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An interview I had with the leaders of Unatco Born
Rigel: Hello. How are y'all today?
Telephed2600: good
Fender2k1: good...very good
Rigel: So, how has work on Unatco Born been going? Any estimate on when it will be finished?
Telephed2600: Works been going great, hopefully the mod will be done by the end of May to mid June.
Fender2k1: we have been getting a lot of progress done lately; both Telephed2600 and I have been indeed working hard.
Rigel: That would be nice. The Last Hurrah of Deus Ex before Invisible War. I heard you have made AI improvements?
Fender2k1: We were just sick of the way the pawns acted in the game
Telephed2600: We have tweaked the A.I. greatly to give the game a more RPG like feel, thanks to our lead programmer blueneptune.
Fender2k1: blueneptune specializes in vector analysis and AI, so this was easy for him. You might notice a significant difference in the AI, or just a few things here and there, Depends on how you look at it. Changes range from the number of enemies, to the number of allys.
Rigel: Sounds lovely. I heard there would be new weapons?
Telephed2600: there will be a variety of weapons added in Unatco Born, check our site for some screenshots of just a few. To name some we have a Glock 17, as well as an MP5.
Fender2k1: haha yea
Rigel: Lovely. The new weapons will no doubt be welcomed, and it's the little things in AI that make it special. Now what's this I hear about playable vehicles?
Telephed2600: That's right; Unatco born will have flyable helicopters
Fender2k1: there will be flyable helicopters in DX: Unatco Born
Fender2k1: I was told last night, that there will be enemy AI choppers, as well as player-flyable helicopters. blueneptune really surprised me with that one, I didnt even ask for it!
Rigel: Can you tell us a bit about the storyline?
Fender2k1: sure thing
Fender2k1: Well, first off Unatco Born takes place right after the 747 level, and assumes the player has killed Lebedev. You're sent out to capture some NSF troops that worked for Lebedev and have had connections with Paul Denton.
After the success off the mission, you are sent off to control a riot nearby while the captured terrorists from the previous mission are being interrogated. Your mission, control the riot in New York City. The riots consist of lower classmen raiding and destroying a hospital and attacking local doctors in search for ambrosia... you are left with a big decision. Do you help the lower class survive? Or, help the doctors survive by keeping the bums off? During the interrogation, the terrorist's break and mention a company and New York City. That's all that was said. You are sent to New York City to investigate.
Rigel: Wow. Sounds like a killer story line, you hope to pack that all into a mod scheduled to be released a little more than a month?
Fender2k1: Well that is quite easy.
Fender2k1: Unatco Born is a series. This is only Unatco Born Chapter 1 and will be released for Deus Ex.
Unatco Born Chapters 2 + 3 will be for Deus Ex: Invisible War. And of course when there is extra time we will convert Chapter 1 into DX2. We are probally not going to make the whole series backwards compatable.
Rigel: Well, this mod sounds like its going to be a huge success. Best of luck to all of you!
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