Deus Ex any% in

32:25 real time. Most of the timesave was from Oceanlab, otherwise this run was quite similar in pace compared to the old PB. Happy to get sub 31, still some bigger mistakes (unatco hq chapter 2, cathedral, oceanlab-lab, no final elevator skip). The category is pretty amazing so hopefully I can come back and improve it some more another time. Speedrun category any% with user.ini edits.
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Video with commentary: • Deus Ex any% in 30:45 ...
Deus Ex speedrun tutorial playlist: • Deus Ex Speedrun tutorial
My speedrun attempts at: / jelmeree
My speedrun.com profile: www.speedrun.com/user/jelmeree
Deus Ex leaderboards: www.speedrun.com/dx

[@SerMattzio]

01:40 Stopping Manderley's briefing by just casually bursting into his office and hurling a throwing knife into his chest has to be one of my favourite speedrunner moments.

[@tenow]

Yeah, I was wondering what he's gonna say after whole mission was skipped, slowed video to 0.25 just before this scene.... knife to the chest. Ok, keep your secrets

[@pamirbezsnov1737]

I wanna do this all times briefing in reality... No more seconds for having choice, "just put the tomatoes in blackhole!" Russian anecdote

[@KingLich451]

hahahahahahahhah

[@milgrau2233]

Yeah, and wth happened when the door was closing

[@lego174]

That-*_OUGH_*m-

[@greekhuman8706]

mandarley:JC did what?He blew up area 51?I just sent him to the statue like 30 minutes ago

[@hermannabt8361]

Paul is still waiting on the pier.

[@diablocls55]

@@hermannabt8361 😂😂😂

[@axr6327]

“My running speed is augmented”

[@joshklaver47]

"That escalated quickly. I mean, that really got out of hand fast." -Ron Burgundy, Anchorman

[@xboxgamer474246]

He never even got the sword to mend the triads!

[@cyberen]

Walton Simons: You'll be dead within 48 hours. JC: I just need 30 minutes.

[@justinhamric6632]

Meanwhile, me at 30 minutes: "I think I can save Gunther Hermann."

[@kalidilerious]

@@justinhamric6632 poor Gunther LOL he was just an over dedicated company man

[@CallMeMimi27]

@@justinhamric6632 you guys saved him? I went out of my way to kill him.

[@ursoanonimo8398]

This speedrun is augmented.

[@user-qj8wd1de3d]

no shit

[@spankyspork5808]

14:48 he disassembles and reassembles himself xD

[@MrPoke]

"JC, save the world." "Give me 30 minutes"

[@reckless20]

he actually got the worst ending

[@VimyGlide]

"JC, *end the world" ftfy

[@HAZARDOUS88]

@@reckless20 Worst? lol, they give you a choice, and it's up to you which is the best.

[@johnmirra5276]

No, it's the best ending. Illuminati ending is the worst.

[@olivius8891]

@@reckless20 nah thats illuminati

[@Sposchy]

The madman actually put two points into swimming.

[@rickdentn]

xD

[@Ezio999Auditore]

Why did he do it bros?

[@halberdsturgeon8775]

Shave seconds off the return trip from the ocean lab

[@Rhacman]

"Remember that Manderley wants to see you, level 2." "Already threw a knife at him, but thanks!"

[@Slonitram]

3:15 Guy sees JC running towards him and has a heart attack.

[@mmclaughlin056]

Hahahahaha

[@NoExplosionsMcgee]

Lmao

[@CallMeMimi27]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/q4WkY5muhMqXrtE

[@MaxTeky]

LOL

[@KingLich451]

xD

[@lempamo]

23:33 Gunter: Now- JC: *GEP GUN*

[@antalgergo2699]

The GEP GUN's a great choice for quick combat

[@antalgergo2699]

@Wade Mercer Use the Colt M1911A1 to silently eliminate Ocelot

[@chessemchesse3676]

The gep gun,got an issue?use the gep gun,fast silent and reliable

[@ibrahimjaved5574]

The GEP Gun is the most silent way to eliminate Manderley

[@kass1564]

24:23 - Jay C - E

[@TheHauntedAngel]

"Try to make a silent approach" Jock says, as JC has just dropped a LAM grenade and is pulling out a rocket launcher

[@CyranofromBergerac]

They can't hear you approach if their eardrums are busted.

