That’s a real shame about the story. Given they delayed it by 6 months, do think the incoherence is maybe due to them having to/deciding to jettison a huge chunk for some reason and 6 months not being enough time to fill the new void? I haven’t played it yet, but I know at the time they delayed it the speculation was that it might be because of the Paris bombings. With the original Deus Ex having a solid chunk of Paris content I think the feeling was this MD was going to tie into that and after real life events they may have decided that wasn’t appropriate and so had to change it all. I’ve no idea if that might have been what happened though.