to run it AVG detected it as a virus. What's up with that?

A devastatingly subtle psionic power.

Oh, and tagging.

I figure out what is wrong. It doe snot like one of the codecs I have installed and locks up on the intro movies.

People are over for a LAN party tonight so maybe I'll get a chance to play this later this weekend.

LobsterMobster wrote:

OK, I bought this and downloaded it, but when I tried to run it AVG detected it as a virus. What's up with that?

You're running AVG instead of MSE for one thing. Seriously, I have a couple of clients who insist on using it. It's not very good and has a long history of false positives.

I watched a couple of videos of this and it looks pretty neat. I hope they put out a demo soon.

Ah, but it's free and I'd rather a few false positives than one false negative.

I'll look in to MSE. I'm just hesitant to trust a Microsoft product for my security, given their track record on new software (pay to participate in the beta!) and Live (pay for what's free on the PC and was out a month ago!).

LobsterMobster wrote:

Ah, but it's free and I'd rather a few false positives than one false negative.

I'll look in to MSE. I'm just hesitant to trust a Microsoft product for my security, given their track record on new software (pay to participate in the beta!) and Live (pay for what's free on the PC and was out a month ago!).

Number of A/V apps I've ever installed in 20+ years: 0

Number of computer viruses I've ever gotten in 20+ years: 0

Just sayin'.

This game looks pretty cool. Moar feedbacks plz.

Jeff-66 wrote:

Number of A/V apps I've ever installed in addition to default protection included in all routers and copies of Windows in 20+ years: 0

Number of computer viruses I've ever gotten and been aware of in 20+ years: 0

Fixed that for you. There are virii out there, and if you don't wear protection you're going to get sick, fast.

LobsterMobster wrote:
Jeff-66 wrote:

Number of A/V apps I've ever installed in addition to default protection included in all routers and copies of Windows in 20+ years: 0

Number of computer viruses I've ever gotten and been aware of in 20+ years: 0

Fixed that for you. There are virii out there, and if you don't wear protection you're going to get sick, fast.

I'm not talking about routers. I'm talking about intrusive A/V bloatware that generally does more harm than good, and gives a false sense of security.

This article gives a pretty good idea of how I look at it. I don't wear protection, never have, and have never gotten sick. I just don't sleep with hookers

Back to the topic: here's a cool gameplay video

P.S. this game has a goofy name.

Missions can be tough if the difficulty is set too high. My first outing I died a bunch of times and I kept reloading to prevent a permanent ability drop.

Thanks to the Death Star design philosophy there are no hand rails in the game's HQ area and every walkway is suspended over 3,000 feet of empty space. I jumped off one to see what would happen. -2 Agility. Forever. These Euros sure love teh hardcore.

I am loving it. I like the sneaking around, the avoiding of bad guys and me getting fed up and re-kitting myself in heavy armor with 4,000 rounds of Gatling gun ammo.

I feel like this game is the bizzaro world version of Half Life. I'm getting so many vibes from this game, it's hard to sort them out. The music reminds me of Mass Effect 1, the gameplay reminds me of Deus Ex 1, the atmosphere reminds me Metro 2033, and some of the themes remind me of games like Dawn of War, Mirror's Edge, Doom and Amnesia.

I don't know if the game is good or not, but damn is it unique. I'll be playing this for the next week probably, as my primary gaming PC is on its way across the world.

LobsterMobster wrote:

Ah, but it's free and I'd rather a few false positives than one false negative.

I'll look in to MSE. I'm just hesitant to trust a Microsoft product for my security, given their track record on new software (pay to participate in the beta!) and Live (pay for what's free on the PC and was out a month ago!).

MSE is free, light, non-invasive and it works really well. For what it's worth, it's what we currently use at work (until we upgrade to ForeFront, the corporate version) and what I recommend to my clients. But yes, E.Y.E....

It does seem to be doing a lot of things at once. I first saw it and thought it was trying to do something like Deus Ex but it seems to be different than that. Curious to hear impressions.

Tagging to keep an eye on this. I dig the cross between cyberpunk and medieval knightery. The videos on the steam page looked interesting, save the part where they were hacking or whatever. Clicking a bunch buttons in a menu that I can't read doesn't make for interesting video. I'll probably hold off on it for a while since my pile is rather large already, including Deus Ex, which this keeps drawing comparisons to.

I've been following this game for months and I still can't get a grasp of what the hell it is. I'd buy it and find out, but I'm on a tight budget this month, so it'll have to wait till August.

Apparently I have put in 2 hours already and have not gone past the loading screen. (The executable sat idle in the background one time I launched it)

I no longer think it is codec related because I launched it with the -novid switch and it skips the 1st video now. It just sits there on the screen that says Drone Connection loading...

There has been talk about issues being virus scan related. Both here and in a couple of threads on the steam forums. I am running BitDefender and added EYE to the exclusions list just help rule this out. Though Bit Defender never warned me about it being a virus at all. I don't think this is the issue.

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