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Map of Prague and list of side missions, during the development of Mankind Divided c. 2013
A list of prerelease side missions during the development of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and dated around 2013 was shown in a presentation slide in the 2017 Game Developers Conference. The list of missions includes several missions that do not appear in the final game, and are therefore considered to be cut content.
Background[]
An image including a list of side missions and an accompanying map of Prague was shown during the presentation "Rewarding exploration in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided’s Prague city hub" at the 2017 Game Developers Conference. During the presentation, the image was noted to be "early work...four years ago,"[1] which dates the contents of the image to around 2013.
The image shows a number of missions that do not appear to correspond to the side missions in the final game, including "Loose Ends," "Friends on the inside," "Buy for One, Sell for Two", "Painted Black", and "Phantom LIMB." Therefore, these missions appear to have been cut during the game's development. The map accompanying the table shows an east-west divide for the Prague areas, as opposed to the north-south divide seen in-game. The east-west divide has been seen in various other prerelease images.
Transcript[]
The text data in the spreadsheet table is transcribed below:
| Title | Number | Building | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Samizdat | SM 1.1 | Apartment Hacker (light) | Modern District - SI Apartment |
| Samizdat | SM 1.2 | News Room (Sewers) | |
| Samizdat | SM 1.3 | Office (Bank) | Modern District - Bank |
| Samizdat | SM 1.4 | Billboard (hacking - rooftop) | |
| Samizdat | SM 1.5 | Barne Journoaux | |
| Samizdat | SM 1.6 | Picus Vault (Bank) | |
| Loose Ends | SM 2.1 | Force conversation TF29 HQ | Modern District - TF29 |
| Loose Ends | SM 2.2 | Safe House Lukas | Modern District - Apartments |
| Loose Ends | SM 2.3 | Hotel Room (sister) | Old District - Apartments |
| Loose Ends | SM 2.4 | Desks and secret TF29 | Modern District - TF29 |
| Loose Ends | SM 2.5 | Force Conversation Apartments | Modern District - Apartments |
| The Harvester | SM 3.1 | Crime scene | Poor District |
| The Harvester | SM 3.2 | Old Crime scene | Under Train Track |
| The Harvester | SM 3.3 | Apartment (drunk) | Poor District - SI Apartment |
| The Harvester | SM 3.4 | Shop of Politician | Poor District - Shop |
| The Golden Ticket | SM 4.1 | Fake checkpoint | Old District |
| The Golden Ticket | SM 4.2 | Forger's sideout
|
Poor District - Courtyard |
| The Golden Ticket | SM 4.3 | Npcs - permit #1 (basement) | Poor District - Shop |
| The Golden Ticket | SM 4.4 | NPCs - permit #2 (light Apartment) | Poor District - SI Apartment |
| The Golden Ticket | SM 4.5 | Official shop + server room | Plaza - Shop |
| The Last Harvest (Prague 2) | SM 5.1 | Witness' apartment | Modern District - Apartments |
| The Last Harvest (Prague 2) | SM 5.2 | Doctour's apartment
|
Old District - Apartments |
| The Last Harvest (Prague 2) | SM 5.3 | Killer's place (sewers vraiment dequey | |
| Friends on the inside | SM 6.1 | Jarek's apartment (defenestration) | Poor District - Apartments |
| 10011000 | SM 7.1 | Interactive Billboard (hack) - small | |
| 10011000 | SM 7.2 | Ordi text messaging (Closed Shop) | Modern District - Shop |
| 10011000 | SM 7.3 | Storage + Disk | Modern District - Storage |
| 10011000 | SM 7.4 | Antique vendor (fake) | Old District - Shop |
| Cult of personality | 8.1 | Culte's sewer quarters
|
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| Cult of personality | 8.2 | Shop | |
| All in the Family | SM 9.1 | Strip club poker table | Red Light |
| All in the Family | SM 9.2 | Sarka (Dvali's apartment) | Red Light |
| All in the Family | 9.3 | Backyard + truck | TBD |
| Buy for One, Sell for Two | SM 10.1 | Renata's shop | Poor District - Shop |
| Buy for One, Sell for Two | SM 10.2 | Official office | Plaza - Shop |
| Buy for One, Sell for Two | SM 10.3 | Weapon part #01 (puzzle) | |
| Buy for One, Sell for Two | SM 10.4 | Weapon part #02 (Hacking challenge) | |
| Buy for One, Sell for Two | SM 10.5 | Weapon part #01 (Thief / infiltration)
|
|
| Painted Black | SM 11.1 | Contacted after Aug (outside Koller) | Poor District |
| Painted Black | SM 11.2 | small apartment under train tracks | Under Train Track |
| Painted Black | SM 11.3 | Body dumping ground | Poor District |
| Painted Black | SM 11.4 | Drop Document | Old District |
