12:17 AM
Deus Ex Fans:
Deus Ex is not about following a set path. It's about options. the game dares you to use your cunning and ingenuity to find creative solutions to its challenges.
Therefore, I am not shamed to say I have found the BEST route to complete the Ruzika station mission (the first TF29 mission, where you retrieve the DSD from the police-guarded train station where the bombing took place).
I play with a slim loadout, so I don't mind missing out on all the FAT LEWTS, and i have to say, it's nice getting what amounts to basically a nice, healthy-sized, FREE XP injection in exchange for taking a three-minute complete stealth route instead of what usually comes out to be a 15 to 20 minute mission.
Required augments:
-Rebreather
-High jump
Tell smiley to beat it and go straight up into the rafters from the starting zone. Head to the BACK of the station, towards the secured door immediately visible from your starting point. The electrical current blocking the rafter access isn't constant, and you can breeze right past it with even comparably bad timing.
Once in the next room, pick up the goodies (including a pocket secretary) and power down the breaker. hop up to the top of the machinery, and there will be a vent on the right hand wall. Open it up, and head through. There is poison gas in this section so the rebreather aug should work fine, as long as you've charged up.
exit the vent and shut the valve on the large pipe on your left.
Now, the important part. Head back through the vent and grab a square cardboard box and take it back through the vent to the new room. Then go back and bring over a second. You'll need to drop the box and get a fresh grip a couple times to get it all the way through, but otherwise just wiggle it around, it will fit.
Now you've got two boxes in the new room. Stack them on the opposite end of the room, carefully jump on top, then high-jump and mantle the ledge above.
Head through the vent, move the box, and the DSD's on the table. pick up the pocket secretary from the dead body in the valve room on your way out, and use the code therein to stealthily loot the station attendant booth. head back down to the platform and peace out. Enjoy the Ghost level XP.
I have pulled this off. Enjoy!
