@BlackAlpha66 wrote:
She doesn't know Ryder, she doesn't know if she can trust him, and for all she knows, Ryder could be in on the plan to kill her in that cave. Maybe it was Ryder who persuaded the guards. Sloane hasn't spent any time with Ryder. She hasn't talked to Ryder. She has no clue who Ryder is as a person. So, there's no reason for Sloane to trust Ryder. No matter how you turn it, it just doesn't fit. As I mentioned before, there's also the whole thing with her shield suddenly not working which is a thing that happens during many cutscenes, actually. The writing in this game is often lackluster.
Heck, if you go talk to Sloan directly before talking to Kaetus about 'helping' them, she informs you that sneaking around to plan an outpost that she will declare war on the Nexus. This is just after I finished tracking down the weapon caches being gathered by Outcasts in preparation to attack Pododromas and rescuing the wrongly evicted Exile from the cannibals.
I wish there was an option for me to put a bullet in Sloan's back during that High Noon scene.