Haha thanks, have fun with it! Deus Ex is good for many playthroughs even without mods, hundreds with mods.

It’s not impossible or unreasonable. But I think the game is most fun when you play a mix of stealth and shooting, depending on situations, especially as your character gets stronger.

Vanilla Fixer does all of those things automatically, except the music/maps fix

https://mods4ever.com/project/DXRVanillaFixer

If you really want to go full vanilla, I noticed you’re on Linux so it actually runs ok there. But you’ll still want Vanilla Fixer for the more modern renderer, launcher, and high frame rate fix.

https://mods4ever.com/project/DXRVanillaFixer

There are some huge bugs in the vanilla game though (Vanilla Fixer only does compatibility fixes not gameplay fixes). For example if you start a new game while in a game your inventory will become seriously broken. Before starting a new game you either need to restart the program, or enter the training first and start the new game from there (because starting training clears your inventory).

Also vanilla does NOT have autosave. When the game says SAVING when traveling maps that’s actually only for the purpose of traveling back to the old maps and you cannot load from that if you die. Get used to that quicksave button or rebind it, but also make hard saves just in case!

Also vanilla will not allow you to save during infolinks (radio calls). Not a huge deal for a first time playthrough if you aren’t rushing.

It’s just random. When zoomed in, I believe the sway will pick a random direction to sway in and a random number of milliseconds to wait before picking a new random sway direction. But without a scope it’s just full random at the time of firing.

It’s based on the weapon skills. Definitely play the Training

GMDX has a huge number of gameplay and balance changes. Here are some of them: https://deusex.fandom.com/wiki/Give_Me_Deus_Ex_(Mod)

https://videogamegeek.com/thread/1831032/review-of-gmdx-mod-which-aims-at-modernizing-deus

I can try to grab some excerpts without spoilers…

GMDX offers new player mechanics, refined AI behavior, reworked weapon mechanics, rebalanced RPG elements, enhanced artistic direction, expanded level design, overhauled audio design, new interactions and simulated effects, improved user interface, and hundreds of bug fixes.

Messing with the design of Deus Ex may quickly hurt the experience. And that is what GMDX does.

In early areas, the changes that GMDX makes are minor, which is the reason for my early positive feeling on GMDX. In later areas, however, there are radical changes. The aim seems to have been to increase the difficulty. And it succeeds at that: the difficulty of GMDX is certainly quite a lot higher than the difficulty of Deus Ex. But higher difficulty does not make for a better game. That is particularly true because of the reasons why the game is more difficult with GMDX.

For your first playthrough, use Zero Rando. GMDX and Revision change the game a lot.

https://mods4ever.com/project/DXRZeroRando

Also we have !deus_ex@lemmy.cafe

upvotes minus downvotes

it only shows when it has more than 0 downvotes

It will increase over time, and I think it would pass 100 GB in less than a year, but I’m just guessing. You can help reduce this by tweaking some settings with image caching/proxying

you will only see posts/comments/upvotes that happen AFTER you’ve subscribed to a community

when you subscribe to a community it will pull the most recent posts made but it won’t pull the comments or upvotes for them, just the post itself

this is why a lot of instances use https://lemmy-federate.com/ but that will use up a lot of your disk space

You don’t need to delete, you can have multiple accounts

you’ve already got an account, click !autism@lemmy.world and then the Subscribe button

are you using a mobile app or just the lemmy.world website?

I dont know what Instance I am

you are on lemmy.world

but am being asked for a instance

it sounds like you were trying to Subscribe without being logged in

so I’m guessing you have your login in an app instead of the website and then you opened the community in your web browser instead of in the app which already had your login

the link I provided should work in your app or wherever you’re commenting from

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/config/defaults.hjson#L22-L56

image_mode: ProxyAllImages

1. “sort”: that’s the word for the options of “new”, “scaled”, “active” etc, right?

Yep https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html

3. @Die4Ever pointed out there’s a “Show Read Posts” option in the settings. I’ve unticked that and will see how it goes.

I honestly don’t use this feature myself lol but I hope it helps you!

In your settings on the website there’s a checkbox for “Show read posts”, uncheck that. Some apps have the same feature or similar. Some apps also have an option to mark as read when you scroll past a post without opening it.