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The Surge 2 (Video Game)

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The Surge 2 (Video Game)	comment	The 2019 follow-up to The Surge, developed by Deck13 and published by Focus Home Interactive.On a first-class flight to Jericho City to discuss job options after being made redundant somehow (how exactly is up to the player), the plane mysteriously crashes. Two months later, you wake up in an infirmary bed... in prison, with the inmates running free and drones putting down anyone they come across. After obtaining your own exo-rig and escaping, the news isn't much better: The entire city's been locked down to prevent the spread of a nano-plague called Defrag. In the chaos, even skilled workers have been reduced to scavenging and killing others to get by, and a religion centered around the nanites named the Children of the Spark has grown to dominate the city's inner workings. Your only clues to figuring out this mess are visions of a small girl named Athena, who may prove key to stopping the plague... or destroying all of humanity.Much like the first game, the key mechanic is that every enemy you face can have their limbs severed to recover their equipment for yourself, while avoiding being destroyed by their own attacks. Survival means making full use of your abilities while keeping an eye on your surroundings to avoid getting overwhelmed.Both free and paid DLC have been released for the game. Much of it includes new weapons and gear which must be obtained from newly-spawned enemies. A story DLC titled "The Kraken" was released on January 16, 2020, and has the player explore the VBS Krakow, an aircraft carrier that has been modified into a vacation spot for the rich. The security AI onboard has gone haywire, and it's up to you to find out why.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_106381c4	comment	Silent Protagonist: Since your character can be customized this time around, they never speak beyond grunts of effort during combat. You do get unvoiced dialogue choices for some NPCs, as per RPG tradition.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_116a941b	type	Applied Phlebotinum
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_116a941b	comment	Applied Phlebotinum: The Spark, a power source worshipped by the Children of the Spark and provides the power for most of their unusual technology. According to Guttenberg, the Spark was little more than an experimental and extremely unstable power source, While it produced enormous amounts of energy, it was too unstable and dangerous for real use.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_159850a5	type	Warp Whistle
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_159850a5	comment	Warp Whistle: Getting the Lifter Hook allows you to access the Exo-Tube network of Jericho City, after finding at least two of three locations for it. The Exo-Tubes are fairly limited, being explicitly intended for maintenance workers to access major buildings in the area, so the three locations are the Seaside Court Mall, the Cloud 9 Bar, and the Gateway Bravo evacuation camp.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_17761744	type	Heal Thyself
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_17761744	comment	Energy-based and charge-based Injectables have been combined into a single system - energy can be spent directly on healing, or pre-charges can be banked in advance.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_177a6464	type	Genre Shift
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_177a6464	comment	Genre Shift: This game shifts the genre from a Cyberpunk horror to a more action-oriented post-apocalyptic Cyberpunk setting. After killing General Shields, however, the genre shifts back to horror when the nanites start swarming the city and creating more nanotech zombies reminiscent of the first game.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_19f6e383	type	Transhuman Treachery
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_19f6e383	comment	Transhuman Treachery: The Spark cultists serve this role in the plot. The cult promotes and worships the growing nanite threat, and seeks to "transcend" their "prison of flesh" through augmentation, and the arrival of the nanite swarm in jericho City had driven them even crazier than before. To further reinforce this trope, the Cult spreads their message through charismatic preaching and social outreach. They also spread it through shattering the bones of people resistant to the Cult, dragging their broken bodies back to their Cathedral, and remaking them into loyal cultists through augmentation and conditioning. Little Johnny, one of the sons of the Matriarch, goes even further by pushing a highly addictive drug called Blue Sparkle, albeit to the Matriarch's chagrin.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_1b7d59b6	type	Death by Materialism
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_1b7d59b6	comment	Death by Materialism: The sidequest "King of the Looters" has the player following the trail of a looter that robbed a lot of people for all they had, who left an audiolog that reveals he has a bunker in the Downtown Jericho area. Finding his bunker gives the player another audio log where the looter states that he did it so he could seal himself inside the bunker for years until the chaos passed with all the luxuries he could hoard... you find this log next to his crushed body, as his entire hoard apparently fell onto him as he was in bed.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: It was already bad enough that CREO was desperately pumping resources into grand rejuvenation projects to alleviate the strain on the biosphere, but the nanite swarm that was released from the complex is now mixing itself into what remains of the biosphere, creating new fauna that are stranger and even more deadly than the natives. As an example, Gideon's Rock is a CREO sponsored artificial nature reserve in the center of Jericho City. The plants are largely artificial with only a few organic plants existing, there are holopoints marking the habitats of the last known living organisms of a species (Such as the grizzly bear), and the advertisements glorify the various artificial replacements as "better than the real thing used to be."note Any side effects or negative reactions to the artificial plants should be reported to CREO medical workers Inside there is where you can find the SERU Biomaster, a flame staff used for controlling vegetation. Its description states that it has fallen into disfavor since it's so efficient at destroying the last few natural plants left on Earth. Extremist doomsday cults like the Children of the Spark also exist, preaching a utopia of cybernetic transformation and being willing to openly attack government personnel to further their ends. A.I.D. are essentially a government-sponsored PMC with massive amounts of firepower and manpower who are empowered to mete out capital punishment in areas where there is large-scale rioting or civil unrest. One tourism audiolog you can find mentions Jericho City leads the world in employment figures, saying that they have a whopping 15 percent employment rate. Considering that the only way Warren got employment in the first game was by having a cybernetic Exo-Rig grafted to his body, this makes sense. An audio log reveals that someone can instantly lose their job if they get reported for causing a minor disturbance on the city's subways, with any infraction going into a permanent "social record" that affects their entire life. The Kraken DLC indicates that things are even worse, because the surge from the first game was not isolated to the CREO headquarters but affected many of their robotic units across the globe. This created the Collective, a Hive Mind of hundreds of oil rig support robots who turned full pirate.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_22071825	type	I'm a Humanitarian
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_22071825	comment	I'm a Humanitarian: As is the case with a city blocked off from the outside world, those stuck inside Jericho City have engaged in some desperate measures to not starve. One resident of the Port Nixon area the butcher Penny, of the Penny's Prime Delicatessen started snatching "people who would not be missed" from the streets so they could feed the people of the city... and when Yoko Kadenokouji in the Cloud 9 Bar wants some Prime Meat to eat, well, there's only one source of that available. The fact that she doesn't notice anything wrong with the meat after eating it has some dark implications about the Jericho meat markets prior to the crisis.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_2823fd4d	type	Oddly Common Rarity
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_2823fd4d	comment	Oddly Common Rarity: The Equalizer Heavy Duty weapon from the first game returns, as one of the most common heavy weapons used by starter enemies. In The Surge 1 that weapon was only created through a specific sidequest that required giving a load of scrap metal to a mysterious woman in the vents three times, with which she forged a tool of personalized vengeance. Here there's dozens of them used by convicts and scavengers!
