Comment by Anvoker

The name mignt be misleading, but for the best vanilla plus experience, I highly recommend Deus Ex Randomizer with Zero Plus mode.

It has zero randomization, great setup experience on Windows and Linux, and what I consider to be the ideal set of changes for making the game better while adhering strictly to the vanilla experience. Not to mention all the bug fixes! The only thing I'd check for a vanilla experience is that password assistance is turned off.

I had a couple of friends play Deus Ex that way for the first time and it was a joy.

Unrelated, the randomizer speedrun mini-scene was the only time I did speedrunning and the most fun I've ever had replaying a game. The randomization aspect assuaged all my concerns about speedrunning having the wrong kind of repetitiveness for my preferences. I never saw myself doing speedruns, then I somehow ended up doing a world record. All because I saw a randomizer speedrun race and thought it was the coolest thing ever. If you're _that_ kind of Deus Ex fan, you owe it to yourself to check it out!