I've decided to play through Deus Ex again, I've sent the distress signal and made it to the Battery Park subway station. This time, instead of being a pussy and running up the stairs to submit to that mentally challenged German mech, I'm taking a more creative route.
I've gone through the ventilation systems and emerged into one of the little homeless huts above ground.
There is a Mil-bot the right of me, roughly three or four bipedal security bots surrounding the area, a squad of UNATCO goons, and last but not least, Gunther. My favorite (although admittedly failed, as you'll see in a couple of paragraphs) strategy so far is to throw my entire arsenal of tear gas grenades, sweeping left to right, so as to choke up all of the humans and cornering Hermann so he can get a face-full of gas, too.
This doesn't help against the bots, however, as when I get to the point of the area that triggers the NPCs to be hostile towards the player, everything goes to hell and I get owned (quite literally). There is also the fact that I have to jump over the barriers blocking the only exit, which is either mapped to be impossible, or I can't jump high enough without the Speed aug (which I don't have).
I've tried taking one of the little climbable white bags of trash with me out of the subway stations through the vents, and working really fast to try and drop it in front of the concrete barriers and jump on it to jump over said barriers, but I take too much damage in the meantime and get captured. Also the tear gas makes the player drop items for some odd reason.
I'm using Shifter, which means there's a chance that someone will be carrying a one shot, one kill PS20 or will blow me up with a lam (or both
). I'm also playing on the Normal difficulty and my EMP weaponry supplies are depressingly low. I have no explosives.I figure this must be possible on some level, because you can avoid or stun Gunther as not to talk to him, and Jock is waiting outside of the barricade in his helicopter. I just want to skip that damned MJ12 level and try and accomplish something significant for once in all of my years of gaming. So, am I screwed, or is there a way to beat this?
TL;DR I am a cocky idiot, can I get past the Battery Park 3 Gunther Hermann barricade without cheating? I am short on supplies.
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