The game also known as Deus Ex 4 series is finally out. We’ve finished Mankind Divided and we loved it. You may just be starting and facing a pretty tough game with lots to find and plenty of mistakes to make, or maybe you’re ready for a second run-through because you want to see everything there is to see in the game. Luckily your pals at GameWatcher are on hand to help!

We’ve already provided a Guide To Levelling in the game, now let’s run down some hints for the rest of the game, including Shopping, Exploring, General Tips and Hidden Easter Eggs!

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided - Shopping, Tips, Tricks and Easter Eggs

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SHOPPING: Stores

See those little shopping carts on your map? Those are stores. They’re where you spend money and sell your junk. While you can enter pretty much every shop you can only talk to the proprietor and conduct business if the place has a shopping cart on it. So you can’t buy antiques or get that singing fish, but you can buy legal electronic (re: hacking) gear from Tech Noir. While you can only buy certain things from certain stores you can sell anything who’ll accept selling.

Here’s a rundown of the stores in the game:

Tech Noir: Once you get through his subtle Breach Software pitch you can sell him anything and pick up various hacking gear, including Biocells.

Tubehouse Electronics and Lekarna Pharmacy: Only offer packs of one item, specifically Biocells and Hypostims respectively. The Pharmacy guy hints at some neat places to search for too, even though he’s a bit grumpy.

Apartment Sellers: 33 Hlavni Apartments and Zelen Apartments (Adam’s block) offer sellers based out of apartments who are potentially less than legal but offer a wider range of items, including guns and even Praxis Kits, and you can sell to at will.

The Red Queen, Irish Stool, and Cigar Lounge: Offer the finest alcohol and occasional scantily dressed ladies wandering around but nothing much else. No, you can’t get a dance.

Svobody Beer: The little speakeasy-style bar under the store may only offer beer, but a gift of Neuropozyne to the bar lady may yield rewards.

Louis Gallois: Golem City’s premier seller, Louis offers information on ARC and your main quest for a tricky favour… or just has loads of things to sell. Clearly that’s the more important part.

Just follow the bugs.

Scavenge

Rule one of making money: sell stuff you don’t need. The trick is to stuff as much useless crap you can into your pockets. Items like Beer aren’t worth very much, whereas guns and ammo are goldmines. You can only pick up one type of gun at a time, so if you pick up a pistol when you already have one you’ll just get a few bullets instead. Why not leave the guns there, put the one you want to keep into Jensen’s apartment, then sell one gun at a time? Yes it might take a while, but think of the cash!

If you don’t have patience just sell the ammo. Make sure to only sell the ammo you don’t need. You may think you have loads of Pistol Ammo, but check to make sure it’s not special Armour Piercing or EMP ammo – they look pretty much identical at first glance!

Oh, and make sure you’ve upgraded your Strength Aug to expand your inventory 3 times to maximum. If you’re magpie-ing weapons you’ll need all the space you can.

Neuropozyne

However, in terms of sellable items Guns, Ammo, Hacking Software, Micropumps, Whiskey etc have nothing on the King of Bargains: the Aug medicine known as Neuropozyne. You can find bottles of this around the place (the attic space of Prague’s shuttered LIMB Clinic and the safe of the Infirmary in TF29 for example) and since Jensen doesn’t require this medicine (play Human Revolution for the long-winded explanation why) you can sell it on. Keep a handful of bottles for the 2-3 people in Prague who ask for it as payment, but the rest can be sold for a staggering 1,000 credits per bottle. If you want those Praxis Kits Nu-Poz is the way to go.

Explore for cash!

Of course since TF29 don’t give you a salary Jensen’s only way to make a living is to steal everything not nailed down. I’ve already told you the benefits of taking sick people’s medicine and raiding corpses, now we get straight to the good stuff: thieving money. No matter what room you go in, 9 times out of 10 there’ll be a credit chit somewhere in there. It may be in a safe. It may be in a drawer. It may just be sitting on the counter as you walk in the door. Either way, steal it, and most of the time you won’t even get shot at!

TIPS & TRICKS

With Upgrading, Augmentations, Shopping and Money now safely advised, let’s run down some general pointers for an efficient Deus Ex playthrough!

Adam’s Storage: Easy to miss. That remote control on the table isn’t just good for watching The David Sarif Show, you can use it to open Adam’s super secret storage safe. You got a load of useful stuff you don’t want to sell but you also don’t want clogging up your inventory? Stick ‘em in storage. I also could be wrong, but stuff in there might carry over to New Game Plus too. Handy.

