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Unused Mission-Related Content

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Story Missions#

Removed Missions#

Fifth Vlad Mission#

anim.img contains a small set from an unknown fifth mission for Vlad, the file with these animations is named as missvlad5.

All that can be understood from these animations is that someone had to argue about something, and someone could smoke, and this is all that left from this mission, there is no text, no audio, only animations.

Kate Mission#

Similar to the fifth Vlad mission, anim.img contains a set of animations named as misskate_1.

There are quite a few animations, from which it can be understood that the mission included talking with someone through car window and outside of it, being offended and a fist fight, probably the mission should not have included a shootout, but it is impossible to talk about anything with complete certainty here, since there is no text, audio, or scripts left from this mission.

In blips.wtd there is an unused Kate icon, which confirms that she was supposed to be able to give the mission to the player, and no, this is not an icon that would be used on dates, since the game uses the heart icon there.

First Phil Bell Mission#

In the american.gxt there is a leftover of the scrapped Phil Bell mission, which apparently was the first, since the .sco scripts of his missions begin with the number 2, and in the .gxt file this mission is signed as BELL1.

The mission itself looks very unfinished, it only has two lines:

Go to the Target's Safe House.

Kill the target.

Where was the safehouse, what would have happened if the target had escaped, and a ton of other nuances that were not clarified because the mission was never finished.

Suzanne#

anim.img contains a couple of animations related to Suzanne - misssuzanne_a.

Suzanne was likely a cut mission giver, as indicated by the miss (mission) prefix in the animations name. There also is an unused character name credits entry with the name, shown below.

0xC7845847 = Suzanne

Maniac#

Once again a find from anim.img, and this time it is connected with some kind of a maniac - missmaniac3.

According to the animation filename, it can be understood that was the third mission for this character, otherwise how to explain the number 3 at the end of the file. The animations themselves do not gives anything specific, someone points a finger and someone aims an assault rifle.

Drug Factory#

anim.img contains animation file named as missdrug_fact.

From the name it can be assumed that it was connected with drugs and probably some factory, but nothing more is known about it, except that the animation itself includes picking up a weapon from the ground and hiding it in the jacket.

Phonecall Dialogues#

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As the game's story progression, the player would receive various phone calls. Some of the calls have been replaced with text messages, some references to early mission designs and so on.

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