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_30bf3ff4	type	Beef Gate
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_30bf3ff4	comment	Beef Gate: The game likes to keep you out of places you shouldn't be via enemies much stronger than you. Should you get past them, however, there's normally an Ability Required to Proceed checkpoint just behind.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_326440ec	type	Player Data Sharing
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_326440ec	comment	Player Data Sharing: Players can leave messages across Jericho City in the form of pictographic graffiti using a drone attachment, as well as banners (holograms of the player showing their equipment, which give scrap when found). On a more morbid note, you can also find the corpses of deceased players, which are usually not too far from "revenge" enemies: the mob which killed that player and is subsequently much tougher.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_33f1c576	type	Not Helping Your Case
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_33f1c576	comment	As an example, Gideon's Rock is a CREO sponsored artificial nature reserve in the center of Jericho City. The plants are largely artificial with only a few organic plants existing, there are holopoints marking the habitats of the last known living organisms of a species (Such as the grizzly bear), and the advertisements glorify the various artificial replacements as "better than the real thing used to be."note Any side effects or negative reactions to the artificial plants should be reported to CREO medical workers Inside there is where you can find the SERU Biomaster, a flame staff used for controlling vegetation. Its description states that it has fallen into disfavor since it's so efficient at destroying the last few natural plants left on Earth.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_3babae20	type	Degraded Boss
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_3babae20	comment	Degraded Boss: Literally: the P.A.X. boss from the first game returns as a hobbled wreck of its former self, unable to move, in Port Nixon. The drug-addled cultists there use it as a turret to thwart a direct approach to Terminal Z, but it can be avoided entirely or disabled with some clever use of the pile of EMP bombs stockpiled above it.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_3bb81225	type	Recurring Boss
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_3bb81225	comment	Recurring Boss: Brother Eli is fought three times in the game. The player kills him every time, but he keeps getting resurrected by his mother. Variations of the Delver reappear in later sections of the game, albeit with only one phase to their fight and no new attacks to speak of.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Bad Boss: Little Johnny is this by default for pushing a dangerous and addictive drug on his followers, but he takes it up to eleven when he starts killing his own underlings just because he's upset after receiving a stern call from his mother, Matriach Celeste.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_3ef5a484	type	Final Boss, New Dimension
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_3ef5a484	comment	Final Boss, New Dimension: For the final battle, Brother Eli uses his newfound powers to create the Dreamscape, a surreal field of grass, and transform into an armored demigod named Archangel Eli.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_3f2503af	type	Ability Required to Proceed
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_3f2503af	comment	In earlier versions, you couldn't bypass the A.I.D. security checkpoint early on. In later versions, the drone locked door behind the checkpoint is gone, so if you're very good and lucky, you can fight through the A.I.D. checkpoint right from the moment you escape the police station (though this is easier said than done). Doing so can get you to the middle of the Jericho City Downtown area, which is filled with enemies who drop Mark 4 through 6 components, well before you get access to the Docks and fight Little Johnny. In particular, you can farm Liquidator gear, whose set bonus makes you highly resistant to toxins, which is everywhere in the Docks.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_3f737576	type	Climax Boss
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_3f737576	comment	Climax Boss: The fight against Major General Ezra Shields at A.I.D. Command Center. Not only you're fighting the head of A.I.D. to rescue Athena, his defeat triggers major plot events that permanently change the overworld.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_420c50b7	type	A.I. Is a Crapshoot
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_420c50b7	comment	A.I. Is a Crapshoot: The main enemies of The Kraken DLC are robots that went rogue after being hit with the same surge from the CREO facility. They've already massacred most of the VBS Krakow's civilian population by the time you get there.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_486466ee	type	Dual Boss
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_486466ee	comment	Averted with the URBN equipment DLC. It's not available until the mid-game and has to be severed off a Dual Boss In Mook Clothing. It's still one of the better Goliath-class armor sets and the first Shock weapon you have access to.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_4de1a4f7	type	Improvised Weapon
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_4de1a4f7	comment	Improvised Weapon: A lot like the first game, most weapons are either hacked-together armaments, or just objects heavy enough to do damage when a Rig operator swings them. A particularly gutsy player character can take this to extreme lengths by using a pair of disconnected defibrillators, or even a The End Is Nigh sign acquired from a protestor.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Returning to the C.I.T. after defeating Ezra Shields will lead you to discover this exchange. The twist isn't so much what is being said, but by who:
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: On your third trip to the CREO Institute of Technology, you'll go through an underground hanger and open a door to reveal Dr. Guttenberg's impaled corpse on the floor with H.A.R.O.L.D. looking over him in despair.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: Jonah Guttenberg, the former head of CREO is trying to atone for his part in unleashing the nanite swarm into the world and guides the player character in the latter half of the game in his quest to stop the nanites and save Athena. Until he's murdered by Brother Eli. One sidequest involves assisting one of the scientists that helped Barret create the nanites into finding a cure for the nanite infection.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: What was implied in the first game has been uncomfortably detailed in this one, with exo-rig augmented humans looking like butchered industrial accidents underneath their jumpsuits. The Spark cultists illustrate this perfectly, baring their heavily scarred bodies with pride, allowing you to see the large, ugly mechanical implants jutting out of the flesh and attaching to the rig. At least this time the autodoc used anesthetic. Meat Grinder Surgery is also averted in this case, as the Medical Bay uses a more advanced form of nanotech surgery to directly bind the Rig and its components to the human body's cells.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_50be2cb4	type	Machine Worship
