Alex Mercer vs real life Earth

[DudeGuyMan]

is zeus abille to make other people like him self? if not he chould just eat some big world leader and conquer the rest.

He needs to conquer the world, not blow it up in a nuclear holocaust.

[Stark]

In-game it is only slightly faster to use a helicopter to get around than it is to run. However, NPC helicopters are vastly more nimble and faster, so I guess Mercer masses a little more than a standard human.

Lol game mechanics

Conventional biowarfare would do somewhere between jack and shit to Mercer.

Says who? Shit you made up? Sorry, it's an organism, and outside certain parameters it dies. Pull the no-limits out of your ass, all anyone has to do is study it.

And he is really closer to a magical Shoggoth than a virual mass no matter what the in-game dialog suggests.

Oh sorry, I forgot you're just making up the entire universe! I can do that too. He's made of oil and is actually suscepible to plastic-eating bacteria. Game over.

Wow, making shit up was fun.

I'ld go with gullible in the extremes and justifiably arrogant due to being almost indestructable. But dump or stupid, not really.

So all that really dumb shit he did... isn't dumb? Are you and Mercer mates or something? Tricking him is OBVIOUSLY very easy because it's THE BASIS OF THE FUCKING PLOT.

Is there even any reason to believe the bit of him left still has all his abilities and memories, outside the fanfic Xon wrote?

[Ford Prefect]

And people are going to study a guy they can't possibly catch how, exactly?

[Shroom Man 777]

If they find his blood and semen, they could use those samples to at least figure out something - even if it's not much.

[Stark]

And people are going to study a guy they can't possibly catch how, exactly?

He leaves bits of himself everywhere. Is that a serious question? God knows how much he sheds every time he flies.

Don't tell me, he's no-limits mass from nowhere AND unknowable and inscutable?

[Ford Prefect]

You've got me there, he does basically jet around on virus boosters, so there would probably be something to examine, and now that I think about it's actually a plot point that he sheds. But at the same time, dudes who had the virus for forty years and used it to make cyborg supersoldiers came up with something that Mercer started ignoring in a couple of days. I can't see how biological warfare is going to be this amazing silver bullet, even ignoring the matter of actually delivering it effectively.

[Stark]

Sorry, the no-limits discussion is both boring and over.

Regardless, they didn't spend 40 years working out how to kill it, and they mocked up those inhibitor things pretty quick. If he wasn't the protaganist he would have died anyway, since captain no-limits dies all the time in the game.

Frankly since he sheds, it's fucking obvious he can't regenerate from anything or he'd be leaving clones of himself everywhere and even stupid tenacle he makes would have a life of its own. This is lamer than the T-1000 wank of twenty years ago.

I forgot on SDN we just say HO HO HE CANNOT BE KILLED.

[Xon]

The in-game virus detecters are stupidly sensitive.

Lol game mechanics

The game arena mostly realistically scaled for distances. If you keep Mercer at a walking speed and pace the island out it is actually very close to the size of RL manhattan island. After that it's trivial todo speed runs from one side to the other to to at least get a ballpark figure for how fast he can move.

Plus, canonically on consuming someone there isn't any left-over body. We are show this when Mercer consumes a Blackwatch solider, about +15 seconds later there is no victim and no noticable mess on the ground. The mass has to go somewhere.

Says who? Shit you made up? Sorry, it's an organism, and outside certain parameters it dies. Pull the no-limits out of your ass,

Conventional biological warfare isn't geared at targetting an organism which can undergo radical directed DNA recombination in fucking realtime. Most existing biological agents would be worthless because the attack sites are physically recomposing themselves by viral infection every few hours, and the blacklight's ability to consume and convert foreign biological materials into more of it's self is simply staggering.

all anyone has to do is study it.

Oh, studying it would do it. The biggets issue would be getting enough of it to actually observe core functions. That's with the wacky assuption that the stuff remains viable outside of a host body.

Oh sorry, I forgot you're just making up the entire universe! I can do that too. He's made of oil and is actually suscepible to plastic-eating bacteria. Game over.

Mercer does extrude what looks like plastic & metals in clothing & misc items after he has absorbed soliders. Fuck it's part of the cutscene when Mercer first consumes someone that he reproduced the gasmask in under 20 seconds.

Also, plastic-eating bacteria probably isn't going to work fast enough.

[lordofchange13]

is zeus abille to make other people like him self? if not he chould just eat some big world leader and conquer the rest.

He needs to conquer the world, not blow it up in a nuclear holocaust.

i never said nuclear warfare. he could go didcretly consume other world leaders and place that country under the power of one person that is zeus him self. or go the old fashon way and shoot your way to powe, enough will be left over to rule.

[Stark]

Everything Mercer makes is now actually what that stuff is and not just a fascimile. You heard it here first.

Also, space virus can have mass from nowhere, but no bioweapons can. Only the wankman can wank! Certainly it can't be adapted into any other .. .hang on ... that was the whole game! Ooops. Using the principles in other applications is everywhere.

The stupidity of describing his as recombining his DNA is so obvious that it defies description. This is how biology works, kids. NO LIMITS ANYWHERE!