Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
64 Achievements
100-120h
Cult of Personality
By uncovering the key to Richard's persuasive powers, you broke his control and freed his followers. Details for this achievement will be revealed once unlocked
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How to unlock the Cult of Personality achievement in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided - Definitive Guide
Go into the Sewers near your Apartment and speak with Viznik and use Viznik Keycard at tge Keycard Reader. Inside you can't use any Augmentations or Weapons.
The short (and missable way) to complete the Quest: Go up the Leader, hack the Door (or use a Multitool (you can craft them right away), kill Richard - Quest Done
The long way: Find the Crumpled Poster in the right Corner on a engerybox. This gives you a new Quest Marker in čistá čtvr (this means clean neighborhood).
There find Liborio Baradoro in the Magic Shop "Negozi Di Magia", we will provide you with three Scambling Devices. Take the Metro back to Překážka and enter the Cult Area again.
Here you need to install the Scambling Devices near the Emitters in the 2nd Level. Since you can use any Augmentations you just the Barrel to block the View of the Gun turrets (why the fuck do they see you if you move the barrel?!) or you can hack the Level 5 Door, sneak pass Richard and use the Computer to deactivate the Gun turrets.
After you installed all Scambling Devices go back to the first Floor and use the Microphone and talk to Richard. In the Conversation use Pity then Mitigate to unlock this Achievement
To start this quest enter the nearest sewer entrance to Jensen's apartment, and take the route that leads through the part with the gas. Once through, head to the end to meet a guy called Viznik, who will give you the quest. Head in through to meet the godlike Richard, who will hypnotise you.
Once you're done being hypnotised, pick up one of the posters around the room to get another quest marker up in the northern district. Head there, and speak to Richard's partner, who will give you some signal jammers. Head back to the hypnotising room.
Once there, place the emitters on the upper floor, on the walls. Avoiding the second turret is difficult, but Hirsute Dave says that you can just jump onto the scaffolding opposite the ladder, avoiding the second turret entirely. Then you can place the emitters easily. The positions where you have to place the emitters are small circular objects on the walls.
Once done, talk to Richard and convince him to pack up his little escapade, and the achievement will unlock.
Tip for Foxiest - On the upper floor, head straight across from the ladder (avoiding the turret) to see a door with a level 5 lock. Hack it or use an autotool, and head to the end to meet Richard. Valdimier says that you can cloak right past him to the security terminal, hack it and deactivate the turrets, then sneak out of the room. This now allows you to place the emitters without any chance of being seen, and therefore ruining your Foxiest run.
Starting from Adam's apartment building head out the door to the left of the church fanatics on the bottom level and climb down the manhole to find a guy named Viznik. After talking to him walk through the doors and you will find yourself hypnotised and will have a conversation with Richard, the cult's leader. After your conversation with Richard, turn around from the mic and go to the back left-hand side to find a piece of crumbled up paper which will give you a new objective so head to the train station.
When you arrive in Palisade the magic shop will be around the corner from where you exit and you will talk to Liborio, Richards magic partner. He will give you jammers which will help you combat Richards hypnotic powers so head back to where the cult is.
When you arrive at the cults building, there are three things you can do.
- Firstly, you can plant the jammers by taking the ladder on the left-hand side of the room and planting the first one on the wall then climb down the ladder and jump on the scaffolding on the opposite side and plant the other two avoiding the middle turret.
- Secondly, you can build a multitool, climb the ladder from the first part and unlock the level 5 security door. Use your cloaking ability and sneak past Richard and deactivate the turrets so you can quickly plant the jammers (This will require the turret hack augment).
Both of the above options will have you facing Richard over the screen, and you must talk him down from controlling the people. The correct choices are Pity And Mitigate.
- Lastly, you can use the multitool to like the second option and just kill Richard. This will have you trying to explain to the cult members what is going on.
Here is a video guide for the first solution,
(Missable!)
This trophy is obtained during the Side Mission SM02: Cult of Personality. The quest chain is started by entering the sewers south of Adam’s Apartment and speaking to the two girls near the bottom of the ladder. You must expose the leader of the Cult and convince his followers of his falsehood without violence for this trophy. This must be done before leaving Prague for Switzerland (Story Mission M13).
Enter the Locked Area - Activate the quest and follow the tracker. Further north into the sewers you’ll find Viznik who speaks incoherently. Reassure him to learn more then accept the quest. With Viznik’s keycard, enter the nearby door and speak with Richard. You can play around the conversation choices but it turns out the same in the end.
Find a Way to Confront Richard & Seek Out Liborio - Turn around and look at the right corner for a defaced poster, and a crumpled poster on the other side to learn a name: Liborio. Take the metro to speak with Liborio in Magic, Cistra District. He’ll give you a couple of scramblers.
Install the Signal Scramblers & Reveal Richard to the Others - Go back to Richard’s community and look to your left where you’ll see a walkway. Jump up to the walkway, make a U-turn round the left while avoiding the camera and you’ll find the second emitter at the dead end. Now back to the walkway again while avoiding the camera, you’ll see another camera right ahead, with the emitter just below it. Go back down to the opposite side and climb up the ladder on the right. The emitter where you can install the scrambler is on your left, on the column right at the corner behind the boxes & drum. After installing all 3, head back down and use the Microphone in the center. Choose Pity > Mitigate to expose Richard and free everyone. You’ll get a total of 1600 XP this way.
This achievement is missable and is earned for completing Side Mission 02, Cult of Personality, in a specific manner.
This side mission can be triggered by entering the sewers via the manhole in the alley near Jensen's apartment complex. As you travel through the sewers, you will eventually spot a man in a robed tunic. Approach him to engage in a strange dialogue, then accept to help his cause.
After entering the doors nearby and speaking to Richard, search the room thoroughly on the ground floor and you will find a crumbled poster that, when read, triggers a new objective that leads you to the magic shop in north-eastern district of Prague. Travel to this shop and speak to the store clerk. He will reveal Richard's secret hypnotizing "trick" and hand over three signal scramblers. These scramblers must be installed on the small "speaker lamps" on the upper floor of Richard's underground hideout.
Return to the hideout and stealthily crawl around the upper floors, installing the scramblers on the speaker lamps. Be careful, though; there are turrets guarding each of the speakers and you will need to take extra caution not to be spotted. Your augs will also be deactivated at this time.
Once all three scramblers have been installed, return to the ground floor, activate the microphone, and during conversation with Richard, choose the following dialogue options: Pity > Mitigate. This will unlock the achievement and leave Richard a broken man.
After you enter the shelter, a conversation will begin with Richard (the head of the sect).
Choose answers:
- FLATTER
- YIELD
After this conversation, we find a crumpled poster in the shelter and head on the metro to another part of the city. We find Liborio's magic shop. After talking with him, we get 3 signal jammers.
We return to the sect's hideout and install silencers. Then we approach the microphone and begin a dialogue with Richard.
Choose answers:
- SORRY
- REDUCE THE DIRECTION
Richard is exposed, the cultists disperse and you get the trophy
The quest is available on the first (after returning from Dubai) and second (after returning from the City of Golems) visit to Prague. Activated in the sewer next to the building where Adam's apartment is located.
Video guide to the trophy
I placed the plugs without going to him and used the microphone in the center of the area where people live - they gave it away.
To turn it off using stealth, you can jump to the 2nd and 3rd plugs from the area where people live. Behind the camera, which does not move and looks into a long corridor.