Alpha Protocol Mods?

[santino27]

Just picked up Alpha Protocol (At $7.50 on Steam, it seemed like a no-brainer). Are there any mods worth grabbing, or should I just play vanilla?

I know the game got mixed reviews, but it was really hard to skip at that price.

 

[CrimHead]

lol.

 

[santino27]

I will take your super-helpful reply as an indicator that, if there are any mods, (I've only seen some trainer stuff), they are not worth installing, and I should stick with the vanilla game.

I'll also take as unsaid but no doubt intended that you wish me the best in my play-through.

So... thanks!

 

[Blackula]

+1

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Are there any naked mods? I want titties and dicks.

 

[Turisas]

Don't think there are any shemale mods for AP, sorry.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Obsidian has failed as an RPG developer.

 

[Sceptic]

Just picked up Alpha Protocol (At $7.50 on Steam, it seemed like a no-brainer). Are there any mods worth grabbing, or should I just play vanilla?

No mods as far as I know. UE3 seems to be pretty hard to mod whenever it gets licensed to third party - see the conspicuous lack of mods for ME.

Or maybe the fanbase is just dumb.

But anyway Alpha Brotocol is a good game if you manage to get over some glaring flaws (not an RPG though, so don't get your hopes too high).

 

[santino27]

Just picked up Alpha Protocol (At $7.50 on Steam, it seemed like a no-brainer). Are there any mods worth grabbing, or should I just play vanilla?

No mods as far as I know. UE3 seems to be pretty hard to mod whenever it gets licensed to third party - see the conspicuous lack of mods for ME.

Or maybe the fanbase is just dumb.

But anyway Alpha Brotocol is a good game if you manage to get over some glaring flaws (not an RPG though, so don't get your hopes too high).

Thanks for the info. Vanilla it is. As long as it doesn't crash on me every five minutes, I should be good.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

see the conspicuous lack of mods for ME.

Or maybe the fanbase is just dumb.

Perfect games need no mods

 

[Sceptic]

Thanks for the info. Vanilla it is. As long as it doesn't crash on me every five minutes, I should be good.

I had exactly zero crashes, and that was from a copy that was not physically removed from an inventory. There's a patch that was supposed to fix the stuttering... but that made the game stop running entirely for a large number of legit customers. The stuttering is annoying, but I found (after I finished the game of course...) some ini tweaks that are supposed to remove/reduce it. Here it is in case you run into the problem. I didn't personally test it so no guarantees, back up the ini file before modifying, etc etc.

Perfect games need no mods

Ass Effect and Alphaturd, forever enshrined in the pantheon of greatness, finally bringing Biowhores and Obsidtards together...

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Thanks for that Sceptic. I had stuttering in my not removed from inventory copy, and I was hoping that wasn't around in retail. Since it sounds like it will be I'll probably dick with that myself.

 

[janjetina]

Just picked up Alpha Protocol (At $7.50 on Steam, it seemed like a no-brainer).

There is one born every minute.

Are there any mods worth grabbing, or should I just play vanilla?

There is an uninstall mod, it's worth grabbing.

I know the game got mixed reviews, but it was really hard to skip at that price.

You should have donated the money instead.

 

[Pegultagol]

Obsidian really did need the money..

at least before F:NV that is...

 

[laclongquan]

Anyway, the lack of mod indicate the basic problems with game engine and some such shit, not fanbase's dumbness or the lack thereof. Why? Look at the huge number of mods for Oblivion.

 

[Turisas]

You should have donated the money instead.

r00fles!

 

[Sceptic]

Thanks for that Sceptic. I had stuttering in my not removed from inventory copy, and I was hoping that wasn't around in retail.

I can't confirm, as I haven't got my physical copy yet, but far too many of the complaints looked legit, and for there to be a solution posted on the Obsidian forums I'd wager it's not a crack issue.

 

[grotsnik]

My physical copy stuttered quite a bit (which made the whole 'sneaking up on guards before they turn around and notice you' thing...irrelevant), and the game had a nasty tendency to crash to desktop every time I got an email or a PC message, but otherwise no issues.