[@krisd5697]

The GEP gun is the most silent way to eliminate Manderley

[@venommagnus]

@@krisd5697 I have opened the Mayor

[@Ezio999Auditore]

Go in and go in and go in

[@VinceGatling]

​@@venommagnusget pills against my orders

[@yuriylehki1613]

JC's augs are so advanced that they reconstruct him instantly every time he gibs himself.

[@lm9029]

Nanomachines, son.

[@dungeonmarine4861]

His quantum bio-reconstruction from System Shock 2 is augmented

[@josephjoestar9211]

Tracer Tong: No time to waste Jc:ok

[@solairebrasileiro4139]

26:36 sargent.... son of YEAAAAAARRRRRGH

[@linuscontinental2223]

My methods may be unorthodox but the results speak for themselves

[@ryaneftink7364]

Jock: JC, be stealthy so they don’t kill Tiff- JC: I don’t negotiate with hostages.*boom*

[@mightykitten4615]

I like how JC just casually takes an elevator ride with the guy who killed his parents.

[@olivius8891]

My favorite part lol。

[@joshklaver47]

"Barely a scratch. A little faster on your feet than your daddy was..."

[@ilovethevopo]

Only in Deus Ex would looting your own corpse be considered a valid strategy.

[@ratfuk9340]

"JC I need you to.." "Don't worry I know exactly what to do"

[@jelmereerland]

That’s the point of planning a speedrun :) Unfortunately Anna wasn’t impressed that I didn’t locate the barrel of ambrosia in Battery Park.

[@aburrki6732]

I did not realise how much of this game can be skipped by just knowing all the codes.

[@guidedexplosiveprojectileg9943]

Shoulda used like a scramble code system

[@TheOfficialButthead]

much like system shock 2, you can just skip the first part medbay by just knowing a door code

[@crazyrabbits]

By design -- a large chunk of knowing what does what, and what you can do before talking to characters, nets in completely-different dialogue chains and consequences. I would argue that it's still the first (and only?) time that a game did reactivity to this kind of degree.

[@LordTrashcanRulez]

@@guidedexplosiveprojectileg9943 Can't do that when most of the codes are character lines

[@Gameprojordan]

@@TheOfficialButthead system shock 1 is the same way for alot of its obstacles

[@unfa00]

1:40 Manderley opened his mouth only to swallow JC's throwing knife.

[@geefreck]

Manderley: "Ya I only met him once; he throw a knife at my sternum and ran away"

[@pmchad]

"well I did get to talk to him, but all he said was "HUA-" and then he ran off"

[@siechamontillado]

I like to think Walton Simons is still hanging out in the lab under the sea, just wondering when JC is going to show up, what he'll eat later, why are the lights suddenly going out ...

[@rsethc]

When I played through it I avoided Simons by just running past him (not glitching through the walls obviously) in the undersea labs, and he shows back up at the surface of Area 51. So I imagine he's frantically following JC and by the time he catches up the whole internet is already frying itself and everything.

[@somerandomname3124]

The Versalife part always gets me "Mr. Page we must evacuate, there's been an explosion." "Wait what, how?" "A ex UNATCO agent moving at lightning fast speed seems to have broken in and just willed it into existence." "Oh man... see this is why I NEED to become a transhuman God, we're the only thing that stands between the world and whoever that ex UNATCO agent is." "It's J.C Denton." "Ah shit."

