Deus Ex: Mankind Divided prerelease side missions 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,""Rewarding Exploration in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided," presentation recording at 7:45. 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 	
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	Prerelease Missions 	In-Game Missions 	In-Game Missions 	Cut missions(in game data)
No. 	Mission Name 	InternalIdentifier*	Mission Name 	Cut missions(in game data)
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 	
 	— 	aug01aug02 	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.
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*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==
*Cut side missions (DXMD)
*Deus Ex: Mankind Divided cut content
==References==
Category:Deus Ex: Mankind Divided cut content
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