A defining a part of Deus Ex: Human Revolution‘s look is a golden haze over everything, a flourish that some mocked it for. I don’t know if Eidos modified their minds concerning the golden wash or simply obtained sick of the jokes, however both manner it was wiped away as a part of the Director’s Cut just a few years later. Bit of a disgrace, actually. Purists and goldlovers, rejoice: an enterprising modder has faithfully restored that filter in DXHR Director’s Cut. It took much more effort than you would possibly count on.
The fella often called “Silent” (who additionally makes these nice SilentPatch fixes for old GTA games) launched his Gold Filter Restoration doodad on Sunday. As the title suggests, it restores the gold filter. That’s not all! It additionally has choices to vary the bloom impact and lighting of the Director’s Cut to look extra like the unique Human Revolution. Plus you possibly can change the colors in different methods, if you’d like.
Why wouldn’t you simply play the unique Human Revolution? Because you may want each the glow and the opposite modifications from the Director’s Cut, which embody tactical choices in boss battles past merely ‘shoot them in the face’, the DLC rolled into the primary story, a New Game+ mode, a extra beneficiant vitality system, and developer commentary. I plan to take it for a spin myself tonight, all golden and glowing.
Silent wrote an interesting blog post poking about within the game’s technoguts to see precisely what modified, and the way. The course of is much more concerned than simply ‘put gold over everything’ but the publish is an accessible learn.
“It’s up to the reader to decide whether the changes are for better or worse, but we can objectively say that the game looks different – and there is no going back,” he stated concerning the Director’s Cut modifications. Thanks to him, we are able to now return. And hell, we are able to hardly go ahead for the time being.
The collection appears to be on maintain after the 2016 sequel, which disappointingly was extra of the identical however, on the brilliant aspect, was extra of the identical. “There still aren’t that many games like Deus Ex around and Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is an excellent game like Deus Ex,” our Graham stated in his Deus Ex: Mankind Divided review. Eidos Montreal went on to launch Shadow Of The Tomb Raider, and are at the moment identified to be doing Marvel’s Avengers.
Square Enix CEO Yosuke Matsuda stated in 2017 that Deus Ex was not binned however, ah, waiting its turn. “The reason there isn’t a Deus Ex right now is just a product of our development line-up because there are other titles we are working on,” he stated.
