The modding team behind The Nameless Mod for Deus Ex: Revision has released a brand new version of it. Version 2.0 is a revamp of the original The Nameless Mod from 2009 on the same engine, aiming to update the visuals of the mod.
For those unaware, Deus Ex: Revision is a community-made overhaul of the 2000 classic. It features new environments, music, world-building detail, and bundles in some of the best modifications the fanbase has made. These include Direct3D 9 rendering, high-res textures, high-detail models, and alt gameplay modes.
On the other hand, The Nameless Mod is a period piece of a Matrix-like world that occurs within a forum. Every facet of TNM is based on something within Deus Ex, from the conspiracy side of things, strategies you use in Deus Ex, to technical aspects of the game being represented within the world.
Going into more details, Version 2.0 redesigns all 58 levels to be up to a higher standard. Moreover, the team has designed all levels with stealth and combat in mind. It also added multiple routes and solutions for every obstacle.
The Nameless Mod 2.0 features a variety of levels. Some of them are more compact but with more material to interact with while others have been expanded to have more memorable sections and gameplay mechanics.
It’s also worth noting that Version 2.0 features two brand-new secret levels and one not-so-secret new level. Players can also find new side missions into some levels. Not only that but the team has brought some Quality-of-life features from Deus Ex: Revision and Deus Ex: Transcended.
You can go ahead and download The Nameless Mod 2.0 from Steam. As said, you’ll need Deus Ex: Revision in order to play it. And, Deus Ex: Revision requires a copy of Deus Ex GOTY installed in the same library/drive as Revision to play.
Have fun!
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Every time I play Deus Ex: Revision on Windows 10, it screws up my mouse settings system-wide (meaning it persists after I close the game) and I have to reboot my PC to fix it. The only way I’ll ever play anything like that is in a virtual machine, and I just don’t care enough to bother.
Never experienced such a thing on Linux… :]
That’s because mouse input works differently on Linux.
Also, as someone who has done PC gaming on Windows and Linux many times, let me assure you that mouse input on Linux is nowhere near as good as Windows for gaming. I don’t bother keeping a Linux install for gaming anymore, because I’m just not even going to bother using it. Windows is so much better.
When was the last time you tried out Linux?
And let me guess, you were just installing one of the popular distributions and using it as-is, right?
That means you were using a distro which has optimized defaults for server usage and not desktop, as in optimized for throughput performance rather than achieving consistent low-latency behavior.
This is where I have high hopes for a possible public release of SteamOS 4.0, because it already has a so-called “soft real-time” Linux kernel by default.
Plus Valve develops a custom Wayland compositor called “Gamescope” with the explicit goal of lowering the frametimes latency variance, among other things.
And on top of that just recently a completely overhauled CPU scheduler has landed within the upstream Linux kernel, which once again lowers the scheduling latency compared to the current one.
All of the above just to say that I believe you that you had a worse experience with a server-optimized Linux distribution, however once Valve updates their SteamOS distro to Linux kernel version 6.6 sometime in 2024, the situation will improve massively for every Linux gamer without having to compile a custom kernel just to achieve the lowest latencies physically possible.
In fact, it’s going to be glorious…
I use Linux daily on my laptop (not for gaming). I had been a Fedora user for many years, but recently got tired of their “upgrade every year or get no updates” release schedule, so I switched to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and I’ve been enjoying it.
BTW: All of your talk of latency is irrelevant. It has nothing to do with the real issues Linux has with gaming. Performance-wise Linux is actually good for Linux-native gaming, and my VR experiences in Linux were better than Windows (possibly because I didn’t have 10,000 things running in the background like I do in Windows), if you ignore the fact that the vast majority of my VR library (including all VR related tools) wouldn’t run on Linux.
Linux still has some hardware support deficiencies that are a deal-breaker for gaming. The biggest being the utter lack of support for gaming mice, or any sort of proper mouse configuration. Don’t want acceleration? Well on Windows you can do some registry tweaks or run a script and mostly get rid of it, but on Linux you can’t. Want to use all 9+ mouse buttons? On Windows you have mouse control software to allow for using all of those buttons for whatever the Hell you want, but on Linux you can’t use them unless you’re a programmer and can code support for them yourself. Want any sort of advanced configuration for your GPU? Well on Windows we have dozens of tools for GPU configuration and monitoring (NVIDIA Profile Inspector anyone?), but on Linux you don’t even have the full NVIDIA Control Panel settings that exist on Windows (I think I saw some Linux GPU monitoring tool so that may exist, but I’ve never seen advanced GPU config tools).
Until the days of editing config files and scripts by hand are gone, then Linux will never match Windows for gaming, even if it technically performs better. No one is going to care if Linux has lower latency when gaming on Linux is a pain in the a**.
Dude, you know it’s hard to take you seriously when you spout non-sense like that, right?
Here’s your solution for turning off mouse acceleration under Linux, which can even be done via GUI on the most popular desktop environments:
I’m not going to bother debunking all the other false statements you just made up, but thanks for at least admitting that Linux is the superior OS from a technical standpoint…
I think you misread my post, I said Linux was good performance-wise for Linux-native gaming (that does not include Windows games running on Linux). I didn’t say it was better than anything else, or that it was technologically superior to anything else.
