Deus Ex *spoilers*

[ríomhaire]

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|WARNING, NO MENTION OF INVISIBLE WAR BEYOND THIS POINT

How did you play Deus Ex, particularty the first level and how you evolved your character.

When I first started playing Deus Ex I didn't have a clue what I was doing. Then, eventualy I thought "WTF! My brother's an asshole. I could have used some ammo for this sniper you know!"

I then invested in hacking and lockpicking. I actualy went in the front door (after a little turret hacking) and set off the alarm more than once . I did pretty much all the side missions I could but it took me a while to get the hang of not jumping in guns blazing. I played mainly with the silenced pistol then(plus scope baby yeah!).
I then used a mix of stealth and assault rifle. Upgrading hacking fully as well as lockpicking and electronics(not so much).
By the time I got to Paris I never had to worry about power(or health thanks to augmentation). I got the health regen, silent step and eye augs. I obviously got others aswell but they were the main ones I used. For some reason I was always scared shittless of spiderbots, I don't know why.
Once I got the dragonsword it became my main weapon. I slowly substituted the AS for a sniper and upgraded my rifle skill a bit more. I remember in the MJ12 HQ I went up to a keypad and thought, hmmm, what would a super-secret organisation use as a password and for the laugh I put in 1234, it was right! lol

 

[Raz]

The funny thing is that I typed in 1234 just for laughs as well. It was completely arbitrary, really. Imagine my surprise when the door actually opened.

 

[DeusExMachina]

Psh. I have the PS2 verision. All we need to do is find the code. Don't even have to type it in n_n.

But anyway, I played it like any...agent would. Some espionage here, some shooting there, some investigating there. Stuff like that.

OH MAN DID J00 PLAY INVISIBLE WAR?! ITS LIEK TEH GREAT3ST GAM EVA. EVEN BETTA THUN DOOS X 1!!!

 

[DEATH eVADER]

OH MAN DID J00 PLAY INVISIBLE WAR?! ITS LIEK TEH GREAT3ST GAM EVA. EVEN BETTA THUN DOOS X 1!!!

In looks, yeah. But in gameplay....

 

[Shippi]

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[ríomhaire]

I've just found my Deus ex CD.. it's all stained and scratched and refuses to install.. nooo I might go buy it again

Same with me ;(

 

[Shippi]

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[short recoil]

I've just found my Deus ex CD.. it's all stained and scratched and refuses to install.. nooo I might go buy it again

You could try polishing it.
I managed to get a CD that had been rubbed along tarmac to work after a bit of polishing.

 

[kupocake]

I played the Deus Ex 1 demo so many times through, and so long ago that I've totally forgotten how I played it, at least first time. I've nearly always avoided the GEP gun root, so it's Sniper or Sneaker mostly. I probably sniped first, but Deus Ex made me realise the wonders of proding people in the back with an electric prod before long. It was something I enjoyed almost instantly about the game. Sure I love shooting to kill in most games, but from the person who had a near-sleepless night after hearing a reviewer's story about HL scientist slaughter, it was nice to have the option for non-lethal takedown against guys who're only questionably evil.

I play it sneaky up until MJ12 arrive on the scene. Then I play it sneaky and swordy. There is no grey area with those guys. The first time you see them, with their Black Armor and visors (IIRC), you know they're the bad guys from Bob Page's Volcano Lair. Before long, i'm whacking on the invisibility and silent feet and stabbing my way through garrisons of the b**tards ^^. Keep the shock prod in the inventory of course though. You never know when you may need to incapacitate a mislead UNATCO soldier, or an unfortunate bouncer who's getting between you and a night club's cash register.

I know this sounds silly, but there are certain characters I used to make sure would stay down. Walton Simons was one of them. Not content with hearing him gurgle to death, that guy had to be Gibs before I could move on. And I used to trash Maggie Chow's apartment and knock her maid unconcious... actually, if Maggie didn't leg it quick enough, I had this bad habit of throwing her out of the appartment window ^^

And that ladies and gentlemen, is the difference between the original and the game that shall remain unnamed. It was actually possible to give a damn. Though I did actually replay said Game that shall remain unnamed recently. If you pretend that it's not a sequel to a game you know, it's actually possible to enjoy it...

 

[Axyon]

I've just found my Deus ex CD.. it's all stained and scratched and refuses to install.. nooo I might go buy it again

You must buy it again, there's no doubt it's worth it. Absolutely one of my favourite games ever. My favourite method of play was always stealth, and the best mod to truly achieve it was the shadow and light meter (I forget the mod's actual name), similar to the Thief series. I was always a firm believer in the Stealth Pistol too, even though everyone else hates it. Slap a laser guide mod on that baby, and you've got a seriously accurate piece of kit with a nice magazine size.

