peppergomez on 29/5/2001 at 09:09
hey all.
i lost my progress in deus ex when my comp crashed and the place i bought it from had to reformat my hard drive. i was on the final level of the game, too. as good a game as it is, i really dont want to start again from the beginning. is there someone who could send me a save game file from the last level, so i can copy that into my save game file and pick up, more or less, where i left off? thanks.
Phydeaux on 29/5/2001 at 13:29
Well, there's a problem with doing that.
Firstly, for a save to load, every single other save must be in your folder along with it. Even if we're just sending a quicksave, it won't work without all the rest. It is possible to delete every other save (inside the game, otherwise absolutly nothing will work), then just the Quicksave. However, there is always a save folder called "Current" that needs to be along with it.
The other problem is that the saves in this game are huge. A save is not a simple file, it's a folder. This folder includes map files and such along with the save. The save folders can be as big as 20 megs each.
If someone was to go to all the trouble to be able to send you just the Quicksave and the Current save, it could be up to 40 MB in size, and 25 MB at the least.
What I'd reccomend doing is using the cheats to get there. You can open up the maps through the "Legend" cheat, and give yourself skills, augs, and whatever weapons and upgrades you need.
Neither way is very fun, but that's the way it is.
Or, you could just play from the beginning. Deus Ex is one of the single best games ever made. And I can personally garuantee that the second time you play it will be different. Weapon choices, skill choices, aug choices, etc. The way you played out early parts of the game will be done differently because of what you learned the first time. Depending on who you kill/don't kill at various parts of the game, the storyline is different. Also, I KNOW there are parts that you missed. Secret doors, unheard conversations, upgrades, etc. I know this because no matter how close I look, how much I search, every one of the five times I played it were different, with new secrets found.
