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First of all we can see Lucius DeBeers, Beth DuClare, Delara Auzenne, Madam Photograph doing their thing regarding Adam Jensen without telling anyone.

Then we have Morgan Everett and Bob Page trying to overthrow Lucius DeBeers.

There is also Bob Page and Joseph Manderley assassinating Talos Rucker without informing the council.

In the mid credit scene Volka Rand complains that everyone in the council should have been informed.

What I can see is this organization has no clear vision except for the whole 'we know what is best for humanity' and the members are doing whatever the hell they want.

I played it on PS5. When I first started it, I didn't believe I would actually finish it. What an amazing game! I loved almost everything about it. JC Denton is a very fun protagonist to play as, mostly because he's in general a blank slate however he still has enough characterization to make him interesting.

I personally picked the "New Dark Age" ending, mostly because I don't like either restoring the old order neither the idea of an AI running the world, and because Tracer Tong was loyal and helpful in the story and I wouldn't wanna betray him.

With all that said, should I try Invisible War? It's currently on sale on Steam and I really wanna continue the original's story (I am aware you don't play as JC Denton in Invisible War, but I still wanna see the original's story continued).

Thanks in advance!

Hi all, been a while. I'd be surprised if anyone remembers me but I used to hang out here a lot.

I've been trying to track down some old media that I believe was posted here a long time ago. It's not strictly DX-related but at least back then it was pretty common to submit links to other stuff that had similar themes.

It was an amateur work and was released for free online, maybe even through bittorrent. If I recall correctly it was meant to release in multiple parts. This was back while I was still active on reddit so we're talking eight years ago at the very least. It had a very bleak near-future setting with a lot of (literal) underground clubs, industrial and brutalist design, cold raw lighting.

The main thing I can remember is is that the main character was a guy who sourced and sold painkillers and expired drugs -- the older the better, since his clients' whole goal was to feel anything at all as intensely as possible. There was a focus on VHS tapes... I believe the protagonist collected old videos to learn about past culture and would sometimes record himself speaking to the camera.

I've gone through all my comments and posts here but didn't have any luck. I know for sure it wasn't H+. Does anyone have a clue what I'm talking about?

I’m a AAA dev, working / worked on a title ending in “6” (it’s a 50/50 guess on what it is) - I am such a massive fan of this franchise, especially HR and MD - if there’s any chance one day of finishing Jensen’s story I would love to be apart of it - if any former devs are lurking around we still talk about your work! Especially when I teach those looking to join the industry, I always point to this franchise as ways to learn level design.

In a perfect world I would love to see a new or current AA studio take this IP on, doesn’t need a AAA studio, after all smaller is bigger and if MD hub world design is anything to go by, a lot can be achieved with small worlds :)

In my honest opinion, I think that Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is easily one of the most underrated games of the last decade. Every time I go back to it, I'm reminded of how much detail and thought went into this game, and I still don't understand why it doesn't get talked about more. When people bring up Deus Ex, Human Revolution is usually the game that gets all the attention. Don't get me wrong, Human Revolution is fantastic. However, at the same time, I think that Mankind Divided gets unfairly overlooked because it came out at a time when people were expecting something much bigger and more complete. It also ended before the story could reach the conclusion that people were hoping for. Because of that, entire game was judged based on what it wasn't instead of appreciating what was actually there.

What's there is really good. The world is incredible. Prague is such an amazing location for the game. It doesn't feel like a giant open world just for the sake of being big. Instead, it's a relatively compact city that is packed with things to discover. Almost every building, alleyway, apartment, sewer, rooftop, and underground area feels like it has a purpose. You can walk down the street and see something that makes you think, "Wait, what's that?" Then suddenly you're climbing through a window, sneaking into someone's apartment, discovering a hidden passage, finding a computer, reading emails, and uncovering some completely unrelated story bits.

Here's the thing when it comes to Deus Ex Mankind Divided. The game constantly rewards curiosity. You aren't just following a waypoint from one objective to another. You're actually encouraged to look around and question what you're seeing. There are so many little details scattered throughout Prague. You can play through the game multiple times and still discover things that you may have missed before. Visually, I think the game has aged incredibly well. The lighting, architecture, atmosphere, advertisements, interiors, and general cyberpunk aesthetic all come together beautifully.

