Deus Ex. Silent Sidekick (Blind Co-op)
Channel: Savv
Date: 2021-10-11

Some highlights from our co-op playthrough of the original Deus Ex. My buddy Aleksandr hasn’t played it before and I mostly kept my mouth shut to avoid any spoilers (voice comms in Russian, English subtitles available).

Get the co-op mod, HX, here:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1948676361

Weirdly, it doesn’t allow you to save your game and the developer has no plans of ever implementing this feature. To circumvent this, we were running the server on a virtual machine. This allowed us to make backups of the entire thing and load “saves”, so to speak.

A slightly easier way to achieve this is enabling the hibernation feature in Windows 10. This way you can shut down your PC without closing the server application, the entire contents of your RAM will be stored on your HDD and restored when you start the computer again. But if your PC or the dedicated server crashes, you’re screwed: you’ll lose your inventory, augs and story progress.