@CasperTheLich
it was overloading the facility's power generators iirc, nobody mentioned planting any kind of charge, unless i'm mistaken.
Right, I guess Your comment is because of some poor wording in my previous post. I know they were not *planting* any device - I was referring to setting up = activating a charge, but I guess it was still confusing as "setting up" is more like "planting" than "activating". I am very sorry - usually I more careful when writing in English.
At the same time, thank You for reminding me exact circumstances: I had not recalled what exactly SAM was going to detonate. :-)
how about that contagion quest?
Yes, I was like "LOL, so I have but two choices now?" at that time as well, but I guess it never really bothered me. Like the woman was already dead all the same, so the only reason to have her in cryo would be to have the strain for further analysis in case the contagion somehow spreads after all. I know, PERHAPS we will find some miraculous cure in the sequel, but even then... Well, You would need to defrost Ruth to *test* it on her... Eh... Somehow I do not see it.
@PretzleMe
Remotely means that you do not need to be accessing a physical construct of any kind in order for SAM to detonate the facility. So yes, SAM does (if you make the choice) detonate the facility almost instantaneously, as you are flying away, when you tell him to do so.
Again, I believe it is because of my poor wording. I do know that SAM is not having a telescopic hand that reaches out of Ryder's head, and that everything it does is "remote" in the result. What I meant was that SAM could not have detonated the charge/generator after leaving immediate vicinity of the base like from the other side of the planet. So it was "now or never" in this respect.
If you choose to not detonate the facility, they evacuate at roughly the same time you do. In fact, I'd have to replay it to see, but they may even actually start to leave before you do.
Hm... I guess I never checked on the option for long enough to see the cutscene You are referring to. I watched some YouTube feeds now (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwPavoxx4Gc ), and it seems that indeed Resistance managed to extract quite a few of those prisoners by the time Ryder's team leaves.
Well, technically Angara seem to be still in the base / close to the base at that time, so *perhaps* the explosion would reach them... But hey, that's stretched even for me.
So You are right - my bad. :-(
The base is also cleared by you and the other team present. So the Cardinal doesn't need to give any order to anyone to not harm the people released.
This is not how I perceive it: Ryder had not infiltrated the *whole* base, e.g. the very courtyard where exaltation ritual was taking place (in the first cutscene with the Cardinal) was never visited. So I believe that there are still numerous Ketts on site (and actually there are: they attack Ryder's team a few seconds after Cardinal is dealt with).
I guess it doesn't really matter in this respect: if released prisoners can leave the place before Ryder's team leaves... Well... This is obviously about Ryder's word and Ryder's word alone. :-(
So yes - poor writing, and there should DEFINITELY be an option to blow the base up after Angara are already safe. :-(
On the flip side, my complaint would also be alleviated if they just wrote it better and created a situation where it isn't just your word stopping you from doing it. Something that makes it to where returning to the base to break it a second time would be impossible.
Hm... I guess it was *implied* that infiltrating the base required a lot of effort, and that even SAM alone would not be able to break the force field (like it needed those encrypted codes from the Resistance), blah, blah. You know it was truly one of the most important Kett bases in the cluster. Also we can *assume* that after our little break-in Ketts will be much more careful, like having a cruiser or two over the base all the time on a watch out, changing frequencies and adding some alarm triggers to the force field, etc.
Not the best writing for sure, but it makes at least *some* sense that both Resistance and Initiative have too few resources to risk assaulting the base again. On the other hand, Ryder has so much time for all the errands in the game, and SAM is soooo OP that there is really no reason why we should not be able to. :-/
