Are bosses harder as a stealth-based character?

Question

I recently read a review of Deus Ex that said you could play a stealth character throughout most of the game, avoiding combat. However, they also said the boss battles were all strict run-and-gun fights.

I would like to play a stealthy character, but I'm wondering if the difficulty of the boss fights is going to be significantly higher if I don't have any combat-oriented augmentations. Will I be gimped in these fights? Do I need to throw a few fighting augs in with my stealth?

Answer

The difficulty should be quite the same but that also depends on the boss fight.

The main advantage of playing as stealth character is that you may have much more ammunition for the boss fight left than a combat oriented player. Combat based augmentations are an advantage in boss fights but they are not overpowered, so for example the Typhoon Explosive System won't kill bosses. And also stealth based augmentations can be very useful for boss fights like the vision augmentation to see/track cloaked enemies (if the boss uses cloaking).

I consider the Dermal Armor augmentation as the most useful combat based augmentation for boss fights reducing the damage you receive and with the EMP Shielding upgrade preventing energy losses by EMP and electricity. This upgrade may be also an option for stealth characters.

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