[@tnhnoztel]

In order to keep his lightning fast speed agent work at terminal velocity, JC didn't spare time to inform Jock about the bomb. So, don't say sacrifices weren't made in this speedrun...

[@Max-cg7mp]

The bomb?!

[@laurent.treguier]

A rat was killed at 7:10 as well, JC just doesn't care

[@thespacemanfil4921]

Literally blew up the hostage with a LAM at the gas station.

[@NarquelieNarmo]

9:15 - You can relax, JC.. - NOOOO, I barely have 24 minutes and 41 seconds left !!

[@orvilleredenpiller338]

This is like a parody of a speedrun.

[@MirceaKitsune]

For someone who takes over two weeks to do a full playthrough because I like to go through every interaction, seeing this is almost magical.

[@guidedexplosiveprojectileg9943]

Took me 30 hours to beat the game and it was worth it

[@MirceaKitsune]

​@@guidedexplosiveprojectileg9943 You can go through it even faster. Just not if you want to enjoy every interaction. That's the fun part... there are many different ways to go through the whole thing.

[@AngelTwilight]

25:44 This is so hilarious moment Gary Savage: "Please save my daughter!" JC:

[@thibaultquillery4513]

I love how beating Area 51 security ultimately devolves to JC carefully wriggling his finger under a flimsy plastic cover :)

[@pmchad]

my finger is augmented

[@FishyFLCL]

Those corpse gibs save teloport glitch is amazing

[@attractivegd9531]

A really fun speedrun to watch if you know the game, there is plenty of comical moments in this run. GG jelmeree.

[@thomasrial4444]

9:17 “relax JC” JC “no I don’t think I will”

[@JamesThomas-nr2og]

Favourite bit was the mission to 'rescue' Tiffany Savage. While Jock is telling you to try and make a silent approach, you're on the roof throwing a LAM into the cell to blow up Tiffany

[@smugshrug]

Paul: "You can relax, JC." JC: "I AM SPEED"

[@SafetyServbot]

To be fair, knives are pretty effective at ending conversations early in real life too

[@HyborianYT]

London style baby.

[@ptdakos]

It's absolutely ridiculous how much time you can save by skipping several primary objectives and questlines altogether. A great run!

[@Temp3st60]

Gunther: Yeees come to me! JC: Completes mission and runs Gunther: >:(

[@halberdsturgeon8775]

Gunther got casually gepped in the side of the head lol

[@isaacweisberg3571]

12:05 lmao he dies by smoking allllll of the cigarettes at once lmao

[@realityassembly7368]

I think he had just one. Don't smoke kids!

[@VanwolfsterLycan]

Eating chocolate, smoking cigarettes, dying to loot your own corpse, phasing through walls/doors, jumping ridiculously high, etc. Funny speed run indeed.

[@MrHanslikeslegos]

25:45 Tiffany: "Rescue at last!" JC: *Throws a fucking LAM inside and GEPs out*

[@HC-qc5rp]

Holy fuck 1:42 is legendary. I was dying laughing. Awesome run

[@orvilleredenpiller338]

Cigarettes: deadly enough to kill the dead.

[@Gianluca0000]

25:03 The quickiest level beated

[@anon3631]

Paul: Relax JC. JC: My patience is augmented.

[@sarysa]

I've done a lol cheats run before and this has blown me away. JC is so augmented that he doesn't even need a torso to take out the conspirators.

[@geefreck]

Oh my god he ran almost this entire thing without a torso

[@vektor451]

Wildest 30 minutes of my life.

[@sorenkair]

the damn helicopter feels even slower in a speedrun

[@jelmereerland]

They are slow, but for the runner it is nice to have some small breaks.

[@TheSquidPro]

@@jelmereerland My speed is augmented.

[@reckless20]

what I've been struggling through with savescams for over 4 hours he got done in 10 mins.

[@floorpuncher3280]

1:42 Lmao

[@colintx800]

I shot Manderley with a crossbow then run out the office. When I come out of hiding Walton Simons and Manderley were trying to kill each other lol.

