Was the killswitch explosion of units ever originally a plot point?,

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Was the killswitch explosion of units ever originally a plot point?,

Postby James » Wed Jul 08, 09 7:36 am

or to fuck up those using the Dragon Tooth's sword?
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Postby Spiderbot01 » Wed Jul 08, 09 8:15 am

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Postby James » Wed Jul 08, 09 8:18 am

Well, if you kill people they EXPLODE.
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Postby Dae » Wed Jul 08, 09 11:23 am

only augmented people and mibs, no?
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Postby Hanover Fist » Wed Jul 08, 09 12:51 pm

Only mechs and mibs/wibs
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Postby Professor Layton » Wed Jul 08, 09 1:15 pm

Maybe to keep the technology behind the mibs and wibs hidden
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Postby James » Wed Jul 08, 09 1:21 pm

Yeah I have no doubt they made that into the plot.

What I'm saying is; was the original idea to have it in the game just to fuck with those using the Dragon Tooth's sword too much?, in order to put them in danger if they don't clear the area when those that explode die.
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Postby MainMan » Wed Jul 08, 09 2:18 pm

No, because it still does damage to those just using close-quarters firearm combat. I think they just made Men In Black explode to make sure we knew that Will Smith is absolutely off the chain
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Postby Professor Layton » Wed Jul 08, 09 4:32 pm

Well if you tranq dart them, they won't explode. You can pick up stuff from their body that way, so it could be a way to give people more reason to use the non-lethal weapons (YEAA PAUL DENTON) You sure you can't dodge the explosion with DTS anyway?
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Postby ~SaSQuAtCH~ » Wed Jul 08, 09 4:43 pm

They won't explode until they reach the ground after dying which gives you about 1 second to fade away. Can be done using speed aug.
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Postby clyzm » Wed Jul 08, 09 5:27 pm

Perhaps, like all "secret government types" they want to get rid of any evidence that they were once alive?
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Postby Snakey » Wed Jul 08, 09 5:40 pm

portable mp3 player wrote:Perhaps, like all "secret government types" they want to get rid of any evidence that they were once alive?


Especially since it is proof of a shifty, megalomaniacal government organisation
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Postby Spiderbot01 » Wed Jul 08, 09 6:33 pm

I still dont understand why MJ12 are hostile to you in the water treatment facility in New York when you go to find Ford Schick. At that point you're a UNATCO bo and therefore would logically be an ally?
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Postby James » Wed Jul 08, 09 7:16 pm

You're intruding onto something huge.
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Postby Snakey » Wed Jul 08, 09 7:25 pm

There was a computer console with an e-mail regarding and explaining the MIB agents and their exploding tendencies in the Versalife compound
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Postby James » Wed Jul 08, 09 7:26 pm

Yeah this is more about its gameplay purpose, not plot.
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Postby Snakey » Wed Jul 08, 09 7:33 pm

James wrote:Yeah this is more about its gameplay purpose, not plot.


Then yeah, it being used to deter DTS hogs would make sense.
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Postby ~SaSQuAtCH~ » Wed Jul 08, 09 9:07 pm

Snakey wrote:There was a computer console with an e-mail regarding and explaining the MIB agents and their exploding tendencies in the Versalife compound


Yes, the point of that email was explaining that the explosion happens for destroying evidence AND damaging nerby enemies.
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Postby Hanover Fist » Wed Jul 08, 09 11:23 pm

It's just done to add challenge to those enemies. If you need an explanation then Mechs are the first version of bioaugmentation they worked on, then stepped it up to mib/wibs then finally the latest version in the game JC, Paul, Walton, etc.

New bioaugs like JC/Paul have a remote killswitch that killed them slowly.

The old versions had a faulty killswitch or some shit and exploded --triggered when their life signs ceased.

Except this wouldn't explain the mib body that was dead and drowned in the Oceanlab, perhaps the killswitch was somehow overridden from the radioactive water or some shit.
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Postby ~SaSQuAtCH~ » Thu Jul 09, 09 9:55 am

I've been wondering whether the girl in Hell's Kitchen bar (ex member of unatco, has mech augs) would use her augs if attacked.. (and blow up after dying?)
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Postby Allan » Thu Jul 09, 09 4:59 pm

She doesn't.
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Postby Spiderbot01 » Thu Jul 09, 09 5:49 pm

She's a mech, doesn;t have augs as far as I was aware.
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Postby MainMan » Thu Jul 09, 09 6:29 pm

She's bInvincible anyway, as you're not meant to kill her.
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Postby ~SaSQuAtCH~ » Thu Jul 09, 09 6:31 pm

No she's not, just like Joey Green, unsure about Smuggler and Harley Filben.
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