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_50be2cb4	comment	Machine Worship: The Children of the Spark are a mixture of this and a doomsday cult who believe that the world will be reborn at the hands of machines and all life will ascend to a new state of being.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_51300dbf	type	Fat Bastard
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_51300dbf	comment	Fat Bastard: Little Johnny, a morbidly-obese drug lord submerged inside a Spider Tank full of life-preserving liquid. He's implied to have abandoned the Cathedral of the Spark's teachings in pursuit of pushing Blue Sparkle, a highly addictive drug that both enhances physical strength and has psychoactive side effects.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_51c70be6	type	Obliviously Evil
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_51c70be6	comment	Obliviously Evil: The Rogue Process nanites are no longer self-aware and thus can't understand that their actions are killing the people of Jericho City and threatening the planet. When Athena merges with the swarm and gives it self-awareness again, she simply wants to escape, not realizing the consequences of unleashing the nanites on the larger world.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_52475ffd	type	Cutting Off the Branches
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_52475ffd	comment	Cutting Off the Branches: Warren successfully sabotaged the Utopia nanites in the first game, meaning that the Rogue Process failed to convert the entire planet. However, the nanomachines themselves still exist and are altering the environment in Jericho City.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_53407671	type	Action Survivor
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_53407671	comment	Action Survivor: Everyone in Jericho City not associated with the A.I.D. or JCPD, including the player character. Though, depending on what background you chose at character creation, your character could very well have seen their own quite fair share of action, but having arrived in JC with no exo-rig, even that wasn't preparation enough. Later on in the game, it is implied that you were killed in the plane crash at the start, and that the person you are now was rebuilt by Athena and the Rogue Process nanotech to serve as her "warrior" to protect her.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_56da86fe	type	Walking Tank
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_56da86fe	comment	Walking Tank: The Metal Armor boss, piloted by Major General Ezra Shields. A bipedal mech armed with a mini-gun and a flamethrower. It is way more advanced than a P.A.X., intended to straight-up kill you rather than subdue revolting workers.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_589e54d3	type	Charged Attack
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_589e54d3	comment	Charged Attack: Charging up a melee attack is possible now. This generates a lot more energy than a normal attack and can smash through enemy shields (be they of the improvised "car door" variety or a magnetic force-shield).
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_5b81ca8d	type	Disc-One Nuke
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_5b81ca8d	comment	Disc-One Nuke: Just like in the first game, pairs of professional security enemies can be found while they're still way out of your league. Defeating them properly and finding a hidden energy expansion gives you a midgame equipment set long before you'd normally get it. Averted with the URBN equipment DLC. It's not available until the mid-game and has to be severed off a Dual Boss In Mook Clothing. It's still one of the better Goliath-class armor sets and the first Shock weapon you have access to. In earlier versions, you couldn't bypass the A.I.D. security checkpoint early on. In later versions, the drone locked door behind the checkpoint is gone, so if you're very good and lucky, you can fight through the A.I.D. checkpoint right from the moment you escape the police station (though this is easier said than done). Doing so can get you to the middle of the Jericho City Downtown area, which is filled with enemies who drop Mark 4 through 6 components, well before you get access to the Docks and fight Little Johnny. In particular, you can farm Liquidator gear, whose set bonus makes you highly resistant to toxins, which is everywhere in the Docks.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_62cae28a	type	Losing Your Head
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_62cae28a	comment	Losing Your Head: In the Cathedral of the Spark, the player can find Little Johnny's severed head in a tank, just before they run into Matriarch Celeste... and he's still alive, going by his muffled angry ranting when you get close. You can turn off his life support to kill him for good.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_62f9ee25	type	Nanomachines
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_62f9ee25	comment	Nanomachines: The Utopia nanotech from the first game has been scattered across Jericho City, infecting many people and gathering into purple clumps in corners. Many living creatures have been changed by the Utopia machinery and new forms of nanotech life have begun to spring up. Nanotech is used extensively by many weapons and technologies, and even your own Rig surgery is done via nanotech, averting the Meat Grinder Surgery from the first game.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_637ef67	type	New Game Plus
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_637ef67	comment	Hardcore Kills are back, once again the only clue they even exist is a loading screen hint, which once again an unlucky player may never see. While the human Rig bosses are obvious (cut off the right arm, like anyone else) the methods for bigger bosses are only hinted at in the non-Hardcore version of the weapon drop... after you've beaten them, meaning you won't be able to get the 2.0 version of the weapon until New Game Plus.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_63a865c9	type	Universal Ammunition
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_63a865c9	comment	Universal Ammunition: The gun modules for the drone run off of universal bullets; in practice this means that using its sniper mode has fewer shots.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_6509bb9f	type	Non-Indicative Name
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_6509bb9f	comment	Nonindicative Name: A.I.D. is not a crisis relief force. It stands for "Attack, Insurrection, Disease" and is a for-profit contract organization that operates pre-authorized to use lethal force and openly advertises its ability and willingness to Kill the Poor for its government and corporate employers. They are much more interested in murdering anyone who might have the plague than offering medical services (though some token effort to assist some evacuees exists at the camp by the wall).
