The moment his ACU's systems were disabled, she was able to reach out and convert him with a single sentence, turning him into a fanatically loyal devotee ready to lay down his life for her.

Throughout mission 3 of the UEF campaign, she tries to convert Zachary Arnold, with no success.

With the range boost from Black Sun during the Aeon ending, she was able to reach every human in the galaxy simultaneously and bring complete peace to all three factions. The Aeon Illuminate employs large numbers of psychics, (their religion gives you minor psychic powers, increasing in potency as you come to understand the Way more deeply) and their princess is capable of mind controlling/converting people from interstellar distances. That's not to say that Supcom has a direct 1:1 relationship between gameplay and lore, but on the sliding scale of simulation vs abstraction, they're a lot closer in that regard than Starcraft.Ĭlick to shrink.Again, in SC1/SC:FA. Many facets of gameplay that would otherwise be brushed off as game mechanics are given lore explanations. Units are all scaled appropriately to each other and the terrain.

In contrast, Supcom's whole concept revolves around a lone unit landing deep in enemy territory and fabricating entire military industrial complexes in minutes/hours, a fact that's repeatedly emphasized in manuals, cutscenes, mission briefings, and gameplay.

Small squads of marines aren't able to shoot down battlecruisers, which in turn are far larger than their in-game size would suggest. A barracks constructed by a SCV doesn't actually magic up new living soldiers on the spot without end for instance, and lore build times are longer than gameplay build times. Click to shrink.Starcraft has a much bigger separation between gameplay and lore than Supcom does, even using nothing but the games and their manuals.

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