What is Deus Ex?
Deus Ex, AKA The Best Fucking Game of All Time, is a cyberpunk first-person ARPG where you take the role of UNATCO agent JC Denton who is tasked with defusing terrorist threats by any means possible, as the game supports many different playstyles. Go in guns blazing, find a secret entrance and sneak past all guards, infiltrate via underwater tunnels, hack security to get past turrets and cameras, and use the many augmentations and tools available at your disposal to accomplish your goals. Deus Ex rewards those who use their heads, and with each replay you might find alternative solutions you have never thought of before. The level design allows for all this shit to happen, and though the first level might be a bit too big for it's own good, it's all rock solid after that. There's a fuckton to explore and discover, from supplies to aug canisters or mods. It'll always keep you on your toes, for sure.
The writing doesn't treat its audience like retards either, nor does it spoonfeed the reader with propaganda despite what you might expect from a game with political undertones. There's a fuckton of books and newspapers to read, or just the background dialogue which all flesh out the dystopian world of Deus Ex. Your actions have consequences to which people will react to, though there's no karma system or anything like that. Since you're a superspy who goes traveling around the world infiltrating many top secret facilities, there's plenty of conspiracies to discover too. But seriously, everyone should play this at least twice.
Sounds cool, where do I get it?
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It's essential to install Kentie's Deus Exe launcher, as it will allow Deus Ex to run on most modern systems and allow OpenGL and DirectX 10 rendering for better graphics, which you can find at kentie.net
Anything I should know before playing?
Always upgrade your Computing skill to Trained, as this will allow you to hack into anything. Choose to upgrade at least either Lockpicking or Electronics, or both if you won't put more skills into combat skills. Enviromental Training and Demolition are fairly useless skills. The Heavy skill doesn't really get any good weapons until later on. For guns, skills and accuracy are fairly important since you have to stand still and wait for your crosshair to unify before you can get an accurate shot, the time depending on your weapon skill and weapon accuracy (which can be increased with mods, amongst other stats). Alternatively, you can circumvent the clunk accuracy system entirely with the red dot mod, though those are rare and can only be applied to one weapon. The head hitboxes are even more finnicky with melee weapons like the prod which requires a precise attack against the enemy's neck, while a baton blow against someone's back is good to knock them out if you put some points into Low-Tech. Tranq darts don't instantly knock out enemies, but instead your target will run around like a retard while repeatedly making the same OOF sound for 6 seconds until they get KO'd, though they still can raise alarms in this state. You want to have Medicine to at least trained, as it makes medkits twice as useful. Also, put all points into Swimming.
The Regeneration aug is game-breakingly OP if you upgrade it, so keep that in mind. Run Silent might be more useful to stealth players, but Speed Enhancement lets you go fast, jump high, and take barely any falling damage. You can even skip the entire antenna tower ambush by jumping off the building with the speed aug and zipping past the grunts on the ground. While Combat Strength is the aug together with Speed Enhancement if you want to get the Dragon's Tooth and play the game like a supersonic ninja, the exploration abilities of being able to move heavy objects with Microfibral Muscle are not to be underestimated. You can also blow up most locks and objects with explosive if you prefer to take the loud route.
