History Fridge / PhantomDoctrine

** Why does executing an agent costs so much money? Because you pay the price of the bullet, the discreet disposal of the corpse, and the cleaning of the room.
*** As one upgrade to reduce the cost of executions is "sturdy shovels", it's likely that replacing shovels is also tacked onto the expenditure list.
** Why do you raise the danger meter if you have a "compromised evacuation" (i.e. you didn't hurry enough to leave the place once the evacuation vehicle arrived on site)? Because witnesses noticed suspicious people getting into a suspicious vehicle, which gives clues to Beholder Initiatives about your action, and possibly pieces of information which can be used to help them locate your hideout.

* In the Kabul map, the local language is Russian instead of one of Afghanistan's official languages like Pashto. While the intent may be limiting the complexity of the game (i.e. avoiding to implement in the agents' files a language that is only needed in a single map), this actually had basis in reality: [[UsefulNotes/SovietInvasionOfAfghanistan in 1983, Kabul was the capital city of a communist regime heavily supported by the USSR, and fighting a war involving Soviet troops]]...

* Why are there PMCs in Soviet Nations? Well, those PMCs probably have a vested stake in seeing the Komplex's plans come to fruition, meaning Beholder and Valhalla were able to take them on board as well.

* Leslie gets killed during the 1983 United States embassy bombing in Beirut, and the game strongly implies ''he'' was the target. He actually is killed during a phone conversation, while he was schedulding a rendezvous with Deadpan. If the suicide attack had happened later, ''the Player Character'' may have have been killed, too.

** Why does executing an agent costs so much money? Because you pay the price of the bullet, the discrete disposal of the corpse, and the cleaning of the room.

* A few features adding difficulty aren't here for the sole sake of adding challenge, but are actually subtle examples of RealityEnsues:

** Why do danger skyrockets if you bring captured agents to your hideout (once you research the interrogation room)? Because Beholder Initiative starts frantically looking for the hideout, probably to either free their agents before they talk or silent them to ensure they don't.

** Why do danger skyrockets if you bring captured agents to your hideout (once you research the interrogation room)? Because Beholder Initiative starts frenetically looking for the hideout, probably to either free their agents before they talk or silent them to ensure they don't.

* In the Kabul map, the local language is Russian instead of one of Afghanistan's official languages. While the intent may be limiting the complexity of the game (i.e. avoiding to implement in the agents' files a language that is only needed in a single map), this actually had basis in reality: [[UsefulNotes/SovietInvasionOfAfghanistan in 1983, Kabul was the capital city of a communist regime heavily supported by the USSR, and fighting a war involving Soviet troops]]...

* During the CIA campaign, at one point, the protagonists receive a package include a tape. After listening the tape (which sounds inintelligible to Deadpan), [[spoiler: Fender]]'s behavior starts changing, and he eventually betrays his side. Further investigation discover [[spoiler: he has been turned into a ManchurianAgent during the Seventies]]. This tape was probably [[spoiler: his TriggerPhrase.]]

* The repartition between free access areas and restricted areas may seem arbitrary at first, as in the same building there are free rooms and restricted rooms (or sometimes a restricted square in a free room), but makes perfect sense when you think about it. Restricted areas include: roofs, places located behind banks / store counters, store backrooms, autopsy rooms in a morgue, offices... They are either places in which anybody spotted there becomes suspicious (roofs) or "employee only" places.

* In the Kabul map, the local language is Russian instead of one of Afghanistan's official languages. While the intent may be limiting the complexity of the game (i.e. avoiding to implement in the agents' files a language that is only needed in a single map), this actually had basis in reality: [[UsefulNotes/SovietInvasionOfAfghanistan in 1983, Kabul was the capital city of a communist regime heavily supported by the USSR, and fighting a war involving Soviet troops]]...

* The repartition between free access areas and restricted areas may seem arbitrary at first, as in the same building there are free rooms and restricted rooms (or sometimes a restricted square in a free room), but makes perfect sense when you think about it. Restricted areas include: roofs, places located behind banks / store counters, store backrooms, autopsy rooms in a morgue, offices... There are either places in which anybody spotted there becomes suspicious (roofs) or "employee only" places.

* In the Kabul map, the local language is Russian instead of one of Afghanistan's official languages. While the intent may be limiting the complexity of the game (i.e. avoiding to implement in the agents' files a language that is only needed in a single map), this actually had basis in reality: [[UsefulNotes/SovietInvasionOfAfghanistan in 1983, Kabul was the capital city of a communist regime heavily supported by the USSR]]...

* A few features adding difficulty aren't here for the sole sake of adding challenge, but are actually subtle examples or RealityEnsues:

* In the Kabul map, the local language is Russian instead of Afghanistan's official language. While this may be to limit the complexity of the game (i.e. avoiding to implement in the agents' files a language that is only needed in a single map), this actually had basis in reality: [[UsefulNotes/SovietInvasionOfAfghanistan in 1983, Kabul was the capital city of a communist regime heavily supported by the USSR]]...

* A few features adding difficulty aren't here for the sole sake of adding challenge:

*** It's also likely that the captured agents are also trying to free themselves, or secretly feeding intel to the Beholder Initiative while in prison - they are trained agents, so they were likely trained on what happens if they get captured by an enemy agency...

** Why do danger skyrockets if you bring captured agents to your hideout (once you research the interrogation room)? Because Beholder Initiative starts frenetically looking for the hideout, probably to either free their agents before they talk or silent them to ensure they don't.

* The repartition between free areas and restricted areas may be arbitrary at first, as in the same building there are free rooms and restricted rooms (or sometimes a restricted square in a free room), but makes perfect sense when you think about it. Restricted areas include: roofs, places located behind banks / store counters, store backrooms, autopsy rooms in a morgue, offices... There are either places in which anybody spotted there becomes suspicious (roofs) or "employee only" places.

** Why do you raise the danger meter if have "compromised evacuation" (i.e. you didn't hurry to leave the place once the evacuation vehicle arrived on site)? Because witnesses noticed a suspicious vehicle, which gives clues to Beholder Initiatives about your action, and possibly pieces of information which can be used to help them locate your hideout.