Backup site?

[Tagaziel]

Open GCFScape, english voiceover files for Episode 2.

kl check 02: "What's this one, Flight Termination System, check links with backup range safety sites?"
mag launch check 02: "Oh, that must be an ancient entry, there are no backup sites. If we fail, the best we can hope is that the rocket falls on the enemy."

May be a small background thing, but I can't help but think this has something to do with what Mossman went for up north. The Borealis can't be everything there is to find there, can it?

 

[Narvi]

I thought Mossman went up north to find some old survey site which could detect the coordinates of the Combine Overworld. Presumably those lines are just there to show how there are no backup rockets, and this is their only shot.

 

[Tagaziel]

Well, the wording shows that it's just Magnusson's opinion.

About the survey site - what if the Project was a pre-Combine installation meant to do the same thing as the White Forest base?

 

[ríomhaire]

Mossman obviously didn't go North to find the Borealis, because everyone was suprised to see it existed.

 

[Tagaziel]

True, true...

 

[FrostXian]

Mossman obviously didn't go North to find the Borealis, because everyone was suprised to see it existed.

It's like if someone left now to find Noah's Ark, and then told you months later that she found it in the artic. Wouldn't you be suprised that it exists (in the artic, too.. <-<).
As for the message, it was to imply you have only one chance, and build tension.

 

[Narvi]

Nope. She wasn't looking for the Borealis.

 

[Xendance]

I believe I heard them lines just after Magnusson thanked me for saving White Forest from the base.

 

[ríomhaire]

Yeah. Kleiner and Magnusson have a large arguement.
"You've checked the co-oridnates?"
"Of course."
"Never say 'Of course'; we can't take anything for granted."
"Of course...not"

 

[Apocalypse89]

Strange, I remember hearing those lines in-game during the final chapter.

I just thought that, White Forest being an ex-Soviet missile silo, that entry was to check on other Soviet silos in the case of nuclear war. Now that the Combine's been occupying the Earth for a couple of decades, active missile bases aren't exactly common anymore.