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* [[spoiler: expanding on the above. Mimics are shown to be capable of killing grown humans in mere seconds just by hoping on their head, but why can't they do that to the player character? Because the Morgan you are playing is a Mimic themselves]]

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* [[spoiler: expanding on the above. Mimics are shown to be capable of killing grown humans in mere seconds just by hoping on their head, but why can't they do that to the player character? Because the Morgan you are playing is a Mimic themselves]]themselves]]
* [[spoiler: The Typhon spread Coral throughout the entirety of Talos 1 to create a neural network to summon the [[BigBag Apex]]. The Coral is never stated to be their natural environment, or nest, or what-have-you, its purely for that purpose. In TheStinger, the entire Earth is shown to be covered in Coral. What is the Apex [[BiggerBad trying to summon?]]
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**[[spoiler:To be fair, the point of the experiment was to see if the Typhon could ever see us as more than a step to their survival by making them experience mirror neurons, and to that end, all he needs is the smallest amount of proof.]]
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* The basic setup of the game has a critical problem. When TransStar has hundreds of "volunteers" recruited from prisons, why would they use one of their top scientists and a vice president of the company like a disposable test subject? This involves deleting years of memories and sacrificing the potentially billions of dollars worth of assets that could be gleaned from someone who could invent the psychoscope in their early thirties. The tests themselves have no value that require Morgan's unique mind or abilities.
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*The basic setup of the game has a critical problem. When TransStar has hundreds of "volunteers" recruited from prisons, why would they use one of their top scientists and a vice president of the company like a disposable test subject? This involves deleting years of memories and sacrificing the potentially billions of dollars worth of assets that could be gleaned from someone who could invent the psychoscope in their early thirties. The tests themselves have no value that require Morgan's unique mind or abilities.
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* Despite disagreeing about the exact methods for preventing it from happening, everyone agrees that if even a single Mimic reaches Earth, then humanity is doomed. Yet Morgan merrily slaughters their way through hundreds of Typhon over the course of the game, showing that humanity could stand a chance given enough neuromods, psychoscopes, and guns. Most players will likely chalk this up to OneManArmy GameplayAndStorySegregation and move on. [[spoiler: Except, as the epilogue shows, that didn't really happen. One man or woman ''wasn't'' enough to stop the Typhon. They ''did'' breach containment, they ''did'' reach Earth, and they ''did'' proceed to overrun the planet, to the point that mankind's only hope is getting the Typhon to want to coexist. So much for the player being a badass.]]

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* Despite disagreeing about the exact methods for preventing it from happening, everyone agrees that if even a single Mimic reaches Earth, then humanity is doomed. Yet Morgan merrily slaughters their way through hundreds of Typhon over the course of the game, showing that humanity could stand a chance given enough neuromods, psychoscopes, and guns. Most players will likely chalk this up to OneManArmy GameplayAndStorySegregation and move on. [[spoiler: Except, as the epilogue shows, that didn't really happen. One man or woman ''wasn't'' enough to stop the Typhon. They ''did'' breach containment, they ''did'' reach Earth, and they ''did'' proceed to overrun the planet, to the point that mankind's only hope is getting the Typhon to want to coexist. The only reason Morgan is so successful in the game is because the simulation is programmed so the Typhon can't OneHitKill them like they can in real life. So much for the player being a badass.]]
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* Despite disagreeing about the exact methods for doing so, everyone agrees that if even a single Mimic reaches Earth, then humanity is doomed. Yet Morgan merrily slaughters their way through hundreds of Typhon over the course of the game, showing that humanity could stand a chance given enough neuromods, psychoscopes, and guns. Most players will likely chalk this up to OneManArmy GameplayAndStorySegregation and move on. [[spoiler: Except, as the epilogue shows, that didn't really happen. One man or woman ''wasn't'' enough to stop the Typhon. They ''did'' breach containment, they ''did'' reach Earth, and they ''did'' proceed to overrun the planet, to the point that mankind's only hope is getting the Typhon to want to coexist. So much for the player being a badass.]]

