Recently replayed F.E.A.R. and can confirm. Holy hell the AI is legitimately impressive, especially for the time.

That said, they still storm the same hallway I just threw a mine down in clear view of them. Well.. there's only like 15 mines total in the entire game.

The AI can take you from full health to dead in about 3 seconds on normal difficulty.

The mech suits can single-burst kill you with their attack.

Lastly, that mission where you're running along the rooftops with the soldiers shooting at you through the windows? Yeah I see that shit in my nightmares. Was too careless and got that checkpoint with no health packs and 35ish HP to my name.

I did like Blood Omen 2, but it's vastly different from the rest of the series so it may be a bit of a shock to LoK fans.

Amy Hennig wasn't part if the project, so some of the writing and lines feel out of place, particularly so by characters like Janos Audron and Vorador.

IMO the other games in the series performed so well BECAUSE of Amy's storytelling ability.

The final level has some glitches and the in-engine cutscenes audio isn't synced with characters mouth animations. I always thought this was a problem with my disc growing up, but recently replayed on emulator and the exact same issue happened.

All that said, as usual with any LoK project, expect absolutely stellar voice acting by Simon Templeman (Kain).

I always had garbage luck with MTK devices in the past with performance.

Right out of the box, all blazing fast, but just a month later they're down to 1/3 of their original speed. It could've just been me, but I went through a "buy cheap devices to dick around with" phase in college and this happened with all of them (8-10 devices maybe?).

May not be an issue now, but definitely was then.

Iirc this is an inside joke by the devs.

In Japanese, it's Hai (yes) town, which evidently was the name of the building they spent a lot of time in during development.

I can't find any real credible source, but some mentions of it going back 4 or 5 years.

Nah outer banks is a killer spot - wife wanted to go and take maternity pictures at the beach, so we went to the OB for the first time.

Very chill place - not a lot of nightlife as the population is so low, but you also won't get stuck with a dirty needle on the beach or stabbed on the strip so. There's that.

Living in NC, when I was a kid, we went to Myrtle beach once a year.

Now as a father myself, hell would freeze over before I take my runt to Myrtle.

Go to the outer banks.

Oh I have no delusion that this is a permanent fix and I expect slip-ups, but the fact that I've even been given a glimpse of normalcy is just incredible.

Given that I dealt with it unmedicated for this long though, I'm not concerned about the bad days. Bring em on.

I did start on non-XR but it was out of my system by 2:30ish if I took it first thing. My dad has high blood pressure so I'm hoping that won't become an issue for me as well.

The ones without amphetamines might be a way to go? Evidently they're more hit or miss.

Quickly read through the writeup, excellent work. I've been meaning to do something similar to this but haven't been able to properly commit the time to do the research required to make it all play nice.

I'll be doing this sometime soon 👍

It's the type of crowd that self hosting brings. We're very much more Lemmings than Redditors by trade, so it does make sense the community here is better.

That, and fuck reddit.

A stout. Strong and sweet.