Deus Ex: Mankind Divided™

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided™

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Easy Credits in Breach Mode
By nekov4ego
Few tips on how to easily farm lots of Credits in Breach Mode. No microtransactions required.
   
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Excess Baggage Fees
[Update 11-11-2016] The Breach server has updated with the following small hotfix changes:
  • Provides the Premium "NOSCOPE" Sniper Rifle in either A or S grade. Hipfire gun that actively blocks scope use.
  • Improved the chances to find Expansion Items in packs (Enhancer, Elite, Ripper). Added the chance to find them in Victory Packs (Challenges).

So the topmost reason for your need of Credits may be the recently added achievement Excess Baggage Fees.

Excess Baggage Fees
Breach: Complete a server using 6 Expansion Items at once.

Expansion Kits are found in at least an Enhancer Pack, which costs 15,000, but can also be part of Universe Packs - those are packs that I can confirm drop Expansions, there may be other ones too. This is what the items look like:

Friend Challenges
The easiest method to farm Credits once you have completed all Breach servers and have run out of normal ways to earn them is to beat Friend Challenges. This can be achieved if you ask a friend to send you easy ones such as beat S01_LAVAWALL in \\NETWORK_00 in 15 seconds.

Upon completion, the rewards will be as follows:

The Victor:
* 13,000-15,000 Credits
* Victory Pack

The Loser:
* 3,000-4,000 Credits
* Backup Pack

You can use the items from packs to sell them for even more Credits, the most valuable ones being Weapon Attachments (3,000 Credits) and Nuke Viruses (3,000-5,000 Credits). Refer to the video below for a demonstration of how quickly you can send and beat a Friend Challenge in S01_LAVAWALL.


Note that if you fail a Friend Challenge 3 times, you will become "The Loser" and will receive a Backup Pack while your friend will earn the Victory Pack.
Alternative Steam Account Method
Unfortunately, a user can only send between 3 and 5 Friend Challenges a day. These can be refilled with Firewall Keys which if you have finished most levels already will be hard to come by. A Firewall Key costs 50,000 Credits so if you want to earn Credits, then this seems counter-intuitive.

That's where an alternative Steam account comes in place. If you have another account (or a family member who isn't interested in Deus Ex), you can share the license and set up Family Share to allow them to access Breach for free. With their fresh account, you will have LOTS of Credits to purchase Firewall Keys with and send your main account Friend Challenges.

You will only need to complete the tutorial and you will be able to buy at least 5-10 Firewall keys, which is worth 15-30 Friend Challenges for your main account.

Thanks to JieXY for the idea of alternative accounts!
21 Comments
Haphaz 24 Mar, 2017 @ 3:38pm 
Don't forget to collect all the Breach Software in the main game - the six universe packs give lots of credits and two expansion kits themselves. There's a good video guide on here to collect them. You can do it in multiple playthroughs. Thanks for this guide too!
ggggggg 28 Nov, 2016 @ 9:31am 
Nice :D
Dyna 21 Nov, 2016 @ 12:27am 
@Nick Bluetooth, yep. It should be enough.

@nekov4ego, I only started looking for Expansion Kits yesteday since I'm not really into Breach mode (I'm doing it for achievements only as long as they are reasonable). It should be easy enough now to get them. I only made it once I sold the extra stuff I had like grenades, cheats, patches that I wasn't really using.
Nick Bluetooth 20 Nov, 2016 @ 7:16pm 
Good thing I waited, then. I only spent a little over 100,000 or so on Enhancer Packs pre-patch, and the viruses I obtained from helped me complete the last few servers I had left anyway. Would 790,000 credits be enough to get 6 expansion kits?
nekov4ego  [author] 20 Nov, 2016 @ 6:44pm 
Yeah, mate, they patched it. I've spent over 1,500,000 Credits for my 6 Expansion Kits pre-patch. Nothing could be replayed any further for more :)
Dyna 20 Nov, 2016 @ 6:06pm 
You don't really need to hack it like this (unless you spent all your credits).

I only bought 15K booster packs and got all 6 expansion packs I wanted.

Basically complete every node in every netwrok level so you get the credits off them and the rewards from the reward nodes.

Sell the extra stuff you don't really need (ammo, emp and concussion grenades, addons for weapons that are extra, most if not all patches and cheats. I only kept 2.0, 3.0 and MAX cheats and sold everything else). You'll get a ton of credits this way, enough to buy booster packs and ammo for your favourite gun (you can't sell guns, but you can turn them into scrap).

It worked for me, no challenges made, no MT.

I got 1 expansion pack in like 10 booster packs. Some booster packs came with a praxis kit (like 2 or 3 from all that I bought).
Zeph 20 Nov, 2016 @ 1:26am 
I started playing breach on nov. 16. Since then i've done challeneges and recieved victory packs. If you complete all 3, then 1 out of 3 packs COULD give you an expansion pack, not that it will. Once you recieve 6 packs, it doesn't matter if they are all the same, you will unlock the achievement once you complete a breach map/server.
nekov4ego  [author] 18 Nov, 2016 @ 12:25am 
I haven't played Breach since I got mine sorry.
Nick Bluetooth 17 Nov, 2016 @ 12:46pm 
How easily? Like, about how many Expansion Packs would you have to buy to get 6 Expansion Items now?
nekov4ego  [author] 17 Nov, 2016 @ 11:22am 
I mean you can make but I personally don't think many people are interested in Breach. Excess Baggage Fees has been patched so you should be able to get Expansions easily now.