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* Despite disagreeing about the exact methods for doing so, preventing it from happening, everyone agrees that if even a single Mimic reaches Earth, then humanity is doomed. Yet Morgan merrily slaughters their way through hundreds of Typhon over the course of the game, showing that humanity could stand a chance given enough neuromods, psychoscopes, and guns. Most players will likely chalk this up to OneManArmy GameplayAndStorySegregation and move on. [[spoiler: Except, as the epilogue shows, that didn't really happen. One man or woman ''wasn't'' enough to stop the Typhon. They ''did'' breach containment, they ''did'' reach Earth, and they ''did'' proceed to overrun the planet, to the point that mankind's only hope is getting the Typhon to want to coexist. So much for the player being a badass.]]
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* Despite disagreeing about the exact methods for doing so, everyone agrees that if even a single Mimic reaches Earth, then humanity is doomed. Yet Morgan merrily slaughters their way through hundreds of Typhon over the course of the game, showing that humanity could stand a chance given enough neuromods, psychoscopes, and guns. Most players will likely chalk this up to OneManArmy GameplayAndStorySegregation and move on. [[spoiler: Except, as the epilogue shows, that didn't really happen. One man or woman ''wasn't'' enough to stop the Typhon. They ''did'' breach containment, they ''did'' reach Earth, and they ''did'' proceed to overrun the planet, to the point that mankind's only hope is getting the Typhon to want to coexist. So much for the player being a badass.]]

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* Despite disagreeing about the exact methods for doing so, everyone agrees that if even a single Mimic reaches Earth, then humanity is doomed. Yet Morgan merrily slaughters their way through hundreds of Typhon over the course of the game, showing that humanity could stand a chance given enough neuromods, psychoscopes, and guns. Most players will likely chalk this up to OneManArmy GameplayAndStorySegregation and move on. [[spoiler: Except, as the epilogue shows, that didn't really happen. One man or woman ''wasn't'' enough to stop the Typhon. They ''did'' breach containment, they ''did'' reach Earth, and they ''did'' proceed to overrun the planet, to the point that mankind's only hope is getting the Typhon to want to coexist. So much for the player being a badass.]]]]
* [[spoiler: expanding on the above. Mimics are shown to be capable of killing grown humans in mere seconds just by hoping on their head, but why can't they do that to the player character? Because the Morgan you are playing is a Mimic themselves]]
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* Despite disagreeing about the exact methods for doing so, everyone agrees that if even a single Mimic reaches Earth, then humanity is doomed. Yet Morgan merrily slaughters their way through hundreds of Typhon over the course of the game, showing that humanity could stand a chance given enough neuromods, psychoscopes, and guns. Most players will likely chalk this up to OneManArmy GameplayAndStorySegregation and move on. [[Spoiler: Except, as the epilogue shows, that didn't really happen. One man or woman ''wasn't'' enough to stop the Typhon. They ''did'' breach containment, they ''did'' reach Earth, and they ''did'' proceed to overrun the planet, to the point that mankind's only hope is getting the Typhon to want to coexist. So much for the player being a badass.]]

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* Despite disagreeing about the exact methods for doing so, everyone agrees that if even a single Mimic reaches Earth, then humanity is doomed. Yet Morgan merrily slaughters their way through hundreds of Typhon over the course of the game, showing that humanity could stand a chance given enough neuromods, psychoscopes, and guns. Most players will likely chalk this up to OneManArmy GameplayAndStorySegregation and move on. [[Spoiler: [[spoiler: Except, as the epilogue shows, that didn't really happen. One man or woman ''wasn't'' enough to stop the Typhon. They ''did'' breach containment, they ''did'' reach Earth, and they ''did'' proceed to overrun the planet, to the point that mankind's only hope is getting the Typhon to want to coexist. So much for the player being a badass.]]
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* In the twist ending, [[spoiler:all you have to do to get the good ending is not be [[YouBastard a total dick]]. To display the ''slightest'' bit of empathy. How desperate ''is'' Alex, that [[Film/TheAvengers2012 he would call on such a lost creature to defend Earth]]?]]

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* In the twist ending, [[spoiler:all you have to do to get the good ending is not be [[YouBastard a total dick]]. To display the ''slightest'' bit of empathy. How desperate ''is'' Alex, that [[Film/TheAvengers2012 he would call on such a lost creature to defend Earth]]?]]Earth]]?]]
* Despite disagreeing about the exact methods for doing so, everyone agrees that if even a single Mimic reaches Earth, then humanity is doomed. Yet Morgan merrily slaughters their way through hundreds of Typhon over the course of the game, showing that humanity could stand a chance given enough neuromods, psychoscopes, and guns. Most players will likely chalk this up to OneManArmy GameplayAndStorySegregation and move on. [[Spoiler: Except, as the epilogue shows, that didn't really happen. One man or woman ''wasn't'' enough to stop the Typhon. They ''did'' breach containment, they ''did'' reach Earth, and they ''did'' proceed to overrun the planet, to the point that mankind's only hope is getting the Typhon to want to coexist. So much for the player being a badass.]]

