I can tag three guards in a row, all in the leg, and by the time the first dude hits the floor, the others start passing out before they have a chance to raise an alarm. But, really? The delay is actually a boon. Headshots will instantly knock out guards, and body shots take a few seconds more. Or, alternatively, make the tranquilizer take a random amount of time to fully go into affect, so that it’s possible they fall unconscious after walking to a less discreet location.īecause, honestly, the situation with the Tranq rifle in Mankind Divided is just silly broken. Let them make some noise for the few seconds of consciousness they have remaining. This can extend to tranquilizer dart weapons as well, considering nobody really seems to care about a huge syringe poking out of their leg, even after it was fired out of a sniper rifle 50 yards away. How about we just reverse that? Lethal takedowns are quiet, but nonlethal makes some noise as the target struggles. Considering you can just shoot sleeping guards in the face with a silenced pistol afterwards, there is zero reason to go lethal initially. Not only do you get more XP with nonlethal, but the actual nonlethal action is quiet, whereas the lethal one makes a lot of noise. In truth, there is just one rational option: nonlethal.
In the last two Deus Ex games, you get the option of lethal and nonlethal takedowns any time you are within melee distance. 2) Nonlethal takedowns are more difficult. If you want safety in your looting, you will need to kill the guards instead. This will still give you enough time to stroll through the area, but maybe not enough for a thorough searching of every file cabinet. Not immediately, mind you, just over a period of a few minutes or so. But considering how easily guards can be taken out – and no one cares about patrols reporting in – this is an irrelevant concern. Yes, unconscious guards can be awoken if discovered by other guards. Since you already get more XP for using nonlethal methods, there really is no reason to not knock them out rather than use lethal methods. Basically, once you knock out the guards, they are unconscious permanently. Some stealth games have this already, but its lack seems especially egregious in Mankind Divided since you are in the same city for most of the game. These mostly pertain to Mankind Divided – and especially at the higher difficulties – but I feel like they can be applied more generally as well. This means it is incredibly difficult to introduce varying levels of difficulty with stealth mechanics without running afoul of annoying gameplay. So if you are going to have “stealth mechanics” in your game, you have to make some concessions. And if the guards never reset after the alarm is raised, why wouldn’t the average player not simply reload their last save? Without a pattern to recognize and exploit, incapacitating/avoiding guards either requires RNG (which doesn’t feel good) or just attacking them straight out. Ever play a stealth game where the enemies patrolled randomly? It’s an exercise in frustration.
There is a good reason why “more realistic” behavior is not often implemented: it is less fun. This is not a criticism of stealth gameplay, per se. This binary nature even extends to after the enemy is alerted, as almost every stealth game features the conceit that guards eventually completely forget that they watched their compatriots die, and go about their usual patrols. The enemy is fully active or they are incapacitated. If you are outside the cone of an enemy’s vision, you are hidden. When we talk about stealth games, what we’re really talking about is extremely simplified, often binary, gameplay. However, this may be more a systemic issue with stealth games generally. Indeed, I spent half the game with 11+ Augment Points banked just waiting for a situation in which I needed to spontaneously develop wall-punching or remote hacking skills. I am playing on the highest difficulty – Give Me Deus Ex – and just breezing my way through, even without Augments. The short version is that it is pretty much Human Revolution with new plot and Augments if you enjoyed the first game, then you will enjoy this one as well.īut one of the things I have noticed over the course of 30 hours is that… well, it’s easy. In-between my many WoW sessions, I have been working on Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.
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