 

[kupocake]

Slap a laser guide mod on that baby, and you've got a seriously accurate piece of kit with a nice magazine size.

But couldn't you just whack a silencer mod on a normal pistol?

edit: Because according to the Strat Guide, a Normal pistol hits for 14, and a Stealth Pistol hits for 8. It also has a marginally higher base accuracy. Though I guess the magazine, reload time and less recoil, saves it. Nevertheless, Pistol pretty much becomes a one shot lethal takedown weapon when applied to skulls...

 

[Krabjuice]

Hrm, I always avoided the assault rifle unless I wanted to use the HE rounds. When I could only salvage once round from enemies, it seemed wrong to waste 9-15 rounds on a single enemy. One hit kills from my pistol or rifle seemed much more economical--especially when I could singlehandedly kill over 450 troops without having to pick up any more ammo (When my ammo reserves were full, I mean. My pistol always maxed out by La-Guardia, and my rifle by Hong-Kong. I never let them fall below max afterwards.)

 

[Unfocused]

Oh, the game is awesome! You can solve situations in many ways, woo!

I remember that I was using the pistol nearly all the time, had it on the highest skill level and was aiming for the head for one-shot kills. I used walkthroughs however, but only in situation when I wasn't sure if my enemy is immortal or not. For example I was nearly sure that in one fight Anna Navarre (was that her name?) is invulnerable but it turned out she only has a lot of HP. The next fight however involved an immortal enemy so I knew the fight was futile.

It was funny when I met Simons for the fight. I was running with a rocket launcher when he came running at me. It was like: "WTF? *shoots**splat*; uh? that's it?" And then some... monsters that were there killed me

And the sword, it rocked! :]

EDIT: Nooo I missed my 1337th post!

 

[Krabjuice]

Heh, when I fought Navarre in the subway, I hid in one of the ducts and pupper sprayed her. Did nothing, so I pulled out my rifle and headshot her--a few times.

 

[Asuka]

Well I got the music from the CD and am listening now so I'm happy the theme tune is awesome, so catchy, hehe

HOW? How do you get the music from the 1st game. BESIDES the soundtrack. The soundtrack doesnt have that one song that plays in the club.

 

[KagePrototype]

Pfft, Assault Rifle was silly. Just mod up your pistol as much as possible, it's all you need tbh.

 

[B-MAn]

I miss Deus Ex i have the orginal box for it but i cant find the CD

 

[kupocake]

It was funny when I met Simons for the fight. I was running with a rocket launcher when he came running at me. It was like: "WTF? *shoots**splat*; uh? that's it?" And then some... monsters that were there killed me

One time, probably on a high difficulty setting, playing as a weak character (pistols only or something), I got him only severely hurt. When that happens, he turns invisible and legs it. Thing is, the cheeky b***ard accuses you of running away when you meet him outside the Area 51 bunker.

Heh, when I fought Navarre in the subway, I hid in one of the ducts and pupper sprayed her. Did nothing, so I pulled out my rifle and headshot her--a few times.

One of the best things about the game, is that you can choose when to kill Anna. I usually went for the earliest opportunity; when she tells you to shoot Lebedev on his plane. Pretty dodgy how you get away with it

I've only done the subway fight once. Thing is, even if you stay with Paul to fight the MiBs, and JC and Paul both survive the Hotel raid, Paul seems to end up dead when you give yourself up. Better to get caught in the apartment (by erm... dying, but not actually dying), and keep your bro alive

Waiting until the UNATCO breakout is cool, though it means sacrificing poor Lebedev. "Flatlander Woman". Boom! Same with Gunther in Paris. "Laputan Machine". Yes I do still remember, sad I know

 

[Absinthe]

Stealthy. Non-violent unless the situation called for otherwise. I had a moral dilemma killing UNATCO troops later in the game, because I knew they didn't know any better.

Oh, the music was so cool. MOD files rock.

 

[Neo_Kuja]

I've only done the subway fight once. Thing is, even if you stay with Paul to fight the MiBs, and JC and Paul both survive the Hotel raid, Paul seems to end up dead when you give yourself up. Better to get caught in the apartment (by erm... dying, but not actually dying), and keep your bro alive

Not so - you don't have to "die" in the apartment building to keep Paul alive, you only have to go out the front door, fight your way past the UNATCO Security Bot and guards and run into the train station and onto the train to keep him alive. If you go out the window at all it sets off a trigger that causes Paul to die.