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_6602cad	type	Permanently Missable Content
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_6602cad	comment	Permanently Missable Content: Plenty of unique weapons belong to bosses or sidequest-exclusive enemies. Failing to sever their right arm means missing the weapon for that playthrough, though humanoid bosses also often have unique implants in their heads, meaning you have to pick one to go for on a playthrough.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_666648a3	type	Hostile Terraforming
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_666648a3	comment	Hostile Terraforming: The awakened Rogue Process nanotech is starting to do this to Jericho City after Athena is forced to merge with it. Huge chunks of the nanotech construction in the middle of the city begin raining down on the Downtown area and the whole place becomes infected with nanites that are converting people into zombies akin to the first game.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_6a2ae11f	type	Improbable Weapon User
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_6a2ae11f	comment	A particularly gutsy player character can take this to extreme lengths by using a pair of disconnected defibrillators, or even a The End Is Nigh sign acquired from a protestor.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_6c553873	type	Private Military Contractors
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_6c553873	comment	A.I.D. are essentially a government-sponsored PMC with massive amounts of firepower and manpower who are empowered to mete out capital punishment in areas where there is large-scale rioting or civil unrest.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_6d6e3015	type	Cloudcuckooland
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_6d6e3015	comment	Cloudcuckooland: Post-Defrag Jericho City is filled with lots of "eccentric" folk, from tech-worshipping cultists to oblivious rich people throwing parties in the midst of an epidemic and government lockdown. It would be quicker to list everyone who isn't at least a little out of their mind.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_6de71c57	type	Disc-One Final Boss
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_6de71c57	comment	Disc-One Final Boss: Defeating Major General Ezra Shields triggers a major change in the overworld. The game even gives you a Point of No Return warning before the fight.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_6e8a4791	type	Heroic Comedic Sociopath
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_6e8a4791	comment	Heroic Comedic Sociopath: The game likes to hint through dialogue that the player character may not be that much more together than the murderous population of Jericho City. Lampshaded by Kyle Baxter:
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_6ec989d8	type	Guide Dang It!
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_6ec989d8	comment	Guide Dang It!: Hardcore Kills are back, once again the only clue they even exist is a loading screen hint, which once again an unlucky player may never see. While the human Rig bosses are obvious (cut off the right arm, like anyone else) the methods for bigger bosses are only hinted at in the non-Hardcore version of the weapon drop... after you've beaten them, meaning you won't be able to get the 2.0 version of the weapon until New Game Plus. The side-quest for the Stranger (who is actually Warren, the player character from the previous game), spans most of the game and is incredibly easy to fail, and it's also very easy to lose out on the best rewards for it. If you say the wrong thing to him at your first meeting he will never speak to you again. You can miss out on his first objective if you go to A.I.D. Command too early, locking yourself out of the best reward right then and there. The second objective for him is also missable but more easily signposted, as you'll have to pass him on your way through A.I.D. Commandnote if you didn't get him the armor, he'll be locked in a cell. If he does have it, he'll be near the Force Hook . When turning in the Repeller Coil for the third objective, you MUST give it to him before asking for a reward. And in what can only be described as a questline version of a Kaizo Trap, if you're on track for the best reward he'll suggest that you take the subway train out of the city instead of him, as a reward for all your efforts. Accepting that offer gives you a Nonstandard Game Over of your character successfully escaping the city... and after the credits roll, the player is respawned back in the train station, but Warren and the train are now gone and you get none of the final rewards. Failing any of the three objectives locks you out from the best reward, and sometimes any reward at all.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_72c04e0d	type	Door to Before
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_72c04e0d	comment	Door to Before: Shortcuts back to the medbays are all over the place, in an even greater number than the first game.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_72cdfc33	type	Big Bad Ensemble
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_72cdfc33	comment	Big Bad Ensemble: The role of main villain is split between Ezra Shields, general of a draconian mercenary corp enforcing a Police State on the city, and Matriach Celeste, leader of a crazed cult that wants to merge humanity with the nanite plague. Both are ultimately killed before the end, with a resurrected and violently-delusional Brother Eli serving as the Final Boss.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_7374ab13	type	Once More, with Clarity
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_7374ab13	comment	Once More, with Clarity: Starting New Game Plus puts the player character on Flight 221 right before it crashes, which gives you a firsthand view of how it was attacked by the Rogue Process and how the player initially encountered Athena.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_74e9a5b1	type	Scavenger World
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_74e9a5b1	comment	Scavenger World: Jericho City has become this; in contrast to the first Surge, where your enemies were cyber-zombies, this place is overrun by fully cognizant but ruthless scavengers killing each other for scraps, as well as ruthless mercenaries and religious fanatics.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_75f38750	type	Kaizo Trap
