Weapons in Deus Ex: Human Revolution

10mm Pistol
It’s your basic sidearm — weak, but reliable. You can silence it and you can extend the magazine from 10 rounds to 22 rounds (although the mag never gets longer than the grip) and you can stick a laser sight on it. It’s a good stealth weapon until the late game when headshots are no longer guaranteed kills. It’s a little too weak to be used in a boss fight on anything except Tell Me a Story.

.357 Revolver
This is the real work-horse. You can get it up to seven rounds from five, and make it mystically shoot explosives. It also does some serious damage. If you’re playing Pacifist, this is your boss weapons of choice — it only takes up six inventory spaces and it’s the strongest gun that you can use without zooming basically.
Fully upgraded, it takes out a turrent in less than a clip.

Changes from the beta to release

First off, performance is better all around. Marked improvement for hacking which for me became unresponsive before — horrible in a time event.

I’m up to the second boss fight and I haven’t seen a single Automatic Unlocking Device.  There were four in Detroit alone in the beta.  Hitting the interact key ‘e’ no longer is a shortcut to hack a device.

There’s a few tweaks to the placement of enemies and they might be a touch sharper than they were in the beta.

Basically, it got a coat of polish and some optimization.

So excited for tomorrow

So, the blog has been pretty much abandoned, but with DXHR coming out tomorrow, I’ve been getting a resurgence of traffic.  I’m so excited about the game unlocking I tried to cobble together some amalgam of legitimate game and leaked beta to get to it a day and a half early.  It didn’t work.  If it did, I think that there’d be even odds I would have played it all night until my eyes bled and then passed out or that I would have posted instructions here.

This is the only thing I’ve seen in my life that makes me wish my country were smaller.  The game doesn’t unlock at midnight local time, it unlocks at midnight Pacific time, which comes out to 3 AM for me.  This crosses some imaginary line between stay-up-and-wait and maybe-wake-up-early-but-probably-just-get-up-at-6-as-usual.  I suppose if the game unlocked by local timez0nes, then Steam would need to be checking your region or everyone would temporarily set their clocks to EDT to get the game early/on time.

I’m already planning out three runs through the game.  There’s achievements for beating it without killing anyone (bosses don’t count), not raising any alarms and beating it on Deus Ex.  My first playthrough, I’m planning to go on normal difficulty and pacifist.  Second, on Deus Ex and just do whatever looks good, that will most likely include that wonderful .357 hand cannon I espoused in my lethal LP of the beta.   And, finally, I’ll take it back to easy and be super-sneaky to get the no alarm run — I’ll probably also save-scum like a mother.

Final note: I do get hits from people looking for info on the game, so I will look for changes from the beta to anything that I covered game-wise and annote accordingly.  Tomorrow is going to be awesome.

-psivamp