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* In the twist ending, [[spoiler:all you have to do to get the good ending is not be [[YouBastard a total dick]]. To display the ''slightest'' bit of empathy. How desperate ''is'' Alex, that [[Film/TheAvengers2012 he would call on such a lost creature to defend Earth]]?]]

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* In the twist ending, [[spoiler:all you have to do to get the good ending is not be [[YouBastard a total dick]]. To display the ''slightest'' bit of empathy. How desperate ''is'' Alex, that [[Film/TheAvengers2012 he would call on such a lost creature to defend Earth]]?]]




* Hey, remember Dahl's Technical Operator? The only one with a name? That signed its hacks just like humans do? What if it was based on a person, just like January? What if it was sentient? What if you killed it? What if you ''hacked'' it?

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* Hey, remember Dahl's Technical Operator? The only one with a name? That signed its hacks just like humans do? What if it was based on a person, just like January? What if it was sentient? What if you killed it? What if you ''hacked'' it?it?
* In the twist ending, [[spoiler:all you have to do to get the good ending is not be [[YouBastard a total dick]]. To display the ''slightest'' bit of empathy. How desperate ''is'' Alex, that [[Film/TheAvengers2012 he would call on such a lost creature to defend Earth]]?]]

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--> 2 - Truly suppressed handguns use subsonic ammunition, which would be handy in, say, [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything preventing hullbreaches]]. Security chief Elizar even notes it herself, that the guns allowed on a space station are "pop-guns" compared to anything she could use earthside.

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--> 2 - Truly suppressed handguns use subsonic ammunition, which would be handy in, say, [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything preventing hullbreaches]]. Security chief Elizar Elazar even notes it herself, that the guns allowed on a space station are "pop-guns" compared to anything she could use earthside.




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* In the twist ending, [[spoiler:all you have to do to get the good ending is not be [[YouBastard a total dick]]. To display the ''slightest'' bit of empathy. How desperate ''is'' Alex, that [[Film/TheAvengers2012 he would call on such a lost creature to defend Earth]]?]]
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* In the prologue, Morgan's alarm clock states it's the year 2032 but a cookbook in Morgan's kitchen says "2033 Edition" which makes sense considering [[spoiler:the prologue is a simulation]].

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* In the prologue, Morgan's alarm clock states it's the year 2032 but a cookbook in Morgan's kitchen says "2033 Edition" which makes sense considering [[spoiler:the prologue is a simulation]].
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* In the prologue, Morgan's alarm clock states it's the year 2032 but a cookbook in Morgan's kitchen says "2033 Edition" which makes sense considering [[spoiler:the prologue is a simulation]].

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* Everything you read about Neuromods tells you that you need to have a brain scan of someone with an ability to gain that ability, yet the player can just install any Neuromod in any category they want. GameplayAndStorySegregation? No, [[spoiler:Psychotronics' most recent project is Typhon neuromods. Normally, that just means taking Typhon abilities and putting them in humans, but what else can Typhon do? Take the form of whatever they want. New, upgraded neuromods can literally do whatever the person installing them wants.]]
** [[spoiler:Or, in a possible case of the twist ending bleeding through, the Typhon experiencing the simulation based on Morgan's memories just expects things to work that way.]]
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* Why is Morgan a HeroicMime when controlled, even though the character has a voice in audio-logs and videos? [[spoiler: Because you're not Morgan, you're a Typhon that's being made to think it's Morgan, and Typhon's aren't exactly native talkers.]]
* Morgan's room in the Cabin Quarters is a direct copy of the apartment in the simulation. It's possible Morgan made it that way to remind him of his time on earth.
* The [[spoiler:"Will Mitchell" imposter]] and Walter Dahl are the most antagonistic and viscous human beings you meet - but of course they are. They both [[spoiler:pretend to be someone harmless (a cook and a HR expert, respectively), just like how the naturally predatory and unempathetic Typhon Mimics pretend to be something harmless.]]