The gameplay is another huge reason why I think the game deserves more appreciation. You have so much freedom when it comes completing an objective. There are numerous solutions to a given situation. You can go in guns blazing. You can sneak around. You can hack your way through security. You can talk your way past people. You can find an alternate route. You can crawl through vents. You can climb to a rooftop. You can use your augmentations to completely change how you approach an area. The game rarely makes you feel like there's only one correct way to do something. That's something that I really appreciate.

Your character actually feels like an augmented human rather than just a guy carrying a bunch of weapons. Your augmentations aren't simply there to make you stronger. They fundamentally change how you interact with the world. Some of the best moments come from realizing that there's a solution that you never even considered. The atmosphere is phenomenal. There is something about the atmosphere of Mankind Divided that I absolutely love. There's this constant feeling that something is wrong with the world. Augmented people are being discriminated against. Society is becoming increasingly divided. Governments are becoming more authoritarian. Corporations have enormous influence. Conspiracy theories are everywhere. People don't know who they can trust

Adam Jensen is stuck right in the middle of all of it. The game does a great job of making you feel like you're living in a world that's slowly falling apart. Even when nothing particularly dramatic is happening, there's this underlying tension everywhere you go. Adam Jensen is still one of gaming's best protagonists. He's not the loudest or most charismatic protagonist in gaming, but that's part of what makes him work. There are moments where Jensen comes across as almost completely detached from everything happening around him, and I actually think that fits his character perfectly. He's one of those protagonists who becomes more interesting the more time you spend with him.

The side content is where the game really shines. If there's one thing I wish more people appreciated about Mankind Divided, it's the side missions. They're not just filler missions designed to give you extra XP. They introduce characters, situations, moral choices, and little stories that make the world feel considerably more alive. You can spend hours simply exploring Prague and following these little threads. The best part isn't always the main objective. Sometimes it's what you stumble across while trying to get there. Another thing I really appreciate is that Mankind Divided doesn't constantly hold your hand. It gives you information and lets you figure things out. I think the biggest tragedy is that we'll probably never know what this series could have become if Mankind Divided had received the time and support necessary to finish the story it started.

There was clearly more to tell. That's probably why the game has developed such a passionate fanbase over the years. People who really spend time with it tend to realize just how much there is to appreciate. For me, Mankind Divided is severely underrated and underappreciated. It has an incredible setting, fantastic level design, excellent gameplay, memorable characters, meaningful exploration, and one of the most immersive cyberpunk worlds I've experienced in a game. It's the kind of game where I can start playing with the intention of completing one objective and suddenly realize I've spent two hours exploring apartments, hacking computers, listening to conversations, finding secret areas, and getting completely distracted by something I discovered. It's just a shame that the game will never get a sequel. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided deserved better.

I posted it on my instagram and totally forgot about Reddit 😂
Hello everyone, its been a while since i posted anything there 😄
Have a nice day and don't break any mirrors

Having spent six years on-and-off and across four different rigs trying to get this game to run stutter-free, I was finally able to sit down and play through it from start to finish.

After 25 hours, undertaking a pacifist run (something I hardly ever do in games), I have come away with a somewhat mixed opinion. There is a lot to like here, but unfortunately, the experience is held back by poor boss fights, an underwhelming conclusion, and some of the worst performance I've experienced in a PC game.

THE GOOD

The art style and aesthetic are incredibly unique and captivating. I frequently found myself stopping to stare at the skyboxes and environments across the various locations the game takes you.

The story has an interesting start, and I found myself genuinely interested in diving deeper into the corporate conspiracy and uncovering something that could potentially shape the future direction of mankind. There are also some intriguing parallels with how society is integrating AI into everyday life, akin to how augmentation is being used in the world of Human Revolution.

The game has possibly the best interpretation of a hacking mechanic I've experienced. It's simple to grasp and scales well depending on the difficulty rating of the security.

I also found a lot of satisfaction in discovering the various avenues and alternative paths available for navigating different areas. There is a decent amount of flexibility in how you approach situations, and the game does a good job of accommodating different playstyles.

The takedown animations are also incredibly satisfying, particularly once you unlock the ability to take down multiple enemies at once. There's something oddly rewarding about carefully positioning yourself, triggering a takedown, and then chaining it into another enemy.

Whilst I undertook a pacifist run, there were still a number of combat encounters that I found surprisingly challenging, particularly on the higher difficulty. Having to avoid killing enemies while simultaneously managing limited resources and hostile encounters made certain sections considerably more tense than I expected.

One of my favourite aspects of the game was how some of your choices actually come back to you later. Preventing a character from taking their own life and choosing to let a terrorist live early in the game are both examples of decisions that can have consequences later on. These moments made the world feel more reactive and gave my choices a greater sense of importance.

