Hey guys.

I'm trying to defend the helicopter without killing everyone on Give me Deus Ex. I can do it just fine but when it comes to EMPing the bot the resulting self destruct will always kill an enemy.

Any suggestions?

Do you have the lift heavy aug?

No, but I have Praxis points if I need to get it.

This is only a hypothesis since I haven't tried it myself (don't have time for a pacifist playthrough sadly), but what I would do is to burn points into getting the lift heavy aug. With it, you can throw unconscious enemies far away from the bot, thus preventing them from getting killed in the blast.

Of course, I cannot remember if throwing them will always kill them, but I don't think so. If I'm not wrong, they only die if you fling them with enough velocity over a specific trajectory, or if gravity does the work. If they do always die when you fling them, then we'll have to think of another way :P

I hope you haven't killed anyone in the first level/tutorial (attack on Sarif labs), because they count as kills too. I presume you want the achievement for not killing anyone (bosses excluded).

Throwing an unconsious enemy will not kill them to my knowledge. The fall might kill them, but if they stay on the same level it won't :)

If an enemy dies due to a robot explosion that does not count as a kill. At least, that's what other people said, and yes, they meant the specific situation you asked about. Only when you directly kill an enemy does it count as a kill (ergo, throwing a grenade that kills someone is a kill, but a robot explosion isn't).

Also if people die after you KO them and you didn't kill them then it doesn't count either. I once crammed 5 tranquilised guards into the same vent to hide them and because I thought it'd freak out the first one to wake up and find himself under a pile of his mates. When I was leaving the area, I noticed that 2 of them had died, probably suffocated (in a ventilation duct), but I still got the achievement

I just ran through stun gunning everyone and blew up the robot. Got the achievement.

Hmmm, so after 30 odd replays trying to save that poor heavy from the explosion...

Yeah I seen that happen to... random death even when non lethal force was used.
Truth be told I am not sure what counts and what not, but there is a good solution discussion going on at www.trueachievements.com

http://www.trueachievements.com/a153382/pacifist-achievement.htm

ya i had the same problem.........i was doing the pacifist run so ....left malik to die .....it was the 3rd run anyways

It's possible to do it without anyone die from explosion. You just have to wait for the guys close to boxguard to move a little from him (while waiting take down the rest of them). Took me few tries but it's possible (talking about give me deus ex of course).

That was awesome scene.. I was sneaking all around the game and then I was shooting all that moves and at the same time beating people with hands.
I think if you want pacifist.. you have to let malik be killed. Circle of life you know.

You may not fail the pacifist achievement but i really think you should save him. He could have a family.

I quickly dragged a guy away from the explosion but i sprinted up and knocked the dudes out before they got very close.