What's objectively the best build you can do to finish the game with stealth?

What's objectively the best build you can do to finish the game with stealth?

>inb4 swimming xDDD

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full melee
about 1-2 hacking/lockpick/multitool upgrades
rest can go into rifles or pistols

Master unarmed, advanced pistols, quiet step aug, invisibility aug, power saving aug

Most important. Probably would swap advanced pistol for advanced rifle if you're doing a lethal run. Sniper rifle is amazing

>play dx demo as a kid
>i used to think that i was super clever when i found out that you can get sawed off shotgun and assault rifle in the first level of the game

anything because your stealth capabilities are the same regardless of skills

Pistols, hacking and electronics.
Heavy lifting, Speed/jump (superior to quiet steps because it lets you move quietly anyway AND take shortcuts) and Radar Transparency augs.

You could swap Radar Transparency for Cloak if you took a side of Rifles to snipe out cameras.
Buffing Melee is pointless, it's almost entirely dependant on your weapon. Always carry Dragon's Tooth for easy "lockpicking".

high melee makes knockouts with the baton and prod more guaranteed
or good in a situation where you can't smack someone's back

Stealth? Nearly anything. You can use stealth pistols for distractions, look up CatSkinCap's videos, he doesn't seem to like using augmentations at all.

speed aug + flamethrower

I honestly can't support that statement. Even with maxed out melee AND the bonus melee damage aug, the baton and many other melee weapons are unreliable trash. Meanwhile the prod is OP because it stuns the enemy regardless of melee level, letting you get as many free hits in as you need.

believe it or not swimming does provide you with a lot of stealth opportunities, i'd max that first

Vanilla there's literally no reason. Almost every time swimming would be useful, there are non-swimming options that are generally more rewarding.

Even when swimming is the only option, like the extra shit you have to swim outside the subbay for at the start of ocean lab, regen is so OP in vanilla you can swim for as long as you have batteries and not die, and every level that has a swimming option, also has at least one rebreather hanging around to help with it.

Swimming in vanilla is a literally pointless skill.

in all fairness you do also need high melee to destroy a lot of shit with the dragon tooth.

Cameras and stronger doors, for instance.

I'm playing the game for the first time, bought it for steam, should I download anything else, tips and the like?

kentie's launcher (deus.exe)

The map updates that weren't included in the GOTY edition.

play it vanilla
explore shit, there is a lot of side content and stuff like ammo/augs that you can miss
try to conserve your multitools/lockpicks
abuse prod to stun people and then finish them off with other melee weapon
be sure to skill hacking at least once
ignore swimming/that shit which boosts your armors/throwing/heavy weapons skills
pistol/rifle skills are best for combat

vanilla deus ex goty is literally the out of date version


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oh and most important
play realistic difficulty and change shitty default keybindings

low-tech, hacking, lockpicking and computers
Don't bother using ranged weapons, with low-tech at Master and Combat Strenght you can oneshot everything with a baton

And for augs pick
Combat Strength
Ballistic Protection
Radar Transparency and CLoak are up to you
Power Recirculator
Targeting and Vision Enhancement are up to you
Aggressive Defense System and Spy Drone are up to you
Regeneration is OP
Speed Enhancement, you can run very fast while crouched and not make a sound

Do you know if GOG version is out of date as well?
Anyway thanks.

If it's the goty (1.112fm) version. probably.

Load up the hell's kitchen third visit. If there's no music playing the you're out of date

A GEP gun is the most silent way to eliminate Manderley.

Shit I didn't know you can move that fast while crouching. I always thought you had to be standing

Speed enhancement is the way to go then

Nothing major. GOTY version is fine with just kentie's deus exe.

Dude fuck speed enhancement, get the one that lets you jump above buildings.

Speed enhancement lets you move faster and jump higher

>ADS at max level make every enemy projectiles explode as soon as it comes out of their weapon
I love this game

but kentie's requires the updated maps

Spy Drone is pretty awesome also, you can navigate it to video feeds and turrents and shockwave EMP them down without leaving your cover.
It's basically free EMP grenades that don't need to thrown well.

All kentie's needs is the1.112fm patch (GOTY version).
I'm using it without the map fix.

Past level 3 it's a One Shot to almost every robots in the game but I always wondered, where does he stores those spy drones?

16 years and this game is still one of the best.

How did a bunch of Texans make such a good game?

Passion and creative freedom. It was easier back in those days.

>Swimming in vanilla is a literally pointless skill.

It's tactical as fuck bro, think you better quit talking shit.

>creative freedom. It was easier back in those days.
Passion i agree but this is just bullshit.
Video game is now more about making money than quality games, its easier to make casual shit but that doesn't mean we cant have occasional ambitious game. Or do you mean that some SJW will ruin game sales with their tears (which is unlikely)?

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Not him, but a lot of people these days seem to miss the point of a series when trying to "modernize" it. Look at what happened to the most recent Thief game.

That said, there's still gems like you said. Dishonored was a pleasant surprise.

Get the Icarus Landing and the 3x jump, CASIE is also kind of useful but you can get through most of the game without needing it

Maxing out swimming is a pure waste of points, but putting just one measly upgrade into it means the difference between normal FPS swimming and swimming in tar.

Even the few points for that are better used on almost any other skill though, with how infrequently it matters.

The only time even one level should be taken is if you're doing something like getting infinite points from opening/closing the armory door at naval base on those copies, and it doesn't matter how many points you throw away.

>Even the few points for that are better used on almost any other skill though, with how infrequently it matters.
You can very easily beat the game without having any skills higher than trained.
You are hard pressed to finish the game without a massive amount of skill points left over.