[@Michalastar]

lol

[@isaacbrown7829]

I don't think I'm ever going to forget the first notes of the hong kong music now

[@mountainbearoutdoors]

This is by far my favourite game, loved watching how you did this!

[@bkb4010]

32:35 that knife at the end LMAO

[@Xander77Ru]

I thought I was familiar with most speedrun tricks for this game, but I have no idea what you've done to skip the Vandenberg section. Guess there's always more to learn.

[@jelmereerland]

The exit level trigger for the Vandenberg level is floating in mid-air and still active. If you touch it or a bullet tracer from the assault rifle hits it the cutscene will play as if you had finished the level and it will take you to the gas station. I skilled rifles to advanced, aimed at the right spot and hoped one of the 30 bullet tracers would hit the trigger. Pretty crazy that the developers forgot to deactivate this trigger.

[@Ezio999Auditore]

What a shame.

[@Xander77Ru]

@@Ezio999Auditore What a rotten way to skip a level.

[@petewilcock]

@@Xander77Ru He was a good level.

[@Xander77Ru]

@@petewilcock *Lip smack*

[@Azazel010101]

Masterpiece work. And my favourite game of all times, too! Thank you.

[@Wolfy-02]

Wow picking up stuff from own jc Denton body is a cool skill 😮

[@allieanarchy2833]

BOB PAGE: ...They loved their little boy, JC, and that's why they're dead. I'm sending up the man who did the job. JC: *Nods to the gentlemen in the elevator, boards, presses his floor.*

[@not_halk]

You are a madman, it took me 2 days to save the world.

[@jelmereerland]

I didn’t get the killswitch deactivated, so I was in a hurry to save the world.

[@olivius8891]

@@jelmereerland lol

[@HAZARDOUS88]

Thanks for uploading, very enjoyable to watch!!

[@guilhermebachegagomes9241]

Congratulations on your run, youre a god

[@bruhistantv9806]

just taking an elevator ride into a beyond-top-secret part of area 51 with 2 mooks and a suited boi like the good friends you are

[@RannekMusic]

You finished the map in 30 sec what i played for 2 hours lol

[@nikobellic570]

Well done! This could be the record for a while...

[@Mihail4444]

4:00 what the hell is happening

[@JCDanon]

Helios, what's happening?!

[@jelmereerland]

It is a combination of transferring the inventory to the corpse, reviving JC with save and load, leaving the map without any items, which for some reason gives back some of the items you had previously and finally looting the corpse. This way we can quickly duplicate augmentation upgrade canisters, biocells, medkits, candy bars, (gep gun) ammo and cigarettes. Note that saving and loading to revive JC only works because the user.ini file was edited to get additional save and load keys.

[@stardust6521]

@@jelmereerland did u have any kind of mod like the shifters one??

[@jelmereerland]

Abhranil Chattopadhyay I used Kentie’s DirectX 10 renderer and Kentie’s launcher from kentie.net. Additionally the user.ini file was edited for more save and load keys, basically binding SaveGame and LoadGame commands to a key. No other mods.

[@stardust6521]

@@jelmereerland thanks man I wanna try it too actually

[@geefreck]

25:05 Vandenburg is difficult, but you make it look so easy

[@MrPaulCraft]

Great to watch things being perfected to such level.

[@Sgnolbo]

After watching the air force base section around ten times, I still have no idea what is even happening. Great run though!!

[@jelmereerland]

First I go into the game options twice to activate superjump. Then I try to reach for the map transport trigger for the Hangar map, which bleeds a bit out of the floating hallway’s corner and can be reached from outside. While in the air I did a couple of save+load to get into the map transporter as quick as possible. I’m glad you liked the run ^^

[@TheHauntedAngel]

@@jelmereerland Can I just say thanks for taking the time to answer all the confused people in the comments explaining what on earth we're watching

[@stardust6521]

@@TheHauntedAngel yeah man hor she is awesome

[@MrPoke]

idk if you're talking about the Vandenburg section, but there's a trigger that starts the end sequence. By precisely shooting at it, it starts the sequence.

