Iji

Oh. Well it's in the Tasen hideout. It's just a teleporter. When you enter the Tasen base you should see someone walk through it.

That one??? Because I got in that one and I reached the deep sector, which is supposed to have a supercharge in it? Damn...I'll try it again...

You go through Deep Sector, take the Supercharge, come back, and Ansaksie appears right before you reach the boss room.

OK, that work! Thanks!

Started a pacifist run.

It is really depressing to accidentally kill someone several sectors in and hear Iji choke out "sorry".

I... don't think I've heard Iji talk before.

man i am slow

She usually doesn't. In fact that's the only thing she's said (with voice I mean), I think.

She says "dammit" and "die!" sometimes. They're all on the sound test.

edited 18th Apr '10 11:26:15 AM by Pacific

You probably just weren't listening hard enough. Other than "Dammit!", when she talks, she doesn't talk very loud, and since the main time at which she talks is right after killing somebody, and the noise from killing somebody and their body exploding is loud, I don't blame you for missing it if you're not looking for it. But try listening very carefully when you kill somebody with single digit kills or with more than 300. Not every time, mind you (especially for the berserker comments, since Remar clearly did not want Iji turning into Duke Nukem after 300 kills), but frequently enough.

The treshold for Iji apologizing is 5 or less total kills per Sector, while screaming when killing an enemy is at 28 or more total per Sector. I'm thinking of making Iji even crazier if she's in "berserk" state, but it means a lot of additional writing and stuff. I remember she was supposed to hallucinate about enemies that weren't even there, but I thought players would think the game was being buggy...

That MSPA is just awesome btw.

What are the triggers for the various Nano Overloads?

The overloads are (in bulleted list, thanks Awe Striker):

• Nanochaos - retaliate if damaged
• Nanospark - disrupt nearby personal nanofields
• Nanovis - partial invisibility
• Nanoblast - explosive shotgun (and Buster gun)
• Nanomirror - automatic resonance reflector
• Nanolife - revive once if killed
• Nanorage - no ammo spent
• Nanoshield - no armor damage
• Nanoforge - when hurt by enemy fire, turn it into ammo of the same type
• Nanoreflex - automatically tech all damage

In the low spectrum (5 kills per sector or less), you can get vis, mirror, life, shield, forge and reflex.

In the high spectrum (20 kills per sector or more), you can get chaos, spark, blast and rage.

If you're not in either of those extremes you can get any of the overloads. Before 1.6 Nanomirror belonged to the high spectrum since it uses the reflector. Also, due to awful coding there is an extremely low chance of getting an overload you're not supposed to, like one in a million.

edited 19th Apr '10 4:05:40 PM by Ulti

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edited 19th Apr '10 10:30:14 AM by WilliamWideWeb

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You know, with the Resonance Reflector, this isn't really especially hard. At Sector 4 I reached max level possible in that sector.

I think that after doing this run, I'll go through on Hard stomping everything into piles of bullets, and then go back through Normal as a True Pacifist.

Dan, several people in a forum games thread noticed Tor pre-armor's resemblance to EVA-01. Is this intentional?

Nope, haven't seen it. I just watched my friend (the voice of Iji ironically) playing Mass Effect 2 and noticed some similarities with Iji, or rather the same generic sci-fi stuff, like the huge armored enemy with a lot of weapons and hitpoints that self-destructs on death. One lizard race resembled the Komato somewhat, and a guy called Joker made an "I win" quip that resembles what Dan says while scrambled.

Edit: I also just read up on Mass Effect 2 and see many things originally intended for Iji and Iji 2, it's a downer that no matter what you do it's been done before (and better). :p

On the Iji trope page I saw the Annihilators in Hero brought up. They're not related, I just wanted an enemy in both games that serves as the original CyberDemon - something big, tough and unwavering that actually makes the player scared. I think I failed in both games, there's something about the original CyberDemon that's terrifying, even when Doom had save states and Iji doesn't, so it's not the fear of your avatar's death... something about the roar that's heard across the whole map, the loud metal and hoof footsteps, and the triple rocket launcher for an arm. Anything that gets in between the CD and you won't even slow him down. And then there's the ArchVile...

edited 19th Apr '10 5:21:56 PM by Ulti

...I'm just wondering, why does low spectrum Iji gets nanoforge? I mean, if you're not going to kill that many enemies (5< / sector) then I don't think bullet's that necessary...and I seem to get nanoforge a lot in pacifist run, talk about waste...

It can still help against Proxima.

@Medinoc: I don't remember getting any overload in boss area...but I understand what you mean...

edited 21st Apr '10 3:25:47 AM by onyhow

I think Medi means before the boss. Either way, it has limited usage.

Especially since the only time I would pay attention to Assimilate in a pacifist run is for the extra health from nanofields.

I'm just wondering, why does low spectrum Iji gets nanoforge?

Good question. :p I can't think of a reason that's not better than letting it be in the high spectrum.

Clearly, it's because non-pacifist needed a token gameplay advantage somewhere besides the obvious, and not wasting your overload on the worthless nanoforge fits the bill.

Huh, I could have sworn it was some cosmic force actively attempting to turn Iji into the localized ammo-mass black hole that one of the Tasen logs was so afraid of.

Not-so-stealth plug about my latest game... :p Of course, it has Iji-related secrets  ^*

http://www.remar.se/daniel/herocore.php

edited 2nd May '10 2:53:25 PM by Ulti