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| - See Also Quantum_Particles_Can_Do_Anything BTW "Zeppelin" is a BRAND NAME of a particular manufacturing company in Germany (most of these type of craft WERENT 'Zeppelins'. So its basically a Buzzword (like "Quantum Physics"/ "Particles") to a majority of Players who really just want to 'Shoot and Blow up things'. Such half-assed technical nonsense content doesn't bode well for a game allegedly touting/Hyping itself as "exposing Social Ills of another Era". (The F$%^ked up Religion weirdness was another stupid/ignorant/contrived aspect -- if they (the writers) were attempting to portray relevancy to 'American' anything ... THEN ITS DEFINITELY A FAIL ) . These kind of vehicles are actually called "Lighter-Than-Air Ships" and "Dirigibles" (the real ones not the bastardized quantum floaty shit ones). "First Lady 1.0 was filled with Hydrogen" and did a 'Hindenburg' (story reference) via a Vox attack ??
* if so, thats a reference to what preceding REAL Lighter-Than-Air Ships IN COLUMBIA were used earlier had to be technically (except in Fantasyland). If so that "Aerodrome" seen wouldn't have fit a real Airship (this is what happens when you have writers who dont cross reference game story details). Was it all the result of having early ideas shown in Trailers which REQUIRED continuation of an idea that was no longer logical ??? (the Trailers locked-in certain 'images' they couldn't throw out, but often then minimized as being of any importance : ie- interactions with songbird rather than canned cutscenes or Elizabeth's UNIQUE Tears having a much bigger part of the game experience ) "THEY LOOKED THAT WAY BECAUSE IT WAS WHAT PEOPLE KNEW/UNDERSTOOD AND TRUSTED ???? (Oh really ??? Is that the logic??? Maybe they are thinking about the 1930s when Lighter-Than-Air Ships were still giving Heavier-Than-Air-Ships (Airplanes) some serious competition -- when they had actually matured far enough to be useful). (why didn't the 'Barges' also look like Zeppelins if it was a matter of people being scared of something new ? Zeppelins/Lighter-than-Air ships were well know for their LACK of carrying capacity (when they were improved and actually used for commercial purposes, they were relegated to elite passengers and mail and mostly just PRESTIGE as their reason for existing). Since 'Zeppelins' were an anachronism for 1893, and there (apparently) was this "'Tear' looking into the future" idea to explain all those other things in Columbia, then WHY NOT look to get something better for the floaty vehicle stuff in Columbia ????
* With a 'Quantum BS' floating mechanism you needed no AIRBAG/FLOTATION CELLS any longer
* That Big (vestigial) airbag actually makes moving the craft more inefficient and bothersomely complex and impractically oversized/costly and poor/unwieldy aerodynamically
* Wings ? Who needs wings if you have "Floaty Shit(tm)" to keep the vehicle in the air (artistic license could have justified something better looking, then) SO these 'Zeppelins' were the transportation used to supplied Columbia ??? Unneeded large size does make them a Nice big target for anyone on the ground to shoot at, No ? Ciovert operations is not a term that can be applied to these things. A Tiny little capacity to supply a big city ? Oops. BUT Then the City sustenance was really "Manna" which flowed out of the Great Prophet's Ass ?? Stealing through 'Tears' MIGHT have been a good (interesting) explanation to solve this, and many other things ((But I guess Kenny&Co were more busy perfecting the way the Skyhook weapon tore an NPC's head off ... )) Hell, THIS looked more like A Zeppelin than those bizarre in-game things. Hey, We coulda just had QUANTUMZ TELEPORTATION BOXES in COLUMBIA, and ditched all those pathetic/lame-assed looking transportation things they came up with. (Sorry NOT ENOUGH THINKING OUTSIDE OF THE ENVELOPE KENNYBOY ...) --- Around time of the Columbian Exposition THIS is the image people had (if they ever saw it) of what 'Lighter Than Air Craft were. SO Comstock has again tapped into yet ANOTHER universal genius scientist & engineer to bypass decades of effort to actually be able to build something operational ??? (Just one side-issue : Fantasy - of how that sudden ability to MAKE things that don't exist yet seems to happen in this game a bit too much (as in constantly, and illogically, and worse continuing writers-crutch sewage-spill-over into BaSx ... onto a now CONVENIENT "Great Universal Genius" Suchong. BS. )). So In Summary : The game's Technical Details were shit (to go along similarly with the same kind of poor/fake/PC 'historic' and 'religion' and 'American' elements in creating this hack game presentation). It all was just a poorly done patched together facade to instill some kind of 'nostalgia view' (a key popular element of the 2 previous BioShock games). I really can't judge which element in Infinite BS was more Fantasy than the others -- all of which made it a poor reflection of the previous games, which at least attempted to be Science Fiction. Sequel-itus ... ( an attempt to cheaply Cash In on something previously successful, but most often being a poor/flawed/downright-faulty reflection/regurgitation/copy) ALL Those High marks from the game mags : You need to take THAT with a grain of salt when those 'mags' got LOTS of advertising money from Infinite BS's game company (explains WHY half the entire budget went to 'Marketing', rather than to better game development). Independent Reviewers (who are NOT required to be commercially biased ass-lickers) had ALOT to say about the real deficiencies of Infinite BS (and its DLC follow-ons). More Clever Contraptions (Artists Concepts): So was the game's 3D asset (at the very top) mostly a dumbed-down/simplified object (it now being just incidental to the plot/player experience ??) drawn so crudely to appease a limited 3D Rendering budget (they have to target players with as 'low end' computer/graphics capacity as possible to be able to maximize the $$$) Were Limitations of the "game engine" (third party software) they chose likewise problematic -- limiting it to an unrealistic Hummel Figurine quality detailed asset ??? Zeppelins gave Airplanes a run for their money in the early days, and so significant public interest in both was prevalent. Strange that this restaurant looks more airworthy than those weird-assed things the game designers came up with. Lakehurst Air Station and a REAL Lighter-Than-Air Ship. See how the landing area is circular to allow the Dirigible to land into the wind (where it had some control) to then be docked at its Mooring Tower. The Infinite BS game designers somehow thought you could park those 'Quantumz' floaty 'Zeppelins' into their dinky dock like a van pulling up next to a building. Clueless. The Problem with big voluminous things is that the wind blows them every which way, constantly. Walking the streets in Columbia in a storm would be bad enough. ((Sad factoid in game is the earlier/first "First Lady" "Zeppelin", being Hydrogen filled , and burning during a Vox Terrorist attack -- SEEMS to wanna link to Player known incidents like Hindenburg Disaster (BTW shouldn't The Prophet have foreseen the risk ??) Also, I though the Vox weren't violent at first ... (a serious need to cross check story there Kenny). Also A hydrogen filled one would be just like a real Dirigible (real BIG Gas Bag required if 'real') and needing a Aerodrome like this one to actually work. Having "Lady" Comstock climb a ladder to get into a moored dirigible probably wasn't 'ladylike'. Shouldn't they have had Floaty-Shit(tm) vehicles from the very first for Columbia (you would think they would thoroughly test it on SMALL things before a botched installation of a floaty city block fell-from-the-sky somewhere inconvenient and the whole project get canceled when the Lawyers got involved and the politicians abandoned the FUBAR fiasco). Custer Fluck of Absurdity - apparently the game designers WERE NOT ABLE to break out of their mental trap. They had Zeppelin on the Brain and floated off into Infinite stupidity. Explained elsewhere is why there was no reason anything that flew in Columbia had to look like a Dirigible, and many reasons why they shouldn't. ((In so many infinite parallel universes, it was done right and logical, but unfortunately OURs was not one of those.))
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