3/10/2023 0 Comments Official patch 9.6 gp4![]() What's left of mankind lives purely Under the Sea. The End of the World as We Know It: The surface has been rendered uninhabitable and the oceans are covered with an impenetrable layer of highly radioactive dead organic matter which makes travel to the surface impossible.Eldritch Abomination: The Old Ones/Squids, their apparent leader Forneus, all Bionts, and whatever Drake's Creature is (the plot isn't completely clear, though it seems to be mentioned as something "worse than the Bionts").Dystopia: Though mostly prosperous and highly technologically advanced, the society of Aqua is also extremely corrupt and decadent.Darker and Edgier: When compared to Archimedean Dynasty (which was already pretty gritty to begin with).Instead she gradually lost her humanity and became the Bionts, bent on either assimilating or eliminating all other lifeforms. Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: Deep Descent reveals that the Bionts are the result of a pre-War scientist using nanites to attempt to achieve immortality, in hopes of living long enough to achieve the enlightenment required to negotiate with the Precursors.Corrupt Corporate Executive: Vanderwaal used to be this, until he lost control of EnTrOx.Continuity Nod: Done repeatedly throughout Aquanox, which keeps referring to the events of Archimedean Dynasty, and also through Aquanox 2, which refers to events of Aquanox and its prequel.Climactic Battle Resurrection: The battle for Neopolis, which features lots of characters from throughout the game.Although they're working together, each plans to eliminate the other once the Federation and Flint have been dealt with. Sool is a crypto-fascist who wants to take over the Federation and reclaim the surface, while Korhonen is a megalomaniacal madman who basically wants to eat everyone. Big Bad Duumvirate: Aquanox has rogue Federation military commander Commodore Sool and the Crawler leader Samuel Korhonen.Beam Spam: Gatling Laser, Gatling Plasma. ![]() The Battlestar: Aquanox has two unique super-carriers, the Crawler's Magma Eater and Iwan King's Creole Girl.but it does very little damage if it hits anywhere else, has a long reload cycle, and cockpits can be REALLY hard to hit on a moving vehicle, especially when you're being shot at and have to stay in motion yourself. Awesome, but Impractical: The Vendetta Sniper gun can be used to shoot through people's cockpits for an instant kill when it's zoomed in.Except that under miles of ocean, they should implode instead. Artistic License Physics: Critically damaged ships suffer explosive decompression, which would make sense in space.And Now for Someone Completely Different : The switch from Flint to Will Drake in the last game of the trilogy. ![]()
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