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_75f38750	comment	The side-quest for the Stranger (who is actually Warren, the player character from the previous game), spans most of the game and is incredibly easy to fail, and it's also very easy to lose out on the best rewards for it. If you say the wrong thing to him at your first meeting he will never speak to you again. You can miss out on his first objective if you go to A.I.D. Command too early, locking yourself out of the best reward right then and there. The second objective for him is also missable but more easily signposted, as you'll have to pass him on your way through A.I.D. Commandnote if you didn't get him the armor, he'll be locked in a cell. If he does have it, he'll be near the Force Hook . When turning in the Repeller Coil for the third objective, you MUST give it to him before asking for a reward. And in what can only be described as a questline version of a Kaizo Trap, if you're on track for the best reward he'll suggest that you take the subway train out of the city instead of him, as a reward for all your efforts. Accepting that offer gives you a Nonstandard Game Over of your character successfully escaping the city... and after the credits roll, the player is respawned back in the train station, but Warren and the train are now gone and you get none of the final rewards. Failing any of the three objectives locks you out from the best reward, and sometimes any reward at all.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: Jericho City is already in a state of anarchy at the beginning of the game, with heavily-armed police killing anyone violating curfews and gangs of scavengers and fanatic cultists roaming the streets. Then General Shields integrated Athena with the Rogue Process nanites, and everything turns even worse, as huge chunks of nanotech construction rain down on the city, converting many people into nanite-infested zombies and releasing nanite monsters onto the streets.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_7ae4d273	type	Point of No Return
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_7ae4d273	comment	There are a couple moments where the game will warn you with a hint banner that you're about to cross a Point of No Return, giving you a chance to upgrade your gear or tie up loose ends first. Specifically, before fighting Major General Ezra Shields and right before the Final Boss, which immediately leads into New Game Plus.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_7b7965dd	type	Boss in Mook Clothing
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_7b7965dd	comment	Boss in Mook Clothing: A staple of the genre. Playing online can cause "revenge enemies" to appear, beefing up a normal enemy that just killed a player. Defeating a revenge enemy offers much better loot; they give at least one crafting component for all their body parts.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_7c862b8a	type	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_7c862b8a	comment	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: The hunters at Gideon's Rock all seem afflicted with a need to doublecross each other and even their own clients. In particular, Cervantes set this off by spreading rumors of betrayal among his camp to goad everyone into fighting each other so he could claim the reward all to himself. Also, one nanite flashback shows a hunter abducting Athena not a hundred yards from the CREO Institute of Technology, explicitly because A.I.D.'s reward money for her was greater than what Dr. Guttenberg is offering.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_8125d8f6	type	Easy Level Trick
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_8125d8f6	comment	Easy Level Trick: The first A.I.D. checkpoint gate is usually quite an obstacle. It involves facing three of the toughest normal enemies encountered to date, at least two at once, and a powerful robot enemy who will probably aggro in the middle of the fight. All in a game where any 2-on-1 is a dicey prospect, let alone a five-enemy furball. A sidequest in the area offers a hint, though: it's possible to sneak through some ruins and around the checkpoint and kill one enemy, short out the gate to lure a second on his own, then take out the third, all without attracting the robot. There's even an achievement for doing it this way.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_81ae2774	type	Evil Matriarch
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_81ae2774	comment	Evil Matriarch: Matriarch Celeste fits the bill. The head of an extremist cult built from forceful conversion, whose two sons are a violent and fanatical cultist and a drug lord, respectively. Her end goal is to see humanity "evolve" through being forcibly merged with machinery to allow them to "ascend." She's shown to resurrect her sons when they die, at the cost of them becoming increasingly mentally unstable. She resurrects Little Johnny only to stick his head in a jar as punishment for deviating from her teachings.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_830f2f0e	type	Police State
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_830f2f0e	comment	Police State: Now that you are outside of CREO HQ and away from its corporate security forces, the government's corporate security forces, A.I.D. (whose name stands for 'Attack, Insurrection, Disease') will be your main military foe. An unholy fusion of FEMA and Blackwater/Academi, the A.I.D. take over in times of social unrest to brutally stamp down on those who disturb the social order, as well as those who don't. From their propaganda to their authorization to carry out capital punishment at will, these guys make Judge Dredd look like a mall cop. One throwaway line by an A.I.D. soldier mentions that people are listed not only by money but also "social ranking", and TV ads for A.I.D. mention how excellent they are at protecting their employers from the "underclass". In addition, an audio recording indicates that all citizens of Jericho City are required to have a listening chip implanted that records all of their conversations.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_8313a744	type	Dark Lord on Life Support
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_8313a744	comment	Dark Lord on Life Support: See that Spider Tank in the header image? That's a mobile life support capsule filled with preservation gel. Little Johnny rides in one due to his heavy abuse of Blue Sparkle, which has rendered him so grotesquely obese and unhealthy that he can't live outside of the tank. This has only made him more dangerous.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_85f0963f	type	Psycho Serum
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_85f0963f	comment	Psycho Serum: The Spark Aspirant and Spark Defender cultists have modules on their heads/arms, respectively, that are full of Blue Sparkle. Unless you damage that part they will give themselves a hit of Blue Sparkle and severely amp up their aggression in combat, making them faster and harder to stun. The various logs you find indicate that Blue Sparkle was meant for enlightenment as well as a weapon, but Little Johnny's followers have abused it big-time. Notably, the Children of the Spark you fight that work for Eli or the Matriarch do not have a Blue Sparkle module; they don't approve.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_883f3732	type	WarmUpBoss
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_883f3732	comment	Warm-Up Boss: The JCPD prison has two examples. The first is Nitro, an inmate who somehow obtained an exo-rig, is noticeably beefier than other enemies encountered thus far, and is fought right before getting your own rig. A short while later brings us Warden Garcia who, in addition to sporting a new moveset to learn, also brings along a drone to lay down support fire. While Nitro tests your grasp of basic combat, Garcia teaches you how to deal with multiple threats and just how useful the omnidirectional parry mechanic can be.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_8967e17f	type	Back from the Dead