Go away David, I want to access my safe before I put my bondage gear on.

Crafting: You might not have even noticed this screen in the menu, especially as it’s a first for Deus Ex. All those packs of non-descript “Parts” lying around literally everywhere? This is what they’re for. You can upgrade weapon attributes or unlock mods by Examining guns in your inventory, and on the Crafting screen itself you can create Multitools, Biocells and all manner of useful gear. Not Praxis Kits though.

Can’t Get Somewhere? Look Around You: The thing that makes this series great is that no matter the objective, no matter where you need to get to, if there is a barrier in your way there will be multiple ways to get to it. If you can’t get in a room because there’s a keypad on the door and your hacking skill isn’t good enough, there will be a vent somewhere or some other way of overcoming that obstacle. Use Smart Vision and your map then just explore. Or you could just blast your way in.

Get These Augs To Have No Barriers To Exploration: There are numerous barriers the game can put in your way, but there will always be an Aug you can buy to bypass it. Here is the Aug shopping list if you want to explore every part of the map: Implanted Rebreather (gas protection), Cybernetic Leg Prothesis (super jump), Electromagnetic Pulse Shielding (stops electricity damage), Optimized Musculature (heavy lifting), Icarus Landing (no fall damage from any height), Hacking Capture, Fortify & Stealth (Capture Levels 1-5 are essential, the rest just help), Punch Through Wall (um, to let you punch through weak walls), and maybe Smart Vision too to help you see anything suspicious such as the aforementioned weak walls.

Spot the good ones.

Side Missions Do Not Jump Out At You or Appear On Maps: Unlike every other RPG, side missions are not obvious in Mankind Divided. There are no flags on the map indicating they are there. NPCs do not run up to you begging for help. Cutscenes do not trigger when you’re close by. Instead Eidos Montreal are much more subtle – it is up to you to notice that someone isn’t just a random NPC and you must approach them. If you see an out-of-the-ordinary event, go and investigate and talk to whoever you can.

Starting Weapons: All Deus Ex games begin with the player character being asked what type of player they are and are given an appropriate weapon to match, so it’s important to know where to find the weapons you didn’t get.

The Tranquilizer Rifle and Battle Rifle can be found by heading left of Koller’s bookshop to an abandoned building down the street. Punch through the back wall and head down a maintenance shaft to find these guns. The Sniper Rifle and Stun Gun on the other hand are in TF29’s Armory, Hack or just use a Multitool to break in. Alternatively for the Stun Gun there’s one in a van outside 33 Hlavni Street apartments.

Remember Multitools: Oh yes, Multitools. I always forgot about them. You can find them or craft them but they’re always worth having, because they simply allow you to bypass a single lock, keypad or computer without all that hacking nonsense, without any chance of being caught or setting off alarms. They’re strictly one-time-use-only but they’re super handy, especially if you’re struggling to hack one particular system.

Information Seller: There’s a guy hanging around Prague called Kazatel who sells information for Neuropozyne. In daytime he’s in the secluded courtyard opposite Adam’s apartment, at night he’s moved to the north part in the little walled area to the right of Ludwik’s Lounge. Buy his information to get Points of Interest, little hidden areas and mini-missions around the map that save you a lot of searching.

No clues how he gets his info though.

Mine Templates: You may have picked these up and had no idea what they were used for, especially if you haven’t played Human Revolution. Basically just combine them with any grenade to create a proximity mine version of it for awesome traps!

Don’t Play Breach Yet: Well, not until you’ve got about halfway through the game. There’s a story mission where Adam goes into a VR communication device which is basically the setup for the Breach mode. Do this mission first before you take on Breach, it’ll be less confusing and allow you to get better scores.

Breach IS pretty fun though.

Permanently Take Out Cameras Easily and Stealthily: Well you could buy the correct Aug hacking skill, find the security computer and shut them all down, but maybe that’s not an option. Instead fully upgrade the Ranged Hacking aug to temporarily deactivate machines, then use it on a camera (even through walls if you turn Smart Vision on first). With the camera down use a silenced pistol and put two bullets into it. It’s now gone forever and no one was any the wiser. This also works on turrets and bots but they require more bullets and explode more suspiciously.

