Claiming Jurisdiction — Deus Ex: Mankind Divided eGuide

Get Evidence for Smiley

Objectives

Use the subway and travel to Ruzicka Station

Retrieve the evidence

Talk to Smiley, and then leave the station

Return to TF29

Overview

You can now travel to Ruzicka Station from any of the other subway terminals. Do so when you’re ready, and talk to Smiley when you arrive. He’ll give you the rest of the information about your current mission. You have to retrieve evidence from a crime scene, but the police aren’t going to make it very easy.

You must infiltrate the lower levels, find a way to bypass or go through the cops, and get to the upper level of the station. Evidence is in the northwestern corner of the upper level. Get that, bring it back to the lower terminal, and exit the station.

There are multiple changes to the story depending on whether you do this with full stealth or not. In this case, even non-combat violence has some minor negative consequences, so the stealth walkthrough is even more conservative than usual.

Combat

There are two sets of police officers in the subway station. A few are on the lower level, and they’ll stop you as you approach their area. Take cover, and snipe the first officer from safety. Two others can clearly see this. Bring them down with a storm of gunfire so that you’re in the clear by the time a couple of reinforcements make it to the stairs behind them. Be ready!

When everything is silent, loot all of the bodies, and then climb the stairs. The officers on the upper level won’t have been alerted yet, so you can set up another ambush against them. A team of the troopers is close to the area where you come out. Use a grenade on them, and then switch to your heavier guns to take out the armored Exo Trooper patrolling around. He’ll be the serious part of the fight, and he’s a real bullet sponge. Fire repeatedly to stun him so that he can’t retaliate. Shotgun blasts to the face are particularly effective.

Only leave your position when the enemies have thinned out dramatically. The open floor is a killing field if there are any officers left alive.

Approach the northwestern room, get the evidence, and leave the station. Take it to Smiley in TF29.

Stealth

Even aggressive players should probably take this route. The cops are a thorn in your side here, but they haven’t actually done anything against you. It’s still your choice, but your boss won’t be too happy if you wade through the Prague police force for no good reason.

Go to Ruzicka Station as you normally would, but stop when you go up the first stairs and meet the police officers. Do as you’re asked, and back away from them. Look at the room to your left and go inside. Hack a very easy computer terminal and get into a storage closet. Take a Security Card from that closet, and then use it across the hallway to get into a restricted area.

Watch out for a single camera in the next hall, and creep around the corner so that it doesn’t see you. Look for a side passage with a ladder leading up. You have to break through a heavy plate to get to it, but there isn’t anyone close enough to hear that. Climb the ladder beyond, and break into ventwork above there. It takes you to the upper level, where you can quietly exit. One vent goes into a café, and the other goes into another closet. It feels like the café will be easier to sneak through, but the camera inside of it can be tricky when you’re also dealing with the guard. Unless you already have Remote Hacking and can disable the camera, ignore that route.

Instead, consider the closet. You can hop down there, open the door, and soon look over the main room from the eastern entrance. Crouch, sneak along the left side, and go toward the middle of the room once you’ve gotten away from the patrolling officers.

Go into a break in the central floor, and use a vent to approach the northern rooms. You can easily slip out of the one you get to. Jump over a tiny barricade, which takes you to the evidence room. Get what you need, and then retrace your steps carefully so that you aren’t seen.

Leave the station as soon as you can. Good work, ghost. Take the evidence to TF29 and give it to Smiley to complete this task.