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

PostPosted: Wed Jul 08, 09 7:36 am
by James
or to fuck up those using the Dragon Tooth's sword?

PostPosted: Wed Jul 08, 09 8:15 am
by Spiderbot01
what

PostPosted: Wed Jul 08, 09 8:18 am
by James
Well, if you kill people they EXPLODE.

PostPosted: Wed Jul 08, 09 11:23 am
by Dae
only augmented people and mibs, no?

PostPosted: Wed Jul 08, 09 12:51 pm
by Hanover Fist
Only mechs and mibs/wibs

PostPosted: Wed Jul 08, 09 1:15 pm
by Professor Layton
Maybe to keep the technology behind the mibs and wibs hidden

PostPosted: Wed Jul 08, 09 1:21 pm
by 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.

PostPosted: Wed Jul 08, 09 2:18 pm
by 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

PostPosted: Wed Jul 08, 09 4:32 pm
by 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?

PostPosted: Wed Jul 08, 09 4:43 pm
by ~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.

PostPosted: Wed Jul 08, 09 5:27 pm
by clyzm
Perhaps, like all "secret government types" they want to get rid of any evidence that they were once alive?

PostPosted: Wed Jul 08, 09 5:40 pm
by Snakey
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

PostPosted: Wed Jul 08, 09 6:33 pm
by 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?

PostPosted: Wed Jul 08, 09 7:16 pm
by James
You're intruding onto something huge.

PostPosted: Wed Jul 08, 09 7:25 pm
by Snakey
There was a computer console with an e-mail regarding and explaining the MIB agents and their exploding tendencies in the Versalife compound

PostPosted: Wed Jul 08, 09 7:26 pm
by James
Yeah this is more about its gameplay purpose, not plot.

PostPosted: Wed Jul 08, 09 7:33 pm
by Snakey
James wrote:Yeah this is more about its gameplay purpose, not plot.


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

PostPosted: Wed Jul 08, 09 9:07 pm
by ~SaSQuAtCH~
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.

PostPosted: Wed Jul 08, 09 11:23 pm
by 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.

PostPosted: Thu Jul 09, 09 9:55 am
by ~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?)

PostPosted: Thu Jul 09, 09 4:59 pm
by Allan
She doesn't.

PostPosted: Thu Jul 09, 09 5:49 pm
by Spiderbot01
She's a mech, doesn;t have augs as far as I was aware.

PostPosted: Thu Jul 09, 09 6:29 pm
by MainMan
She's bInvincible anyway, as you're not meant to kill her.

PostPosted: Thu Jul 09, 09 6:31 pm
by ~SaSQuAtCH~
No she's not, just like Joey Green, unsure about Smuggler and Harley Filben.