Why are we working with Keener now?

[Bum Worms]

Havent re done the story in 18 months ish and im lost lol.

[NihilistMERC]

Me too. lol

[PoisonLemon]

Because he is the "good guy" all along, fighting the "big bad" in the shadow.

Just ignore the fact he have been killing JTF numerously, this is the story direction now. He's the goodest good guy that did "almost" nothing wrong.

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Because they use chatgpt to write the plot at this point.

[Annihilator]

Originally posted by Wesley:

Havent re done the story in 18 months ish and im lost lol.

Play the mannhunt legacy. Explain all

[JtDarth]

Originally posted by PoisonLemon:

Because he is the "good guy" all along, fighting the "big bad" in the shadow.

Just ignore the fact he have been killing JTF numerously, this is the story direction now. He's the goodest good guy that did "almost" nothing wrong.

Pretty much. They seem to have been doing an awful lot of 'resurrecting from the dead', even from as far back as the outcast raid at Manning National. God forbid we talk about Parnell, who we literally killed directly ourselves in Warlords of New York, or Keener himself, for that matter.
I suspect they wrote themselves into a corner and were left grasping at straws to come up with further plotlines, so started playing the 'everyone could be a traitor, because secret super conspiracy' game.

Honestly, would have been FAR smarter to have just had Black Tusk fail with Schaeffer's death, have the people that were paying them write it off as a wash, leaving the remainder of BTSU disavowed and out for revenge, then have unknown foreign agents operating to try to shatter cohesion, which, let's be honest, the game portrays the US's cohesion of forces as pretty literally standing on the backs of the SHD division. Hell, that plotline even works better for having Keener return as a semi-allied entity, because he IS the type of narcissist to be offended by foreign powers involving themselves. They wouldn't even have to ever explicitly NAME the foreign powers, just have them be skulking about in the background directing proxies the same way BT was prior to the Capitol Building falling. This would also open the opportunity for more direct crossover content with other brand IPs like Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six, hell, even Splinter Cell, as having units from them show up chasing down leads would make perfect sense.


Actually, now that I think about it, having Echelon units show up as fake agents and ISAC realizing something is up, leading to an investiagation, reveal, and 'you could have just asked' situation would have been really neat, and could even be used to justify Hunters and their skill level. Have the hunters be Rogue Echelon while Echelon is having an internal kerfuffle in the chaos.


So many missed opportunities.