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Re: Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

Post by A Ninja » Thu Apr 09, 2015 9:46 pm

April 9 Game Informer article reveals the power players in the new game.
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/ ... vided.aspx

Task Force 29
In Human Revolution, Jensen worked as head of security for the augmentation manufacturer Sarif Industries. Following the Aug Incident, where augmented people essentially went haywire and unwittingly performed acts of violence and terrorism, Sarif’s business collapsed. Now, Jensen is a member of an anti-terrorist group headed up by Interpol, called Task Force 29.

“The division that he’s in, he is probably the only augmented person in that strike team,” says Mary DeMarle, Mankind Divided’s narrative director. Jensen will travel around the world as he unravels the conspiracy, including an area near Prague that’s now become a prison camp for augmented people. DeMarle says that Jensen’s augmentations give him an in with the people living there that others might not have. And while Task Force 29’s stated goal is to eliminate terrorism, DeMarle is quick to point out that in this world, one person’s terrorist is another’s freedom fighter.
Augmented Rights Coalition
The Augmented Rights Coalition, or ARC, is one group that is seen as terrorists by the powers that be. In the early hours of Mankind Divided, Jensen has to infiltrate the group’s Prague base and capture its leader, Dr. Talos Rucker (pictured above).

ARC was originally a loosely structured network of groups that were organized to help the recently augmented deal with the transition to their new status. After the Aug Incident, ARC began to coalesce over what members saw as a violation of augmented peoples’ rights. Augmented people were rounded up and abused for crimes that they perpetrated through no fault of their own. ARC saw that as being victimized twice – once for the initial crimes, and secondly for holding augs culpable for things that were out of their control.

Rucker is a humanitarian-aid doctor who was also augmented after sustaining injuries in a natural disaster. He has amassed considerable power by banding the augs together, which makes him a threat to those who would work to further restrict augmented people. While the group itself doesn’t rely on violence to get its message across, various members have gone rogue. Because of that, ARC has been placed on a terrorist watch list. One of the high-ranking members of the group is Victor Marchenko, and it’s unclear at this point whether he poses a threat to Jensen or the people who would keep ARC down. DeMarle says Marchenko is skeptical of Jensen’s place in this world, asking whether Jensen is a wrench – a derogatory slang term and reference to a tool being wielded by the man.
Illuminati
The Illuminati has been a force in the Deus Ex universe since the series began. It’s also the group that introduced a glitch into augmentation software that created the Aug Incident. While they share the same name, Eidos Montreal’s interpretation of the group is different from the first Deus Ex. Most notably, it’s shifted away from the ‘90s-era X-Files-style paranoia toward something more grounded.

“They’re very powerful one-percenters who have always controlled and manipulated society in ways that serve a vision that they have,” DeMarle says. “For some of them, that vision may be very personal, and it may be, ‘I just want to maintain peace and prosperity so that I stay on top.’ For others, because nothing is ever black and white and it’s about the individual, some of them may very much believe, ‘I’ve been given this power and this money and this wealth, and I come from this upper class because kings are born. Our job is to protect society, and we need to preserve mankind. When we look forward and see the war and we see the terrorism, we have to stop it – but how we stop it might not be to the benefit of everyone.’”

In short, the Illuminati is a blanket term to describe these powerful people overall, even if they don’t necessarily have an official structure or hold meetings. “It’s more along the lines of the one percent of the one-percenters,” DeMarle says. She adds that she was reading the book Too Big to Fail when she realized that some bankers share a common trait with the fictional Illuminati: They’re too arrogant to effectively band together for a common goal. That could make solving this mystery a tough challenge.
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Re: Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

Post by A Ninja » Fri Apr 10, 2015 4:27 pm

New Game Informer article today that details the world they created in Human Revolution as well as how they are doing it with Mankind Divided.

Includes some new images and models that will be in the game as well.
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/ ... vided.aspx

Also, from the @DeusEx twitter
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Re: Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

Post by dmitri ravinoff » Fri Apr 10, 2015 5:29 pm

A Ninja wrote:Includes some new images and models that will be in the game as well.
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/ ... vided.aspx

Also, from the @DeusEx twitter
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this picture is the best thing created. I may not have asked for this, but damn it's awesome.

also, have they still not announced a release date?

thx for all the articles based ninja
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deusex.com is blocked by my parents' router for some goddamn reason
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Roughjericho wrote:deusex.com is blocked by my parents' router for some goddamn reason
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Re: Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

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Gonna guess because deuSEX.COM
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Re: Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

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Re: Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

Post by Roughjericho » Tue Jun 09, 2015 6:30 pm

Bumping to tell you all that this is going to be shown at E3, according to this list: http://www.gamespot.com/articles/confir ... 0-6427907/

let's hope it'll be gameplay footage
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Re: Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

Post by Pentagram.J2 » Tue Jun 09, 2015 7:25 pm

seems like i need to finally play Human Revolution
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Re: Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

Post by Roughjericho » Wed Jun 10, 2015 11:21 am

Pentagram.J2 wrote:seems like i need to finally play Human Revolution
do itttttt

it's so damn good

beware of the save crash bug towards the end of the game though, i've been bitten by that twice in my playthroughs
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Re: Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

Post by dmitri ravinoff » Wed Jun 10, 2015 9:58 pm

Roughjericho wrote:Bumping to tell you all that this is going to be shown at E3, according to this list: http://www.gamespot.com/articles/confir ... 0-6427907/

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Re: Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

Post by Roughjericho » Thu Jun 18, 2015 10:25 am

Gameplay footage!
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Re: Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

Post by dmitri ravinoff » Thu Jun 18, 2015 12:19 pm

gameplay starts @4:29

great video, thank you for posting it
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Re: Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

Post by Roughjericho » Thu Jun 18, 2015 6:45 pm

Even better:

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Re: Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

Post by A Ninja » Tue Sep 01, 2015 1:40 am

The pre-order package was announced today.


It seems the entire Deus Ex fanbase is up in arms about this, many people are saying this is the worst pre-order system they've seen yet. There's a tiered unlock system that gives people that preorder more perks as the number of preorders increases, I'll let Total Biscuit explain everything that is bad about this package.

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