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* Why is Morgan a HeroicMime when controlled, even though the character has a voice in audio-logs and videos? [[spoiler: Because you're not Morgan, you're a Typhon that's being made to think it's Morgan, and Typhon's Typhon aren't exactly native talkers.]]
* Morgan's room in the Cabin Quarters is a direct copy of the apartment in the simulation. It's possible Morgan made it that way to remind him of his time recall that day back on earth.
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* The [[spoiler:"Will Mitchell" imposter]] and Walter Dahl are the most antagonistic and viscous vicious human beings you meet - but of course they are. They both [[spoiler:pretend to be someone harmless (a cook and a HR expert, respectively), just like how as the naturally shapeshifting, predatory and unempathetic Typhon Mimics pretend to be something harmless.]]
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* The [[spoiler:"Will Mitchell" imposter]] and Walter Dahl are the most antagonistic and viscous human beings you meet - but of course they are. They both [[spoiler:pretend to be someone harmless (a cook and a HR expert, respectively), just like how the naturally predatory and unempathetic Typhon Mimics pretend to be something harmless.]]
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* Morgan's room in the Cabin Quarters is a direct copy of the apartment in the simulation. It's possible Morgan made it that way to remind him of his time on earth.
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* Why is Morgan a HeroicMime when controlled, even though the character has a voice in audio-logs and videos? [[spoiler: Because you're not Morgan, you're a Typhon that's being made to think it's Morgan, and Typhon's aren't exactly native talkers.]]

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* Why is Morgan a HeroicMime when controlled, even though the character has a voice in audio-logs and videos? [[spoiler: Because you're not Morgan, you're a Typhon that's being made to think it's Morgan, and Typhon's aren't exactly native talkers.]]]]

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* Hey, remember Dahl's Technical Operator? The only one with a name? That signed its hacks just like humans do? What if it was based on a person, just like January? What if it was sentient? What if you killed it? What if you ''hacked'' it?
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* In Psychotronics, there's four specimen tubes that can have viewing hatches opened up to scan the Phantoms inside. Only three are filled, however; it's likely #4 was the one who originally broke containment.

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* In Psychotronics, there's four specimen tubes that can have viewing hatches opened up to scan the Phantoms inside. Only three are filled, however; it's likely #4 was the one who originally broke containment.containment.
* Why is Morgan a HeroicMime when controlled, even though the character has a voice in audio-logs and videos? [[spoiler: Because you're not Morgan, you're a Typhon that's being made to think it's Morgan, and Typhon's aren't exactly native talkers.]]
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--> 2 - Truly suppressed handguns use subsonic ammunition, which would be handy in, say, [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything preventing hullbreaches]]. Security chief Elizar even notes it herself, that the guns allowed on a space station are "pop-guns" compared to anything she could use earthside.

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--> 2 - Truly suppressed handguns use subsonic ammunition, which would be handy in, say, [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything preventing hullbreaches]]. Security chief Elizar even notes it herself, that the guns allowed on a space station are "pop-guns" compared to anything she could use earthside.earthside.
* In Psychotronics, there's four specimen tubes that can have viewing hatches opened up to scan the Phantoms inside. Only three are filled, however; it's likely #4 was the one who originally broke containment.

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* Why are the handguns [[HollywoodSilencer suppressed?]] Easy!
--> 1 - Talos 1 is an enclosed environment, firing a handgun in an enclosed environment risks more hearing damage than outdoors
--> 2 - Truly suppressed handguns use subsonic ammunition, which would be handy in, say, [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything preventing hullbreaches]]. Security chief Elizar even notes it herself, that the guns allowed on a space station are "pop-guns" compared to anything she could use earthside.



* The prologue has you get tested on, and then find out you lied to about your everyday life. [[spoiler:The last plot twist in the game is that the entire game is a simulation, a test, and you are really a mimic Typhon. In retrospect, the prologue was a test to see how you would react to the last reveal, put there by Alex.]]

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* The prologue has you get tested on, and then find out you lied to about your everyday life. [[spoiler:The last plot twist in the game is that the entire game is a simulation, a test, and you are really a mimic Typhon. In retrospect, the prologue was a test to see how you would react to the last reveal, put there by Alex.]]]]
* Why are the handguns [[HollywoodSilencer suppressed?]] Easy!
--> 1 - Talos 1 is an enclosed environment, firing a handgun in an enclosed environment risks more hearing damage than outdoors
--> 2 - Truly suppressed handguns use subsonic ammunition, which would be handy in, say, [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything preventing hullbreaches]]. Security chief Elizar even notes it herself, that the guns allowed on a space station are "pop-guns" compared to anything she could use earthside.

