Thug (ThugMale2)

Thugs are a class of NPCs in Deus Ex. The term "thug," in its broadest sense, refers to characters classified in the HumanThug class. This class includes several variants. The most common variant, which wears a blue outfit, appears under different in-game labels, including mercenary thug, NSF thug, and gang member.

Generic variants
The following variants appear as generic NPC types, or as named minor characters that use generic character models.


 * The common variant wears a blue outfit. This variant is often seen alongside NSF forces and is the only variant that is encountered in large numbers as a generic NPC type.
 * A jacketed variant wears a dark jacket over clothing with a red vertical line. This variant includes Johnny and El Rey. An unnamed thug of this type may appear during the third visit to Hell's Kitchen.
 * An augmented variant is depicted as having a heavy build along with mechanical augmentations. Rock and Guy are the sole instances of this variant. This variant is not used for generic unnamed characters.
 * Generic members of the Luminous Path and Red Arrow triads are also classified as thugs.

Characteristics
Thugs generally have a combat proficiency that is somewhere between that of civilians and combatant-type characters. For example, thugs have a maximum weapon range of 43.75 feet, lower than that of combatant-type characters (62.5 feet), but higher than that of civilians. Thugs will sometimes crouch in combat, but will do so less frequently than combatant-type characters.

The default inventory of the common variant consists of a pistol (along with ammunition) and a crowbar.

Common variant

 * Common thugs are first seen on Liberty Island during the first mission, fighting on the side of NSF forces. They are labeled in-game as "mercenary thugs." Compared to regular NSF forces (i.e., terrorists), the thugs on Liberty Island have greater durability (100 HP rather than 75 HP) but lower weapon accuracy (having a -30% accuracy modifier, rather than a -10% modifier). This -30% accuracy modifier specifically assigned to the thugs on Liberty Island is more favorable than the default value of -60% for the HumanThug class.
 * Common thugs labeled as "NSF thugs" are later seen intimidating a bum at the basketball court in Hell's Kitchen.
 * Later, in Brooklyn Bridge Station, common thugs labeled as "gang members" appear as members of the Rooks gang led by El Rey.

Jacketed variant

 * During the third visit to Hell's Kitchen (7th mission), a thug will shadow JC Denton if either Jordan Shea or Joe Greene has learned that JC is trying to contact Stanton Dowd.