deus ex human revolution SUCKS... or does it???

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Yeah Leo Gold their “leader” you meet at the end of Liberty Island is completely straight with you and will just explain their entire motivation if you stop and listen to him

i actually do tend to kill the guys holding hostages in the ‘ton because i usually fuck up the stealth even when im sneaking in from Paul’s apartment and i don’t like them murdering those innocent randos. but, see, it’s neat how i can find an RP reason to use lethal force instead of just doing what gets me more XP vs more zenny or whatever the fuck. god Deus Ex rules

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Get the three gas grenades from the psychos outside, toss one in the hall outside paul’s apartment, ez pz

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lol the fucking modern opengl renderer was making deus ex run like a 2021 game with insane gpu temps and frame drops until i turned off the 8x supersampling it has on by default. it works better now that it’s off, go figure. not very laptop friendly!

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thinking about whenever i try to knock someone out with the baton and miss and just swat him on the ass with it and he yells UUNGH!! and runs away

Guy in a coat, i’ll check it out

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the way the math works on sneak attacks is so funny, how you have to basically smack their ass with a baton if you want to knock them out because if you accidentally hit their head, they take regular head-hit damage instead of getting the backstab multiplier

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you gotta hit the crack but not the cheeks or back. that’s what i always say. and it sucks everyone hates it when i say that

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I went around killing literally everyone one playthrough, and after coming back to Hell’s Kitchen, someone at the bar says “Someone killed the bartender. Drinks are free!”

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for the record i do think dxhr sucks. i played it and tried to convince myself to like it, like watching a star wars movie made after 1983, but the illusion fell apart the moment i stopped actively maintaining it. i don’t sequels to looking glass properties made by unrelated teams (technically ion storm here but w/e), i want games that come from situations like the one looking glass was in in the 90s, games made by people interested in cultural forms other than games looking at the medium with fresh eyes. i don’t want another fallout game, i want more CRPGs loosely based on applying adaptations of tabletop rules to previously untouched genres. i wish eidos montreal had had a chance to make a near future piss filter renaissance fashion game without any of the deus ex baggage, it may have resulted in something memorable with some artistic integrity

that said, i will play clones of demon’s souls until the heat death of the universe and i don’t play as many novel indie games as i think i should so i’m definitely a part of the problem here

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cyber augmented renaissance fashion photographer is a pretty good game idea

you don’t have a pass to the met gala so you have to crawl through airvents to get the best photos

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Aim for the mid point of their shoulders. You will never miss again

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My big impassioned defense of deus ex a few years ago when there was starting to be a bit of a backlash against its ‘game of all time’ levels of hype was that it was the rare work of video game art made by people who read real books written by and for adults instead of people whose only media consumption outside of video games was comic books and genre movies

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dx1 is one of those games where when I play it I ask myself “Why did I ever think anyone else could do the same?” and then I go back to acting like this

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like I’ve never played it before, annoying the fuck out of everyone around me, but it really is just one of those danger games for me…

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I only knew about Deus Ex back in the day because it was one of the few fairly high profile games that got a native pre-OSX Mac port.

I remember being so jealous of PC havers because I assumed there were a million games like Deus Ex out there.

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isn’t that just the PROD!? i am probably mistaken but i thought you had to aim for the small of their back when you use the baton (which i typically use to stealth knockout so i can save PROD! charges for emergencies)

Remember that we’re police. Stick with the PROD! (hands you a free fucking rocket launcher)

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I have heard people give the small of the back advice a lot but if you’re crouched that’s probably why you keep giving them a slap on the ass instead lol. I hit guys in the upper back with the baton all the time.

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tbf in my hands the GEP gun is more of a very noisy emergency lockpick than it is a weapon

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That’s why it’s always the weapon you should pick. It’s good against bots, opening stuff, and everything else Paul offers you is available in less than a minute. In recent playthroughs I have discovered that between LAMs, the GEP gun, and the complete saturation of picks and multitools you don’t actually need to raise those skills above Trained really

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Its literally just the entire torso hitbox but absolutely not the head or limbs hitboxes. This applies to nonlethal melee weapons. The head damage multiplier overrides the unaware and back attack multipliers

edit: I misremembered

for ranged and lethal melee, headshots and backstab multipliers do stack (a sniper backstab headshot at master skill with the lvl 4 targeting aug does thousands of points of damage)

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My most controversial Deus Ex opinion is that Aqualung is better than Environmental Resistance and that you should always raise Swimming to Trained at least

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i don’t think that should be controversial, you need decent swimming to get at least 1 aug upgrade and it’s kind of a tossup whether you’d prefer to carry a stack of situational environment suits or a stack of situational rebreathers. like it’s the least useful augment you get either way

you are both making me want to fuckin drop everything and replay this game immediately and i love that

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