DXRando v3.5 Speedrun Guide

Get the v3.5 Beta here: https://discord.com/channels/823629359931195394/1175721177054982144 

Read the Wiki: https://github.com/Die4Ever/deus-ex-randomizer/wiki/Goal-Randomization

In the New Game screen, set “Game Mode” to “Speedrun Training Mode”. Make sure “Loadout” is set to “Speed Enhancement”.

Speedrun modes make almost all doors breakable and pickable, although the strengths will be randomized. A few specific doors remain inaccessible without the proper key.

You always start with Speed Enhancement at level 1.

Skills are never banned, but the costs reroll at mission 5 (Jail), 10 (Paris), and 15 (Area 51).

Keep an eye out for the glows of datacubes and nanokeys. You can often see them through walls/floors.

M01 Liberty Island

• Starting Locations

  • Top of the statue. The vanilla location for Leo Gold.
  • Jail. Where Gunther is being held.
  • Electric Bunker (aka Bunker). The bunker with the forklift and electric arcs.
  • Filben dock. The North dock where Harley Filben is.
  • UNATCO satcom building. Outside the entrance to UNATCO HQ.

• Leo Gold Locations

  • Paul dock. South dock, the vanilla starting location.
  • Filben dock.
  • Hut. The hut outside the main entrance to the statue.
  • Bunker.
  • Jail.
  • Base of the statue. The floor with grenade traps, outside the one exit that doesn’t have a grenade.
  • Top of the statue.

• UNATCO Boat (exit)

  • Paul dock.
  • Filben dock.
  • Hut.
  • Top of statue.

Start location, Leo location, and Boat location cannot be near each other. (Eg, start in the bunker and the Filben dock is empty, and vice versa)

Liberty Island (Outside)

When the game loads, determine your location, and deduce what goal locations are prohibited. When you see Leo or the boat, you can narrow down the potential locations of the other.

M02 Battery Park

• Take the vent to the subway, ignore the hostages.

M02 Hell’s Kitchen

• Try to find the aug upgrade can before going to the Warehouse.

M02 Warehouse

• Take the first ladder to the fire escape. With speed you can crawl under the handrail and land on the fence. Otherwise use the next ladder to get on top of the handrail and run off it towards the fence.
• Look for the generator in alley, sewer, apartment, then Warehouse.

M03 Battery Park, Subway Station, and Mole People

• Look for the book with the code, talk to the people for the code, or hack the keypad in the phone booth.
• Explode the secret door in the bathroom, hack the keypad, or find the datacube with the code.
• Explode the door to the bathroom at the end of Mole People.

M03 Airfield Helibase

• You might want to use an armor or camo to get through the end part of this map.

M03 Airfield

• Use Speed Enhancement to crouch jump through the hole in the fence at the end of the map.
• The section of the map past that big fence will have the datacube with the code for the keypad to the Hangar. The datacube will usually be in the barracks building.

M04 Paul

• Talk to Paul, find the aug upgrade can in the hotel.
• Search for the datacube with the computer password. (Paul will call you on infolink when you get it.) Or hack.
• Use the Dish Alignment computer, then the Transmitter Computer, then leave.
• Talk to Paul again. Die quickly to get to Jail.

M05 Jail

• Quicksave to immediately interrupt Daedalus’ infolink so the door opens faster.
• Search for your equipment and maybe Paul. You usually check Armory first.
• If Paul is in the Robotics Bay Office, you can barely see the green glow of his security camera from below through the wall.
• If your equipment is not in the Armory, then it is in the Surgery Ward.
• In UNATCO, try to find the aug upgrade can. Also talk to Jaime so he gives you the aug upgrade can in Hong Kong.

M06 Hong Kong

• In Helibase, blow up the doors to the lockdown button, hit the button, Jock breaks the doors to leave the map, watch out for the electricity and the turret.
• Dragon’s Tooth Sword and Gordon Quick
  • If Gordon Quick is at his vanilla spot, the DTS will be at Tonnochi Road.
  • If the DTS is in the police vault, Gordon Quick will be at Tonnochi Road.
  • Gordon Quick and the DTS cannot be in the same map.
  • Generally we check the market, then canals, then if you haven’t seen Gordon yet skip Tonnochi Road (because that’s the only remaining place he can be), then check for the DTS in the Lucky Money freezer.
  • You only need to get near the sword (for the vanilla spot, start opening the sword case) then you can leave and go to Max Chen in Lucky Money.
  • After talking to Max Chen and dealing with the raid (the commandos have biocells and a camo), go talk to Gordon Quick.
  • Then talk to Tracer Tong, go get your killswitch disabled, talk to Tong again.
  • Go to Versalife, use the computer.
    • If playing the standard speedrun, you can blow up the elevator doors to go to Versalife Labs Level 2, lockpick it, or hack the keypad.
    • Otherwise leave Versalife, go to the temple, then talk to Tong, then go to Canal Road to get to Versalife Labs Level 2.
  • In Versalife Labs Level 2, use the computer, go down and use the keypad to destroy the UC, then swim out.
  • Talk to Tong. If you told Jaime to come here then get the aug upgrade can from him.
  • Leave and talk to Jock.

