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Deus Ex Collection puzzle giveaway. [ended] Now with answers.

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CaspianRoach

So I like puzzles, right? And I didn't want to make a reasonably difficult puzzle for a shitty prize. So here I bought DX Collection and made a puzzle that is probably pretty tough but! It is based on gaming and the questions are all trivia and not "Have I eaten this morning?" "Bruteforce a twodigit number" (with the exception of one but it's super-easy).

The theme for the puzzle is "Games Caspianroach played and enjoyed". I took some random facts from the games I liked (some more than others) and it's up to you to figure them out. Most of them are pretty easy to find on the internet I believe, and those that aren't so are easily bruteforced from a small list. For the duration of my life and yet still I have only had PC to game on, so the questions are all PC-based. (oh well I had Nintendo system for about an hour but it burned itself a little after launch)

You have until "Time at which hints will appear + 10 hours" to solve this.

No hints/answers allowed in this topic or somewhere else. If you do that, you're a horrible person.

No sharing the giveaway and no group solving, please.

If something is ridiculously hard/stupid and a lot of people can't figure it out, I'll toss an additional hint. But only if there's not many solvers already.

Puzzle link, 12 questions.

Answers:

  1. Petruccio — the lil' brother who asked you to bring him feathers
  2. Zaeed Massani — if you do his loyalty mission after the suicide mission it is possible to leave him to die there
  3. Soulshot — doubled your hit damage
  4. Siphon Life — was fucking amazing until it got changed
  5. Girl Power — the only reason Siren doesn't die in Borderlands
  6. Vorpal Sword — Pit Lord's passive, although he rarely gets a chance to use it because he's fucking slow
  7. New Reno — the biggest little city in the world
  8. Irrigation — I for Irrigation!
  9. 0 — I don't give a toss
  10. Wirt — poor boy, he died shortly before D2
  11. Almsivi — Almalexia + Sotha Sil + Vivec. No it's not Tribunal. Almsivi is the proper dunmer name for the dunmer gods
  12. GOTCHA! — because he gotcha.
12 years ago*

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Shameezh

lets try

12 years ago
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BobBarnsen

Too easy.
Only join for the lols.

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warheat1990

Question 9 answered within 1 try

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CaspianRoach

THAT WAS THE HARDEST ONE

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Shameezh

haha same here :D

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lludde

Same :)

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Volf

I lost!!!, I only got it the 2nd try :(

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Chris

OVER NINE THOUSAND

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aPieceofPie

same

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Seriox

Arghhh to hard :D

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i4d2

lol,only answer question 1,after that wrong answer,i think i give up :D

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CaspianRoach

Awwwww :(

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Shameezh

i got 1,7, and 9 correct. others are hard. i giveup

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CaspianRoach

There are already people who solved it, so it's possible! ^_^

12 years ago
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Brandedwolf

Nice puzzle! Racking my brain on 11, I should know this, I played the game years ago lol.
Edit: Got it! :)

12 years ago
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CaspianRoach

^_^

12 years ago
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Ullandon

I now know why I hate MMOs. I just can't find a comprehensive list of items in Lineage II or abilities in WOW.

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CaspianRoach

There are databases for everything in WoW. They are very well-known.
As for Lineage2 I don't really know how can you find it, but you should be able to.

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Ullandon

found a Lineage II item list and the answer. But WOW is just so cofusing for me. None of the skills seem to fit.

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godprobe

I hate WoW... that's the only question that's really giving me trouble. :| I keep finding stupid (imho) forum debates about warlock tanking and nerfs. :P
(The rest of the Qs, btw, were pretty fun to find answers to.)

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CaspianRoach

Try manually searching through the warlock spell databases.

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Ullandon

So it's not an ability but a spell? The question says ability.

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Defoey

spell=ability

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CaspianRoach

At the moment it's a talent. Talents have spellIDs like the active spells.

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Ullandon

Thanks now it worked. :)

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Greydead

Mentions siren from borderlands, sad there was no mention of the solider D:

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CaspianRoach

SIREN CLASS IS THE BEST CLASS

LILITH FOREVER

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Greydead

[critial] Biatch, please!

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CaspianRoach

Hahahaha. I'm really good at this.

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Defoey

^ THIS!

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Mojo78

French please!
Just kiddin', i know i can't do that so i'll give up now without searching, translating, searching etc.
I still love you anyway :3

12 years ago
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CaspianRoach

weakling.

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Defoey

I'll die to see some hints on Q10 Q11 and Q12.

///EDIT Done Q12.

//// Done Q10

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rickymog

Q11 and Q12 are not hard to find on Google.
I'm just missing the Lineage II related question, never seen that game and i can't manage to find an easily searchable database. :(

12 years ago
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oipic

Great puzzle, CaspianRoach! Thank you.

Have all answers but 11, which pertains to the game I feel I should know best of them all. I'm sure it'll come to me... (right?)

Edit: silly me, got it almost immediately after typing the above.

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CaspianRoach

This thing has a few names.

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tobiwan

Why is my name of the "Union" wrong in q11? Oo
I'm sure it's right....

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CaspianRoach

It is right but it has different names. Read the question again and think what version is needed here.

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NightmareJoe

Nahh. I'll pass on this on, some question are way to hard since I don't play MMO's. Thx for the giveaway anyway. :)

12 years ago
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tobiwan

I tried every Spell/talent thingy on q4 and still I can't figure out what the hell you want from me. Please give use a hint, World of Warcraft has like 1000 spells and stuff... It's like brute forcing a number... :/

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CaspianRoach

There's only about 50 warlock talents in the game, is it that hard to find the one that has something to do with healing? 30 people got it already and I doubt all of them have played warlocks or WoW.

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tobiwan

I tried everything that has something to do with healing, trust me... is there something like a misplaced space or a "-"?

I've never been so close to actually solve one of those Puzzle Giveaways...

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CaspianRoach

Try again. Load up the CURRENT warlock talent list and scroll through descriptions to find ANY MENTION of "heal".

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Ball00n

ability != talent

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CaspianRoach

I don't know how do you read the questions but it says that it USED TO be an ability, back in TBC days at least. Ability=Spell. It is a talent now and in Panda it will be a glyph.

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tobiwan

God damn it... WoW is really confusing. 6_9

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Ball00n

rereaded question. Sorry mate.

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Farseer

Well i have to admit it is very interesting puzzle.
Good luck.

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puTTy

Hi, in Q11, please tell if all words start with big letters or not etc, its hard to get it if there are 20 combinations of the same thing.

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kangarooster

Upper/lower case doesn't matter in answers AFAIK.

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CaspianRoach

One word. No, it doesn't start with T.

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puTTy

ok got it... there are 3 names for this and I was trying 2 of them - the wrong ones

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CaspianRoach

If you think about it's the only "right" name, because the rest are in english.

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mosimo

Just stuck on 3,4 and 6.

-edit-
Done it :D

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drelbs

Lots of fun, but it's stopped working on me about 1/3 of the way in? :(

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CaspianRoach

The site is having some problems. Try a few minutes later.
If you refresh, the correct answers should stay solved.

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drelbs

OK, I'll try again during lunch.

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TheFamousDrScanlon

Hah, and not a single modern warfare or halo question. I like this puzzle ^^

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CaspianRoach

I don't like console bullshit.

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Lrdx

The website is so damn slow, it just dies every 2nd try, have to manually reload (and wait about 5 min). Quite frustrating..

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Nolimit

Won't open, probably over now ._.

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CaspianRoach

It's not over, the site is having some problems. Probably hosting issues / overload issues.

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Skylight

I'm stuck on 4 and 8 :P
Anyway thanks for this great puzzle, I'll keep trying. :)

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Closed 12 years ago by CaspianRoach.