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_8967e17f	comment	Back from the Dead: Matriarch Celeste can use the Spark's power to resurrect both her sons after they were killed by the player. Audio files imply she has done this many times. Audio files also also imply that each time someone is brought back, they grow more and more unhinged. The first time you meet Eli, he's an ordinary, if paranoid and violent, cultist. By the end of the game, he develops a full-on God complex. By the end of the game, it's all but outright said that the Player Character went through this after dying in the crash, and was rebuilt by Athena and the nanotech.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_8a07e085	type	Denser and Wackier
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_8a07e085	comment	Denser and Wackier: While it still has plenty of horror and dystopian elements, The Surge 2 adopts an off-beat and dark sense of humor. Characters are much quirkier than the first game's more serious cast, such as a very self-absorbed superhero actor and a drug lord with a thick Brooklyn accent. There's a funkier color palette in most locations now, painting a surreal vision of an apocalyptic Cyberpunk future.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: A.I.D.'s plot to force Athena into linking with the Nanite cloud, in hopes she could control it for them. All they succeeded in doing is giving extreme power to someone who had no reason to help them.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_90965cc7	type	Hive Mind
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_90965cc7	comment	Hive Mind: The robots that make up the bulk of the Collective's forces are all linked together and controlled by CAIN. You can find one robot that separated from the hivemind hiding out in a garage and watching reruns on television.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: Despite its Degraded Boss status (see below), disabling the crippled P.A.X. robot still generates the "[boss] - OFFLINE" splash, just like in the first game. The Ops Center in CREO World was mentioned to be part of a deployable, mobile helicopter. We see the full version with the helicopter bits still attached in this game, and it has the same layout as the Ops Centers of the first game. The song "Prisoner" by the band Stumfol, which played in the same Op Centers, also plays in this one, but this time you can turn it off. Every piece of armor and weapon from the first game, including the DLC weapons and gear, can be found throughout the game. Most of the older equipment is considered outdated but still functional. In addition, you can get the Rogue Process's nanotech weapons from the chests left behind by the Athena flashbacks scattered around the city, though they aren't the Infinity +1 Sword tier weaponry they once were. About halfway through the game you'll start encountering people wearing LYNX gear from the first game, who will be walking and fighting with the same lurching gait of the brain-fried zombies from the first game.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_a426ae28	type	Multiple-Choice Past
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_a426ae28	comment	Multiple-Choice Past: Selecting your character's background is part of the character customization process, though it doesn't seem to affect much other than the clothes you wear under your rig and, very occasionally, some comments a few merchants may make on what they make of your background.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_a5e02e9e	type	Infinity +1 Sword
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_a5e02e9e	comment	Every piece of armor and weapon from the first game, including the DLC weapons and gear, can be found throughout the game. Most of the older equipment is considered outdated but still functional. In addition, you can get the Rogue Process's nanotech weapons from the chests left behind by the Athena flashbacks scattered around the city, though they aren't the Infinity +1 Sword tier weaponry they once were.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_a8f905e3	comment	While Rome Burns: The occupants of the Cloud 9 Bar are the remaining rich citizens of Jericho City who congregated there to feast, drink, and party until either the city's lockdown ends or the apocalypse comes. They're all essentially trying to escape the horrors going on in the city beneath them by ignoring it.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_ac928039	type	Four-Star Badass
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_ac928039	comment	Four-Star Badass: General Shields, who personally pilots a customized Humongous Mecha to guard Athena's capsule and, when the mech is destroyed, leaps out to fight the player hand-to-hand.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_af5f2180	type	Avenging the Villain
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_af5f2180	comment	Avenging the Villain: After defeating Major General Shields, a special A.I.D. taskforce called the Ronin Squad starts pursuing the player in retaliation for what the remaining A.I.D. commanders regard as an assassination. They will ambush the player at various points around Jericho City, having been told that this task supersedes all other orders until it is complete.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_afc52a86	type	Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_afc52a86	comment	Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: The Collective are a group of robots styled after classic pirates, in both uniforms and desire to murder and pillage anything they come across. Their leader CAIN is a massive robot similar to a kraken.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_b06aaffa	type	Bifurcated Weapon
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_b06aaffa	comment	Bifurcated Weapon: The new "Double-Duty" weapon class consists of two separate weapons that clamp together with a magnet for some polearm attacks. They hit slow and hard when used normally, but if you use particular combos (or just button-mash your attack inputs) you split them apart to do quick dual-wield attacks.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_b3168a4d	type	Previous Player-Character Cameo
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_b3168a4d	comment	Previous Player-Character Cameo: Warren shows up in a handful of audio logs, and his Signature Weapon was a Pre-Order Bonus. He is also the mysterious masked man who encounters your player character a few times.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_b3a625ee	type	Tin Tyrant
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_b3a625ee	comment	Tin Tyrant: Little Johnny, the drug dealer in Port Nixon, stays inside his mechanical life support apparatus for the entire boss fight.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_b545453b	type	Internal Homage
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_b545453b	comment	Internal Homage: One can find a Wild West themed shop in Downtown Jericho which features weapons, equipment, and music from the first game's The Good, The Bad, & the Augmented expansion. One hostile looter there derisively asks you if you think you're John Wayne. (Also Dr. Richbotter's podcast returns, only this time, critiquing the awful Iron Maus movies).
