Lunethex posted:

AradoBalanga posted:

There's an armor pickup that you missed right after Logan hacks the computer (roughly 14:06-14:08 in the video).

Kibayasu posted:

Does the Fail QTE level hook back up with the Succeed level at some point or did I miss when that happened?

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Ep5-1
Evidence #53
Dog-tag. I’ve seen a lot of special forces die the last two weeks due to Cordell’s deception and ineptitude. Desert Scorpions are an elite Army Ranger division, meant to be the tip of the spear in the advance on al-Jamil’s hidden bunker. Night time air-drops provide an element of stealth and surprise, but in Cordell’s haste, he ordered the paratroopers to jump in broad daylight. Enemy anti-aircraft guns killed this scorpion before he hit the ground. –Gabe Logan

Evidence #54
Anti-tank mine. The desert scorpions had the element of surprise, numbers, and military superiority. Even if you discount Cordell’s ineptitude out of the equation, we should have easily destroyed the al-Jamil defenses. But they had the support of a strong benefactor. For years, the Syrian government has denied accusations they supported or harbored terrorists. The markings on these anti-tank mines are hard proof that maybe they aren’t so distant from groups like al-Jamil as they would have us believe. –Gabe Logan

Evidence #55
Leaflet. Written in Arabic, the leaflet dropped over the battlefield was written by a cultural specialist, and was intended to discourage the entrenched al-Jamil soldiers, get them to abandon their posts or risk dying. Cordell would have never allowed this message to be dropped, but since it had been standard procedure since airplanes had first been used in warfare, the Army didn’t bother to tell him. I hate to say that I agree with Cordell, but this ‘cultural specialist’ didn’t understand the al-Jamil warrior mentality. They lived for this day, and would never surrender. All this letter did was give them fair warning that we were coming. –Gabe Logan


Behind the Scenes
Evidence #56
How good a level looks is a combination of textures, mesh, and lighting. Without great textures, objects won’t have enough detail to be believable. Making great textures is not easy: they have to have detail without being repetitive, and they have to tile without seams.

Evidence #57
A ‘Radiosity Simulation Engine’ is used to create realistic lighting and shadows. Once the artist is done placing lights throughout the level, radiosity is used to ‘bounce’ the light off objects in realistic ways. This process creates highly realistic lighting and shadows.

Evidence #58
All mesh is built to a specific grid size. Artists must follow specific rules and guidelines when creating level art so that the 3D spaces will work for both player actions and gameplay mechanics. Objects and ledges, for example, must be specific heights and distances.

Evidence #59
Lyrics to ‘Logan’s Shadow’ by Azam Ali:
‘Like the faded spark of stars that pass
I stand scarred, in your shadow
Love is but a faint trace of a memory
So how can I speak of love’s dream
In this shell, in this dark, a needed faith, a needed spark.

Yet I long, that you’ll still come
So I try to outrun my past
Now between us like a shoreless sea
Can you still love me
Waiting for you to come and save me, waiting for you to come and save me
Will we stray in this doubt
in the remains of this light’

Evidence #60
Lyrics to ‘Secret’s Lament’ by Azam Ali:
‘In sorrow’s flood, I found my bliss
Shone splendidly in the light of your gaze
How faint sound of love concealed, of unspoken words
Unlived dreams, unloved love.

Caravans freighted with heroes of lost days
Bound silently heavenward where the heart waits
How faint the sound of love concealed of unspoken words
Unlived dreams, unlived love.’

Ep5-2
Evidence #61
Green beret tattoo. The dead Courier had a tattoo from his prior military service. Cordell hires only former intelligence agents or Special Forces soldiers; hardcore patriots afraid of nothing and willing to do anything in the name of national security. I’ve found many of them who have done just that and sacrificed their lives to recover the X-Z-2. As an employer, you couldn’t ask for more from your men. But these couriers didn’t die for national security. They died trying to cover up Cordell’s mess.
Code: D7V N8T H2WM –Gabe Logan

Evidence #62
Dog-tag. This was an aggressive operation, but the coordinated ground and air assaults would help soften enemy positions so that ground troops could advance. Desert Scorpions would recon enemy positions, and then radio for air support to destroy those targets. Computers guide modern missiles, but there’s still a degree of error, and this GI suffered for it. Stone used to tell me his own horror stories, and most always closed with, ‘There ain’t nothin’ friendly about friendly fire!” –Gabe Logan

Evidence #63
Letter from Rhamani. ‘Brother Ghassan, I wanted to congratulate you on al-Jamil’s recent victories defending our homeland. Good fortune has blessed my business interest, and it is my duty to provide al-Jamil from its fruit.

