Deus Ex: Ultra High Quality Mod

Uriel · 27 Sep 2009 at 23:19

Deus Ex, brought kicking and screaming into DirectX 9 territory. They've modded the engine to add bloom, bump mapping, shadows, various shaders etc.

Anyone had a go yet? I'm looking forward to giving it a try.

Video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU1a...ube.com/watch?v=zU1a9iP3urk...feature=related

Website here:

http://www.helderpinto.com/blog/personal/deusex-ultra-high-quality-mod-v01.html

Uriel · 27 Sep 2009 at 23:27

Fixed

Uriel · 27 Sep 2009 at 23:41

Well, it actally seems to work with HDTP and New Vision mods (Edit: and uses their material - they're credited).

It's just an engine upgrade. It kind of has a brute force approach. I've read comments saying people needed to turn it off (shift F12) to read the menus properly etc.

Once HDTP and New Vision are finished, this is going to be great. Everything re-textured and an engine upgrade.

Now if someone would re-do the animation and add some sensible physics, we'll be laughing.

Uriel · 28 Sep 2009 at 13:30

vonhelmet said:
It'd easily run on a netbook.

It's one of the best pc games ever made.

I had to work away last year and bought a netbook specifically for the purpose of playing Deus Ex. Usual spec 1.6 GHz atom, 512MB RAM Intel 945G graphics. Ran perfectly.

The retail versions need the CD in the drive though. Might be easier to get the Steam version and avoid messing about with virtual drives or an external CD ROM.

Uriel · 28 Sep 2009 at 13:34

Sleepery said:
Damn, that looks good. Are these purely graphic mods? They don't muck around with the balance or story, do they?

No - the story and balance isn't changed.

There is a mod called Deus Ex Revision that does that. They've released a demo version that lets you play through a revised version of about half the game (maps changed + objectives harder to complete I think - plus old players won't know where stuff is). They should get around to finishing it eventually.

Uriel · 28 Sep 2009 at 13:45

No - Invisible War is the sequel. I though it was alright but nowhere near as good as the original. I lost interest after the Egypt bit and stopped playing it.

It got a heavy backlash though and a lot of people hated it. It was a big let down for people who believed the hype and were expecting something akin to the 2nd coming of the Messiah.

Uriel · 28 Sep 2009 at 13:56

Project Snowblind was also intended to be a Deus Ex sequel but they saw the backlash that Invisible War got and very sensibly went out of their way not to have it associated with the Deus Ex name.

Edit: IMO the game that was most similar to Deus Ex was Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines. Shame it was released in such a buggy state. Certainly worth playing now with both the Official and Unofficial patches installed. It's still a bit rough around the edges but those two (edit: DX and VTMB - not PS) stand as the finest examples of story driven single player PC gaming IMO.

Uriel · 28 Sep 2009 at 22:38

Well I had a go. I like it but the old models do stick out. I'm looking forward for the rest of the character textures getting finished by HDTP - a la Gunther.

Uriel · 6 Oct 2009 at 13:32

Really enjoying playing through this again.

In other news - there's a DirextX 10 renderer available: http://kentie.net/article/d3d10drv/ Less bling than the DirectX9 version. They're just focussing on keeping the games (works for some other Unreal engine games) with original graphics working well on modern hardware.

Uriel · 6 Oct 2009 at 22:56

^^^
Actual Mod

Uriel · 10 Oct 2009 at 21:46

My gosh - I'd forgotten how good Deus Ex is. Started replaying it at the start of this thread and I've just hit Hong Kong.

I've not been this gripped by a game in years.

Read this interview with the writer of Deus Ex 3 the other day. I think she may have the right idea.

http://360.kombo.com/article.php?artid=17282