Luthien on 21/1/2003 at 00:28

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Is there some definite information if or how long Paul survives? I think the whole plot is becoming inconsistent with him getting away:

First, what happened to his activated killswitch? They claim he should be dead within 24 hours. In Hong Kong, somebody claims that JCs killswitch was activated at least 12 hours ago. When JC meets Paul in the hotel, Paul is already in great pain, while JC is still fine in Hong Kong. From that I conclude that Paul's killswitch was activated for more than 12 hours in the hotel. Now add the 12 hours JC takes to Hong Kong, and Paul must have already been dead when JC arrives there. Any appearance of Paul while JC is still in New York would be okay, but after that it becomes illogical.

Second, when the game considers Paul to be dead, you are told to fetch some data about the killswitch from his body. Obviously, this data can not be obtained from either Denton while they are still alive - this objective would make zero sense then. So, when Paul survives, or JC never meets him again in the game, where does the data to save JC come from?

Edit (after reading Marecki's post):

Thanks for the info. So the game designers shut down their logic augmentation and activated the happy-ending augmentation instead ;)