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Deus Ex is buggy as Hell?

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KvP:
Did you keep the Dragon's Tooth? That thing is nigh-unstoppable.

Aside from the sniper rifle, I didn't think the rifle weapons are useful at all. Shotguns aren't as powerful as they should be, and assault rifles are weak and require at least 2 or 3 recoil mods to function properly. It's perfectly adequate to go with a heavily modded pistol throughout the bulk of the game. The sequel was actually a lot worse in this respect, due to the universal ammo system.

KharBevNor:
I disagree. Both the assault rifle and combat shotgun are very handy for the aggressive player, especially with the alternative ammunition. By the end of Hong Kong I normally have a load-out of weapons something like this:

Prod. Baton. Dart Crossbow (Scope). Assault Rifle (Silenced). Sniper Rifle (Silenced). Dragons Tooth. Stealth Pistol.

Also a rotating back-up arsenal of ps20's, LAMs, gas and EMP grenades, and pepper spray. I really find the pepper spray useful earlier in the game. You'd think sometimes, with the scarcity of prod and crossbow ammo, that the game almost wants you to kill...but when going for a pacifist run (probably the 'purest' way of playing Deus Ex) pepper spray and the baton work wonders. One thing I only discovered after a few plays is that if you have the strength augs activated the baton can take down even quite significant foes with only one hit. That said, what I normally do is show mercy to NSF and Unatco personnel, and blast the everliving shit out of anything with an MJ12 logo or sunglasses. This is mainly because I have never managed to get past the prison level without killing anyone on any difficulty except easy, and even on easy I have only ever made it to the second Versalife level (though I did of course kill Anna Nevarre. There is actually a way of cheating your way round killing her by LAM climbing over the balcony in the Unatco HQ, thus avoiding trigger areas, and making her panic and run away through the door by throwing a LAM at her. The door is then open without killing her. Seriously though, way too much effort.) I wouldn't put this down to a lack of skill on my part so much as the fact that I find sneak-em-up play immensely tedious. Plus, of course, if you take the pacifist route, you don't get to use the dragons tooth, which is nigh unthinkable.

Narr:
Oh man, you guys don't abuse Boom, do you?

Deus Ex isn't a particularly difficult game, once you realize there are LOTS of explosive boxes and barrels strewn about the game for no particular reason other than for you to use to blow up doors or better yet, people.  Seriously, go read that it-he article I linked to earlier.  I'm doing that style playthrough right now and it's a riot.

I also don't have any problem with any of the weapons.  After you get around 90% accuracy with any weapon whether it be from skill in the gun type to mods you've put on it, headshots work.  End of story.  A regular 10mm pistol with an attachable scope and silencer is PROBABLY the best weapon possible, in my opinion, due to the copious amounts of ammunition you get for it and it's ability to let you kill unseen, unheard, and quickly.  I will agree that shotguns in general are kind of half-assed, but that never really bothered me.

As for Deus Ex 2, I don't think the game is BAD, per se, it's just not a sequel to Deus Ex in anything other than plot.  If you look at it from the perspective of it just being a first person shooter, I actually enjoy it.  The guy that runs Playithardcore.com made a series of videos where he killed literally everyone in the entire game you can get away with killing, it starts with this one right here and you can find the rest of them if you click the user and go towards the earlier videos posted (there are 8 in total).  There are some hilarious moments when he abuses poison barrels and explosive boxes later on.  I personally couldn't stop laughing when he killed the gay guys inside the bar by taking a shotgun to their face.

Jackie Blue:
Oh no, I've been abusing the Hell out of the rocket launcher.  Probably 75% of all my kills have been with a silenced sniper rifle or rocket launcher.  And now that I have the Dragon Tooth, well, things have become noticably less difficult.  The only annoying things are exploding MIB's and guys with plasma rifles.

I was sorely disappointed when I hired the prostitute in Lucky Money and didn't get to see JC bust a move on the dancefloor with her.  Instead she just followed me around EVERYWHERE and kept saying "Time's up!" and "No customer two times!"

I eventually shot her in the face.

Inlander:
You can also use your mods as an offensive weapon, making some fights significantly easier. In particular I'm thinking of the early warning system thingummy: max it out, turn it on, then go and stand in front of the super-augmented rocket-and-machine-gun guys. You know, the ones that look like they've got big fluffy wings instead of arms. If they're far enough away from you they'll start firing rockets at you, but your early warning system thingummy will detonate the rockets almost the instant they're fired. So you can kill all of those guys with their own rockets, which is good because they can take a fuckload of damage if you're trying to shoot them to death (as I recall).

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