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* Why are the handguns [[HollywoodSilencer suppressed?]] Easy!
--> 1 - Talos 1 is an enclosed environment, firing a handgun in an enclosed environment risks more hearing damage than outdoors
--> 2 - Truly suppressed handguns use subsonic ammunition, which would be handy in, say, [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything preventing hullbreaches]]. Security chief Elizar even notes it herself, that the guns allowed on a space station are "pop-guns" compared to anything she could use earthside.



* The prologue has you get tested on, and then find out you lied to about your everyday life. [[spoiler:The last plot twist in the game is that the entire game is a simulation, a test, and you are really a mimic Typhon. In retrospect, the prologue was a test to see how you would react to the last reveal, put there by Alex.]]

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* Why are the handguns [[HollywoodSilencer suppressed?]] Easy!
--> 1 - Talos 1 is an enclosed environment, firing a handgun in an enclosed environment risks more hearing damage than outdoors
--> 2 - Truly suppressed handguns use subsonic ammunition, which would be handy in, say, [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything preventing hullbreaches]]. Security chief Elizar even notes it herself, that the guns allowed on a space station are "pop-guns" compared to anything she could use earthside.

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* The prologue has you get tested on, and then find out you lied to about your everyday life. [[spoiler:The last plot twist in the game is that the entire game is a simulation, a test, and you are really a mimic Typhon. In retrospect, the prologue was a test to see how you would react to the last reveal, put there by Alex.]]

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* Why are the handguns [[HollywoodSilencer suppressed?]] Easy!
--> 1 - Talos 1 is an enclosed environment, firing a handgun in an enclosed environment risks more hearing damage than outdoors
--> 2 - Truly suppressed handguns use subsonic ammunition, which would be handy in, say, [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything preventing hullbreaches]]. Security chief Elizar even notes it herself, that the guns allowed on a space station are "pop-guns" compared to anything she could use earthside.
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* The prologue has you get tested on, and then find out you lied to about your everyday life. [[spoiler:The last plot twist in the game is that the entire game is a simulation, a test, and you are really a mimic Typhon. In retrospect, the prologue was a test to see how you would react to the last reveal, put there by Alex.]]
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--> 2 - Truly suppressed handguns use subsonic ammunition, which would be handy in, say, [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything preventing hullbreaches]]

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--> 2 - Truly suppressed handguns use subsonic ammunition, which would be handy in, say, [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything preventing hullbreaches]]hullbreaches]]. Security chief Elizar even notes it herself, that the guns allowed on a space station are "pop-guns" compared to anything she could use earthside.
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Why are the handguns [[HollywoodSilencer suppressed?]] Easy!

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* Why are the handguns [[HollywoodSilencer suppressed?]] Easy!
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1 - Talos 1 is an enclosed environment, firing a handgun in an enclosed environment risks more hearing damage than outdoors
2 - Truly suppressed handguns use subsonic ammunition, which would be handy in, say, [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything preventing hullbreaches]]

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--> 1 - Talos 1 is an enclosed environment, firing a handgun in an enclosed environment risks more hearing damage than outdoors
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** Of course, there is a more successful option, but Morgan can't do it. [[spoiler: A mimic, on the other hand...]]

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** Of course, there is a more successful option, but Morgan can't do it. [[spoiler: A mimic, on the other hand...]]]]

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Why are the handguns [[HollywoodSilencer suppressed?]] Easy!
1 - Talos 1 is an enclosed environment, firing a handgun in an enclosed environment risks more hearing damage than outdoors
2 - Truly suppressed handguns use subsonic ammunition, which would be handy in, say, [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything preventing hullbreaches]]
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* Every single NPC is given a full name, even if they're just a random corpse on the floor... except for the pilot in the prologue, because he's not a real person.

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* Every single NPC is given a full name, even if they're just a random corpse on the floor... except for the pilot in the prologue, because he's not a real person.person.
* The second test in the prologue asks you to hide in a small empty room with nothing but a small chair. The player will most likely:
--> A) Stand there and look at the scientists like "...how the hell do I hide in here?"
--> B) Crouch behind the chair.
--> C) Hold the chair in front of their face
** Of course, there is a more successful option, but Morgan can't do it. [[spoiler: A mimic, on the other hand...]]
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* Every single NPC is given a full name, even if they're just a random corpse on the floor... except for the pilot in the prologue, because he's not a real person.

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