How To Defeat Bosses Easily: There’s only one story boss in the game but there are a few more optional ones, and while the Augmented ones have a lot of elaborate defenses they can be taken out in two hits. First hit them with an EMP grenade or mine and then simply rush in and do a Takedown, lethal or non-lethal. Job done.

EASTER EGGS & REFERENCES!

While the storylines are quite serious, the Deus Ex games as a whole always like to have fun. Who can forget the Final Fantasy XXVII poster in Human Revolution or the secret dance party ending in Invisible War you got to by sticking the US flag down a toilet? Mankind Divided is packed with fun secrets and references to past games in the series. Here’s some to look out for:

The Illuminati: The members of the secret organization causing all the problems for Augs, the Illuminati, should be familiar to any fans of the first Deus Ex seeing as they all turn up. I won’t spoil any, but the main villain of that game is really beginning to set himself up as head string-puller here.

The NSF: The New Sons of Freedom have made brief Easter Eggs in both of Eidos Montreal’s games, but they’ll become far stronger as the National Secessionist Forces in the first Deus Ex. Mankind Divided is a prequel, remember. Speaking of which…

Joseph Lebedev, Janus and Anna Kelso are Connected: There’s an email on a TF29 computer that adds a link between Deus Ex’s NSF leader, Joseph Lebedev, and a lady called Anna Kelso. Kelso was one of the major characters in the novel Icarus Effect and the spin-off videogame The Fall which despite its faults I rather liked.

Try Going Down The ‘Naturals’ Side At The Station: Feeling oppressed yet, you dirty Clank? No? Then try using the ‘Natural’ exit or map at the train station and get a full taste of it. Rather disturbingly even the trusted waypoint indicator will segregate you and send you down the “correct” path, so try a little rebellion.

This Apartment Will Self Destruct: Or, “why exploring in Mankind Divided is awesome”. Just next to the TF29 front is a seemingly useless café called Rose’s Garden that’s open all day. Head up to the nice balcony and jump on to the glass roof overhanging the street. Follow it to the end to find an apartment that’s booby-trapped in a very James Bond/Batman way. Hopefully you’ll escape before the countdown’s up.

Stay Out Of The Women’s Bathroom: A recurring gag in the series, there’ll always be someone on hand to berate you for going in the women’s restroom.

The Basketball Court: Now this gag dates back to Looking Glass, creators of Thief and System Shock. In most of their games, and subsequently in all Deus Ex games, there’s a basketball court that you can use. Mankind Divided keeps up the tradition, and yes getting it in the hoop gets you an Achievement.

The Radio: When not playing a talk show, all radios in the game will play the background music from Hong Kong from Deus Ex.

I Think I Own That Mouse Mat: In the Palisade Bank’s executive room there’s a mouse mat with a very familiar logo on it for anyone who’s played the first game.

VOLTAR SPEAKS: The magic shop hides this futuristic version of Big’s magic Zoltar Speaks machine. Sadly Voltar 3000 doesn’t make Adam any bigger, but for a massive 250 credits he can give you useless cryptic clues.

The Only Physical Videogame In The Entire World Is…: In Human Revolution gaming was exclusive to PCs and smartphones. In Mankind Divided they’re making a comeback with the possibly retro Soloto console. It’s hopefully digital, but thankfully SEGA have technophobes covered with their newest game, meme-referencing Knuckles & Knuckles & Knuckles.

Doggy Holly: Another meme getting referenced, in the music shop you’ll find the latest hits from Doggy Holly – otherwise known as Doge. There’s also the classic album from The Beagles ‘Been Working Like a Dog’, indicating that some artist in Eidos Montreal really likes dogs.

I Didn’t Ask For This, You Monster: The basement of Future-Past Antiky has a scattering of videogame references. The giant cockroaches are potentially a reference to Fallout, but this is absolutely the Weighted Companion Cube. Opened, you monster. But that’s not all…

Okay, So Now My Mind Is Blown: In the same basement are several classic boxed PC games from Eidos, including Legacy of Kain, Tomb Raider, Hitman, and at the bottom of a crate under a stack of movable boxes, er…

Hang on… so Human Revolution is actually a prediction of the future? Or was it sent back from the future after the actual events? Either way my head hurts.

Adam Jensen’s Dog: For anyone who logged in to Adam’s home PC in Human Revolution and read his emails this picture is probably the saddest reference in the whole game. Poor dog.

Sniff.