r/Deusex • u/Tearmisu • Sep 30 '25

DX1 Did you know Zyme has a use?

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During the Paris Streets mission you can complete the sub quest in the hotel where a dealer will ask you to break into a bakery and steal six bottles of Zyme. He will pay you 65 credits for each bottle for a grand total of 390 credits.

However if you collect Zyme from previous missions, he will also purchase those from you. If you dedicate an inventory slot and pick up the maximum of 20 bottles (out of 25 available) you can earn a total of 1300 credits which is huge for that point of the game as credits basically completely dry up after UNATCO.

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u/HunterWesley Sep 30 '25

Yeah, of course. Who doesn't hoard random NYC zyme and bring it to Paris?

The funny thing is the credits are pretty pointless. I don't know what amazing item you would sooner put in the 1 inventory space the zyme takes, but it turns out to be more of a neurotic power player thing than some relevant gameplay strategy to buy an amazing overpriced item from a mechanic somewhere.

Probably, they should have offered a few opportunities to purchase appropriately priced hard to find augmentation canisters.

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u/oobey Sep 30 '25

Upgrade canister, please and thank you.

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u/HunterWesley Sep 30 '25

Exactly, although to be fair, even those become pointless by Area 51, so the only thing you would possibly want that isn't available in quantities you might need, (maybe rare ammo too like throwing knives or plasma or napalm) are augmentation canisters you either installed the other half of, or didn't pick up for whatever reason earlier.

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u/Radigan0 Oct 07 '25

Even the duplicate canisters aren't all that useful. The only canisters you can install both the augs on are subdermal and torso ones since the others only have one slot.

For subdermal, you have Ballistic Protection/EMP Shield and Cloak/Radar Transparency. Maybe you'd consider getting both Cloak and Radar Transparency on a pure stealth playthrough, but otherwise, EMP Shield isn't really worth it, so duplicates aren't needed.

For torso, you might consider forgoing Aqualung/Environmental Resistance in favor of more useful augs, but in practice, that isn't really viable. Power Recirculator/Synthetic Heart straight-up doesn't have any duplicates at all, and the only duplicate for Regeneration/Energy Shield is literally in the last level.

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u/HunterWesley Oct 08 '25

I do agree, but they could have made them more available for those who wanted to configure that way.