M08 Return to NYC

• Avoid killing the cops because then more enemies will spawn.
• Talk to Harley Filben, if you find Vinny that’s a bonus. They cannot both be in the bar even though the bar has 2 locations in it.
• Talk to Stanton Dowd.
• Talk to Jock to leave.

M09 Ship (and Graveyard)

• You might want to find the password for the bilge pumps computer in the Ship map before going below decks.
• Weld points and bilge pumps computer:
  • Engine room (near the start) will not have more than 3 goal items.
  • The Helipad area (including the air control room overlooking it) will have at least 1 goal item.
  • The bilge pumps room will not have more than 2 goal items.

M10 Paris

• Practice the drop down the broken elevator shaft. You should be able to do it without taking damage.
• There’s a keypad for the big door to the radioactive room. You can get the code by talking to Aimee. You can also get a hazmat suit from Le Merchant by buying it from him or killing him. If you kill Aimee too she has a few multitools.
• Find Nicolette and go to the Chateau.
• You can skip Chateau by just breaking the door to the sewers.

M11 Cathedral

• Look behind you when you spawn, sometimes a nanokey or datacube is immediately behind you.
• You might want to use a scrambler grenade near the stairs to the metro if there’s a bot there.

M12 Vandenberg (and Gas Station)

• Break the door to the computer room.
• Grab the chair at the start of the level and use it on the cart in the electrical room to climb and jump to the 2nd floor. You can crouch under the electricity to the computer. It’s possible to do without taking damage.
• After doing the computer and talking to Gary, go back to Vandenberg Command.
• Take the elevator up to the 3rd floor, go to the roof and look for Jock and Tong.
• At Gas Station, run and jump, make a bunch of noise at the window, and Tiffany’s guards will trigger the alarm. If you see “Alarm Activated” at the top of your screen then you’re good, they’ll eventually kill her and Jock will spawn.

M14 Oceanlab and Silo

• Silo
  • There’s only one datacube in the map, and it’s the one with the password for the computer.
  • You can kill Howard before or after using the computer.
  • There will be no more than 1 goal (computer/Howard/Jock) in each sector:
    • Courtyard inside the fence
    • Launch Command room (vanilla computer spot)
    • Silo tube (no computer spots here)
    • Around the launchpad outside of the fence (including the building with the guys playing poker)

M15 Area 51

• With speed aug level 4 and healthy-ish legs, you can jump to a raised platform behind the tower to run and jump onto the wall of the hangar, then take the fan route down.
• Instead of taking the elevator, you can crouch under the rail and land on the little red lights sticking out of the wall.
• Take the ladders down, watch for enemies at the end. The mechanic’s body might have 1 or 2 biocells.
• In Sector 2, fight the enemies, lure them and run around the circle, or use camo to allow you to lockpick the door towards Sector 3 but lockpicking can reveal you even with camo.
• In Sector 3, search for the datacube with the code for the keypad to Aquinas Hub Access, or talk to the mechanic at the reactors and he’ll give it to you.
• The woman scientist’s body might have a medkit. Take the elevator up, talk to Helios, take the elevator back down.
• Take the big blast doors to Sector 4. Quicksaving will allow skipping Helios’ infolink to open the doors faster.
• In Sector 4, the first room will ALWAYS have the datacube needed for the computer in the next hallway.
• Use the computer with the password to disable the radioactive zone and open the door towards Bob.
• Talk to Bob, then go to Aquinas Router door (it will be locked but Helios tells you a password), scout out the goal locations and choose an ending.
• Goal objects: Coolant button for Tong’s ending, green security computer for Helios ending, or the 4 keypads for the Illuminati ending.
• They can be shuffled amongst their normal locations, or in one of the UC shutoff rooms. The computer can’t be in the top floor UC shutoff room (it would be too easy).
• Helios ending
  • This is the most common choice currently for speedruns.
  • Use the password Helios gave you earlier to login to the computer, and use it to open the Aquinas Router door.
  • Go back to Aquinas Router, hit the buttons, quicksave to speedup the infolinks, then use the computer.
  • Go back to Sector 3, take the elevator up to Helios, that’s GG.
• Illuminati ending
  • You need to use the 4 keypads, Alex gave you the first 3 digits (press F2 it should be near the top of your notes like 123*) but you need to figure out the last digit.
  • Once you’ve used the 4 keypads, go up to the Infusion Control near Bob and hit the button, that’s GG.
• Tong ending
  • Press the button for the coolant.
  • Go back to the reactors in Sector 3.
  • Go down into the radioactive zone, hit the 2 buttons, leave the radioactive zone.
  • Go up the ladder, kill the mechanic (he turns on you), hit the buttons, that’s GG.