Absolute Zero Run - No Augs No Takedowns No Items No Weapons No HUD Deus Ex Mankind Divided Stealth

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Published on October 22, 2016 9:40:41 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X402bDtsI70

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Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (2016)

Duration: 2:17:50

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Absolute Zero run for Deus Ex Mankind Divided. A stealth run using No Augs, takedowns, items, weapons or HUD, only thing that was allowed was throwing boxes and various objects to lure and distract. Inspired by the Human Revolution Absolute Zero run video by Prenatual (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdHjLjGqhBg) i wanted to see if it was possible to do with Mankind Divided, sticking to the same rules as much as possible. Compared to the HR run it was much simpler, with only one boss to get past and less fun tricks to make use of it's nowhere near as entertaining as Prenatual's HR video sadly, it was a really fun challenge nonetheless.

I originally had annotations throughout the video to explain what I was doing and why, but annoyingly Youtube got rid of this feature and doing so removed them. Thanks a lot Youtube! :(
If you want clarification on anything just ask in the comments and I'll do my best to answer.

RULES:
1) No augmentation upgrades aka "Factory Zero". Use of the Hacking: Capture Level 1 available by default was allowed. No using codes unless i'd actually read them off a data pad.
2) Empty inventory throughout the whole game. No weapons of any kind and no energy or healing items either.
3) No takedowns, lethal or non-lethal. No killing of regular enemies through any other means.
4) "Dirty" ghosting: distractions and brief detection ("alarmed" from humans or bots and "suspicious" from cameras) were allowed as long as no one got hostile and I received Ghost and Smooth Operator bonuses.
5) "Give me Deus Ex" difficulty.

I also added in no HUD and in homage to the original video i killed off as many story characters as could along the way without directly being responsible.

EXCEPTIONS:
1) The boss had to be killed, but as all the bosses in HR had to be killed as well this was easy to let slide for me. I did try to finish him in a non-lethal way, but couldn't get it to work.
2) The alarm at the party, it's a scripted thing and there was no way to avoid it and complete the run. Jensen didn't set of the alarm himself and didn't get seen by any enemies so it was fine with me, but it's a grey area. There might be a way to avoid it using certain glitches, but it didn't want to use them.

CONTENTS:
00:00 Dubai
10:44 Koller's
18:50 Ruzicka Station
28:08 Golem Start
32:19 The Throat
34:23 Arc Territory
40:12 Talos Rucker
46:14 Golem Escape
53:40 NSN
57:40 Stanek Search
1:00:34 Janus Meeting
1:04:42 Bank Job
1:17:33 Garm
1:27:53 Dvali Territory
1:30:55 Dvali Theatre
1:38:27 Meet Vega
1:46:34 CSO
1:52:48 Reception Party
1:58:00 Delegates
2:03:53 Final Boss

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