This thread contains spoilers for the Old Man Beta.
I will talk about the two endings I discovered for Old Man, + an observation.
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I played Old Man a lot and got to the end rather quickly. Now, the final mission, for everyone interested, was to infiltrate Tuvanaka Island and destroy a weapon's lab, which I assume fabricated the Super-Malaria.

After successfully taking the facility down and escaping I got two calls: first one from Miller, telling me that I caused a distraction and that he and his team are now moving in to get the Counteragent.

The second from Doc Drabek, who told me that armed men (L'Ensemble guys) were tearing up the camp. So now I had to either go to St. Marie to link up with Miller and get the hell out of Tanoa, or to go to Drabek.


First, I went with Miller. Since Santiago isn't voiced yet, I can't exactly tell what the two were talking about but I'm guessing that Santiago wanted to give the counteragent to Drabek, but Miller the evil black ops Brit told me they had to go now.

I went with him and two other divers. We got into a SDV and the mission just ended. That was a little anticlimatic. So I decided to go again with the same save.


This time, I searched for the counteragent everywhere on Tuvanaka. I destroyed every AA Battery, and basically wiped CSAT off the island. But here's the problem: It was nowhere to be found.

Of course, this confused me greatly. It almost seems as if it didn't exist at all... weird. When I arrived at Miller's location that time I thought "well, why not shoot him maybe he has the counteragent". I wasn't right in that case, but one of the divers had it. I quickly brought it back to Drabek, who told me that L'Ensemble now for some reason hates my guts and I have to leave Tanoa.


So, these are the two endings I found. I didn't finish the second one because I was tired and honestly bored doing the same things over and over. Yet, I have a question to ask and two theories to add: What about the counteragent?
I searched all of Tuvanka. Nothing. So where could it be? No clue. But the Diver always had it, after Miller and his team apparently infiltrated and secured the sample. Could it be that CTRG had the sample for much longer already and were just using Santiago for their funny little agenda? Of course, a possibility is simply that the developers didn't intend the sample to be something you can find normally. You have to kill Miller it seems. But... Perhaps (and I hope because that evil British bastard is still my favourite character) they just forgot to add it in.

But then... there is a second theory. Unsatisfied with both endings, I looked a little more into the scenario and opened up the final mission (I am writing this off what I remember so it might not be 100% accurate). Now, surprisingly the entire Tuvanka Island wasn't included in it, so I am guessing it was in a different file I believe. But then I noticed something. A small objective called "SyndiVacci" (name not the same as ingame). It was a wreckee minivan with a box inside as it seemed.
Now what this causes me to think is that actually, L'Ensemble already had the vaccine, and Miller didn't take it from CSAT; he took it from Syndikat.
Of course this all is a little far fetched. Why would Miller not just tell us that Syndikat had it after he found out? Perhaps, he didn't want us to risk the mission or whatever. Afterall, we needed L'Ensemble on our side.

Yet, there is something that backs my second theory. The fact that Syndikat apparently doesn't like us anymore after this. Now I can only base this off Drabek's call, but here is what I believe: Syndikat thought that Santiago was indeed the person who took it from them. That is why they 'tore apart the camp' and shot around. L'Ensemble knew that if Santiago had the sample, he would bring it to Drabek.

I don't remember if Syndikat actually turned hostile after this, but interestingly I could still call Samjo for attacks. But it seems as if that was the absolute intention.


I am very sorry if some parts were not very understandable. I am not great at English and on mobile while tired. But I hope I still create a discussion where others share their own observations.

Thanks!