Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

In order to get this achievement you need to go through the game completely non-lethal. This guide is not a step-by-step tutorial because I feel that these tips are easily enough to help you beat the game regardless of skill-level. The game isn't very long compared to Human Rev and doesn't offer many new challenges, so if you've beaten the last game this should all be obvious to you already. The first and most obvious tip is to SAVE. OFTEN.

You need to focus on using the following equipment:
-Pick-up Weapons: Tranquilliser Rifle, Stun Gun, Any weapon with EMP rounds (optional), EMP Mines.
-Augments: Energy Upgrade (VITAL), Hacking Tier Upgrade (VITAL), Jump Upgrade (VITAL), Tesla (optional), Glass Shield (optional), (Remote Hacking (optional and handy).
-Other items: Biocells, EMP Mines.


I went through the game using primarily Takedowns, the Stun Gun, TESLA, and the EMP10mm pistol (swapping between them but the first 3 all do the same job more or less).

Most Areas have obvious alternate paths (especially vents). If you get stuck in a situation where you cannot get past a guard/enemy because of their patrol path, use a throwable object to distract them, then move past. Another strategy is to use boxes to get to higher places rather than running in head first.

It is easiest to go through missions with as little takedowns (and evidence of your presence) as possible as there is less of a chance of patrolling enemies discovering your handiwork. Keep this in mind.


Helpful mission tips:

When you're first going to meet Koller you don't need to takedown any of the enemies. Also make sure you bribe/do the quest for the police officer on the second path leading to the Time Machine (Koller's place), as this will let you get past the guys at the front gate who can be a pain.

There are opportunities to use Biocells in certain missions to ease progress. If you are having trouble make sure to use them.

If you have plenty of Praxis kits and Biocells, upgrade Glass Shield to the max and you'll be able to fall back on it if you are about to be spotted.

DO NOT kill the vendor in Golem City that Otar wants you to kill (this unlocks a side quest-line so come back to this if this is your first playthrough).

In the GARM facility there is a large blue tunnel that can cut the area-time by a fair amount, keep an eye out for it.

In the boss fight with Marchenko, sneak around and locate the 3 security terminals which will let you disable all of his extra tech except for two of the flying drones. Make a save and test his patrol pattern. Then place an EMP mine where he is going to step, and then do a takedown.



I haven't tested this fully yet but I suggest not throwing knocked out NPC's off the map or using them as meat-shields. Obviously.

As far as I know there aren't any NPCs you need to save explicitly outside of the story to get this achievement. IE you don't need to quickly run here and stop NPC #857 from getting killed by a scripted event. Just don't kill anyone with your equipment/CQC/ etc and you should be fine.

If anyone has anything to add about specific parts in the game, feel free to write a comment. (If you still have questions, they may have been answered below!)

Getting this achievement is easier than it looks on paper and more consistent in comparison with Human Revolution, were some knocked out NPC's actually ended up dead.

The rule of thumb is to play the game with a stealthy approach, obviously with the appropriate build. Augs that focus on hacking, cloaking, awareness (Smart-Eye, radar augs) and accessibility (Leg and Hand Prosthesis) will offer you the chance to take the less travelled road and encounter the least enemies possible.

You want to keep your encounters with hostile NPC's to a minimum, since then the chances of you accidentally killing someone will drop significantly. Throughout your playthrough you should be patient, using cover and the Glass Shield as often as possible. Consider upgrading Jensen's batteries since your available energy at all times is the basis of this kind of playstyle.

Your go-to weapons will be cqc takedowns, the Tranq Gun and Tranq Rifle. The Rifle is actually the most useful out of the two firearms since it can be used from up close too. Personally I got this achievement using that one only, even though it has a scope that's supposed to not be convenient up close.

The last "tool" that you'll need is frequent saving. This is crucial to avoid voiding the achievement, since at the slight suspicion that you've killed somebody you can easily reload and try moving on non-lethally again.

If the non-lethal style is not your thing and you're struggling early on, focus on the Main Missions only. Side Missions may give you additional XP (and therefore more Praxis kits), but after a point the become a liability, especially after completing a good chunk of Main Missions and

To sum up, do a stealth build, play stealthily and patiently and save often. Please note that you need to be immediately responsible for somebody's death to void the achievement. Shooting, stabbing, blowing up and dropping people off balconies will void the achievement, but hacking Sentry Bots causing them to turn them against the enemy will not void it.

One thing I found with this game (Mankind Divided) over the previous game (Human Revolution) is that you don't have to be as careful with bugs and glitches in this game.

I knocked out literally everyone in the game, aside from the last mission (because I like saving both sides, and it's easier just to stealth-run through all those guys) and even though there were a few critters that were Zzz when I first knocked them out, and DEAD later, I still got the achievement.

Obviously, don't use the KILL switch on Viktor Marchenko at the end. I actually saved just outside the door so I could run through with the kill switch first (achievement), then go back in and knock him out.

How did I deal with Viktor? I just stealth-ran up to him (quiet feet, cloaked), shot him with a stun gun, then did a knock-out take-down. Easy peasy. If you wait too long, Viktor starts to seemingly randomly deploy his spiky TITAN as he's running around his boring path trying to find you. The stun gun doesn't seem to work through the TITAN aug, so just wait until he's not spiky.

As far as almost every other critter in the game, it's easy:

1) Hide behind cover, close enough to enemies that they can hear if you toss something.
2) Toss a box, printer, cone, random object you can grab and toss, against your cover.
3) Re-hide behind the cover and wait for the single enemy to come toward you.
4) Use the stealthy take-down from behind cover.
5) If you do it right, and no one sees you, you can then...
6) Drag the body off somewhere to hide it, quickly.
7) Rinse and repeat.

You don't often need to use the cloak for this method, but keep in mind, if you're going for the Foxiest of Hounds achievement on the same playthrough, it makes sense to disable cameras, turrets, robots and drones before you try this, especially if the camera/turret/robot/drone is going to be looking right at where you're going to be doing the take-down and/or dragging away into hiding.

Remember, though, that cameras/turrets generally have a 180° range (max), so if your mark is behind a camera, you might actually be able to pull it off if you approach/punch from the correct direction.

As others have mentioned in previous guides, SAVE OFTEN, like all the time.

With this specific achievement, it's all about not killing people, so just don't accidentally HOLD the take-down button, as that will insta-KILL the critter. Bad for this achievement.

I've seen other folks talking about using EMP rounds in the pistol, and although EMP rounds have a much lower damage (to make up for the EMP properties), they can still kill. I would not use any form of rounds, aside from stun gun and tranquilizer darts.

If you're going for a bunch of achievements all at once, you'll find that the stealthy-take-down-from-cover method will allow you to take care of 95% of the bad NPCs without killing them.

At a certain point in the game, you'll gain access to the recycling aug, and you will find that you can make a virtually unlimited number of biocells from weapons parts. Biocells allow you to max out your aug power bar, and with weapons tearing down to 30-50 parts per weapon, plus ammo, plus grenades, you should be able to sneak around/past/through most situations, if you feel like the take-down method I described above seems to daunting.

This game is weird, in that even with a maxed-out cloak, maxed-out battery/charger, you still only get a few seconds worth of "free" battery bar. So this is why you use cover-stealth-to-next-cover.

At the end of my first playthrough on Give Me a Challenge difficulty, I had 200 (!!) biocells, and 3000 weapons parts.