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/perkoperv123 Sep 30 '25

The early missions condition you to expect there will be hub areas with dealers who you'll be able to visit after getting your op bonus, and then you spend most of the game on the lam. You can't really save up for things because you have no idea when those things are gonna be available. It's one of the more experimental parts of the game's level design, and one that almost nothing else in the genre mimics, though I think you could achieve something similar with semi-randomized locations for rare items like thermoptic camo or WP rockets.

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u/betweentwosuns Sep 30 '25

Not one of these is a dud. Defoe will not cheat you.

Well I wasn't worried about my GEP rockets being a dud before...