I've had the game for maybe two years now. I got vaguely far once but gave up.
Is there a way to make the game simpler? I dunno, it's kinda a rough around the edges game. And I just bought the second one cause it was $5 and I wanna play them in order.
Well, I always suggest taking advantage of the point-distribution glitch in the character creation... lower Pistols to 'Untrained' to gain the points, and then start the game. Pistols will be trained and you'll have the extra points.
Other than that... Computers skill should be at advanced. It turns into a 'give free money' button at that level, whenever you can find an ATM.
Enemies are pretty stupid, so stealth is the best way to play the game. Any melee weapon hit to the back of the head will instantly knock most guards out. If you want to play it as an FPS rather than a stealth game, you'll have to spend a lot of time stealthing around until you're well enough trained in heavier weapons and armor.
Seriously, max out pistol, and heavy weapons or whatever the skill is, and just kill everyone that isn't a robot with a pistol and a single headshot, and kill the huge robots and stuff with a rocket launcher, the pistol is so overpowered, even on like the lowest skill level.
Use the rest on stealth and hacking/ lockpick skills I guess to get cool bonus weapons and items.
Do a non-lethal playthrough.
I recommend stealth. Also, stealth pistol. With a scope.
go play system shock 2, this game sux
Kill everyone you see, blow up all doors you can't unlock with the GEP Gun, no, scratch that, blow up all doors in general with the GEP Gun, and hack computers and ATMs for fun and profit.
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Oh, and murder everyone you see if you think you can get away with it.
[QUOTE=Badunkadunk;20640526]Seriously, max out pistol, and heavy weapons or whatever the skill is, and just kill everyone that isn't a robot with a pistol and a single headshot, and kill the huge robots and stuff with a rocket launcher, the pistol is so overpowered, even on like the lowest skill level.
Use the rest on stealth and hacking/ lockpick skills I guess to get cool bonus weapons and items.[/QUOTE]
That's how I play, I just save up lams and emps for the bots. Starting pistol is the best gun in the game.
Best gun in game is Lo Bruto, the extra damage stealth pistol.
The L-rocket launcher is a pretty good heavy weapon if you want to conserve inventory space.
[url=http://sites.google.com/site/yukichigai/shifter]Get the shifter mod.[/url]
Yes, shifter is gold.
Will I be able to load my default Deus Ex saves in Shifter or will I have to start over?
I think you don't, I mean you only replace two files, not an entire directory.
I'll download and play with Shifter, thanks.
And also take other advice into consideration
It's a lot easier to stay stealthy for the first bit of the game, but after that the game isn't very picky at all.
After and the first couple Unatco missions the game loses its bias towards stealth and you can pretty much do what you want.
I think most people feel forced to stealth their way through the game because the default crosshairs are a bit broken in that they make the weapons seem much less accurate than they really are. (shifter fixes this)
Don't agonize or worry too much about how you pick your skills, they're not worth getting obsessive compulsive over and you're just going to ruin the game for yourself by doing so. Just pick what you think you'll need for the most part. I know in a lot of games you can really hurt yourself by picking the wrong skills, but Deus Ex isn't that mean. You have to screw up really badly and in an obvious way to really pick the "wrong" skills and I kinda doubt you can do it on accident.
It's not so much that the game is super well balanced or anything like that (it's not), it's just that most of the skills are either so broad in their benefits and do so many things that they are going to be somewhat useful regardless of how you play or they're so clear and obvious as to what they are for that you'll know if you need them or not. I've done assault with pistols and stealth with rifles and they both worked fine as both weapon types have something for both styles of play. The only skills that I can see turning out to be truly useless would be swimming and environmental training, but even then the former is dirt cheap and won't steal that many points away from you in the first place and the latter is only truly useless if you simply choose not to use suits.
Augmentations are a different matter though, as some of those are really geared towards a specific style of play. Still, most of them are pretty obvious as to their purpose so it shouldn't be too much of a problem.
The ones I would really be careful about for would be the torso augs, because one of them isn't that good and the rest are hard to use properly. The aqualung in particular is not that useful. The rest are useful, but you have to know when to use them, the power recirculatorin particular is rather bothersome (though shifter mod fixes this).
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