User:Alqualos/Panchaea Iron Man guide

This article is a part of Deus Ex: Human Revolution Iron Man Guide. It covers the whole Panchaea. You should already have everything you need if you followed this guide. Lots of ammo for the stun gun, tranquilizer rifle, some gas grenades and the laser rifle with some ammo are required.

Disengaging the lockdown
Explore around, take everything you need, if anything, from the containers. Enter the complex using the vent on the roof, accessed by jumping on top of some containers, to your left as you approach the installation.

Explore around the ceiling if you wish, but I suggest dropping immediately as you enter the large room. Panchaea is a place where you don't really want to explore if you are Iron Manning because you already have everything you need, so the only thing you accomplish by exploration is trying to get yourself killed. The underground section is especially dangerous because of the frag mines. So just drop down and go left.

Hack the hub and turn the bot on enemies. It will come in handy later. Go up the stairs and enter the elevator (which is marked as your mission objective, so it's kind of hard to miss). Follow the hallway until you arrive at the stairs. Go up and left.

Do not go around the corner yet because of the turret. Enter the room nearby to switch it on enemies. Now go past the turret and enter the control room through the broken window.

Try to convince Darrow if you wish, but it is of no consequence. You won't need that code anyway.

Back to the ring section
Backtrack all the way down. You'll encounter a lot of crazy people. Try to keep away as much as possible. They can somehow prevent you from running away if they get too close. I don't know how it works, and it certainly feels awkward. Only allow a crazy person to get close if you have enough energy for a take-down. But save it for emergency, take him out with the stun gun instead.

Pick them up from a distance with the tranquilizer rifle. If they get close, run away. The turret you switched up there will help stop them in case they are obstinate enough to follow you all the way up.

Once you got down using the elevator, wait until the bot finishes off the crazy guys down there. Don't try to be a hero. Remember: if you get killed, these guys are as good as dead anyway. So show them no mercy.

While the bot is doing its job, take out the guys across the hangar using the tranquilizer rifle. Shoot the windows first (maybe with 10mm pistol, it's quicker), then the guys, one by one as you get a clear shot. Then get down and climb the ladder on the other side. Follow your objective pointer.

Getting through the ring section
Visit the LIMB clinic if you wish. Maybe it's a good idea to get Typhoon and some ammo. Just in case you run into real trouble.

Follow the stairs up to the large long area. Listen to Taggart speaking. Take out everyone out there using whatever means. The barricade at the entrance provides excellent way to save yourself from getting killed because the crazy guys can't jump over obstacles. I usually shoot them down with the tranquilizer rifle, then with the stun gun from across the barricade if they get that close. A couple of gas grenades can be spent here too if you have enough.

Proceed along the large long area without going down the stairs or jumping down. Enter the doorway that is partially blocked by some metal bars. Once you reach a passage with two cameras, jump down to the left and take cover. Follow along a passage until you find a vent. Enter it. Be careful as cameras can see you opening the vent! If you enter it quickly, it will lose you, but better make sure no camera is looking.

You emerge right where Taggart is. The camera here won't react to you, so speak to him. Exit through the door and move some heavy crates to exit to the hallway. Sneak past cameras, jump down, crouch and crawl out and up the stairs.

As you exit to the large long area, look for a huge deep hole down on the lower level. Jump into it from up above. Ignore the guys on the lower level, you won't be coming back up. Perform the Icarus stun as you land (this is by the way the only place I can think of where it is really useful). Take out the stunned guys using the stun gun and/or take-down.

Exit through the door. Take out the guys in the adjacent area through the bars. Be careful as they can get around to you, although they seldom do so, especially if you jump on top of some pipes lying there.

Enter the vent and go through to speak to Sarif. Don't exit through the door because the area there is filled with frag mines! The guys you were taking out earlier may have "disarmed" some of them, but not all. So exit through the vent and enter the area where the guys were (the entrance is to your right as you exit the vent). Go left and up the stairs. Be careful here because there may be some of the guys left and they don't always show up on your radar for whatever reason. Be also careful with explosive barrels here. You may wish to shoot them before approaching so you won't blow them up accidentally when close by.

Enter the door on your right and follow the hallway. Go down the elevator. Ignore the guys ahead and go right, down the stairs and up the stairs. Enter the gas-filled security room by moving the heavy crate next to the vent. Switch the turrets so they clear your path. Be careful though as there may be some enemies left, and the turret can accidentally shoot you or some explosive barrels as you move along. So shoot the barrels and take cover when you discover an enemy.

There are no more enemies left now! Just follow the path to that silly long elevator.

The final showdown
Arm the laser rifle and get your health to 200 HP just in case. Proceed along the hallway that is filled with corpses for some strange reason. It's not like there are any security devices right here. Enter the last room and watch the cutscene.

As soon as the cutscene ends, take cover. Eat a candy bar then cloak and run to where the code terminal is, just across the Alpha Pod, where that bitch is. The candy bar is not really necessary, but it's not like you have many uses for them any more.

Now just shoot her through the glass (use the scope, and maybe even get the aim stabilizer). In fact, you probably won't even have to reload. The most silly boss ever. Choose any ending you wish. You'll probably get the good ones even though you may have slaughtered a lot of people in Panchaea.

Congratulations! You've just completed Deus Ex: Human Revolution in Iron Man mode. Or maybe in Copper Man mode, or maybe that was just your practice run. If so, get on with the real thing now.