User:Alqualos/Montreal Iron Man guide

This article is a part of Deus Ex: Human Revolution Iron Man Guide. It covers entire Montreal. You'll need silent jump in the TV news room. Later on, Typhoon level 2 and electricity protection are essential to defeat Fedorova. Reflex booster (double take-down) is also useful in one particular place.

Escaping room 404
Explore, take everything you need, and don't forget the Praxis kit. Once ready, go to room 404.

When the mousetrap closes, run out of the room and to the right. Enter the room there and go through the air duct to the upper floor where the guards are talking about big boys and girls. Once they start patrolling, learn their patterns and carefully take cover behind some plants. Move to the left, jumping from cover to cover when nobody is looking. Once you reach the last cover, wait for the right moment, turn on your cloak just in case, crawl ahead and take cover behind the railing. Now move along the railing until you're behind some pillar at the corner opposite the one where the vent was.

There is one guy patrolling the upper floor along the railing ahead of you and one more guard patrolling the hallway behind the wall to the left. Wait until both of them are far away and have their backs to you, turn on the cloak (one full cell is enough), exit through the doorway to the left, turn left and carefully run (don't sprint) down the stairs a bit, but not the whole way down. Now crouch, turn the cloak off and wait for recharge.

Crawl down the stairs. There is a camera in the lobby, not to mention guards. Carefully take cover to the right of the entrance. Turn on your cloak, run inside, immediately to the right, and drop down the elevator shaft. One full cell with cloak level 3 is enough not only to pull that stunt, but even to reach the bottom of the shaft before energy runs out.

Once down there, turn off the cloak and eat the energy pack conveniently placed there. Proceed further to the TV news room.

The TV news room
Carefully approach the entrance to the TV news room. Make sure both guards patrolling the upper floor are looking away when you open the door. Now you have a choice: to take everyone out or to run past them using the cloak. I recommend the ghost way because of the additional ghost XP and because it's more reliable.

If you decide to take everyone out, approach the stairs down, turn on silent jump and cloak (you have 2 free cells now because of that energy pack), move slightly down the stairs and jump over the railing to your right. Now run to the right, around the stairs and to the right again. You end up near the security hub behind the stairs with a conveniently placed AUD below it (what's the point of that?). Hack the hub and switch the turret on the enemies. The room should be clear in a while. If you choose this approach, you may wish to take down the two guards above before proceeding.

If you decide to run through, begin with the same steps, but instead of running to the right and around the stairs, run to the left along the wall directly to the exit. Be careful not to bump into the heavy patrolling there. Two cells are quite enough for this stunt if you practice well. Once you reach the exit, take cover to the right of it (as you exit the TV news room). Recharge there and move behind some box in front of the door when the heavy is not looking. Now use an AUD on the door and wait behind the same box until it works. Exit through the door. All of this requires careful timing, and you should make use of your cloak when moving around just to be safe.

An alternative approach is to first take down the two guards on the upper floor with careful timing, then jump down almost directly in front of the exit. The problem is that it's hard to see what's going on below you as you jump down. If you have see-through-walls, you could use that first to learn the patrols. If you use it carefully, you can even do that without loosing your free second energy cell. But since you have two free cells anyway, why not just run across the whole room to begin with?

Getting into the funicular
Descend down the stairs carefully. You'll see two guys talking. If you have double take-down, they are ridiculously easy. If not, you'll have to think of something. If you took down everyone above, a grenade can be useful. But really, you should have double take-down by now.

Explore around then proceed to the funicular room, keeping to the left. With careful timing and the cloak, as usual, move along the wall with a doorway and a window. Move the vending machine and enter the vent. Be careful as you emerge, because they can see you there. It's also a bad idea to hack the hub manually. Turn on the cloak, place an AUD on it and hide. Recharge, turn on the cloak again, and turn the turrets on the enemies. Wait until they are down, which can take a while because they can turn invisible.

Now decide what to do with those who come later. The best way is probably to block all the exits using those boxes and the vending machine. One of the boxes can be forced into vertical position using some tricks. Take it and put it along the stairs. Now push the box from above, it will stand up vertically. Two vertical boxes and the vending machine are enough to block all the bad guys.

Alternatively, let the turret to take care of them. It will take a while, so check your surroundings using see-through-walls, as those invisible guys can be real trouble.

if you want the ghost bonus, you may decide to use the cloak to call the funicular, then hide in the vent below. Be careful as you emerge back up, though, because it is very easy to bump into some guys on your way to the funicular. See through the floor and wait until the path is relatively clear.

I'd definitely recommend the turret and the blocked entrances approach. It is the most balanced and the safest.

The secret lair
Be quick. Crawl around to the left, wait until the camera is looking away and punch through the wall. if you don't want to be quick, take cover and wait for the guys to arrive and leave. Anyway, once inside run to the vent quickly because they definitely heard you punching through the wall. Not that you care.

Proceed along the air duct and to the left. You emerge from a vent in a large room with a door leading to the lower level. It is probably the second hardest place in the game, right after Missing Link. Eat a candy bar, turn on silent sprint and the cloak and run through the room like mad. Two cells are barely enough and you have to be real quick to make it through without recharging, so watch your energy and eat another candy bar (or even two if you get stuck along the way) as the energy level drops below one full cell.

The problem is that one of the guards can see you opening the door. I couldn't think of any way to avoid it because there is a lot of guards and the room is so large that you can hardly plan your movements beforehand. The good news is that even if the guard sees the door open, he usually doesn't actually go through the door to check what's going on there. What he does is stand in front of the door and looking at it suspiciously. So if that happens, take cover at the wall where the door is, to the left of it (as you look from behind the door). It is very unnerving, but relatively safe. Probably.

To add insult to injury, the stairs down are trapped with a flash mine and an EMP mine. So running down with the cloak on is not an option. Even if you have flash suppressant and EMP shielding (which you probably should), the mines going off will alert the guards, especially the heavy below. If it does happen, use the cloak and the silent sprint to get down (watch your energy and eat candy bars on the run) and hide inside the room down the hallway (do not turn into the hallway to the left, as there is a camera and the mentioned heavy). The room with the security hub is where you should hide.

If you managed to stay unnoticed, disarm the mines and go down slowly. You should carefully make your way around the heavy and the camera and enter the security room. Hack the hub and turn off the cameras. Then move back to the hallway, wait around the corner and take down the heavy.

If you managed to screw up something and alert the heavy, he will probably patrol the office with the security room. Well, that's worse for him—shoot him in the head from cover when he turns his back to you or creep behind him and take him down or use the stun gun. Now hack the hub and turn off the cameras.

Either way, proceed down the hallway where the cameras are, and hack the large door there. Go through that door, turn to the left, eat a candy bar and meet...

Fedorova
You should have Typhoon level 2 with some ammo and electricity protection. Having your health at 200 is also highly recommended, but you always keep it at that level now, don't you?

As Fedorova charges at you, strike her with Typhoon. She gets a couple of shots at you and runs away. Now locate one of the power generators and stand next to it. Heal with painkillers if you took some damage. Once Fedorova appears once again, wait until she gets close enough and use Typhoon. Not only you hit her hard, you also blow up the power generator, which kills her very quickly. You should see the cutscene in a few seconds. During that few seconds she will probably be shooting at you, but her weapons are so crappy that she has virtually zero chance to kill you even on Give Me Deus Ex with 100 HP to begin with.

Now explore a bit, take the goodies and fly to Detroit, part 2.