Balls



Balls is an achievement/trophy in Deus Ex: Human Revolution. It is earned by scoring over at the basketball court in Detroit.

Overview
To get this achievement go to the basketball court in the Detroit city streets, just behind the Downtown Apartments. Locate the basketball court. Near the hoop should be a basketball, which the player should be able to pick up with the Interact button. Now stand on the garbage bin towards the back of the basketball court and aim just above the middle of the backboard. Throw the ball with the Fire button. The player must make it through the hoop in order to achieve the achievement/trophy. It will take quite a while if the player does not aim in the right spot.

Strategy
Scoring from a distance is a matter of aiming a little bit above the red edge of the target while standing on the dumpster at the back. It will be a one hit score. Another method is to stand directly in front of the hoop and throw the ball almost straight up. If the player has the Jump Enhancement augmentation they can simply slam dunk the ball by jumping and dropping it in the hoop. This involves picking up the ball with the Interact button then releasing the ball by pressing the Interact button again, this releasing the ball straight into the hoop.

Another strategy involves piling up a stack of crates, barrels and dumpsters (if the player has the Lift Heavy Objects augmentation) beside the basketball hoop, climbing on top of the makeshift ladder, and then dropping the ball straight down the hoop.

Behind the scenes

 * Throwing a basket ball through the hoop is a long-running in-joke in the Deus Ex series, originating from the basketball court in the New York City Hell's Kitchen in Deus Ex, with a special message changing at each visit to New York City, and reappeared in the basketball court in the Seattle Tarsus Academy in Deus Ex: Invisible War.

Bugs

 * The ball may randomly bounce away and vanish, which makes this achievement impossible.

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