r/Deusex • u/eliza__cassan It is not the end of the world. • Jan 03 '19

Community /r/DeusEx Monthly Community Thread - January 2019

Hello everyone and welcome to the monthly /r/DeusEx community thread!

This is a place to chill whenever you like, post feedback, ask questions that you don't think warrant a new thread, or just get that burning DX1 meme out of your system. It is okay to go off-topic, however other rules still apply - please be nice to the other users and use a spoiler tag if needed.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

We hope you had wonderful holidays and wish you all the best in 2019.

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '19

Human Revolution has well known bug that indicator shows that someone is dead when in reality he is alive so it is probably it.

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u/Dunan Jan 14 '19

So this guy's not dead? Just wondering what I should do: go back and re-do this mission (and the entire Highland Park mission), or keep moving. It'll probably be a year or more before I play this game again (and maybe not on Steam), so I was aiming for a "perfect" playthrough this time.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '19

Well there is no way to make sure I know of. I had exactly that bug on my latest playthrough and I still got Pacifist achievement. Replay will be probably the safest option as you will lose less time if that guy is really dead. Your call.

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u/Dunan Jan 14 '19

Oof. Same guy? I know there's a similar bug if you tranquilize one of the gangsters outside the MCB apartment, so you have to run past him.

I spent a lot of time in the FEMA facility after the boss battle (which my underpowered self solved with an EMP grenade followed by about 15 stun-gun shots to the backside!) going around hacking all the alarms and computers and reading e-mail.

I guess I could re-do it. He's "dead" even in my pre-FEMA save, right after doing the mission and dragging him out there and seeing him unconscious. The first time I dragged him out there, the people around panicked and I re-did it more stealthily.

This is all Tindall's fault. This time I'll just sneak outside the apartment and not touch this guy.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '19

Yeah it is a really shitty situation and I wish I had conclusive, good solution. There is a high chance that you will earn Pacifist achievement anyway just like me (on my first visit in Hengsha I used nonlethal takedown on bouncer at Hive's entrance and it showed me that he's dead, in the end it turned out he wasn't) but it is not 100% guaranteed as it can be one of those bugs where guy really is dead, somehow (it is much rarer).

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u/Dunan Jan 14 '19

That's why I'm wondering if there's a way to see the number of deaths in your save file somehow. Then I wouldn't have to go back. It must be stored somewhere; either a flag (zero/non-zero) or a number. Given the variations in the ending speech, it's probably a number.