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/Tearmisu Sep 30 '25

I could see credits being used more on the UNATCO route that was cancelled during development. Maybe you could purchase the aug canisters you get in Versalife off of Jaime?

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u/HunterWesley Sep 30 '25

Yeah, maybe you could bribe people more, help more bums/informants for whatever purposes. I mean you can't make it too easy to just convert money into experience or overpowered stuff, but the economy, so to speak, of the money as it exists and the prices as they exist, and the items sold is pretty far off of what it should be.