10 USELESS Video Game Skills You Were Tricked Into Buying

Exploration is a big part of Deus Ex. The developers want you to see as much of their dystopian world as possible, incentivizing you with plenty of secret locations, loot, and rewarding environmental storytelling.

Deus Ex features a handful of skills that aid you in accessing new areas, including lockpicking, computer hacking, and swimming. The last one increases your oxygen capacity and swimming speed, which is mostly situational but extremely useful when traversing the many underwater sections in the game.

This said, investing your skill points in swimming is an absolute sham. Why? Because the skill can be completely substituted with just one augmentation.

Aqualung is a torso augment, which, like the swimming skill, increases your lung capacity. However, unlike the swimming skill, a fully upgraded Aqualung doesn't just increase how long you can stay underwater - it lets you stay submerged indefinitely.

Also, you don't have to spend any skill points to upgrade it, so when you put all of this together, swimming feels like a complete waste of time and resources.