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I’ll look into mods, thank you for the recommendation :)

I do love having GOG versions available.

I remember playing the original Deus Ex and I think my mum forced me to stop playing because it was too violent or some such nonsense (this being the same mother that had me playing Oddworld while I sat on her lap at the ripe old age of like 5. A game that routinely features people and monsters being blown/crushed/ground/shot/shredded/chewed to giblets). I may have to look this up again.

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2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The main patch you’ll want is TFix/T2Fix, posted on TTLG Forums. I think it comes prepatched from GOG, on Steam you’ll have to patch it yourself.

@comicallycluttered@beehaw.org what do you mean by very clunky? I don’t think they are at all. Except maybe the default control scheme which is pretty bad today, but you can rebind everything (or use my bind file, works for both games)

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- apotheotic@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Thanks for the advice :3
  
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- comicallycluttered@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Maybe “very” was too strong a word, but I mainly meant the melee combat.
  
  Although to be honest, other than the blackjack, people shouldn’t really be using melee much, so it’s not that much of a problem.
  
  It’s mostly when the zombie dudes come into play that the sword combat can feel dated if you take them on directly.
  
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comicallycluttered@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
No prob. The first game actually has some fantastic mods and also a ton of incredibly well-crafted fan-made levels.

You might want a few tiny mods for Deus Ex as well, though it doesn’t really require much.

Kind of funny that it was “too violent” because you can go through most of the game without even killing anyone. It’s my preferred playstyle, just sleep darts and stealth stuff.

Actually, you’ll have a bit of a rough time if you go in guns ablaze. A lot of people used to shooters end up being obliterated on the first level when they initially play it, which is what happened to me when I first played it on release. Came back to it years later after I’d discovered Thief and suddenly felt right at home.

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- apotheotic@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Awesome to hear
  
  And yeah, like I was quite young so the idea of having weapons and not using them probably went a bit over my head at the time so it ended up being violent. I was also coming off of the back of games like Duke Nukem 3d and DOOM (which I somehow was not discouraged from playing - go figure)
  
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