Do not despise my dealings with the westerners. I vow that my stomach turns in disgust, but I am setting them up to use their blind lust for our oil as a means to silently fleece and then public destroy them. For that, I need your assistance.

Enclosed you will find the sum of seven million Pounds to fund al-Jamil operations. Please spend them on the finest equipment and firepower that will assist your—no, our cause. You are commanding the last of the faithful. –Fawzi Rhamani’

Evidence #64
Shell casings. These automatic cannons were un-manned, heavy caliber machine guns designed for combat against armored vehicles such as tanks, APC’s, or helicopters. But these were leveled at light infantry units. Alpha Company had been decimated. If I ever make it out of this desert, I’ve got spent shell casings we can trace back to the manufacturer. And from there, to whoever supplied al-Jamil with their fortified weapons. –Gabe Logan

Ep5-3
Evidence #64
AIT Shipping Invoices. The last shipment of arms I tracked from Red Section were sold to Middle Eastern arms dealers Black Freedom, and then purchased by al-Jamil with funds given to them by Fawzi Rhamani, an Egyptian oil magnate and terrorism financier. Rhamani was killed by Bitar once al-Jamil’s zealousness encroached on his own business interests.
Although I had been tracking the shipments, I never confirmed the contents until now. Thankfully, none of Singularity’s chemical or biological weapons are listed here, but I am concerned to see a number of ‘AIT AS-4’ armored suites on the invoice. When I discovered these on the St. Helens, I figured they belonged to Cordell’s men, but this proves that Bitar had taken them onboard.
Mujari says the ‘AS-4’ is the next grade of Singularity’s ‘FCS Armor’ I encountered at Aerospace Integrated Technologies. That generation of electrical armor was tough enough. What the hell am I in for this time?
–Gabe Logan

Evidence #65
FAX. Cordell was in a race to secure Shen before France, Britain, or Russia could. It’s acceptable US policy to contract with Pakistani tribal leaders; Cordell did nothing wrong by hiring local mercenaries to secure Shen and hold him until NIOC forces could arrive. This FAX sent to al-Jamil via satellite phone from the Himalayas shows where things began to go south for Cordell. Even then, he still hadn’t done anything wrong. But he panicked, and set this entire chain of events into motion. He should have known that it’s not the original crime, but the cover-up that gets you into trouble. –Gabe Logan

Evidence #66
Letter. I had it backwards, figuring that Lian had run out on Shen when I recruited her away from CSS. Based on this letter, Shen ended their relationship, choosing work over a personal life, I felt guilty reading through their personal correspondence, but something occurred to me, a piece of the puzzle falling into place: The letter was addressed simply to ‘Lian Xing, at the American Embassy in Beijing.’ This means Shen had no means to get in contact with Lian, and neither did the embassy. I have no doubt Cordell intercepted the letter, passed it to Lian, and then sat back and waited for her to lead them to Shen. –Gabe Logan

Evidence #67
X-Z-2 schematics. Looking at the charcoal sketch, even I could appreciate the simple elegance of Shen’s device. It was small, fragile, and harmless looking, but had the potential to explode like an atom bomb. Shen grew up poor in a remote Chinese village and spent most of his adult life insulated from people by his government handlers. Mujari tells me that Shen’s innocence, naiveté, and brilliance were the perfect storm of genius necessary to design such a paradoxical device. –Gabe Logan

Ignatius M. Meen posted:

Cordell has gone a long time in this game without being revealed as a traitor. Given how many we've already faced and the fact that he's been loving with us at every turn it's impressive to now have someone who's just lovely at handling Gabriel Logan and procurement of weapons for the good of the US. _{who am I kidding, he's going to be the last boss right after we kill Bitar}

Kunster posted:

Didn't that AA execution turn out to be fake?

