How did Sarge recieve his slow-mo powers? Perhaps the same way pointman did via Armacham Sergeons?

This completely spit on EP and the ending of EP was thrown in the garbage for a squad shooter with generic as hell dudes. And the team leader has slow mo powers like PM? But PM was a special project and the relative of the villains? Get out of here this was just made to give us more targets to shoot I'm just gonna beat it and never look back. FEAR1/EP are the real fear canons I hope 2 is a little better than this crud. I can't take anything in this expansion seriously after epic FEAR/EP one of the dudes s...

Main game works fine.

Ok so the replica army is now in a war with the government and FEAR, but what happened to the first guy you were playing? Did he get extracted? Didn't the leader dude or director get killed in the chopper in last games ending? Who are these guys who jumped out, is the FEAR1 dude dead? What was with all this you don't know who you are messiah complexing the fear dude if he's just pointless now or does he come back? I don't get how this is starting out....

I've run PM before but wanted to boot it up again and when i try to launch it it quits. I try to start it from the EXE in the folder and it gives me the following error: "The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b). Click OK to close the application." I verified the game cache, base fear and extraction point both work. I have all the framework and directX runtime stuff installed. I also deleted the entire FEARXP2 folder and verified again to force a redownload of all of it, tried compat m...