Thoughts on Biomod and Shifter?

[NeonTerminus]

I haven't used these mods much before because I wasn't really sure if I needed them. Are they worth using and if so which one is superior?

[21stcenturyrambo]

It depends. If you want something different use Biomod. If you want something close to the base game use Shifter.

[LTK]

I've completed Deus Ex a fair few times so I went with Biomod right away. It's outstanding, you don't have to babysit your augmentations like strength and ballistic resistance any more, you just leave them on and they do their work whenever necessary. Some of the augs have been turned into passive ones, like run silent and power recirculator, which don't use energy at all.

The spy drone gets some really clever functions when upgraded, it can read datacubes, press buttons, and remotely log into computers. The only thing I don't particularly like is how regeneration works now, it only starts healing you after a delay which can be shortened by upgrading, and stops working when you take damage. Though now I guess it's more balanced since it's not something you can turn on and then walk through a hail of gunfire.

Biomod has everything Shifter has, which means you get skill points for kills/knockouts, some skills are revamped (swimming is now athletics and honest-to-god useful now), unique weapons are added to the game (like DX:IW) and enemy AI is better (prepare to be insta-headshotted by NSF on Realistic).

All in all, definitely go for Biomod, it fixes so much what's wrong with Deus Ex and you have a substantially better game for it. Just maybe don't choose Realistic right off the bat because it's insanely hard.

[Vellrath]

Do you guys know of an appropriate way to install biomod. I replaced the deusex.u & deusex.int @ revision>shifter and in the GOTY directory, but no luck. Thanks in advance.