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Deus Ex: Human Revolution Hints

Combat

  • These upgrades have to do with non-stealthy combat. They're pretty much all useful to combat-oriented characters, though "Flash Suppressant" and the Aim Stabilizer upgrades are considerably less useful than the others. Note that the Dermal Armor upgrades (and, to a lesser extent, the Typhoon upgrades) are also useful to stealth-oriented characters during boss battles.

    * Typhoon Explosive System (Torso): Light Damage Variant => When activated, all nearby living non-boss enemies will be killed, and all nearby robots will be damaged.
    * Typhoon Explosive System (Torso): Heavy Damage Variant => When activated, all nearby non-boss enemies will be killed.

    * Cybernetic Arm Prosthesis (Arm): Recoil Compensation 1, 2 => Reduces the recoil of firing a weapon to 50%, 0%.

    * Aim Stabilizer (Arm): Aiming Motion Control 1, 2 => Reduces the additional inaccuracy of shooting while running to 50%, 0%.

    * Retinal Prosthesis (Eye): Flash Suppressant => Protects you against the effects of concussion grenades.

    * Reflex Booster (Back): Multiple Takedown => Allows you to take down two enemies (if they're close enough to each other, and both of them are standing) with one takedown move. (Note that this is only very rarely useful to stealth characters, despite the fact that takedowns are a major part of the stealth repertoire.)

    * Dermal Armor (Skin): Damage Reduction 1, 2, 3 => Reduces the damage you take by 15%, 30%, 45%.
    * Dermal Armor (Skin): EMP Shielding => Makes you immune to electrical damage (and the automatic deactivation of activated augmentations) when hit by an EMP grenade or touched by electrified substances.