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_b983a56b	type	Came Back Wrong
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_b983a56b	comment	Audio files also also imply that each time someone is brought back, they grow more and more unhinged. The first time you meet Eli, he's an ordinary, if paranoid and violent, cultist. By the end of the game, he develops a full-on God complex.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_baaf641a	type	King Mook
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_baaf641a	comment	King Mook: Some of the bosses, such as Cervantes and the Goddess Helena statue, function as tougher versions of common enemies, with more health and a new twist to their fight. A similar boss, the Collective Incinerator, is found onboard the VBS Krakow, and functions like the weaker CORSAIR robots but with a nasty fire axe and new ground projectile attack.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_bbfaa837	type	Knight Templar
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_bbfaa837	comment	Knight Templar: The Children of the Spark believe that their purpose is to remake the world to help humanity evolve and join together with technology. However, they are willing to go to whatever lengths necessary to pull this off, even if it means completely killing or forcibly converting anyone who refuses to join them.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_bdfb07bf	type	Walk the Plank
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_bdfb07bf	comment	Walk the Plank: At one point, you can witness a Collective robot kicking a civilian off a plank on the VBS Krakow. You'll earn a similarly-named achievement if you can manage to do this to the robot as well... and another if you decide to follow afterwards.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_c03fec8b	type	Non-Standard Game Over
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_c03fec8b	comment	Nonstandard Game Over: Following the Mysterious Stranger's questline to its conclusion gives the Protagonist the option of taking the subway train out of the city in Warren's place. It works without a hitch, and the game's credits will roll... but then the player is respawned back into the subway station after the credits end, and now Warren and the train will be gone, along with any rewards the player earned by helping Warren.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_c13c9e38	type	Tomato Surprise
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_c13c9e38	comment	Tomato Surprise: You and Athena were the only two people on Flight 221 to survive the crash, yet everyone knows there was only one survivor, and it's clearly Athena based off the many flashbacks you see through the nanocloud checkpoints. One of these flashbacks reveals that Athena was the one who created the Delver, which she sent to free you from prison. The Delver was a fully independent Nanite life form which received directive impulses from Athena that gave it direction, at least until she was separated from it and it reverted to its baser instincts. You spend the entire game following Athena's tracks to rescue her, as she explicitly gives you instructions through the flashbacks. Dr. Guttenberg tells you your nanite readings are off the charts, and you cannot be infected with Defrag. To make the looming conclusion more explicit, if you spare Eli after the final boss fight, Athena tells you were just as human as everyone else all along. Put it all together, and it's strongly implied that your character actually died in the crash and was resurrected by Athena's nanotech. Made even more obvious in The Kraken DLC. CAIN questions the player if they truly think they survived the plane crash in an attempt to break them. On a more minor note, in The Kraken DLC, Norm is revealed to be a robot if you choose to free CAIN, as he is taken over by the Collective and murders Sydney, then his outer humanlike covering is burned away.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_c3e4b9fd	type	Final-Exam Boss
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_c3e4b9fd	comment	Final-Exam Boss: Both phases of Major General Shields' boss fight are final tests of your skills at targeting enemy body parts, evading telegraphed attacks, avoiding elemental damage, taking cover for ranged attacks, and fighting aggressive, skilled humanoid opponents. After he goes down, difficulty in the game rapidly scales upward with vastly faster and more dangerous opponents who will require every skill you needed to master in order to beat Shields.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_d2c0e2ed	type	Schmuck Bait
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_d2c0e2ed	comment	The Delver Echo Alpha you can fight in the CIT Basement can be bypassed by not trying to grab the conspicuous chest in the middle of the large open area.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_d47d9b71	type	Mirror Boss
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_d47d9b71	comment	Mirror Boss: Several bosses this time around are simply compos mentis Rig operators with full equipment suites. Short one or two arena features or gimmicks, they have much the same moves, strengths, and weaknesses as the player. Albeit with much more health and Health/Damage Asymmetry on their side. In fact the Hardcore Kill for the first boss is simply severing his right arm, the same way you get a weapon from any other Rig enemy.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_d64c3cd4	type	Living MacGuffin
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_d64c3cd4	comment	Living MacGuffin: Athena Guttenberg, the little girl who survived the plane crash along with the player, is sought after by most factions in the game due to her special relationship with the nanite swarm.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_d6f284a3	type	Anti-Frustration Features
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_d6f284a3	comment	Anti-Frustration Features: High-grade crafting materials can now be broken down into lower grades at a 1:2 payout, making it much easier to bring new gear up to scratch and avoiding the first game's issue with having to hunt down rare, weak enemies in the late game. Energy-based and charge-based Injectables have been combined into a single system - energy can be spent directly on healing, or pre-charges can be banked in advance. Limits on what equipment can be changed outside the medbay are gone. Everything can be tweaked on the go and the player is provided with three complete loadouts they can toggle between encounters. The stat-boosting implants are gone; instead you upgrade your stamina, energy or health upon improving your core level (and can respec them at a modest cost). This frees up your implant slots for more useful things that affect the gameplay. The amount of shortcuts through playable zones has been boosted, alongside adding a Search & Rescue module to the player's drone, which sends them back to the medbay at the cost of all their scrap. Scrap dropped on death gives the player health regeneration when they're nearby, and fully heals the player on pickup, giving them a slight advantage over whatever killed them last time. If control tips are turned on, complex bosses with multiple targets will have hint banners just outside their arena clarifying exactly how to toggle specific targets, saving the player from fumbling around for precious seconds against something that could end them in two or three hits. The Delver boss is fought in an underground arena. The entrance is ringed with extremely weak offspring of the boss that go down in a few hits, perfect for refilling the player's battery before taking another try at the boss. There are a couple moments where the game will warn you with a hint banner that you're about to cross a Point of No Return, giving you a chance to upgrade your gear or tie up loose ends first. Specifically, before fighting Major General Ezra Shields and right before the Final Boss, which immediately leads into New Game Plus.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_e0606d52	type	Optional Boss