What I liked about Deus Ex was the freedom do do what you wanted. I single handedly caused the "Wan Chi Market" Disaster (Basically, if any shots are fired by anyone, all the civilians run to a preset location, near the tunnel which leads to the small bar in the bit before Tonnichi Road) - one LAM and Pepper Mine put on the wall near the tunnel, and two Scrambler grenades put near the bots. Shoot someone and watch the fun !

Personally, my preferance was to stick with stealthy augmentations (Walk Silent/Cloak) and sneak up to the guards to prod them. Bots got EMP Grenades and/or 40mm Grenades from the Assault Rifle, and the aliens got a 5.56mm bullet right between the eyes followed up by 7.56mm bullets. I did see a mod a while ago that made Anna Navarre, Gunter Herman and Walton Simons go truly invisible when they got severly hurt - so that you either needed the Thermal Vision augmentation, or the Goggles (Modified - With full thermal and night vision on the entire screen) It made the fights a hell of a lot harder, because they still shot at you while invisible :E

To finish off with - a quote that captures Deus Ex's magnificence :

Walton Simons - "Here you come foward again, and here I am, like your reflection in a hall of mirrors"
JC Denton - "That makes me one ugly son of a bitch "

 

[Krynn72]

I cant remember how I played the first time, but I have always been the uber stealthy player. Always the back way, never any alarms (if I trigger one, I load... lots of save files) but I always kill everyone I can without getting seen. God I love that game, my favorite game of all time.

Arg, now I have to play again. Thanks alot :frown:

 

[Sparta]

Everytime i think of the travesty of DE:IW, i die a little inside ;(

 

[Zeus]

the games friggin great...one of the best games ever made IMO...

just the amount of strategies you could use to get through each mission led to a very replayable experience..also what is this invisible war you speak of...I have never heard of such game *cough

 

[Krynn72]

Yeah it really is awesome. The thing is, I played it 2 years after it came out... and it still became my favorite game ever. Thats a true test to a game's greatness... if someone loves it after it has already become old and "outdated"

 

[Shasta]

I've just found my Deus ex CD.. it's all stained and scratched and refuses to install.. nooo I might go buy it again

And to everyone else who has scratched cd's- good news! You can by it under the "Big Bytes" label for $9.99 over here in NZ. That's got to be about $6 to Americans, and as NZ seems to be the last country to get anything new, it must be available world-wide for a similar price. That's how I got my copy.

 

[Jintor]

I just upgraded my pistol until it was basically my sniper rifle. Always killed everyone. I got along with Anne Navere just fine, and then hacked the computers and got her killphrase.

 

[Asuka]

Man you guys are going to make me play this game again.

Beat it 7-8 times all different ways. Hands down greatest game of all time.

oh and btw does anyone know the answer to me previous post. http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showpost.php?p=1730315&postcount=15

thx

 

[AIDisabled]

I'm a Thief I, II and System Shock I, II veteran, so I began with the riot prod.

For some reason, playing this kind of Garretty stealth (as opposed to the distant sniper--especially at the very start where the ammo is friggin' inappropriate) is more difficult in Deus Ex. The primary reason being that the riot prod doesn't strike the NSF unconscious in a single taz, and once tazzed, they tend to run instead of fighting like Thief/SS.

I played much of it Theif style, crouching in darkness, hearing conversations, observing patterns.

Once I got into the Liberty building, though, things went completely fubar. I entered through the main door the first time, and got appropriately head-shotted.

Reload, found the back route, and then skipped rescuing Gunther the goon altogether. Instead I climbed up the stairs and, down to 12 percent health, pissed out of my mind, out of riot prod ammo, whipped out the pistol and shot the rebel leader without conversation.

But things got very convenient after discovering the stealth pistol. And getting to level 3 sniping skills. Then everything was simply zoom, point and click. Apart from those ridiculous fake Asian and Australian accents.

Once I got the Dragon Sword, I stopped carrying the assault rifle and any shotgun altogether. Just a stealth pistol, the dragon, the sniper, health. I didn't need a lot of biocells anymore since the Dragon provides illumination, negating the F12 light. By the end I'd accumulated around 46 biocells. And I finished the game choosing to destroy the whole facility. A New Dark Age. God, I wish I remembered more.

Thanks for the thread, ríomhaire.

 

[ríomhaire]

One time, probably on a high difficulty setting, playing as a weak character (pistols only or something), I got him only severely hurt. When that happens, he turns invisible and legs it. Thing is, the cheeky b***ard accuses you of running away when you meet him outside the Area 51 bunker.

I remember fighting him. He thought he was save invisible but my eye augs saw to that, hehe.

