Ain't nobody talking about Deus Ex, and knowing that the series is more or less on hold for the time being makes this last visit with Adam Jensen to be bittersweet. While I do believe that all of the recent Deus Ex games have been hampered with weak endings - this one at least seems to embrace it- there's a weird meta ending conversation with Delara and Jensen before the credits, and you know they've been hinting at a deeper plot (that is left dangling at the end of the main campaign) so it's interesting to see the threads of distrust and deception played out between the two.Īs I said before: I had uninstalled this game a couple of months ago, and the timing of this DLC was poor. There are intersecting points with Jensen's plot but the conclusion doesn't give you adequate player agency to make any real impact - sort of a "what was the point" kind of an ending. Things are going on and you are sneaking around guards and inmates because your mission doesn't concern them. There are a lot of plot threads but they come together a bit too neatly at the end in a way, your plot is taking place in the background of a larger story.
Going in guns blazing is an option here, but it's often the most frustrating one (as was my opinion of the main game). There is even Typhoon ammo if you choose to go that route, although I only found about four or five of them. The combat is exactly as it was in the main game, and yes, the stun gun is still OP as all hell. There's a twist at the end, and there aren't any boss fights even though the gameplay hints at it. I'm not sure I will go back to play the DLC with powers. In size it's about the same as the main game's (larger) Prague area (without the train) but the annoying part was that the in-game map would only show the building or immediate area you were in.Įarly on, you are given a few chances to regain your powers (but there's a twist of course) and I personally chose not to I ended up completing the game without any augments, and it was tense and enjoyable this way. I got lost a few times - the entire prison is the active mission area, and there are no loading screens. It took me under ten hours and I'm sure it could have been done faster. Predictably, not everything is what it seems, and the simple mission becomes a much more complicated affair. There are the recognizable prison tropes, a guy that can get "anything you need" as well as the threat of solitary confinement, an underground economy, corrupt guards, etc. Once again, Adam Jensen starts off with all powers taken away, in a setting that is hostile and adversarial from the start. Chronologically speaking, it's sometime after Deus Ex: Human Revolution, but before Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, but after Jensen joins TF29 (which is briefly explained in Mankind Divided's plot). The story is a flashback Adam is retelling to Delara Auzenne (the TF29 psychiatrist) that takes place after the completion of the main Deus Ex: Mankind Divided story. Out of the three, this was the most memorable and worthwhile DLCs I have some serious issues with this one though, so don't get me wrong. Just diving in and figured I'd give my first impressions.Īlright so I've finished the latest DLC, A Criminal Past. Any recommendations/links? Also haven't had time to read through this whole thread yet. Weird and disappointing performance so far.Įdit - probably wouldn't hurt to look up some settings guides for this one too. What gives? Hopefully they get it patched up and fix the mouse handling some time before I'm ready to try it again. I have a really hard time believing DE:MD is that much more of a resource hog than any other game I've played. Normally when I crank the settings up enough to get the frame-rate uncomfortably low, it's generally still smooth and playable. I've played a lot of graphically intense games on this rig: Witcher3, GTA5, Rise of Tomb Raider, DOOM, AC:Syndicate, etc, etc. Think I was actually getting a touch of motion-sickness by the time I quit - I play tons of FPS games, so that's really not normal for me. I dialed down the mouse sensitivity 'till it started feeling really sluggish, but never did get it to feel playable. Mouse felt like it had a huge delay in the movement, and when it did move it jerked all over the place way too fast. In game the FOV actually felt too wide - first time that's ever happened to me. When I first started it up, I cranked up the graphics settings to high (don't remember the specifics, but I didn't max it) turned up the FOV slightly (think I had it at 88 or 90), and checked key bindings.
Is a GTX 970 not enough to run this game at reasonably high settings? (rig in sig) At this point I'm thinking of waiting 'till my next GPU upgrade and trying this one again. I was instantly turned off by the horrible mouse handling and poor graphics performance. I picked up DE:MD last xmas, finally got around to trying it out last week.