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_e0606d52	comment	Optional Boss: The Delver Echo Alpha you can fight in the CIT Basement can be bypassed by not trying to grab the conspicuous chest in the middle of the large open area. The Delver Echo Gamma does not block off any locations the player can't access through other means, and is only required to kill for a sidequest.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_e3ab9e00	type	Turns Red
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_e3ab9e00	comment	Turns Red: Repeatedly landing hits on most enemies will send them into an "enraged" state, indicated by their health bar flashing red. In this state they become Immune to Flinching and will immediately attack, typically interrupting your combos. This will typically force you to halt your attacks for a moment and back off or defend.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: The player character faces off against numerous scavengers, A.I.D. grunts, cutthroat mercs, robots and godforsaken nanite abominations in their quest. Bonus points if the player chooses a non-combat oriented background during character creation as their backstory.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_e794cb54	type	Powered by a Forsaken Child
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_e794cb54	comment	Powered by a Forsaken Child: It is revealed that A.I.D. has been rounding up all the kids they can find to use as test subjects because their adaptable brains could theoretically interface with the nanite cloud and tame it. None of them survived. When they find Athena, who can already control nanites, they are pretty much salivating at the chance to load her into a rocket and fire it off into the cloud.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_e7eb0474	type	Hub Level
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_e7eb0474	comment	Hub Level: Much like Central Processing was for The Surge, Jericho Downtown is the main connection point for the other zones of the city, which are usually separated from Downtown by one of the non-combat areas.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_eb4ee9eb	type	Guns Are Worthless
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_eb4ee9eb	comment	Guns Are Worthless: While the first game hinted at it, this game shows exactly why combat is so melee-focused. Rigs aren't just surgically-implanted exoskeletons, they're fully-cybernetic systems bonded so closely with the wearer's body that they take over a number of bodily functions, and this means that firearms that would kill normal humans are far less effective. This is to the point that even without any armor, the player can take a full magazine from an assault rifle without dying, and A.I.D. soldiers have to resort to huge-bore bolt-action anti-vehicle rifles as their standard ranged armament just to briefly stop Rig-equipped humans in their tracks. All that said, ranged drone-mounted weapons are a little more useful in this game than the last, as you can even sever limbs with enough bullets... but it takes a lot of bullets.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_ecb70eb4	type	Video Game Cruelty Potential
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_ecb70eb4	comment	Videogame Cruelty Potential: While exploring the Cathedral of the Spark you can find the severed head of Little Johnny in a life support tank. You can shut off the life support at a nearby console so he dies screaming (again) even though doing so is entirely optional and you get no reward for it.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_f2bf7993	type	Psycho Electro
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_f2bf7993	comment	Psycho Electro: The Elite Mooks of the Children of The Spark all wield electric weapons and they're all pretty psychotic.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_f3fac450	type	Brain in a Jar
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_f3fac450	comment	Brain in a Jar: You can find Little Johnny's head in a glass at the Cathedral of the Spark, as Celeste also resurrected him but left him there as punishment for driving many of the Children of the Spark into becoming addicts. The player can turn off the life-support machine and kill him again.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_f4a0408f	type	Wake-Up Call Boss
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_f4a0408f	comment	Wake-Up Call Boss: The first battle with Brother Eli forces the player to learn how to effectively parry, since Eli uses odd swings and strangely angled attacks to confuse the player and subsume them in just a few hits. Relying on the implant that tells you which direction attacks are coming from doesn't help either, since Eli purposely throws off the timing on several moves so that he can bait your parry. The only recourse is either learning to parry and memorizing his moveset so you can earn a proper parry timing and blow huge chunks off of his health bar, or learn to dodge so well you won't even need to parry.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_f821e963	type	The Very Definitely Final Dungeon
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_f821e963	comment	The Very Definitely Final Dungeon: The Great Wall, the massive structure built to contain everything and everyone inside Jericho City, and also where Brother Eli plans to absorb the nanite swarm's powers to become godlike. It's populated with the last of A.I.D.'s forces and fully-corrupted nano-zombies, with lots of treacherous walkways and a One-Woman Wail soundtrack playing throughout.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_fb111d49	type	Sequence Breaking
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_fb111d49	comment	Sequence Breaking: Though you can't ignore Little Johnny, you can put off his fight for a while by bypassing the A.I.D. security checkpoint early on by fighting your way through it (which is not easy at the start of the game) and then farming the enemies in the area outside of the Cloud 9 Bar. These enemies will drop higher-level components and good weapons, letting you load up with Mark 5 armor and weapons, as well as getting Liquidator gear to make you resistant to the toxic spills everywhere in the Docks.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_fb2ff597	type	Last-Second Ending Choice
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_fb2ff597	comment	Last-Second Ending Choice: Whether you choose to kill or spare Eli after the final battle determines Athena's final monologue and the color of the armor that forms on you in the closing scene.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_fb9afaab	type	Attack Drone
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_fb9afaab	comment	Attack Drone: The drone from the first game has gotten some severe beefing-up as an attack unit, as it now directly mounts guns severed from enemies (leaving your hands free to use melee weapons). It isn't necessarily viable to use it exclusively, but it uses ammunition instead of energy (letting you dump on an enemy) and can even sever enemy limbs if enough bullets are pumped into one spot. Grenades and firebombs can also be launched from the drone.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_fbc074c3	type	Player Character
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_fbc074c3	comment	By the end of the game, it's all but outright said that the Player Character went through this after dying in the crash, and was rebuilt by Athena and the nanotech.
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The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: A.I.D.'s endgoal is to control the nanite swarm by any means possible, in order to save the world. They end up killing numerous children to find one able to control the swarm, and unleash her on the infection, but to disastrous results. They didn't consider that inserting a pissed-off child who could control nanites would result in a pissed-off storm of nanites.
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