In the main game, each level can accommodate combat, stealth, or hacking approaches more or less equally. That said, it does share the Deus Ex staple of giving players multiple paths and playstyles to achieve their objectives, although even those are handled differently. It has a data extraction mechanic not seen in Mankind Divided's single-player mode, and it even looks quite different. The mode also has leaderboards and a competitive element that doesn't exist in single player. In Breach, players aren't controlling Adam Jensen but a generic hacker. While Breach is set in the Deus Ex universe, the many differences between it and the main game show just how flexible a franchise can be. The small team size also allowed them to gel quicker and create a fleshed out experience on a tight timeline. That made it harder to assemble the team, but Marty said it ultimately wound up helping, because the people who did sign on chose to do it because they were passionate about the idea.
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In a AAA industry full of specialists, she was trying to find a team full of Swiss Army Knives to work on secondary content instead of the more glamorous core game. They needed help, but they couldn't go crazy with new hires, so Marty said they needed generalists. The prototype worked, and within three months of the team's formation, it had produced a first playable version of the mode that convinced executives to give them the greenlight and devote more resources to Breach. The plan was to make the best argument they could before the higher ups checked in too closely, fleshing the idea out enough that they could present a concrete plan and prototype of the mode that would prove it out as a better idea than the challenge maps. They wanted to try something more interesting, as well as something better tied into the game's narrative setting, particularly the idea of hacking.įortunately, they were left to operate in those early months with very little oversight, so without really telling anyone, they abandoned the challenge maps idea and set about fleshing out their ideas for Breach mode. After some tooling around on the challenge maps assignment they had been given, the team determined they weren't very fun. Despite that, Marty said the team was ambitious. At the time, there was just a year left before the game's expected ship date, and the relatively small group of developers weren't given much budgetary support, so they couldn't outsource work to speed things up.
When the Live Team was formed, it operated within some daunting constraints.
In a presentation at the Game Developers Conference today, Eidos Montreal producer Fleur Marty explained how her Live Team took that assignment and turned it into Breach, a new game mode that would eventually be spun off into its own free-to-play game. Originally, that "everything" was supposed to encompass some downloadable content and some basic challenge maps that would remix various levels in the game with new objectives, but it ballooned into something considerably larger, and more daring for the Deus Ex universe. In 2014, Eidos Montreal formed a Deus Ex Live team and entrusted them with handling everything for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided that wasn't part of the core single-player narrative game.
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