One of the best things about the game, is that you can choose when to kill Anna. I usually went for the earliest opportunity; when she tells you to shoot Lebedev on his plane. Pretty dodgy how you get away with it

I remember that, I f*cking legged it as soon as she started attacking me

I've only done the subway fight once. Thing is, even if you stay with Paul to fight the MiBs, and JC and Paul both survive the Hotel raid, Paul seems to end up dead when you give yourself up. Better to get caught in the apartment (by erm... dying, but not actually dying), and keep your bro alive

I legged it every time. I'm so mean

Waiting until the UNATCO breakout is cool, though it means sacrificing poor Lebedev. "Flatlander Woman". Boom! Same with Gunther in Paris. "Laputan Machine". Yes I do still remember, sad I know

That was funny, killwords FTW!

 

[Unfocused]

I got my copy a few years ago with a computer magazine. If it wasn't for that I wouldn't have probably played it :]

I didn't kill Anna Nevarre in the plane cause I didn't check the walkthrough back then and thought she was immortal as I tried shooting her. It's one of the few drawbacks - sometimes characters are immortal, sometimes you can kill them (but they have loads od HP).

 

[Shippi]

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[ríomhaire]

That one(Wong?) killed me with a dragonsword once. I was rather cautious about killing charaters, even if I was against them.

 

[Axyon]

But couldn't you just whack a silencer mod on a normal pistol?

edit: Because according to the Strat Guide, a Normal pistol hits for 14, and a Stealth Pistol hits for 8. It also has a marginally higher base accuracy. Though I guess the magazine, reload time and less recoil, saves it. Nevertheless, Pistol pretty much becomes a one shot lethal takedown weapon when applied to skulls...

You can't put a silencer on the pistol. I know the Stealth has its weaknesses, but I just love the way it fires and how cool you feel using it. Sure, you could just run into a room with the silenced assault rifle and pummel everyone, but you could also stalk them and drop them with a single bullet. Although, if you don't kill in one shot, you can refire at a much faster rate than the pistol - 6.6 rps against 1.6 rps.

 

[Beerdude26]

h, Deus Ex

One of the best games ever made.

I played the game twice without cheats, and then I played it like five times with, just to make sure I had played the game to its fullest, (ab)using every possibility in the game.

Too many good memories about that game to list, but the best was when I used cheats to spam loads of enemies (Like your boss in the game, or Bob Page) in the room where you kill Gunther with the killword (in the medieval castle). All those enemies + like 500 LAM's = Game crash

But before it crashed I had already gibbed thousands of enemies

 

[Axyon]

h, Deus Ex

One of the best games ever made.

I played the game twice without cheats, and then I played it like five times with, just to make sure I had played the game to its fullest, (ab)using every possibility in the game.

Too many good memories about that game to list, but the best was when I used cheats to spam loads of enemies (Like your boss in the game, or Bob Page) in the room where you kill Gunther with the killword (in the medieval castle). All those enemies + like 500 LAM's = Game crash

But before it crashed I had already gibbed thousands of enemies

Heh, grenade climbing was always a fun pastime. Escalating the huge building with Max Chen on the top in the Wan Chai market was always a challenge.

Edit: Anyone wanting the entire Deus Ex soundtrack should look no further than here. You may thank me with biscuit-related items and spare change.

 

[Harryz]

Deus-Ex, Deus-Ex. Probably the greatest PC game. Listening to the Soundtrack at this moment. So many nostalgic memories. I really have to re-buy the game after my exams finish, since I lost the CD.

 

[Sparta]

Tempted to play this game now. If only somebody remade the game in a better engine like Source or UE3 or whatever.

I've only done the subway fight once. Thing is, even if you stay with Paul to fight the MiBs, and JC and Paul both survive the Hotel raid, Paul seems to end up dead when you give yourself up. Better to get caught in the apartment (by erm... dying, but not actually dying), and keep your bro alive

Paul can actually live if you fight with him and get out of the hotel. You'll end up seeing him later at that Chinese guys place. Can't remember his name but he deactivates your kill-switch

 

[DeusExMachina]

Tracer Tong.

 

[Shodan]

I'm playing though it right now, without killing anyone, only knocking out or using the alternate methods (kill phrase etc)

I love reading all the notes and books etc, especially the stuff about Gunther Herrman, waiting for JC at the cathedral etc.

I also love the stuff about the illuminati, the storyline for this game is amazing, I love it.

 

[ríomhaire]

I went through the first level without killing anyone before(I even dragged the rebel leader's unconsious body back to UNATCO) and Paul comes up to me "You killed alot of people tonight"
What, did I killl people before going into the statue D: