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.
If the game is not running well, even for vanilla Deus Ex, see the recommended tweaks here.
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!
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!
If you don't know what Deus Ex Randomizer is, then here's our old trailer which shows a breakdown of how it works:
- 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
- Crowd Control! Let your Twitch/YouTube/Discord/other viewers troll you or help you! https://crowdcontrol.live/guides/DeusEx
- 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
- New game modes! (Wiki page)
- 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.
- 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 game mode focused on quickly doing bingos and New Game+.
- Speedrun mode - speedrun with fewer resets while still being able to enjoy higher difficulties. And a built in splits viewers!
- WaltonWare Entrance Rando - both modes combined!
- Challenge mode loadouts! (Wiki page)
- 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
- 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)
- If you opt-in to Online Features (which is disabled by default, check the Rando menu)
- Your in-game events will also contribute to our bot on Mastodon (which is an open source and community-run version of Twitter)
- Death Markers - see where other players have died!
- Get notifications of new updates
- 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, there's also our external BingoDisplay program you can download from the Releases page
- 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 passwords, and the ability to show where Nanokeys/Datacubes/goals are located.
- Option to start the game at certain points like Hong Kong or Paris
When you click New Game, you will see this settings screen:
If you click Next then it will use default settings based on your difficulty choice.
But if you click Advanced then you will see these settings:
On the main menu there's also a Rando button for a bunch of global settings, like music controls, online features, and some QoL options.
Rando settings
DXRando features many small but impactful balance changes that can expand your tactical options.
The large metal crates are now destructible with 2000hp. Alcohol now fixes dead legs. Things that normally aren't useful have been buffed, such as hazmat suits, ballistic armor, environmental skill, and the spy drone augmentation. And more balance changes to maximize variety for many replays!
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