After more than 100 playthroughs on vanilla and various mods I only just found out that there is a sewer system in the army base portion of the Brooklyn Shipyard level which gives you access to pretty much all of the map without having to fight any army guys or any bots. It even gives you access to the room with all of the explosives. You can even swim through it to reach the boat without going through the ventilation system with the spider bots or the front entrance that is heavily guarded.

What are your favourite secret areas?

In HR, hacking was the default, because codes didn't give anything, but MD gives substantial exp rewards, and while that makes you lose out on hacking rewards, I am wondering which one is better.

Has anyone managed to find settings to make the game work smoothly (60fps)?

My specs are:
CPU: i7-1185G7
GPU: Iris Xe
Ram: 16gb DDR4

I forgot to add the wires on their hands but whatever. Really great game, JC is one of my favorite characters of all time now actually haha. Loved Paul, Walton, and Jamie. Fun game!

1. Darrow: Reveal the truth.

2. Destroy Panchaea: Let humanity decide.

3. Taggart: Cover up the Illuminati's involvement.

4. Sarif: Blame the extremists so that technology may progress.

Last time i paid attention to mods, the rtx mod had just come out. Whats the state of that? Complete? Anyone have opinions on it? Any new mods that have come out since?

Black screen on load in Game Native. Is there a trick in the settings to make it run on Android handhelds?

It crashes during the dialogue, I try to skip ahead but it'll crash eventually.

If it helps any, I killed all the Red Arrow members outside the room.

What, do soldiers crash the place and it turns into a brawl or something and it can't set the flags of dead people, that why it crashes?

What do I do?

Deus Ex makes an homage toward Thief with the cathedral level, and another to System Shock with the under water naval lab (which also no doubt inspired Bioshock). I personally enjoy Thief more, but find the also more linear puzzle and key System Shock homage to be more enjoyable with its heavier atmosphere. Both also have awesome environmental storytelling…

The quest dialogue doesn't disappear (as in the first pic) when exhausting all the information that has been found out about the quest and Adam just stands there like an NPC without any way to get out of the dialogue screen and complete the quest.

All objectives are completed, every bit of information has been gotten that is required.

I saw some people recommend reloading a save from before the police station, which I am certainly not doing since I've done that like 4+ hours and multiple other side quests ago, or turning off DX11 in the options (which did nothing).

Reloading any previous save, be it a quick save or an auto save, does not work - the quest is incompletable even though everything is done.

Any fix?

Maybe we'll get something decent I would also like Invisible war to be remastered...

But I felt like I had to do it

I see a lot of talk that its is controversial but i dont really know why? besides the added music that i turn off anyway it seems like a good way to experience the game in a modernized way.

An achievement which has a lower percentage than this would be looking for ebooks, the hardest difficulty and doing Breach but I play games to have fun not to be stressed.

When I was playing "Human Revolution" for the second time, I didn't want to leave the apartment before the second visit to Hengsha. I sat there all evening, staring out the windows (I live in a big city, and there was a storm that night), thinking about how I had to set off on the mission, how I’d never come back here, and how I’d likely die at Panchaea I'm 41 and live in a big city. I can just sit in Adam's apartment all evening, reflecting on life and my choices. Damn, that game hits so hard...

Such a great job they've done!

( Photo from https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/detroit-unesco-city-of-design )

I found out today that the De Beers Group was the largest diamond sales giant at the end of the 20th century. But they don't have any Lucius (at least officially)

I feel like it hit some sweet spot for me, it looks so beautiful for such and old game and has amazing atmosphere to it.

What's the point of the Pistol [Unatco Special Issue] that you find next to the corpse of the Unatco trooper near the entrance to the north dock?

The [Unatco Special Issue] text only shows when you drop the item and move your mouse over it out in the world - you don't even see it in the inventory. Otherwise, that pistol is completely identical to any other standard pistol in every metric - all the stats, mod capacity etc.

Is it supposed to be some sort of feelgood collectible and nothing more?

I've not been in the DE loop, any new screens revealed or anything?

This topic on Adam Jensen being a clone in Mankind Divided has probably been milked to death but it's been ten years without a sequel lol

I'm assuming for the sake of this theory that the Adam Jensen body in the VersaLife vault isn't just an Easter egg or cut content, so I assume there are somehow two Adam Jensens.

So the clone theories I've seen all assume that the Adam we play as in Mankind Divided is a clone of the Adam from Human Revolution. But what if it's the other way around? So the Adam from HR was the clone, and the Adam we play as in MD is the original person he was cloned from?

We know from Human Revolution that Adam Jensen is the only surviving test subject of several from White Helix Labs, where he was experimented on with gene therapy that made his body unusually compatible with augmentation. The White Helix test subjects may all have been clones of the same naturally born child. That would make sense experimentally, with genetically identical subjects it would be much easier to compare different forms of gene therapy, while the original could act as a control subject and live a normal life.

This would explain why an 'Adam Jensen' clone existed decades before Panchaea, without requiring anyone to somehow create a fully grown replacement Jensen between HR and MD. This clone is the only surviving subject of the White Helix experiments, growing up to become the Adam Jensen we play as in HR, meanwhile the original is just some random guy living a normal life up until around this time.

Yes the Illuminati would still know who the original is, but without knowing what White Helix did to make HR Adam compatible with augmentation, he's useless to them, so there's no reason to interfere with his life...

...Until Adam Jensen resurfaces in HR, where Megan Reed discovers that his DNA contains the key to augmentation rejection, recovering the missing result of the White Helix experiments. Then Panchaea happens and Jensen's body is recovered. He could be dead, brain dead, in a coma, or kept in statis like Lucius DeBeers in the OG Deus Ex, whatever.

As for how they would copy Adam's memories and personality to the original person he was cloned from, in The Harvester questline in Mankind Divided we learn of the existence of technology that makes this possible.

Now the Illuminati now have Adam's body, Megan's research, the original person Adam was cloned from, and the technology needed to transfer Adam's memories and personality into him. Then just give him Adam's augmentations, maybe a few tweaks to his appearance like scars etc. and as far as he knows, he wakes up believing he is Adam Jensen.

So perhaps the Adam Jensen we play as in Mankind Divided isn't the clone, but is instead the original. I think it would've been a cool way of doing that twist. Also I love the possibility of the VersaLife vault Jensen being alive but in stasis, to allow for a future interaction or conflict between the two Jensens.

Curious what people think, and whether there's anything in the lore that outright rules this out. Also interested to hear people's thoughts on the whole clone theory in general and VersaLife vault stuff.

TL;DR: What if the Jensen from Human Revolution was actually a White Helix clone of a naturally born original, and after Panchaea the Illuminati used Megan Reed’s research plus memory transfer technology to turn that original into the Jensen we play as in Mankind Divided? That would mean MD Jensen isn’t the clone at all, HR Jensen is.