Deus Ex Randomizer

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Randomizer mod for the original Deus Ex, to massively increase replayability!

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https://github.com/Die4Ever/deus-ex-randomizer#readme

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Download from Mods4Ever.com. It is safe to update in the middle of a playthrough.

Use vanilla (optionally with Lay D Denton) to get all of the Randomizer's features, best QoL improvements, and the most polished experience. Our installer has an option to install Lay D Denton for you automatically.

If you're having an issue with the installer program: Manual Installation Instructions for Vanilla, Lay D Denton, GMDX, Revision, HX co-op, and Vanilla? Madder.

Trailers

Seven days until Halloween! Here's the trailer for our new Halloween modes!

Halloween Trailer

Click to show trailers

If you don't know what Deus Ex Randomizer is, then here's our trailer which shows a breakdown of how it works:

v3.0 Trailer

Here's the trailer for WaltonWare mode. WaltonWare mode is focused on quick wins by completing a single bingo line, and increasing difficulty after every win. The bingo goals are all scaled to their minimum settings and you start in a random area. All bingo goals will be completable within just a few maps!

WaltonWare Trailer

See the full README here. Also check out our Discord and Mods4Ever.com

  • We've seen some confusion with Limited Fixed Saves. When you have a Memory Containment Unit in your inventory (or 2 for the new Extreme version) you only need to have the box highlight on the computer and then you can use the normal Save Game menu or Quicksave button. The only freebie autosave you get is at the very start of the game. Make sure to save before going to Battery Park! Sometimes you might want to backtrack to save. Remember that if you die not all is lost, because you now have a better plan!

Major Changes

  • Extreme Limited Fixed Saves mode, uses 2 Memory Containment Units per save instead of 1. Must also be near a computer like in the other Fixed Saves modes. Pairs well with Halloween Mode for a new challenge!
  • Reduced Mr. H's health. You still can't kill him, but if you deal enough damage to him then he will run away.
  • Separate option for enemies weapons variety % (issue #729)
  • Slightly buffed prod range from 80 like a knife, to 88 (half a foot more). For reference, Dragoon's Tooth Sword is 96 range.
  • Fixed installer and BingoViewer crash when searching missing removable drives
  • Installer now detects if the game is running
  • Autofill passwords is now disabled by default in Zero Rando (non-plus)
  • Rando Medium now uses slightly reduced enemy randomization and enemy weapons variety
  • New home for the DXRando Activity bot https://mastodon.social/@DXRandoActivity

Minor Changes

Click to expand Minor Changes

  • Added the missing UNATCO public computer terminal to M04 and redistributed the articles between them
  • Fixed zombies counting as killing innocents for bingo
  • Fixed 06_HONGKONG_WANCHAI_GARAGE AllianceTriggers behind the barricade
  • Fixed zombie time counting during menus
  • Fixed AimeeLeMerchantLived conditions
  • Graveyard zombies now get random names
  • New menu option to disable October Cosmetics, separate from Memes
  • You can now carve jack-o'-lanterns with a knife or sword, as long as you do less than 7 damage
  • Swapped actors also swap bOwned (this may affect NPCs saying things about you grabbing items)
  • D3D 11 hide targeting zoom view because it doesn't work
  • The additional explosive crates on superfreighter no longer appear for Zero Rando mode
  • Fixed a rare bug with carrying crates in shallow water
  • Don't lie about Chad being alive
  • The randomized Metro Nicolette is gone on Chateau and beyond starts
  • Fixed mini-crossbow's unique sound instead of generic silenced weapon sound
  • Consuming zyme now does damage, as intended
  • The augmentation cannister description now mentions AugBots
  • OrdersTrigger now affects clones, and when disabling non-robots it kills them instead of making them t-pose
  • Don't play Walton's infolinks if he's dead
  • Fixed collision for datacubes, and in speedrun mode also for jack-o'-lanterns
  • Removed annoying messages about inventory overlap when glitches are enabled
  • Fixed certain advanced settings not always being properly reset when navigating the new game screens and changing game modes

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Download DXRandoInstaller.exe in the Assets section under the changelog or download from Mods4Ever.com. It is safe to update in the middle of a playthrough.

Use vanilla (optionally with Lay D Denton) to get all of the Randomizer's features, best QoL improvements, and the most polished experience. Our installer has an option to install Lay D Denton for you automatically.

If you're having an issue with the installer program: Manual Installation Instructions for Vanilla, Lay D Denton, GMDX, Revision, HX co-op, and Vanilla? Madder.

Trailers

Happy October! Here's a trailer for our new Halloween modes!

Halloween Trailer

Click to show previous trailers

If you don't know what Deus Ex Randomizer is, then here's our trailer which shows a breakdown of how it works:

v3.0 Trailer

Here's a trailer for WaltonWare mode. WaltonWare mode is focused on quick wins by completing a single bingo line, and increasing difficulty after every win. The bingo goals are all scaled to their minimum settings and you start in a random area. All bingo goals will be completable within just a few maps!