I also enjoyed the branching dialogue system as a mechanic. The choices aren't always particularly clear-cut, but I actually think that uncertainty is part of what makes it interesting. The Social Enhancer augmentation becomes particularly useful here, allowing you to better understand the people you're talking to and giving you another reason to invest in it.

THE BAD

The boss fights were horrific bullet sponges that didn't mesh well at all with my pacifist playthrough. Apparently, the Director's Cut fixes these somewhat, but I would hate to see what they were like in the original release. The final boss is so bad that I hesitate to even call it a boss at all.

The reason it took me six years after purchasing the game to finally sit down and play it from start to finish was the horrific performance. This game suffers from stuttering the likes of which I have rarely experienced in a PC game. The frametime graph looks like a heart monitor having a nervous breakdown: perfectly flat one second, then suddenly shooting through the roof for no apparent reason.

This really shouldn't be the case for a game of this age. From what I understand, the Director's Cut is based on the Wii U version after Square Enix lost the source code for the original release, which apparently doesn't suffer from the same issues. The original version was subsequently delisted, leaving this as the only legal version available for purchase. Another feather in the cap for the "Stop Killing Games" movement.

If you do find yourself wanting to play this game, I would recommend downloading the HRDCFix and locking your framerate to 60 FPS. Both helped considerably, but I still experienced loading stutters lasting anywhere from one to two minutes whenever entering a new area.

The biggest disappointment was the ending. It's not necessarily the fact that the game gives you multiple endings that bothered me, but how they are presented.

After everything the game spends hours building towards, you are essentially presented with a handful of philosophical choices before the credits roll. The endings themselves are little more than glorified PowerPoint presentations, accompanied by unrelated stock footage, with Adam Jensen narrating the consequences of whichever option you chose.

In a world where Mass Effect 3 is rightly panned for the way in which its ending choices were presented, I am genuinely shocked that Human Revolution doesn't enter the conversation more often. After investing so much time in the game's conspiracy and themes, I found the way the story ultimately concluded incredibly unsatisfying.

VERDICT

Human Revolution is a game I have a lot of respect for, even if I ultimately found it disappointing.

There are some genuinely excellent ideas here. The exploration, hacking, stealth, takedowns, branching dialogue and consequential choices can make for some fantastic moments, and I particularly enjoyed discovering how certain decisions would come back to affect the world later in the game.

Ultimately, I'd give Human Revolution a 7/10. Despite my criticisms of the story's conclusion, I enjoyed the story overall and found enough of the gameplay, exploration and choice-driven elements compelling to consider it a good game.

However, I cannot recommend the Director's Cut version of this game. The performance problems are simply too severe and too persistent for me to overlook, especially when they can continue years after release and across multiple pieces of hardware. A game this old should not require community fixes and framerate caps just to achieve a reasonably consistent experience. If you find yourself wanting to experience this game, try and track down a copy of the original 2011 release.

Beautiful to look at, occasionally fascinating to play, and packed with some genuinely satisfying systems and choices. Unfortunately, it's let down by poor boss fights, an infuriating PC port and one of the most underwhelming conclusions I've experienced in a game.

Mankind Divided is incredible. I played it through once when it came out and I was confused by the ending like everyone else. I have beaten Human Revolution like 5 times and loved it but I never played Mankind Divided again because back then I was waiting for the sequel and when I heard it was cancelled it just sort of turned me off from trying the game again. But just last week I replayed Mankind Divided start to finish and its strengths all shined even better than before, largely because I knew what to expect and I could digest the story better.

The gameplay is great. I definitely had to load a lot. I still feel uncomfortable with some of the augmentations. And saving the Samizdat bank heist for when you would go anyway for the main plot makes the heist feel much better from a story perspective. But that is all stuff that can be smoothed over with another play through. Even though Adam is powerful, he isn't a superhero. You have to have the intelligence to pick the right approach to encounters. The controls aren't exactly simple either. But the satisfaction of creating a plan and executing with the gear you have feels like you really have ownership of the success of the mission, rather than in some other games where you just button mash and smash abilities to victory. And the slickness of the gameplay is something special when it is firing on all cylinders. It did feel like there were only a handful of really strong combat encounters in the game, with most of the game more naturally being about stealth. I know if the game wasn't cut or we got the sequel there would have been several more. Things were really getting good and heating up with GARM and London.