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Ep6-1
Evidence #68
Ammunition casing. Something felt odd about the gun battle at the base of the dam. I had missed enemy targets, but the men still died. I chocked that up to the chaos of war; friendly fire or a lucky ricochet. Then I found a spent shell casing. Enough countries have adopted NATO ammunition standards that a single bullet can’t tell a story. China refused to adopt these standards in favor of their ‘superior’ ammunition, and that’s how I knew this bullet belonged to Trinidad. The only question now; does this story have a happy or tragic ending? –Gabe Logan

Evidence #69
Truck fender. Lian used too much C4. Her job was to create a topside diversion assisting my covert entry into the dam from below. Lian knows better, but she was rushing things. I knew it was a mistake to bring her on the mission. She’s way too close to things, and wants to save Shen, even at the peril of our entire mission. What she doesn’t realize is that now that she’s in harm’s way, I’ve got something personal at stake as well. –Gabe Logan

Evidence #70
Body. The dead security guard stashed inside the control booth had a tattoo from prior service in the Syrian Republican Guard. Unlike Iraq’s force of the same name, this military division had a proud connotation. Retired now, he thought his job as a civilian security guard would be a safe way to earn a comfortable living. The technique used in cutting the throat indicates CSS training. This can’t be Lian’s work; it must be Trinidad’s. –Gabe Logan

Shadowed Intel

Evidence #71
Guiding Angel. Logan destroyed the transformer substations, but never realized the danger he was truly in because I eliminated waves of enemies before they could overtake him.

Logan will die soon enough, but not before leading me to Shen.

I’ve been behind him the entire time, providing surgical but surreptitious assistance with my blade and my rifle. The CSS psychological profile indicated that Logan is trusting to a fault. He is still wearing the tracking device I planted on him at Gebel Tyorma; as he sat, drugged in the interrogator’s chair, I moved close, straddled him, and teased him with my similar appearance to Lian Xing. –Trinidad

Evidence #72
Sharpshooter. My sniping accuracy at Ash Shaddaha shows why I hold the academy record for long range marksmanship. CSS agents can kill up close with their hands, or from over a mile away with perfect accuracy.
Martial arts were invented in China, but so was gunpowder. –Trindad

Ep 6-2
Evidence #73
Destroyed turbine. I’ve seen the design of Shen’s device. The counter-balance to its simple design is the amount of power required to achieve the perpetual charge. Three turbines had been running past capacity for days, causing this turbine to crumble under the strain. Bitar’s close to achieving his holy vision, and for the first time since I’ve known him, he’s gotten excited and lost his patience. To date, that patience and stoicism had been his deadliest weapon. –Gabe Logan

Evidence #74
Tracking device. The device is Chinese, but the electronic map was universal enough; a GPS tracking receiver. This is proof that Trinidad is somewhere in the dam complex. The target she was tracking isn’t moving; probably dead. Why did she ditch the receiver? Did she find what she was looking for? My question was answered soon as I started walking away: the receiver made a loud beeping noise and the target started to me. She was tracking me. –Gabe Logan

Evidence #75
Employee badge. The dead power room engineer had never been part of al-Jamil. His only mistake was coming to work at the Nah al Khabur dam on the same day al-Jamil commandeered the dam to charge Shen’s devices. Even Bitar recognized the need for a skilled engineer to manage stresses on the dam machinery as they tried squeezing every ounce of energy out of the turbines. The cut throat is the same as the security guard’s. CSS handiwork. Trinidad is here. –Gabe Logan

Evidence #76
Cordell’s financial records. The courier was carrying several discs that didn’t seem to have anything to do with NIOC business. Teresa cracked the encrypted files on a microdisc and discovered something interesting: all of Robert Cordell’s personal financial records going back ten years. Of special interest was an order, issue to Cordell’s blind trust, to dump 30,000 shares of stock in World-Cal Petroleum, early last year.

I had wondered about Cordell’s involvement with Night Watch and the Rhamani case. I know that Cordell was a hard rear end, did whatever it took to ‘get the job done.’ But it never occurred to me that he would profit personally if World-Cal got the Egyptian pipeline contracts. IT now makes sense why Cordell was working so hard to discredit our case.

Code: JTS C9F S8DR –Gabe Logan

Ep6-3
Evidence #77
Broken glasses. I recognized the broken glasses as those worn by Trinidad in Kuranca. Her eyesight must be terrible. The prescription was strong, so she’d certainly be working at less than full capacity without them. They had fit her well, so how did she manage to lose them? It appears she was caught by surprise, and lost them in the struggle. –Gabe Logan

Evidence #78
Security code 898. On a hunch, I entered a familiar code into the dam’s security network. I’ve seen 898 tattooed on the neck of every al-Jamil true believer. Code breakers have been unable to decipher the significance of that number. But, code breakers are logical creatures. That’s the strength of Bitar’s symbol, he’s not logical. He’s crazy. Agency code breakers, like Teresa, can crack 128 bit encryption like it was children’s Sudoku. But they’re incapable of getting inside Bitar’s head, even to understand three simple digits.