WaltonWare Trailer

See the full README here. Also check out our Discord and Mods4Ever.com

Major Changes

  • When playing with Fixed Saves (such as in Halloween mode) there is now 1 Memory Containment Unit in each map, instead of being just an 80% chance
  • Jail no longer takes away your Memory Containment Units
  • Mr. H can now swim
  • Fixed regen not getting boosted past level 4 when using Synthetic Heart

Minor Changes

Click to expand Minor Changes

  • More random clothes, especially for Lay D Denton
  • Zombies no longer hate critters
  • Mole People NSF clones are friendly on starts between airfield helibase and 747
  • A few mission 14 later start fixes
  • Warehouse Generator fixed center point
  • No more spiderwebs on the silo skybox
  • Meg is named Meg
  • Fixed typo in EMP Shield description
  • Horde Mode now longer showing bingo notifications
  • Raised sewer lasers in mission 4 to match mission 2 and 8
  • Fixed incorrect PIN on a mission 4 datacube

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Download DXRandoInstaller.exe in the Assets section under the changelog or download from Mods4Ever.com. It is safe to update in the middle of a playthrough.

Use vanilla (optionally with Lay D Denton) to get all of the Randomizer's features, best QoL improvements, and the most polished experience. Our installer has an option to install Lay D Denton for you automatically.

If you're having an issue with the installer program: Manual Installation Instructions for Vanilla, Lay D Denton, GMDX, Revision, HX co-op, and Vanilla? Madder.

Trailers

Happy October 1st (depending on your timezone)! Here's a trailer for our new Halloween modes!

Halloween Trailer

Click to show previous trailers

If you don't know what Deus Ex Randomizer is, then here's our trailer which shows a breakdown of how it works:

v3.0 Trailer

Here's a trailer for WaltonWare mode. WaltonWare mode is focused on quick wins by completing a single bingo line, and increasing difficulty after every win. The bingo goals are all scaled to their minimum settings and you start in a random area. All bingo goals will be completable within just a few maps!

WaltonWare Trailer

See the full README here. Also check out our Discord and Mods4Ever.com

Major Changes

  • New game modes: Halloween Mode, WaltonWare Halloween, Zombies Horde Mode, Halloween Entrance Randomization, and WaltonWare Halloween Entrance Rando
    • Halloween Trailer
    • Limited and Fixed saves - you need a Memory Containment Unit to save, and you must save at a security computer, personal computer, public terminal, or ATM. (Save Behavior in New Game)
    • Mr. H is immortal but you can hurt him to make him run away for a bit.
    • Zombies will spawn from dead carcasses after about 20 seconds (adjustable using the "Enemies Respawn Seconds" option in the Advanced menu).
    • You start with Run Silent instead of Speed aug (optional in Advanced settings)
    • You need to loot your Halloween costumes (clothes looting option in Advanced)
    • Halloween cosmetics: Jack 'o' Lanterns, and spiderwebs!

Minor Changes

Click to expand Minor Changes

  • Area 51 improved datacube rules for stairwell blast door and reactor lab code datacubes in Sector 3
  • Fixed locations for nanokeys in Paris street/metro, and added a key for the media store
  • Added a spotlight in the Paris Media Store when a goal character is inside
  • Improved lighting for warehouse generator and ship weld points when playing with Brightness Boost set to 0
  • Cleaned up mission 5 surgery ward equipment locations
  • Fixed button on Smuggler's elevator
  • Fixed hostages being unable to get into the subway
  • Maintain Paris Chill % across NG+ loops
  • End credits now supports multiple columns of text
  • Revision can now use randomized music when soundtrack is set to vanilla
  • For non-vanilla mods, fixed looted grenades and throwing knives from walls not having randomized stats
  • Gas station now has a datacube with Tiffany's portrait (can help in WaltonWare)
  • Maggie leaves her apartment after showing the DTS to Max, and a police vault datacube is added to Tonnochi Road
  • Area 51 gray room Geiger sound is quieter after generators are turned off
  • Fixes for goal texts being updated
  • Randomized passwords no longer have spaces around them
  • Prevent quick consume from using more than one item in a stack
  • Elevators now have more consistent movement speeds
  • Slightly increased Payphone collision radius because some were slightly inside the wall
  • Fixes for weapon display on high FOV
  • Improvements to handling of failed bingo goals
  • New option to show or hide messages about bingo progress
  • Fixes for more mid-mission starts in WaltonWare
  • NYC Airfield Helibase cameras and turrets will be disabled after finishing 747
  • Fixed issues with upgrading active augs

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Another race between Nitram, Ramisme, and Voukras! This time played on v3.1 with the new randomized goal locations in Area 51.

