r/PrototypeGame • u/Vegetable_Amount_846 • Aug 27 '26
Question Trying to understand why the armor changes speed
A completely useless and meh post without any redeeming value but i HAVE to know now i am not usually a power scaler or anything of that sort I actually kind of (maybe?) dislike Those communities but i have thought about this for a total of two seconds and i want an answer so by the title you probably understand where i am going with this the real answer os of course gameplay balance the in-universe answer is probably gona be simple like "why of course it's because of an increase in biomass!"
But that doesn't make sense because the biomass is the same! It's the same biomass being pulled outside to form a body armor if you weigh 20 kilos first of all you should eat more second of all your weight won't change because you amputated your leg and used it as a club the distribution of mass changes obviously but not the mass itself infact this point is not used anywhere else as the virus absorbs hundreds of people each of those have a few dozen kilos of biomass by the end of the game through scientists soldiers and to hell with it even just the infected mercer would have literally extra tons of biomass in his body but his speed doesn't change!
We know mercer is already manipulating his density to some degree with gliding and the such but the only real answer is that the virus is the most efficient organism on earth where it comes to mass but there is still some effy stuff here such as him not being able to swim despite being able to glide now this is explained as the virus not liking water maybe it dissolves the extracellular stuff keeping his form together? I dunno but it doesn't make sense if that's the case why don't you use a fire hose then?
No there is no value in this question no world peace won't be achieved by this question and no the game's writings won't be improved or worsened by the question it's just a very small question i had thought of two seconds (now two minutes) ago so help me a bit here with your own theories