Evidence #79
Dog-tag. Lian didn’t trust me a month ago when Shen first contacted her. And she still doesn’t trust me, even after I risked my life to rescue her from Bitar’s desert bunker. It was a mistake to bring Lian on this mission. After her diversionary attack, she abandoned her post to go after Shen, and has been incommunicado since. These dog-tags are hers. I returned them to her after I rescued her. Did she lose them in a fight, or was she trying to shed them for good? The Lian Xing that I used to know would never have dropped her Agency tags. –Gabe Logan

Evidence #80
Letter from Rhamani. ‘Bitar, you take things too far. Your zealousness has blinded you to the harm you cause to your own people – your own brothers! I plead you to rethink this plan. I want the Westerners gone from our lands, as much as you. But the Suez Canal is important to us all. Destroying it would do irreparable harm, not just to myself but to the entire region.

Come to my home in El-Gouna straightaway, and forestall any action on the shipping lanes until we have spoken. I will make my case to you; that with the West I have a partnership, but with al-Jamil I have an alliance. –Fawzi Rhamani’

I was outside Rhamani’s mansion the day of that meeting. And he didn’t make a very strong case for their alliance because Bitar gutted Fawzi like a goat. –Gabe Logan

Ep6-4
Evidence #81
Blueprints. Accessing dam security files on the computer terminal, I found plenty of evidence trying dam officials to Bitar. I uploaded blueprints and financial records describing rapid facility retrofitting and construction of four quantum harness ports. All of this took place in just one week’s time, with government officials supplying resources and manpower. Tonight I’ll take care of Bitar once and for all. But the government officials assisting al-Jamil aren’t off the hook. –Gabe Logan

Evidence #82
Target list. Of all the X-Z-2 devices Bitar forced Shen to construct, most were permanently entombed inside al-Jamil’s desert bunker. The surviving four had been rigged to charge at Nahr al Khabur. Bitar fled with one device when I reached the charge room. Some might call it cowardice. Bitar is many things, but coward isn’t one of them. He was simply cutting his losses, trying to ensure at least one device could be delivered onto its target. The map he left behind had four US cities circled in red. –Gabe Logan

Evidence #83
Letter. Shen dropped this letter as we left the charge room. ‘Lian, if you are reading this then I am already dead. Please carry no guilt, as I have given Bitar reason enough to kill me. I risked a much worse fate leaving home to prevent my work being used for war. I misjudged the world when building the X-Z-2; but now Bitar has misjudged me if he thinks I can be scared into making his bomb. Please know that I only regret this ending, and the pain I have caused you. Your husband, Shen Rei.’ –Gabe Logan

nine-gear crow posted:

Congrats to everyone involved in this... Whatever it was.

paragon1 posted:

I just realized that Avitus and Skull Face not only share the same voice actor, but he is in fact doing the exact same voice for both.

Also he was apparently on General Hospital for like 22 years!?!?

Edit: Oh right, good job finishing this Lune. I didn't even know they made games past the second one when this thread started.

Jade Star posted:

Man, Gabe deserved a lot better for all the poo poo he went through. Rest in peace dude, you were a real hero.

VolticSurge posted:

An amazing end to an amazing LP. There was one omission that would've made that epilogue even more When Logan-Fiend is walking with the demon army at the end,I was expecting some of them to have the faces of Gabe the Taser's victims (Nigel Cummings,Chance,etc.),now forced to serve him for eternity.

Lunethex posted:

All of Logan's enemies are fuel for the taser and nothing more. In fact I did briefly consider putting some heads there, but because it was only Logan that was confirmed to have died rather than see his friends be labeled deceased, it was important to me that he ascend alone to demonhood and wage the most unholiest of wars. The war still rages within

Lunethex posted:

All of Logan's enemies are fuel for the taser and nothing more. In fact I did briefly consider putting some heads there, but because it was only Logan that was confirmed to have died rather than see his friends be labeled deceased, it was important to me that he ascend alone to demonhood and wage the most unholiest of wars. The war still rages within