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Download DXRandoInstaller.exe in the Assets section under the changelog or download from Mods4Ever.com. It is safe to update in the middle of a playthrough.

Use vanilla (optionally with Lay D Denton) to get all of the Randomizer's features, best QoL improvements, and the most polished experience. Our installer has an option to install Lay D Denton for you automatically.

Trailers

Click to show trailers

If you don't know what Deus Ex Randomizer is, then here's our trailer which shows a breakdown of how it works:

v3.0 Trailer

Here's a trailer for WaltonWare mode. WaltonWare mode is focused on quick wins by completing a single bingo line, and increasing difficulty after every win. The bingo goals are all scaled to their minimum settings and you start in a random area. All bingo goals will be completable within just a few maps!

WaltonWare Trailer

Here's a trailer for our new Mirrored Maps feature in v2.5. 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!

v2.5 Mirrored Maps Trailer


See the full README here. Also check out our Discord and Mods4Ever.com

Major Changes

  • Vandenberg Command changes:
    • Fixed triggers for killing MJ12 Security Bots sometimes not working
    • Tong is now truly fearless
    • Comm doors opening immediately when releasing friendly bots is now disabled for Zero Rando mode so it functions as vanilla does
      • (but Zero Rando Plus does allow this, so feel free to play Stick With the Prod Plus with Zero Rando Plus)
  • Fixed ChargedPickup (armors, etc) timer rounding issues
  • Added an option for the color tint of Vision Enhancement/Tech Goggles
  • Vision Enhancement/Tech Goggles now use blue highlights for datacubes/nanokeys, this can help at max level when there's a lot of items visible
  • Make Anna, Gunther, and Walton more aggressive (and make sure enemies consider explosions a primary damage type)
  • Added message to Spy Drone Window to indicate when you don't have enough energy to detonate

Minor Changes

Click to expand Minor Changes

  • Randomized outfits will now properly use the glowing visors from stealth aug guys. Also add the NSF helmet and plain riot helmet to the clothing choices.
  • Talking to Achille as a man doesn't complete the "Get info from Camille" bingo goal
  • Slightly moved Tiffany's Speedrun mode TNT crate so she can't escape
  • Make sure Area 51 Bunker elevator buttons can't be used unless the power has been turned on
  • When Prison Pocked is enabled, delete "you have found your equipment" infolink in mission 5
  • Crowd Control is now always ready for connections on the title screen

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Download DXRandoInstaller.exe in the Assets section under the changelog or download from Mods4Ever.com. It is safe to update in the middle of a playthrough.

Use vanilla (optionally with Lay D Denton) to get all of the Randomizer's features, best QoL improvements, and the most polished experience. Our installer has an option to install Lay D Denton for you automatically.

Trailers

Click to show trailers

If you don't know what Deus Ex Randomizer is, then here's our trailer which shows a breakdown of how it works:

v3.0 Trailer

Here's a trailer for WaltonWare mode. WaltonWare mode is focused on quick wins by completing a single bingo line, and increasing difficulty after every win. The bingo goals are all scaled to their minimum settings and you start in a random area. All bingo goals will be completable within just a few maps!

WaltonWare Trailer

Here's a trailer for our new Mirrored Maps feature in v2.5. 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!

v2.5 Mirrored Maps Trailer


See the full README here. Also check out our Discord and Mods4Ever.com

(The change log since v3.0 was too much for Lemmy's character limit, so check the comments!)

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Download from here: https://Mods4Ever.com/

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Download DXRandoInstaller.exe in the Assets section at the bottom of the GitHub page (Linux version also available, as well as the Vanilla Fixer tool). It is safe to update in the middle of a playthrough.

Use vanilla (optionally with Lay D Denton) to get all of the Randomizer's features, best QoL improvements, and the most polished experience. Our installer has an option to install Lay D Denton for you automatically.

Trailers

Click to show trailers

Here's a trailer for WaltonWare mode. WaltonWare mode is focused on quick wins by completing a single bingo line, and increasing difficulty after every win. The bingo goals are all scaled to their minimum settings and you start in a random area. All bingo goals will be completable within just a few maps!