| Painted Black | SM 11.5 | Drop Barebat (light apartment) | Modern District - SI Apartment |
| Painted Black | SM 11.6 | Ms White's apartment | Old District - Apartments |
| Painted Black | SM 11.7 | Target to kill + escape | Plaza - Vista |
| Painted Black | SM 11.8 | Cleaning Shop | Modern District - Shop |
| Painted Black | XXX | Cars + employees Cleaning shop | |
| Handle with Care | SM 13.1 | Strip club - Room 2nd Floor | Red Light |
| Handle with Care | SM 13.2 | HQ - smuggler | Under Train Track |
| Handle with Care | SM 13.3 | Storage + trucksmuggler | Modern District - Storage |
| Neon Nights | SM 14.1 | Mother looking for her son | Old DIstrict |
| Neon Nights | SM 14.2 | Backyard with son | Old District - Junkyard |
| Neon Nights | SM 14.3 | Drug dealer | Old District |
| Neon Nights | SM 14.4 | Dealers hangout | Poor District - Apartments |
| Neon Nights | SM 14.5 | Neon factory (sewers) | |
| Phantom LIMB | SM 15.1 | Limb Clinic | Old District - Shop |
| Phantom LIMB | SM 15.2 | Friends | Poor District - Apartments |
Comparison with missions in the released game[]
| Prerelease Missions | In-Game Missions | Cut missions (in game data) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Mission Name | Internal Identifier* |
Mission Name | |
| SM 1 | Samizdat | sm01 | SM05: Samizdat | |
| SM 2 | Loose Ends | — | ||
| SM 3 | The Harvester | sm03 | SM10: The Harvester | |
| SM 4 | The Golden Ticket | sm04 | SM01: The Golden Ticket | |
| SM 5 | The Last Harvest (Prague 2) | sm05 | SM11: The Last Harvest | |
| SM 6 | Friends on the inside | — | ||
| SM 7 | 10011000 | sm07 | SM06: 01011000 | |
| SM 8 | Cult of personality | sm08 | SM02: Cult of Personality | |
| SM 9 | All in the Family | sm09 | SM09: All in the Family | |
| SM 10 | Buy for One, Sell for Two | — | SM10_CUT | |
| SM 11 | Painted Black | — | SM11_CUT | |
| SM 13 | Handle with Care | sm13 | SM07: Fade to Black | |
| SM 14 | Neon Nights | sm15 | SM00: Neon Nights | SM14_CUT |
| SM 15 | Phantom LIMB | — | SM15_CUT | |
| — | sm02 | SM12: K is for Každý | ||
| — | aug01 aug02 |
SM03: The Mystery Augs | ||
| — | kol01 | SM04: The Calibrator | ||
| — | kol02 | SM08: The Fix | ||
*The prefix used for mission-related text data in the game files
As shown above, the prerelease missions list includes 5 missions that appear to have been cut from the game, while the final game includes 4 missions that do not appear on the prerelease list. All of the in-game missions that appear in the prerelease list except for "SM00: Neon Nights" retain their original mission numbers as to the internal identifiers used in the game files; however, the in-game numbering was revised. Mission numbers of cut missions are not used in the game files, except for "SM 2", which was reassigned to "SM12: K is for Každý."
Some of the missions in the prerelease missions list are mentioned in game data as cut missions. For more information, see Cut side missions (DXMD).
Notes[]
- The pre-release mission "Painted Black" has a name that somewhat resembles that of SM07: Fade to Black of the final game, but the mission locations do not resemble those of SM07: Fade to Black.
- In the entries for "Loose Ends," the description "Safe House Lukas" indicates that indicate that this mission would have featured Lukáš Babik. The sister referred to in the description "Hotel Room (sister)" may have been Hanka Lukášová (Marta Babik's sister and Lukáš' aunt). In the final game, Lukáš Babik appears in the Růžička Station bombing cutscenes and is later confirmed by an email to have survived, but makes no further appearances in the game.
- In the entry for "Friends on the inside," "Jarek" might have been the same character as K (Jarek Drobný) in the final game.
- Many other named characters (including "Sarka," "Renata," and "Ms White") mentioned in the descriptions for cut missions appear to have been cut from the final game.
- The "locations" field appears to confirm that "Modern District," "Old District," and "Poor District" were the respective prerelease working names for the Čistá, Dávný, and Překážka districts named in the final game.
External links[]
- "Rewarding Exploration in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided" (presentation recording), presented by Clémence Maurer of Eidos Montréal, 2017 Game Developers Conference, Feb 27, 2017 – Mar 3, 2017.
- Presentations slides, Maurer_Clemence_RewardingExploration...pdf (on amazonaws.com).
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ "Rewarding Exploration in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided," presentation recording at 7:45.
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