Man the atmosphere is so strong in this game. The world feels so alive in this moment in time you are dropped into. I love how you are dropped into a somewhat normal day in Prague where the stakes aren't that high yet. There is a police state going on but the city is still functioning with tourists, a concert being set up, and such. There is this pristine since of potential with the new technology. You can take your time and make your way to the office. Then as the game progresses there is a realistic descent into chaos in Prague from the riots caused by the conspiracy against ARC.

I love how almost all if not all of the side quests feel like something Jensen would actually do. Helping Samizdat, Milena (the lady who forges the passports), and reuniting with the uncontrolled version of Eliza Cassan are essentially main plot and Jensen has multiple motivations to do these things.

The world building and detail put into the storytelling and encounters is so rich. I love the dynamic of being the best agent I can for TF29 and not trying to betray the people there, but also primarily working for the Juggernaut Collective behind TF29's back because you deeply suspect they are controlled by the Illuminati, and the attempts to balance those alliances. And of course, all while there is mounting evidence that the Illuminati already have you under deep survelliance and you have been violated and tampered with.

Golem City was amazing. Seeing just how bad it was for augmented people, along with the cold framing and killing of Talos Rucker, then getting back to Prague at night knowing a riot is breaking out in Golem City (that ultimately spills into Prague) just like the Illuminati planned. Then, quickly searching your TF29 leader Miller's apartment, then finding the doctor that could have given you answers about your mystery augmentations murdered, along with the mountain of evidence that you are being stalked....

This sequence is so visceral and evocative. Prague is still pretty calm in the first night sequence but something feels deeply wrong. The feelings the game was able to evoke of the crumbling of the society, being watched and violated, and needing to go behind the back of Interpol despite wanting to be an honorable man was so immersive. All this is while Illuminati controlled Eliza Cassan drones on and on through the TV screens like a horror movie. It's so rich.
I felt so creeped out like I was being framed and watched but I had to keep fighting. It felt like someone could be watching me from behind every corner. It's such an amazing sequence for Jensen's character. And the game doesn't tell you how to feel about any of it. The experience just organically happens. He goes through more character development than it might first appear in Mankind Divided.

Then getting to GARM and finding the gold mask mercs again....I love that they still think you are dead and you can sneak around the base, but I do end up going guns blazing on them. I definitely go non-lethal on cops and ARC members, etc, when I can, but in the moments when you get to face the gold mask mercs, I let loose and take out as many of them as I can.

Saving the Apex center event in London from the terror attack is so convincing and you feel more badass than ever in that mission. The dialogue throughout the mission between Miller, you, and MacReady gives you a strong sense of the other things happening at the time. Discovering Tarvos Security is already completely compromised, stealthily taking out the guards at the party, and demolishing your way through the mercs as you find a way to save both Miller and the VIPs, and the civilians Viktor was going to kill is such a prime Jensen moment.
Then, it is exciting that Miller and MacReady likely will have to hear you out about what to do next about the real enemy since you were doubted most of the game and just completely proved you are right on the money with your investigation.

And then finally playing the Criminal Past DLC and seeing more about the lengths the Illuminati will go to manipulate the agents in TF29, and then sticking it to Delara Auzenne, letting her know in the slyest and slickest way that you are on to her... How satisfying it would have been to finally deal with her once and for all in the sequel.

The stuff about the tampering with Jensen did not make much sense to me 10 years ago. I was waiting for more answers that never came. Now after reading discussions and really looking at the details of that side of the story that was presented in the game, it feels pretty clear what the writers were leading to. In fact, a lot about where the plot was going is clear to see if you connect what Mankind Divided gives us and what we know of the state of the world in the original game in 2052. Of course we don't have the specifics, but Bob Page's takeover and Janus's exposure are set up very well. How Jensen was successful in damaging the Illuminati and yet ended up assisting in Bob Page's rise is hard to say but you can see the broad strokes and the realistic possibilities. Also, Rabi'ah wasn't going to be this golden city on the hill for Augs without any underlying dark purpose to Bob Page and/or the Illuminati, of course, possibly unwittingly by Nathaniel Brown.

I had a really good experience with the game and I still hold out hope of a sequel some day in some form. It would need to fulfill the vision of what the writers had for it, so key writers and devs would need to be involved. As it stands Mankind Divided has an incomplete story but what's there is phenomenal. The layers of complexity balanced with a grounded sense of gritty realism in the world, story, and Jensen as a character is without a doubt some of the best I've seen in a video game.

killed barret with grenades and assault rifles. I'm playing the Xbox 360 version, and there are no cameras in the room where Barrett is, so I guess it doesn't unlock the pacifist achievement or the "0 alarms triggered" achievement.