WaltonWare Trailer

Here's a trailer for our new Mirrored Maps feature in v2.5. 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!

v2.5 Mirrored Maps Trailer

If you don't know what Deus Ex Randomizer is, then here's our old trailer which shows a breakdown of how it works:

v2.0 Trailer


See the full README here. Also check out our Discord and Mods4Ever.com

Major Changes

  • Fixed a bug that was causing skill/aug strengths to not be consistent.
    • (Loading older saves will give you different skill/aug strengths from before, but otherwise playable.)
  • New WaltonWare starting locations, previously we only had 13, now we have 40 of them!
  • Added 14 more bingo goals.
  • Vandenberg Silo improvements:
    • Spawn Howard Strong immediately (assuming Helios was born and you downloaded the UC schematics).
      • This allows you to scout for the launch control computer and Howard at the same time.
      • If you kill Howard before redirecting the missile, the infolink dialog will be slightly rearranged to be more appropriate.
    • Fixed Howard and Jock both being able to spawn in the Launch Command room
  • Fixed some songs that can get stuck when using Randomized Music.
    • (This will reset your music config so you may need to re-enable Unreal or UT music in the Rando menu.)
  • Some fixes for Zero Rando mode, including a fix for the 50% mirrored maps option in Zero Rando mode.
  • Removed more balance changes from Zero Rando mode, mostly small map specific tweaks.
  • Nerfed power recirculator aug when you have it in automatic mode.
  • Fixed advanced settings when playing an alternate game mode (such as tweaking the settings for WaltonWare mode).
  • Option for Deus_nsf's tweaked D3D10 shaders, look in the Advanced settings in our Installer program.
  • Computer skill Advanced and Master base costs reverted back to the vanilla.
    • Level 1 is the only one that's OP, we rarely saw players get upgrades past that.
    • Previously the base costs were: 1575 for Trained, 3150 for Advanced, and 5250 for Master
    • Now the base costs are: 1575 for Trained, 2250 for Advanced, and 3750 for Master
  • Nerfed lower levels of speed aug back to vanilla. Max level is still a little weaker than vanilla.
    • We were a little worried about speedruns and races, but as Nitram has shown, speedrunners can adapt.
  • Enabled randomized bot weapons by default.
  • OpenAugTree by WCCC (at the bottom of the Keyboard/Mouse settings, bind it to a key).
    • This is great for playing on Steam Deck or on a controller.
  • Allow animals to be knocked unconscious.
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Major Changes

  • Lots of Walton Ware and bingo stuff
    • More possible starting locations
    • More bingo goals flagged for specific missions
      • Example: if you start in battery park you won't get a bingo goal for killing a karkian
    • Help text for bingo events if you click on the bingo square
  • Improved autosave, with option in Rando settings menu for autosave during combat
  • Option for visible teleporters in Rando settings menu
  • Big metal crates 500 hp instead of 2000
  • New Game+ fixes
  • Randomize weapon mods
  • Shield aug guys now take 10% damage from main resistances rather than none
  • Revision goals randomization
  • Bug fixes for Revision Randomizer
  • Bug fixes for HX Randomizer co-op
  • Autofill passwords for other mods, great for Steam Deck players
  • Make ATMs slightly easier to use, especially for Steam Deck players
  • Reduced visor chances for enemies
  • Vision Enhancement augmentation can now see items through walls at level 1 instead of needing level 2.
  • Medkits, medbots, and regen aug now spread out their healing across body parts better.

Minor Changes

Click to expand Minor Changes

  • Installer improvements
  • Fix for rare infolink failing to queue, especially in Area 51
  • Increase the default pan/zoom speed on security computers
  • Fully prevent Tong and Everett ending skips for real
  • More rat spawners (for bingo and Walton Ware purporses), now there's at least 1 in each mission
  • Gary Savage runs to the communicator and immediately talks to you after Bob is done talking
  • Scale damage from ElectricityEmitter's so that they don't do ridiculous damage with increased combat difficulty
  • Clear out inaccessible cabinets buried underneath Vandenberg
  • More ways to set yourself on fire (yay?): standing on a burning barrel, or going into a lit fireplace. This can help with bingo.
  • Add a keypad to disable the jammer in the graveyard, along with a datacube with the code for that keypad. Helps with Stick With the Prod modes.
  • Add a nanokey for Tim's Closet in Vandenberg.
  • Add several placeholder locations to the mission 3 airfield barracks so that the datacube with the hangar code can appear in slightly more interesting spots.
  • Trying to pick up a weapon that you don't have space for will still yoink the ammo right out of it.
  • Carcasses toss items that the player can't pick up.
  • Allow picking up partial item stacks (for making it easier to grab stuff from MJ12 Jail)
  • Make it easier to drop items from the inventory screen. They will now always drop right at your location.
  • Speedrun mode now always sets devices hackable to 100%
  • Removed Le Merchant from Zero Rando and Rando Lite modes
  • Fix Extreme/Impossible difficulty exploit in the New Game screen of upgrading skills and then clicking Restore Defaults. Normally skill costs are proportional as you go to the higher levels, but Extreme/Impossible enable unpredictable skill costs. In order to prevent scouting ahead on the skill costs to keep them unpredictable, we've disabled the downgrade button on the New Game screen.
  • Speedrun mode now gets in game timer notifications after every loading screen.


https://github.com/Die4Ever/deus-ex-randomizer/releases/tag/v2.5.2

https://mods4ever.com/

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