Shifter (Mod)

Shifter is an unofficial mod for Deus Ex, which alters the rules of the game and add some new features.

Overview
Shifter re-integrates a few features which were left out of the game, but were later found in the game's source code. For one example, after rescuing Ford Schick from MJ-12, he's supposed to appear in Smuggler's hideout - and he even gives you an augmentation upgrade canister.

This makes saving him worth it, but it doesn't actually happen, so in Shifter, it does. Another example is at the airfield's helicopter bay in one of the offices. JC is supposed to overhear a conversation between Lebedev and Tracer Tong in which Tong is telling Lebedev to kill JC, but Lebedev is insisting that JC can be convinced to change sides. This has been moved around since being brought back. Also, Shifter adds a handful of customized weapons, a feature that gives skill points for kills (and a stealth bonus, if applicable, at the end of each level). Lastly, it makes radical changes to improve the multiplayer game.

Author Yukichigai's mission statement is as follows: ''Shifter is my attempt at "removing the suck" from Deus Ex, what little of it there is. There are some annoying aspects of the game system, unresolved glitches, and a minor helping of unrealized potential scattered throughout this groundbreaking game. Shifter attempts to address those issues. As one person put it, paraphrased, Shifter doesn't add new content so much as improve the existing content. Shifter makes Deus Ex what it should have been, or at least one interpretation of what it should have been.''

Assault shotgun
The mod adds in a special shotgun, the JackHammer, behind a garage door triggered by Laser Tripwires in front of Smuggler's hideout. A bot is also behind the gate. The Jackhammer has an extreme rate of fire, so fast that pulling the trigger once will shoot 5 shotgun shells instantly. Once upgraded, the Jackhammer can do incredible amounts of damage in a short time period, although it can go through all of the players shotgun ammo in under a minute, and the lengthy reload time arguably wastes more time than the Sawed-off shotgun's pumping does.