About to play Deus Ex for the first time..

Nico87 on 15/9/2007 at 18:26

Are there any patches needing to be installed? Any popular fixes and unofficial patches and the likes? Post 'em here! I downloaded the "Deus Ex single-player 1.014 patch". Is this the latest patch?

catbarf on 15/9/2007 at 20:35

Er... I think so. I can't think of any really necessary mods or fan-made patches. Just go with the game, and be sure to tell us how it goes :thumb:

Jeshibu on 16/9/2007 at 00:02

Well, there's HDTP which upgrades textures and some models, but I feel like I know the Gunter and Anna models too well to see them change like that. I'd say play it without mods the first time around at least.

Nico87 on 16/9/2007 at 02:49

Alrite, thanks for the answers! :cool:

hayaku on 16/9/2007 at 03:00

Shifter! I would not play this game without Shifter!!

A few people do not like some of the things shifter does to the game, but me personally, I think just about most of it is solid gold.

Basically the game fixes a lot of bugs and oddities that were most probably overlooked in the initial development but were since noticed by the countless hoards of fans like us who have played the game through 20ish times. The other thing the game tries to do is re balance the game a little to make some of the more useless items actually a little more usefull. This generally dosen't make the game a whole lot easier, just funner and more interesting.

But yeah, if you are possibly planning to play the game through more than once I would at least try it without shifter, at least so you can know what you are missing when you play it later. But up to you.

Nico87 on 16/9/2007 at 19:15

Thanks, hayaku! Now, what on earth is shifter? :p

*edit*

Just read something about this Shifter thing now, and it says that it adds lots of new weapons and fixes alot of stuff. Don't know if I should just play it through just with the latest official patch or installed Shifter aswell!

Butters8435 on 16/9/2007 at 21:27

Play through the first time As-is.If you like it...and most likely you will,you will be playing it through several more times.You can test out the fan made modifications then.:cool:
Hope you enjoy it.I am thinking about playing though again myself.

Papy on 17/9/2007 at 02:38

Quote Posted by hayaku

Shifter! [...]This generally dosen't make the game a whole lot easier, just funner and more interesting.

I never played with Shifter, but I read the README and it looked to me the mod is mostly about making the game easier (which would really mean "boring" for me). Just out of curiousity, are enemies more powerful to compensate for the more powerful weapons and items ?

DX-455 on 19/9/2007 at 15:28

I don't think so. I haven't used it yet either. Not my style. I don't really think all those changes were for the better. I like DX the way it is, flaws and all.

negativeliberty on 19/9/2007 at 16:35

Wow hey slow down! Don't play Shifter until you've played vanilla DX (preferably multiple times). It might be a good mod, but it doesn't 'fix' a whole lot, it just modified and adds stuff (not stuff overseen by the developers, hayaku), and you could only appreciate the added value once you've played the original Deus Ex.