This is a mod for the original Deus Ex that takes everything and shuffles it all around to make it like a new game every time but with the same great story. The goal is to increase the replayability and strategy. You can also use it to properly configure your vanilla Deus Ex with performance fixes like DXVK, Kentie's Launcher, and config tweaks all done automatically for you.
DXRando randomizes
Locations of goals, NPCs, and some starting locations
Medbots and repair bots (with hint datacubes near them)
Adding and moving turrets, cameras, security computers, and datacubes for them
Starting equipment, bioelectric energy, and credits
Enemies:
Moving enemies around
Adding and changing enemies with randomized stats and weapons
Chance to add/remove helmets for many enemies, affecting their damage resistance to their head
New enemies can get randomly generated patrol routes
Giving them random names and making some of them dance
Changing the locations of items/boxes/NanoKeys/datacubes around the map
Passwords and passcodes
Exp costs for skills
Option for rerolling every mission, defaults to reroll every 5 missions
Option for disabling the Downgrade button on the new game screen, to prevent looking ahead
What augmentations are in each canister
The strength and lockpick strength for doors
The hack strength for keypads
The strength of augmentations and skills (make sure to read their descriptions)
The damage and firing speed of weapon types (make sure to read the description for one of each type)
JC's and Paul's clothes
Randomly adds "The Merchant"
Optionally randomize the song selections, with options to use songs from Unreal and Unreal Tournament
Option for mirrored maps, with choice of what percentage of maps should be mirrored
Randomize the types of weapon mods
Randomize the types of attached grenade traps
There are also settings for
Crowd Control! Let your Twitch/YouTube/Discord/other viewers troll you or help you! Crowdcontrol.live
If you want to try some of the Crowd Control features without actually streaming, you can try the "Offline Simulated" mode in the New Game screen!
New Game+ - after beating the game play it again keeping your items, skills, and augs, but with increased difficulty and a new seed
Takes away 1 random augmentation, and 1 of your weapons
Takes away half your skill points and 5 random skill levels, so the player has to choose which ones to level up first
Entrance Randomization - changes what level each teleporter takes you to, but keeps it within the same mission
Horde Mode - fight for your life to see how long you can survive in the Paris Cathedral
Zero Rando - great for first-time Deus Ex players to benefit from the bug fixes, QoL improvements, and balance changes we've made, without any randomization.
Zero Changes mode: This one is for the purists. Use our new installer program and it will do compatibility fixes for the vanilla game (Kentie's Launcher, D3D10, DXVK, Engine.dll fix, and more), then just run DeusEx.exe as normal and the gameplay will be unchanged but with high frame rates and resolutions!
Randomizer Lite - randomizes some things without interfering with the immersion and mood of the game. Great for players who haven't played Deus Ex in a long time, or if you're intimidated by the full Randomizer.
Serious Sam mode - same as the normal game but with 10x as many enemies. The player has increased health and takes reduced damage to compensate.
WaltonWare mode - A quick option to get into the game without the time commitment of the full game! You start in a random mission and win by completing one bingo. As New Game+ keeps making it harder, see how fast you can complete them or how many you can complete!
Speedrun mode - speedrun with fewer resets while still being able to enjoy higher difficulties. And a built in splits viewer!
Stick With the Prod Pure means the only weapon you get is the stun prod (hint: throw a crate straight up into the air to break it)
Stick With the Prod Plus also allows EMP grenades, gas grenades, scramble grenades, pepper gun, and tranq darts
Ninja JC - the only weapons allowed are throwing knives, swords, pepper spray, grenades, knife, and mini-crossbow. You also get a Ninja Augmentation which gives you speed and stealth at the same time.
Don't Give Me the GEP Gun - bans the GEP gun
Freeman Mode - only weapon allowed is the crowbar
Grenades Only
No Pistols - for people who think the pistol is OP
No Swords - for people who think the sword and Dragon's Tooth Sword are OP
No Overpowered Weapons - bans pistols, swords, and the GEP Gun
By the Book - bans lockpicks and multitools
If you opt-in to Online Features (which is disabled by default, check the Rando menu)
In-game Leaderboard to see everyone's high scores in the end credits
Max Rando - randomize the randomizer's settings!
