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    Is there any way to remove those vastly moronic red veins that infest your screen whenever you get critically injured?!

    I just quit w/o saving because I absolutely could not stand them.

    EDIT: Oh, SON OF A *#@)($&@(%)*&(. Apparently there's no way to remove it and fanboys and devs just say "Don't get shot".

    Were I a violent man and they in the same room, I'd shoot them in the kneecaps.

    SECOND EDIT: And then I'd say, "Oh, don't like it? Don't get shot."

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    If you have the PC version, maybe you can find a mod for it?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mailman653 View Post
    If you have the PC version, maybe you can find a mod for it?
    I'm looking, haven't found anything yet. I'm still hoping there's just some file I can delete and make the horribleness go away.

    Seriously, I'm not playing again until I fix this. I didn't get a 1960x1080 2ms monitor just to see it covered with chicken entrails.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Crazed Rabbit View Post
    I'm looking, haven't found anything yet. I'm still hoping there's just some file I can delete and make the horribleness go away.

    Seriously, I'm not playing again until I fix this. I didn't get a 1960x1080 2ms monitor just to see it covered with chicken entrails.

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    Could be worse, you could get shot once then have to wait around in the medical ward for a few hours for some stitches, etc, then get charged $500 or so for the service. Could be an expensive line of work.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Beskar View Post
    Could be worse, you could get shot once then have to wait around in the medical ward for a few hours for some stitches, etc, then get charged $500 or so for the service. Could be an expensive line of work.
    Well thanks for that tremendously insightful remark. Yes, of course, getting shot in real life would be painful.

    That's why I do those things in video games, where it is not painful. If the devs make it painful, then I. Don't. Want. To. Play.

    I haven't found anything about removing that bile spewed on my screen, so I'm putting the game away and coming back in a week to see if a mod that will make it bearable for me to play has been released.

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    I saw this person and I instantly recognised them as some one else, quite worrying.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Beskar View Post
    I saw this person and I instantly recognised them as some one else, quite worrying.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Crazed Rabbit View Post
    Well thanks for that tremendously insightful remark. Yes, of course, getting shot in real life would be painful.

    That's why I do those things in video games, where it is not painful. If the devs make it painful, then I. Don't. Want. To. Play.

    I haven't found anything about removing that bile spewed on my screen, so I'm putting the game away and coming back in a week to see if a mod that will make it bearable for me to play has been released.

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    Is this really going to make you put the game away? Amazing.

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    Found a plot segment which really caught me last night.

    If you haven't been on a fleshy ship, or don't know what I mean by fleshy ship, don't read the following
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    That's what happened to the Protheans!? Argh! The Enkindlers, the forebears, the mighty and advanced race of legend became the Collectors?!

    So while Ilos watched the lights of their civilisation blink out one by one, and dwindled away into dust trapped in cold sleep, others were collected up and turned into mutated freaks with the sole purpose of enslaving whatever intelligent life might come next.

    Vigil's story was one of my favourite parts of ME1. Cliche, yes, but touching, and I did love the execution of it. A single half broken VI was all that remained of a race considered to be gods by many in the current world.This carried that tale on in a way that was hinted at during the first game (the Keepers being remnants of a former race tamed by the Reapers). I should have seen it coming. I did not.

    You know, I think this barely told, fragmentory story is one of the saddest tales I have seen told in an RPG.


    More than anything else that one little segment demonstrated what's at stake.
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    How did you survive playing Gears of War and Call of Duty?
    I didn't play either. Which may be why I loathe this so much; I haven't seen one of the less stupid predecessors. I'm peeved at the whole idea; how does getting shot in the torso spray blood onto your eyes, which you can't blink off?

    I so very, very, very much preferred how Crysis did it; where ambient sound was dampened and you heard yourself breath hard, and the screen got a little blurry to simulate tunnel vision.

    Quote Originally Posted by alh_p View Post
    Is this really going to make you put the game away? Amazing.
    I like to play games on harder difficulties, I find being on the edge on death makes it more challenging and fun. So I do not want to play a game where I'm often seeing a bunch of grotesque veins spread out on my computer. It'll **** me off whenever combat is getting exciting. So I'm going to wait until playing the game isn't going to throw the opposite of eye candy on my screen.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Crazed Rabbit View Post
    Is there any way to remove those vastly moronic red veins that infest your screen whenever you get critically injured?!

    I just quit w/o saving because I absolutely could not stand them.

    EDIT: Oh, SON OF A *#@)($&@(%)*&(. Apparently there's no way to remove it and fanboys and devs just say "Don't get shot".

    Were I a violent man and they in the same room, I'd shoot them in the kneecaps.

    SECOND EDIT: And then I'd say, "Oh, don't like it? Don't get shot."

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    How did you survive playing Gears of War and Call of Duty?


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