For both Mass Effect 2 and especially AP, I don't know how you could have many real mods. Even the simplest interfaces and all of the locations/missions are so regimented; & the whole thing is so dependent on pre-set cutscenes...

Plus AP wasn't exactly a hit. Why spend months modding a game for the benefit of four people on the Obsidian forums?

 

[Radisshu]

My PS3 version works nicely

lol consoletard

 

[Sceptic]

My physical copy stuttered quite a bit (which made the whole 'sneaking up on guards before they turn around and notice you' thing...irrelevant)

Was it that bad? In my case the stuttering was very localized. It happened at particular spots, which is why I thought eliminating in-level loading would help. But in-between the "hot spots" it was silky smooth.

the game had a nasty tendency to crash to desktop every time I got an email or a PC message

That I never saw. Did it happen while reading an email, or when you got the email notification?

OTOH, the game does have nasty issues with alt-tab. It just didn't want to come back from that. Had to kill the process and restart the game (thankfully that was right after a save).

 

[grotsnik]

Was it that bad? In my case the stuttering was very localized. It happened at particular spots, which is why I thought eliminating in-level loading would help. But in-between the "hot spots" it was silky smooth.

Maybe stuttering's the wrong word for what I had, which was closer to full-fledged spazzing out. Thorton'd be creeping up behind some goon and suddenly the camera would goof out and he'd turn round 180 degrees and start running in the other direction.

That I never saw. Did it happen while reading an email, or when you got the email notification?

Notification. As in, I'd be in-game and, say, McAfee would decide to tell me about this great new anti-virus update, or my computer discovers a new wireless location. Alpha Protocol minimises and then refuses to open back up.

Didn't bother me too much, since the missions were so short that you could catch up back to where you were in a minute or two. But the bugs and issues are definitely out there.

 

[Sceptic]

Notification. As in, I'd be in-game and, say, McAfee would decide to tell me about this great new anti-virus update

I thought you meant in-game notifications Yeah what you're seeing is the same I described - AP cannot be alt-tabbed out of. The notifications basically force this, and as with a regular alt-tab, there's no way back in the game.

But the bugs and issues are definitely out there.

TBH the alt-tab and stuttering are the only things I'd really call bugs. The alt-tab, while completely not a problem for me (I turned off those auto-notifications a long time ago - even if it doesn't crash other games I don't want to be forced out of them just so Windows can tell me there's a new compatibility update for IE8), is still inexcusable in this day and age. The stuttering is pretty shitty too, but hopefully those ini tweaks fix it. Anything else is minor glitching really. I had 4 goons not reappear on a reload once, but that felt like a boon - dealt with them once, don't have to do so again. The more serious complaints are more design decisions than bugs, such as not being able to reload or quit while in the middle of a conversation - unforgivable, since the only way to quit in this case is ctrl-alt-del and shut down process.

 

[Der Judenjäger]

Notification. As in, I'd be in-game and, say, McAfee would decide to tell me about this great new anti-virus update, or my computer discovers a new wireless location. Alpha Protocol minimises and then refuses to open back up.

This is not a bug, it's a feature. A feature that saves the remnants of player's sanity, if any remains after playing that piece of shit.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Maybe stuttering's the wrong word for what I had, which was closer to full-fledged spazzing out. Thorton'd be creeping up behind some goon and suddenly the camera would goof out and he'd turn round 180 degrees and start running in the other direction.

Yeah, that's what I had. And super duper twitchy mouse during the code hacky minigame. I could always use the keyboard reasonably well, but mouse was a big pain in the ass since in the time it takes me to click it might suddenly flip away one square and fuck up.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Looks like that ini tweak fixed my issue. Although I did notice loading seems slower now.
Also had Thorton get stuck with his mouth hanging open so he's running around killing guys like a mouthbreather. And he had a magazine get stuck to his hand so no matter what he does he has this gigantic clip waving around. OBSIDIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN