Board 8 > Deus Ex Playthrough Topic -- I didn't ask for this

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So, as I think I have said here before, I tried playing Deus Ex some time ago. I got all the way up to Liberty Island then stopped for one reason or another. Well,I figured I should give the game another chance and try it again. I literally know absolutely nothing about the story or characters for this game, so maybe no spoilers? And I don't need to be told what build is the best, but it there's something I absolutely shouldn't do with my character then you can let me know.

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You beat yourself up with your past. Don't blame yourself, blame the world. Blame God. Blame me.

I got all the way up to Liberty Island

That made me chuckle. Anyway, I don't think there is much that can ruin the game for you, just do what you want. That's the beauty of the game, honestly. There are so many ways to customize your character and still make things work well.

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Hey all this is Bartz btw.

I got all the way up to Liberty Island

lol

Enjoy the game. It's personally one of my favourite PC games. I'm thinking about replaying it before Human Revolution comes out.

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Currently playing: Lost Odyssey

If you liked Bloodlines, you'll probably like this, since they're fairly similar

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swimming is the most useless and i think environmental training was likewise mostly useless though sliiiightly more useful than swimming. aside from that most everything else has some merit to it. i would recommend some computer skills so you can hack into things better, because without it you are essentially shooting yourself in the foot.

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There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out

Do not waste points on swimming or environmental resistance, they are both nearly useless.

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I usually go for some sort of combination of Unarmed/Computers/SpeechorPersuasion when I can in these sorts of games.

DeathChicken posted...
If you liked Bloodlines, you'll probably like this, since they're fairly similar

Playing that game did make me want to re-try Deus Ex in some strange way.

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You beat yourself up with your past. Don't blame yourself, blame the world. Blame God. Blame me.

http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-throwback-deus-ex/17-4676/

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That video made me realize how easy Liberty Island actually, and that the place I got stuck on was optional.

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You beat yourself up with your past. Don't blame yourself, blame the world. Blame God. Blame me.

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Oh, I guess I should mention I'm going to do this with that New Vision mod. Are there any other essential mods to look out for?

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You beat yourself up with your past. Don't blame yourself, blame the world. Blame God. Blame me.

No one tell him about the hacking/lockpicking cheat or else he will keep using that and ruin part of the game, that's what happened to me halfways through

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GANON1025 posted...
Oh, I guess I should mention I'm going to do this with that New Vision mod. Are there any other essential mods to look out for?

No other essential mods, but there is one that fixes a few of the game's "quirks" I guess you could say. I prefer the game still without gameplay-enhancing mods but that's just me.

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Hey all this is Bartz btw.

Is Shifter the mod that makes some of the augmentations not suck?

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bump, soon I'll get around to installing this game... >_>

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You beat yourself up with your past. Don't blame yourself, blame the world. Blame God. Blame me.

I don't know if Shifter changes the augmentations much, it just adds a bunch of weapons and removes some of the exploits(like the lockpick cheat and unlimited skill points).

There are also a few "deleted scenes" iirc.

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It changes some augmentations, and adds a few (skul gun). It also gives you skill points for incapacitating enemies/using stealth (although the balance there is pretty bad)

Wouldn't recommend it to a new player, at any rate.

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AlecTrevelyan006 posted...
Is Shifter the mod that makes some of the augmentations not suck?

Basically. It also removes a bunch of niggling annoyances, like always picking up knives when you have a better melee weapon in your inventory. I'd actually recommend BioMod, which is a spin-off of Shifter; it greatly modifies the way augmentations work, making some of them only expend bio-electric energy when you actually use them. For instance, you can leave aggressive defense on, and it won't drain your energy until an enemy shoots a rocket at you and it explodes in their face.

It also lets you climb up stuff which, imo, is way more useful.

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foolm0ron posted...
No one tell him about the hacking/lockpicking cheat or else he will keep using that and ruin part of the game, that's what happened to me halfways through

Yeah, it kinda ruined part of the game for me too, but I didn't find out until I was pretty close to the end so it wasn't as big a deal.

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'Cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run

Get Silenced Gun


Put all weapon mods on silenced gun


Enjoy, the only other gun you need now is tranq gun and gep.

Went with Computers/Electrionics/Low-Tech/Pistols

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You beat yourself up with your past. Don't blame yourself, blame the world. Blame God. Blame me.

... And trying to start the game crashed my system and I had to restart twice to get it working right again.

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You beat yourself up with your past. Don't blame yourself, blame the world. Blame God. Blame me.

some computer skill that was >_>;;

but yes, this first area of the game very much demonstrates the awesomeness that is deus ex.

fun little tidbit of art imitating life:

During sections of the game where the New York skyline is visible in the background, the two towers of the World Trade Center are noticeably missing; the real towers were destroyed a year after the game was released. Harvey Smith has explained that due to texture memory limitations, the portion of the skyline with the twin towers exists in the game's data files but had to be left out of the final game, with the other half mirrored in place of it. According to Smith, during the game's development, the developers justified the lack of the towers by stating that terrorists had destroyed the World Trade Center earlier in the game's storyline.

