Deus Ex Randomizer annual recap (since June 2024)
from Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com to games@lemmy.world on 19 Jun 15:35
https://retrolemmy.com/post/20450150

If you don’t know what Deus Ex Randomizer is, here’s the trailer from v3.0 which gives an overview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3mTcG6xeq4&list=PLZIQTa_…

Download here: mods4ever.com

It’s been about 1 year since v3.0 let you pet the dogs and other animals. Here are some of the biggest things we’ve added since then.

• Many new game modes:
  • Halloween mode, WaltonWare Halloween, and other varieties - adds zombies, limited saves, and Mr. H who is a big invincible guy that roams the map and tries to smack you.
  • Mr. Page’s Mean Bingo Machine - A new mode where you play through the whole game, but must complete a bingo line before being allowed to progress to the next mission. Once you get to the next mission, you are given a new bingo board!
  • Zero Rando Plus - like “Zero Rando” (no randomization, very vanilla) but Plus more quality of life additions and balance tweaks.
  • Speedrun Training mode - shows where possible goal locations are without spoiling them.
  • We split off the old “Normal Randomizer” mode into “Full Randomizer”, with the new “Normal Randomizer” being a more welcoming game mode to learn the Randomizer.
  • Strong Augs mode - increases the strength of augmentations.
  • One Item Mode - Our new dumbest game mode! All items in a map will be replaced with a single type of item (eg. all flares, all biocells, or all beers)

---

• Many new loadouts and augmentations:
  • The default “All Items Allowed” loadout now starts with the new inferior “Running Enhancement” instead of the old “Speed Enhancement”. Choose the “Speed Enhancement” loadout if you want to start with that like before.
  • The Three Leg Augs loadout - Allows Running Enhancement, Jump Enhancement, and Run Silent. You start with one of them. Enables aug slot rando by default.
  • My Vision Is Augmented loadout - Allows Vision Enhancement, Short-Range Vision Enhancement, InfraVision, and Motion Sensor. You start with one of them. Enables aug slot rando by default.
  • Random Starting Aug (instead of Running Enhancement)
  • And more!

---

• Lots of balance changes
  • Allowing even more variety of play styles, especially with augmentations.
  • Balance changes are also now toggleable in the options. Disabled by default for Zero Rando, but most are enabled by default for Zero Rando Plus.
• More goals rando, especially for Gordon Quick, and Area 51.
• New augmentation slot randomization feature (so speed can be an eye aug)
• Multiple, rotating quicksave slots
• New menu to change current in-game settings
• Many new bingo goals and improvements to our bingo game modes!
• Deus Ex: Revision support is massively improved as a whole

---

• We’re doing a speedrun marathon on Sunday for Deus Ex’s 25th Anniversary! (June 22nd)
  • All of the Deus Ex games are here, including some runs of the Randomizer
  • Stream: twitch.tv/sumofbesties
  • Schedule: oengus.io/marathon/dx25/schedule/dx25
• Our speedrun leaderboard was created about a year ago: www.speedrun.com/dxrando (we split the leaderboard for a couple of big updates that changed the run a lot)
• We did 3 amazing speedrun races: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZIQTa_kwZhDZjz905…
• We have a WaltonWare tournament soon! Stay tuned on my YouTube www.youtube.com/@die4ever2005/videos

cross-posted from: !deus_ex_randomizer@lemmy.mods4ever.com | lemmy.mods4ever.com/post/454

#games