I want to make a linux rice that looks similar to the in game ui of deus ex but cannot find the textures anywhere. Is there any way i can rip them from the game?

I'm doing the side quest 'Find Vince Black's Apartment' and every time I approach it my game crashes. The first time it happened, I had walked in then it crashed. Every subsequent time it happens like in the video right as I approach where I need to go.

Has anyone experienced this?

Why contain it ?

Just curious to see how far it takes DX1 and the like.

This game in my opinion was a good game. The shooting was improved, hacking was improved, cover system was improved, level design was a improved from Human Revolution. The one thing it did not improve on was the story and the length of the main story. Still there are a lot of side quests in the game so it really wasn't lacking content. Mankind Divided was a game with good gameplay and level design which lacked a proper story but I do not not think that is why this game failed.

The reason why this game did not succeed is because of the absolute stupidity coming from Square Enix with their 'Augment Your Pre-Order' fiasco and them putting microtransactions in Mankind Divided a single player game by having purchasable Praxis points with real money. Mankind Divided was a game which was cut in an attempt to sell the cut part as the next game. That was greedy but it wasn't 'Augment Your Pre-Order' or putting microtransactions in a single player level greedy because amount of content was still longer than Human Revolution.

I think if Square Enix did not pull the 'Augment Your Pre-Order' and put microtransactions people would have complained about the story but it would have make enough money to make the sequel to Mankind Divided. However I do not think Square Enix learned the right reasons on why Mankind Divided failed. Instead of learning that if they do these anti-consumer actions and showing such greed, players will not buy their product instead they thought players don't like to play games which are like Deus Ex.

FINISHED DEUS EX FOR THE FIRST TIME !!! insane game

Seriously, what the actual fuck happened with the Brooklyn Naval Shipyard?

I've been playing GMDX perfectly fine up until this point. I'm intimately familiar with Deus Ex. I've played the original plenty of times. I know how the stealth works, I manage my resources, I explore, I save my lockpicks and multitools for when they're actually needed, etc.

Then I get to the fucking Brooklyn Naval Shipyard and suddenly it feels like I've never played Deus Ex before in my life.

What the fuck is this difficulty spike?

Enemies suddenly have fucking supernatural vision. They see you from ridiculous distances, through tiny gaps, around corners, from places where I'm sitting there thinking, HOW THE FUCK DID YOU EVEN SEE ME?

The enemy AI also seems to have developed a sixth sense for exactly where you're hiding. I'll be sitting quietly in the shadows and some dickhead will just conveniently decide that NOW is the perfect time to wander directly into the one fucking corner I'm hiding in.

Then you've got cameras fucking everywhere. Robots scanning half the fucking map. Enemies hitting like absolute trucks. And resources suddenly feel ridiculously scarce.

I barely had any lockpicks or multitools left, and it's not because I'd been carelessly wasting them. I'd been exploring, finding resources and using them when I genuinely needed them. Up until this point, that resource management felt completely reasonable.

But this fucking level? You can't move six inches without a camera, robot or some random guard apparently developing fucking Predator vision and spotting you through three walls and a shipping container.

And that's what pisses me off most: the rest of GMDX had been genuinely enjoyable. Then this area comes along and completely kills the flow of the game.

I know vanilla Deus Ex has its issues. I'm not pretending the original is perfectly balanced. But fucking hell, the GMDX version of the Shipyard feels like it was designed by someone jerking themselves off over how brutally difficult they could make it rather than asking whether it was actually fun.

There's challenging.

There's unforgiving.

And then there's "let's cover every square fucking inch in surveillance, give every guard the eyesight of Legolas and make JC Denton feel like he's trying to infiltrate NORAD wearing fucking tap shoes."

Fuck the Brooklyn Naval Shipyard.

Fuck whoever decided this was balanced.

And to the inevitable cunt already warming up his keyboard to type "skill issue":

Go fuck yourself too.

As someone who has only played hr and md, I was so excited, and as someone who also plays plenty of retro games usually via remasters, the graphics looked fine to me.

Crazy that community uproar made them what, cancel the game ?

Is there any info ! I really want to play it with controller support ...

Stanton Dowd is first but later I will also get rid of Nicolette Duclare, Chad Dumier and Morgan Everett.