How do I kill Namir?
So I made a pretty big mistake.* No need wallowing over it, I'm here now.
Point is, I'm at the third boss in Deux Ex: Human Revolution, and I lost all my augmentations. Basically, I have a permanent EMP. This puts me at a severe disadvantage.
Can I still kill him? How do I do it?
(I have a few weapons, but nothing interesting. I'm working mostly with what I can pick up around me, which is hard with my vision impaired like this.)
*Huge spoilers below here. Do not read this unless you are already in Singapore. You have been warned.
Basically, if you followed Prittchard's advice and went to a LIMB clinic to get your biochip replaced, you've pretty much given the antagonist a kill-switch. Prior to the boss-fight, she activates it and puts you in a constant EMP.
I hope you have a handy supply of frag mines.
The way I beat him was to stick around the outside ring until he became visible and tried to chuck some grenades at me. Then I'd run around the corner and drop a frag mine midway to the next corner. He'll often chase me and then take a hit from the mine. Just be really careful to avoid that frag mine if it ends up not being triggered (run through the inside ring instead).
Once I ran out of frag mines, I started using concussion mines to stun him for a few seconds, which let me snipe him a few times.
Always keep moving as he'll jump over some walls to get at you if you start camping in one corner. You do not want to be up close and personal with his plasma gun. I pretty much spent the entire fight running from one outside corner of the room to the other.
The same tactics can be used without augs, but he'll be harder to spot and react to without the see through walls aug.
This is EASY, even on Deus Ex mode. If you got the software "upgrade" and have no frags, this can be done in under a minute.
- Equip the laser rifle (if you don't have one, you can pick up multiple of them in the preceding base). You'll need at least 2 full batteries, again which you can get in the base.
- Fire from behind cover. Because the laser rifle is recoil free unlike most other weapons, you don't suffer the wild inaccuracy with the laser rifle.
- Sweep with the laser to reveal him from cloak, and when he appears just focus the bead on him. Since you're firing behind cover and he doesn't use it, he won't even get a shot off with the plasma rifle.
- If he throws a grenade, just sprint to a safe position where you can repeat the process from.
- It takes about 2 full clips of laser rifle to drop him. Easy.
The best, easiest, most amusingly obvious way is
Before going up the elevator, hack into the closest security mainframe that controls a turret. If you have the "Carry heavy objects" Aug, you can pick up the turret, and bring it with you into the elevator.
Just ride up with the turret, push it as far out of the doorway as possible, and trigger the boss. Then, when the scene completes, run back behind the turret, and wait.
Be careful, though, because and EMP grenade can take out your little buddy, so alternatively, you could run around the boss area and force Jaron into the sight of the turret. The turret, once it gets into steady fire, prevents him from shooting or doing anything until he's dead.