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

[James]

or to fuck up those using the Dragon Tooth's sword?

[Spiderbot01]

what

[James]

Well, if you kill people they EXPLODE.

[Dae]

only augmented people and mibs, no?

[Hanover Fist]

Only mechs and mibs/wibs

[Professor Layton]

Maybe to keep the technology behind the mibs and wibs hidden

[James]

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.

[MainMan]

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

[Professor Layton]

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?

[~SaSQuAtCH~]

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.

[clyzm]

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

[Snakey]

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

[Spiderbot01]

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?

[James]

You're intruding onto something huge.

[Snakey]

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

[James]

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

[Snakey]

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

Then yeah, it being used to deter DTS hogs would make sense.

[~SaSQuAtCH~]

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.

[Hanover Fist]

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.

[~SaSQuAtCH~]

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?)

[Allan]

She doesn't.

[Spiderbot01]

She's a mech, doesn;t have augs as far as I was aware.

[MainMan]

She's bInvincible anyway, as you're not meant to kill her.

[~SaSQuAtCH~]

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