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What mode did you pick? Lethal or Non-Lethal? What weapons do you have?

Try to get headshots, if you can. I picked the non-lethal mode and got a tranq gun. Picked up standard pistol from the guards I knocked out, which was low on ammo. Get stealth kills on a few of them.
 
dinjo said:
At start where you need to hack the first door.
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Is this the preview code?

You know the first guy you take down? (Where a sort of tutorial pops up?). Near there, if you look up, there is an alternate path. If you stack some boxes, you can climb the crates and bypass the whole first area with the guards outside the warehouse. No hacking involved either.


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Ethan_Hunt said:
To those who have played the beta/preview code, how do you obtain those augmentation upgrades? The tutorial said you need to spend your XP for it, but somehow, that's not the case.
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After a certain number of XP you acquire, you will get a notification that you have a choice of augmentations.
 
whatsinaname said:
After a certain number of XP you acquire, you will get a notification that you have a choice of augmentations.
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Ah thanks! Was wondering when you'd show up. ;)

Any pointers on which augmentation to choose first?
 
Ethan_Hunt said:
Ah thanks! Was wondering when you'd show up. ;)

Any pointers on which augmentation to choose first?
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Depends on how you plan to play the game.

Stealth - Hacking is very important. That would be the first aug I would pick. Social augmentations are also very interesting. It gives the speech trees more options and an indication of how the person you are speaking to is reacting to your choices.. There was one point where I had the speech augmentation and I could just talk my way through a heavily guarded area. No sneaking or no shooting anyone. The awareness (map augmentations? I don't remember what they were called.) augmentations also help. Those were the three I went with in the first part of the leaked build.

Strength / Shooting - There are augmentations here that will help with alternate paths if you want to play in a more straightforward way. For every hackable door, your strength augmentations will help in other places. You can move large dumpsters to help jump over fences. If you get the leg/jump augmentations, I think there is a point where you can jump from one roof-top to another, (neo style!) which your normal jump wouldn't allow. That would have opened up another path.

Basically, depends on your play-style.

(Of course, if the full game upholds the promise of the demo, multiple playthroughs in multiple play-styles will be necessary.)
 
The future begins with you: Ars reviews Deus Ex: Human Revolution

Ars said:
Which version of the game should you buy? After playing an early 360 version and a newer PC version, I don't think there's a bad choice. But if you have a decent gaming rig, the expanded graphics options and better controls offered by the mouse and keyboard make the PC version superior. I have yet to play the game on the PS3.

The Good

- A Deus Ex game, and a very good one at that

- Wonderful use of both first- and third-person views

- E-mails and news reports do a great job of building the world, and are often funny

- Many side-quests, and choices that matter as the game progresses

- Varied weapons

- Augmentation system means everyone can play in their own style

- Multiple ways to complete each mission

- The hacking minigame remains fun through the entirety of the game

- Impossible to see everything the first time you play

- A lengthy single-player experience: I put in around 25 hours and can't wait to play again

- Standard branching conversations are enhanced with higher-stakes conversations that change how the story plays out

- Adam Jensen is a mirror for the other characters in the game: some see a monster, others see the future

The Bad

- The transitions between the game and its cutscenes can be jarring

- Lack of support for NVIDIA's 3D Vision technology (3D fans can only use AMD's HD3D)

- The voice acting can be spotty in places

- The conspiracy can get a little thick at times, and a lot is thrown at you near the end of the game

- I experienced a few crashes while playing on the PC, causing me to save more often than I would have otherwise

The Ugly



- The game has a quick-save ability, and I admit to using it every now and again, but abusing saves to see the "right" way through conversations will harm your enjoyment of the game. The "Ugly" tag is for people too cowardly to live by their own in-game decisions. And I mean that in a nice way.

- An early mission in a police station can be exceedingly tedious if you tackle it at the wrong time, which is a design flaw in a game of this type
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Deus Ex: Human Revolution Review | bit-gamer.net

Bit-Tech said:
As with the original Deus Ex, the more you peer and focus at any individual element of Human Revolution, the more you'll notice the cracks. The combat isn't the best you'll ever play, the dialogue not the punchiest, the stealth not the sneakiest.

But that's missing the point. Human Revolution is a game to take as an entire experience, where you can shift at will from having exciting gunfights to crawling around in vents, and where every victory is all the sweeter for knowing you chose to do it that way. It's a game which can persuade you to spend an hour painstakingly invading enemy territory undetected, not because you have to or because you're expecting any great reward, but because you feel Adam Jensen should be good enough to do it. It's a game where the 10mm pistol you pick up at the very start can still be your weapon of choice when the end credits roll, but where choice itself is your most powerful one throughout.
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Pure win! :D
 
Dug deeper into the game yesterday. I'm now completing only side missions. This game is really detailed and the storyline is really complex. Having minor troubles with advanced hacking, but I think a few augmentations would help me out. Why do I get the feeling that this is going to be as long as Mass Effect 2? :D
 
whatsinaname said:
Stealth - Hacking is very important. That would be the first aug I would pick. Social augmentations are also very interesting. It gives the speech trees more options and an indication of how the person you are speaking to is reacting to your choices.

Strength / Shooting - There are augmentations here that will help with alternate paths if you want to play in a more straightforward way. For every hackable door, your strength augmentations will help in other places. You can move large dumpsters to help jump over fences. If you get the leg/jump augmentations, I think there is a point where you can jump from one roof-top to another, (neo style!) which your normal jump wouldn't allow. That would have opened up another path.
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Got the social augmentation and the 'Smart Vision' eye augmentation. Have to gain more Praxis Points to build up my hacking augs. BTW does Jenny Alexander ring any bell from the previous game(s)?
 
I am so glad that the reviews are saying that this is one game that, really turned out as gamers expected and even more, in a positive manner..The same cant be said of many recent games. Now, I just need finish the first one which I stopped midway recently due to time constraints..
 
I usually prefer Game Trailers video review, as it covers all the aspects and the reviewer's narration style is perfect. However, it tends to be spoilerific on some occasions.
 
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