History VideoGame / EntropyZero2

* LooseCanon: [[https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2939645278 "Radio Guy contacts White Forest"]], a short narrative level created by Breadmen developer Blixibon, depicts Radio Guy (name-dropped here as Foster) making contact with the Resistance leadership just after the ending of ''Half-Life 2'' and arranging for Mossman to travel to Arbeit and investigate the Project. The level isn't an official extension to the game, but it's inspired by the developers' conversations about Mossman's motivations and behind-the-scenes characterization; therefore, in Blixibon's words, "you can consider it to be canon unless [Breadmen does] something in the future which contradicts it".

** [[spoiler:Letting Mossman die, leading Bad Cop to gloat about her death before [[OhCrap realizing he screwed over his entire mission]], and leading Overwatch to [[AllForNothing retract his Family Cohesion perk]].]]

** [[DownerEnding "There Will Be Pain"]]: [[spoiler:Bad Cop defies the Advisor, kills it, and then boards the Borealis after activating the bootstrap device. He then encounters the G-Man, who in exchange for his work in stopping the City 10 uprising during the previous installment, allows him to destroy his own imprint in the Combine's mind repository, preventing them from ever making more copies of him. This ultimately falls through, as the Combine manage to overpower the G-Man and capture Bad Cop in an attempt to use him as a template once more...]]
*** [[spoiler:That is, unless you put Wilson in the upload station, in which case he rescues Bad Cop [[AndTheAdventureContinues and the two set off to stop the Combine from taking the Borealis]].]]
** [[DeathOfPersonality "There Will Be Darkness"]]: [[spoiler:Bad Cop doesn't resist the Advisor relieving him of his memories, proceeding afterwards to assist the Combine in securing the Borealis. The Resistance storms the Borealis just as Mossman is being led onto the ship, and Bad Cop gets cornered and killed by Gordon and Dog.]]

** Along with the standard Resistance fighters there are Brutes, who wield shotguns and can take more damage than their companions, and Jumpers, who can jump long distances and are generally extremely mobile.

This sequel once again follows the wise-cracking sociopath Bad Cop -- more precisely, the last of the Overwatch soldiers copied from Bad Cop after his consciousness was uploaded to the Combine's repository at the end of the original mod. After awakening in the ruins of Nova Prospekt, he's briefed by a Combine Advisor on the current state of affairs: the Administrator is dead, and the Combine on Earth has been cut off from the Overworld. The Advisor then gives Bad Cop new orders to capture Judith Mossman, the double agent who helped undermine the Combine's grasp on the planet and uncover the secret project she and her team were trying to find. With this, Bad Cop falls in with an Overwatch regiment heading north to track down Mossman at the Arbeit Communications facility, showing no mercy to the rebel and alien forces who stand in the way of his goals.

* {{Infodump}}: A lengthy slideshow presentation in the Arbeit underground labs provides in-depth explanations of the temporal phenomena Arbeit and Aperture were studying.

* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:Regardless of which ending you get, the Arbeit conflict ends with the Combine indisputably victorious. However, Gordon Freeman is not far behind, and in both variants of the "There Will Be Pain" ending the Combine have failed to recover the Borealis, and in the good version, they've made an enemy of a ''very'' pissed off Bad Cop who is now being aided by the newly-uploaded Wilson, who has infiltrated the Combine network.]]

* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:Regardless of which ending you get, the Arbeit conflict ends with the Combine indisputably victorious.]]

** Unlike most other [=HL2=] mods out there in which rebels would CONSTANTLY switch to weaker vanilla weapons when they had a MUCH better mod-implemented weapon beforehand, in [=EZ2=] you can personally choose which weapon you want your friendly Overwatch Soldiers/Elites to wield by holding said weapon in front of the Soldier/Elite you want to give said weapon to and after a moment or so, they'll grab and drop the previous weapon they were using and will then be armed with the weapon you want to give them instead, which makes weapon-selection for your following Soldiers/Elites MUCH less annoying.

* RapidAging: One of the anomalies Bad Cop encounters on his journey causes pockets of space to rapidly increase the passage of time of anything that touches them. Living beings that come into contact with these pockets either turn into skeletons or vaporize on the spot.

** Unlike most other [=HL2=] mods out there in which rebels would CONSTANTLY switch to weaker vanilla weapons when they had a MUCH better mod-implemented weapon beforehand, in [=EZ2=] you can personally choose which weapon you want your friendly Overwatch Soldiers/Elites to wield by holding said weapon in front of the Soldier/Elite you want to give said weapon two and after a moment or so, they'll grab and drop the previous weapon they were using and will then be armed with the weapon you want to give them instead, which makes weapon-selection for your following Soldiers/Elites MUCH less annoying.

* NoGearLevel: Bad Cop’s arsenal is destroyed by an emancipation grid at the beginning of "Chamber Catacomb", leaving him without weapons to fight off the creatures infesting the abandoned Arbeit test chambers, including the resident Gonome, until he comes across some supplies in Clone Cop’s hideout.

* TechnicolorToxin: Biotic cohesion gel, a glowing blue goo made of modified phytoplankton.