Introduction | Hunting the Hacker Deus Ex: HR Guide
Last update: 01 February 2017
You will activate this quest automatically upon your arrival in China. This will occur after you've finished the last main quest in Detroit - Whispers of Conspiracy. Get ready for a long mission which is also going to be quite challenging in some parts. Getting inside the hacker's apartment is probably the biggest challenge. The good news is that you will be allowed to choose many different ways to do that and that some of them will allow you to avoid engaging Belltower soldiers in combat.
LIST OF QUEST OBJECTIVES:
1. PRIMARY - Investigate the hacker's apartment - The hacker's apartment is located inside the Hengsha Court Gardens building and there are many ways to get inside. Basically you can choose between attacking enemy units and avoiding being seen by them.
2. PRIMARY - Get inside the Hive nightclub - You will receive this mission objective after you've used the computer in hacker's apartment and acquired certain data. There are several paths leading to the Hive club and I would recommend choosing an option that doesn't require buying a rather expensive membership card.
3. PRIMARY - Find Tong Si Hung and talk to him - You will receive this objective once you've found your way inside the Hive club and it doesn't matter whether you'll start in the basement or on the main floor. An interesting thing to know is that you won't have to meet Tong. There is another way to find out about van Bruggen's hideout and that is to overhear a conversation between Tong and a Belltower officer.
4. PRIMARY - Meet Tong in his office - Don't worry if you didn't recognize Tong during the initial conversation in the VIP section, because you'll be invited to the office either way. If you've decided to skip the conversation then you won't receive this objective at all.
5. PRIMARY - Meet van Bruggen in the Alice Garden Pods hotel - Finding the hotel and getting inside is very easy.
6. PRIMARY - Steal a magnetic card from a TYM guard - You will be allowed to kill the guard, but it's easier to sneak into the apartment and to steal the card without being seen.
7. PRIMARY - Deliver the magnetic card to van Bruggen - If you've collected the magnetic card prior to talking to van Bruggen for the first time then you'll automatically complete this and the next mission objective (don't worry, because you'll receive experience points for both of them).
8. PRIMARY - Escape the Alice Garden Pods ambush - Leaving the hotel is going to be a long and tiresome process. The only good news is that the game will allow you to deal with Belltower soldiers in many different ways, including avoiding them.
9. PRIMARY - Use the Tai Yong Medical shuttle to get to the factory - You will receive this mission objective as soon as you've escaped the ambush and left the hotel. Reaching the shuttle is an easy task, but you will have to watch out for additional Belltower forces stationed near the entrance to Alice Garden Pods. Use the shuttle AFTER you've completed all side quests in Hengsha, because you won't be allowed to resume them at a later date.