[@heavenorhell2024]

4:00 he is starting to believe

[@unfa00]

12:04 JC smokes himself.

[@gametech4101]

"You can relax, JC"

[@oo_r18_oo]

+resp for the codes you remembered and enter them at god level speed.. 🔥

[@Negolash]

Gep gun is the most silent way to complete a speedrun

[@AndyRaffle]

Beautiful! 30:45 of me saying "excuse me, what just happened?"

[@RJKhey]

Amazing! No one loves a game more than a speedrunner!

[@Volky_Volk]

19:40 what the body duplicate lmfao. great run great job!

[@littleNorwegians]

0:10 Alright, as always, "stick with the pro"-oh... nevermind.

[@DominikusIII]

The thumbnail of this video is pure gold.

[@OmegaVideoGameGod]

OH MY GOD JC AH BOMB!!! A LAM!!!!!

[@ImJCyo]

This record has stood for five years now. I am absolutely floored.

[@merkadioe9806]

Everytime JC dies, I say wait.. That was intentional 😂

[@siechamontillado]

And on the third second, he rose again.

[@adamrkimber]

Wow! That was amazing. How does palying with the menus make the jumps so high and how does chucking grenades at your feet allow for clipping? And how on earth did you find out these things!!! :-o

[@jelmereerland]

Glad you liked the run :D I didn't find any of this, some of the tricks go back to the earliest 2004 and 2007 segmented runs, other things were found in the same year this run was done (2018). Some augmentations become stronger when you open the game options menu and go back in the game, no idea why but for the leg augmentations it allows higher jumps and less fall damage. Grenade clipping works by creating a platform for JC to stand on (the grenade), then the platform rotates (a random direction), which can rotate JC through doors.

[@kabongpope]

Never seen that ridiculous Vandenberg CMD skip @25:00 lmao nicely done!

[@jelmereerland]

Thanks! You just have to aim at the right spot where the exit level trigger is.

[@WeCareAlot4693]

Alex: "Remember that Manderly wants to see you." JC&Manderly seconds earlier: 😵🗡️😎

[@danialtootian6385]

Amazing, i finished the last 3 mins of this speedrun in 3 hours.

[@halberdsturgeon8775]

The best speedruns are the ones that also have you constantly laughing your ass off

[@MajorT0m]

Very entertaining, thanks for the laughs 😂👍

[@Jamesaepp]

You make a good runner, JC.

[@paulvarus859]

Bob page: helios... What's happening? Helios: jc denton is blowing up area51. Bob page: but we we've sent him on his first mission 30 minutes ago!

[@cs4560B]

That smoking strat is amazing

[@rainmanslim4611]

Jumping over paul's aparment building during the 3rd hells kitchen visit killed me

[@baloonfart8082]

9:18 I AM RELAXED!!!

[@DoriansPortrait]

This play through is hilarious!!! (Sincere, not sarcasm.)

[@unfa00]

GEP Gun seems to be the fastest lockpick ever.

[@halberdsturgeon8775]

It's a tool of many uses

[@chinossynthesizer705]

26:37 son of

[@korelin_play]

He finished the game in time it took me to understand how to make stealth take out

[@nitrosodium]

*Congrats!*

[@tentaclesmod]

In a normal playthrough, I use the GEP gun the same way: to open doors.

[@gokudomatic]

Speedrunner Mario finally got to play Deus Ex.

[@OmerSaidtr]

My brain can't comprehend how these speed runners discover those glitches!

[@halberdsturgeon8775]

It's not always speedrunners who discover the glitches, but they are the ones who figure out how to use them with maximum efficiency :p