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Peter Eng
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Sep-11-17, 12:30 PM (EDT) |
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23. "RE: So...War of the Chosen?"
In response to message #21
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>>Last is the Skirmishers, a group of de-chipped ex-Advent soldiers.
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>Having now seen their in-game introduction (in a gameplay video, I
>don't have the game myself): This doesn't make any sense.
>Sure, I can see where an existing group of "off-grid" ADVENT could go
>around "recruiting" by (somehow) non-fatally skulljacking their former
>comrades, but how would such a group ever get started as an
>independent entity in the first place? There can't have been some
>"first defector" who arrived at the conclusion on his own, not with
>the ADVENT psionic hivemind enforcing loyalty. They would only make
>sense as an adjunct to one of the other groups—most plausibly, given
>their technical resources, XCOM themselves; they don't make any that I
>can see as an entirely separate, self-contained faction.
>I don't know whether it's possible to use a stun gun on ADVENT soldiers in the first place, but I imagine some XCOM squaddie trying this, and getting shot after it doesn't work. The power surge disrupts the ADVENT soldier's enforced loyalty, and she goes AWOL before the next loyalty check-up. Peter Eng
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