An integrated Bingo board: on the Goals screen there's a Bingo button in the middle bar
Also an external BingoDisplay program you can download from the Github Releases page. Great for streamers who want to show their bingo progress live to viewers.
Co-op when combined with the HX mod (Alpha)
Making all or some of the doors that normally require a key also lockpickable and/or destructible
Making all or some keypads hackable
Reducing the drop rate for ammo, multitools, lockpicks, medkits, and bioelectric cells
Autosave
Smooth continuous music, even through loading screens
Making enemies respawn
Starting the game with the running speed augmentation
Optional hardcore Autosave-Only mode, no save-scumming allowed!
Option to keep the game running while menus are open, making hacking or inventory management more difficult
Assistance options like autofill for passwords and keypad codes
The ability to reveal where Nanokeys/Datacubes/goals are located
Option to start the game at certain points like Hong Kong or Paris
If you don’t know what Deus Ex Randomizer is, then here’s our old trailer which shows a breakdown of how it works.
Part of DXRando is randomizing the location of explicit mission goal locations (characters, computers, etc). Right now we have 63 goals with 261 locations, vs 1 year ago we had 50 goals with 211 locations in v2.2.7.
We also have an integrated bingo board! Right now we’re at 315 Bingo goals, vs 118 bingo goals 1 year ago in v2.2.7.
Here are some of the biggest additions we’ve done in the past year:
New Game Modes:
WaltonWare mode: A quick option to get into the game without the time commitment of the full game! You start in a random mission and win by completing one bingo. As New Game+ keeps making it harder, see how fast you can complete them or how many you can complete! There’s also WaltonWare Entrance Rando mode which rearranges the way maps are linked together. (There’s also a regular Entrance Rando mode, but that falls out of scope for this 1 year recap.)
Zero Rando mode: Great for inexperienced players to play the game mostly vanilla, with no randomization, but with balance tweaks, QoL improvements, and bug fixes.
Zero Changes mode: This one is for the purists. Use our new installer program and it will do compatibility fixes for the vanilla game (Kentie’s Launcher, D3D10, DXVK, Engine.dll fix, and more), then just run DeusEx.exe instead of DXRando.exe and the gameplay will be unchanged but with high frame rates and resolutions!
Rando Lite mode: Randomizes some things without interfering with the immersion and mood of the game. Great for players who haven’t played Deus Ex in a long time, or if you’re intimidated by the full Randomizer.
Serious Sam mode: Same as the normal game but with 10x as many enemies. The player has increased health and takes reduced damage to compensate.
Speedrun mode: Speedrun with fewer resets while still being able to enjoy higher difficulties. And a built in splits viewer!
Mirrored Maps: Play through the game with a random mix of mirrored maps, which will keep you on your toes even more than the randomizer has before!
Many changes for enemies:
Additional enemy types, including rare augmented enemies! Here's a few examples
Randomly generated patrol routes for added enemies.
Randomized enemy helmets, which reduces damage to their head.
Randomized enemy visors, which makes them immune to pepper spray and gas grenades.
Enemy types are now split into factions, so randomly added enemies will better match the theme of the surrounding enemies.
An option for automatic augmentations, so you don’t have to micromanage so hard with your F-keys
AugBots, which allow you to install augmentations when you can’t find a MedBot (especially on higher difficulties where Medbots are rare)
Many more possible locations for items, datacubes, nanokeys, crates, and enemies to appear. Previously these were mostly restricted to the locations where vanilla already had something.
Support for UMX music files from Unreal and Unreal Tournament (if you enable Randomized Music in the Rando Settings menu)
We've finally put Deus Ex Randomizer on ModDB, starting with v2.5.5. This is a mod for the original Deus Ex that takes everything and shuffles it all...
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Very interesting features!