Initial Story
In 2049, unsavory conditions are rampant throughout the world. As soon as it becomes clear that a terrorist attack in Shenzhen, China, was carried out by perpetrators with ties to international groups and that Hong Kong may be their next target - the United Nations Anti-Terrorist Coalition (UNATCO) dispatches their first nano-augmented agent, Mad Ingram, into the city to prevent the situation from escalating any further.
DXN - Deus Ex: Nihilum is a First Person Shooter mod set in an alternate Deus Ex continuity. It features made-from-scratch original content while also extensively featuring material from the UNATCO Born mod (used with permission from fender2k1, UB's project leader) and Deus Ex: Revision (2011 build - used in accordance with the mod's license).
* Over 22,222 downloads from May 28th 2013 to May 28th 2023
* The main campaign features a new musical score by RetroXor with 80+ tracks (over 2 hours of music). The Training and Epilogue DLCs feature music by Denis [KaMiKaZe] Melnik, Logan Felber and Elektronalin in addition to five new tracks from RetroXor.
* 2,500+ lines of dialogue (roughly four hours of audio)
* 8-15 hours of gameplay (includes DLC - estimates based on testers' playthrough times)
* Two new weapons: Paratrooper Rifle and XVA Assault Gun (w/ EMP ammo) in addition to a new Glock variant
- Exploration is essential! Treat the levels as mazes and prepare for back-tracking!
- Save often and use several savegame slots! This will hopefully save you a lot of time when it comes to handling certain odd issues.
- Encrypted datacubes: Remember, once you've hacked an encrypted datacube, you have to click on it again to make the datacube information window disappear.
- General rule on hacking: Keep in mind that you do not need this skill to advance the main plot itself. However, its general usefulness cannot be underestimated!
DISCLAIMER
Because of the millions of different hardware and software combinations possible with today's personal computers, under no circumstances including negligence shall FastGamerr or anyone else be held liable for any incidental, special, consequential or any other damages that may result from the use or inability to use this mod/add-on content.
Following up on MOTSNUP and TODOA - Edition of Magnitude, the time has come to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Nihilum (11th anniversary of its release) in 2024 with an ESRGAN/krea.ai-upscaled DDS texture pack for the DirectX 10 renderer - recommended to be used in conjunction with the New Vision textures, HDTP models, unifiedDeusEx UI upgrades and the Helios Texture Overhaul upscaled textures.
(These mods are not automatically included in the DXN download because the combined filesize would be quite enormous, and most people have these mods or a combination of them already installed)
The 20th Anniversary Upscale also features the following changes:
However, not all of the original textures have been upscaled for a variety of reasons (e.g. datapad images not warranting it in my opinion, some textures just being plain text on a single-color background, textures from the common TITAN.utx package having already been upscaled by other mods etc.), while some have been replaced or altered from the previous releases. Most of the original hi-res DDS textures that were already included in the original 2013 release have been retained.
If you already have the previous Final Anniversary Update installed and don't want to download the DDS textures, you can download this patch instead and extract it to the root of your Deus Ex directory (e.g. C:\DeusEx) to update the other files.
In case you only want to download the new DDS textures, you can download this pack instead (also needs to be extracted to the root DX directory).
(In other words, if you want to upgrade the previous Final Anniversary Update into the latest version without downloading the full installer, you need to download both of those files and extract them as stated above)
And as always: Enormous thanks to everyone who had a part in making the mod - RetroXor and fender2k1 above anyone else - and to everyone who played it! I hope you'll like this update.
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
2004 - The Birth of Deus Ex: Nihilum: As seen in the 2004 intro, the initial premise for Nihilum was more or less about J.C. getting sent to Finland for some reason - also dipping into Glace Bay in Canada and XVA's premises in Arkansas, as well as meeting Anthony Stafford and Wesley Cutter at some point. Aside from the two screenshots on the top row of the following collage, the rest of the screenshots were taken by me in October 2004 when I applied for the UNATCO Born level designer position after getting frustrated and bored with Nihilum itself.
2007-2008: As real life got in the way and production on UNATCO Born stalled, I was inspired to start "FastGamerr's Hong Kong Project" (FGRHK) in its stead, which eventually morphed into the second major incarnation of Nihilum. In this iteration, Mad Ingram was a Chinese special agent who was teamed up with the American UNATCO agent Wesley Cutter to solve crimes in Hong Kong. In early 2008, after once again getting frustrated with DX editing, I donated the 2007-2008 levels to WildcatPhoenix from the Man in Black mod, as seen in some of its screenshots from 2008-2010: Moddb.com
2010-2013: Returning to DX editing for the third (3rd) and final time in mid-2010, about half a year after finishing TODOA, I once again reshuffled the plans for the mod and turned Wesley Cutter from the previous builds into Mad Ingram. As seen in these screenshots, the pre-release designs for the Forichi, Kowloon, Queens and Berlin levels were also quite different from the final versions, getting redesigned (sometimes multiple times) for various reasons (for instance the original Forichi design was scrapped since it was incredibly laggy in-game).
DXN - Deus Ex: Nihilum is a First Person Shooter mod set in an alternate Deus Ex continuity. It features made-from-scratch original content while also...
Early Access release of the Fifth Anniversary Update for DXN - Deus Ex: Nihilum. DXN is a First Person Shooter mod set in an alternate Deus Ex continuity...
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DXN is a First Person Shooter mod set in an alternate Deus Ex continuity. It features made-from-scratch original content while also extensively featuring...
A collection of selected music from DXN - Deus Ex: Nihilum by RetroXor in MP3 format, 320kbps CBR. Includes 55 tracks from the main mod + 1 Bonus Track...
Main design documents (pre-release) for DXN - Deus Ex: Nihilum from three (3) years of its development history: 2007, 2011 and 2013. No alternate download...
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Hey man its been a while!
Looks like people are still enjoying this master piece which of course I did voice acting in ;)
What you working on nowadays? Let me know of your current day gaming projects because I cant really understand the stuff on the articles.
Hey again, I hope everything's been well with you!
Four years since ham sandwiches galore. :] Luckily, GMDX's 9.0 release is just 'round the corner, so there will be more fresh Deus Exing in the horizon.
At the moment I've once again retired from game editing, tho' I did try out Unreal Engine 4 for a while earlier this year ( you can download the result from this link Moddb.com ) but that didn't really work out the way I hoped. Alas.
All the best!
Incredible mod, FastGamerr. I enjoyed playing through it again. Here's my review on brandonchovey.net.
Brandonchovey.net
Thanks for the review! I think it's my greatest achievement to date to have a review of my mod about ham sandwiches feature a photo of a ham sandwich. :']
Splendid! I'm glad you enjoyed it and you are most welcome. I'm eager for more of your work so I'll have to play your old JK and MOTS stuff soon.
I just have no words to describe how amazing is this mod T_T
Thanks for the feedback! :]
Truly a masterpiece.
A masterpiece of a ham sandwich.
Nihilum mod is the first Deus Ex mod I have played and I really like it, I am playing it again RightNow again this time for MPS (First time I played for Illuminati) and enjoying it a lot what I like about this mod it feels like Deus Ex. The soundtrack,the cyberpunk setting, all set in an alternate Deus Ex universe which is great because I am a big fan of Deus Ex. I hope in the future we will see more Total Conversion Deus Ex mods like this (set in a dark cyberpunk setting with great soundtrack) :)
Awesome! Thank you for playing my mod! :]