You also haven’t used the desktop managers I have (KDE, MATE, and Cinnamon), because I don’t recall any of them having an option to disable acceleration. It’s been some time since I used Cinnamon, so maybe they added an option, but I’m still using KDE daily and I’m pretty sure it still doesn’t have one. As for MATE, it just lacks options in general, but I like the old GNOME 2 feel (GNOME 3 sucks).
For gaming….
Linux isn’t the future. Linux is dead and always will be.
I’ve watched Linux over the decades and I’ve seen the starry-eyed people with their heads in the clouds claiming Linux will take over the gaming market. I’ve watched as Linus Torvald gave the finger to Nvidia earning Linux at least some credibility. I’ve watched as Gabe Newell panicked because he feared MS creating a Walled Garden and destroying Steam so he created Steam OS.
At the end of the day Windows will always win for the vast majority of PC gamers.
You really are underestimating the positive impression the vast majority of Steam Deck users have with SteamOS.
Once Valve makes the ISO image publicly available, many people will be curious enough to try it out for themselves.
In fact, Valve has the handheld PC market already cornered with a first-gen product, which is an absolute incredible achievement.
Taking over the PC market is obviously alot harder, but just recently Linux already passed Apple’s macOS marketshare on Steam, which Apple fans also thought would never ever happen…
Only time will tell!
Must be a really tiring thing to reboot a PC.
Sending my thoughts and prayers, mate.
Tiring? Of course not. Incredibly inconvenient? Absolutely.
I keep things open on my desktop that I’m in the middle of working on and videos I’m in the middle of watching, and I don’t like having to restart my computer and lose things.
So you work AND watch videos all WHILE you play a game?
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What on Earth are you talking about?
Every time I play Deus Ex: Revision on Windows 10, it screws up my mouse settings system-wide (meaning it persists after I close the game) and I have to reboot my PC to fix it. The only way I’ll ever play anything like that is in a virtual machine, and I just don’t care enough to bother.
the nameless mod is one of the best mod i ever played, it’s literally a whole fullgame itself with is own level, missions and story
i rage quited after i realized the whole mod is about deus ex forums and moderators having arguments with fanboys and casuals who think the ps2 version is better.
If you think this is the best mod you ever played you need to play ashes 2063, cry of fear, afraid of monsters, amc tc star wars empire at war remake, the specialists troopers dawn of destiny, stalker anomaly, brutal doom project brutality, deathwish for blood, need for speed most wanted redux and endless tomb raider custom campaigns.
I tought it was about some forum drama about who was gonna be the top mod. The ps2 version thing is just a joke you read by interacting with noob npcs. I mostly forgotten about the mod story, for obvious reasons, but if you like the game structure of Deus Ex it’s worth a playthrough or both, since it have branching paths ala Witcher 2.
The original game with the Give Me Dues Ex mod is much better. It’s not some inside joke about a forum long out of existence.
The original game with the Give Me Dues Ex mod is much better. It’s not some inside joke about a forum long out of existence.
Great two overrated garbage mods put together for maximum cringe.
Meh. And why is it so damn dark? The original game isn’t that bad.
Is it to hide the uninspired level design?
Anyway, Deus Ex might be in my top 3 favorite games ever, but this is 2023 (right?) and it absolutely needs NOW a remaster (even a fanmade one, I don’t care).
I’m all for retro gaming, but those damn early 2000s blocky graphics just don’t do it for me anymore, at least not in a complex game like that.
We have waited long enough now. Where is our damn remaster/remake??
And same for the poor lighting. (I can’t believe this was made in Unreal engine. Unreal 1 has much better lighting than that.)
Deus Ex would benefit so much from realistic lighting and being able to conceal in shadows a la Thief. Maybe we would be OP though.
Before telling me “STFU, old 3D rocks”, I’ll tell you I played recently Kingpin (1999) and I think it’s freaking great and I didn’t even feel like it aged at all.
It has style, great level design, and a great atmosphere.
I’m okay with old graphics.
Another example, Half-Life 1 looks good to me, and I’m perfectly fine with the blurry textures. Again, it has style and an unique atmosphere.
I’m just saying that there’s a “limit” to how bad it can look. And speaking of Half-Life, Black Mesa is EXACTLY the treatment that Deus Ex should receive. Not just a stupid textures pack.
Aaand by the way, I realize that John literally wrote an article about a Deus Ex remaster a few months ago, but… It seems already abandoned, like EVERY other project about remastering Deus Ex. So, yeah…
Deus Ex: Revision is a fan remaster of Deus Ex, with updated lighting/textures/etc. The article is about a mod for it.
You can find Deus Ex: Revision on Steam, although you need to own the original Deus Ex on Steam to be able to play it. Configuration is a bit complicated, as they added a boatload of settings and extra features (or at least I assume they added most of that, as I never played the original Deus Ex).
https://store.steampowered.com/app/397550/Deus_Ex_Revision/
You can probably find Deus Ex: Revision somewhere else as well, but I haven’t checked to see if they have a website or a page on a popular mod site.
In case no one has told you lately. Thank you for being you.
It’s getting increasingly rare these days to come across a fellow gamer that doesn’t consider a game’s worth solely by it’s visuals.
If you love Deus Ex so much you owe to yourself to forget about revision and use GMDX mod instead.
The Nameless Mod lead Jonas Wæver must’ve had a lot of time on his hands after A. his original studio (Logic Artists) stopped making the Expeditions series in favour of crypto scam games in 2022; and B. his new studio, Campfire Cabal, got closed by Embracer Group the other month.