Sunday, April 1, 2012

Why is there electronic static at certain occasions in Deus Ex: HR?

Question

Well, I'm just past the part where the helicopter gets ambushed. Just as I entered Lower Hengsha, the entire game froze a bit, there was some electronic static and my things were rebooting (like I was hit by an EMP). It's happened before too.

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I'm assuming this is in-game and not the fault of my computer. And uh, if this is a spoiler for the end-game, spoiler tags, please!

Asked by SS'

Answer

This is indeed something you figure out during the course of the game (unless you are in the habit of completely ignoring computers and the e-mails they contain).

If indeed you are impatient, take a look:

The phenomenon you are experiencing is something that Tai-Yung medical (and someone else, who I shall not name to avoid an additional unnecessary spoiler) is behind, in order to prompt people to replace their "faulty" neural interface augmentations with a new "improved" augmentation that does not suffer from this fake problem. The new augmentation chip acts as sort of a kill-switch that allows shutting off people's augmentations remotely (and other things, again, I'm trying to avoid unnecessary spoilers). As far as I can tell, the game never explains how this fake problem is caused, but I may have simply missed the explanation during my playthrough. You have a chance to replace your own chip with the "improved" version. If you do so, during a later boss fight your augmentations will be disabled.

Answered by Aubergine

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