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Plot Holes and Missing feature.... SPOILER WARNING


I wouldn't suggest reading this post unless you have already beaten the game.....



Ok that being said, here are some plot holes I couldn't figure out...

1) Why did they say he had 20 hours to live in the trailer... but the game takes place over 2+ years?

2) Why was the man made virus plot never explained?

3) Why were they able to blow up a whole platoon of ships early in the game (san francisco)... but later they need a nuc to accomplish the same thing (or as cappelli put it, it would be the end of mankind)

4) Who invented the nuc? lol.... without WW2... how does it exist?

5) Who was the chimeran boss Daedalus? They said Hale knew him... but how? Why? and how did a man made chimera take over the entire species?



ok, those are my plot holes, but one other thing.... there were no vechicle missions in this game like there were in Resistance 1... why not? Fighting in chimaran armor was pretty fun in Resistance 1

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5. daedalus was injected with ancient chimeran dna,explained to be the purest and most original of the species. It took time but he changed into the chimarean angel like creature. Hale was also injected but did not have enough time to change

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1. Im guessing it was 20 hours from when he got his last injection thing or when the Chimera finally attack America.

2. Not sure what your talking about?

3. It was my understanding that they really weren't after the ship but after the boss guy, idk his name, and with a nuke it would destroy the majority of the ships.

4. Your fighting mutated humans, using a saw type gun and your worried about who invented the nuke?

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4. in one of the intel docs, they mention an unknown technology (not recognised as chimeran or human) that the chimerans were guarding and the SRPA took it from them, i was under the impression that the nuke was this tech. i think ill have to play the game again.

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You sure Oppenheimer still wasn't around?

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The nuke always could have been made from the technology they got from the Chimera.



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i dont know all the answers but ill answer to the best of my knowledge

1) Why did they say he had 20 hours to live in the trailer... but the game takes place over 2+ years?

i'm guessing that he had 20 hours to live after the 2 years

2) Why was the man made virus plot never explained?

didnt malakov say that he took dna from the original chimera and did experiments and so on

3) Why were they able to blow up a whole platoon of ships early in the game (san francisco)... but later they need a nuc to accomplish the same thing (or as cappelli put it, it would be the end of mankind)

i think that the ship was bigger that the one in san fran and their towers were either destroyed or they didnt have any in the gulf, plus the nuke would destroy all of the ships in the vacinity

4) Who invented the nuc? lol.... without WW2... how does it exist?

same question as in how do they have big ass anti air turrents, technology to fuse a human and chimera weapon, and how do they have portable electric guns

5) Who was the chimeran boss Daedalus? They said Hale knew him... but how? Why? and how did a man made chimera take over the entire species?

He was a guy who was experimented on by Malikov along with Nathan and he was fused with the purest chimerian dna and he changed into that of what you see gained their memories and goals.

Whew...well i hoped i helped

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you helped a little... but the weapons one I disagree on.... they had the futuristic hand held weapons by taking them from the dead chimera...all human made weapons in the game are circa the 1950's. The nuc used looks like "fat man" that was used on Japan in WW2.... WW2 never happened in this game, there was no manhattan project... hence the question.

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"but the weapons one I disagree on.... they had the futuristic hand held weapons by taking them from the dead chimera...all human made weapons in the game are circa the 1950's. "
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not true what about the marksman (reversed chimeran tech), or the spider, the wraith

and those are just the ones featured in R2

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It was created when it was because there was a reason. It wouldn't have mattered when, as long as the people involved knew how.A planet wide invasion by an alien civilization with the intent to destroy all of mankind is a pretty good reason.

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2 answer # 4 no 1 knos who invented it but president noah had scientists test it in alaska during the 40s and then came in an announcement saying they hav created a nuclear device 4 protection. its all on the resistance website in the timeline news articles.

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(Really late responce, but I thought I repond anyways, because I have too much time on my hands and I know way too much about this game)

1) Why did they say he had 20 hours to live in the trailer... but the game takes place over 2+ years?
Actually, he said he had "19 hours left to live". It was 19 hours starting after he missed his first inhibitor treatment. Because keep in mind, if the SRPA members that were part of Project Abraham aren't kept in check with those treatments, the virus slowly starts to turn them. The Inhibitors keep the SRPA members in check (like Capelli, Warner, Hawthorne, Hale, etc). Hale kept blowing off his treatments to go save the world and *beep*

2) Why was the man made virus plot never explained?
It is in Project Abraham. Project Abraham was pretty much meant to take the Chimera virus, and use it for the humans; to get the perks of the Chimera (like fast regen, etc), to level out the playing fields with the Chimera.

3) Why were they able to blow up a whole platoon of ships early in the game (san francisco)... but later they need a nuc to accomplish the same thing (or as cappelli put it, it would be the end of mankind)
Because the ships they blew up in San Francisco was just a battle fleet. The ships they nuked at the end were the various motherships that (Capelli says to Hale after Hale finds out he only has 3 hours left) were hovering over the bay in Mexico; they were obviously up to something - and they were. After blowing up the ships, those broken spheres took their place in the skies (which is why some people are asking what Capelli might when he say "Hale, what happened? What is that?")


4) Who invented the nuc? lol.... without WW2... how does it exist?
You're concerned about that nuke? And you aren't questioning the technology the Chimera have, ie the auger and it's ablility to shoot through walls, the hellfire wraiths the Ravengers use, the splicer and it's saw-blade-shooting-out-awesomeness, etc. ? It's not that hard to make a bomb... They just made a really big one.

5) Who was the chimeran boss Daedalus? They said Hale knew him... but how? Why? and how did a man made chimera take over the entire species?
Daedalus WAS a man named Jordon Shepherd who was also in Project Abraham. Him and Hale were injected with the same strain of virus (which is why one of the last levels was called 'Twins', because they were pretty much the same, just that Jordon mutated on a rapid level). Hale knew 'Shepherd' (now named Daedalus) because they were part of the same Program.
And if you also notice, about half way through the game when Hale is talking to Warner (who was convincing him that there was still time to get an inhibitor treamtment to slow the spread of virus in him), Hale said that he had to stop the Chimera, because "Jordon Shepherd would have wanted him too".


You know what also helps explaining 'plot-holes'? Not playing the game in mute... :\
Because most of this stuff I said (especially about Daedalus) was said through the game in a conversation between Hale and Malikov.
Anyways, again, late responce, but I hoped it help (if you didn't figure all this out already)

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Yeh i assumed it was as you laid out but there was a lot of exposition in the game. Better writing would have gotten around that but on the whole it's a matter of connecting the dots.

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