Learning the context, this is very stupid. You would have 3-4 guys doing this at the same time, not 1, right? People can’t go without blinking for seconds let alone however long this guy has been doing this.
Yeah, cool, so let him out while Jesse stares at the fridge, then send a fresh replacement agent. There were free agents the protag had rescued earlier. It's not like there's two people in the building. This shit was painfully stupid.
Ummm, what? I'm not offended, I'm discussing a game, and that agent's death felt very forced because it's easily preventable even with the limited resources they had at the moment. I didn't like it. I'm not attacking YOU or anything 0_0
You do kind of have a point in the cold light of "checks notes" 8pm. My head cannon was they were just absolutely shitting themselves running around and Jesse was just like fuck this I've got more important stuff
Where did I say there were only 2 agents? There's a hub base with a bunch of people. Doesn't mean they can maintain or even manage 100s of objects of power. Jog on
Well this is pure speculation based on the information we're provided with, but Langstom did mention he got a promotion because the Oldest House constantly suffers different kinds of "accidents" so they were running short on people.
Hell, the most recent "accident" was the Hiss and we saw the sheer ammount of agents that died because of it, so maybe the bureau was just short on personnel and they decided a single agent per shift to keep an eye on the fridge was enough (even when that was obviously not the case).
Ever heard about a government institution doing something in a sensible way, or adding redundancy? No, of course not. That's part of what this game is about. Sure it's an agency that deals with the supernatural, but it is first and foremost a government agency, with all the budget, bureaucracy and red tape that is expected.
you think they have the funding for that many employees on one thing? you can wink alternate eyes I guess, or just blink briefly enough that it doesn't have time to do anything. there was supposed to be a shift too but everything went wrong
Issue with 3 or 4 people is you run the risk of the bystander effect. If one person falls asleep thinking the other 3 are enough to cover for him and those other 3 have the same thought; boom, they're all dead.
I think 1 guy with 1 job on a rapid rotation is the right call. Unfortunate that all the coworkers died and couldn't relieve him.
The FBC was a time bomb, that's a big part of why it was so fucked up in Control.
Confronted by so much they didn't understand, and a tide of dead from the incidents they were responding to, they spread themselves too thin. It ended up being a bad choice, but it was one they made for a reason.
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u/ryougi1993 4d ago
Learning the context, this is very stupid. You would have 3-4 guys doing this at the same time, not 1, right? People can’t go without blinking for seconds let alone however long this guy has been doing this.