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Huh, that is pretty interesting.

I guess something went wrong with the installation of the New Vision mod, probably with that Directx 10 driver or whatever.

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You beat yourself up with your past. Don't blame yourself, blame the world. Blame God. Blame me.

Well this wasn't such a great start. I really did want to actually begin playing and all today, but that technical problem and other stuff got in the way. Hopefully I can get the game straightened out and start tomorrow.

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You beat yourself up with your past. Don't blame yourself, blame the world. Blame God. Blame me.

From: GANON1025 | #022
... And trying to start the game crashed my system and I had to restart twice to get it working right again.

Sounds like Deus Ex to me

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'Oh please, if foolmo made that analogy you'd think it was picture perfect' - Biolizard28

Well it worked for me last time I played it!

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You beat yourself up with your past. Don't blame yourself, blame the world. Blame God. Blame me.

SovietOmega posted...
but yes, this first area of the game very much demonstrates the awesomeness that is deus ex.

No, it doesn't. Liberty Island is a huge turnoff for a lot of people. It is, quite frankly, a lousy opening level.

However, the rest of the game is much better.

bump

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You beat yourself up with your past. Don't blame yourself, blame the world. Blame God. Blame me.

I try using the other renderer, and why I try playing the game my mouse and keyboard doesn't work with it. Oh man, is this game even worth all this trouble?

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You beat yourself up with your past. Don't blame yourself, blame the world. Blame God. Blame me.

You/Your computer suck, I can run Deus Ex without any trouble on a laptop that crashes on HL EP2 etc, so really now.


And yes it's worth the trouble. Hong Kong is my favourite level in anything ever.

I guess your right, I do just suck.

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You beat yourself up with your past. Don't blame yourself, blame the world. Blame God. Blame me.

have you done the new vision mod yet? you might try running it without the mod and see if that helps.

If you didn't buy GOTY ed. you need to patch

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Hey all this is Bartz btw.

Yeah it was the mod, without it the game runs fine. sigh~ I think I'll go with Computers/Electronics/Lockpicking instead.

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You beat yourself up with your past. Don't blame yourself, blame the world. Blame God. Blame me.

I also chose to take the mini-crossbow

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You beat yourself up with your past. Don't blame yourself, blame the world. Blame God. Blame me.

I take responsibility/credit for this, at least partially.

Also, that looks like a pretty decent opening set of skills, though if you don't mind a recommendation, focus on small arms at the start and wait until a certain point to go into low-tech/melee. If you ever get stuck on something don't hesitate to ask BTW, everybody's HYPE to see you go through a great game! :)

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(also, buy some stealth if you're not getting weaponskills - and invest in at least one weaponskill later on, there's a single unavoidable fight that is a ***** and a half if you have no training)

PS: Ninja'd, but yeah, minicrossbow is good. Definitely the right choice for a ninja-style playthrough like you seem to want.

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Well that was pretty easy. I think the mistake I made before was trying to go in from the front, which is way hard to do from what I've heard. Also I got stuck trying to get around guards to do a side objective when I could have skipped it. Also, I didn't know I could loot bodies the first time so I ran out of ammo fast.

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You beat yourself up with your past. Don't blame yourself, blame the world. Blame God. Blame me.

Oh yeah, this time I decided to get in by climbing up the containers in the back and sneaking up to the top that way.

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You beat yourself up with your past. Don't blame yourself, blame the world. Blame God. Blame me.

GANON1025 posted...
Oh yeah, this time I decided to get in by climbing up the containers in the back and sneaking up to the top that way.

This guy approves:



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That is the easiest way for sure

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My Japanese alter-ego.
Hey all this is Bartz btw.

I never invested in small arms and went straight for rifle. Gimme that sniper...

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Also, good call on the box climbing. Definitely easier.

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From: AlecTrevelyan006 | #042
I never invested in small arms and went straight for rifle. Gimme that sniper...

^5

the best way to play is just to pick one gun and pile all the upgrades on it.

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My fingers -- ALIVE! And threatening me with -- DEATH!

Well to be fair, I knew to do that from the Quick Look video posted earlier.

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You beat yourself up with your past. Don't blame yourself, blame the world. Blame God. Blame me.

Unatco HQ is pretty cool, there's a bunch of rooms to loot and even a basketball! There's some ugly neanderthal mechanical augmented guys giving me lip, but they're just jealous.

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You beat yourself up with your past. Don't blame yourself, blame the world. Blame God. Blame me.

My first augmentation... I went with combat strength.

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You beat yourself up with your past. Don't blame yourself, blame the world. Blame God. Blame me.

Of course in the next area I find a spot that, if I could lift heavier things, I could enter in a sneaky way.

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You beat yourself up with your past. Don't blame yourself, blame the world. Blame God. Blame me.

The mechs like you more if you're a kill happy loon, and less if you aren't

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We are thought, and reality, and concept, and the unimaginable

I think Gunther also likes you more if you rescue him from the statue.

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My Japanese alter-ego.
Hey all this is Bartz btw.