User:Alqualos/Prologue and Sarif Plant Iron Man Guide

This article is a part of Deus Ex: Human Revolution Iron Man Guide. It covers the prologue and Sarif Plant parts.

Welcome to the Revolution
First thing you need is to watch that stupid cutscene where you walk with Megan through the labs and save the game. If you fail, you should reload this save instead of watching the cursed cutscene again and again because you can't skip it.

Now reload your gun (for some reason Adam likes to carry a partially-loaded assault rifle) and run to your first battle. As you enter the room, run to the staircase and to the left of it. Hide behind a desk, pop your head out and aim. The bad guys may or may not have heard you, but it doesn't matter. Either way they walk down the stairs and you shoot them in the heads. If you're lucky, you can do it unharmed.

Crawl carefully when you reach the second room with bad guys. It is a good idea to keep undetected until you open the door because then you can shoot two of the three unsuspecting guys pretty quickly. Then shoot the remaining one.

The last fight is nothing tricky. Just hide behind that railing upstairs and shoot them carefully. If you get hurt, hide until your screen is no longer red. For some reason, Adams seems to have the sentinel health implant already.

Securing Sarif's Manufacturing Plant
I recommend asking for the tranquilizer rifle during the flight. You'll get the stun gun later for free and the rifle is much harder to get, not to mention it can be useful during this mission.

Getting inside the labs
Take down the first guy while talking to Pritchard and take his (the guy's not Pritchard's) gun. Crawl along the wall, enter the doorway and take some ammo inside. Then get to the roof and enter the building that way. Take the rifle if you're playing the Director's Cut version—you can sell it later for a good price, and maybe you'll need it along the way.

Once inside, be very careful. Crawl along the wall inside the room until you get as many terrorists on your radar as you can. Then, when the closest one isn't looking, get out and hide behind crates. Timing your moves carefully, you can easily get around these guys without any of them noticing. When you're close to the exit, be extra careful as they may see you while you're heading for the door, so wait until they're turned away.

When you enter the door, proceed until you hear the terrorists talking. Wait until they split up, then carefully take down the one who patrols the hallway. Wait until your battery is recharged, then proceed to the locker room. There, take down the terrorist and search the lockers. When done, go and take down the remaining terrorist in the big room—he is stupidly looking away. While you're at it, grab all the beer you can.

The labs
Enter the labs. The guys start talking about having killed some idiot who kept on arguing with them. While they're at it, crawl fast down the right-hand stairs and enter the air duct. If you're quick, they won't notice you. Then just crawl along to the room where the hostages are and disable the bomb. Don't forget to talk to the married guy.

Proceed carefully down the stairs. Try to remain unnoticed and time your moves accordingly. This part is very easy once you get the hang of it. Enter the door that is under the hostages office (across the door you entered the lab through). Here, wait for the right moment and time your moves to get under the camera when the guy is walking away from it (and you). When the camera is looking to where you came from, crawl behind the guy, take him down, and hide him in the niche nearby. If you're fast enough, the camera will still be looking back. Then navigate along the hallways, avoiding the cameras, to get to the Praxis Kit part. Leave the guys in the meeting room alone.

When you reach the first Praxis Kit, take it and upgrade your radar. Now you will always see all nearby enemies (unless they are cloaked!) which is the most essential for an Iron Man run. Use the air duct to get around all those pesky traps and don't forget to grab the goodies before continuing on to the second lab.

In the second lab, hide behind cover, then time your move to jump behind the stairway to the left. Then get inside air duct (be careful with those boxes) and crawl along it until you are near the exit. There, wait for the guy to turn around, crawl behind him and take down. Gather the goodies, then proceed to exit. There is the tricky part, but if you're patient, there is nothing hard about it. If the guys notice you when you are about to enter the elevator, forget about them. They won't follow you down, and it's not a good place for a fight.

The admin building
Be quick here. The two guys in the hallway at the top of the stairs are talking. When they finish, they walk away. Now, sometimes they politely wait for you to come up before starting. Sometimes, however, they are already walking away as you emerge, so waste no time. Your goal is to take down the guy that walks straight ahead before he descends into the large office. If you manage to do it in time, you'll have one enemy less to worry about when you're down there.

Once the first guy is taken care of, take down the second. He is just stupidly standing there. But keep a low profile so none of the guys below notices you. It's very easy, just keep crouching and don't get too close to the railing. Look around for more beer—you should probably have some three beers by now.

Once you're done upstairs, it's time to go down. Look for an air duct and enter it. Crawl down. This is the hardest part! You have a tough choice: to shoot all those guys using the tranquilizer rifle or to sneak past them. I choose sneaking. Just time your moves, keep crouching and you'll be fine. If they notice you and things get hot, you may wish to shoot them with the silenced sniper rifle you found on the roof, as it's very powerful.

If you choose to shoot them down right away, then shoot the guy who is walking along the left-hand wall (as you exit the restrooms) when he's far away. If you're lucky, nobody will notice. If someone notices, then use the tranquilizer rifle tactics to take them out one-by-one.

The next task is to confront Zeke. The best way is probably to shoot him with a 10mm pistol in the torso, then use take-down. Equip and reload the pistol beforehand and make sure you have a fully charged cell. This way you're almost guaranteed to save the wife and bring Zeke in alive.

Talk to the husband, hop into the VTOL and off you go to the Detroit City missions.